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Aug 6, 2017 17:51:18 GMT -8
Post by akavidar on Aug 6, 2017 17:51:18 GMT -8
Orcish Prayer
Mother - Give my foes the wisdom to surrender, but if they resist,
Father - Guide my axe into their necks.
Amen
(I modified Jason's original a little.)
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Aug 10, 2017 11:28:41 GMT -8
Post by weaselcreature on Aug 10, 2017 11:28:41 GMT -8
So, coinage came up again in this episode. Back in medieval times, they would cut coins into halves or even quarters for really cheap items. I'm wondering if they do this in your setting as well?
OK, fine...I'm wondering if your setting has half-asses.
;D
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Aug 10, 2017 15:41:31 GMT -8
Post by akavidar on Aug 10, 2017 15:41:31 GMT -8
So, coinage came up again in this episode. Back in medieval times, they would cut coins into halves or even quarters for really cheap items. I'm wondering if they do this in your setting as well? OK, fine...I'm wondering if your setting has half-asses. ;D I think you're on to something, here. I wonder if that IS where half-as comes from?
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Aug 10, 2017 15:58:36 GMT -8
Post by weaselcreature on Aug 10, 2017 15:58:36 GMT -8
So, coinage came up again in this episode. Back in medieval times, they would cut coins into halves or even quarters for really cheap items. I'm wondering if they do this in your setting as well? OK, fine...I'm wondering if your setting has half-asses. ;D I think you're on to something, here. I wonder if that IS where half-as comes from? Definitely possible. It crossed my mind when that joke 1st popped in my head in Ep1, but I keep forgetting to look it up. edit: apparently not. First usage seems to be in the mid 1800's.
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mrcj
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Aug 11, 2017 7:23:29 GMT -8
Post by mrcj on Aug 11, 2017 7:23:29 GMT -8
One or two thoughts on the early part of the podcast and the discussion between Adeste and Hazim. Unless I heard wrong Adeste said "My God" a few times. Even though she has broken the fifth commandment fairly regularly when it comes to killing people. The third commandment of taking the lords name in vain is fairly easy to avoid. When it comes to finding the witch. I think it was assumed that witches were in service of Satan. Adeste knows orcs use magic and to europeans Christians of the time, the followers of Islam are basically devil worshipers. So I would assume that most people of the time would assume that if there were witches around, the first thing you do is look at the outsiders. I can't remember if I had mentioned the Witchsmeller Persuivent, but here is a link. www.dailymotion.com/video/x44fl2h
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Aug 21, 2017 22:23:57 GMT -8
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Post by uncommonman on Aug 21, 2017 22:23:57 GMT -8
One or two thoughts on the early part of the podcast and the discussion between Adeste and Hazim. Unless I heard wrong Adeste said "My God" a few times. Even though she has broken the fifth commandment fairly regularly when it comes to killing people. The third commandment of taking the lords name in vain is fairly easy to avoid. When it comes to finding the witch. I think it was assumed that witches were in service of Satan. Adeste knows orcs use magic and to europeans Christians of the time, the followers of Islam are basically devil worshipers. So I would assume that most people of the time would assume that if there were witches around, the first thing you do is look at the outsiders. I can't remember if I had mentioned the Witchsmeller Persuivent, but here is a link. www.dailymotion.com/video/x44fl2hAnd she missed one of the most famous good magic users of all MOSES. That whole scene in the Bible is interesting because they acknowledge that the faros sorcerers do use magic and that is has nothing to do with the devil. Brb has to listen to more of the episode...
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mrcj
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Sept 3, 2017 15:36:55 GMT -8
Post by mrcj on Sept 3, 2017 15:36:55 GMT -8
I think most Christians (now and then) would argue that Moses was not using magic but rather was just doing what God told him to do. In Exodus 7 they start small but almost immediately Pharaoh's sorcerers cannot keep up when Moses goes, ahem, biblical in the next few books with the various plagues. One of the elements of the story is that the powerlessness of the Pharaoh's sorcerers and by extension Egyptian gods to stop Moses.
The view of magic in the church will become mush more complicated with arrival of the orcs and their magic. In the 5th century, Christian theologian St. Augustine said that all pagan magic and religion were invented by the devil. It would be fairly widely held that the devil’s purpose in inventing magic was to lure humanity away from the truths of Christianity.
Conversely part of that thinking, St. Augustine also said that neither witches nor the devil was capable of having magical powers or producing any real magic. If a pagan believed in magic, it was merely his “error” to believe in “some other divine power than the one God.” Under St. Augustine’s views, the church had no reasons to seek out or persecute any witches because their powers did not exist. This viewpoint was accepted by the Medieval church for several hundred years.
So if there is real magic in the world, it would upend St. Augustine in a big way and the church would need to rethink its purpose in this regard or have enough divine power that manifests itself in tangible ways to combat the forces of evil.
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