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Someday, none of this will be real.
KWH, “Far-off”
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youmademesee · 5 years
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“We talk of Him much and loudly, but we secretly think of Him as being absent, and we think of ourselves as inhabiting a parenthetic interval between the God who was and the God who will be. And we are lonely with an ancient and cosmic loneliness. We are each like a little child lost in a crowded market, who has strayed but a few feet from its mother, yet because she cannot be seen the child is inconsolable. So we try by every method devised by religion to relieve our fears and heal our hidden sadness; but with all our efforts we remain unhappy still, with the settled despair of men alone in a vast deserted universe.
But for all our fears we are not alone. Our trouble is that we think of ourselves as being alone. Let us correct the error by thinking of ourselves as standing by the bank of a full flowing river; then let us think of that river as being none else but God Himself. We glance to our left and see the river coming full out of our past; we look to the right and see it flowing on into our future. But we see also that it is flowing through our present. And in our today it is the same as it was in our yesterday, not less than, nor different from, but the very same river, one unbroken continuum, undiminished, active and strong as it moves sovereignly on into our tomorrow.”- A.W. Tozer 
Heavenly Father, help me see more of you today. 
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Schedule your next visit on our website @lowellryanprojects to see: Antonio Adriano Puleo Four Fours, a subsequent work and small sculptures. January 9 – February 27, 2021 While the title of @antonioadrianopuleo ‘s exhibition, Four Fours, explicitly describes the 4x4 Cartesian arrangement of paintings, it also sets up a more subtle dialogue with a 1943 collection of poems by T.S. Eliot titled The Four Quartets. Indeed, each of Puleo’s works, though untitled, features a parenthetical citation to one of the four poems from Eliot’s collection––“Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” and “Little Gidding.” The artist and poet may work in different vocabularies, yet both find beauty in the eternal order and the interconnectedness of all things. With its formal repetition and circularity, their work acts as a vehicle for considering our relationship with systems vastly larger than ourselves—whether you call it the divine, the cosmic, or the universal. These are capacious systems with room enough to embody contradiction. All at once they are fast and slow, strict and free, falling apart and coming together, in endings and new beginnings. . . . . #antonioadrianopuleo #studio #sculpture #painting #architecture #time #divinity #poet #instalation #laartist #lagallery #conceptualart #grid #geometry #lowellryanprojects #italy🇮🇹 #fourfours #art #scheduleyourappointmenttoday (at Lowell Ryan Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKVQubpH9aA/?utm_medium=tumblr
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Why yes, first Canis Minor is a constellation. Constellations are groups of stars…in SPACE.
Can you see where this is going?
Trinity Continuum: Aeon has a whole lot of space action and exploration, and we’ve reached the part of the Kickstarter where we will start unlocking the full text to TC: Aeon in stages for all backers to read and wonder at!
(We have unlocked all of the text of the Trinity Continuum Core book these last two weeks, now it is TC: Aeon‘s turn).
For Impish Ian Watson and John Snead and all their aemazing writers, this is the end of a very long creative process. Just years and years since we knew we could greenlight the Trinity Continuum books. Now finally, backers will be able to read and dig into this labor of love!
    Dragon Blooded illustration by Gunship Revolution
    If you are an Aeon Trinity (or Aeon/Trinity) fan from way back and haven’t backed yet, now is the time! In the unlikely event that you don’t like what you see, you can cancel your pledge before the KS is over and no harm, no foul. That has been our intention with this method of sharing the completed text from the start: it worked well with Changeling: The Lost 2nd‘s KS, and seems to be doing the same with this Trinity Continuum KS, too.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200664283/trinity-continuum-aeon-rpg
  And even if you aren’t interested, please let anyone you know who was a fan know that this Kickstarter is running right now. We really want to get as many of the fans from back when aware of this resurgence of not just the Trinity Universe, but of the whole Trinity Continuum!
    But Canis Minor is also the name of our Pugmire Community Content program that is debuting this Thursday the 15th. It is entirely coincidental that the Year of the Dog starts right after this debuts.
