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Pratchett quotes are on point and on time - what an invaluable gift he still is - thank you for posting.

“Anyway, if you stop tellin’ people it’s all sorted out afer they’re dead, they might try sorting it all out while they’re alive. ”

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We have a lil snow/sleet on the ground.

A taste of what´s to come. cool2
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We have a lil snow/sleet on the ground.

A taste of what´s to come. cool2
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Do you ski or snowboard? Any Winter sports?

I’m hoping to get back into snowboarding this Winter.


Got confirmation last night, staying here through next week. thumbs
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We have a lil snow/sleet on the ground.

A taste of what´s to come. cool2
 Quoting: waycation


Do you ski or snowboard? Any Winter sports?

I’m hoping to get back into snowboarding this Winter.


Got confirmation last night, staying here through next week. thumbs
 Quoting: Seer777


Used to. Still when we had a group of buddies doing it.

Not so fun alone I think.

I´m less of a snow person than I was before. afro

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“The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.”
-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods


His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase,

'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.”

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

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Diogenes would carry a lamp with him in daylight, and when asked why, he would reply: "I am looking for an honest man!"



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Your lies have already poisoned the world!’

‘Then I shall write another book’, said Didactylos calmly. ‘Think how it will look – proud Didactylos swayed by the arguments of the Omnians. A full retraction. Hmm? In fact, with your permission, lord – I know you have much to do, looting and burning and so on – I will retire to my barrel right away and start work on it. A universe of spheres. Balls spinning through space. Hmm.

Yes. With your permission, lord, I will write you more balls that you can imagine…”

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods



Didactylos. Meaning "Two-Fingered" in Ephebian, Didactylos is a philosopher, based on Diogenes of Sinope, who comes into the stories in Small Gods. He lives in a barrel inside the wall of the palace of the Tyrant in Ephebe, crafting bespoke philosophies, axioms or aphorisms for scraps.

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We have a lil snow/sleet on the ground.

A taste of what´s to come. cool2
 Quoting: waycation


Do you ski or snowboard? Any Winter sports?

I’m hoping to get back into snowboarding this Winter.


Got confirmation last night, staying here through next week. thumbs
 Quoting: Seer777


Used to. Still when we had a group of buddies doing it.

Not so fun alone I think.

I´m less of a snow person than I was before. afro
 Quoting: waycation


Maybe the old buddies you use to go with, still go?

Maybe contact them and hitch a ride? Would be fun.
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We have a lil snow/sleet on the ground.

A taste of what´s to come. cool2
 Quoting: waycation


Do you ski or snowboard? Any Winter sports?

I’m hoping to get back into snowboarding this Winter.


Got confirmation last night, staying here through next week. thumbs
 Quoting: Seer777


Used to. Still when we had a group of buddies doing it.

Not so fun alone I think.

I´m less of a snow person than I was before. afro
 Quoting: waycation


Maybe the old buddies you use to go with, still go?

Maybe contact them and hitch a ride? Would be fun.
 Quoting: Seer777


I think they have kids... You know.
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Don’t celebrities all buy each other’s products to make it appear popular or just buy it up themselves?

The obscenely wealthy must be exquisitely bored while trying to appear they’re having more fun while flaunting their money laundering to everyone.


Amusing themselves with nonsense until they run out the clock.
 Quoting: Seer777


It doesn't work that way. You just sell(affix) your name(tm) to a product and reap the whirlwind.

Only the boring are bored.
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Dunno. They often seem miserable under the gleaming surface. Thus all the mental illness, drug abuse, philandering, divorce and such. Same as the rest of the population if not turned up a few notches.

I think Elon missed his calling to be more like Buckminster Fuller. Maybe he is just not that intelligent and instead relies on the intelligence of other for which he takes the credit.

This stunt only further proves my feelings on him.

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We always rely on the intelligence and inventiveness of others.

If you don't use it....

It's a reflex.
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Heh. Maybe he had just watched Monsters, Inc. with one of his kids.

