I totally agree! I would call the place within us these things emerge as "the heart" or "soul" if you prefer, which I see as the totality of all that we are, not just our emotions, intellect, will, desires, etc, but all of them together. Yet these acts of creation all require act...

Good point, but you're using synonyms for your concluding statement (i.e. something needs to be unique to be special, you can't say that they're not the same) :| What I think you meant to say is that just because something is unique, it is still part of a larger group or classification. For example...

Oh I'm sure it was illegal, just not very well policed. Especially when I would do it at 10pm. Then your really talking about the world being quiet. And the forest was probably private property, but what they didn't know didn't hurt them. I'm not encouraging you to break the law by the way, I'm just...

@World: Perhaps these characters that others have made are resonating with your own psyche because they share, symbolically or otherwise, something in common with your psyche. I just realized you had introduced a topic before I started mine, that being... How do you fight off Insanity? Hadn't though...

Ok, if not one wants to do the nature and determinism discussion, how about symbolism? Daymare town has me thinking about this a lot. Our minds, from some reading/listening/thinking I've recently done, some of it on the Partially Examined Life podcast, seems to be a fuzzy logic system of symbols. We...

Wow World, you did a lot of work on that. Edit: Slowly backtracking my way though this thread. Beat this without achievements as of yet (I've used up my game budget before I knew this was available) but I did have to cheat for the fuse in the monster and the tarot card. Could have sworn I tried both...

True that.

That is the clearest description of what is different (I mean that as non-judgmentally as possible) about you that i have yet heard you make, so thank you for that. It seems to me that you are lacking some kind of guiding force, purpose, of value system. It seems to me, based on the tiny bit I know ...

I'm still curious about this discussion on nature. It seems there is still a lot to be considered depending on your overarching world view or your commitment to how to live your life. On the level of a kind of emotionally cold commitment to naturalistic science (defining as something like science al...

Well, I'm not necessarily suggesting that, yet I certainly have abandoned such threads myself. I think you do what you want, but if you would like to keep an interesting discussion thread going, or set of them, I think the guidelines we've discussed so far are a good step towards that.