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    WFG Gameshow

    in Fun and Games

    Posted

    Er, that's not exactly general knowledge either. I fear you'd get a limited participation :)

    Why not things like:

    What is the first name of the character known as "Kramer" on the famous comedic TV show, "Seinfeld"?

    Religion

    in Hall of Intellectuals

    Posted

    I'm not quite sure what you mean, but there is a major difference in human and animal evolution.

    What do you mean? Don't you think it's odd how Humans, share a lot of features with primates, who share a lot of features with other mammals, who share a lot of features with birds and reptiles, who share a lot of features with amphibians, who share a lot of features with fish, who share a lot of features ..... and so on.

    If animals can evolve, and have similar features because of this evolution from one another, how do you explain the obvious similarities in man and primates? In other words, if primates evolved from something else, why can't you say humans have evolved from primates, since the similarities between each pair of creatures are about the same magnitude?

    I think what Adam means is the odds for fullfilment of prophecy has huge odds just like how we Bible believers complain about the huge odds for the entire evolutionary process (mainly progressive 'improving' evolution - not mutations).

    Good paraphrase :) Thanks

    But the thing is -

    evolutionists see the creation as an impossible chance, and have faith that evolution will one day be revealed to them in full, whereas creationists see the evolution as an impossible chance, and have faith that the creation will one day be revealed to them in full.

    We're clearly not in any position, at least by my way of reckoning, to discount either.

    Adam, the difference is that evolution doesn't leave any room for supernatural events

    Wijit, I have to disagree here, Evolutionists usually believe in such theories, as say, the Big Bang, which requires no more faith than believing in a god. That's why I don't try to discount either religion or science. To do so would be presumptious in my opinion. I mean, we all have faith in something, hope in something, but religion in general is based on a lot more leaps in logic and faith than evolution is, so I naturally am inclined to embrace the smaller jumps in logic and examine evolution for more than its face value.

    Saruman, Where Are You?

    in The Green Dragon

    Posted

    Ok, let's combine the two:

    The movies have created a whole new generation of confused fans :)

    Some of them will become interested and become purists, and still always love the movies. Some of them will be set straight by TLA :P

    Some of them won't even care about the books, only as fans of the movies.

    And some will only be fans of LotR, and maybe the Hobbit, and some of these people will think they are your regular Tolkien Experts, the guys who sit behind you in theaters and tell their friends or spouses as if they know what they're talking about, but really they get a lot wrong and you're tempted to correct them, but you know it's not that important. :P heh

    Names

    in General TLA Discussion

    Posted

    Some of you may not know that TLA will have the option to display "Proper Names" of its units beneath the name of the unit.

    For example, you could have a Noldorin Sentinel, and without the option it would say "Sentinel", but with the option for names turned on, it would say "Sentinel" and then right under it, a name, like "Gelmir" or something.

    So the way in which you can help is to provide ideas for names for each player civ and independent civ.

    We'll want perhaps 20-30 names for the player civs, and maybe 10-20 names for the independent civs. Recall that for some civs, like the Forces of Morgoth, the name of a balrog is going to be different than that of an orc. Keep in mind we need both male and female names, but more male than female, since most of Tolkien's characters were male.

    The names can be from the books, and it's better that they are, but we'd prefer to stay away from really famous characters, as it could confuse people. These can be made up, but if they are, they must be properly done in an appropriate Tolkien language or real-world equivalent.

    First Age of the Sun

    Noldor

    Sindar

    Dwarves

    Edain (of Bëor and Hador)

    Forces of Morgoth

    Independents:

    Easterlings of Beleriand

    Edain of Haleth

    Northmen

    Laiquendi

    Noegyth Nibîn

    Drúedain

    Falathrim

    Second Age of the Sun

    Noldor

    Nandor

    Dwarves

    Númenor

    MALE

    1. Manwendil

    2. Atanalcar

    3. Aulendil

    4. Nolondil

    5. Axantur

    6. Oromendil

    7. Ardamir

    8. Cemendur

    9. Hallacar

    10. Caliondo

    11. Aldalcar

    12. Vardamir

    13. Romendur

    14. Mirendil

    15. Malantur

    FEMALE

    1. Tindómiel

    2. Mairen????

    3. Yávien

    4. Lindissë

    5. Silmarien

    6. Isilmë

    7. Ailinel

    8. Irildë

    9. Nessanië

    9. Vardilmë

    Forces of Sauron

    Independents:

