TheArcaneAxiom

@jonas

That’s a good point. It could be the rarity of silver? I would assume that it’s commonplace, but perhaps not?

@jonas

Yeah it was interesting. I’m not sure if the Evil is directly caused by a Shard splintering, but the shades are so it seems likely. Arcanum Unbounded mentions that a shard was shattered near Threnody, and it was confirmed in a WoB that that shard was Ambition, splintered by Odium. (Odium sure has a nasty track record. He murdered a q…

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@jonas

I wonder if you could use Feruchemy. Remember those disc things in BoM? What if you were able to store connection to Elantris and then tap it so that you could use AonDor anywhere?

That would make a lot of sense. Scadrians are the first to discover space travel, right? That could explain Tress. Then the Elantrians in SH were simply in the…[Read more]

@rae

You still haven’t proven that mathematics wasn’t created by God. Ihnk in is wise, we will have to agree to disagree and turn away, unless you want to continue.

Mathematics, logic, emotion would not exist without God, and I believe that God created them. But I can’t really prove that, neither can you disprove it.

I actually never was trying…[Read more]

@jonas

I think Sanderson said you would have to “hack” the magic system to get AonDor to work off world.

In other words, RAFO😂

Sanderson is well known for his magic systems, but I feel like AonDor and all of the other magic systems that are only hinted at are all fairly boring. AonDor is quite generic for a magic system. It can do basically any…

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@rae

Okay, my hands are starting to sweat, which happens when I get excited.

😁

In context, your verse actually means that Paul can bear, can do anything God wants him to do if God wills it and strengthens him.

Yeah, makes sense to me!

The Doctrine of Hermeneutics. The latter part of that verse (John 1:3) says simply that what this passage means by…

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@rae

Alright. Well, I think I just did that with the verses I showed, unless there’s still a fallacy somewhere.

@rae

While I’m laying my beliefs on the table, I’m also a Creationist, I believe strongly in the doctrine of hermeneutics, I believe in context, and I often take a literal viewpoint of the Bible’s text unless it is clearly poetic.

I just realized I missed this. I’m not familiar of the doctrine of hermeneutics, do you just mean Sola Sciptura? When…[Read more]

@rae

I didn’t think you were. I’m used to that, my grandfather and my…technically step-grandmother are not Calvinists either. In fact, Grandpa openly opposes Calvinism to the point of saying that John Calvin was a heretic. It has caused some…divisions to say the least.

I’m sorry to hear that:( Differences in those sorts of things will create…[Read more]

@jonas

Yeah, I enjoyed it, but I see what you mean. There’s so much about the Elantrians I want to know about though, like if there is a locational influence on how much power an Elantrian has, then when did they figure out how to explore the whole Cosmere, still bearing their powers?

@rae

Mars hill was the place of philosephers.

Ok, cool!

Though, if there was nothing to teach us about one and two, then we wouldn’t know about it. Also, math would not exist if God didn’t. Someone has to create it right? math is not outside of God, He could break math when He wanted to, but He is so orderly, and never changes that I don’t think…

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@rae

Put that way…XD Anselm would probably never win a debate on Mars hill!

Lol, yeah, I don’t know much about Mars hill, but yes, his rhetoric seems to ultimately fall flat.

I’ve heard variations of this idea. Essentially the idea that mathematics is essentially assumed to be not self sufficient, because mathematics is something that only s…[Read more]

@rae

Great point. That’s one argument many have made to Aquinas’ cosmological arguments, saying it’s too disconnected from the God of Abraham.  In this case though, I would go further. One of Anselm’s students found this argument to be completely invalid. He said to imagine the most perfect island. This island is so great to live on that nothing…[Read more]

@rae

Fair enough. Do you see anything wrong with the argument, or do you think it may actually show undeniably that God must exist?

@walkbyfaith

For trope preferences, I think I’m pretty basic 😂. I like enemies to lovers the most, grumpy x sunshine is my favorite. I’m actually not a huge fan of love triangles, but I have nothing against them. Not sure if this is basic or not, but I enjoy the occasional age gap (as long as it’s nothing too crazy lol)

Fair enough, lol! Yeah,…[Read more]

@rae

Ontology is a philosophical study on what it means for something to exist. An ontological argument is essentially any argument that God must necessarily exist using logical language. The cosmological argument is a different kind of argument, saying essentially that there must be a self sufficient element that created the universe, and we say…[Read more]

@jonas

One thing I was just thinking about is that the Resonance of Conversion creates the possibility of a manmade magic system. It would be possible for Conversion to create a new form of Arcana if you knew what you were doing. On its own, this would be useless, but it’s also possible you could create the ability to use the new Arcana. C…

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@mcmuffin

(btw, can I call you Macguffin instead of Mcmuffin?)

I have so many, but here is one that I can think of… one of my characters uses compressed gas that orbits around him, as a way to take out his enemies.

Ok, cool! So does it function sort of like an non-solid sword?

No, it is not unfair.  (In my opinion)

Alright, fair enough!

@jonas

Ok, that makes sense

@jonas

Ohhhh, interesting, but makes a whole lot of sense. I would assume that I’ve seen that by now, but I don’t know. I’m in the middle of Warbreaker, going to read Rhythm, then Lost Metal, then Sunlit, then I will have finished the Comsere, so if it’s in any of those, it’s probably the first two. Didn’t Hoid give Kelsier a good beating? Unless…[Read more]