Kind of endearing if you look at it that way.


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^Great movie.
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Lol...a true exploitation film.

Sort of like the survival queued twist on boy meets girl in Ex Machina.
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Laughter is 10x more powerful than scream..



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Educated people know what it's like to be uneducated

But uneducated people don't know what it's like to be educated

bump
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Weaponizing ignorance. A function of envy.


It goes along the same vein as a quote by LBJ..

If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
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^This.
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This is also along the same vein..


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Do you ski or snowboard? Any Winter sports?

I’m hoping to get back into snowboarding this Winter.


Got confirmation last night, staying here through next week. thumbs
 Quoting: Seer777


Used to. Still when we had a group of buddies doing it.

Not so fun alone I think.

I´m less of a snow person than I was before. afro
 Quoting: waycation


Maybe the old buddies you use to go with, still go?

Maybe contact them and hitch a ride? Would be fun.
 Quoting: Seer777


I think they have kids... You know.
 Quoting: waycation


Most people do. Those of us who don’t, are true anomalies. :D

Especially childless women. I wonder the the worldwide percent is for my age cohort.

Bet it is low.
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Used to. Still when we had a group of buddies doing it.

Not so fun alone I think.

I´m less of a snow person than I was before. afro
 Quoting: waycation


Maybe the old buddies you use to go with, still go?

Maybe contact them and hitch a ride? Would be fun.
 Quoting: Seer777


I think they have kids... You know.
 Quoting: waycation


Most people do. Those of us who don’t, are true anomalies. :D

Especially childless women. I wonder the the worldwide percent is for my age cohort.

Bet it is low.
 Quoting: Seer777


I think you might be surprised.
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I think they have kids... You know.
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Most people do. Those of us who don’t, are true anomalies. :D

Especially childless women. I wonder the the worldwide percent is for my age cohort.

Bet it is low.
 Quoting: Seer777


I think you might be surprised.
 Quoting: waycation


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15%

Higher than I thought, but still pretty low.
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Used to. Still when we had a group of buddies doing it.

Not so fun alone I think.

I´m less of a snow person than I was before. afro
 Quoting: waycation


Maybe the old buddies you use to go with, still go?

Maybe contact them and hitch a ride? Would be fun.
 Quoting: Seer777


I think they have kids... You know.
 Quoting: waycation


Most people do. Those of us who don’t, are true anomalies. :D

Especially childless women. I wonder the the worldwide percent is for my age cohort.

Bet it is low.
 Quoting: Seer777


yeah, not so anomalous I'm afraid



nobody is having kids, not millennials or gen z
that's the norm for us now

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Maybe the old buddies you use to go with, still go?

Maybe contact them and hitch a ride? Would be fun.
 Quoting: Seer777


I think they have kids... You know.
 Quoting: waycation


Most people do. Those of us who don’t, are true anomalies. :D

Especially childless women. I wonder the the worldwide percent is for my age cohort.

Bet it is low.
 Quoting: Seer777


yeah, not so anomalous I'm afraid



nobody is having kids, not millennials or gen z
that's the norm for us now
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Your age group is nearly 40%. You have a lot time left if you choose to.
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I think they have kids... You know.
 Quoting: waycation


Most people do. Those of us who don’t, are true anomalies. :D

Especially childless women. I wonder the the worldwide percent is for my age cohort.

Bet it is low.
 Quoting: Seer777


yeah, not so anomalous I'm afraid



nobody is having kids, not millennials or gen z
that's the norm for us now
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Your age group is nearly 40%. You have a lot time left if you choose to.
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yeah, that's true. it's just people don't want to bring kids into the world, even the people that can afford it. the first world is dying off. like when we hit retirement years seer, there will not be enough workers to pay our social security. we are the largest living generation, and it is all downhill from here if something doesn't change
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nobody is having kids, not millennials or gen z
that's the norm for us now
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The world either gets babies or they get workers.

Don’t get both.


