Intergalactic Summit

No.



Woe to him who goes into the Judgement having bestowed an insulting nickname like "Nappy" on a righteous Amarrian. Especially if he be a Gallente. For he shall be sentenced to the Pit, and for all eternity the demons shall...um...uh...OK, I don't know the punishment for this one. But I'm sure there is one. And it is probably bad. Amen. Amarr Victor.

Why? Culture isn't genetic, you know. It's taught. We have to learn culture.

This took 4 pages to discover?

Come on, Ixiris *wink*

You seem a bit obsessed with referencing near-combat situations in much of your discussion. Are you compensating for something?

As long as you recognize the awkwardness of your presentation, I suppose all is well.

It isn't the actual action that I was wondering about, it is the necessity to reference it through apparent insecurity.

OK...you're new so I'll explain it instead of treating you like a joke of a graduate with a ******* penchant for mouthing off. A capsuleers reputation is their worth. It isn't insecure chest beating that is happening. It is bolstering. It is backing up your talk. Naplius preaches doom and death but flees instead of fighting for his god. I say i don't like someone, go out, and proceed to try and kill them. Sometimes I win. Sometimes I lose. But I act. I don't run or mouth off and not back it up.
Got it?

It isn't really. Anslo doesn't come hunting me and preaching is my job, I've also preached against violence and various aspects of Gallente society he probably holds in respect. Then again, I don't tell Anslo I think he's a useless waste of a person and should die. He would be quite reasonable in seeing that as a challenging threat.

There's a difference between discourse and joining into the warfare. I think it might be the arrogance that really gets people involved. If you're going to say a people are absolutely inferior, you can't expect those people to come and engage you in a town planning competition.

No.

Many find depicting the sufferings of the damned in Hell to be vulgar. Many find the doctrine of Hell itself to be vulgar. And the Amarrian nobility among us have every right to remain aloof from any preaching on Hell, lest their delicate minds be soiled by such a rough doctrine.

But I am not nobility. And during my last two and a half years out-of-capsule on Danera, I became convicted of certain truths in the more raw form of religion practiced among the lower classes, including Hell. Now, I do not claim that Hell is an essential doctrine of the Amarrian religion; indeed, I am not qualified to make that determination. But evidence that many Amarrians believe in Hell is all around us in New Eden — the testimony of Doctor Fajah Ateshi as reported by Empyreans who rescued her; the names given to Amarr ship classes, Damnation and Abaddon; the commands that Paladins might use to motivate mining slaves; the ubiquitous use of the word in a casual sense that nonetheless retains something of its original definition, as in the immortal saying of Admiral Mekioth Sarum,

"War is not hell, far from it. War is beautiful. War is divine."

Just what happens in Hell (for those who believe it) is a far more speculative matter. I suspect that the nobility considers the matter too vulgar, although it is a common enough subject of arts and entertainment among the lower classes. The particular torments that I have imagined in this and other threads loosely based on the restitution in kind principle of Amarrian religious law, as most notably expressed in the punishment of Artico Kor-Azor and the public debate thereof; the punishments will somehow fit the crime. The details of the torments are a bit fanciful, but they are not meant to be strictly literal; rather, they are to inspire fear and terror in the audience so that they change their sinning ways. (The message of the original post in this thread is: really bad things will happen to prematurely freed slaves. So don't prematurely free them).

Agreed. This was precisely my point to begin with.