#pg 46

[mntdenouement]

[farrascuro]

[quest-for-the-dreamstone]

Scene change!

I’m not sure if this one reads well... can you tell what’s happening here?

Do you know what the creature is looking for? :P

[ivyandwildflowers]

[animmania]

partners :: Episode 1: my name is. pg 46 | Tapas

yeah i dont know how else youd learn from. books know everything

new partners page

[perkwunos]

… The evolution of history can be rationalized by the consideration of the determination of successors by antecedents. But, on the other hand, the evolution of history is incapable of rationalization because it exhibits a selected flux of participating forms. No reason, internal to history, can be assigned why that flux of forms, rather than another flux, should have been illustrated. It is true that any flux must exhibit the character of internal determination. So much follows from the ontological principle [which states that the reasons for anything must be located in the becoming of actual entities, here referred to as the “internal determination” of said actual entities]. But every instance of internal determination assumes that flux up to that point. There is no reason why there could be no alternative flux exhibiting that principle of internal determination. The actual flux presents itself with the character of being merely ‘given.’ It does not disclose any peculiar character of ‘perfection.’ On the contrary, the imperfection of the world is the theme of every religion which offers a way of escape, and of every sceptic who deplores the prevailing superstition. The Leibnizian theory of the ‘best of possible worlds’ is an audacious fudge produced in order to save the face of a Creator constructed by contemporary, and antecedent, theologians. Further, in the case of those actualities whose immediate experience is most completely open to us, namely, human beings, the final decision of the immediate subject-superject [i.e. the actual entity that will objectively affect the future after completing its becoming], constituting the ultimate modification of subjective aim, is the foundation of our experience of responsibility, of approbation or of disapprobation, of self-approval or of self-reproach, of freedom, of emphasis. This element in experience is too large to be put aside merely as misconstruction. It governs the whole tone of human life. It can be illustrated by striking instances from fact or from fiction. But these instances are only conspicuous illustrations of human experience during each hour and each minute. ...

The doctrine of the philosophy of organism is that, however far the sphere of efficient causation be pushed in the determination of components of a concrescence—its data, its emotions, its appreciations, its purposes, its phases of subjective aim—beyond the determination of these components there always remains the final reaction of the self-creative unity of the universe. This final reaction completes the self-creative act by putting the decisive stamp of creative emphasis upon the determinations of efficient cause. Each occasion exhibits its measure of creative emphasis in proportion to its measure of subjective intensity. … in the temporal world for occasions of relatively slight experient intensity, their decisions of creative emphasis are individually negligible compared to the determined components which they receive and transmit. But the final accumulation of all such decisions—the decision of God’s nature and the decisions of occasions—constitutes that special element in the flux of forms in history, which is ‘given’ and incapable of rationalization beyond the fact that within it every component which is determinable is internally determined.

Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, Part II, Chapter 1, Section IV

[mistbornbaby]

That left only the small box that contained her personal effects: a pebble from each city she’d visited, the earring Reen said Vin’s mother had given her, and a bit of obsidian the size of a large coin.

Well, as far as personal effects go, that’s a bit sparse... but pretty cool, that’s for sure. I tried to get some soil from each place I lived, and I love my little collection. Girl after my own heart.

[resteasycomic]

Doors? Doors!