Isn't dealing with one's heritage something many people can relate to? Whether it's something we've always considered a part of us, something...
Are you presuming that I don't know that already? Just because I asked if we have any hard codified knowledge of first nation fighting techniques?...
Agreed but "what you know" can't be all that your story is based on, we'd have no fantasy then. Take Rick Riordan for instance. He based his lead...
I politely but strongly disagree, just because I'm not Brazilian that means I'm not allowed to have one of my protagonists be a fisherman who...
Because I don't want to write the same protagonist, over and over again. I mean I ask you, you think all writers MUST experience the same exact...
I would politely ask you not to assume my intent with my writing. Especially since I wrote this in my last post as a response to you. "See what I...
I am, but if I only wrote what I knew, then ALL of my protagonists would be writers from Pennsylvania/New Jersey who know Kung Fu. There is...
I am not, hence why I'm asking. I don't want to do an injustice to my neighbors by misrepresenting them in my art. (I myself am Irish, German, and...
Do we know of any authentic ones? I'm writing a story where the main character is a Native American and he's from Alaska but I haven't decided...
So I was watching the Marco Polo short film about Hundred Eyes and I was reminded that even though Hundred Eyes is an ascetic to some extent, his...
Well as I said, we are both men of faith already and I still consider myself a Christian and Buddhist. It helps that, as said before, George Lucas...
"I'm with David on that. Spirituality as a concept is meaningless and seem to have been largely co-opted by the sort of people that say "I don't...
Completely, %100, agreed. To answer your question or rather to address that supposition, I certainly don't dismiss the possibility He sent the...
Actually quick address, would all of this be "off topic" at all? I mean at this point it's once again become the tired old "religion vs. science"...
Putting those systems of autonomous processes in place. When God (supposedly) set the cogs in motion, you and I sitting here was not a...
I'm attached by base satisfaction. The desire to indulge in food and entertainment. I wish I could say something more profound or deep was...
Not by what I was taught, just speaking as someone raised Catholic. We could never have happened given the wrong combination of circumstance or...
Indeed. My best friend and I both swap philosophical about the Jedi and Sith as valid ways to live ones life and foster spirituality. Of course we...
First of all, where does "blame" come in? Second of all, you're right, but people have also experienced those things with spirituality. Indeed...
Indeed. We all have our own path to follow.
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