"Martial King Gerard's disciple is a mage???"

The principle of digging one deep well instead of fewer shallow wells is legit, however 🧏

It is contingent on you always having access to that well. Never a guarantee 🙅

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Never could've enlisted the help of the elves if he didn't have the knowledge of magic, so he wouldn't have even gotten this far, and this is where his story would've ended if he couldn't take a hit. Epic MC growth 👏👏👏👏

This whole freakin' thing is peak, so idk how they managed to put a peak on a peak xD

The word "summit" from geology comes to mind because that's the highest peak of whichever mountain we're describing.

That makes me wanna call it summit, but based on what I've seen I'm sure we're gonna see even better.

Even if she wants to spend most of her time at home, stick with the people she knows and likes, and leave the more antagonistic social interactions to you, it can't be like that.

She has to know that you know that it's a matter of preference, not competence. You can be her king, but she has to be to your queen, not your servant. Home must be her kingdom, not her quarters.

Don't forget the lesson that chess taught us long before feminism ☝

The queen protects the king.

That apron's not a rag, it's a cape. That bandana's not a rag, it's a crown. Many people will do it. It just has to feel dignified and not degrading.

Sorry if I seemed to be making assumptions. I know all you said was "sweet" so you were probably talking only about that. But our comments will be here forever, and the topic is relevant and important. Other people will see it.

In other words, I wasn't talking only to you 🙂🤝

May your roads lead to warm sands ✌️🐱

Keep looking, friend 🤝🙂 (part 1 of 2. Character limit)

They're out there, but many don't wear it on their sleeve.

It can be seen as counterproductive toward the feminism movement for someone to be completely at peace with this kind of role, and they don't wanna be seen as betraying a good cause.

But the point of feminism is not "I don't want to do what is expected of me." It's "I don't have to do what's expected of me." It's not necessarily about making a different choice. They just want it clear that they DO have that choice.

A lot of women (and men, really, this is not a difficult thing to see the appeal of) would be extremely comfortable in traditional stay-at-home partner roles, but the relevant variable is the context.

The difference between a fortress and a prison is whether or not you have access to the keys. If she thinks you're perceiving the arrangement as a power imbalance, she's gonna push back, on principle.

If she gets a vibe like "Careers are too complicated for you. You would have to meet new people all the time. You'd just mess it up, so stay here where things are simpler." then it's already over. She's out the door.

That's not a fortress, that's a prison. In reality, she does have access to the keys, but if you won't acknowledge that, she knows she's not gonna be treated right. She's gonna end up using them later, so it's better to use them now.

A sheep in wolf's clothing 🥰
Too.
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STAHP.
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Hehe 😆
"I could sue you for this!"
And what are you gonna take? She's ten. 🤣
Your lawyer gonna get 20% of her coloring books???
Idk, maybe lawsuits work differently in Japan? I don't see what could be different, though 🤔 Seems like no matter where you live, you can't take what someone doesn't have.
Lawyers are greedy af. Won't even take your case if the person you wanna sue is poor. For that to be factored out, their winnings would need to not be contingent on that. But where else would it come from in a civil suit?

Part 2 of 2

But with enough time and effort, learning at any pace can accumulate enough wisdom to function effectively the same as someone with high intelligence. The more unfamiliar factors there are in your situation, the more your intellect is gonna matter.

But if there's nothing unfamiliar about it because you've seen it all before, you don't need to be smart, because there's nothing to figure out. As long as there's nothing interfering with your memory retrieval, you'll already know what to do.

I agree with you that Teslon definitely has the advantage in this situation. Their effective age is roughly the same iirc since they've both lived two lives now, and having the better brain the second time around would be better that having it the first time.

Teslon will have gotten through his problems in his old life on wisdom, because he'd have known he couldn't analyze a crazily complicated situation on the spot. If he hadn't taken enough time to learn, he'd never have survived.

Teslon also had access to better academic resources this time than last time. That must have really felt like an adventure, whereas the inverse would probably feel painfully boring.

Having adapted to counting on wisdom, and now being able to analyze faster on top of it must feel amazing. Idk if we've heard Teslon describe it yet. But we've heard Rifenhardt describe his situation, so yeah, this is a dangerous matchup. Amazing manga 🙏

Part 1 of 1

A friend told me (this is the most intelligent person I've ever known) that intellect is mostly helpful with figuring things out, like just stuff that you don't yet fully understand.

