Muratus del Mur

[color="#FF0000"]<b>QUESTION COLLECTING ENDED, RESULTS WILL BE DECIDED BASED ON ..What you do (read the rest of the topic). ====================================</b>[/color] I am putting up a Bounty , a ROYAL bounty, for who sends me the most interesting question i ever heard. The questions can be from well known questions about life universe or such to the simples apparently insignificat ones. The question must puzzle me. If i feel i can answer it or that the answer is achievable in a boring (documenting) way, i wont select the question. The question must make someone realy think and not require other documentation to solve it other than your own mind. Except that, there is no guide or limit to what kind of question you can ask. I will make the selected questions public and i will pic one, or more for the final prize. Also i will invite those that put the questions that get selected, to hold a public depate based on them , if they agree to do so. How do you send them to me? by PM only, and only from your account you compete with, dont send via someone else. Finding a way to do so is also a challange like allways and shows you care to find one not simply throw in a random question. DISCLAIMER: THE ANSWERS I WILL GIVE BELOW ARE MY PERSONAL VISION OF HOW THINGS ARE, I DO NOT CLAIM THEM AS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH BUT IS THE BEST TRUTH I COULD FIND ON THAT MATTER. BECAUSE THIS IS A PERSONAL COMPETITION BETWEEN ME MUR AND YOU, AND NOT A GENERAL MD COMPETITON, I WILL JUDGE THINGS IN A SELFISH WAY AND DECIDE IF THE QUESTION IS INTERESTING OR NOT WITHOUT PUTTING UP FOR A VOTE <img src="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" " border="0" alt="smile.gif" /> Note: i am doing this with the hope it will be regarded as a great source for future lectures/debates not only by me but most of all by those placing the questions! Also, answering your questions helps me better understand things. Archivists, feel free to take info from here for the archives. CURRENT REWARD LIST: winners get to pick one from the list in order . 1st place picks first, 2nd place pick second etc.. - 5 tokens focused on a creature of your choice (random tokens) - a rustgold - 2 wispoints (yes i am making an exception by giving 2 at one time, dont do the same ever) - a tainted angien, with some decent age (wtf is that?! O.o) - a b/w joker (the rare one not the shop one) - a tag and description, if you don't have one allready - 10 extra creature slots - a wind dragon, ONLY IF YOU OWN A DRACHORN (it will get mutated) - 3 custom items of your choice (not overpowered)

Its a lot game-related. All logan actions and amorans brought attention BECAUSE they were game related. It concernes the enitre MD and me personaly when the rumors they spread are paranoid and make people run away. THis issue had to be talked through and public to stop the nonsense that was going on behind the curtains, because that was realy affecting the game. The scandal caused is a small price to pay for clearing out the paranoid opinions that many were brainwashed into believing.

fine tuned theory: the avy that you buy and hold (no more) you can send to an other player that has the avy feature active and at least 2 credits (cost will be 2 credits for that player). In return you do not get those two credits so you will have to negociate a trading value for the avy. The 2 credits go to MD. In the case that this will build a market of avys and for example when i post 50 avys they vanish in the hands of traders, this will raise the value of avys and if they do not get sold they will be put at risk by the new avys next time i put an avy pack up. That way the avy price will be according to the market demand.

so what? thats the point of trade please note a character can hold only one avy at a time and the one that wants to get it must have the avy shop item activated

once you reach the avatar item in the shop, even if you payed a lot to get there, you can buy any avy for 1$ anytime and you can change it for as many times you want. It wont be fair to give each time more than 1$ because that will easily get abused and create a avatar shopping source of income. i think also the 100 days one plus the permanents that remain, but also tradeable avys could be an option because trade will allways adapt to the importance and real value of the avys. If the shop will have new avys for 1 $ the trade will stop, if the shop will have none, the trade will grow.

feel free to split this if its too offtopic what if the avys could be set up for auction once bought and the owner to get half of the sum. Still you can get multiple accounts to start auctions or if avys get taken by force once you exceed 100 consecutive inactive days..because currently there are over 400 avys and yet only a few get used actively. In this case what happens with characters that are legends in their own way and even if not active , they should not lose the avy. avys are worth far more than you pay for so if you are given less when putting them back up you wont do that but if you get more you will abuse it with multiple accounts or by repeating it. i don't have an issue with turning avys into tradable goods

Lets put it this way, i want quantity, because i know Glor will filter that quantity out and in the end we will have both! Glor, i KNOW you will get one of the rewards, its pointless to compete, lol, so consider you get a reward by default once you submit them, an additional one so the other competitors will still have theirs to fight for. DST, great idea, i was thinking yesterday about avatar transfering, but i will make it so that avatars get back into the shop in exchange of credits or something else back to a character of your choice. (open to suggestions)