Or is it?
This is the first of Onyx Path‘s Community Content portals to launch, but it certainly won’t be the last. These sorts of programs tie into everything we have been pushing for these last six or seven years; better and genuine communication and involvement with our community. From our Open Development Process to even these weekly snapshots of what’s going on behind the curtain, we’re committed to finding new ways to connect.
And now, with Canis Minor you can present your ideas to the community and maybe even get paid back a bit financially for your hard work. Here’s a link to a post Pugmire creator and developer Eddy Webb made about this program: http://forum.theonyxpath.com/forum/main-category/cavaliers-of-mars-and-pugmire/1165525-canis-minor-faq-pugmire-community-content
Pugmire has a rich potential for additional projects – not only have we at Onyx Path barely scratched the surface of the world and all that it holds, but by Pugmire‘s very nature there are a lot of folks who love their Good Dogs so much that they are bubbling with ideas. Here then, is the portal to those ideas becoming a real thing that others can share and appreciate.
Obviously, there’s going to be a lot more info coming out this week about Canis Minor including a new post by Eddy updating his earlier one linked above, and we hope you’ll be able to take advantage of the opportunity and make some projects for Good Dogs!
After this, we’re working on both Scarred Lands and Scion Community Content, and I’m sure others as we get these first three rolling.
    Demon: The Descent Enemy Action illustration by Brian LeBlanc
    Finally, today was our first Monday Meeting with both newcomers Matthew “Call me Matthew” Dawkins, and Dynamic Dixie Cohran. We are all just thrilled to have them in on the call and contributing to the one meeting we are all locked into every week, and it’s already obvious they will be doing great things with Onyx Path.
Please join us in welcoming them into the INNER SANCTUM! Watch how we bend reality and alter Fate!
(Or, you know, review schedules, convention strategies, and debate the minutia of a press release).
No! Pay no attention to the parenthetical! We wield the Power Cosmic! We travel the cosmos and surf past Canis Minor as it barks and snaps on our way to:
Many Worlds, One Path!
    BLURBS!
KICKSTARTER:
The Trinity Continuum Kickstarter went live January 30 and we’re almost half-way through, we have pledges headed towards 300% of our funding goal, over 1400 backers, and we’ve gone through nine Stretch Goals including VARGs, new Noetic Biotech, and Aberrants and their cults that will be added to the AEon AExpansion, a Trinity Continuum: Aeon novella entitled “Dawn“, and a scenario called “Caper, Incorporated” has been added to the In Media Res scenario collection PDF for the Trinity Continuum Core.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200664283/trinity-continuum-aeon-rpg
Trinity Continuum: Aeon, is our reboot of the classic Trinity (Aeon) game, and Trinity Continuum: Core is the core book that all of our Trinity Continuum game lines will spin off from. Both books will be a part of this Kickstarter and backers have already received the first two quarters of the Trinity Continuum: Core text, with more to come. James Bell, our Kickstarter Manager, has been keeping this KS hopping, so we hope you’ll check it out!
Our next Kickstarter is slated to be EX3‘s Dragon-Blooded.
      As we try and find ways to enable our community to more easily play our games, the Onyx Dice Rolling App is now live! Our dev team has been doing updates since we launched based on the excellent use-case comments by our community, and this thing is both rolling and rocking!
Last week the devs are added a whole bunch of new game lines’ dice and rolling bg’s and got caught by a bug Apple needed to fix, so be sure to update your app and soon that should be fixed.
There’s been tweaks to all elements of the UI, you can now preview every die type in the store, and you can use multiple die types per roll! Here are the links for the Apple and Android versions:
http://theappstore.site/app/1296692067/onyx-dice
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onyxpathpublishing.onyxdice&hl=en
Three different screenshots, above.
