3 hours ago, Cross said:

@Elgee

 

you work so hard for us, you deserve a treat  -Lily

 

 

Thank you, Lily! Man, that looks delicious!

Oh my goodness, Heavy - I did not know all those things about cocao and chocolate!

I do remember reading that before Kaf ... I mean coffee became popular in England (maybe the rest of the area too?), people would drink hot cocoa first thing in the morning.

@Cross Could you share your recipe with us? I'd love to try doing that!

I love me some good Taint ... is it similar to the Taint that @Roka used to brew?

Me! Me! Pick me!

7 minutes ago, Delenn said:

Sis! Oh thank goodness! What is going on here? 

Dunno ... I just followed you guys 🤪

Ooooh ... well, Elgee, former Chosen, and of course Amyrlin raised from the Red so compelled (no not THAT kind! ... I don't think ... ) to keep an eye on ... here.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=354728684146327&ref=sharing

7 hours ago, HeavyHalfMoonBlade said:

The answer obviously would take far too long to really go into. A short answer would not do the subject justice. I'll put the full detailed answer in spoilers to save people scrolling.

 

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No, just... no.

 

This is a thread that I have been meaning to contribute to but did not manage so far due to acute laziness. 

 

However anyone tries to argue the point, knowledge and interpretation are inseparable. Facts alone are meaningless. Intellectual systems without factual basis are also meaningless. Or maths, so pretty much the same.

 

For example, what does archaeology tell us without interpretation? If pottery shards are found at a certain depth at a certain location, is that fact interesting or illuminating? A theory of what those shards mean has to concocted. 

 

Or another example is New Coke. Despite worldwide domination (what would alien archaeologists make of the spread of Coca Cola merchandise in a few hundred years?), those at Coca Cola felt that their product always coming the bottom of blind taste testing was something they needed to fix. Because that was a fact. And facts are important, m'kay? So the multi-billion dollar (I may be exaggerating) disaster that was New Coke happened. But if it was fact based how could this be? As the taste tests were sip tests. Which were not accurate to how most people drink soft drinks. Interpretation is important. 

 

Intellect on its own though leads to the horrors that can be seen in the discussion of the Raven paradox. But I am not allowed to talk about that. *pouts* Oh, I haven't pouted in months! Everyone is being far too well behaved. *pouts again*

 

I know, you are thinking what about Egyptian hieroglyphs. Exactly. No, come with me on this one. We can read hieroglyphs, even though they baffled everyone for quite literally thousands of years. Until they were deciphered it was the prevalent theory that they pictorial, which seems so dumb, as if they were, why could everyone not understand them? But anyway. Some English guy whose name escapes me and if you are too lazy to look it up then I don't see why I should, noticed that the Egyptians circled the names of their pharaohs (lit. big house, only used very late in Egyptian history) to protect them from evil magic. The circle is called a cartouche, from the French for cartridge as it was French soldiers who first remarked upon them in Napoleon's jaunt into Egypt. So this meant said English guy could work out what the names of the pharaohs were in hieroglyphs. This led to him painstakingly making a phonetic alphabet of hieroglyphs. Though of course, that does not help you understand what it actually means. Queue some French bloke, ah ha!, Jean Pollion, bet you didn't expect that, I can remember about one name in a thousand. So there. Anyway, where was I? Ah, queue Jean, who was a precocious little trolloc, whose father was a librarian. So little Jean grew up amongst books, and by the time he was a teenager could speak (well, read at least) something like 23 languages. And when he was looking at the latest research on hieroglyphs, he realised he could understand it. One of the languages that he spoke was Coptic, the language of the orthodox church in Egypt - that to this day still holds mass in the Egyptian  language of priests, ancient Egyptian. And so now we can understand the very words of a civilisation thousands of years old. Thanks to amazing reasoning, and superlative knowledge. The two cannot be un-intertwined. I was going to go on about Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe, but I'll leave that for another day. 

