#653: "It's a secret."

[talse]

it would seem we know why black mages face is always enshrouded, it's not just the ancient magik's flowing through turning it into a field scape of the unimaginable, he's also, as fighter so kindly put it, a pizza faced mutant of most likely a highly offensive calibur.

[BigDemonicBunny]

...ahh, who needs enemies when you have friends like Fighter (as well as RM&Thief).

In any case, as for the aging of elves I don't think we have even grasped the physical and mental necessities for a higher species to be immortal and evolutionarily successful. As such we imagine them to be much like us (except having longer lives) since we have no idea how they would be constructed if they were not like us. I'm sure we could figure it out, but not without more thought on the subject than it would be worth.

[Kurosen]

Sorry, my sarcasm can come out in heaps at times ;D

I did't mean to claim that longer lifespan is the only contributor to our society's extended-childhood over the last one hundred years, but that it's certainly a large part of it. We've had child labor laws and mandatory public education since roughly 1850 - 70, so it's not like it was a radically new idea to keep 12 year olds out of factories by 1906.

In any case, kids today are dumb and spoiled. Now buy a T-shirt!

[Kaelus]

Originally Posted by kynikos

It was probably my fault as much (or more) than yours.

Brian, I meant to disagree but not be disagreeable. I apologize for any offense.

Best regards,
kynikos

Brian, you're ready to start a religion. o.O

*ductapes mouth to control the urge to say Kuro-chan* =X

[Godna]

Originally Posted by Swiftbow

I've never quite gotten why it is that elves are supposed to mature so much more slowly. Sure, they live a long time, but humans don't take 20 years to fully grow because we live longer than a dog. It takes longer because we have more to develop. And, since I have yet to see any evidence that elves are considerably more advanced than humans (again, other than lifespan), it would seem to me that they should mature at about the same rate, but then just stay "young" for just so much longer.

Maybe elves just have a glandular(sp) issue and thus they mature uber slow as the cost for their pointy ears and immortality (the natural hatrid of dwarves is just an added bonus )

[Amake]

Let's see now. Humans mature slowly our heads are so freaking large. It forces kids to be born when they're only half-baked fetuses, and so much of our adolesence is spent in a kind of post-womb limbo, like kangaroos. So a horse can stand on its own legs a couple of minutes after its birth, and is able to function as an independent specimen after a year or something, while the corresponding figures for a human is 1-2 years and 15-20 years.

The point being that our ginormous brains are to blame for all this.

And I don't think elfs have any bigger heads. Unless the pointy ears count, hehe.

Oh yeah, and the comic was funny.

[Lyndyn]

Originally Posted by Kurosen

Sorry, my sarcasm can come out in heaps at times ;D

I did't mean to claim that longer lifespan is the only contributor to our society's extended-childhood over the last one hundred years, but that it's certainly a large part of it. We've had child labor laws and mandatory public education since roughly 1850 - 70, so it's not like it was a radically new idea to keep 12 year olds out of factories by 1906.

In any case, kids today are dumb and spoiled. Now buy a T-shirt!

Hmm, on that same note, since the weight of amaricans has also gone up, shouldn't that mean that in a few years super models with be huge? Now that you have that image in your head, I wonder if there are any plans for new T-Shirts..

[kynikos]

Originally Posted by Kaelus

Brian, you're ready to start a religion. o.O

*ductapes mouth to control the urge to say Kuro-chan* =X

Hey now! I was apologizing for being too pedantic (breaking out the latin name of the fallacy) but not for disagreeing. Certainly, I don't wish to offend someone who's work I respect but I didn't mean to imply that I was capitulating out of idolatry.

In point of fact, I still have a great deal of uneasiness with regards to drawing causal relationships out of correlative data, particularly when dealing with large scale sociological phenomena.

[Clarificatory note for fellow pedants: Perhaps an inference to the best explanation can suggest a hypothesis involving a causal relationship in such cases (and maybe Brian does have something like this in mind); however, such an argument oftentimes requires truly painstaking rigor. Absent such, doxastic abstinence seems to be the most honest course.]

-kynikos

[mandrke]

Originally Posted by Invisible Queen

So a horse can stand on its own legs a couple of minutes after its birth, and is able to function as an independent specimen after a year or something, while the corresponding figures for a human is 1-2 years and 15-20 years.

] accually the reason for walking is about a year is because we walh on two legs not on four and why we are sexally mature at 15-20 years of age is simple... Education!
Then (<10,000 years ago) we leaned to hunt,fish,forrage and find shelter just to name a few! Now it's to learn langarge, maths, computing skills, and social skills.It has been found that some people have matured very young-it's in "Ripleys Believe It Or Not" and we are matureing faster than our parents!

[Desmant]

I KNEW IT! I predicted this joke back when Red Mage first got his class change.