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If we really have to form teams (?), I would go with green - a nice relaxing color for me.

I cant believe we won something :))))

I dont want to miss this - count me in as well. after reading the post again, it seems i have missed to write some stuff: ID 250021; time: evening/night (ST)

Cake. I would like to see the one who risks his life for a smelly petrified 1000 years old piece of cake.

Rophs, form a team asap and save the day :D Edit: find a team* :)

Noooo.....

hmm? it is supposed to take place today, on the 16th.

I had some time on my hands so I made a very unprofessional S&L game http://storenow.net/my/?f=fa11bf8686bd58d1bfb6696715afde66 , http://storenow.net/my/?f=40c8b718050ef711d94619f37dfaaf2a I will use this topic for posting stuff - maybe some will turn out to be useful.

4th team here: John Constantine and myself

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I had the same problem about 2 (?) months ago. Apparently, the council cannot do anything about it - it's the allopass that is at fault (?) (check for an announcement, it was written after I reported the issue).

I have written a quest and thought of putting a little role-play in it, so I need two players to act as RPCs. If you think you can be online for a few hours a few couple of days (depends on participation) and you wish to play a part in the quest, pm me.

After reading the other translations (thanks), I am more confused. So I take it, if you have 10 different people, 1/3 of them is cautious, 1/3 is violent and 1/3 is carefree. So only one in three is valuing life more than anything...

Offtopic, then. I have had too many books on too many subjects, so I donated/thrown about 3/4 of my books so far. I still have a huge collection in .pdf files. The numbers are giving me a "headache", too, not only because of the 90% thing, but I wonder if they are correct.

Going through some of the books/papers I still have (my library gets smaller and smaller), I stumbled across a funny quote: "Men go out of life and into death. Thirty percent are followers of life, thirty percent of followers of death and thirty percent more who could live hasten towards the place of death. Why so? Because they would augment the richness of life. I am told a man who is good at taking care of his life may travel through the wilderness, without trying to avoid rhinoceroses or tigers, and may enter battles, without being equipped with armour or weapons. The rhinoceros finds no place in which to jab its horn, the tiger finds no place in which to dig its claw, and the sword finds no place in which to thrust its blade. Why so? Because he has no vulnerable point. Thus who he takes no measure whatsoever for life is accomplished at valuing life." Any thoughts on this?

When you're born into a world, your feet and your hands are tied - but you don't know it. You don't see it. You think you're free and you move funny. Then, one day, you might realise you're tied up. You might realise how to loosen the ties, but you also see it won't do you any good. You don't cut any ties. And if someone asks, you are ”alive and kicking”.

I You lay in the bead, turning into a shadow - thats how you feel, when - immobile and dry - you rest, while nurses go in and out. Life was a brilliant thing, but it burned too fast. Your tongue goes over those dry lips - you remiinisce about the past. And so you lay in bed and ...rest?... and someone gets you something good to eat. III Pay your crossing of river Styx, only two cents, only two cents! No crossing of river is ever free, not even for the souls of the dead. If you dont have cash or card, mortgage your soul, whatever the cost - just pay the toll. (meh...I didnt say quite what I wanted to. I might rewrite it later)

Okay, this shouldnt be here, but I honestly dont know where to put it..maybe in offtopic...maybe I was cleaning some folders and I saw an image I saved some time ago.I suppose you know about the riots in Ukraine...and about priests in the middle of rebels. Well, the image I saved made me speechless - this is it: it also reminded me of the unholy priest :)

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I am posting this just so people have an alternative view. Please dont argue in the next commentaries that hope is a good thing - I, for example, am better without it. 3.One interpretation of the myth that I have heard is that Pandora, by closing the box before hope would get out, didnt bring the world to its end. The idea that hope brings one s demise comes from observing what happens to someone who goes on only by hope. Refusing to accept reality and having expectations that will probably never materialise (isnt that what hope is, when not based on anything but itself?) leads one astray.

so what does one have to do when this happens? edit: thanks.

Thats the problem - I know where the road takes me. Nowadays, a trip to China is equal, in my eyes, to a weekend with some friends in a mountain lodge. Because of all the info floating around, you can no longer afford to be ignorant. Google ”tourist in India” and read the first 15 titles. See what you get. As I was saying, you cannot dream of distant and unexplored lands anymore. So you trun your attention to something else to dream about.

Yeah, it seems the seventies and eighties dream that I caught a glimpse of (colonising space etc) is dead indeed. We are turning our attention to things closer to us? Which ones - this is what I would like to know. I find it hard to believe human mind is the new frontier - Freud is still mentioned and until he is gone from our books, there will be no advancement. Speaking of imagination and the desire of exploring, I dont feel like travelling anywhere anymore. Let us say I am not satisfied with pictures and I want to see Pamukkale (random example). Well, I dont like turks and I dont want to give them money. Or maybe I would like to see that chinese scenery with those mountains coming out of the water ”live”. Am I really going to spend some thousand dollars just for that? And it is just for that, because we now know a lot about others who are even thousands of km away from us. Knowing so much, I can plan today the ”perfect” holiday - except for the thrill part, which isnt there anymore. I dont feel like going anywhere, for reasons that differ from case to case. I wonder whether this is my special case, or we are more.

I used to read a lot of sci-fi in gymnasium and college. Back then it seemed to me a lot of people were seeing space as ”the new frontier”. That, or I was too little :) What I know is that around that time there was the moon-landings and launghing sattelites and stuff and I deduce this enthusiasm was shared by many. Now, it seems we are back to earth, we know more of our limitations and while this literature was ”a hit”, it looks to me like its more of a niche. I stopped reading SF a long time ago, you are obviously better informed, but does is seem like the space is still the place that we want to explore? Not only the readers of sci-fi, but readers in general. I guess a science man/woman doesnt care much for the ”land”, but more of a particular aspect of it (rocks, plants, tribal customs etc).

I remember that when I was little I used to imagine how life was in other countries. I wasnt thinking of nearby places, but at the distant and exotic lands (China or India or Mexic). Before I had a computer I managed to read a few books that made me imagine such things. And even with a computer you could still put your imagination to work - until internet became available. Now, even if I tried, I couldnt dream of China or the Sahara. I mean, I am a few clicks away from these places. Pictures, videos - hell, with the video cameras, I can take a tour of a city in France, for example, any time I want. Now imagination on that side is gone - we have the data/information. And that is fine, but I have serious doubts that we no longer dream of unexplored lands. There has been a shift, thats all. My question is: towards what? Parallel universes? Faraway galaxies, planets full of green little aliens? I was watching a greek mythology course from TTC and prof. Elizabeth Vandiver said our myths on aliens derive from our need of having something more to explore, much as the greek stories about the countries from ”the edge of the world”. When your world becomes small, you look in the distance. The sf literature, however, is underground now - I think it was a big hit 40 years ago, but that dream is dead already. So, what have we shifted our imagination towards? Where do we find uncharted lands to imagine how life is ”over there”?