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[Silver Night]

Chronicle here.

Discuss!

[Horatius Caul]

It was written in the old tongue

 

[Silver Night]

It was written in the old tongue

 

When you are going to be smug about content you've created, include a link. 

[Horatius Caul]

It was written in the old tongue

 

When you are going to be smug about content you've created, include a link. 

Nah, I'll just put it in my sig. 

[Amann Karris]

It was written in the old tongue

 

Well then, may the Void keep and take you.
 

I have not read the Book of Emptiness.

[Alain Colcer]

I like it how Abraxas describes the cognitive process of "reading" a material that triggers a higher state of conciousness in the reader.

There are many theories about how writing, learning and talking are all interrelated and trigger one another.

[hellgremlin]

I like it how Abraxas describes the cognitive process of "reading" a material that triggers a higher state of conciousness in the reader.

There are many theories about how writing, learning and talking are all interrelated and trigger one another.

He did something else, far more important, in that story.

He effectively captured train-of-thought. When I read that story, especially the bit with Skar going nuts at the end, I felt like he had peered into my brain, or a brain anyway, and the incessant chaos of thinking that occurs therein.

[Seriphyn]

* Seriphyn complains about fanfics instead of infodumps yet again >_>

[Vieve]

* Seriphyn complains about fanfics instead of infodumps yet again >_>

Eh?  That wasn't an infodump?  Even if we might have gotten another look at the personal jumpcloak that Hona was using in "Hona is Three"?


p.s. Of course, I'm kidding.  I think.  There's a good chance that Abraxas was talking about achieving the ability to use one's will to shape reality to one's liking, instead of, uhm, some sneaky technological development.

[Amann Karris]

p.s. Of course, I'm kidding.  I think.  There's a good chance that Abraxas was talking about achieving the ability to use one's will to shape reality to one's liking, instead of, uhm, some sneaky technological development.

Meaning, we make of our destiny what we will.  There was nothing in The Book of Emptiness that Skar didn't already know.  He was an autodidact in matters of religion; a self-made man.  Think of the implications of that.  Where was he from?

Skar said out loud, "I have not read the Book of Emptiness," and it was true; he had not, for the Book now represented only yet another obstacle on the path he had been on all his life until reaching this end, this breakthrough, this apostasy; and denying it was as tantamount to ascendancy as refusing the rest of the world's hold on him.

In Buddhism, void does not imply something lacking, but rather the elimination of what is superfluous.
I got this the first time I heard about the Book of Emptiness.  I've played Amann as an adherent to a similar philosophy for a long, long time; since before I read about the Book of Emptiness in the Black Mountain series.

Read this:
Hyperconsciousness
And then this
Inertial
Specifically:

"There is certainly nothing we can take from you. In fact, I have been going over the results of your tests, and they are quite astounding. We have been hammering you from every angle, and not only have you withstood it like no one else, your abilities have actually started to exceed our measurements. We want to move you up from the scouting teams and into the operational league itself. Once the real thing starts, you'll be in the heat of the fray."

I had something further to say... but yeah, nothing to see here, just a fanfic.

[Saede Riordan]

I have not read the book of emptiness.

[Z.Sinraali]

I have read the Book of Emptiness.

Pretty damn dull, if you ask me.

[Saede Riordan]

I would like to read the book of emptiness

[Graelyn]

You guys go ahead and read all you like.

Those who read it seem to lose the ability to exist in society. I'd imagine it would impact my capship skills somehow....can't have that shit.

[Vendrin]

Just my own tastes I'm sure, but I really hate it when mystic crap interferes in my futuristic neo-tech universe.

Or vice versa.