Look if you guys really believe you're engaging in legitimate Erudite roleplay and just by happenstance have members with names like Tyronius, Shaquilleos, and Jahmaul, that's fine. I honestly am not really bothered by the humor but no one but you is required to keep up the illusion that there's zero real world references going on. I've seen a few Erudites who aren't involved with you guys who have typically african names. Is that because of their love and respect for the culture? Whatever, maybe. Sorry for disturbing your thread.
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But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.
-Feuerbach, Preface to the second edition of The Essence of Christianity
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