Comments on: Grandfather’s Vigil http://bluevulpine.net home of Terra Fabula Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:12:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tsunari http://bluevulpine.net/chronicles/paradigmshift/grandfathers-vigil/comment-page-1/#comment-972 Tsunari Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:48:46 +0000 http://bluevulpine.net/?page_id=609#comment-972 <p>Indeed many stories indicate such, doesn't make it so outside of said story. and remember the older myths/legends are not using it as a plot device.</p> Indeed many stories indicate such, doesn’t make it so outside of said story. and remember the older myths/legends are not using it as a plot device.

]]> By: Dimensional http://bluevulpine.net/chronicles/paradigmshift/grandfathers-vigil/comment-page-1/#comment-970 Dimensional Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:06:57 +0000 http://bluevulpine.net/?page_id=609#comment-970 <p>It's part of the "mortality" of immortality. Being truly immortal would mean that you will only die when the universe or whatever your linked to dies, but when that happens, you will cease to exist from then on. It's actually been mentioned in many stories. So now they have to find more ways to preserve their legacy, to always be remembered. Problem is, if they continue down even this path, they won't be remembered, because secrecy would result in facts being lost.</p> <p>It's considered best to have an outsider there to remember you, to know what you did and always tell a story about it. This idea was also used in many fictions, and most of them I know were actually good ones because an outside perspective made you feel as though you were actually there, seeing it happen.</p> <p>This is why I believe laws should change with the time. As I quoted while reading a Sci-Fi, "It's better to fly with the winds of change and soar higher than ever, that to fight them and be blown away." I'm sure someone famous said those before me, but still, they needed to be said.</p> It’s part of the “mortality” of immortality. Being truly immortal would mean that you will only die when the universe or whatever your linked to dies, but when that happens, you will cease to exist from then on. It’s actually been mentioned in many stories. So now they have to find more ways to preserve their legacy, to always be remembered. Problem is, if they continue down even this path, they won’t be remembered, because secrecy would result in facts being lost.

It’s considered best to have an outsider there to remember you, to know what you did and always tell a story about it. This idea was also used in many fictions, and most of them I know were actually good ones because an outside perspective made you feel as though you were actually there, seeing it happen.

This is why I believe laws should change with the time. As I quoted while reading a Sci-Fi, “It’s better to fly with the winds of change and soar higher than ever, that to fight them and be blown away.” I’m sure someone famous said those before me, but still, they needed to be said.

]]> By: Tsunari http://bluevulpine.net/chronicles/paradigmshift/grandfathers-vigil/comment-page-1/#comment-968 Tsunari Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:43:34 +0000 http://bluevulpine.net/?page_id=609#comment-968 <p>Oh yeah, did you notice the implication that all the purebloods do not exist after they die, they just fade out into oblivion is what the story implies.</p> Oh yeah, did you notice the implication that all the purebloods do not exist after they die, they just fade out into oblivion is what the story implies.

]]> By: Tsunari http://bluevulpine.net/chronicles/paradigmshift/grandfathers-vigil/comment-page-1/#comment-965 Tsunari Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:27:19 +0000 http://bluevulpine.net/?page_id=609#comment-965 <p>And now we have to wait a whole week for that cliffhanger. Bad!!</p> And now we have to wait a whole week for that cliffhanger. Bad!!

]]> By: baltakatei http://bluevulpine.net/chronicles/paradigmshift/grandfathers-vigil/comment-page-1/#comment-964 baltakatei Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:52:56 +0000 http://bluevulpine.net/?page_id=609#comment-964 <p>UN Dinner as a Chekov's gun arranged by Jadyn's aide... Kitsune hierarchy exposition... Banishment seems awfully harsh for the first 9 Tail-Commonwealth ambassador. But then again, kitsune psychology doesn't have to line up with human psychology. It is not as if the Commonwealth can force the kitsune to act one way or another. What stick can you threaten a species with when said species can just hop into a pocket dimension for a few centuries? Maybe some industrialist 9 Tail will find a way to export kitsune magic/tech. If Tari's dad is an example of the kitsune excited by the prospect of ETs, then as a whole, kitsune leadership must be very conservative and cautious indeed. Maybe they fear invasion by other similar etherical beings or whatnot. I can't wait to hear what Jadyn thinks of the societal implication of kitsune-commonwealth contact.</p> UN Dinner as a Chekov’s gun arranged by Jadyn’s aide… Kitsune hierarchy exposition… Banishment seems awfully harsh for the first 9 Tail-Commonwealth ambassador. But then again, kitsune psychology doesn’t have to line up with human psychology. It is not as if the Commonwealth can force the kitsune to act one way or another. What stick can you threaten a species with when said species can just hop into a pocket dimension for a few centuries? Maybe some industrialist 9 Tail will find a way to export kitsune magic/tech. If Tari’s dad is an example of the kitsune excited by the prospect of ETs, then as a whole, kitsune leadership must be very conservative and cautious indeed. Maybe they fear invasion by other similar etherical beings or whatnot. I can’t wait to hear what Jadyn thinks of the societal implication of kitsune-commonwealth contact.

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