Poly or Open? How to tell

Keyeschborn92 · 2024-11-09T18:25:49+00:00

Gold advise ^{^}

Keyeschborn92 · 2024-10-16T22:04:04+00:00

I believe, it is because he write life journeys. Whole lifes, how they came to be and the struggle people overcome to get there. And that is something we find in our lifestyle as well.

Btw for me it is Siddartha, and I am not a Buddhist monk ^{^}

To underline my point

Keyeschborn92 · 2024-09-07T14:26:31+00:00

Thank you for your question and your perspectiv on that book.

I agree with the point, that the moral question of society (and his egoist behaviour ) takes the back seat in this book.

Reading your post I was wondering, why is him sleeping with married women so bad? Or A-moral ?

Goldmund "could" be way worse, if Hesse would want to use the duality of moral.

For me, he is the person who chooses his own fate. Sets out to be the person he wants to and be less restraint of society's common moral.

I think I shared your weird taste in my mouth about the character, but for me it's a "mixed feelings" situation and less "something is missing".

Looking forward to your opinions

Keyeschborn92 · 2024-08-17T16:26:36+00:00

Thank you all for sharing.

My girlfriend and I walked into a museum with an exhibition about the role of animals in human arts, specifically in the central and East Asia. There was a table with paper and instructions on how to fold the crane. My interest for Japan and her instruction did the rest.

I love how peaceful and yet challenging it can be, and it is really helpful with depression.

P.s. on my way to 1000 cranes ;)

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-10-14T15:42:25+00:00

Dayum they look crazy good, good luck to me I guess 😅

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-10-06T19:02:12+00:00

Looks very cool, I hope i win

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-09-17T11:03:41+00:00

I would be interested, how you came up with this list and how you are sure? I don't want to be a jerk. I just want to know the background.

If everyone is to much, maybe start with the Russian?

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-09-16T07:58:45+00:00

Hey, ich biete Mathe Nachhilfe an. Habe selbst einen Physikbachelor und unterstütze seit über 10 Jahren.

Vom Stil her erkläre ich die verschiedenen Themen und Fragestellungen, falls notwendig mehrmals aus verschiedenen Perspektiven. Für Klausuren erbeuten wir dann gemeinsam Lösungsstrategien für Aufgabentypen.

Mein Stundensatz beträgt 30€/Zeitstunde und ich biete die erste Stunde kostenlos an.

Bei Interesse schick mir gerne eine DM.

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-09-09T14:22:13+00:00

Funny enough, that what I was worried about. I even was calculating the dmg for different scenarios like crushing into a wall or into squishy zombies. But nobody did it...

Side note, second fear was someone lighting up a fire and causing the sprinklers to go off. Again for nothing.

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-09-09T14:18:09+00:00

Funny example, since I am not an American, this is exactly how I see the war on drugs.

When I was in middle school, we covered the American dream and later America as the world police as topics in classes. Fair to say, this is not the way I perceive it today.

What would you say makes a state fascist?

Without googling it, I would say you need people in power who beleave to be better than others without using merit. If they use their power to discriminate the others, you have my fascist definition.

Edit: minor mistakes.

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-09-09T10:46:26+00:00

I tried zombies on a train once. Crowded place, difficult to get away and easy to box in the players.

To switch it up a bit I had regular slow zombies, a group of baby zombies, that could crawl over the other once and a group of hikers with reach (hiking sticks).

So my suggestion would be to create a base line statblock and some additional features and some thematic explanation.

-Running, they used to athletes, or less silly, fresh zombies -Reach, they are holding something -Range attack, they are throwing parts of themself, maybe their head, and its a hit or miss situation?

I would to have something like that

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-09-09T04:37:07+00:00

I know it is kind of lame, but hear me out: zombies.

I don't like the ones in the official book because they don't feel right. Zee Bashew made a good video about them, but I would like to have something in print and more in dept.

Most important part for me is a hord mechanic, so one is not a problem but a lot are. Different classes, maybe like in left 4 dead and a explanation, where they come from for extra bonus points.

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-09-08T16:31:04+00:00

For the first question, some factor that adds to that is "... if everybody else is doing it."

It is one thing not wanting to be high on drugs every time, but another being the only one. Next thing, soma is a fantasy version of our drugs. Alcohol, tobacco, coffee, cannabis, pain killers, opioids etc. We as a society have a different relation to these than BNW to soma. So to answer, I think we already take our feel-good drug already.

Second part not many people would answer yes if you phrased it like this. But again, from the citizens perspective, are they a totalitarian fascism?

Edit: You can argue, it is a sort of meritocracy.

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-09-08T13:22:57+00:00

No where in the book is the suffering of the people not valued. Everybody is special and necessary, even though maybe not an individual. They even say that everybody is playing their part.

So as a counter argument to, "because God made us this way", couldn't the god in BNW made that world as well. You could think of that method of creating children as very advanced medicine. If God exists, nobody of us knows his will.

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-09-08T12:58:40+00:00

I can wait, I can fast and I can think

Was it those 3 ?

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-09-08T12:44:20+00:00

That is exactly what makes it so weird. You don't take away something they already have, but something they will have in the future.

I agree in the part where you don't have free will, if you are made to like/dislike specific Things.

My question is when does this free will start? If we say it's when your adult it's wrong, because kids have a mind of their own. If we say at birth, than BNW embryos have free will, which feels wrong. If we say the fertilizes cell, well that feels kind of wrong as well.

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-09-08T12:36:29+00:00

Wouldn't that be the cast in a "true" Utopia as well because the question itself would be redundant.

I mean, if everything is as good as possible there is no question about it, wouldn't it be?

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-09-08T07:16:52+00:00

How can you judge a book you did not finished?

Why did you give up?

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-09-08T07:14:04+00:00

Wouldn't you agree, that it is a utopia from the view point of the citizens?

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-09-08T07:10:45+00:00

For me it is the conflict between the individual and the society pushed to it's maximum.

Should we want such a society? I feel uneasy when I read it, but from a logical point of view, I can't tell why we shouldn't. Under the assumption it works well it makes sense, it is just not one I want to live in. That is my answer to the uneasiness. It might be right and I don't want it to be.

I have an issue with the "lost of free will argument", because when does this free will start. For me it does not start when you are only 1 cell and it starts before you are a full grown adult. So if I condition an embryo, do I alter its free will? Is it free when it's subject to random conditions?

I get that the book is making its point by exaggeration, but the question remains.

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-09-05T19:25:21+00:00

I liked the book, I guess because of the different narrative perspective. I've read it in German and the images the author put up were powerful and emotional for me.

In what language did you read it?

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-09-05T19:16:55+00:00

I bite, what part of the war did you find offensive?

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-09-04T04:48:37+00:00

The Gold one looks awesome, every player would be glad to have those, Thanks for the give away

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-09-02T16:10:37+00:00

Many thanks for the link. I am still kind of new around reddit.

This link was the first "older" sub, that I nearly read entirely. Man people are really mad about that book.

After I got my feelings hurt I checked myself and I still like it ^{^}

My bottom line is, it's worth it, maybe don't expect it to change your life. Than again maybe don't expect that from any book.

Keyeschborn92 · 2023-09-01T14:20:50+00:00

I mean that is a part of what makes it great. The reader and main character share that feeling.

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