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Curse Amarr: The Renaissance

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Ottom Ephesianos
Mirkur Draug'Tyr
Ushra'Khan
#1 - 2016-09-04 17:17:03 UTC
I don't normally do curses.
Curses and myself get along like miasmic mist and antigens.
Like mint leaves and throat infections.
Like bad words and baby's teething.
Yet I asked myself.
As I waylaid the b'geezues out of an Amarrian colony of slavers.
How do I bless these antiquated heathens?
How does one think about these neanderthals spiritually?
So I cursed them vehemently.
This is because a blessing was too good for them.
I must confess and lament.
I do not like the notion that I have been involved in thinking negatively about mine own spirituality.
I always imagined it was to be kept within.
Held from battle like a new born babe.
Protected from chaos as one protects one's own dream.
But as I let loose a volley of 1400mm howitzer. Mine own Lord from the mind's eye said...
"Wilt thou know a cabalic star system?"
"Curse them." I said. Aloud. In my cockpit.
I regretted it.
One is not to converse with the Almighty so frivolously.
One is not to assume the offensive prowess of a deity.
Perhaps it is your day to die and you die in the throngs of a curse instead of blessings from on high.
May it be the day your soul is free to fly and you must navigate a torrent of negative forces because you were not in the company of God's Love.
But God's Wrath.
So I will try never to do this again.
I will look for a way to bless the enemy into better ways to lose against me.
But the enemy will have to read between the lines.
Because there is no simple blessing for Amarr.
The only word they will know is that one I used once before.
Curse.
In the end I will work to see my influence a blessing on the lives I do not genocide with these technologies.
Since the Universe void of Amarrians is a tragedy.
Extinction is un-godly.
I have not found this higher form of thinking: Blessing the enemy.
That which is wiser and greater than me helps me to see through the depth and black and mass of space.
One day I will have something better to say to the Amarrian race.
Until then.
Curses.






Yarosara Ruil
#2 - 2016-09-04 17:30:17 UTC
Your poem did not rhyme
Just a soup of words without sense
Makes it a poor haiku
Vollhov Jr
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#3 - 2016-09-04 18:38:05 UTC
Ottom Ephesianos wrote:


How much will cost a curse for the Catiz ? TwistedTwistedTwistedTwistedTwistedTwistedTwisted
morion
Lighting Build
#4 - 2016-09-04 18:38:30 UTC
I will compliment.

Moor interesting than the list of ingredients of a soup can.

Easier to understand than furniture assembly instructions.
Ibrahim Tash-Murkon
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#5 - 2016-09-04 19:00:17 UTC
Ottom and Vollhov fill me with sadness,
These fools show that madness begets madness,
Are others fated to become insane?
Oh God, even I now speak in quatrain!

"I give you the destiny of Faith, and you will bring its message to every planet of every star in the heavens: Go forth, conquer in my Name, and reclaim that which I have given." - Book of Reclaiming 22:13

Vollhov Jr
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2016-09-04 19:15:12 UTC
Ibrahim Tash-Murkon wrote:
Ottom and Vollhov fill me with sadness,
These fools show that madness begets madness,
Are others fated to become insane?
Oh God, even I now speak in quatrain!


What you're boring Twisted
Neph
Crimson Serpent Syndicate
#7 - 2016-09-04 19:20:40 UTC
Yarosara Ruil wrote:
Your poem did not rhyme
A soup of words without sense
Makes a poor haiku


FTFY

~ Gariushi YC110 // Midular YC115 // Yanala YC115 ~

"Orte Jaitovalte sitasuyti ne obuetsa useuut ishu. Ketsiak ishiulyn." -Yakiya Tovil-Toba-taisoka

Yarosara Ruil
#8 - 2016-09-04 19:49:22 UTC
Neph wrote:
Yarosara Ruil wrote:
Your poem did not rhyme
A soup of words without sense
Makes a poor haiku


FTFY


In my defense, I was aiming to keep the 5-7-5 word metric for my haiku, but your fix sounds better!
Aria Jenneth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#9 - 2016-09-04 21:12:17 UTC  |  Edited by: Aria Jenneth
Yarosara Ruil wrote:
Neph wrote:
Yarosara Ruil wrote:
Your poem did not rhyme
A soup of words without sense
Makes a poor haiku


FTFY


In my defense, I was aiming to keep the 5-7-5 word metric for my haiku, but your fix sounds better!


