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Ember James

@ Arkouda @lemmy.ca

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Goddess of Creation and "Culture", trying to make it on her creations. I try to be a better person each day, but I can be a sassy bitch.

SURVIVE! SFW Demo out now!

https://3mbergames.itch.io/survive

A place for my art: https://lemmy.ca/c/rabble

Please do not message me on this account regarding my NSFW account.

  • Does the creator or the audience determine the meaning of a work of art?

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  • I argue for the audience for two reasons:

    1. The subjective experience for every individual will be different with any form of art.
    2. The audience is what determines if something is "art", so without the audience the creator isn't producing "art".
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    What is Brock's ethnicity from Pokemon?

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  • How are you defining Caucasian?

  • Are you learning another language? How far along are you?

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  • Thank you for sharing this absolutely hilarious story. Gave me a hearty laugh in the morning. haha

    Good luck getting passed it! I know I wouldn't be strong enough. haha

  • Are you learning another language? How far along are you?

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  • I would suggest going to the Library and seeing if they have a Russian language course, or finding one at a book store if you can afford it. I find having an actual structured course helps me in my learning, and it will usually include resources like audio.

  • Are you learning another language? How far along are you?

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  • Thanks for the suggestion!

  • Are you learning another language? How far along are you?

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  • I have no experience in C, but I do like Python.

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  • Japanese is a language I have on the burner to learn. I have had a full course on it for years but never got around to getting beyond basic greetings.

    After I am done learning Greek, I am going to refresh and learn more French, and then Japanese is next because I love Anime and Manga and want to watch/read it as it should be.

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  • What made you decide to learn Portuguese?

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  • That is one of the harder things I have noticed about learning language in general. There is always a clear difference between how a language "should be spoken" and how it actually is in practice with native speakers.

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  • What got you interested in Mandarin?

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  • I found the alphabet and grammar easy to understand personally, which is why I am able to read before I can do basically anything else.

    Greek is spoken in Greece and numerous other countries because of the Greek diasporas in the world.

    Coming from a Greek family, while the locals may speak English they generally prefer to and appreciate speaking in Greek especially in Greece.

    Thank you for the well wishes.

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    Do you ever revise your upvotes for a particular sub-thread/conversant when you get the sense they are either bad-faith or do not have sufficient knowledge to justify their participation or comments?

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  • If I agree with their point, again, I don't care if I later find reasons or points to disagree on something different. It will not make me waste my time adjusting upvotes. Common ground is very important.

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    Do you ever revise your upvotes for a particular sub-thread/conversant when you get the sense they are either bad-faith or do not have sufficient knowledge to justify their participation or comments?

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  • No because when I upvote someone it usually means I agree with their point. Disagreeing later doesn't change the initial agreement.

  • What topic do you have the most knowledge, and can you explain it so a child can understand it?

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  • It seems that in the end it’s one of two things… There’s what’s known as the Epicurean paradox or the problem of evil, where the confusion arises from many sources: forgetting about the existence of free will and the causal chain of events, semantic nonsense or even simple immaturity. This is the one that’s just all fluff, all wind, but words can kick one’s ass, especially if you live more in words than in reality.

    I am assuming we are speaking about the Christian God in this context.

    God is all knowing, and omnipresent. This means that God knows in advance the result of it's own decisions.

    If God granted free will to humans knowing that humans would commit horrible acts with it against each other, how can that God be considered benevolent?

    And then there’s the one that I respect a little bit more: while the beginning of the causal chain that we can conceive (so, embedded in/attached to space and time) is evidently not a source of it, but also since things exist today we can’t deny the ‘proto-thing’ existed then I can somewhat accept you telling me that this essence we call matter and energy was always there and God is not necessary and etc etc. God has been understood for millennia as the ‘prime engine’ and unmoved mover, behind the universe and before it, the One that ‘comes from nothing’ that we have to accept because nothing comes from nothing and things exist. But many folk just skip that part and say “things exist, that’s all I can see and that’s all I will believe in”. That’s fair, but I better not see you making any logical inferences then, lol.

    The question remains both Theologically and Scientifically unanswered: If "nothing" can come from "nothing", where did the "thing" that created "everything" come from?

    If we accept the Big Bang or Creationism as two theories explaining the same event from a different point of view, what was existence prior to that? Did God simply exist in infinite nothingness up until the point of creation? Wouldn't the existence of God contradict "nothingness" simply by existing?

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  • What are the "Two fundamental arguments for not believing in God"?

    I haven't heard the idea that there are only two fundamental theories.

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  • What would you say are some of the core principals of both that you would teach to children?

  • What is the strangest math that turned out to be useful?

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  • With that as the definition I would say Boolean Algebra.

  • What is the strangest math that turned out to be useful?

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  • How do you define "pure math discovery"?

  • People who are or have dated more than one person, how did it work out?

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  • It worked out great when I was in relationships with people who weren't monogamous. Didn't work out so great when someone was playing pretend and trying to play "last partner standing".

    It will only ever work out if you, and your partners, are polyamorous and it is super important to have those conversations early so everyone is on the same page.