Written By Kenna
Aug. 24, 2018, 8:03 a.m.(6/14/1009 AR)
Soldier is also a verb.
When things get tough and I'm worried sick about the people I love, I have two choices. I can choose to wilt and give up, or soldier on into the unknown.
This is fun.
What is our next word?
When things get tough and I'm worried sick about the people I love, I have two choices. I can choose to wilt and give up, or soldier on into the unknown.
This is fun.
What is our next word?
Written By Holt
Aug. 24, 2018, 8 a.m.(6/14/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Nico
Nico's new weapon makes me nervous. That is all.
Written By Jyri
Aug. 24, 2018, 6:54 a.m.(6/14/1009 AR)
It has taken years to realise that the solution to a problem does not always lie at the sharp end of a blade. I might miss the life I had some times, but the past can not change. The future is not written yet - that is mine to write.
Written By Bliss
Aug. 24, 2018, 4:51 a.m.(6/14/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Melody
All of this is accurate. I really have nothing else to say about it.
To clarify: the invitation is so that I can attempt to apologize and make amends in person.
To clarify: the invitation is so that I can attempt to apologize and make amends in person.
Written By Melody
Aug. 24, 2018, 4:46 a.m.(6/14/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Bliss
I have never seen such an innocuous thing such as a person's opinions on the duties of a soldier to result in crass insults simply because they chose not to participate in an argument. Especially after already having reinforced their views in a following entry. To go on by stating that "it is your holy duty to Vellichor to scribe your thoughts", and then following that sentence with, "your thoughts are meaningless" (paraphrasing) -- It's absolutely bizarre and should not be used to dissuade anyone from writing their journals. Allow me to be a hypocrite for a moment here, but what is with this dogpiling?
Isn't the Whisper House an organization that is greatly respected for its grace and elegance? I believe the words that you were looking for were, "I'm sorry," and not -- Whatever that invitation was, because it definitely wasn't an apology.
In your own words: You represent the honor of your House. Be better.
Isn't the Whisper House an organization that is greatly respected for its grace and elegance? I believe the words that you were looking for were, "I'm sorry," and not -- Whatever that invitation was, because it definitely wasn't an apology.
In your own words: You represent the honor of your House. Be better.
Written By Bliss
Aug. 24, 2018, 4:23 a.m.(6/14/1009 AR)
By the gods, I was just bored and needling someone over something minor and pithy and pointless. I can't believe I'm the one saying this, but let's all relax a moment, shall we? Champions are literally about to be called over the definitions of words. Is this entertaining anyone or productive at this point?
Lord Faruq, Lady Prisila, I personally extend an invitation to both of you to visit Whisper House over the weekend. Let's have some wine (or whatever Lord Faruq would prefer!) and discuss lighter things. Or heavier things. Anything that isn't this because this topic has absolutely been run into the ground.
Lord Faruq, Lady Prisila, I personally extend an invitation to both of you to visit Whisper House over the weekend. Let's have some wine (or whatever Lord Faruq would prefer!) and discuss lighter things. Or heavier things. Anything that isn't this because this topic has absolutely been run into the ground.
Written By Joslyn
Aug. 24, 2018, 4:02 a.m.(6/14/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Prisila
Than I shall look forward to sampling the wine! I wish I could've seen the dinner, it sounded like it was a wonderful time, or at the very least entertaining. Save a seat for me sometime and I would love to drink some of your wine, and next time you can drink some of mine.
Though if your selection truly impresses me, it shall receive a permanent place on my rack.
Though if your selection truly impresses me, it shall receive a permanent place on my rack.
Written By Prisila
Aug. 24, 2018, 3:23 a.m.(6/14/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Joslyn
She's so bright it hurts my eyes this one is! Very aptly stated and all around good form my Lady. You do your House a service by demonstrating such wisdom, restraint, cleverness and perspective. Goodness. There is that word again.
Faruq doesn't really drink wine darling but I do. The next bottle is on me. The Duke and Duchess of Crovane can attest to just how potent the wine is...but don't ask them about the man who set himself on fire at dinner and no matter what you're already, most likely, thinking - Malika didn't do it this time. It's my belief that she didn't but if you were to ask my opinion...well, I think she would under the right circumstances.
