what does eastern mysticism mean to you, aaron? or rather, what form does it take with this character?
and man, my only exposure to songsmith so far has been that amazing van halen trainwreck; the metallica one there sounds pretty damned electroclashic awesome.
Perhaps that's a poor choice of words on my part. It was a parallel between a character's motivation (a decision to help others attain what this character had attained) and that of the general descriptions of enlightenment in Buddhism (that being that once you get to a higher plane, you might help some other people do the same, rather than continuing on).
I suppose it could be similar to Plato's analogy of the people in the cave, but that lacks some of the flavor I was going for. :)
heh. i'm not trying to pick on you or anything, but i'm always curious as to what the large blanket of 'eastern mysticism' means to people, cause it could be hindu, buddhist, taoist, or any of a billion other things, and you end up with "confucius say" stuff =)
Heh. I hear ya. And I'm not doing a Shaolin Monk thing where I'm making up a sect of Uber Priests or anything. It's more of the philosophy.
I seem to remember a story on NPR or somewhere about one of the few American Shaolin Monks (and what he went through to actually find a genuine teacher in Asia) and a lot of the misconceptions that popular film and comics have generated.
Plus, its "popularity" made it VERY hard for him to find teachers who weren't out to scam people who'd seen one too many anime on the subject.
Yay! Little bubbly lambikins! Aaron ought to send it to Cake Wrecks with a "Sweets" label on it - that gal's a stone cold geek who'd get a kick out of the pics.
But Cupcake Cakes are the ones where you use gobs of frosting to glue 'em all together. Cakewrecks approves of cupcakes that remain true to themselves as cupcakes.
If you like Cupcake Catan, you may also like Gingerbread Carcassonne. I admit that my wife and I made gingerbread meeples for a game day once, but the entire set? That's over the top.
Oh wow, that's a great use of gingerbread! I say that, not only because the set is amazing, but that I don't really care for the stuff. I mean, if mold won't grow on it... :)
BTW, I have a way to "ruin" the Carcassone expansion, "The Count" for some. Just pick up the piece that represents the Count and remark that it looks like the McDonald's character, "Grimace" with his arms raised. They'll never be able to not see it.
Eh; I'd consider the Count to be pre-ruined. I've only played with it once or twice. (Why yes, I do have all the Carcassonne expansions, including the Catapult...stop looking at me that way!) I prefer "The River II" for starting a game with the expansions, or else just the classic starting tile.
Actually, as written above ('Veni, Vidi ovis, Veni') it's "I came, I saw sheep, I came." Which may not be proper Latin for something vulgar but is pretty vulgar when translated into English.
Well I'll be damned. I mulled right past the second use of Veni, assuming the rest would be the proper phrase. Now it does sound obviously vulgar. Thanks for the catch there. I need to read more carefully.
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and man, my only exposure to songsmith so far has been that amazing van halen trainwreck; the metallica one there sounds pretty damned electroclashic awesome.
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I suppose it could be similar to Plato's analogy of the people in the cave, but that lacks some of the flavor I was going for. :)
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I seem to remember a story on NPR or somewhere about one of the few American Shaolin Monks (and what he went through to actually find a genuine teacher in Asia) and a lot of the misconceptions that popular film and comics have generated.
Plus, its "popularity" made it VERY hard for him to find teachers who weren't out to scam people who'd seen one too many anime on the subject.
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BTW, I have a way to "ruin" the Carcassone expansion, "The Count" for some. Just pick up the piece that represents the Count and remark that it looks like the McDonald's character, "Grimace" with his arms raised. They'll never be able to not see it.
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Julius Caesar's famously said, on the succesful invasion of what is now Turkey: "Vēnī, vīdī, vīcī" - I came, I saw, I conquered.
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I Came, I saw sheep, I conquered.
I usually go with Veni, Vidi, Dormivi.
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