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Well this is a pretty fun change. I really liked the old one, but the startling bright green is very endearing as well. 🙂
Good job to the design team.
Thank you to everyone! These were all really helpful and have given me a lot to work through! 🙂
@sleepwalkingmk. That is something that I had not considered! Thanks. I should have thought of that from their angle. It would probably fix the theme, or at least make a start towards it.
@kate-flournoy. I will be keeping the two cents. They will be an expansion to my treasury. 🙂
While I agree that it is dangerous to try and make everything fit into a framework, I thought it made a reasonable question to ask, as it bugged me writing a paper recently.
But yes, it would be safer to look at it as a negative example, then to try and say that the best course of action would have been to just keep fighting, or something equally wrong.
The peace with God vs. peace with man is something I will have to really think through as it holds a lot of potential. Thanks 🙂
Also, what are “EiLs”?
@daeusThanks, you make some really helpful points. And this question “what is poetic justice if good people are so often punished?” is roughly what I want to pursue in the second book, extensively.
About the French King, he does die, (possibly of insanity) within the next year, and the rest of French nation is wracked by wars between three different parties for the next thirty odd years. So yes, I suppose I had zoomed in a little too close on the occasion.
When I talked to my dad about the good from the massacre, and the most obvious that comes to my mind is that it kept England from ever willing trying to return to the Roman Catholic Church. Also, now that I think about it, this could have easily happened as Queen Elizabeth was actually engaged to be married to the Duke of Anjou (younger brother to the French King), so yes there is that. 🙂
@aratrea
I do have a bit of trouble making focusing questions that do not come out into either dichotomies or two extremes basically that with a ‘balanced’ position. I do need to work on that.I suppose there must be a way to work out the poetic justice, even in there. It is worth a try at any rate. 🙂
I would disagree about Balaam and say he is more of a tragic character, starting off seemingly reasonably well, and then going off the deep-end. However, I would be interested to hear why you think he is an anti-hero type.
I would say Joab is closer to an anti-hero. But that is just my opinion
The ideas are definitely hard to treat fairly… But then not all ideas are equal. 🙂
I just tried it with a short story with a group of seven people each one offering three things they wanted in the story. I would say it is nearly impossible to come to twenty-one things that are quite that random, with a pre-existing story in mind, but that’s just me.
Team writing is really fun! This year I wrote two satires with friends (four in each group, a bit of overlap) and it was really fun. I do suggest that you decide beforehand, who exactly will edit everything in the end to make more of one substance and not sound like it had four different authors. Also be very meek… It is a “good” way to ruin friendships.
Warnings aside, with a good team, team writing is really fun.
As Solomon says there is nothing new under the sun… Oh well, so the chief difference would be that I asked people over WhatsApp instead of letters… Not really anything to brag about…
Me desperate for ideas, hahahahah… Well come to think of it yes. At least ones that
people like… 🙂Favorite movies… Well, How to Train Your Dragon 2 is a favorite of mine. Nice music, basically sound script, nice visuals, emotional without embarrassing me, and one of the few more recently made animations that I can still rematch without yawning too badly. 🙂
Well that’s my first. 🙂
I cannot recall if I mentioned this or not, but 1 is incorrect. Unless we count written characters… 🙂
I might keep going, but I have a bit over 300 words written. Thank you very much @bluejay.
@bluejay, when exactly is tonight? Night Time in America, Australia or Africa? I am open for the Australia and Africa, but American night time is bit too late for me… 🙂
But sure. I could use some outside stimulus to stay writing. 🙂
I write because I am distracted,
I write because I care,I write out of boredom,
I write because I have too,
I write because I can,
Sometimes I write for sport,
Other times I write in sweat of despair,
But finally I write for the Kingdom,
To aid the wheat and pluck the tare.(Clearly I am not that good with poetry, but better there then working on school.. 🙂 )
@daeus, Oh… I had not read my first paragraph in that light… I was trying to write it as more of an apology for bringing up the topic, which clearly is not too active in the forum. However, in hindsight, ouch, my post is very poorly written for that goal.
Really just three major questions. 1, why are there so few Christian Sci-fi books, and 2, does this need to change? (For context, there are not many Christian books working in the realm of Vampires, werewolves, and wizards, and I think we can all agree that that is not a bad thing)
My final question is this, how should people treat aliens? (Note 1; by aliens, I don’t just mean life other then earth, but material, sentient, capable of making moral choice, creatures)(Note 2; By “how people should treat,” I would mean in a book, as chances of them existing are very small).
@jadamae, A Search for A Secret, is actually one of his better books. I really enjoyed that one. I did not enjoy All But Lost. It really, really crawled.
@his-instrument, facts about Africa… Particularly, South Africa. South Africa has eleven official languages, one of which is English. Therefore no one needs to learn another language. We have other languages, but they are unspoken ;).
We work mostly in schools, though my dad will preach anywhere that will take him. Before I went to college and my sister got married, we went with him to the schools. My dad would preach and draw a big picture with chalk. https://www.youtube.com/user/smallpaulhelper, is where you could watch a sermon of his if you want.
@bluejay, I read a lot of Biggles. I know of only two that I never read (“Orchids for Biggles”, which I started reading back a few years ago but I then I started reading ones where he was in WWI and never started again. “Biggles goes to school” is the only one I can think of that I never got to read, that is very rare and expensive.) Biggles flies East (and West) are amongst the best he wrote.@gretald, Henty has some very good books, Top three (my opinion 🙂 ) “In Freedom’s Cause” ‘By Pike and Dike’ “The Cat of Bubastes.” “By Right of Conquest,” ‘Knight of the White Cross,’ “Lion of the North,” ‘Lion of St. Mark’ being very near competitors.
@rolena-hatfield, 29 more books? I might have miscounted then… I was only aware of four that I distinctly did not finish (The one on the Inca’s and a three part romance he wrote. The romance was extremely slow moving. Nothing like any of his other works). Other then those, I was pretty sure that I read them all… I even read his “March to Magdala.”Hayman family… What part of Africa are they moving to? Chances are very high that they might fly into South Africa (Johannesburg) but it is very unlikely I would actually see them, unless they moved to Cape Town and happened to work in the Southern Suburbs… 🙂
@faithdk, Africa is very exotic. Especially Cape Town. It is both one of the richest places in Africa and one of the poorest. It is also where a number of missions to the rest of Africa are based.
@bluejay, If I could still find any Biggles books I had not read, and have time, I would definitely read them. Have you ever read any of W.E. Johns Worrals books?A missionary! That is very good! Let me commend Africa to you as being a relatively open field. (Open as in receptive). Also, it would be kind of novel to most South Africans to see someone coming from Australia, instead of the other way around.
@hope, I really liked your military post on the realities of war. Well written. May I ask what your choice of authors is, for Roman and Greek battles? If you like scholarly, somewhat practical and useful author, Theodore Dodge is a good one. He wrote a twelve volume work on the art of war (which has been reformatted into a eight or nine part set on kindle) which was really really helpful from the commanding point of view.