Faruq doesn't really drink wine darling but I do. The next bottle is on me. The Duke and Duchess of Crovane can attest to just how potent the wine is...but don't ask them about the man who set himself on fire at dinner and no matter what you're already, most likely, thinking - Malika didn't do it this time. It's my belief that she didn't but if you were to ask my opinion...well, I think she would under the right circumstances.
Written By Joslyn
Aug. 24, 2018, 3:12 a.m.(6/14/1009 AR)
Oh my oh my, just what kind of right madness has caused me to break my silence in the whites? Looking through the usual entries, I've discovered some kind of dispute so I feel compelled now to go through what everybody is saying point for point. First, to the people calling Lord Faruq's statement on what a soldier is "simplistic."
Yes. It is. It is very simplistic, because a soldiers job is very, very simple. They are to follow orders, and very often those orders are to kill the soldiers on the other side of the battlefield. They aren't there to think about what they're doing, they aren't there to break form, they are there to fight, and kill and to do so because somebody higher up than them told them to do it. Do I think there could be more to it than that? Sure, if you wish to truly wax philisophical (which I would love to do, The Arvum Philosophical Society for the Empowerment and Enlightenment of Curious Minds does love a good debate on the subject I'm sure, please contact me and I'll bring the wine) you could very well decide there is far more to being a soldier than what Lord Faruq has described.
Really, not everybody loves to argue about such little things like I do, so I don't see why he should be so compelled to continue on arguing about something when he's already said his piece, and quite frankly, he is not wrong! Marquis Fairen? I am hopeful the scholars direct your attention to my own response because I am frankly... not even sure what you're trying to accomplish. You've used many words, to say exceptionally little, except to try to blur the lines and claim that people that have never seen a battlefield are soldiers in their own right, because they've had a battle of the minds? Have you seen a battlefield? They are not the same arenas at all, and to conflate the two diminishes the accomplishments of both. A scholar is not a soldier and a soldier is not a scholar. A person may be both, but never at the same time.
Marquessa Reigna's statement about one being able to call oranges green and state that it is their opinion, that is complete nonsense. To state an objective untruth is not to have a differing opinion. You may call it an opinion if you wish, but that does not make it so. An opinion is something that cannot be objectively confirmed. If there are 4 horses and I say that there are 3 horses, that is not a difference in opinion, it just means I don't know how to count.
I'll add, thank you Lady Prisila for the documented warning of Lord Faruq's taste in wine. I shall endeavor to always bring my own whenever we are to share drinks together. I expect you will enjoy my own selection.
Yes. It is. It is very simplistic, because a soldiers job is very, very simple. They are to follow orders, and very often those orders are to kill the soldiers on the other side of the battlefield. They aren't there to think about what they're doing, they aren't there to break form, they are there to fight, and kill and to do so because somebody higher up than them told them to do it. Do I think there could be more to it than that? Sure, if you wish to truly wax philisophical (which I would love to do, The Arvum Philosophical Society for the Empowerment and Enlightenment of Curious Minds does love a good debate on the subject I'm sure, please contact me and I'll bring the wine) you could very well decide there is far more to being a soldier than what Lord Faruq has described.
Really, not everybody loves to argue about such little things like I do, so I don't see why he should be so compelled to continue on arguing about something when he's already said his piece, and quite frankly, he is not wrong! Marquis Fairen? I am hopeful the scholars direct your attention to my own response because I am frankly... not even sure what you're trying to accomplish. You've used many words, to say exceptionally little, except to try to blur the lines and claim that people that have never seen a battlefield are soldiers in their own right, because they've had a battle of the minds? Have you seen a battlefield? They are not the same arenas at all, and to conflate the two diminishes the accomplishments of both. A scholar is not a soldier and a soldier is not a scholar. A person may be both, but never at the same time.
Marquessa Reigna's statement about one being able to call oranges green and state that it is their opinion, that is complete nonsense. To state an objective untruth is not to have a differing opinion. You may call it an opinion if you wish, but that does not make it so. An opinion is something that cannot be objectively confirmed. If there are 4 horses and I say that there are 3 horses, that is not a difference in opinion, it just means I don't know how to count.
I'll add, thank you Lady Prisila for the documented warning of Lord Faruq's taste in wine. I shall endeavor to always bring my own whenever we are to share drinks together. I expect you will enjoy my own selection.
