Ah Roleplaying...

Just got back from dropping Lara (g/f) off at Frankston.

You know, Roleplaying can get weird when inanimate objects are alive from a given viewpoint. During my game of Nobilis that I run on Sundays, one of my Players decided to get through a wall by convincing it to commit suicide.

No, not attempted. Did. Currently, there is a bit of dust where the wall once was. There's talk of taking it back to the chancel and making a new wall out of it...

The other, slightly less odd idea that one of my players had was getting one of the Powers of Children (one of the PCs) to talk to the Water Cooler in the World Trade Center (not destroyed in my world), to get an idea about the scuttle-butt about the place.

Have I mentioned how much I love Nobilis? Things get wacky, and you can be completely serious...

Why do I even bother?

I keep promising myself I won't argue with him. I keep promising myself that this is the last time I'm going to whack my head repeatedly against a brick wall trying to convince him that his little worldview might have some minor problems.

Alas, there is a trail of broken promises.

The person I'm referring to is raahul. I keep saying to myself that you can only learn if you're willing to do so, and he is very obviously not willing to do so. Every now and then, Sluggy.net comes near a religious argument, and there he is, pointing out to all the theists present that they're idiotic, pathetic, and oh-so-inferior to those who preach that there is no god, and that all the world is rational.

Needless to say, many have branded him a troll, but the scarier thing is that he believes what he preaches. To Fundamentalist levels, no less. He is entirely convinced that there is no possible way that any view other than his own could have any sort of validity.

And still I argue. Still, I try to soften his views.

I'm not going to bother making another promise to myself. I know I'm going to break it the moment he comes out of the woodwork again.

I, dear friends, am a argumentative masochist. It's the only logical explanation...