 

Disclaimer: I haven't looked any of this up, so the actual details may not be entirely consist with the external world outwith my brain, but that does not affect the argument contained within.

🤩

12 hours ago, Cross said:

 

is it possible to weave new things out of something else? 

Yes, and no. Which things? From which things? It would most probably depend on the elements, atoms, molecular structure involved, and whether or not one is allowed to add or subtract some?

Basic description of Weaving: There are five different elements* (or threads) to the One Power that

Channelers can draw from: Fire, Earth, Air, Water, and Spirit.

Simple example:

Yes: you can weave Fire into H2O to change it from water to steam. So yes you can change something with a weave.

No: you can't weave any of the 5 WoT "elements" at H2O and turn it into wine.

* Short example of Elements, courtesy of https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/element

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To illustrate the immutability of an element, imagine a carbon atom. The carbon atom starts off bonded to oxygen in a carbon dioxide (CO2) molecule. Carbon dioxide is captured by trees and, using the photosynthesis chemical reaction, the carbon is stripped out of the CO2 molecule and added to a glucose molecule. The glucose is then used to form the cellulose of a tree's cell walls. When the tree is burned, it becomes coal, which is primarily a lump of compressed carbon. When the coal is crushed under immense pressure, the carbon atoms are rearranged into a diamond. During this entire process, the carbon has gone through many reactions and been in different molecular structures, but it hasn’t changed from one element into another.

So one could Weave perhaps Air or Fire or a combination thereof at CO2 to separate the C from the 02 and add it to a glucose molecule.
Once could then Weave (something) at the glucose molecule to add it to other molecues to form a tree's cell walls.

Next one could Weave Fire and possibly Air (oxygen?) at the tree to burn it to coal.

Finally one could us Air (and possibly Earth?) at the coal to introduce immense pressure, thereby creating diamonds.

    "The Eye of the World"
    "The Great Hunt"
    "The Dragon Reborn"
    "The Shadow Rising"
    "The Fires of Heaven"
    "Lord of Chaos"
    "A Crown of Swords"
    "The Path of Daggers"
    "Winter's Heart"
    "Crossroads of Twilight"
    "Knife of Dreams"
    "The Gathering Storm"
    "Towers of Midnight"
    "A Memory of Light"

Hello, @Yelyarus, and welcome to DM to you too!

Don't worry about not liking / wanting to write stories - come plonk yourself down on the Social side 🙂

But they're a lot of fun. I had a pet pig as a child. Granted, I lived on a farm so there was enough space ... lol ... But luckily the Tower grounds are large and I can tell you about this one corner of the Accepted quarters, riiiiiiiight at the back, where SOME of us MIGHT or might not have kept notquitelegalpets back in the day 🤪

If it can house a trolloc baby it can house a pig #justsaying.

Just remember to potty train it.

Oooh nice Brownies!!!

Oh yah I almost forgot ... a present for you:

And something to keep that sugar rush in check:

Also, some cake!

(From the Netherlands ... go figure)

I hope you're having a lovely day, and that the year ahead is as filled with blessings for you, as you have brought blessings to us! We hope to share many more with you here at DM 😍

As this is your birthday, you're allowed to have 1 alcoholic drink ... just one, K? And definitely nothing that @EirikDaude has brewed 😛

12 hours ago, Lightfriendsocialmistress said:

Bea Arthur from the golden girls 🤷‍♀️😂

Oh man ... I'd love it *grins*

We have a good saying in Afrikaans: As is verbrande hout. Ie Ash is burnt wood. Meaning you can't turn burnt wood back into unburnt wood. Just try not to burn more wood.

5 hours ago, Seryse ni Cousland said:

Seryse is great! I didn't realize last names weren't a thing here; I'll see about bugging admin. 🙂 

 

Thanks!

You are more than welcome to keep that last name! It's pretty, and makes no difference to us. It works just like in real life 🙂

Love that, Heavy!😁