Otherworldly Historian

@jonas

Yes, I essentially believe that morality is a reflection of God’s character. A common question is whether God commands things because they are good (which would make morality something beyond God) or certain things are good because God commands them (which would make God’s commandments arbitrary.) I think that the two are intertwined, whi…

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@jonas

I would say that we can’t really comprehend “requirements” to be God. I think the requirements conform to who God is, but it’s not really possible to say, because a universe where God was different would be fundamentally different, and incomprehensible to us.

Fair enough. But you think that a universe where God was different is theoret…[Read more]

@jonas

I think Descartes would argue that existing is not a necessary attribute of a perfect island. I’m not exactly sure why that would apply to the concept of a perfect entity, but not other things. I may not have explained it particularly well.

Well here’s the thing. A perfect island that does not exist is not perfect, since it would be bet…[Read more]

Here’s some more fun questions:

• If you subscribe to immaterialism, then how does the immaterial influence the material?
• If you subscribe to free will, then what does that actually mean?
• If God knows everything, and part of that knowledge is that He knows everything, how does He actually know that’s not a lie?
• Can God do evil? And if not,…

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@jonas

Yeah, it’s still effectively the same as Anselm’s.

Let’s see if the perfect island argument works on it:

I have the idea of a perfect entity in my mind.

• The idea of a perfect island could not come from an imperfect being.
• Therefore, the idea must come from the entity itself.
• One of the attributes of a perfect island is that it…

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@whalekeeper

Request for initiation granted. Please look at this photograph. *Forgets everything upon seeing the image

Welcome aboard Agent Whaley, you may be briefed on your future tasks above. After which, permission to depart on mission is granted.

@rae

Is this what you meant?

Well done initiate. You have successfully catalogued a new Anomaly.

(It would be cool if we could do both new ideas and ideas from our own WIPs. I also wonder if it would be cool to turn into an RP where our different charries find the AT-C, and have to encounter the different Anomalies.)

File-477 of Catalogue 221: Anomaly-6099

Name: Frendid’s Walk

Origin: unknown

Direct sightings: 27 to ∞

Signature sightings: 1

Description: Frendid to us was once a senior agent of the AT-C. Supposedly in another world, he was known as Dr. Vrendit, and agent of the ZT-X. In another, He was Mr. Didnerf the barber. Unfortunately, all such F…[Read more]

@rae @jonas

Ah, I see some recent initiates need to be re-briefed. Your task is to find and catalogue any Anomalies you encounter (come up with/dream up). Agent Arcane has recently catalogued The Painter in our Archive. Follow his example. List any paranormal behavior you’ve noticed in the anomaly, we cannot miss anything.

Good luck.

–AT-C a…[Read more]

@jonas

Ok, that makes more sense. I was gonna ask, what frame of reference does it stop in motion, so the infinite inertia idea does kinda help. I’ll still have to ponder on how that works on the temporal aspect though.

@jonas

Interesting! I love the high contrast magic systems. Giving me Star Wars vibes actually with the light side and dark side users, and grey Jedi. Question on the positive temporal pulse. What does it mean for the object to be frozen in time, and therefore unmovable?

File-476 of Catalogue 221: Anomaly-6097

Name: [The Painter]

Origin: unknown

Direct sightings: none

Signature sightings: 9

Description: The Painter has never been seen directly, but signs of its work have been documented. Walls have been found painted unevenly in colors described by witnesses as “…the colors of everything…” and “…an…[Read more]

@acancello

Yes, exactly. You cant make 100% of the people happy 100% of the time. The moon was launched around 20 years before the book takes place so the riots and mobs of angry protesters have calmed down. Also, before electricity prices were skyrocketing due to the amount they were using with all of the new technology (Most everything switched…

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@jonas

I’m probably not going to be the best at giving advice on color and character. Color I feel is arbitrary unless there’s something special about it, like the combination of the two metrics in some way. Character we’ve discussed in the past in many ways. I’m not really sure what advice I could give that you don’t already know.

As for the…[Read more]

@savannah_grace2009

I haven’t read it yet, but I’ll probably get to it sometime today!

@savannah_grace2009

Let’s gooooo!!!!! Congratulations!!!

@savannah_grace2009

Hey Sara, is that your story that KP just posted?

@acancello

Well, my main idea was to have it look as ‘natural’ as possible so that the citizens would be more open to the idea and allow it to happen while not realize the dangers that it has the potential of causing.

I feel like they would need to do a little more convincing to make the populace complacent. There will always be resistance, and…[Read more]

@acancello @hybridlore

Ok, so here’s the thing. This looks like a combination of a Dyson sphere and a space elevator. The issue you deal with is that a “moon” would be a very impractical shape for collecting energy, unless it isn’t actually spherical, or it wasn’t connected by some cable to the earth. So is it spherical, or is it more of…[Read more]