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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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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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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-
magnificence or great beauty:"the train has been restored to all its former glory"
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praise, worship, and thanksgiving offered to a deity.
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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.
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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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Well.
That was interesting.
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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.
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I'm wondering if The Creator is a movie that would be worth going to see.
Because it looks cool.