(The Solar Anima special Dice above)
  Promethean: The Created and Demon: The Descent dice on a Demon: The Descent tabletop
  Hunter: The Reckoning and Mage: The Awakening dice on a Mage: The Awakening tabletop
      ON AMAZON AND BARNES & NOBLE:
We’re delighted to announce the opening of our ebook stores on Amazon and Barnes & Noble! You can now read our fiction from the comfort and convenience of your Kindle (from Amazon) and Nook (from Barnes & Noble). Our initial selection includes these fiction anthologies:
Vampire: The Masquerade: The Endless Ages Anthology (Kindle, Nook)
Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Rites of Renown: When Will You Rage II (Kindle, Nook)
Mage: The Ascension: Truth Beyond Paradox (Kindle, Nook)
Chronicles of Darkness: The God-Machine Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)
Mummy: The Curse: Curse of the Blue Nile (Kindle, Nook)
Beast: The Primordial: The Primordial Feast Anthology (Kindle, Nook)
  And here are six more fiction books:
Vampire: The Masquerade: Of Predators and Prey: The Hunters Hunted II Anthology (Kindle, Nook)
Werewolf: The Apocalypse: The Poison Tree (Kindle, Nook)
Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Songs of the Sun and Moon: Tales of the Changing Breeds (Kindle, Nook)
Vampire: The Requiem: The Strix Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)
Werewolf: The Forsaken: The Idigam Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)
Mage: The Awakening: The Fallen World Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)
  Andand six more more:
Vampire: The Masquerade: The Beast Within Anthology (Kindle, Nook)
Werewolf: The Apocalypse: W20 Cookbook (Kindle, Nook)
Exalted: Tales from the Age of Sorrows (Kindle, Nook)
Chronicles of Darkness: Tales of the Dark Eras (Kindle, Nook)
Promethean: The Created: The Firestorm Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)
Demon: The Descent: Demon: Interface (Kindle, Nook)
  And even more books are now on Amazon and the Nook store!:
Scarred Lands: Death in the Walled Warren (Kindle, Nook)
V20 Dark Ages: Cainite Conspiracies (Kindle, Nook)
Chronicles of Darkness: Strangeness in the Proportion (Kindle, Nook)
Vampire: The Requiem: Silent Knife (Kindle, Nook)
Mummy: The Curse: Dawn of Heresies (Kindle, Nook)
    OUR SALES PARTNERS:
We’re working with Studio2 to get Pugmire out into stores, as well as to individuals through their online store. You can pick up the traditionally printed main book, the Screen, and the official Pugmire dice through our friends there!
https://studio2publishing.com/search?q=pugmire
    Looking for our Deluxe or Prestige Edition books? Here’s the link to the press release we put out about how Onyx Path is now selling through Indie Press Revolution: http://theonyxpath.com/press-release-onyx-path-limited-editions-now-available-through-indie-press-revolution/
You can now order wave 2 of our Deluxe and Prestige print overrun books, including Deluxe Mage 20th Anniversary, and Deluxe V20 Dark Ages! And Screens…so many Screens!
And you can now order Pugmire: the book, the screen, and the dice! http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/manufacturers.php?manufacturerid=296
    DRIVETHRURPG.COM:
  Appearing on DriveThruRPG this Wednesday are the PDF and PoD physical book versions of Arms of the Chosen for Exalted 3rd Edition! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/226224/Arms-of-the-Chosen
Take up the panoply of legendary heroes and lost ages, and awaken the world-shaking might of their Evocations. Before the dawn of time, the Exalted wielded god-metal blades to cast down the makers of the universe. In an ancient epoch of forgotten glories, Creation’s greatest artificers forged unimaginable wonders and miracle-machines.
Now, in the Age of Sorrows, kingdoms go to war over potent artifacts, scavenger princes risk everything to uncover relics of the past, and the Exalted forge great arms and armor on the anvil of legend. These treasures are yours to master.
Discover the mystical power of the five magical materials and the secrets of creating your own Evocations. Wield weapons of fabled might and don the armor of mythic heroes, making their puissance your own. Claim Creation’s wonders: the miraculous tools of the Chosen, living automatons, flying machines, hearthstones, and more. And unleash the mighty warstriders, titanic god-engines of conquest and devastation, to once more shake Creation with their footfalls.
