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We grew up in a society that strongly values hair length (especially seeing as how our dad reacted to it being cut in the first place). I can only assume that for the last 11 years it has been drilled into us about the importance of long hair in the worship of Asherah, so it wouldn't be in our nature to just happily go along with it being cut (look at Amish hair cutting or shaving your beard in Islam). I realise it's the only realistic option for us to develop Og further, but it seems out of character that he would so willingly go along with this. He's not going to be thinking of the long term implications of his choice like we are.
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B Honestly, if we couldn't have been defiant in the words we just spoke to him; we're not going to change track now. Might as well thank the King for a haircut...our hair never looked right anyways since we got the scar.
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BoyG posted:We grew up in a society that strongly values hair length (especially seeing as how our dad reacted to it being cut in the first place). I can only assume that for the last 11 years it has been drilled into us about the importance of long hair in the worship of Asherah, so it wouldn't be in our nature to just happily go along with it being cut (look at Amish hair cutting or shaving your beard in Islam). I don't know. Our only frame of reference on the matter is our father, who was kind of a psycho and who we had a troubled relationship with to say the least. By all accounts, the other villagers seem quite gentle and peaceful, and I've gotten the impression that they followed him and Asherah more or of fear than devotion. Right now our beliefs and emotions are such a jumbled mess that really I think any response at all could be believable. In terms of what is smart though, keeping our head down and going with the flow is the only option that makes sense. Any other course of action is likely to have negative consequences and unlikely to have any positive effects. I know some people feel like we're abandoning all our traditions too easily, but I don't think that's the case. It's just that this probably isn't the best time to raise those issues. Seeing as we picked up Chekov's shark tooth, I doubt we've seen the last of Asherah. I also think that keeping our hair cuttings might be a good idea too. Rahul fucked around with this message at 10:39 on May 30, 2013 |
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May 30, 2013 10:34
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I still say we should rename ourselves Beaky.
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May 30, 2013 10:38
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I told you guys we were going to need to maximize our ability to evoke white guilt. Also, we are a child of both worlds. I vote D, we take the name of these new people, but keep our hair. Jenner fucked around with this message at 11:16 on May 30, 2013 |
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May 30, 2013 11:06
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Whatever, "keep our name and hair" was, E I think? Today we've seen our father killed, we've been told our whole life is lies, that our God is not a God; despite the voices and the lightning and the dolphins, that our mother is not our mother and that we'll never see our family again, we may never even see the sea again. Instead we're going to run away and live with a woman who tried to ostracize us from the village at the age of 4 and whom we've barely spoken to in the last year. We're 11, we need to control something in our lives, even if it's just what people call us and how long we have our hair.
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May 30, 2013 12:27
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I vote F re: keeping Asherah in our hearts and telling Jalitha not to call us sweetling.
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May 30, 2013 12:40
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Volmarias posted:Can we get the OP updated with this album if this is going to be the preferred way of voting? Right now, it has There is no preferred way to vote. If you want to use the icons, by all means, go for it, but it is not mandatory. The Bad Llama posted:"Why did you bring the basket of Pearls with you? I gave you lots of those! Did you bring them with us?" "I was not sure who was coming, Sweetling. People from the cities like pearls, I thought we might need to trade them to be rescued." Lanky Coconut Tree posted:Option B, after you thank him for the honour tell him that you want your new name to be Og. She gives you a hug and shakes her head. "Does it matter, Sweetling?" A Darker Porpoise posted:
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May 30, 2013 12:51
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Diogines posted:She gives you a hug and shakes her head. "Does it matter, Sweetling?" Yes, Mother. My world has been turned upside down in a day, and it feels like my whole life was a lie. I would like to know what was truthful about it.
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May 30, 2013 13:03
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"They ate the sick" your mother says with a pained expression on her face "They ate the old. They ate the unlucky and little boys who left the village when they did not eat anyone else recently. When... when... too many girls were born, they ate little babies. They ate the people they carried out of the village to bury... they... they ate everyone." She places her hands over her face and begins to cry. You have made your mother cry. Minivote: Do you... Option 1 Hug her and say something comforting Option 2 Any other response(specify) You have no frame of reference to know how old people are supposed to get, nor could you count to sixty, but you have never seen a person older than their late 50s in the village. You have never seen the burials occur, when the men carry the dead out of the village for burial. Those who are sick tend to either heal quickly, or, perish quickly, a prolonged time for recovery is unheard of. No one in the village is missing fingers or limbs or ears or has any other sort of disfiguring injuries. But you are eleven and have lived here all your life. That is how it is everywhere. Right? Diogines fucked around with this message at 13:31 on May 30, 2013 |
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May 30, 2013 13:08
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Well, poo poo. Option 1.
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May 30, 2013 13:11
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Slaan posted:Aye, lets go for: All of this, but I say Jalitha can call us what she likes. Maybe she insists on calling us that because we haven't been named, and using our old heathen tribal name would be blasphemy. It's a thought. Between these two haircuts, though, we're going to look extremely strange when we come back, with our relic, and claim to be the lost High Priest of Asherah. Of course, we can fix that by gutting and eating anyone who chalenges our birthright, because we'll have metal weapons and armor. UppaTree fucked around with this message at 13:15 on May 30, 2013 |
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May 30, 2013 13:12
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We thank the king and let him change our name/cut our hair. But we hold Asherah in our heart where the king cannot see him.