Um. Yours was originally 5-8-6.

It might be a translation issue. The haiku form suffers in languages requiring articles.


Edited to add:

It's neat to see Mr. Ephesianos getting a little less self-consciously clever and a little more coherent. I might feel a little bad if I end up shooting at him now.

In general, I feel like thoughts are better artfully expressed than hidden in a heap of arcana.
Arrendis
TK Corp
#10 - 2016-09-04 22:08:01 UTC  |  Edited by: Arrendis
Yarosara Ruil wrote:
Neph wrote:
Yarosara Ruil wrote:
Your poem did not rhyme
A soup of words without sense
Makes a poor haiku


FTFY


In my defense, I was aiming to keep the 5-7-5 word metric for my haiku, but your fix sounds better!


5-7-5 is the syllabic count, not the word count.

The other form of haiku
uses seven-eleven-seven instead.
You might give that one a try.
Yarosara Ruil
#11 - 2016-09-04 22:21:28 UTC
Arrendis wrote:

5-7-5 is the syllabic count, not the word count.

The other form of haiku
uses seven-eleven-seven instead.
You might give that one a try.


I'm no good at counting syllables! There are entire words that can fit in one syllable, how am I supose to figure out which ones monosyllabic?

A good languange should have distinct syllables I tell you! One consonant or two, followed by a vowel or two! Maybe an inflection or two thrown in the middle as a curve ball!

And I very much like my haikus just the way they are, in their very own nonsensical ways.
Neph
Crimson Serpent Syndicate
#12 - 2016-09-04 23:54:22 UTC
Yarosara Ruil wrote:
Arrendis wrote:

5-7-5 is the syllabic count, not the word count.

The other form of haiku
uses seven-eleven-seven instead.
You might give that one a try.


I'm no good at counting syllables! There are entire words that can fit in one syllable, how am I supose to figure out which ones monosyllabic?

A good languange should have distinct syllables I tell you! One consonant or two, followed by a vowel or two! Maybe an inflection or two thrown in the middle as a curve ball!

And I very much like my haikus just the way they are, in their very own nonsensical ways.


You might like speaking Napanii; have you considered swearing loyalty to the State?

~ Gariushi YC110 // Midular YC115 // Yanala YC115 ~

"Orte Jaitovalte sitasuyti ne obuetsa useuut ishu. Ketsiak ishiulyn." -Yakiya Tovil-Toba-taisoka

Felise Selunix
Keyholder Investment Group
#13 - 2016-09-05 01:29:13 UTC
You know, if you set this to the right music...it could be a big hit in some underground Gallentean metal scenes. Let me know, I can put you in contact with the right people.
Elmund Egivand
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#14 - 2016-09-05 02:35:08 UTC  |  Edited by: Elmund Egivand
Ottom, don't be silly. You are not in a cockpit, you are in a capsule either in the bridge of your ship or way in the depths of your ship.

Also, fly a Curse. Curses are very strong ships. I should take my own advice and also fly a Curse. Or at least start with an Arbitrator.

A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.

Alizabeth Vea
Doomheim
#15 - 2016-09-05 10:04:51 UTC
I didn't read the original post. It was too long.

And made no sense.

Retainer of Lady Newelle and House Sarum.

"Those who step into the light shall be redeemed, the sins of their past cleansed, so that they may know salvation." -Empress Jamyl Sarum I

Virtue. Valor. Victory.

Maria Daphiti
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#16 - 2016-09-05 13:00:34 UTC
Aria Jenneth wrote:
. I might feel a little bad if I end up shooting at him now.


I won't feel bad in the slightest.
Loai Qerl
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#17 - 2016-09-05 21:32:56 UTC  |  Edited by: Loai Qerl
Mint grows kindly for us all
Thick and fast, it asks nothing.
It is beautiful in grass,
it is beautiful in sand,
so generous its spread--
a joyful and loving plant!
Mint leaves have done nothing wrong.
Why are they in this bad post?