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Post by kristine on Jul 25, 2009 14:19:51 GMT -5
During the election, things got pretty ugly around an online knitting community I'm a member of. I remember there was a lot of speculation amongst the conservative Christian members that Obama had secretly killed his own grandmother to cover up being born in Kenya and to garner sympathy votes. I wonder if such similar vomit-inducing, slanderous sentiments were expressed over at RR. See now if he were Sarah Palin, he could threaten them with legal action.
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Post by King Leopard on Jul 28, 2009 21:21:04 GMT -5
I just wish there were more fundies complaining about RuneScape that I could laugh at. Good lord. *Pantheon(s) of gods *Magic all over the freakin' place *Men and women playing together *Churches and altars dedicated to false idols *A little skull that bounces around delivering mail. It's a fundie haven.
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Post by Tiger on Jul 29, 2009 1:22:33 GMT -5
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Post by Sigmaleph on Jul 29, 2009 1:27:16 GMT -5
From what I remember, there were 3 major ones and a bunch of minor ones.
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Post by Ian1732 on Jul 29, 2009 15:28:33 GMT -5
From what I remember, there were 3 major ones and a bunch of minor ones. Well, not as minor as they are lesser known. You see, there's Saradomin, god of Order, Zamorak, god of Chaos, and Guthix, god of Balance. They're the most well known gods. But then there's still Bandos, Armadyl, Zaros, and many others who were all but forgotten after the 3rd age.
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Post by Ian1732 on Jul 29, 2009 15:32:30 GMT -5
I just wish there were more fundies complaining about RuneScape that I could laugh at. Good lord. *Pantheon(s) of gods *Magic all over the freakin' place *Men and women playing together *Churches and altars dedicated to false idols *A little skull that bounces around delivering mail. It's a fundie haven. EXACTLY! Why can't there be any quotes on the home page ranting about Runescape? I've only found 2 or 3, none of which had anything to do with the gods.
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Post by pagingdrdino on Aug 1, 2009 10:52:30 GMT -5
Actually a few of them were talking like that before the election. For example, at www.covenantnews.com/trewhella080910.htm wingnut pastor Matt Trewhella explains that he's not voting for McCain and Palin, and that's because of Palin's gender: I did submit that quote to FSTDT but it didn't make it.
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Post by lonelocust on Aug 2, 2009 12:35:44 GMT -5
Well, I really *was* surprised I hadn't seen fundies say that, but now they have! Or rather, now I know they already did. ...Win?
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Post by RavynousHunter on Aug 2, 2009 17:35:57 GMT -5
From what I remember, there were 3 major ones and a bunch of minor ones. Well, not as minor as they are lesser known. You see, there's Saradomin, god of Order, Zamorak, god of Chaos, and Guthix, god of Balance. How could gods of Order, Chaos, and Balance be lesser known? They're the three fundamental forces of existence. Also, they're probably a reference to the Three Great Serpents from the Serpent Isle, considering Runescape came well after it, and it was considered the pinnacle of the series, if not the entire genre at the time, alongside its sister.
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Post by Ian1732 on Aug 2, 2009 18:01:11 GMT -5
Well, not as minor as they are lesser known. You see, there's Saradomin, god of Order, Zamorak, god of Chaos, and Guthix, god of Balance. How could gods of Order, Chaos, and Balance be lesser known? They're the three fundamental forces of existence. Also, they're probably a reference to the Three Great Serpents from the Serpent Isle, considering Runescape came well after it, and it was considered the pinnacle of the series, if not the entire genre at the time, alongside its sister. Err, actually they're the major pantheon, as I said in my previous quote's full context. But as for the serpent isle thing... Wow. I was actually rather suprised by the similarities.
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Post by anti-nonsense on Aug 3, 2009 11:54:02 GMT -5
I keep waiting for the fundies to find out about In Nomine and start screaming bloody murder. First off it's a Tabletop RPG [Like the EVIL Dungeons and Dragons] Second off, it's about angels and demons and players are allowed to play demons [EVIL!] Thirdly, the angels are shall we say, rather non-traditional, and definitely not always beings of purity and righteousness, they get drunk and sometimes they have sex. Also, Christianity is NOT the One True Religion (most religions have bits of truth in them, and all three Abrahamic religions and Buddhism are Divine religions that give power to Heaven) and you don't have to be a Christian to get into Heaven, you just have to reach your highest height of goodness within your lifetime and you can be a devoted Christian and wind up in Hell if you act like a complete asshole and show total disregard for other people's well-being and happiness. Most people just reincarnate and some people just cease to exist (for reasons left up to the GM and players but probably involving total despair and misery suffered in their lifetime) Evolution is true (though guided by God to what degree is not really known), many of the stories in the Bible are based on truth but mangled sometimes throughally, Adam and Eve were not the first humans, just an experiment on human potential that happened after humanity had already evolved also, pagan gods exist, sort of, they were created by human imaginations, and they insist that the God of the setting was also created by human imaginations and grew powerful enough to retroactively alter reality so that he/she/it was it's Creator. Some pagan gods work for Hell (partially because one of the Archangels was a bit of a douchebag and went on a killing spree killing off the creatures of myth on Earth (like dragons and unicorns and stuff) and then went around trying to kill off the pagan gods and other creatures of human imagination, before God stopped him) but many are independent and don't work for either side. I'm sure I can think of other reasons why the fundies would hate it, but those are the ones off the top of my head. (PS: This is a shameless plug for a game I think is really cool and doesn't get enough attention)
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