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Famous Last Words: Signing Off

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This is the last blog post for the semester, so I am going to wrap up my thoughts on the course and everything in it.  First off, I thoroughly enjoyed the reading, I was skeptical when I first heard about this course fomr my other AME friends, but I took it anyway because its always nice have others you know in a class, plus you have built in friends for comments.  Another benefit was getting to learn their writing styles, it is not something we ever experience of each other in our classes.  It also helped me see more of their interests outside of class, we talk and share things, but the things that were significant to us to come out in our writing is what I noticed, and there were many things I had not seen.  The other added benefit was that this class gave us things to talk about while working on projects or capstone, because there is a lot of time spent on those things, so it is very easy to run out of talking points.  As for the rest of my semester, I still have a soul crushing
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Tech Tip: Twitter

I used my personal twitter account to follow the twitter tech tip for this week.  I like twitter as a way to follow the news/events that I actually care about in reverse chronological order, rather than relying on an algorithm to sort the news that "I" want.  The added bonus is that the 280(!) characters limits what people can say on a subject, so they have to either interest me enough to click on a link to explore further, or I do not care and just keep scrolling through the feed. 
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Week 12 Reading B, Bhagavad Vita

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In this story, Divine and Demonic Qualities, Krishna explains to Arjuna the good and bad features, actions, and behaviors of people, explaining what is divine and what is demonic.  As expected, honor, truthfulness, nobility, nonviolence, forgiveness are the attributes of a divine spirit or person, and pride, anger, ignorance, and hypocrisy are demonic qualities.  These are unsurprising qualities, but do give an insight into the author's religious beliefs.  Furthermore, the good are expected to be destined for nirvana, and the evil for servitude, and everyone is described to be either divine or demonic, destined for one or the other.  It is talked about how demonic people only understand the world as want, and act only for themselves, thereby causing the destruction of the world.  This was an interesting, enlightening chapter, and gave me deep insight into another worldview. Lord Krishna, from  pixabay Bibliography: The Bhagavad Vita, translated by Prasad, Ramanand,  Source
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Week 12 Reading A: The Bhagavad Vita

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In this epic, the story that caught me for part A of the reading was Chapter 2, Transcendental Knowledge.  It was interesting to me to see Arjuna struggle with the thoughts of fighting and potentially killing Bheeshma and Drona.  He says this because he wants to avoid this sin of slaying his kin in battle, professing to rather be slain defenseless instead. To this, Krishna gives an extremely long speech to Arjuna, talking about Atma (consciousness/self), and fate, and tells him how all things are fated to be, and death and life hold very little meaning because all is just a part of Atma.  This is the Transcendental Knowledge the chapter was talking about, and a very interesting persepective into the beliefs of the writers of this epic.  Statue of Arjuna, from  wikimedia Bibliography: The Bhagavad Vita, translated by Prasad, Ramanand,  Source
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Week 11 Story, The Battle

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Ush-Goth was tired.  Warring and raging and all sorts of barbarian things required rest.  That wizard guy was stupid for spending sleeping time reading, everyone knows that time is only for fighting, sleeping, and eating, Ush-Goth thought.  He found the shadiest tree he could find, threw his animal fur cloak over himself, made sure his trusty battle-ax was next to him, and fell asleep. Several good dreams of raiding, pillaging, and cracking skulls later, he was awoken by a great thumping noise and a massive pain in his skull.  This was the moment that Ush-Goth lived for, he sprang into action, in one smooth motion leaping to his feat, grabbing his battle-ax, and rushing off to warn his companions, who had given themselves some fancy name that he could not recall at the moment. Barbarian, from  pinterest The first person Ush-Goth encounetered was Adalard, the Rogue, who asked Ush-Goth why he was running.  Ush-Goth's only response when he ran past was, "big fight, warn
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Week 11 Reading B: The End of the World

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This week, the story that really caught my attention was The End of the World.  Part of the reason I liked this story was I remembered it from earlier in the semester, and remember the good stories that several people got out of it.  I think this would be a chance to have some lighter humor in the D&D universe I have been writing in, and provide an opportunity to poke some fun at Ush-Goth the Barbarian.  Barbarians are not known for their intelligence, and so it is completely plausible that Ush-Goth would see some great phenomenon and think it was the end of the world.  It also would be funny to have the chain of blame go on throughout the party, especially to see how talkative characters like Adalard would try to talk their way out of it.  Overall, I see in my mind the story as it would shape up in writing, and now have to decide which of my reading stories I use this week. Kneeling Barbarian, from  wikimedia Bibliography: Twenty Jataka Tales,  The End of the World , Noor I
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Week 11 Reading A: The Tortoise and the Geese

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This week, my favorite reading this week was The Tortoise and the Geese, due to the lesson about the value of silence.  I think it would work perfect for my D&D story because it could keep the same message on the value of silence while being made into a humorous tale.  My thoughts are that it will be a lesson to the rogue, because rogues are famous for talking themselves into and out of trouble.  As far as consequences, letting go of a stick seems out of the ordinary, but there definitely will be other fantasy situations which are appropriate for the setting.  Overall I am very excited for writing this story, because it will provide a different sort of story then I have been doing. Rogue Assassin, from  Flickr Bibliography The Tortoise and the Geese , Twenty Jataka Tales, Noor Inayat
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