What is your most elitist Everquest viewpoint?

[Wonkie]

infidel is more correct than agnostic. eq gods clearly exist in eq.

hope this helps

[Wonkie]

because there's already a word for that

[Nagoya]

Yep, I agree.
If I had been on the creative room in that meeting, I would have suggested:
Skeptic, Dissenter, Heretic, Pagan or Blasphemous. Agnostic makes no sense.

It's never too late to reroll Filbus! The server is not going anywhere ^^

[Wonkie]

Originally Posted by Nagoya [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yep, I agree.
If I had been on the creative room in that meeting, I would have suggested:
Skeptic, Dissenter, Heretic, Pagan or Blasphemous. Agnostic makes no sense.

It's never too late to reroll Filbus! The server is not going anywhere ^^

in·fi·del
ˈinfədl,ˈinfəˌdel/Submit
nounarchaic
1.
a person who does not believe in religion or who adheres to a religion other than one's own.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Wonkie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

in·fi·del
ˈinfədl,ˈinfəˌdel/Submit
nounarchaic
1.
a person who does not believe in religion or who adheres to a religion other than one's own.

Infidel has incredibly strong connotations of being bad/wrong. You can't just be "an infidel", you have to be "an infidel in the eyes of a believer". Heck, if you look at Miriam-Webster's definition of the word, the very first definition is not "doesn't believe in religion X", it's:

1: one who is not a Christian or who opposes Christianity

Plus, the people who made EQ weren't linguists trying to find the most precise word possible, they were game makers looking for a term their player base would understand ... and not get offended by (religious language tend to bring out the worst in some believers).

[Jimjam]

Would be fun to RP a conspiracy theorist agnostic, ascribing all miraculous magic to really being cheap parlour tricks, undead to being trick or treaters and godly avatars as being mere large monsters.

[maskedmelon]

i think deity selection is an integral part of character creation and tend to lump agnostics in with min-maxers whose min-maxing i consider glaring indication of arrested mental and social development, closed-mindedness and petite penises not unlike grown adults who refuse to eat onions, fish or capsaicin containing fruits.

i do exempt Filbus from this lumping though, because I love him and believe it was more an honest mistake than some infantile inclination to pursue the most-bestest condition despite its exceptional creative deficiency, which we well know Filbus does not suffer ^^

[Wonkie]

It means they don't follow your god(s).

it can be tortured as 'untrustworthy', which is a fair assessment for the infidel fellow Filbert.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Wonkie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It means they don't follow your god(s).

it can be tortured as 'untrustworthy', which is a fair assessment for the infidel fellow Filbert.

Oh totally: from the perspective of my Tribunal-worshipping Barbarian Filbert is most definitely an infidel [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm just saying that from the perspective of a character creation screen (where there is no "you" to define "your god(s)") infidel would have been a bad choice.

[Wonkie]

it would be a bad choice, but it would be correct in meaning.

I forget what we were arguing about.