QUOTE(Aiakon @ Nov 23 2005, 01:23 PM)
indeed.
99% of the published books are just 200 word pamphlets churned out for culture points anyway.
99% of the published books are just 200 word pamphlets churned out for culture points anyway.
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Agreed. The public Library is only a way to gain power nothing more. You just need to make sure you have no grammar errors in your essays then you can publish any crap that you damn well want. No point in looking to the Libraries for great thinkers IMO.
The few good books in there aren't worth reading through the other.. stuff to find them.
QUOTE(Avaer @ Nov 23 2005, 01:23 PM)
I miss Melanchthon, because oocly he was another amazing reasoner (I'm sure it was him). If only a fraction of that went into his character, I have no doubt he would be considered one of the sages of the Basin.
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He is.. I had long discussion on AIM with him on a couple subjects.. it's always very interesting to hear his opinion on matters, and yeah I miss him too.
QUOTE(daganev)
According to the list people are posting here Serenwilde should have more than 5 books.
Is saying that the library system is "just a place to get power" just an excuse for why the communes don't have nearly as many books as the cities do?
I know that personally, I just don't have the time to write the books that I want to.
Is saying that the library system is "just a place to get power" just an excuse for why the communes don't have nearly as many books as the cities do?
I know that personally, I just don't have the time to write the books that I want to.
**********************The Great Library of Serenwilde**********************
Current Year Credibility: 150
Last Year Credibility: 150
Current Year Growth: 3
Last Year Growth: 5
Scholary Book Rating: 6 (0 prestige books)
Literary Book Rating: 4 (0 prestige books)
Total Book Rating: 10 (0 prestige books out of 10 books)
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Good thing they have more than five, then, right?
QUOTE(daganev @ Nov 24 2005, 07:52 AM)
According to the list people are posting here Serenwilde should have more than 5 books.
Is saying that the library system is "just a place to get power" just an excuse for why the communes don't have nearly as many books as the cities do?
I know that personally, I just don't have the time to write the books that I want to.
Is saying that the library system is "just a place to get power" just an excuse for why the communes don't have nearly as many books as the cities do?
I know that personally, I just don't have the time to write the books that I want to.
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The trick I'm finding is to find the time to write, or it never gets done. There's a lot of people in Celest who have some kind of writing done but everyone is always really busy.
Unless your problem is OOC time.
OMG Estarra allows you to have ideas? Didn't she have enough with your attempts at poetry? 
Verithrax is definitely a great thinker. He was the first inhabitant of the Basin to advocate universal peace, predating Elcyrion. He's also a damn good writer; his book partially predates Elcyrion (I started work on it before His coming) and is only very slightly influenced by Him. He also gets a lot of 
from it, but that's because people like violence.
from it, but that's because people like violence.QUOTE(Verithrax @ Nov 24 2005, 11:43 AM)
He also gets a lot of from it, but that's because people like violence.
from it, but that's because people like violence.227456
I don't think that's the reason.
QUOTE(daganev @ Nov 24 2005, 12:52 AM)
Is saying that the library system is "just a place to get power" just an excuse for why the communes don't have nearly as many books as the cities do?
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Maybe communes are more interested in the idea of the Library than using it as a means of getting power? Fact is it happens though, I don't care on which side, I'm only saying that the Libraries are a failure. Totally and utterly useless the way they are now.
All you do is publish books to gain power.. doesn't matter what crap is inside or if it's just a paragraph.. even -one- paragraph would be considered a 'book' in the current system. Utterly stupid.
QUOTE(Avaer @ Nov 24 2005, 08:48 AM)
I don't think that's the reason.
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Is too!
On a totally, utterly unrelated note, here's what I'm thinking of getting to hang on my wall: http://despair.com/pretension.html
QUOTE(diamondais @ Nov 22 2005, 06:22 PM)
Azrion doesnt have a ton of little essays, if you want a ton of little essays look at what Rhysus did. His work isnt even his own. Azrion is a great thinker because he knows what he believes in and isnt afraid to show you why he believes it without trying to kill you.
Hell, he even took Diamondais to Nil to show her why he believed that Magnagora and the Nihilists were his place. And in his hoping, hers.
He's written things saying that you should just take life as it is, if things are down theres always the possibility of new beginnings. Also a study of the Light and Taint. Tried to show that some things were just plain wrong.
Okay...enough of me defending Azrion who doesnt probably need itÂ
Hell, he even took Diamondais to Nil to show her why he believed that Magnagora and the Nihilists were his place. And in his hoping, hers.
He's written things saying that you should just take life as it is, if things are down theres always the possibility of new beginnings. Also a study of the Light and Taint. Tried to show that some things were just plain wrong.
Okay...enough of me defending Azrion who doesnt probably need itÂ
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Come now. That is hardly fair. There was a miscommunication with Hajamin over the way the Library system works and was intended to be used. The "Publication" was different than I had imagined, and I've apologized for that initial spat in the past. No need to drag my name through the mud when I'm not even around much anymore.