Plus..who wants to invest all the time, money and love into a being that is forced to go sit in a classroom they may die within? Just that anxiety alone would trigger horrible anxieties in school children and their parents. Also teachers.


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nobody is having kids, not millennials or gen z
that's the norm for us now
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The world either gets babies or they get workers.

Don’t get both.


Plus..who wants to invest all the time, money and love into a being that is forced to go sit in a classroom they may die within? Just that anxiety alone would trigger horrible anxieties in school children and their parents. Also teachers.


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yep. used to be one dude at a factory job could support a wife and 5 kids. IMAGINE.
sounds almost like pure fuckin fantasy to me, yet that was this country under 100 years ago

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The service economy has taken over.

Manufacturing jobs get less respect. At least in the cities.
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The service economy has taken over.

Manufacturing jobs get less respect. At least in the cities.
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people had no idea what they were gonna lose when we sent those jobs overseas to sweatshops
everybody lost except the assholes
remember when outsourcing was a big political topic?
me neither. (it was a very long time ago)

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nobody is having kids, not millennials or gen z
that's the norm for us now
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The world either gets babies or they get workers.

Don’t get both.


Plus..who wants to invest all the time, money and love into a being that is forced to go sit in a classroom they may die within? Just that anxiety alone would trigger horrible anxieties in school children and their parents. Also teachers.


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yep. used to be one dude at a factory job could support a wife and 5 kids. IMAGINE.
sounds almost like pure fuckin fantasy to me, yet that was this country under 100 years ago
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My grandpa was a lineman. He supported 4 daughters and my grandma from that one salary in 1950s.

My dad’s, dad was a PoS that left his mom to care for 5 kids without support. She turned to alcohol to cope and died of cirrhosis in her early 60s.
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The service economy has taken over.

Manufacturing jobs get less respect. At least in the cities.
 Quoting: waycation


people had no idea what they were gonna lose when we sent those jobs overseas to sweatshops
everybody lost except the assholes
remember when outsourcing was a big political topic?
me neither. (it was a very long time ago)
 Quoting: Skyracula


Pretty sure a lot of people were screaming about it.

But all the ‘I told ya so’s’ don’t mean a thing.
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The service economy has taken over.

Manufacturing jobs get less respect. At least in the cities.
 Quoting: waycation


people had no idea what they were gonna lose when we sent those jobs overseas to sweatshops
everybody lost except the assholes
remember when outsourcing was a big political topic?
me neither. (it was a very long time ago)
 Quoting: Skyracula


Pretty sure a lot of people were screaming about it.

But all the ‘I told ya so’s’ don’t mean a thing.
 Quoting: Seer777


yep, a lot of people screamed, our elected officials spewed a bunch of bullshit and helped us in no way shape or form, the corporations won, everyone forgot there was a fight...

I'll get angry if I continue that line of thinking though
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The service economy has taken over.

Manufacturing jobs get less respect. At least in the cities.
 Quoting: waycation


people had no idea what they were gonna lose when we sent those jobs overseas to sweatshops
everybody lost except the assholes
remember when outsourcing was a big political topic?
me neither. (it was a very long time ago)
 Quoting: Skyracula


Yeah...

Tariffs used to protect a country´s manufacturing/industry.

I guess the fascists lobbied that away. And use it for mere geopolitical muscle these days.

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I’m not one to pay much attention to celebrities..but I will say the very second I saw Kanye turn to religion after his schizophrenia diagnosis..I knew his marriage would be over shortly.

Religion and schizophrenia do not mix well.


Now we watch as he crashes and burns. The new Britney.

Kanye’s future romantic matches be like..

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Thread: Kanye West 'instructs' his 'wife' Bianca Censori to 'NEVER speak', insiders claim - and has even 'given her a list

Kanye West 'instructs' his 'wife' Bianca Censori to 'NEVER speak', insiders claim - and has even 'given her a list of rules to live by' that dictates what she has to wear and foods she is allowed to eat
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Vile. Imagine the example he is setting for his daughters. If they were mine, he’d lose any custody and visitation.