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Give her a hug. Eating corpses is only unsanitary, but the eugenics is pretty  As for the main vote, I never had the impression that belief in Asherah or El actually corresponded to worship of either. Yeah, they're real, that doesn't mean I really see any reason Og would be attached to long hair or whatever. We're already an outcast and the only person who really cared about that stuff was our dad, and we didn't even like him. A
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May 30, 2013 13:12
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Give her a hug You heartless voices.
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May 30, 2013 13:21
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Option 1 Hug her and say something comforting
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May 30, 2013 13:26
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My votes are Option #01, and A.
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May 30, 2013 13:31
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Mum's having a flashback. Get her a gin and tonic. 1
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May 30, 2013 13:37
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Hug her.
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May 30, 2013 13:37
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Algid posted:Give her a hug. Yeah, give mommy a hug. But I don't think it was (intentional) eugenics. Our people don't farm, don't keep animals, and apparently never caught on to the idea that this kid, who looks frankly nothing like the high priest, might not be his son. They ate the unlucky along with the sick and old, so they were probably just eating people "less favored by Asherah". I mean, if Fishgod truly favored you, you wouldn't be sick all the time! Considering that Asherah's known to dring down the hammer on everyone you care about if he's even slightly miffed, removing people that he disfavors is a logical idea. And if it accidentally creates stronger sons, then obviously Asherah approves, right? UppaTree fucked around with this message at 13:39 on May 30, 2013 |
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May 30, 2013 13:37
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2: Stay silent and consider what you just heard.
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May 30, 2013 13:42
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This really is getting biblical though, what with the prohibition against eating long pig.
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May 30, 2013 13:46
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Option 1 Hug her
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May 30, 2013 13:50
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1 "We don't live there anymore." Also, a question for ourselves: Is there any angel in the stories we particularly identified with, as a patron or role model? Same for Asherah's children.
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May 30, 2013 13:57
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Option 1: hug her and apologize "I'm sorry, Mom. I didn't think before I asked- I didn't mean to upset you. We are safe now and no one will get eaten. Right?" Also, A for the previous question. Let him cut our hair and rename us... But still withhold judgement, we are still really unsure about everything deep down. No grovelling.
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May 30, 2013 14:02
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Option 1 of course
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maxhush posted:Question for our brain; Tudhalias posted:1 "We don't live there anymore." Diogines fucked around with this message at 14:29 on May 30, 2013 |
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May 30, 2013 14:14
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1. All the time. When we're grown up and treading the jeweled thrones of Earth under our sandaled feet, we'll have to make her a queen. She's been through so much; she deserves it. 
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May 30, 2013 14:14
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That is a LOT more cannibalism than I was expecting. ...and obviously we favored Ninveh. Hug her.
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May 30, 2013 14:22
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Voting for hugs. Always vote for hugs.
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May 30, 2013 14:23
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Callipygian Weasel posted:
Too much cannabalism for my taste.
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May 30, 2013 14:25
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I vote we accept our hair cut with honour. However, make it clear that there are only 3 acceptable hairstyles for men. Buzz cut, crew cut, high and tight. I vote high and tight
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May 30, 2013 14:37
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Say: "Not everyone... They did not eat everyone." Look her in the eye if possible.
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:Too much cannabalism for my taste. Not enough for mine. Hug her and then bite off an ear
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May 30, 2013 14:45
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1, I'm glad we got out of Cannibaland. We need to swear vengeance on Asherah, he's the one that is basically holding people hostage and making them into cannibals. We need to get some kit that's blessed by El and go turn Asherah into sushi.
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2. Look her in the eyes and ask if she saw this with her own eyes. I'd like to know how she came by the knowledge. I don't think she's necessarily outright lying, but I think she may have misinterpreted some things. FWIW I don't particularly care if we are cannibals. Eating powerful warriors etc to consume their strength really isn't that unusual, even if the weirdly high level of cannibalisim Jalitha is describing is (which is part of why I'm still slightly skeptical. I think there may be a wee bit of exaggeration going on here. poo poo, we'd have like a population of zero eating people left and right like that.) That and because cannibalisim is just such a classic justification for demonizing tribal peoples, I can't help but raise an eyebrow and want as much confirmation as possible before taking this as cannon. FoxTerrier fucked around with this message at 15:09 on May 30, 2013 |
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May 30, 2013 15:01
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Gonna vote  for the haircut. Really we should be happy this JHWH is only making us cut our hair.
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FoxTerrier posted:2. Look her in the eyes and ask if she saw this with her own eyes. I'd like to know how she came by the knowledge. Yeh, I think ritual sacrifice and blood communion, etc. are more likely... You look at the Mayans. When times got tough, more human sacrifice... Except for one little city that decided water storage might be a better way to deal with drought... The crazy bastards. And Jalitha is not used to it, so it could well seem like we just ate everyone. It seems that in ten years, unless it was really pretty highly ritualistic we would have noticed. It happens someplace sacred. it is unlikely Jolitha has ever been there. Pretty sure it is mostly blood sacrifice... Whatever, it freaked Jolitha... Though she didn't get eaten...
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May 30, 2013 16:11
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FoxTerrier posted:
I'm voting for this.
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May 30, 2013 16:16
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Wow, that is a lot of eating people. Option 1 
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 Vote count updated; hug vote stuff added. Don't stop voting for the haircutting options just because the minivote is up! Canuck-Errant fucked around with this message at 16:44 on May 30, 2013 |
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