There are the various Black Isle games. Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate II, Icewind Dale II, and Planescape Torment. Baldur's Gate II is probably the best of the bunch IMO. All are technically real-time, but can be configured to play sufficently like turn based. Plus they are all cheap nowadays.
Gud, my friend is in UK. I know nothing about any of these games. Is this software she would need to buy? Do you have some page I can point her toward?
And then there are the pagan groups that take the male-female balance issue so far they fall as deep into homophobia as any far-right Christians you can name.Really? This surprises me. Hugely. I hate when my positive prejudices end in disappointment.
In conclusion: sometimes people who suck back up their suckiness with misguided religious fervor, which makes them suck even more.Yep. And if they didn't find some sort of spiritual path, they'd find another way to suck.
See, Cindy, I think that, in those 2 paragraphs, you presented the same viewpoint as the article, but in a much more reasoned, sensible way -- a way that looks at people as more than 2-dimensional.
I think the original article took far too simplistic a view of human sexuality and human emotions w/r/t relationships/sex. After I see a chick flick, I *don't* go home to my cats and ice cream and feel more lonely than ever. And it's simplistic to imply that women do that.
I only did read it quickly, so I either missed that or blocked it out.
Which *you* don't imply. Go you!
Well, one thing I like about what I consider an orthodox view of spirituality vs. physicality is that there is no versus there. That is to say, there is no separating ourselves into spiritual beings on one hand, and physical beings on the other, or separating our lives into sex life, work life, social life, religious life, family life, political life, etc. It's all a blend; it's all important, and in a very real sense (and this is something I'm no where near being able to do well or fully), everything we do is (should be) worship (and I hope nobody confuses what I'm trying to say with the cliche of someone being unable to select new socks without seeing their minister, and checking out some bible verses).
I think (might be wrong) that sort of holistic look at it is also a very Jewish view of life. There is no body is bad/spirit is good false dichotomy. I also see it in some modern pagan thought, as well. As I understand it, this idea that we are physical and spiritual and that both are good, was how it is in the beginning of Christianity, and if a writing argued too strongly otherwise, it got weeded [which is how some of what are now known as the gnostic gospels got weeded out (in other words, the gnostics were big on the spiritual side of things, but found the physical side ucky)].
"Hey, honey, guess what Cinnamon Lovestruck and Studly McHero did in this romance I just read, let's try it," certainly no harm done there.AmyLiz, I triple-dog-dare you to write this line in one of your books.