Quote from: Mishihari on Today at 03:40:18 AMI'm going to offer a little unsolicited support to SHARK's position. It really is about context. In Luke 10:3-4, the Lord instructs his apostles
3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
4 Carry neither a purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
In Luke 22:35-26, he tells them
35 And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.
36 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
At first glance, these say opposite things. And note in the second he told his apostles to carry a sword. The scriptures are full of things that might seem contradictory when interpreted without an understanding of how, where, and why they are supposed to be applied. IMO understanding the scriptures requires reading ALL of them repeatedly until you have the whole picture in your mind.
Quote from: Domina on April 23, 2024, 06:00:20 PMIn what way does it harm the hobby?
Why is storygaming bad?
Quote from: Neoplatonist1 on Today at 12:41:52 AMQuote from: SHARK on April 23, 2024, 06:03:38 AMGreetings!
Well, my friend, I personally oppose the Woke based on two things--(1) My Christian faith; and (2) Traditional American Values.
The Woke are Marxist, evil, and traitors to our nation, our Republic, and our people.
And yes, as long as Americans are divided, distracted, and brainwashed with weakness, then the Woke Marxists will win. Americans need to unite, and become hard and fierce. Americans need to harden themselves in doing what needs to be done to heal our land, our nation, and our people.
"Voting harder" will not cleanse our great land, and make us strong. The hard times are coming, and America will need hard men to restore our nation if we are to have any kind of future. Otherwise, we will be choked in diverse rainbow jello and enslaved to a Marxist elite tyrant mommy-state.
Semper Fidelis,
SHARK
SHARK,
How do you square your Christian faith with the commandments, "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good", and "But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also."
How can we defend the West from evil, without violating these commandments? This paradox vexes me. What are your thoughts on it?
Neoplatonist1
Quote from: SHARK on April 23, 2024, 06:03:38 AMGreetings!
Well, my friend, I personally oppose the Woke based on two things--(1) My Christian faith; and (2) Traditional American Values.
The Woke are Marxist, evil, and traitors to our nation, our Republic, and our people.
And yes, as long as Americans are divided, distracted, and brainwashed with weakness, then the Woke Marxists will win. Americans need to unite, and become hard and fierce. Americans need to harden themselves in doing what needs to be done to heal our land, our nation, and our people.
"Voting harder" will not cleanse our great land, and make us strong. The hard times are coming, and America will need hard men to restore our nation if we are to have any kind of future. Otherwise, we will be choked in diverse rainbow jello and enslaved to a Marxist elite tyrant mommy-state.
Semper Fidelis,
SHARK
Quote from: Eric Diaz on April 23, 2024, 09:10:50 AMGURPS kinda recognized this by publishing the "lull" supplement I mentioned but unfortunately can't find.
Quote from: Anon Adderlan on April 22, 2024, 10:37:59 PMSo I've read the latest beta watched a session, and I have thoughts.
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Quote from: Eirikrautha on April 23, 2024, 03:53:14 PMEhhh, no, that recognition predates Studio C by a long time. Joseph Campbell was talking about monomyth in the seventies. It is, in fact, one reason why modern games and media mostly suck. Because politics comes and goes, but the human condition never changes. And the "progressives" want to assert that there is no human condition, nor is there anything within us other than the product of culture and politics. And that is why they fail...
QuoteThe world of man — state, society — as Marx had it is the social structure that he creates for himself and that he, indeed, imprisons himself within. Man creates society and embodies that creation in the State, and the society, shaped by the State, in turn creates Man. Marx called the creation of society "praxis" and the creation of Man by society "the inversion of praxis." Praxis is theory-informed activism, so activism or "the work" done in light of Marxist Theory. It is the transforming activity done by Man on the world of man. The inversion of praxis is social conditioning. The society that Man has created for himself socially conditions him almost completely deterministically. Man is limited and thus psychically incarcerated by the limitations of his social conditioning through the inversion of praxis.