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  1. @The Wandering Wizard...are you being a hopeless romantic again?
  2. So, I joined the 17s Discord on a whim.

    AND GUYS

    THE MODS AREN'T SCARY THERE

    THEY'RE JUST PEOPLE

    YOU TALK WITH THEM

    ARGENT IS EVERYWHERE AND JUST A PART OF GENERAL CONVERSATIONS

    CHAOS HELPS PEOPLE WITH MATH HOMEWORK

    IT'S SURREAL

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    2. Thaidakar the Ghostblood

      Thaidakar the Ghostblood

      Otherwise you might end up like me with three warning points and half a dozen to a dozen PMs from the mods about things you did.

      Hint, don't be like me in those moments.

    3. Robin Sedai

      Robin Sedai

      I remember you having to change your username because it contained a spoiler and you arguing with the mods about it lol

    4. Just_a_Fan

      Just_a_Fan

      *wakes up.*

      *noticies this, then sets the mood by playing earthbound music*

  3. My bishop today gave me the homework assignment to find out what "Glory" is.

    And based on the little bit we talked about I'm already very frustrated.

    Like, aaaarrrrggghhh

    There's so much.

    And the problem is I want to do this far more than my actual homework. A multi-hour long scripture hunt sounds really fun right now, instead of doing chemistry practice problems that I learned last year.

    And I need to sleep.

    But what is glory I need to know this now 

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    2. Through the Living Hope

      Through the Living Hope

      Glory is like fame, but a more honorable version of it. Glory is what you get when you are known for doing good things. When you make yourself known, you have fame. When someone else makes you known, you get a different kind of fame - glory.

       

      That's my definition, but here's what Bing says!

      glo·ry
      [ˈɡlôrē]
       
      NOUN
      1. high renown or honor won by notable achievements:
        "to fight and die for the glory of one's nation"
      2. magnificence or great beauty:
        "the train has been restored to all its former glory"
      3. praise, worship, and thanksgiving offered to a deity.
    3. The Bookwyrm

      The Bookwyrm

      In our religion, the word "glory" is used to mean this, but also a lot more. There are scriptures that say things like "the glory of God is intelligence" and " 'this is my work and my glory - to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.' " Our understanding of heaven also has different degrees of glory, meaning that different people will dwell in a place with a different amount of glory depending on how they lived.

      So this is the question; what is it really, in the eternal sense? Is it something you have? Is it something you dwell in? Is it something you are? How does one gain glory? What does it let you do? Why does God have glory? Is that what makes him God? Is Glory light? Truth? Intelligence? Does Glory come from God? Where does it come from, if not? Do we have glory right now, just on a much lower level?

      Things like that.

    4. Lego Mistborn

      Lego Mistborn

      My guess is a more powerful version of definition 2. Just from what I understand about the degrees of glory and exaltation, etc.

  4. I had a story idea.

    Put in my connected universe idea, heavily inspired by SP4. (Which was awesome, by the way.)

    A man (or woman, maybe; haven't decided yet) with a mysterious background sets out to travel what is known as simply The Path, or The Pilgrimage.

    The story would probably start with him appearing near a backwater town on a jungle-covered planet. This is the first world of the Path, which contains sixteen planets.

    The Path is a mysterious journey. Thousands of people attempt to take it. The first two worlds of the Path have fully developed cultures and societies, ones that interact with each other, and in the case of the First world, other planets in the wider universe. (This is still a medieval era fantasy, they just have portals.)

    After the first world, every planet only has portals to the planets before and after them in the Path, meaning you can't skip into it halfway, or return immediately to the start if you give up.

    Because the first two worlds are heavily settled, they're fairly mellow for travellers. They have their own politics, cultures, cities, magics, and more. It's not hard to travel across them to the various portals that lead you further down the path.

    After the second world, things get harder. Some civilizations exist in the lower worlds, but they're more rustic, essentially colonies or frontier countries.

    Once you get past the Fifth world, things get harder. Many turn back at about this point. Travellers become more scarce, and the dangers increase.

    Each world brings more dangers and terrors, both in the physical, mental, and magical sense.

    No one in recorded history has ever returned from the worlds past the twelfth. Any details of worlds thirteen through sixteen come only from ancient myths and legends.

    I haven't decided the specifics of what each planet would be like, or what the plot of this story would be. Especially the backstory of the main character, and why they'd want to take a journey like this.

    But yeah. That's what my brain made up today.

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    2. Lego Mistborn

      Lego Mistborn

      Are the civilizations all people who started on the path and just stopped.

    3. Morningtide

      Morningtide

      I want this book now! That's so cool!!

    4. Through the Living Hope
  5. Suddenly, pineapples. Also Butt Venture had set up a bakery on the shorefront. But mostly pineapples.
  6. Man, at this point I almost want to requisition a Shardblade from you...
  7. Well.

    That was interesting.

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    2. The Wandering Wizard
    3. Thaidakar the Ghostblood
    4. The Bookwyrm

      The Bookwyrm

      It was good.

      Not as good as many of my favorites, but good.

      Also sad.

      And it looked cool.

  8. Well, I'm currently in a theater waiting for The Creator to start.

    I'll let you know how it goes.

    If I'm not too tired.

    1. shortcake

      shortcake

      BOOKWRYM

      IT'S 9 PM RIGHT NOW

      YOUR MOM LET YOU GO OUT THIS LATE???

      also, are you there by yourself?

    2. The Bookwyrm
    3. shortcake
  9. "They look like little teenage daughters of Santa." - @InfiniteInsanity
  10. Νειν, δασ ιστ νιψητ σο γθτ. Languages are weird.
  11. No, Æ. This thread isn't AAA.
  12. How do we know you think that, and aren't being fed that thought by the mysterious idea creatures? This is a statement.
  13. I'm wondering if The Creator is a movie that would be worth going to see.

    Because it looks cool.

    1. Through the Living Hope

      Through the Living Hope

      The only movies coming out this year that I would be interested in seeing are The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and also the Animal Crossing Christmas movie

  14. Applications, not actual college.
  15. All this college stuff is hard.
  16. Hm. I don't know if I want to run, though...It seems like a lot of responsibility to be king of a thread.
  17. @Thaidakar the Ghostblood, you never did explain why you nominated me that one time.
  18. "Well, that's why we don't call it a spine bag." - @shortcake Or something like that.
  19. Our theme is called Dreamscapes. Part 1 is based on "Sweet Dreams," Part 2 (which I conduct) is based on "The Sound of Silence," and part 3 is based on "A Million Dreams." You also have Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty Waltz interspersed throughout.
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