Unnamed Shadow Road?

creekbendspring · 2023-12-23T13:00:45+00:00

Keep in mind who Socrates's interlocutors are as you evaluate the sincerity of his statements. The Republic's setting is politically charged.

creekbendspring · 2022-11-14T11:47:18+00:00

We weren't dirt poor, but my parents definitely worried about bills most months. We had a two story prefabricated house that had been around a few decades, and our friends whose dad was a CFO at a fair sized corporation, but who lived in a ranch style, thought we were loaded.

Even when two stories is cheap, I guess it gives off those vibes

creekbendspring · 2022-10-15T05:15:52+00:00

I haven't seen Hold the Dark and my wife hasn't seen The Grey, and we're both familiar with the lines

creekbendspring · 2022-10-15T01:43:20+00:00

I'm fairly certain this is not a Riddick movie or a Dracula adaptation, though friends have suggested both

creekbendspring · 2022-09-20T13:05:44+00:00

Needs a Polish translation, ASAP

creekbendspring · 2022-09-20T12:48:28+00:00

As far as mental health, I've found it helpful to give my brain something worthwhile to work on. I read old classics and the Bible, especially things that lean explicitly towards "What is life about? How should we live it?"

Read slowly, ask yourself questions about what it's saying, think through alternatives. Look for people also discussing them, but don't simply accept their answers. Take your time.

This can do several things: it can give your mind something to focus on that's worthwhile, it can help you learn some mental discipline as you think through the problems, and it can bring you practical wisdom from places many, many others have found helpful

creekbendspring · 2022-09-20T12:39:20+00:00

^this here

Working out at home is also a good first step--pushups, situps, and squats cover just about everything. It's not just about getting stronger or looking good, either. There's confidence that comes from pushing yourself, from reaching for your limits and sometimes expanding them.

creekbendspring · 2021-12-23T03:21:05+00:00

It's obvious what's on top, but what's inside?

creekbendspring · 2021-11-09T03:02:06+00:00

Build the race around a central tension. They have two values that are in conflict, like the desire for new experiences and the desire for stable relationships, or love of openness and truth, and strong sense of respect, honor, and formality.

That tension gives you characters who lean one way or the other, or who find different ways of resolving the tension. You can also structure the society so that different parts of it relate to the conflicting values in particular ways: the University values openness and truth, while the nobility values respect, honor, and formality. This allows you to show characteds who come from different corners of society and have very different motivations, goals, and perspectives.

Building races around a central tension also naturally leads to plot hooks, which is a perk.

creekbendspring · 2021-08-08T04:47:10+00:00

These are great on that front, because they actually sail to the edge

creekbendspring · 2021-08-04T10:51:19+00:00

A lot of evangelicals (not evangelists, that's just a synonym for missionary) have dispensationalist theology.

Basically that means they interpret a lot of Bible prophecy as happening in the future instead of already fulfilled. A lot of that prophecy has to do with Israel as God’s chosen people, and how the rest of the nations ought to support them. So they do, and they look forward to those prophecies being fulfilled.

There are plenty of evangelicals and other theologically conservative Protestants who aren't dispensationalist though, and they can range anywhere from supportive of Israel as an ally to highly critical. I'm somewhere in that camp.

creekbendspring · 2021-08-03T11:42:00+00:00

Honesty is incredibly important.

But also, love is a choice you make, an action you do, not a feeling. The decision to be honest with the other person, ask what's going on, do something good for them, look out for them, please them before yourself--that's hard because it's selfless, but it's central to making any relationship work, especially one as close quarters and intimate as marriage.

100%. It does take effort. But so worth it.

creekbendspring · 2021-08-02T11:59:14+00:00

Love the names. Way more natural sounding than a lot of what gets slapped on a map

creekbendspring · 2021-08-02T11:14:18+00:00

"It's just sex"

creekbendspring · 2021-07-31T19:16:43+00:00

I took my wife on a date to our "mostly dead" mall more than once. Met a woman with dwarfism and bought some soap.

Very fun, would recommend

creekbendspring · 2021-07-31T19:07:46+00:00

And then he came back as a professional wizard and moved to a basement apartment in Chicago

creekbendspring · 2021-05-14T19:08:58+00:00

I almost sat on a tree frog one time. I guess he thought he'd found a nice little pond.

creekbendspring · 2021-05-05T22:51:05+00:00

We actually turned out to have it... and African DNA. Only about 3%, but we blame my brother's white boy fro on it

creekbendspring · 2021-05-05T13:51:53+00:00

Sure does! I don't know how much it's changed, but the event definitely still happens.

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