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[amor.dor]

Boa noite contador
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[OnceTheHappiestMan]

Boa noite amor. For a moment I thought you were wearing a construction worker helmet! Then I zoom my phone and see the cap

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[amor.dor]

People have told me that before, haha.
Hey, I just wanted an image with a cap — this summer is so sunny it hurts my eyes, I leave the house and it's so bright.

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[OnceTheHappiestMan]

Then a cap you need! I haven't seen a sunny day since September. Chove muito en Galicia. But as they say here: se chove, que chova.

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[amor.dor]

Then a cap you need! I haven't seen a sunny day since September. Chove muito en Galicia. But as they say here: se chove, que chova.

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I still haven't conquered Galicia, just kidding lol.
About Galicia — it's a mountainous region, right?

 

[OnceTheHappiestMan]

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I still haven't conquered Galicia, just kidding lol.
About Galicia — it's a mountainous region, right?

More than mountainous, I'd say hilly, as it doesn't have many big mountains until the frontiers. It is specially forest filled, moreover for being Spain. And coastal. The coast has so many curves (a bit like fjords) that it actually has more coast miles than the rest of Spain together.

Wow I checked the rain stats of Joinville, and that is extreme rain, much more than here and this is one of the rainiest place in Europe

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[boddibo]

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[Xi-Xi]

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[Arvayn]

129,602*

Wrote and read streams of consciousness today, had a very good time. I laughed my ass off.

 

[amor.dor]

I read it — I felt confused while laughing at the same time.

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[Arvayn]

129,602

Yeah, that sounds about right.

 

[amor.dor]

I used to write in German in the middle of my Portuguese in my diaries, then Spanish — later it became a way for me to label ideas.

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[Arvayn]

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I tried journaling once. After I finished it, I looked at what I had written, re-read all of it from start to finish, and felt extremely disappointed by the results. I shared the piece with my friends so that we'd have something to talk about, and then I didn't bother again.
My notebook is filled with random ideas and stat blocks for characters in my RPGs...

 

[gunmetalblue]

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[amor.dor]

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I tried journaling once. After I finished it, I looked at what I had written, re-read all of it from start to finish, and felt extremely disappointed by the results. I shared the piece with my friends so that we'd have something to talk about, and then I didn't bother again.
My notebook is filled with random ideas and stat blocks for characters in my RPGs...

It's good to realize how much we change, and that things we think we're discovering now were already ideas in the past — we just don't remember them.

 

[OnceTheHappiestMan]

Oh! Now that our local (not) vampire is here and I was talking about Galicia. It is like all forestry, hilly regions, the land of magic, witches, mythical creatures and nightly dead ones parading and taking living ones to join them.

Only that here there are no vampires, but werewolves, I mean, real ones

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[Arvayn]

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Oh! Now that our local (not) vampire is here and I was talking about Galicia. It is like all forestry, hilly regions, the land of magic, witches, mythical creatures and nightly dead ones parading and taking living ones to join them.

Only that here there are no vampires, but werewolves, I mean, real ones

What a guy...
We don't really have vampires here, but we do have a ton of witches. Actually, we have so many witches, magicians, occultists and other types of sorcerers that our ministry of labor officially recognizes magic as being a legitimate industry. A 16% revenue tax is imposed on practitioners of black magic, since it is an immoral and taboo craft (white magic is untaxed, though).
In 2011, when this law was introduced, the occult community got up in arms, and started threatening to cast spells on the government if they don't undo it. The government... LISTENED, and actually undid it (then they quietly reintroduced it a few years later, without announcing it to anyone).

See, the local Romanian necromancer just has to file these tax forms here, and then she can go on with carrying out her damnation of lost spirits... (Magic is matriarchal here; men aren't allowed to practice it.)

We even have appointed witch queens for various fields of magic, and Romania houses the woman who is supposedly considered to be the "strongest living witch" of Europe.

 

[gunmetalblue]

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I passed through Galicia when travelling towards Portugal years ago.

 

[Xi-Xi]

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I've been to Spain, but never Galicia

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What a guy...
We don't really have vampires here, but we do have a ton of witches. Actually, we have so many witches, magicians, occultists and other types of sorcerers that our ministry of labor officially recognizes magic as being a legitimate industry. A 16% revenue tax is imposed on practitioners of black magic, since it is an immoral and taboo craft (white magic is untaxed, though).
In 2011, when this law was introduced, the occult community got up in arms, and started threatening to cast spells on the government if they don't undo it. The government... LISTENED, and actually undid it (then they quietly reintroduced it a few years later, without announcing it to anyone).

See, the local Romanian necromancer just has to file these tax forms here, and then she can go on with carrying out her damnation of lost spirits... (Magic is matriarchal here; men aren't allowed to practice it.)

We even have appointed witch queens for various fields of magic, and Romania houses the woman who is supposedly considered to be the "strongest living witch" of Europe.

But New Zealand has a government wizard so take that, losers

 

[mjolnir]

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[Arvayn]

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But New Zealand has a government wizard so take that, losers

There was a mystic who held very strong beliefs in Orthodox magic and mysticism, and he ran a political campaign. When that didn't work, he founded an organization called 'The Iron Guard'/'The Iron Legion' (how's that for a stereotypical "bad guy faction" name?) and somehow managed to convince a massive chunk of the country that he was given divine command by the Archangel Michael to purge the country of non-believers, bring everyone to Christianity and give all the power to the church. He then proceeded to try to murder everyone that wasn't a Christian. Romania ALMOST became a fascist theocracy.
Now that would have been an interesting timeline to live in...

 

[Xi-Xi]

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I see that mjolnir and amor.dor have taken a liking to each other

 

[gunmetalblue]

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[amor.dor]

129,604

There was a mystic who held very strong beliefs in Orthodox magic and mysticism, and he ran a political campaign. When that didn't work, he founded an organization called 'The Iron Guard'/'The Iron Legion' (how's that for a stereotypical "bad guy faction" name?) and somehow managed to convince a massive chunk of the country that he was given divine command by the Archangel Michael to purge the country of non-believers, bring everyone to Christianity and give all the power to the church. He then proceeded to try to murder everyone that wasn't a Christian. Romania ALMOST became a fascist theocracy.
Now that would have been an interesting timeline to live in...

I remember Cioran admired that, but after World War II he changed his mind — which is strange for a nihilist to admire something like that.
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I see that mjolnir and amor.dor have taken a liking to each other

What do you mean?

 

[Arvayn]

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I remember Cioran admired that, but after World War II he changed his mind — which is strange for a nihilist to admire something like that.

Most philosophers who advocate for nihilism simply see it as a truth of epistemology, not as a way of living. Humans cannot be nihilists, no matter how hard they try; we'll always believe in something. So, even though Cioran may be a nihilistic pessimist, there's still a separate side to him that functions in spite of that.

 

[mjolnir]

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[amor.dor]

129,605

Most philosophers who advocate for nihilism simply see it as a truth of epistemology, not as a way of living. Humans cannot be nihilists, no matter how hard they try; we'll always believe in something. So, even though Cioran may be a nihilistic pessimist, there's still a separate side to him that functions in spite of that.

I See
There are several types of nihilism, like moral nihilists — I don't believe in that.

Existential nihilists — which is what I am, and I believe was also Cioran's case.

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[mjolnir]

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[amor.dor]

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I think I've turned the count nihilistic.

 

[Arvayn]

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Hm? What do you mean?