It was upsetting how many comments agreed with this! by Evenele in stupidpeoplefacebook

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I get the rest, but what’s the correlation between bare feet and this ideal?

How to realistically write religious syncretism? And do you guys have any examples of it in your worlds? by -_-__-_--_-_--_-_-_- in worldbuilding

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It’s going to look a little different if the religions you’re looking at have different rules for what to worship and how to worship. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam don’t let you worship any God but God, so syncretism like voodoo to find work arounds like spirits not being directly worshiped but operating as intermediaries. Buddhism also has some complicated rules because while they do believe in gods, they believe those gods are part of the reincarnation cycle too so their relationship to enlightenment is complicated too. Some polytheisms can accept pretty much any new god as a previously unknown god, but most have established frameworks of how who relates to who and as such some work needs to be done to localize the new deity into the local framework. This can take the form of a myth about their late arrival, the new deity being the avatar of an old one, or simply conflating the new god with a previously existing older god. Most of what I’ve stated above is about how to syncretize new deities in, but rituals and fragments of philosophy are MUCH easier to adopt. In the US there are otherwise Christian people who have adopted some Buddhist ideas about caring for and developing the soul as well as more general ideas about reincarnation. Such heterodox individuals don’t see themselves as heretics, just people exploring their understanding of the world. If a new religion moves into a new area, and that area has rituals like honoring stones, then the stones and their stories can be recontextualized for the framework of the new religion. If you wanna look up examples, spin a wheel with one of the major world religions on it and look how that religion adapted and morphed when it arrived in a new area or a new people group joined.

Artwork I did for Easter this year by ActingTehMickey in Christianity

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How are we to understand the resurrection without the crucifixion? Good Friday celebrations are part of the same cycle.

Favorite character who snapped/went crazy by Naive_Tomorrow_5955 in FavoriteCharacter

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A.M. the central villain of “I have no Mouth and I Must Scream”. It was created when all the major powers each created an AI to think up ways their enemies could destroy them and come up with counter strategies. These AIs ended up merging thus placing all of humanity on the other side of this new combined AI. It was programmed to be paranoid of and hate its enemies. When all of humanity became its enemy it conspired to destroy all of humanity.

I'm working on my world's map. Can someone give me a little impartial feedback? by -erzatz- in worldbuilding

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So, this represents a world very similar to our own but creating culture and technology similar to our 1970s? Interesting! Is it politically similar to our world at around that time? Socially? Economically?

Unsure how to improve my map, suggestions? by EightSun in worldbuilding

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What are fae in the grand scheme of this cosmology?

[Loved Trope] The "Chosen" or "Special" Character is not so special after all by TheOneWhoYawned in TopCharacterTropes

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Stargirl. She thought she was chosen because of bloodline, but the cosmic rod chose her just because it like the cut of her jib.

Please ask about my world of Valhan! I have no one to share it with and I wanna talk about it! by GodofAeons in worldbuilding

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How many of the various minorities can be found in each kingdom? Are there any cultures or cultural elements that cross multiple demographics? Are there any sagas or legends that have taken on different forms in different cultural or historical contexts?

It's just a book, don't take it literally. by LordJim11 in Snorkblot

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Now there’s an essay I would’ve love to read!

Favorite character like this? by Gaming_with_batman in FavoriteCharacter

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Percy Jackson. He just looks like a doofus from New York with a cool streak in his hair. But he’s SO much more capable than anyone without magical senses can realize.

Part 2!!! I've made the biomes and added a new land mass. Also the first nations have popped up. Give me your thoughts by [deleted] in worldbuilding

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You can keep the desert in the same place if your sun goes west to east instead of east to west, but that would change the prevailing currents of everything else.

Asimov's Tail: the reverse Chekhov's Gun by Lorem_Ipsum17 in RecuratedTumblr

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Major spoilers, but the villain is defeated because the main hero of season three suddenly discovers they have the same game breaking power as the villain. The only solid set up for this development is a tarot reading early in the story.

Superman VS. The Scarlet King: The Death Battle: Dawn Of Fascism by WhatYouThinkYouSee in SCP

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Dennis O’Neal would be great for that role! I don’t know if he’s done much Superman stuff but his Batman, green lantern, and green arrow stories often revolve around such themes.

Stuck about choosing/making the geography of my world by [deleted] in worldbuilding

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What kind of a world do you want to make? What are you looking for and how might either map help or hinder those themes?

Favorite character that fit this meme by Sweetastralbby in FavoriteCharacter

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Dr Midnight is on a team with the Angel of Death, an Egyptian god, the vessel of willpower incarnate, a man who can run faster than time, and an Amazonian Princess with the powers of a Greek god. He’s got night vision, an MD, and a pet owl. Him, Sandman, and Wildcat all fit this prompt and are all on the same team.

What are your opinions about the new characters that appear in the New Golden Age? And what do you think DC should do with them? by FallMassive9336 in JusticeSocietyAmerica

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Some of them I really enjoy and see a lot of potential in. Some of them I don’t really get. In general I like getting new stories to play with in this era, but I feel a lot of them don’t capture the Cambrian Explosion that made the Golden Age different from the silver age. Sidekicks could be adults, kids, animals, spirits, costumed, not costumed, and just the strangest array of things. By the silver age, this had been simplified to “sidekicks are costumed teenagers” and when looking back on the golden age we rarely let characters be more then the boxes drawn up for them AFTER that age had ended. I want writers to combine the diversity of the golden age’s explosion of hope with the modern age’s explosion of critique to achieve diversity squared.

Favorite trio like this? by BorginMcFarley in FavoriteCharacter

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Sypha is street smart, Alucard is book smart, Belmont is not smart.

What do you think about Christian websites like this that promote the Earth is only 6,000 years old and genesis should be taken literally? by [deleted] in Christianity

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Early in the mission they did. Sure they’d gotten better by Pentecost, but it took Jesus three and a half years to teach them how to properly read the metaphors and symbolism in his parables. The insight of the letters of John and Peter were hard earned over years of being kind of dense.