But wisdom is about utilizing things you already understand, and it's mostly a matter of experience.

He said that based on someone's intelligence, there is a cap on how complex to things a person can figure out, and how quickly, but that's it.

There doesn't appear to be a cap on how much a person can remember. Of course it's probably impossible for it to be infinite, but there's no limit that's been quantified.

There hasn't been any context where someone has usea scientific method to conclude that new information in the brain isn't sticking anymore, or that it's coming at some kind of tradeoff, like deleting old memories.

This is just referring to our design, though. It doesn't account for natural cognitive decline, and doesn't factor in unnatural effects influencing us either.

Of course you can be stopped from learning/ remembering, but that's not a limitation in memory, it's something else. This is dated information (10-15 years), so it may have been disproven by now, but it was what all the evidence pointed to at the time.

He said what makes intelligence matter so much is how busy people's lives are, like everything has too much of a time constraint. Adults are generally barred from uninterrupted learning at a certain point, because they have too many obligations.

19:27

"You must not cut off the hair on your forehead or clip the ends of your beard."

You want me to just let my hair keep growing indefinitely? 🤔

The ends? You mean the tips? There's no hair beyond that. That's where the hair stops.

Do we mean trimming? So I can only shave my beard if I cut it off at the follicle? I can't decide how long I want it and keep it at that length???

19:33/19:34 (respectively)

"When immigrants live in your land with you, you must not cheat them." / "Any immigrant who lives with you must be treated as if they were one of your citizens. You must love them as yourself, because you were immigrants in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God"

OOF. Don't say that one too loud in... Well pretty much anywhere on earth 🤣

Dude don't get me wrong, that thing is not garbage. There's a reason I didn't just paste the whole page. A lot of it is reasonable and timeless. But some only applied to the problems they were facing in that time period. It's obsolete now.

Being gay was dangerously counterproductive in an underpopulated world with higher infant mortality rate, shorter lifespans, less efficient travel leading to lower genetic diversity causing higher susceptibility to pathogens, bad medical care, and no artificial means of reproduction.

Accidental pregnancies only happen in opposite-sex situations. They needed every baby they could get. At least one baby for every adult just to maintain the population. For every gay couple that wasn't reproducing, a straight couple would have to raise twice as many kids.

That's not fair. I don't want ANY damn kids, much less four. If I had lived back then, I probably would've been homophobic too. But all the factors that made it wrong have been greatly mitigated. That shit's over. Let it go.

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Oh for h*ck's sake 🙄

Like 99% of y'all haven't read a page of that book 🤦

Look at the OTHER Levitican laws. ☝🤓

Common English version

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2019&version=CEB

19:13

“You must not oppress your neighbors or rob them. Do not withhold a hired laborer’s pay overnight"

My employer should be paying me every day? 🤔 Well, not a bad idea, but how about once every two weeks? Close enough. 👌

19:18

"You must not take revenge nor hold a grudge against any of your people; instead, you must love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord."

Unless I don't like where they stuck their dick, right? 🤔

19:19

“You must keep my rules. Do not crossbreed your livestock, do not plant your field with two kinds of seed, and do not wear clothes made from two kinds of material.."

You want me to only grow one kind of plant??? ☝😳

My pants are a sin??? 🙄
(Continued in a reply to myself)

You didn't miss anything important. There was humor, but not good enough to be worth explaining. The important part is I'm happy for you 🤗

I found out my understanding of this was flawed. There's actually nothing in the definition of philia that implies the person doesn't like anything else. Same word whether it's an exclusive taste or not. Seems like an important variable to me 🤣

Like if I had a vampire living in my house I would wanna know which franchise it's from. Does it just LIKE blood or does it NEED blood? It's not gonna nom on a human if a sandwich is just as good. Am I at risk or not??? Idgaf what it's thinking, I care what it's gonna DO 😅

I don't think I found any distinction between the words fetish and kink and philia either. Iirc it wasn't worded very efficiently and it took me a long time to read, but I think the gist was that all those words just mean someone likes something.

