I can write XAARGF from the letters in supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
"I've got dreams like you--no really!--just much less, touchy-feeley. They mainly happen somewhere warm and sunny on an island that I own, tanned and rested and alone surrounded by enormous piles of money." -Flynn Rider, Tangled
A really random fact: "nice", which in modern times is a word lazy people use to mean "pleasant" or the like, originated from the Latin word "nescius" (ignorant/incapable) and originally meant "stupid" or "foolish".
But the Fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. — Paul the Apostle
Winter is inevitable. Spring will return eventually, and AstralHunter with it.
Everyone. I have a question. What are some good ways to get a Storybook noticed? While I really am happy @Verser @15253 and @TheSilverFox are signed up, I'm really hoping to make some new friends with Orphan on top of the usual fun associated with an SB. And to do that, I've got to get it out there.
@Robusto: Hmm...I have a few ideas in mind for possibly getting the word out there about the SB. First and foremost, you could try to do what I did earlier (although I'm honestly not sure if I tagged you in that post, and so I'm not sure if you ever saw it. Sorry about that. <.<), and try and make a post promoting it in the People tab. That might be a nice way to get some attention, particularly if you have a lot of followers and/or a good reputation on the site (and, to be honest, you have both. XD). Secondly, you could always visit chat and search around for people willing to join. Lastly, I do know that the Squills newsletter (the YWS's official one) does have a section called "Shameless Plugs," which is a cool place if you want to advertising something to a large group of people on the site. If you want the link to it, I can give you it.
Anyways, that's all I know about right now. I hope this helps!
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse a persona che mai tornasse al mondo, questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma per ciò che giammai di questo fondo non tornò vivo alcun, s'i' odo il vero, senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.
@Robusto ...wait what's going on in France? Are you talking about the Djihadists, the lack of jobs for people or something else that just happened?
That aside... Eh. Thanks I'm fine, though. The only true problems I'm having right now are trying to survive Applied Arts and some stupid... things going on with my big bro. I can live with that!
EDIT: Just rechecked the news. Series of terrorist attacks in Paris, right? Luckily I don't live there - that's why I didn't know ...gosh. It's getting worse. I don't think I'll go to Paris' Japan Expo this year. They killed people in restaurants, concerts and hotels, went full kamikaze for the first times in Paros, and the damage is increasing.
...and all that in their twisted version of the "name of ALLAH". And speakin' of gods, we have a discussion to continue.
"Is there a limit to how much living I can live with my life? How will I know if I've gone too far? And why did I spend my life savings on sunglasses for a whale? I shall find the answers... to these questions."
That is not, in the slightest, how the Islamic faith works. Most members of the Islamic religion are actually quite peaceful, and the extremists and the terrorists who commit these violent acts preach a distorted version of the religion that is built upon not a system of love and kindness, as the tenets of the Islamic religion decree, but a system of hatred and anger. I have read texts and stories from Muslims who have lived in the Middle East and experienced these terrorists firsthand, and many of them disagree with the principles of violence and hatred that these extremists preach. Many of them don't believe what these extremists do, and also find their distorting of Islamic holy texts to be despicable. Many Muslim leaders condemn the violent actions and hate crimes that these extremist Muslims preach.
I'm sorry, but...no. This is the same justification that has led to violent crimes - especially murder and fear - and the wretched treatment of entirely innocent people on the grounds that these extremists, who, by the way, represent only a small portion of the Islamic faith, are representative of the entire religion. Perfectly innocent Muslims in America, the United Kingdom, and many other places in the world have to undergo fear, persecution, and the risk of violence on the sole grounds that people assume that all Muslims are violent beasts. And what they have done? Absolutely nothing. They have not killed. They have not stolen. The extremists may have, but these people have absolutely nothing to do with those extremists, and don't follow the system of hatred that these extremists do.
Just...please. I understand what religions inclinations you might have, but I advise that you do the research before you make such a statement as this. That is not only offensive to the Islamic faith - whether or not you believe it is the true faith, it shows an utter disrespect for the major preachings of the religion (which, by the way, include giving to charity and helping the poor and needy) - but it also shows a lack of understanding of the religion in general. While I myself am not a member of the Islamic faith (and am not very religious in the first place), I ask you to please not judging religions by the actions of a few people who are members of that religion. You want to know why? I could do the exact same to every single major religious belief system in the world (in particular, Christianity - I could say quite a lot against that religion) and offend you in the manner that you have upset me. I can judge the few extremists in Christianity and call them representative of the entire religion, and would that be fair? No, and it would most likely offend you. My point is that it just isn't cool to judge a religion in that manner.
Yes, I'm sorry if I have offended you in any way, but your statement made me lose my temper. And that above you is what happens when I get angry. ;-;
S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse a persona che mai tornasse al mondo, questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma per ciò che giammai di questo fondo non tornò vivo alcun, s'i' odo il vero, senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.
@TheSilverFox: I'm sorry if I angered you. I just don't like hearing these tales of terror. I understand that the majority of Islam is peaceful. Statistically, only 7% are jihadists. It's that 7% I was directing my statement at. I just don't like that one of Islam's pillars of faith calls for that sort of thing, which sort of breaks their otherwise peaceful appearance. But I've read tales from WWII where families of Islamic belief invited Jewish refugees into their homes to shelter them, and realize that there are many who don't follow that pillar. Again, I should have worded that statement differently. Sorry if I upset you, but hearing these stories of terrorist attacks always angers me as well. Every religion has its extremists, and extremists are never in the right. Not Islam, not Christianity, not Mormonism, and not Judaism.
I'm fine, though. The only true problems I'm having right now are trying to survive Applied Arts and some stupid... things going on with my big bro. I can live with that!
