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  • ikazuchi 1:00 pm on May 5, 2008 Permalink
    Tags: characters, D&D, story,   

    Rek Stoneblade Character Background 

    The skies above the Sword Plains were clear, letting the stars light the village Tzai. The last days of winter had gone to where seasons die and the spring brought frequent rains. Tonight though, the sky was clear and the stars shone brightly. Devos, the green moon, hung low and full in the sky, the waning slivers of her celestial sisters having set hours ago.
    Tzai was a small village, by human standards, having fewer than a hundred residents. A barbaric village composed of dozens of yurts and three stone buildings. Dirt paths wound through the village and the smell of horses was thick on the air. A backwater village in the center of plains that no larger nation bothered to claim. To the caldashi though, the half-orcs who ranged the Sword Plains, it was the home of the Gol, their lord and champion, and the Sword Plains was their empire.
    North of Tzai, past the yurts, past the horse pens, beyond even the rice paddies and the fields of crops tended by the peasants, lies a circle of blue stones. The stones mark the boundary of Gu Hash Kinnuth, a sacred place which is home to the Monolith of Harmony and Enlightenment. The Monolith is a finger of granite that thrusts itself out of the flat plains as if the earth was reaching for the heavens. Three paces across and almost a dozen paces tall, the monolith is but one of more than a dozen such stone outcroppings like it across the Sword Plains. All are sacred to the caldashi, and tonight, like every night, the monolith burns with ghostly green flames.
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  • ikazuchi 7:37 pm on May 4, 2008 Permalink
    Tags: NBES, philosophy, story   

    Rule Of Three 

    Currently making its rounds through the NBES (Non-Business Email Spams) is the following story:

    In ancient Greece (469 – 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance, who ran up to him excitedly and said, “Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students…?” 

    “Wait a moment,” Socrates replied. “Before you tell me, I’d like you to pass a little test. It’s called the Test of Three.”

    “Test of Three?”

    “That’s correct,” Socrates continued. “Before you talk to me about my student let’s take a moment to test what you’re going to say. The first test is Truth. Are absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?”

    “No,” the man replied, “actually I just heard about it.”

    “All right,” said Socrates. “So you don’t really know if it’s true or not. Now let’s try the second test, the test of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?”

    “No, on the contrary…”

    “So,” Socrates continued, “you want to tell me something bad about him even though you’re not certain it’s true?”

    The man shrugged, a little embarrassed.

    Socrates continued, “You may still pass though because there is a third test – the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my student going to be useful to me?”

    “No, not really…”

    “Well,” concluded Socrates, “if what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all?”

    The man was defeated and ashamed and said no more. This is the reason Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem. It also explains why Socrates never found out that Plato was banging his wife.

    The crappy thing about this is that most people will read this and find it funny due to one sentence at the end instead of taking the time to reflect upon the Role Of Three outlined in the story and apply it to their own lives.

     
  • ikazuchi 7:03 pm on May 4, 2008 Permalink
    Tags: science, story, thinking   

    Thinking Differently: A Story 

    Another story that I have no idea of the origin, but it exemplifies my love of thinking outside the box (to use an exhausted cliché).

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