My memory of the research is surprisingly vague. Weird af because this really wasn't all that long ago. Less than a year. There's much older memories about much less interesting topics that I remember more clearly 🤔

Thank you, friend! 🥰

It was the US election results, most recently.

I know you didn't ask, but I think it was out of courtesy and not disinterest.

I'd much rather give a cruel person an opportunity to get their aggression out than let a kind person worry more than they already are.

Uncertainty makes everything more scary, so if you had to use your imagination, there's no telling what you may have visualized.

Plus, I'm really not vulnerable to any verbal/written cruelty, and whatever hits me won't hit anyone else 😊🤙

You don't carry a tower shield onto the battlefield and then stand there with your bare hands covering the front side of the shield. Shields are supposed to get hit 😋💖

Nothing that I said contradicts anything that you said. It may look like it, but this is not a genuine disagreement.

This is a manifestation of a communication barrier that was put in place deliberately. Things are like this by design.

Vocabulary, attention span, and reading comprehension are systematically restricted. The purpose of it is to prevent people from understanding that they're talking about different things, and it creates the illusion that we all have less common ground than we really do.

It ensures the constant presence of enough easily avoidable conflict to keep people distracted from the real problems, and to keep them from unifying against those problems.

People's expectations of unifying against those problems will be kept to a minimum if they're under the impression that they can't even agree on much more mundane topics.

But this is not a genuine disagreement. This a smokescreen. It's a diversion. As long as we're busy with this, we're not doing what we should be doing.

The problems are actually not problems from the perspective of the people who are causing them. It's exactly what they want. That's why the communication barrier in place. It was out there by tge same people.

I am sorry, friend, but I don't have the energy to explain this in relation to a mundane topic right now, because I'm in other places for hours at a time trying to explain to people that humanity just made one of its most hideous mistakes, and that the reason it happened is because people cannot understand each other, because they cannot communicate.

This was not a disaster. This was not negligence. This was exploitation and this was orchestrated. It worked on almost everyone. Even the smartest people I've ever known walked straight into it, and I need to make sure we have something left to protect after this.

I can't do this with you right now. I'm too tired. I shouldn't have even typed as much as I have, but that is not my way.

You are loved, and you are needed. Don't give up. This world would not be okay without you.

May your roads lead to warm sands 🤝❤

Gentle polite reminder

While a manga is still ongoing, stuff like this is just speculation, but our comments will still be here when the manga is completed.

So they'll be seen by first time readers who didn't start until after it was completed, and if we turn out to be right it can spoil it for them. It's not a spoiler in a technical sense, since by definition you would have be sure it's true.

But from that person's perspective, it's effectively it's the same thing. I'm not saying you're doing anything wrong, btw. Intent is always relevant. Intent is the difference between lying and saying something that you aren't aware is untrue.

Deception is different from just being misinformed. Similarly, an educated guess you made for fun with your fellow hobbyists in a context where none of us could possibly know for sure is different from a spoiler.

I love trying to predict where stories will go, and since none of my manga reader friends have picked this one up, the people I see here are the only ones I could do that with, so I understand the motivation, and I think people should feel free to do it. But I care about future readers too.

I wish there was a second cover-up option for guesses, that was distinct from the spoiler one. I don't think predictions should be out in the open, but I don't think they should be expected to be spoiler tagged either. I don't want anyone to feel restricted 🤔

Omg, really? 2 days? That's amazeballs 😄

50 chapters and like 60 pages each 😅

Inb4 anyone tells this person to touch grass, come to wherever my VPN says I am right meow and 1v1 me IRL 👊😼

If your mind ain't healthy enough to appreciate that, I got one gif to show ya👇

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Hmm. I think this is a good sign 🤔

If he can prove that to her, she's gonna know her height isn't hereditary. If wanting "normal" kids is the reason she's limiting her dating pool to smol guys, that might help mitigate her obsession with Sillan.

I hope that happens. She seems far enough gone that most people would probably consider her a lost cause and just kill her, but that is not my way.

BT-dubs, this is TOTALLY a virtuous merciful gentle soul speaking, and not just a submissive perv who is salty because he's taller than any AFAB IRL, and doesn't wanna stop seeing the hot psycho Amazon domme.