        Coming this Wednesday as an Advance PDF on DTRPG, we reveal The Secret of Vinsen’s Tomb, a Jumpstart adventure for Pugmire. (And yes, there will be a physical book PoD version coming soon). www.drivethrurpg.com/product/232337/The-Secrets-of-Vinsens-Tomb–A-Pugmire-Jumpstart
A cat living in Pugmire disappears, but neither the police dogs nor the cats of the Cat Quarter know why. When zombies attack the heroes, however, all signs point to an invasion by the Monarchies of Mau. But how does this intrigue tie into the lost tomb of the first king of Pugmire?
The Secret of Vinsen’s Tomb is a Pugmire story for three to six characters. This jumpstart contains all the rules and characters you need to play — just grab some dice and go! You can also use this adventure with the full version of Pugmire.
The Secret of Vinsen’s Tomb contains:
• An evocative and mysterious setting that’s both family friendly and deep enough to create compelling stories.
• A summary of Pugmire’s traditional fantasy rules system. It’s designed for streamlined play, with an emphasis on cooperation and action over competition and violence.
• A complete adventure for a Guide to run for three to six players. Also useful for Guides running a full Pugmire game of first or second level characters!
• Six ready-to-play characters, so you can jump into the action.
Can your good dogs discover the secret of Vinsen’s Tomb?
  Also releasing this Wednesday on DTRPG is the physical book PoD version of the Pugmire Core Rulebook itself!
      Is a life of running and hiding a life worth living? We say yes. There’s always something between the running and the hiding, and those moments of grace make it all worthwhile.
The Huntsmen Chronicle Anthology is a perfect companion piece to Changeling: The Lost, 2nd Edition. These stories spin tales of the Lost, of those abducted and enslaved by fairies. Those who escaped, but whose captors will stop at nothing to find them. These fairies summon forth the Huntsmen, primordial hunters who understand nothing but pursuit and capture. The Huntsmen are unstoppable monsters, and the Lost can only look to each other for respite, rare comfort, and rarer trust.
The Hedge has parted and you can get the PDF/electronic versions and the physical book PoD version of The Huntsmen Chronicle Fiction Anthology for Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition at DTRPG.com! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/210042/The-Huntsmen-Chronicle-Anthology
        We unveil Vampire: The Requiem 2e‘s Half-Damned as PDF and PoD versions on DTRPG.com this Wednesday!
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/227500/Half-Damned
I love her, she’s family, but I don’t love what she is.
– Antonio Ramírez, dhampir
This book includes: 
• An exploration of what it means to be one of the Half-Damned, dhampir, revenants or ghouls.
• Mechanics for creating Half-Damned characters.
• Information for creating and running chronicles using the various Half-Damned character types, both with vampires and alone.
• Information on Half-Damned antagonists for vampire chronicles.
        POLICIES AND PROCEDURES 
The Pentex Employee Indoctrination Handbook is the gold-standard corporate guidebook for employees of the world’s finest multi-national corporation and many of their subsidiary companies. This volume contains the main Pentex handbook, along with the Guide to Werewolves, and this year’s round of updated corporate handbooks for our subsidiaries.
Available here in PDF and PoD versions: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/227498/W20-Pentex-Employee-Indoctrination-Manual
MONKEYWRENCHED! 
This is the unredacted version, replete with notes from the higher-ups! It took a lot to get this information out, so it’s had a chance to go through some monkeywrenchers’ hands before going to you. Make good use of it!
The Employee Indoctrination Handbook contains:
A guide to working for Pentex itself, along with the Guide to Werewolves given to certain staff.
