Greetings Traveler · Legacy archive
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#1I've been hanging around here since last spring, but I've never posted anything before this (I think...). I thought that it would be polite to introduce myself and tell you what I've used this site for.
I'm a 22-year-old student of comparative religion from Finland. Considering my young age I like to see myself as a fairly experienced GM -- after all I've been doing this more or less actively for about two thirds of my life.
I'm normally more into storytelling RPGs, but I stumbled across this site as I was looking for new ideas for a figure adventure campaign I've been captaining. The campaign includes strong RPG elements so applying for example plot and setting ideas to our game has been easy. I will surely take advantage of your great ideas in the future too, also when GMing 'real' RPGs.
Thanks and keep up the good work!
...yeah, yeah. Maybe I will also post some adventure seed or character or something one day when I feel like it. :) -
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#2*Shadoweagle throws the unbreakable chains of binding upon Theokratie, forcing the person to remain in the open to post!*
So, now you're locked out in the open, start posting, dagnabbit! Voice your opinions! Join in the roleplays! Speak gibberish in the Cavern of inane matter! Post an item, or setting or three!
Oh, and welcome, too ;) -
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#3Always nice to meet a fellow RPer. I hope this site has a lot to offer you and more importantly I hope you have a lot to offer this site :wink:
I am Adel by the way, in many cases the vioce of reason *a pie flies through the air and splats her in the face* Nice to meet you really! -
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#4Rogue Scholar at your service -
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#5Service... SERVICE!?!? You're never offered your service to ANYONE! -
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#6Now that's a little unfair,Shadoweagle.Scras has always been there to help newbies like me and Sent when we need his wisdom. -
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#7I agree with Maggot on this one, Shadoweagle -
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#8*Gasps overdramatically!* -
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#9I just want to saym Whats up and welcome to the place we all call HELL -
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#10Welcome!!
I'm Alia Greccio nice to meet you!
Well..... Kalabar, I don't really call this place hell...^_^! -
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#11Nevermind Kalabar, he's not a happy camper right now.
I'm the Cap'n, resident postnazi and indecisive jerk. Right now I'm not feeling very productive, but we'll see...
So welcome!
What do you learn in comparative religion, anyway? -
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#12What do you mean by not happy camper captain??
1_^1,,,, -
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#13Greccio, remember this: google is your friend!
Using the search engine google, you can find an answer to most of the questions you will ever have.
I made a google search for you and this was the result:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22happy+camper%22+definition&btnG=Google-s%C3%B8k&meta=
Notice the second entry on the page.
Try following that link (Happy Camper - Dictionary Definition by freesearch).
If you repeat this procedure everytime there is a word you don't understand, you'll be allright. I am a non-native speaker too and I use this approach, prefering Encyclopediae Britannica. -
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#14Don't worry AG I'm searching for the captains answer!
And I already know google!
You don't have to repeat it.... -
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#15sigh -
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#16"happy camper" is an idiomatic phrase, originally referring to Boy Scouts on a camp-out.
A happy camper is someone who is happy and cheerful, generally with overtones of being satisfied with occurences or one's place in life.
Usage: "That baby is not a happy camper. Look at it crying" or "You're a happy camper, aren't you doggy?" -
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#17*Posts a plot.*
May I now go to bathroom, please Shadoweagle.
My! Ain't my introduction thread popular? ;)
Thanks for all the kind welcomes! -
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#18HEY! I didn't become one of the citadels more prominent sources of evil by giving out bathroom breaks! Back to work! -
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#19Religons.....
Difference!
I have nothing to say........................ -
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#20Ohoy Captain, you asked me about that comparative religion. To make it short: Comparative religion (or religious studies) studies religions and religiousness as cultural, societal, historical, psychological, biographical, cognitive and biological phenomena.
If this doesn't make it any clearer, don't worry. Even researchers don't know what comparative religion is. Actually it seems that the most fundamental project of comparative religion is to try and explain what the hell are we actually doing when we are doing comparative religion ;) -
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#21Ah... So, it's like relating religion to the culture of said religion? Like the way that the Egyptians became hyperconservative and against change due to their belief that the world had a sort of "Cosmic Order"? -
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#22Yeah, studying conservative tendencies of the Egyptians would be about societal, cultural and historical aspects of comparative religion. How religions and religious world of experience interact with societal and cultural reality is actually something I am very interested in. Actually that is what my master's thesis is about: presentation of divinity of Frankish kings in the Late Antique and Early Medieval court poetry.