Quote from: TonyLBAnyone who tells me that people learn more about right and wrong from watching Seinfeld than from reading greek myth ... that's just crazy.

I realise this ain't the point, but I'd say Seinfeld is about ettiquette rather than morality. Just struck me and I had to share!

Ned

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Eris plays Encounter Critical and Synnibar, but she cheats.

No, she plays Sorcerer, but it's the demon who gets corrupted.

Quote from: mythusmageNo, she plays Sorcerer, but it's the demon who gets corrupted.

There's a schism a-comin'...

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!There's a schism a-comin'...

You know what they say:  two Erisians, four schisms

Quote from: Dominus NoxSomehow or other I ended up explaining gaming to him, and after digesting the information he told me that gaming was evil and all gamers, myself included, would burn in hell forever unless we burned our game collections, got on out knees and begged his god to forgive us for gaming.


It seems that his logic for this was that, ITFP, gaming involved dice and dice were inherently sinful and evil because they were based on the blasphemous assumption that there was such a thing as random chance, and to believe in random chance was to deny the truth that god determines and controls every event in all of creation.

Secondly, he went on to say that role playing games are based on wishing to live in another world, and this was implying that the world god created wasn't good enough for us, which was to insult god.

So, he told me, unless I wanted to "burn in hell for eternity" I'd better renounce gaming, burn my stuff ands beg god to forgive me for ever being a gamer.

So, I asked him if he felt that a person who never harmed anyone deserved to burn in hell forever, exactly the same fate as adolph hitler, just because he was a gamer.

"Absolutely." halohead nodded with utter conviction.

Tell said Halohead to examine Matthew 6:14-15 and then imply that it is his soul that is in peril.

Quote from: KrakaJakI have a friend who plays and loves Exalted who is a hardcore "Rockin' Jesus" Christian. He won't play a Sorcery user. He also won't play casting classes in WoW.

I guess it's his way of moderating his beliefs and having fun.

Oh, and don't remind me that all charms in exalted are technically Magic.

One thing I've done with religion players before was simply throw out the "pantheon o' gods" approach and simply use Christianity for the religion of the fantasy world.  I noticed some of the more religious players like to be clerics in that type of game.

In my Earthdawn campaign of my college years, we even had a fundamentalist Christian player.  He was really religious - in all the Christian organizations, his art projects were always spiritual in nature, he liked talking about religion, etc.  Anyways, his character became an apostle of sorts and travelled the land converting people to Christianity.  He really enjoyed it.

So really, not all religious people (even fundamentalist ones) are over-the-top about this stuff.  Sometimes it just requires modifying the game a little to get things into their comfort zone.

Quote from: Dominus NoxOh god how many fucking years ago was that?!?!?!?!

I don't know... how many fucking years ago did one of those segregationists from the good ol' lynching days actually sit in the US Senate?  Answer: more recently than the Taliban was actually in power, but you won't fucking let go of that bone...

KoOS

Quote from: King of Old SchoolI don't know... how many fucking years ago did one of those segregationists from the good ol' lynching days actually sit in the US Senate?  Answer: more recently than the Taliban was actually in power, but you won't fucking let go of that bone...

KoOS

The fucking taliban is still in power in parts of afghanistan too.

Quote from: King of Old SchoolI don't know... how many fucking years ago did one of those segregationists from the good ol' lynching days actually sit in the US Senate?  Answer: more recently than the Taliban was actually in power, but you won't fucking let go of that bone...

You mean Robert Byrd? He's still in the Senate. Ah, a stalwart of the KKK from days of yore.

Quote from: Hastur T. FannonYou know what they say:  two Erisians, four schisms

Then 8 schisms and suddenly, everybodies havin' FUN.


KALLISTI:D

Quote from: Dominus NoxThe fucking taliban is still in power in parts of afghanistan too.

So by your logic, since you can use the Taliban to justify slandering all Muslims, we can slander all white Americans as pro-lynching, segregationist hillbillies?  Good to know.

KoOS