tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290828421410624791.post8683457294558218453..comments2024-03-14T10:32:29.233-05:00Comments on Blood of Prokopius: Thoughts on Post-Apocalyptic RPGsFrDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459281821319914530noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290828421410624791.post-60369154549799699082010-06-24T15:38:37.741-05:002010-06-24T15:38:37.741-05:00ugh, sorry about the double post. I hate it when ...ugh, sorry about the double post. I hate it when people do that.Fr Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07737890156073976423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290828421410624791.post-87224053342174649872010-06-24T15:38:01.837-05:002010-06-24T15:38:01.837-05:00Just wondered if you knew about this other blog. T...Just wondered if you knew about this other blog. They seem to be into the same kinds of things. They recently did an article about the same subject, but from a very different angle.<br /><br />http://orthogeeks.com/2010/05/10/fallout-thoughts/Fr Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07737890156073976423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290828421410624791.post-44454834387622027082010-06-24T15:36:51.191-05:002010-06-24T15:36:51.191-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fr Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07737890156073976423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290828421410624791.post-41501907643134710262010-06-24T15:36:00.537-05:002010-06-24T15:36:00.537-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fr Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07737890156073976423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290828421410624791.post-71090255782614884072010-06-24T15:34:33.114-05:002010-06-24T15:34:33.114-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fr Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07737890156073976423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290828421410624791.post-34578100437076877532010-06-15T09:07:48.053-05:002010-06-15T09:07:48.053-05:00Victor,
From personal experience, I have found th...Victor,<br /><br />From personal experience, I have found that it is in the most dire of circumstances (especially human folly) that we are actually able to open our eyes and see the light of God within ourselves. Personally, it took a civil war in Yugoslavia with all of its horrific consequences and the shock waves of bombs being dropped during a major land battle mere miles away from where I was standing to get me to come face-to-face with my own personal Tower of Babel. When I opened my eyes, God was waiting with open arms despite the bile I had sent his way for much of my life.<br /><br />St. Gregory Palamas has observed that God shines His light upon His entire creation; but we have to open our eyes in order to see it. One way God turns disaster into a blessing is giving us the wherewithal to open our eyes and see.FrDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459281821319914530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290828421410624791.post-62793994250346563652010-06-14T10:33:21.974-05:002010-06-14T10:33:21.974-05:00My interpretation of the PA genre is that when hum...My interpretation of the PA genre is that when humanity's expectations, dreams, works and understanding of destiny are swept away what is revealed is God's absence.<br /><br />Revelation of absence... a spiritual desolation matched to the physical one.<br /><br />One might wonder if the arrow of causality points from the spiritual to the physical rather than the reverse.Vincent Diakuwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12176340701893887319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290828421410624791.post-9586714479907285532010-06-13T09:33:34.050-05:002010-06-13T09:33:34.050-05:00Now I suddenly have this picture in my head of a s...Now I suddenly have this picture in my head of a setting where there was no god, but it has suddenly been revealed, like the apocalypse of the Incarnation you mention above.<br /><br />Hmm. I wonder how that would work in a game, where there have never been such a thing as clerical magic, and now it just works?AndreasDavourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17170806742393291962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290828421410624791.post-32610875934951884512010-06-10T13:23:10.913-05:002010-06-10T13:23:10.913-05:00Good etymological work.
I might also add that a s...Good etymological work.<br /><br />I might also add that a secular "apocalypse" is also often used as a polemical revelation of human nature by authors - be it the Rousseauian views of George R. Stewart Earth Abides, the more Hobbesian views of the Road Warrior genre or the technology-as-religion sci-fi underpinnings of Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz.Roger G-Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08594440701279968693noreply@blogger.com