    Dunland

    Harad/Umbar

    Drúedain

    Northmen

    Mountain Orcs

    ThirdAge of the Sun

    Noldor

    Galadhrim

    Dwarves

    Realms in Exile

    Forces of Sauron

    Rohirrim

    MALE:

    1. Merewald

    2. Hengest

    3. Ingeld

    4. Bledda

    5. Hildwulf

    6. Dunhére

    7. Déor

    8. Framwine

    9. Grimfyr

    10. Ecga

    11. Osweald

    12. Onlaf

    13. Gara

    14. Wulfrid

    15. Hana

    FEMALE:

    1. Cynwise

    2. Aelfhild

    3. Eadwine

    4. Fréa

    5. Lilla

    6. Milthryth

    7. Gerta

    8. Hiltrude

    9. Ethel

    10. Rowena

    11. Estrith

    12. Ceridwyn

    13. Athilda

    14. Brithwyn

    15. Aelfwyn

    Independents:

    Dunland

    Harad/Umbar

    Drúedain

    Mountain Orcs

    Bree

    Hobbits

    Silvan

    Isengard

    Wainriders/Balchoth

    Esgaroth

    WFG Gameshow

    in Fun and Games

    Posted

    Umm, these questions might make a good Hall of Intellectuals challenge.

    But in General Chat, I'd keep it to general knowledge.

    Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10? Of same suit right?

    In that case - (1/52)(1/51)(1/50)(1/49)(1/48) = 1/311875200?

    I don't know if it's right so I won't ask a question yet.

  7. Hobbies

    in Introductions & Off-Topic Discussion

    Posted

    Developing Computer Games :)

    Fine Arts, watercolor, pen and ink, acrylic, pencil, colored pencil, et al.

    Alto Saxophone, both Jazz and Classical (classical saxophone has a very small following though :))

    Reading - my reading list is often overbearing. There's too much to read and too little time. Philosophy, Fantasy, History, and the Sciences are among my favorite topics.

    Language - I'm always trying to teach myself a new language. I've been working on latin for about six months now.

    Running.

    Having a good time with friends, of course.

    If God Does Not Exist..

    in Hall of Intellectuals

    Posted

    know thats what's being asked [smile.gif]  I was going by Adam's statement:

    Lol, now you're bringing me into this? :)

    I'm sorry if my statement offended you, but the topic is if, hypothetically, a god were disproven, how would it affect the world. So I too had to enter this hypothetical context with my statement.

    Whether I believe in a god or not has no bearing on this topic, since it's hypothetical.

    question and answer thread

    in The Green Dragon

    Posted

    I myself don't have Peoples of Middle-earth, and I doubt many here do...

    I have only:

    Lost Tales 1

    Lost Tales 2

    Lost Road

    Treason of Isengard

    Shadow of the Past

    The War of the Ring

    Sauron Defeated

    End of the Third Age :/

    I think I saw the answer somewhere other than Peoples of ME, though, because Morinehtar and Rómestámo sound very familiar to me.

    Aldaron - That would be the Dwimmorberg -

    What were the names of the other two mountains around Dunharrow?

    Religion

    in Hall of Intellectuals

    Posted

    The odds of such an event is astronomical. Just to give you an idea, the conservative odds of anyone fulling eight of the major prophecies are 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000 (17 zeros).

    Hmm seems a bit similar to other odds I've heard about in this thread.

    I've noticed that I tend to "sound" angry when I post,

    One of the pitfalls of the internet. I think it has to do with a combination being resolute, self-righteous, and confident in our posts. Myself and many others suffer from this when we get taken over by such an issue :)

    If God Does Not Exist..

    in Hall of Intellectuals

    Posted

    Ok, svede, but that's assuming there was a god (that was the universe), and DarkAngel changed the question to more of what Mythos Ruler answered. If it was PROVEN that a god did not exist. Then that means a god did not exist while it was being proven, and since the prover existed and the proof existed, then it is illogical to say that we wouldn't exist post facto.