Careful ladies. Don’t let crazy, stick their dick in you, get you pregnant or marry you.
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Thread: Get this -Elon Musk already fathered 11 kids

I hazard a guess that 11 is also the number of diapers he’s changed.

Sperm donor says what?
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The service economy has taken over.

Manufacturing jobs get less respect. At least in the cities.
 Quoting: waycation


people had no idea what they were gonna lose when we sent those jobs overseas to sweatshops
everybody lost except the assholes
remember when outsourcing was a big political topic?
me neither. (it was a very long time ago)
 Quoting: Skyracula


Pretty sure a lot of people were screaming about it.

But all the ‘I told ya so’s’ don’t mean a thing.
 Quoting: Seer777


yep, a lot of people screamed, our elected officials spewed a bunch of bullshit and helped us in no way shape or form, the corporations won, everyone forgot there was a fight...

I'll get angry if I continue that line of thinking though
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When our workshop was being built decades back in the 80s, some of the punch presses and machines were bought from then defunct manufacturing businesses.
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Be careful what you wish for..

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Dropped 2 minutes ago..



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Wonder if this is part of what Vaf was saying about the ‘Cosmic joke’.

hmm
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Thread: THE APOCALYPSE...120 years in the making(TONIGHT)...Aleister Crowley's work COMPLETE.now comes the end UPDATED! APRIL 8 2024 Age of Horus ECLIPSE

The Enochian communications teach not only that humanity itself must initiate the apocalypse through the magical formula delivered to Dee and Kelly, but that humans must be the physical agents that bring about the plagues, wars, and famines described with such chilling eloquence in the vision of St. John. It is we who will let the demons of Coronzon into our minds by means of a specific ritual working. They will not find a welcome place there all at once, but will worm their way into our subconscious and make their homes there slowly over time. In the minds of individuals that resist this invasion they will find it difficult to gain a foothold, but in the more pliable minds of those who welcome their influence they will establish themselves readily.

Once the demons have taken up residence, we will be powerless to prevent them from turning our thoughts and actions toward chaotic and destructive ends. These apocalyptic spirits will set person against person and nation against nation, gradually increasing the madness and chaos in human society until at last the full horror of Revelation has been realized upon the stage of the world. The corruption of human thoughts and feelings may require generations to bring to full fruition. Only after the wasting and burning of souls is well advanced will the full horror of the apocalypse achieve its final fulfillment in the material realm.

Let us suppose for the sake of argument that the signal for the initiation of this psychic invasion occurred in 1904 when Crowley received the Book of the Law, as he himself believed. Crowley’s Enochian evocations of 1909 then pried the doors of the Watchtowers open a crack enough to allow a foul wind to blow through the common mind of the human race. This would explain the senseless slaughter of the First World War and the unspeakable horror of the Nazi Holocaust during the Second World War. It would explain the decline of organized religions and why the soulless cult of science has gained supremacy. It would explain the moral and ethical bankruptcy of modern times and the increase in senseless violence.

We may not have long to wait before the individual known in the vision of St. John as the Antichrist, the one foretold in Crowley’s Book of the Law to follow after the Beast, will succeed in completing the Apocalypse Working. Then the gates of the Watchtowers will truly gape wide, and the children of Coronzon will sweep into our minds as crowned conquerors. If this chilling scenario ever comes to pass, the wars of the twentieth century will seem bucolic to those who survive the slaughter.
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Last chapter - A Mental Armageddon - sums it all up nicely, I imagine.

It's not easy to re-curve a narrative as insidiously virulent, invasive and inhumanely vile as that one.

But sumbuddy has to at least try an giver a rip, eh?

sun
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I do like how they mentioned the ‘prying’ of the door.

doortolight

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Be careful what you wish for..

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Revelation 16:18

Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake.


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I think they have kids... You know.
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Most people do. Those of us who don’t, are true anomalies. :D

Especially childless women. I wonder the the worldwide percent is for my age cohort.

