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Post by Botanical Engineer on May 17, 2015 14:53:13 GMT
Okay, common beliefs say that spirits are someone's personality and memories, who can interact with each other, but only watch the living, and only from the town they were from, and only if they have been called on the right days. They also say that spirits form the lights in the sky each net, which sounds a little big like most of the descriptions of stars I've read.
I am very worried that people from my world, when they die, are actually obliterated, as you put it, rather than preserved in any meaningful way besides memory. I am not certain that spirits are real. If anyone from here ever visits my world, I'd like that to be kept secret.
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Post by Ahrotahn on May 31, 2015 5:18:02 GMT
As far as I know, the worlds I'm familiar with work on the same principles Leaf seems to be describing.
Botanical Engineer's description makes me nervous, since between claiming to be a god, using powers-of-five time units, and adding new features to the world over time, it sounds like you might have an unethical Writer on a power trip. That is not a fun relationship to be on the wrong end of. Does your god ever show up in humanlike form, or send a human or humanlike representative, possibly to give commands or instruction?
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Post by Botanical Engineer on May 31, 2015 23:29:45 GMT
Ahrotahn, Our god does not claim to be a god. It is a god in the same way that a tree is a tree, named so by people with the best word that fit, but without ever itself making the claim. People likewise invented powers-of-five time units because they made the most sense to use. It adds new species and land extremely predictably, and both are generally useful. It has been doing this for thousands of cycles, which I would expect a person with anything even somewhat like a human mind to get bored of. Additionally, there are uncountably many other planets, all of which seem to operate the same way, which, if all were being operated by the same mind, would probably be absolutely overwhelming.
It does none of those things. It gives no instructions, and its commands have been interpreted by scribes based on the way the world is. For example: the god does not edit itself, therefore we should not edit ourselves, the god made us able to edit plants and creates new species, therefore we are meant to improve them, and the like. I think my world's gods are probably not the same thing as your world's Writers.
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Post by Ahrotahn on Jun 1, 2015 0:49:16 GMT
That is reassuring, yes. Thank you.
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Post by Eskay on Jul 3, 2015 10:22:40 GMT
Here, down is all one direction. The sky is above and the sea is below. We live on planets(?) above the sea. They're usually irregularly shaped, not spheres or cylinders. With modern technology, we can fly from one to another in just a few hours.
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