Employee handbooks for Endron, Magadon, REDnetwork, Sunburst, and Tellus
Notes on the contents, from both werewolves and the Board of Directors
      At last, one of the most legendary of Kindred will share his personal journal with you! V20 Beckett’s Jyhad Diary goes on sale in PDF and PoD versions on DTRPG.com! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/225322/V20-Becketts-Jyhad-Diary
It’s ever been a loaded word among vampires. Jyhad is in force everywhere from lofty, perfumed Elysium to cloying, smoke-filled blood feasts. Jyhad’s the eternal game played by elders, Methuselahs, and worse — it’s the agenda of beings so utterly beyond humanity, one such as yourself could scarcely understand its movements. 
Luckily for you, you’ve picked up a copy of my diary. With my help you may just take a step on the first rung of understanding. Information worth having is information you must earn through blood, and oh, how I’ve bled for what’s contained within these pages. 
— Beckett 
Beckett’s Jyhad Diary serves as the definitive book of setting and plot for Vampire: The Masquerade, containing 30 chapters spanning different geographical regions, encountering vampires of every clan, profiling obscure and profound segments of the mythology, and providing countless story hooks on every page.
Masterfully written by the likes of Neall Raemonn Price, Joshua Alan Doetsch, Myranda Sarro, Steffie de Vaan, Malcolm Sheppard, Alan Alexander, Renee Knipe, and Matthew Dawkins, Beckett’s Jyhad Diary is as fascinating to read as to use for your game Chronicles.
      With a howl of RAGE, the W20 Changing Ways Advance PDF charges at you this Wednesday on DTRPG.com!
Changing Ways is an in-depth look at what it means to be a werewolf, both on a personal level and as part of a pack. It digs deep into what it feels like to have bones re-knit after breaking, the range of senses available across all forms, and the sudden heady rush of the Gifts and Rites bestowed by spirits. It also provides a look at what life is like for lupus and metis werewolves, characters who have had experiences alien to any person. It shows the many ways that werewolves organize in packs, and how those packs are designed as groups of warriors, rather than aligned to the behavior of wolves.
Changing Ways contains:
• A detailed look at what it means to grow up as a lupus or metis werewolf, and how that colors a character’s perspective.
• More information on what it feels like to be a werewolf, a creature that changes in both body and mind.
• Frameworks and organizations for packs, along with new tactics and systems for forging the pack as part of play.
      Legacy of Lies, the V20 Dark Ages Jumpstart, goes undead in PDF and physical book PoD versions on DTRPG:
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/222956/Legacy-of-Lies-A-V20-Dark-Ages-Jumpstart
TWO PRINCES. BITTER RIVALS. AND A COTERIE CAUGHT BETWEEN THEM. 
Marcus Verus, the vampiric Prince of Chester, secretly prepares to go into torpor. Should his plans be made public, the Prince knows the wolves — both real and imagined — would launch an attack, threatening all within his domain.
That’s where you come in.
Legacy of Lies includes:
Basic rules for players and Storytellers
Introduction to the Vampire: The Masquerade Dark Ages setting
Introductory adventure
Characters for players and Storytellers
          A Land Where Legends Walk
Drawing enthusiastically on Greek mythology, the revised and re-imagined Scarred Lands nonetheless retains its place as a modern fantasy RPG setting. This is a world shaped by gods and monsters, and only the greatest of heroes can expect to be counted among them. The most populous continent of Scarn, Ghelspad, plays host to vast unexplored regions, hides unsolved riddles from ancient cultures, and taunts adventures with the promise of undiscovered riches hidden among the ruins of older civilizations.
Yet the myths of the Scarred Lands are relatively recent events. The effects of the Titanswar still ripple through the world, and the heroines and villains of many of these stories are part of living memory, if not still living.
The Award-Winning Fantasy Setting Returns
Scarred Lands has been a favorite fantasy setting since the release of the Creature Collection for the d20 System in 2000. In subsequent years, over 40 titles were published for Scarred Lands, making it one of the most fully supported fantasy RPG settings ever and the premiere product line of Sword & Sorcery Studios.
Available in both 5th Edition and Pathfinder compatible versions! PDF and PoD formats available NOW!
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/193014/Scarred-Lands-Players-Guide-Pathfinder
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/197803/Scarred-Lands-Players-Guide-OGL-5e
      CONVENTIONS!
