Rook & Thorn

I talk about movies. Love ampersands, history, & D&D.

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We all know what "chalky" tastes like. Which is distressing.

How much chalk did we all eat as children?

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@milkywaygazer @LukeBenji

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@saynotocreatine Forgot "heartfelt repentance for the sin of gambling."

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@Historycourses One of my favorite threads of yours, but I've never known how to find it!

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@CrankyFed

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Amazing. W.

[Abraham Ash / 𐤀𐤁𐤓𐤄𐤌 @Historycourses]

Let's get some W's in chat here

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@th3m1lesm0rales The issue being that all government has a basis in something, in some principle, & that government is an extension of society. Enlightenment thought is as demanding as any religious dogma (especially nowadays) & we're as theocratic in a USA-way as any Catholic-controlled state.

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@CrankyFed "& did those feet, in ancient time..."
"Yes."

[An American Monarchist in Virginia @AmMonarchist]

Incredible

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@th3m1lesm0rales @14Ether @spiderking232 To the extent that demons appear, it's overwhelmingly "there's a demon. Time to invoke divine power & banish it from this plane/kill it." (in older editions, channeling divine power was explicitly w/ a cross.)

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@TheTriarii I do not know why.

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@TheTriarii My wife is a huge fan of King Arthur flour, not that we get it all that often.

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@th3m1lesm0rales From what I remember, it wasn't "derivative," it just "had a genre." It had some fun & unique mechanics, & having magic swords, farm boys, & dragons is objectively awesome.

He was making different points & telling a different story than those who inspired him, esp. at the end.

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@th3m1lesm0rales Jr.-high-me was obsessed, but I don't remember much. I remember disliking some of it; the wise, unquestionable elves extolled pacifism, vegetarianism (which aNyOnE w/ eNouGh kNowleDge & comPasSiOn wOuld chOosE) & agnosticism which I remember bordering on atheism.

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@Historycourses Comfort with dealing with death and the dead is really important. I like your slaughterhouse idea, but getting hands-on experience is important to not totally cutting out that part of the mortal experience from people (which is pretty much what we've done).

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@theodramatist We have adult Sunday School, for sure. In fact, "Sunday School" is explicitly for teenagers & adults for us; the young child equivalent at the same time are "Nursery" or "Primary."

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@TylerAlterman Also, 1-on-1 D&D, which I'm kind of glad I didn't think of earlier, because it would have ruined this comment's accidental rural aesthetic.

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@TylerAlterman Mucking out livestock.
Theological takes.
Making food to bring to other people.
"Reading books" counts as media consumption, right?
Washing pots.
Plotting where to dig a well we'll never dig.

Wow, does this ever sound like trad-signaling. But it all works! It's really great!

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You are fee to blame the "this this" typo on the #Tang.

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I might have decided to make this this while drinking Tang.