- i refer to MD as a GAME because i used too from since i started it. Its ment in a warm and "mysterious" way, more like "the game", like you could call life a "game". I am not considering it just a game. I think i consider it anything but a game more than any of you. - Players come and go, i call it "player life", the reasons are countless, from personal to caused. I allways say this, everybody leaves eventualy, EVERYBODY, sadly... I am the only that stays, consider it a ballance - Regarding the cowardliness filter of "the game", think about the first days of a noob, getting smashed by all... I don't think cowards are allowed in unless they have a certain passion that ballances that cowardliness. Its not good like it is and even if i dont believe 90% are cowards at all, i hope people will take more action and stand for their ideas (not kill for them) but at the same time imagine a MD world full of ppl like akasha...i don't think you could stick 2 of them within 3 scenes distance or the lines of the scenes will start to melt just because they so wish to I am still analyzing if the demotion of Logan and Amoran is caused by my fault of judgement when i selected them or not. It might be than when i select a RPC i consider all features and problems alltogether and see if one of them stands out and i do not consider that one of the problems could cause bigger issues later than all the features combined. On the other hand, i have no way of knowing each one so good because a character is usualy mirroring a PART of his owner not the entire complexity behind it.

send as soon as you get at least ten, if you wait too much others may send first.

untill glor gets enough artworks to decide the winners.

it will be ..heretic ) check on my paper what heretic, the word, means. now seriously speaking, it will be like the writings of a mad man...you know i love that.

you are right, [b] i will consider a change of name. [/b] Anyway, i did conducted the "lecture" as a open discussion, so even if called lecture , it was a debate, but the wording matters. So far i considered lecture sounds way better than debate, probably because if i translate in my language the difference is not that obvious and i presumed allways a lecture is actualy a open debate , afterall nobody is telling you not to speak during it. The level of authority will self ballance based on how well the person speaking masters the subject and how many different opinion are among the audience.

nono, EACH page has sketches and graphical representations of the few words put in it, its well spiced to avoid boring reading

funniest thing is that i don't think the book will be much bigger than that, i am at page 30 and they are not word pages. Anyway after my agressive reaction against church and predefined concepts in general, i must say the book will have a VERY "heretic" presentation and i mean in the form it will be printed. I made it look like a manuscript with apparently random notes, without exceeding one or two pages per subject.... i want to focus attention on the personal nature of the writing and not hide behind the apparent authority and official character that the normal font of a book gives, its enough damage that people see my ideas as answers not as reasons to think more just because i have a huge authority in MD.

off topic reply: omg..i just read your decalogue carefully..... i felt like i hear the life philosophy of akasha , awsome, are just woman like that? I think a man would just have a monologue "My way or the highway" ) awsome anyway

12h ? hmm, i could do that actualy, but not if we speak about same thing all the discussion, i allready dream of circles and shperes funny thing is that if i start with most (maybe all) of the principles, i end up with a circle with one dot breach in it.... the dot is hounting me LOL. If i focus on the uses and representations or interactions about principles i could speak about more humanly subjects and not abstract theories. Or of course there are plenty of other subjects i could discuss about other than principles, even tehnical ones, i dont mind, as long as i know something enough to explain it, i can share my view with others ... I hope more will see this as an example and hold conferences of their own on subjects they master. "last man standing" lectures

you seek for truth? funny.... thats why you tlked things behind my back and refused to say "the truth" when i demanded so in public? My reputation is immune, my reputation is the game, if my reputation gets a certain 'color' the game will get that color too. Like your actions represent you , people judge you as a person YOU ARE, not as a general theoreticaly perfect person as you claim... the same way , i am judged by my work and action ... and so far you are here arguing because of me, in a world initiated by me, arguing against the very things you claim you fight for .. is that just wrong or what? All the peole in MD have their own ideas, MD is built from all sorts of beliefs and all sorts of people, they actively represent the "player base" of md. My ideas can;t be fitting all of their opinions and i do not aim to please anyone with what i think. My opinions and beliefs shape the game but in return players respond to it wich makes me learn something. For me MD is a "living" thing that helps me learn from you and you from me, consider it a ballance. And in case you do not know the meaning of the word LEARN, its not about convincing anyone that you are right, but to complete your ideas with the things missing or to give you clues to improve your theories and continue to evolve. You did not presented it to me as a conflict of ideas, i would have allways discussed that without any hate or bad reaction, ..what you did was to act cowardly in your own favor and to use the power of scandal and fantasy conspiracy theories to attract attention and to convince players of things you and logan imagined. YOU LIED that you have proof and opinions from former players that would support those theories, you lied about speaking with valy about it, you allways lied just to make your point and get people believe what you wanted ... and you speak to me about truth?