Bet it is low.
 Quoting: Seer777


I think you might be surprised.
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15%

Higher than I thought, but still pretty low.
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I’d wonder what that percentage would be if life-long lesbians w/out sperm donors, were removed.

At 7% of the population..one can skew the results.
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Funny..Small Gods by Pratchett is mentioned. I had to skip a bit to keep from spoiling it, since I only just started it.

3 ways to kill a god explained in vid:

1. Special weapon/sword ex: video games/movies

2. Blaspheme/ laugh at/ make a joke of ex: The Killing Joke?

3. Starvation by falling out of memory or practice. Ex: myth


Just found this channel less than a week ago. Enjoying his videos so far.

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“My lord?” said Brutha.

“Yes, Brutha?”

“I would like to ask you a question.”

“Do so.”

“What happened to Brother Murduck?”

There was the merest suggestion of hesitation in the rhythm of Vorbis’s stick on the cobbles. Then the exquisitor said, “Truth, good Brutha, is like the light. Do you know about light?”

“It…comes from the sun. And the moon and stars. And candles. And lamps.”

“And so on,” said Vorbis, nodding. “Of course. But there is another kind of light. A light that fills even the darkest of places. This has to be. For if this meta-light did not exist, how could darkness be seen?”

Brutha said nothing. This sounded too much like philosophy.

“And so it is with truth,” said Vorbis. “There are some things which appear to be the truth, which have all the hallmarks of truth, but which are not the real truth. The real truth must sometimes be protected by a labyrinth of lies.”

He turned to Brutha. “Do you understand me?”

“No, Lord Vorbis.”

“I mean, that which appears to our senses is not the fundamental truth. Things that are seen and heard and done by the flesh are mere shadows of a deeper reality. This is what you must understand as you progress in the Church.”

“But at the moment, lord, I know only the trivial truth, the truth available on the outside,” said Brutha. He felt as though he was at the edge of a pit.

“That is how we all begin,” said Vorbis kindly.

“So did the Ephebians kill Brother Murduck?” Brutha persisted. Now he was inching out over the darkness.

“I am telling you that in the deepest sense of the truth they did. By their failure to embrace his words, by their intransigence, they surely killed him.”

“But in the trivial sense of the truth,” said Brutha, picking every word with the care an inquisitor might give to his patient in the depths of the Citadel, “in the trivial sense, Brother Murduck died, did he not, in Omnia, because he had not died in Ephebe, had been merely mocked, but it was feared that others in the Church might not understand the, the deeper truth, and thus it was put about that the Ephebians had killed him in, in the trivial sense, thus giving you, and those who saw the truth of the evil of Ephebe, due cause to launch a—a just retaliation.”

They walked past a fountain. The deacon’s steel-shod staff clicked in the night.

“I see a great future for you in the Church,” said Vorbis, eventually. “The time of the eighth Prophet is coming. A time of expansion, and great opportunity for those true in the service of Om.”

Brutha looked into the pit.

If Vorbis was right, and there was a kind of light that made darkness visible, then down there was its opposite, the darkness where no light could ever reach: darkness that blackened light. He thought of blind Didactylos and his empty lantern.

He heard himself say, “And with people like the Ephebians, there is no truce. No treaty can be held binding, if it is between people like the Ephebians and those who follow a deeper truth?”

Vorbis nodded. “When the Great God is with us,” he said, “who can stand against us? You impress me, Brutha.”

-Small Gods Terry Pratchett

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Funny..Small Gods by Pratchett is mentioned. I had to skip a bit to keep from spoiling it, since I only just started it.

3 ways to kill a god explained in vid:

1. Special weapon/sword ex: video games/movies

2. Blaspheme/ laugh at/ make a joke of ex: The Killing Joke?

3. Starvation by falling out of memory or practice. Ex: myth


Just found this channel less than a week ago. Enjoying his videos so far.

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My Angelarium books are waiting for me at home. thumbs


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