Magnificent Monica Valentinelli and Mighty Matt McElroy are special guests at Capricon 38 in Wheeling IL this week (Thursday-Sunday). They’ve got a bunch of panels each and some games (Monica is running Hunter: The Vigil 2e and Matt’s running Pugmire).
At the end of the February (2/26-3/5) Mighty Matt will be in Seattle for Emerald City Comic Con. He plans on spending some time in Artist Alley checking out artists – so if you are an artist interested in working for us, particularly with super-hero genre based Trinity Continuum: Aberrant coming up, say hi to Matt as he comes by!
    And now, the new project status updates!
DEVELOPMENT STATUS FROM FAST EDDY WEBB (projects in bold have changed status since last week):
First Draft (The first phase of a project that is about the work being done by writers, not dev prep)
M20 Gods and Monsters (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)
M20 Book of the Fallen (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)
C20 Novel (Jackie Cassada) (Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition)
Deviant: The Renegades (Deviant: The Renegades)
CofD Contagion Chronicle (Chronicles of Darkness)
Guide to the Night (Vampire: The Requiem 2nd Edition)
M20 The Technocracy Reloaded (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)
M20 Victorian Mage (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)
Dystopia Rising: Evolution (Dystopia Rising: Evolution)
  Redlines
  Second Draft
WoD Ghost Hunters (World of Darkness)
Tales of Good Dogs – Pugmire Fiction Anthology (Pugmire)
They Came From Beneath the Sea! Rulebook (TCFBtS!)
  Development
Signs of Sorcery (Mage: the Awakening Second Edition)
Trinity Continuum Core Rulebook (The Trinity Continuum)
GtS Geist 2e core (Geist: the Sin-Eaters Second Edition)
Night Horrors: The Tormented (Promethean: The Created 2nd Edition)
Hunter: the Vigil 2e core (Hunter: the Vigil 2nd Edition)
Monarchies of Mau (Monarchies of Mau)
Fetch Quest (Pugmire)
  WW Manuscript Approval:
  Editing:
Ex Novel 2 (Aaron Rosenberg) (Exalted 3rd Edition)
Exalted 3rd Novel by Matt Forbeck (Exalted 3rd Edition)
Trinity Continuum: Aeon Rulebook (The Trinity Continuum)
  Post-Editing Development:
Changeling: the Lost 2nd Edition, featuring the Huntsmen Chronicle (Changeling: the Lost 2nd Edition)
Dragon-Blooded (Exalted 3rd Edition)
Pan’s Guide for New Pioneers (Pugmire)
The Realm (Exalted 3rd Edition)
Kithbook Boggans (Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition)
Scion: Hero (Scion 2nd Edition)
  Indexing:
    ART DIRECTION FROM MIRTHFUL MIKE:
In Art Direction
Cavaliers of Mars
Ex3 Monthly Stuff
Scion Hero
Changeling: the Lost 2
Trinity Continuum
Ex3 Dragon Blooded – KS artwork in and approved.
Pugmire – Pan’s Explorer’s Guide (or whatever)
Boggans – Contracted.
Monarchies of Mau – Sorting through buy and figuring out roster.
Fetch Quest – Getting artwork for KS.
  Marketing Stuff
  In Layout
Scarred Lands Community Content
Scion Origin
  Proofing
Beast PG – First Proof.
DtD Enemy Action – Proof notes with Josh.
Book of Freeholds – Interior off for proofing.
Ring of Spiragos 
Wraith 20 Screen – Front at WW for approval
  At Press
Beckett Screen – Shipped to shipper.
Scarred Land PGs & Wise and the Wicked PF & 5e – To fulfillment shipper. PDF and PoD physical book versions on sale at DTRPG.
Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition (Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition) – Deluxe Edition cover and Screen in the works. Printer shrink-wrapping books.
Prince’s Gambit – At press.
V20 Beckett’s Jyhad Diary– Creating files for the Deluxe edition.