I am ABSOLUTELY out here thinkin' "Has anyone considered factoring in her circumstances? How much mental stability can we fairly expect? Ya know, there is a difference between wisdom and knowledge. Knowledge is knowing Frankenstein wasn't the monster. Wisdom is understanding that Frankenstein WAS the monster. Naiveté is excusable, but the MC's consciousness is much older than her. He better not mess this up."

And I'm NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT thinkin' 👇

[Content/trigger warning: Detailed kinks. Masochism, degradation, and femdom. No ToS violations, but if you're vanilla I don't recommend tapping it. I always let my freak flag fly, but that doesn't mean I don't care about your comfort. You are not wrong for having simple tastes, just as I am not wrong for having weird ones. The heart wants what it wants, and so do the genitals 🙂🤝 Fair warning, Okie-dokes? 🤙]

"Whether she becomes an ally or rival, she's gonna fight again. Maybe she'll step on someone's face, choke them with her thighs, or squeeze their fun parts so hard that their mouth opens involuntarily and then spit in it while they scream and gag until they swallow every drop. Maybe there'll be low angle POV parts 🤔"

Wait, I thought Rifenhardt told his whole inner circle about how he's lived through the future on this timeline before.

I KNOW he told Siris, but iirc he was kinda backed into a corner on that one. I think the decision to be honest was improvised for damage control, not plan A.

I don't see why else he wouldn't tell Sillan exactly what's up unless he doesn't know about the future thingy.

Deception isn't something I'm good at but it's only because I never get any practice. I understand it very well in theory. If it was me and Sillan didn't already know, I may consider not telling him. It would be a risk/reward ratio situation.

If he was seeming like he was gonna walk right into it, I'd probably tell him, but he seems to be taking the situation seriously enough already. As long as he avoids her like the plague, his motivation isn't super relevant since it will yield the same result.

So it may be more effective to support his decision for a reason that aligns with his established beliefs instead of trying to persuade him to believe something new. Even if it's not something that contradicts his old stuff, it's still a longer path.

I might fabricate something if need be, but I don't think it's necessary. His objection is based on perfect logic. He knows she's not gonna treat him right. That's reason enough.

For the sake of your own fun/pleasure, if the dumb/oblivious MC thing bothers you to a problematic extent, you might want to reconsider your interest in the harem genre.

People keep calling this out like it doesn't make sense, but think about it. It's integral to plausibility. It's the only way the harem genre can be a thing.

If the MC was competent enough to make up his mind, the story would be over. They'd become a couple, and the harem would disperse and look for other people to date.

I'm not saying an established relationship couldn't make a good story. It could be great. I'm just saying it wouldn't be harem. If the author wants to write harem, their plot has to have something in it that prevents the MC from deciding.

I can probably think of other ways to write harem, but I'm getting pulled away right now. I'll probably remember to come back and edit this later

Idk how much they've mentioned of his religion, like how old it is. If it's super old it might have a situation going on like Christianity does.

Rules that originally had merit because they addressed the problems people were facing at the time, but have since become obsolete, like Leviticus. There is no valid criticism to be made against homosexuality in modern times, but back then it was dangerously counterproductive.

In that setting, earth was underpopulated and there were no artificial means of reproduction. Unplanned pregnancies only come from straight sex. In times that desperate, individuals waiting until they're certain they're ready was bad for the collective. Quantity was more important than quality.

Like, mortals technically don't have the authority to amend divine laws, but if nobody's heard from the deity in thousands of years and they're living in vastly different circumstances, responsible followers gotta step up and do something.

They have faith that their deity is well-meaning and that their best interests are in mind, so there must be a legit reason they're not being guided anymore. They conclude that peace is the priority, so if they think it'll help, they start drawing their own lines.

In this case, if his deity thinks getting stepped on by giant women is wrong, it just never met THAT one 😳 It's not fair to expect people to consider information they don't have access to, so I'm not gonna resent the deity but I'm not gonna follow the rule either 🤙I can be a man of God and still get stepped on 🤣

Well, in this case more like a boy of God, but I was tapping [Enter site, I am 18+] when I was much younger than him, and "practice what you preach" is rule zero of integrity, so I can't say much 😅