- Location
- Staring into the void
What is a wheel, what is a door? Is a bearing a wheel? Is a valve a door?
Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
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Both are cool, I lean borders though given all the diplomacy of late, and Qi's visit to the Underfolk during the wedding.
But doors might illuminate more localized things like clan dynamics, also cool!
But doors might illuminate more localized things like clan dynamics, also cool!
I'm feeling doors. Could lead to portal tech eventually.
Also fits Qi's old thief and lock picking vibe more imo.
[X] Study the nature of doors
Also fits Qi's old thief and lock picking vibe more imo.
[X] Study the nature of doors
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- Location
- Chicago
- Pronouns
- She/They
Borders are interesting things because they aren't walls; you can transgress them easily.
They are fundamentally social rather than physical, you can see a door from a dead civilization but borders only exist as long as the people who know where they are do.
They are communal rather than individual, and they both require and restrict communication.
I think it plays to Ling Qi's subtleties in a way that doors don't; doors are too well explored as a topic for them to fit well too? They protect knowledge and treasure and that makes them very interesting to a lot of people over long periods of time.
[x] Study the nature of borders
They are fundamentally social rather than physical, you can see a door from a dead civilization but borders only exist as long as the people who know where they are do.
They are communal rather than individual, and they both require and restrict communication.
I think it plays to Ling Qi's subtleties in a way that doors don't; doors are too well explored as a topic for them to fit well too? They protect knowledge and treasure and that makes them very interesting to a lot of people over long periods of time.
[x] Study the nature of borders
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Either is fine really, but given what's been going on of late...
[X] Study the nature of borders
[X] Study the nature of borders
- Location
- Orange County, California
Btw, what stage of cultivation is ol zero at anyway?
- Location
- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
[X] Study the nature of doors
Eloquence and understanding. The door opens both ways.
Eloquence and understanding. The door opens both ways.
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Winged One
Not the Simurgh
- Location
- definitely the ground
- Pronouns
- They/Them/It
[X] Study the nature of doors
[X] Study the nature of borders
EternalObserver
eYe Gaze baCk
- Location
- The Void
My first thought goes to door, but I think I'll go the opposite this time
[X] Study the nature of borders
[X] Study the nature of borders
- Location
- United States of America
[X] Study the nature of doors
A key for every lock
A key for every lock
Borders are useful, but doors are how communication happens. Doors are how heists happen (windows are doors). Doors are how travel, trade, and exchange happen. Doors are how you travel to the Liminal. The Liminal is a doorway of a sort. Dreams are a doorway. Ling Qi is all about doors.
...plus, not entirely coincidentally, Huisheng connects to Ling Qi via a door.
[X] Study the nature of doors
...plus, not entirely coincidentally, Huisheng connects to Ling Qi via a door.
[X] Study the nature of doors
- Location
- Third planet from the star named Sol
- Pronouns
- He/They
[X] Study the nature of borders
[x] Study the nature of borders
May open some post-Summit insights.
May open some post-Summit insights.
[x] Study the nature of borders
I think doors is less fitting here.
Just think of the lesson we just had:
One of the main realizations from it, I feel, is that there is no easy and clear cut way to differentiate between the imperial method and the weilu one, since while there are clearly differences the transition is less than clear cut, the borders fuzzy.
In contrast a door is as clear cut as it gets, it very obviously separates one thing from another.
Given that we seek to understand Weilu philosophy and its differences to the imperial one to define our own way, I feel we would benefit from studying the fluid nature of borders more than the clear cut concept of doors.
I think doors is less fitting here.
Just think of the lesson we just had:
One of the main realizations from it, I feel, is that there is no easy and clear cut way to differentiate between the imperial method and the weilu one, since while there are clearly differences the transition is less than clear cut, the borders fuzzy.
In contrast a door is as clear cut as it gets, it very obviously separates one thing from another.
Given that we seek to understand Weilu philosophy and its differences to the imperial one to define our own way, I feel we would benefit from studying the fluid nature of borders more than the clear cut concept of doors.
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- Location
- THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
[X] Study the nature of doors