Written By Prisila
Aug. 24, 2018, 2:45 a.m.(6/14/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Reigna
On the subject of opinions and whether or not they can be wrong, I will clarify. No. They can be more adequate or less adequate, more or less well formed and argumented, but not wrong per se. Subjectivity is not subjected (no pun intended) to clear-cut, binary values of truth like "right" or "wrong". The objective source from which they stem, of course, can be true or false, right or wrong, correct or incorrect. I can say that every opinion about this subject other than my opinion is wrong or I could say that apples taste like shit. Now the former is misguided, yes, but no one could argue with the latter because it's /my/ opinion and nobody could truthfully refute that I believe apples taste like shit. It's a mistake to say an opinion and belief are the same thing as they are not. One is a stance taken on a belief and the other is an acceptance that the statement in question is true or that something exists. Your statement about apples for example would be a belief and not an opinion.
On the other hand some people's opinions can be quite stupid sometimes.
I won't bother wasting any more pages in my white journal on this as I have truly lost interest. As of this period right here.
On the other hand some people's opinions can be quite stupid sometimes.
I won't bother wasting any more pages in my white journal on this as I have truly lost interest. As of this period right here.
Written By Prisila
Aug. 24, 2018, 2:24 a.m.(6/14/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Reigna
Oh bless your soul. I wish you well and am positive you won't spend too much time wondering.
Written By Reigna
Aug. 24, 2018, 2:16 a.m.(6/14/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Prisila
Thank you for giving a prime example on how an opinion can very much be incorrect.
No, an opinion is not a statement of fact.
Yes, an opinion can be objectively incorrect.
Also, not to be constrained or haughty, but... An opinion can be misguided, but no... what? I have been unable to stop wondering what the rest of that thought was.
No, an opinion is not a statement of fact.
Yes, an opinion can be objectively incorrect.
Also, not to be constrained or haughty, but... An opinion can be misguided, but no... what? I have been unable to stop wondering what the rest of that thought was.
Written By Prisila
Aug. 24, 2018, 2:14 a.m.(6/14/1009 AR)
My duties as a Mirrormask are something I take very seriously and serving as Tehom's advocate is something I do often. The Dark Reflection represents the necessity of a contrary opinion in order to have a more complete grasp of any issue. After all it is my duty to be a guardian of the minority opinion, to make certain that certain viewpoints don't get extinguished or lost in the passions of the day. It helps me channel my passions and maintain a very grounded perspective on just what's what. Now. One thing I respect is a keen mind, sharp quill, etcetera but what I always find amusing is the overabundance of enthusiasm and self satisfaction some people take from believing they've gotten under someone else's skin.
Written By Reigna
Aug. 24, 2018, 2:11 a.m.(6/14/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Bliss
I think I would feel better if it were some performance art. A circus of the absurd or some such. Would that not be better?
Written By Fairen
Aug. 24, 2018, 2:06 a.m.(6/14/1009 AR)
It was my perception of the topic presented by Lord Faruq that it was on the nature of philosophy on a definition. Though clearly this has been proven not to be the case. My new perspective of the topic is that Lord Faruq was providing some arbitrary statement of an opinion he was unwilling to defend by providing further commentary as to what has drawn him to his stance. If this is indeed the case, I will humbly rescind my own observations of what I suspected was to be philosophy. Lord Faruq has my apologies, if I have caused him any grief over this subject.
I will conclude then, by performing my duty as a Scholar of Vellichor by informing Lard Faruq of the proper definition of what a soldier is, so he may form an informed opinion.
sol·dier
noun
1.a person who serves in an army.
synonyms: fighter, trooper, serviceman, servicewoman; More
2.ENTOMOLOGY
a wingless caste of ant or termite with a large specially modified head and jaws, involved chiefly in defense.
verb
1.serve as a soldier.
"soldiering was what the colonel understood"
I will conclude then, by performing my duty as a Scholar of Vellichor by informing Lard Faruq of the proper definition of what a soldier is, so he may form an informed opinion.
sol·dier
noun
1.a person who serves in an army.
synonyms: fighter, trooper, serviceman, servicewoman; More
2.ENTOMOLOGY
a wingless caste of ant or termite with a large specially modified head and jaws, involved chiefly in defense.
verb
1.serve as a soldier.