    I mean if you can prove a god doesn't exist at any time, it crumbles the foundation of any faith based on a god, in which case it would render this god nonexistent for the entire history of humanity in which religion has been recorded, but since they existed then - why wouldn't we exist after this proof?

    I think Mythos Ruler has a pretty good outlook on this.

    3.) A third of the Religious will shrug their shoulders and go on living a good life.

    4.) The rest of us will go on living our lives as before.

    But these statements threw me off - it seems to say that the rest of us do not live a "good life" :)

    Personally, it wouldn't change much right away, because the religions would merely tout it as blasphemy and nonsense, even though what we are talking about here is an irrefutable proof of some sort - an "unholy grail" of atheists. I think there'd be even greater splits in ideology from this, and a break-down in the social fabric of the USA, and world for that matter. Because as much as some people like to deny, religion has been the mortar holding the bricks of society together for ages, not because it's the strongest mortar, but because it's easy to manufacture and it sticks well. But it crumbles often when bad weather comes...

    Personally, I think a lot of people are strong and sound enough in character, and well-learned enough to actually create their own systems of morals, not from one source, but from their collective studies and especially personal experience.

    But the reality is, not everyone has the strength of mind to do this, especially those for whom religion is the only thing that holds their lives together. So it would create a descent into lawlessness and a state of nature for many people, and this may be fine if everyone collectively embraced this state of nature, but there are going to be cohesive groups of "believers" who don't give a crap about science or logic, because faith is an ultimate form of logic, or separate from logic entirely. I have no idea what's right here, as each seems perfectly viable to me, because I am capable a lot of the time of being aware of multiple solutions or dualities, but for a lot of people who think in absolutes, there would be some tight factions created that would probably get progressively and progressively more militant, as judgemental as humans naturally are.

    But on a positive note, this might start the decline of race or sexual preference as the primary way to judge someone :)

    If God Does Not Exist..

    in Hall of Intellectuals

    Posted

    I think this question is a bit ambiguous.

    I think you are saying, if it were revealed that God did not exist tomorrow, for some reason, how would the world changed.

    I think others in this post have responded as if the question were "If in the past, we didn't collectively believe in a god, how would the world be different today".

    So which one is it? Before I answer? :)

    Religion

    in Hall of Intellectuals

    Posted

    Yes, but H20 cannot be ice, water, steam, or plasma (if it takes on that form) at the same time.

    Well, it can be

    ice and water at the phase boundary of these two states, at freezing point

    water and vapor at the phase boundary of these two states, at boiling point

    ice and vapor at the phase boundary of these two states, at the point of sublimation

    And it can be ice, vapor, and liquid water all at once - at triple point.

    But plasma is kind of the "undefined" of chemical states, not really clear how it behaves - as liquid or gas at the temperatures needed to create plasma.

    But I guess how this relates to the analogy made earlier -

    It was a good analogy :)

    COUNTDOWN

    in The Green Dragon

    Posted

    7 DAYS!

    Who are you going to see the movie with? Making it a big night? Last chance to do something crazy!

    I myself am going with a large group of my friends, some of them well-read, but many not :) We're going at the first showing at midnight, and I think I may try to dress up as Gandalf just to show my 1337n355! :P It'll probably be an all-night Tolkien marathon :P

    Lineage of Arwen

    in The Green Dragon

    Posted

    Ok, great. Thanks again for the corrections. We can't be misinforming here! :)

    Hmm I wonder if frumpus would be interested in working with you on his geneaology project? We're going to make it a nice section of the TLA website eventually, kind of like a genealogy/biography thing where you can move through the family trees with links.

    LOTR Movie Based Designs?

    in General TLA Discussion

    Posted

    You're definitely right. It was very good used of license :)

    I was EXTREMELY happy with a great majority of the artwork in the movies, and the music was even better IMO. The only problems I had were with the script, but that doesn't take away from a great Tolkien experience!

    *is excited, for every day we get closer to mordor :P*

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