Immortal Platypus

I feel like sect is the closest word, but it's certainly not perfect

I wouldn't say it's necessarily hard, just risky. Preservation didn't seem to struggle with making humans, it's just that Leras had to give up a significant portion of power in order to make them sentient. When Odium and Autonomy and others are out there, giving up enough of yourself to make you noticeably weaker than other shards isn't a great idea.

huh. it's been so long since I've been pinged here.

lowkey, I don't recall why I asked that. I feel like the first scenario is significantly more likely. The odds of him being able to tell the difference seems more likely to me than the odds of him forgetting to say that the angel declared he was a messenger of God, but remembering that the angel said that he was God. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of time for this, cause it's end of year for me, so I probably won't be on much

that was toward the end of John 8, I believe

can I ask why you specified that he identifies himself as Yahweh? I will also note that it seems to me that beings that are not the Father bear the name Yahweh, for example, in Genesis 31:11-13, the angel of God refers to himself as the God of Bethel, which was where Jacob swore an oath to Yahweh in Genesis 28:13-20

it definitely does take a few days, but I don't recall if it requires a host. I was saying that if it does, you could wipe out the singers and they wouldn't be able to return. it's impractical, but probably possible

note that it seems to me that they are technically not unkillable, unless the process is different in the everstorm vs normal desolations. In the everstorm, they needed a host to return. If all the hosts were dead they couldn't come back. I can't recall if that's different in the normal desolations

How many gemstones do they have to store light? More than enough to last between highstorms without extraneous use? Presumably they have to use some to feed their soldiers with Soulcasting.

how much light do they have? if they don't have any, pure numbers will do, especially when combined with fused and the fact that forms like direforms are so much stronger than normal soldiers.

remember, on your mission, you'll be out of your comfort zone a LOT. fortunately, we have a Comforter that is always with us. get in the habit of praying to have the Spirit with you, and for other blessings you need. Read your scriptures, and read the preach my gospel manual, it's helped me a lot in preparing for my mission. I also recommend memorizing the articles of faith, but I also just like to have things memorized. Where are you going?

my asl knowledge does not (very surprisingly) help with this step. WHOO! LINUX! generally really secure (except that one time that someone built a backdoor into it, and it almost didn't get caught before it was incorporated into the version of Linux that is sold to governments (learning about that was kinda terrifying), but because it was open-source, someone did some testing, found a delay, and realized it was because of a backdoor. really cool story, search up Jia Tan Linux Hack or XZ Utils Backdoor. Veritasium has a good YouTube video on it.)

can I ask why prompt engineering is banned? just to be consistent with discord? is there a specific reason it's banned there? And where does it cross the line from prompt engineering to discussing the technology itself?

My favorite was either Elder James E. Faust's April 1981 address ("The Dignity of Self") or Elder Howard W. Hunter's April 1981 Address ("No Man Shall Add to or Take Away"). and yes, I did read parts of the April 1981 conference during conference weekend, I find that I like the older talks better. this year's talks were still great though.

don't forget Revelation 22:18-19

Just watched this Youtube video, and it's super cool. it shows a bunch of evidence that the Jewish people were in the Americas prior to columbus, and the evidence seems (to me) to match up with Lehi's journey to the Americas. totally recommend it, it was fascinating.

for the record, it's not just the really new ones. I've been here a little while (not a long time, but not a short time either) and I'd never even heard of it. for those interested, here's the link and while it does imply him wanting to raise the dead (technically not confirmed, but heavily implied), it also mentions a vendetta.

actually, I hadn't thought of that, and I kind of like that idea. that's really interesting to me.

I do expect that Ado was good(ish) but I'm not willing to cast judgement off of an assumption, so I won't say for sure that it was murder. It probably was though. But yeah, I don't like Tanavast's betrayal of BAM, or his feud with Rayse that led to basically proxy warfare that ended up destroying a planet, or for a variety of reasons. I'm not trying to convince anyone they should dislike Jasnah, but I am trying to show why I find her to be a monstrous individual. well, there's no point in having a discussion with someone who will dismiss my points as "you're sexist". I hope you have a good day, but I'm done here.

her cause to believe was that he had bonded a spren. All she knew of those kinds of spren bonds was that the spren had been touched by an ex-agent of Odium. this knowledge also came from information that was incredibly outdated. I don't hold that as reasonable proof. then, instead of seeking to learn more, she comes to a decision that she must kill her own cousin (this would be terrible if it was just some unnamed noble, but the fact that she was so close to the person adds onto the moral depravity), and comes very, very close to going through with it. Compare this to Adolin's scenario. Sadeas had been a thorn in their side for years, antagonizing him, his father, and his entire house. Not grounds to kill him, so he didn't. Then Sadeas attempted to betray them. Not looked like he attempted to betray them, he actually did the thing. then (if I recall the order of events correctly), he tried to assassinate Dalinar (maybe multiple times?). then, and only then, after a pattern of being an antagonist with antagonistic action only increasing, he killed him. Something I'm still not entirely in favor of, but I find it very different than Jasnah's situation. And again, this was an one time occurrence rather than a pattern of behavior. I'm simply going to have to disagree with that. I don't find the Alethi war to be entirely unjust. I could be convinced that towards the end, it was, but at the beginning it was entirely justified. I also don't hold to the belief that it was a genocide, and so we simply have different perspectives on that. 1st off, ad hominem. Calling people sexist because they don't agree with you is not a good faith argument. It also doesn't address any of the points we've talked about. 2nd, "When she kills people by turning them to smoke, that is somehow okay" is a heck of a way to phrase what we've been arguing. What we've been saying is that there is enough room in what she did to call it self-defense. I think that's true. Even if it wasn't for her, it was for Shallan. And, for the record, if it was to fulfill a male power fantasy, I think it would've been her killing them with her shardblade. As for the idea that when she does it to people with money or power that's not ok, they're in very different circumstances. Take the "duel" with Ruthar, for example. She and Wit bait him into fighting her (something of which I don't approve, but it's still his choice, so the fault lies with him), then as he stands there, not fighting her (I think because she's a woman) she stabs him through the throat (IIRC). Technically, it's legal, but I don't approve of it, as he wasn't actually intending to cause her harm. I don't think it's morally justified, not because I like Ruthar or because he's powerful, but because I don't find that it was actual self-defense. that said, I find it more justified than her plans to assassinate Aesudan, Fen, or Renarin. As for why Adolin killing Sadeas is semi-permitable, see above. well, for those of us who don't believe it was a genocide, it's much easier, but even if you don't, you can still see Jasnah as a monster. Maybe, but I gave that as an example. There are other possible reasons that justify killing, just like self defense. and if he didn't fight back, I believe that was purely in the time when the others killed him, he could have been oppressing them for years (decades, centuries, or millennia) beforehand, etc. all in all, I'm on the side that the killing of ado was probably unjustified, but I'm withholding judgement until we get all the details. I expect my view is quiet similar to the one @Frustration holds. We tend to have very similar ideas when it comes to morality and I've been discussing them a lot recently. It's made me better at putting them into words.