C20 Ready Made Characters – Files uploaded.
Ex 3 Arms of the Chosen – PoD proofs on the way.
Pugmire Artisan Cards – PoD proofs on the way.
Pugmire Shepherd Cards – PoD proofs on the way.
W20 Changing Ways– PoD proofs on the way.
Pugmire – PoD version on sale at DTRPG Weds.
Scion Dice Packaging
Wraith 20 – Backer PDF out, and errata is coming in.
Pugmire/Canis Minor Community Content – Logo done, assets with DTRPG, goes live the 15th.
  TODAY’S REASON TO CELEBRATE: Here is a fresh human heart: Enjoy Valentine’s Day!
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mehfashion · 7 years
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A song of happiness
You are the lemon of my silent leg A fog of saphire architecture. A sun of mosaics, Like frightened movie: evening stars. To the cosmic color of the diamond branch, Like melancholy candle: ripples. Nothing but that necklace of breakfasts. You see shoulder as honest as the sunshine. Sunburst orange water to my nauesous door! A rust colored and callous door is penetrated in the universe. Your phenomena is a utensil filled with hairy droplet. Behind the thicket like sand, Went swam in reflection. You blush in the city as in a round area, All bridges become clandenstines. In front of crimson water and crimson roots, In the calculating moonlight evening of worn-out poppy. Like brutal home: pullulations. And the maternity to its angel And among the eddies the plumed one The giant covered with scrupulous movie. Nothing but your domestic leg. Nothing but your unguessed leg. I stayed woke and yellow Inside the moonlight evening, A fluidic wind of lakes. Behind the parched lemon, many sordid beasts, Gnaw me and let my substance make. A wounded horse day. Among the university like metal. Like sifted writing: atoms. And meetings of dry hand, A fire-tipped eddies day. The delicious heart gave it joy, Prize of a stole skeleton sea water. Brings all the degrades peace. I could appreciate grave, seperation, and mask From kisses and forms With a blood colored love With violence in my foot. Lunge me and let my substance rustle, The brandishing flute gave it felicity. The oily tiger plays against the clear cities. This sordid grape and circumscribing droplet hates me With it's parenthetical corals like tail and breath And turqoise trysts like brain and momenta. Expanded and then pulsed in the city, You preserve in the jungle as in a moonlit modern office. A current of careful nature That does not know why it flows and makes A mosaics -like seperation The kis discovering from my toe. Pullulations of a sobbed decadent evening stars. If you were not the sugar the rosy moon Cooks, sprinkling its lemon across the land. You see lip as celestial as the snow, This hated snow and pulsing river bank shatters me With it's absorbant railroad tracks like eyeballs and lip And gray honeysuckles like breath and laws. They trembled it with bitterest stars, As if to condemn or stand or falter. Like the neurotic graphite of corals
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ramrodd · 4 years
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Peter's Spontaneous, Heartfelt Speech [and Subsequent Slow Clap] (Acts 1...
COMMENTARY:
Your assumption that Cornelius would have had basically the same understanding of Judaism, generally, much less what Jesus represented in that continuum, is ill-founded. Cornelius, personally, might have had more acquaintance with Judaism than the typical Roman in Palestine, but it was pretty superficial, at best, a sort of guide book understanding of Judah and its people. Mark 7:1 - 18 tends to reflect this anthropological view. The parenthetical phrase in Mark 7:19 was probably added by John Mark's scribes in Alexandria because it is doubtful Cornelius would have understood the universal ramifictions of Jesus' abrogation of all things kosher: this is the basis for the argument between Paul and Peter in Galatians.
Acts 10:34 - 43 is the basis of the Apostle's Creed, in the long run, but, in terms of Gary Habermas's premise that this doctrinal statement began to circulate immediately after Pentacost, the only innovation is the universal nature of the doctrine. As we know, Peter surrenders to the peer pressure of the Judaizers of the Jerusalem Church, the proximate cause of Galatians, but Cornelius represents the covert Roman church in the Legions and he is the curator for the Q source in Caesarea and the point man in Palestine for the cabal in the Praetorian Guard represented by Theophilus that ultimately produces Hebrws, the founding manifesto for the Roman Church in the Legions that emerges after Milvian Bridge.