"soldiering was what the colonel understood"
Written By Bliss
Aug. 24, 2018, 2:01 a.m.(6/14/1009 AR)
Sometimes I am convinced that people are writing out long-form comedy acts in their White Journals. Some form of improvisational show where they pretend they don't recognize the irony of what they are doing, how they are embodying the very things they accuse others of, how their attempts at diplomacy or veiled insults both just utterly fail.
Then I realize that, no, they are very likely serious, and back to the wine I go.
Sophomoric is a fascinating word, isn't it? The concept of a fool believing themselves to be wise and embodying it in their behavior, but still very clearly acting the fool, is so common that we actually have a term for it!
Then I realize that, no, they are very likely serious, and back to the wine I go.
Sophomoric is a fascinating word, isn't it? The concept of a fool believing themselves to be wise and embodying it in their behavior, but still very clearly acting the fool, is so common that we actually have a term for it!
Written By Prisila
Aug. 24, 2018, 1:46 a.m.(6/14/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Reigna
An opinion can be /misguided/ but no. As per the definition of opinion it is a statement of one's own personal beliefs about something. I felt that lady Reigna's example takes away the very meaning and purpose of an opinion. It isn't used to state fact.
It's a stance one takes on perspective.
However since we're on the subject of verbiage. Less is often more and trying to educate someone while taking a very constrained and haughty approach will always be insulting and never taken in any other way than to be condescending.
It's a stance one takes on perspective.
However since we're on the subject of verbiage. Less is often more and trying to educate someone while taking a very constrained and haughty approach will always be insulting and never taken in any other way than to be condescending.
Written By Reigna
Aug. 24, 2018, 1:36 a.m.(6/14/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Prisila
That is a deeply flawed statement. Opinions can be objectively wrong or right. I can say I have an opinion that oranges are green. That would be wrong. Am I entitled to that opinion? Certainly. Is it wrong? Unquestioningly. Facts are facts. There seems to be an idea that just because someone believes a thing, they cannot possibly be wrong. As if opinion and fact are interchangeable. They are not.
And for what it is worth? The act of following orders, does not a soldier make. I follow orders. I am *not* a soldier. I issue commands. Am I a commander? Enh. No. There is a difference. A soldier is a fighter, someone who works within a hierarchy of command, within units, is a member of an army. That is what a solider *is*. If you are instead asking what makes a *good* soldier, that opens the floor to a far deeper field of potential answers in which matters of opinion are entirely valid (if potentially wrong).
And for what it is worth? The act of following orders, does not a soldier make. I follow orders. I am *not* a soldier. I issue commands. Am I a commander? Enh. No. There is a difference. A soldier is a fighter, someone who works within a hierarchy of command, within units, is a member of an army. That is what a solider *is*. If you are instead asking what makes a *good* soldier, that opens the floor to a far deeper field of potential answers in which matters of opinion are entirely valid (if potentially wrong).
Written By Charlaine
Aug. 24, 2018, 1:13 a.m.(6/14/1009 AR)
I have never thought that it's so absolutely hard to find an alchemist and a person talented with animals as proteges.
I have been looking for them over a couple of weeks now and it seems everybody has someone already.
Sometimes I simply want to go back home.
Arx is just too large of a city. One can feel overwhelmed and left behind. It's like you have to be awake whole day and whole night because someone will steal something just from under your nose if you will close your eyes.
I have been looking for them over a couple of weeks now and it seems everybody has someone already.
Sometimes I simply want to go back home.
Arx is just too large of a city. One can feel overwhelmed and left behind. It's like you have to be awake whole day and whole night because someone will steal something just from under your nose if you will close your eyes.
Written By Faruq
Aug. 24, 2018, 1:02 a.m.(6/14/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Bliss
** Written in Faruq's flowing scrawling handwriting **
What I wrote to Marquis Leary was not what meaningless.
It was a statement of respectful disagreement.
I do not fault him for his opinion, he is welcome to it.
I would hope I would be welcome to keep mine.
That is the definition of honorable disagreement.
What I wrote to Marquis Leary was not what meaningless.
It was a statement of respectful disagreement.
I do not fault him for his opinion, he is welcome to it.
I would hope I would be welcome to keep mine.
That is the definition of honorable disagreement.
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