[quote]There were two reasons I did not speak in game. One is that Akasha continued to attack me in the chat. I would have spoken if she had, pardon my words, shut up- or if someone had shut her up via chat controls. But the simple fact is that she did not, therefore I did not speak in game. No player should ever be subjected to that kind of treatment- you had the power to silence her and you did not.[/quote] I could have shut you up too , but i didnt. Anyone can speak its mind freely, its up to the ones feeling attacked to react to it. Akasha felt MD was attacked and reacted placing herself in a fight that was hers too as a player of MD [quote]The second reason is simply because of the fact that I did not make such accusations against you and the accusations were said in a YIM chat, which is OOC and out of game entirely. The YIM conversation was NOT a trial against you or any other person, nor did I use my RPC position to manipulate any player into believing me[/quote] You contradict yourself, you say you did not make those accusations but you say there were in private. It doesnt realy matter if you do them in private if you talk to people from MD, people that know you from MD and people that know you as RPC, authority given by me, making your word count a lot more than normaly should. The conversation was not a trial but a brainwash, masterminded probably by logan and actively presented by you. You two ended up taking players one by one to convince them about paranoid stuff how MD is built by secret organisations and how i am some kind of freak erasing your minds. I dont realy care Logan was the mastermind behind this as i suspect,... a man is represented by the ideas he fights for, you fought for logans ideas so you payed for them. I never punished logan for his ideas because back when he was RPC i was not aware of such a thing happenig. Suddenly after he steped tottaly wrong and got demoted, he started to have paranoid beliefs and agitate people for nothing. What a coincidence. I don't care to punish logan, he is no longer rpc he has nothing to lose, anyone can speak freely, but you as a rpc, you have no more business in MD rpc group anymore and on top of that I will no longer let you or Logan scare players with fantasy paranoid stories based on imaginary proof just because they sound cool and because scandal is more interesting to others than truth.

Burns put it better than i could, its all about evolution, ancient lore kept people ignore the present and hide in the past, the present builds the future, the past is the foundation, but in this md world, the past was invented not experienced. Amoran was not demoted to "keep things going" however, but because i won't allow a purson in wich i put trust and authority over others to speak against the world she has to protect and help to grow. Its not about a difference of opinion, is about direct accusations. If she or logan said those things on private it has no importance because it was said to players and in a way targeted to believe that bullshit. And yes, MD is tottaly not at the end of the bag, the stuff i have on standby are at least that big as the entire current MD, probably more, and i will never stop as long as i can go on. ..but some things you are simply not ready for, i am talking for example about the sphere in the AL, the point where the story just stopped for a while..i will continue it when i feel its right. I have many creatures not used yet, but its not time for them because i want different abilities and i will not add them untill the current abilities are not fine tuned. The map is bigger too, and i am not only talking about the things only a few see, but about the things nobody ever saw *except who saw the artworks* I am working on a tottaly different concept of fightng system, factions is also one thing put on standby that when it will be up wil change quite much, and so on. MD has to have a ideology and at the same time respect all opinions, its a dificult task, but without it it will be chaos. Its a big big difference from judging someone for his OPINIONS and juding someone after he ATTACKS you or the things you care for. And on top of all, things are simpler that any explenation, i made you rpc, i demote you from rpc. period. You should be happy i am allways thinking things and dont react by first impulse...because if i did i would have cut this and other bullshit that happens in the realm directly just because i can without reasoning it.

This was a 9 hour lecture subjects range from entropy and syntropy, to religion, symbols, mathematics, infinity and zero, back to principles, secret of magic and human mind. If it goes to the archives, please remove the extra chats like usual and splitt it a bit with subtitles ..its way to long. Thank you all for participating, it was a great experience for me to learn from you by thrwoing my theories to your minds and seeing your arguments boths for and against. Remember i do this to learn not to tell you conclusions. I hope i left enough questions to keep your mind active and that my personal conclusions on the discussed matters only acted as a guide to make you think there is something outthere worthy of analising and not simply accepting or ignoring. Thank you

ah yes..same problem here...i allways tell Mur to behave himself but he allways goes back and complains to Mur that i am harrasing him

[quote name='stormrunner' post='33852' date='Jun 18 2009, 07:31 PM']mur your losing it [/quote] a dark face reveals itself from below Murs cloak, .... He allready lost me.... *diabolic laugh* Curtains close applause

*hears echo* "why why when i have so many things to doo..!!" *hears echo again* "you have a problem with it? Huh?" Omg, i am hearing voices. shutup...no you shutup..no you... *gets away from his mind for a bit* ...lets see, mental disease dictonary.....s....s...here it is...nope...i am not mad, pfeww ...great.......I AM NOT MAD I TELL YOU, shutup *who said that?* ...Mur is that you?...ah good...then it explains it all....i am not mad, just hearing Mur invisible voice.... Whats a mur? shutup i tell you Who me? Mur, thats no way to talk to Mur, signed Mur How many???

ok ..place and aproximate hour announced in newsbox. If anything changes i will update there. make sure you have enough beer, cookies, or whatever that is that keeps you less stressed lon hours in front of the screen .. but come sober ... get drunk on the way

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