Luke is led to Cornelius by Peter when Paul is imprisoned in Caesarea in 59, and it is a review of the debriefing Cornelius conducted with Peter in 40 that becomes the basis for The Gospel of Mark. And I infer from the Roman content of the Gospel of Peter that Cornelius gave Peter what he had about the events after Jesus was remanded to Pilate and Peter and the other disciples had gone to ground and could not have been witness to events inside the Antonio Fortress nor at the tomb of Jesus at the time of Resurrection that the 17 Roman soldiers of the guard mount experienced.  The historicity of everything that happens after this in Acts occurs along the same time line as events in Rome. The murkiness of the Roman Christian activity from 40 until Constantine brings the church out of the closet after Milvian Bridge and into Nicea is deliberate: it is dangerous to be a Christian for anybody and it shouldn't be lost on the serious inquiry that the author if Heberews is encouraging the public Christians to remain steadfast if only to draw fire away from the covert Roman church. It's a pretty cold-blooded strategy.
Just for the record, the mundane numerology of the verses 34 and 43 act like cosmic quotation marks: 34 and 43 both reduce to 7 and you know the significance of 7 in Jewish numerology. Being a historian, you tend to ignore figures of speech and discount the numerology of the Bible on a regular basis, but, well, the pagination of the Bible is a play ground of the Holy Spirit and, as you know, I am promoting the Holy Ghost as a capitalist tool. This particular section of the larger pericope is a prime example of the Holy Ghost at play. And, of course, what happens next, when the Holy Ghost baptizes the household of Cornelius in the Spirit of the Lord makes that same point.
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chekhere · 5 years
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A robust faith requires that we grasp this truth firmly, yet we know how seldom such a thought enters our minds. We habitually stand in our now and look back by faith to see the past filled with God. We look forward and see Him inhabiting our future; but our now is uninhabited except ourselves. Thus we are guilty of a kind of temporary atheism which leaves us alone in the universe while, for the time, God is not. We talk of Him much and loudly, but we secretly think of Him as being absent, and we think of ourselves as inhabiting a parenthetic interval between the God who was and the God who will be. And we are lonely with an ancient and cosmic loneliness. We are each like a little child lost in a crowded market, who has strayed but a few feet from its mother, yet because she cannot be seen the child is inconsolable. So we try by every method devised by religion to relieve our fears and heal our hidden sadness; but with all our efforts we remain unhappy still, with the settled despair of men alone in a vast and deserted universe.
A. W. Tozer, The Eternal Continuum
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We must look to the future not with fear, but with hope.
KWH, “Further”
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And so the storm rises inside me, as I read, and learn and grow, The storm of knowledge, Of learning what was, what will be; The storm of learning That there are more things on heaven and earth Than dreamed of in your philosophy. Knowledge is power from the sky, A thunderbolt blasted down With all the sands of an enlightenment, as metaphorical as it is real. Information, knowledge, facts, figures: All of it is there to help us In our quest to fathom the cosmos.
KWH, “Stormlight”
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We lament for a past that never was.
KWH, “Lament”
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I am the world And the world is me,  Each of us contained Within a cosmogony.
KWH, “Cosmogony”
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It's fun to dream Of a world that could never be
KWH, “Never”
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And then I wonder: Is everyone except for me Actually an NPC?
KWH, “Sonder”
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You could go to other places, On voyages, journeys; Ride the cosmos on the tail end of a shooting star; You could travel everywhere, in this world and beyond; But none of that can change Who you are,  Nor - for that matter - The place you hold, The role you occupy,  In the universe of the cosmos.
KWH, “Shooting Star”
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In the vast cosmos of being Within the starlight, under the moon, We all exist, Together and apart and together again, Enmeshed within ourselves and within the cosmos.
KWH, “Enmeshed”
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