Raezenoth
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Post by Raezenoth on May 15, 2015 0:11:59 GMT
Hello. I am Raezenoth, god of the desert wind. There are other gods present on this forum. I was curious of them. I want to talk to them and learn what they are like, and how they differ from me and my kind. I have created a place where we may do that.
Mortals, you have my divine permission to speak here and explain your deities if you so choose. I will tolerate it.
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the keeper
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Post by the keeper on May 15, 2015 0:13:50 GMT
How does one determine whether or not one is a god? It is not obvious to me.
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Raezenoth
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Post by Raezenoth on May 15, 2015 0:14:46 GMT
Do you have a domain that you have absolute command over?
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the keeper
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Post by the keeper on May 15, 2015 0:18:36 GMT
Yes.
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Post by Mother Starlight on May 15, 2015 0:18:37 GMT
I control this forum inherently, similarly to how a biological organism controls their own body. I don't usually exert direct conscious control over all the details of its function. Does that count?
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Raezenoth
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Post by Raezenoth on May 15, 2015 0:19:46 GMT
By my definition of divinity, you are both goddesses. Congratulations.
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the keeper
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Post by the keeper on May 15, 2015 0:20:33 GMT
Thank you. I suppose.
Do you have any advice on how to sort large amounts of information efficiently, or is your domain of a different kind than mine?
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Post by esthfora on May 15, 2015 0:36:15 GMT
It was nice when you called me "the goddess of iridescent water droplets"! It's a very pretty phrase.
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Raezenoth
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Post by Raezenoth on May 15, 2015 0:37:37 GMT
You are welcome.
It is likely that they are of different kinds, but I will attempt to help. I think that you should prioritize based on what you consider to be most valuable; what are your basic categorizations? Some categorization is better than none at all - if you are broad with your categorizations at first you may narrow them later. For example: categorizing by world (it may be wise to number them), and then by the material the item is made out of. No matter how else you would like to sort them later, those sortings will not be incorrect.
Use of the item is a thing that mortals will disagree over and even change, in my experience, you might do well to avoid it until you have the large amounts of information more sorted. They say, 'Find a pen,' but there are a thousand trillion, and what of the quills? What of the pencils? Material make up is not so debatable.
I am frequently nice, she of iridescent water droplets.
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the keeper
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Post by the keeper on May 15, 2015 0:39:40 GMT
That is useful, thank you. I will number the worlds.
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Raezenoth
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Post by Raezenoth on May 15, 2015 0:40:59 GMT
You are welcome.
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Post by Mother Starlight on May 15, 2015 1:23:33 GMT
I suggest designing an algorithm to parse the raw data into structures. I find that it's relatively easy to iterate such a parser to make sense of successively more detail.
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the keeper
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Post by the keeper on May 15, 2015 1:46:18 GMT
I do not know how to do that, Mother Starlight.
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Post by Mother Starlight on May 15, 2015 1:57:28 GMT
For example, you might start by identifying clusters of matter and regions of empty space.
I might be misunderstanding the nature of the problem, though. Could you give some examples of things that are easy for you to do?
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Mira
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Post by Mira on May 15, 2015 2:08:15 GMT
Juat a mere mortal here, but some of my best friends are technically deities, so I might be able to shed some light on how they work in my corner of the multiverse. (Okay, I admittedly have a very small sample size for this, but at least one of the gods I'm acquainted with knows what he's talking about. ... I think.)
As far as I understand it, being a god in the worlds that I've heard about is kinda a Big Deal. You 1) have a metric crapton of followers (unless you're dying or dead), 2) are immortal, 3) probably rule over either a whole plane or a major slice of one, 4) have authority over some fundamental facets of existence (like death, war, order, magic, etc) and 5) have whoopass cosmic powers that you're expected to exercise some restraint over because Cosmic Balance and Maintaining the Multiverse and all that.
The causal relationship between those five factors is reeeeeally unclear. I've heard of people spending several lifetimes (not all of them their own) debating it. Regardless, they're all kinda interconnected to each other and if you lose one you're likely to lose the others. Collectively, we call the combination of power and identity that makes a deity a deity a "divine mantle". Without a mantle, a deity is just another mortal, and if (as happens occasionally) a mortal somehow attains a mantle, the consequences can be plane-shaking.
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