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I have two announcements for my Watchers this afternoon!

The first is that the FPDAD Archives has been completely overhauled and a new website is up: [link]

The second is that next month I will be moving to Texas for the fall and will have little to no internet access during that time. So this project update is probably my salute to 2012 as far as deviantART is concerned. I'm actually going to be around for the majority of September, but at some point I'll disappear off the face of the planet for a while.

Godspeed!

-Rick
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:iconspongebobfossilpants:
I'm going to miss you, buddy! :hug:
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~DeinonychusEmpire Sep 2, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
You,too! It'll be nice to spend time away from home but I'll be glad when I'm back!
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~Evenape Sep 1, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
Whoa, nice website :D, and I'll be waiting for you to return to dA again, sir!

Just one thing though, partum is actually the Latin word for birth (as in post-partum, etc.); as not all animals in this project give birth, creatio/genesis would actually be more appropriate (and just sounds cooler)
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~DeinonychusEmpire Sep 1, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
I checked an English-to-Latin translator and according to it "partum" translated to "bear, bring forth, produce, create, make and get." So I went with it. I'm using the same translator and am getting weird things for "creatio" and "genesis." Anyway, I'll look into it more and see how I feel about changes being made. Thanks for the info! And thanks for checking out my website too!
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~Evenape Sep 2, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
From what I know of Latin, creatio is creation (from the verb "creare" create), and genesis is birth, as in the Old Testament's Genesis, so...
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~DeinonychusEmpire Sep 2, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
What I'm saying is the word I chose included "creation" and "birth" in it's definition also, so I don't know what to think at this point.
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~Evenape Sep 3, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
Indeed...

Creatio just sounds more awesome to me :XD:

Also, you can connect this to the Jewish folklore of the golems, which are originally perceived as some men trying to create (human, or at least human-like) life, like what God did in Creation...

As that one little girl pointed out in the end of the story, creating life a la God's ways is sacrilegious, and that's what this is all about, isn't it? that such radical genetic manipulation ultimately is sacrilegious...
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~DeinonychusEmpire Sep 3, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Actually no, that's more or less opposite the direction I intended. This project is essentially an irony: a mockery of religious conservativism in that with conservative ideologies anything can be demonized, even the one thing that no Christian would ever say is evil: the act of creation itself. Religious conservativism has a tendency to A) develop around a fear of sin rather than a love of God and B) ease their fear by making paranoid establishments in an attempt to "insure" their salvation, when the Bible makes it clear that while God wants us to live in accordance with his very simple and straight-forward rules, he also wants us to live free in him, because a life lived in sync with God will prevent sin from grasping us anyhow. Adoration of God dampens the influence of temptation to do things that are "against God." So to develop a conservative lifestyle by imprisoning oneself with "salvation insurance policies" virtually destroys our human purpose: to create and explore.

I'm as anti-conservative as they come, and The Eighth Deadly Sin is my expression of that.
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~Evenape Sep 4, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
I understand that, and I'm not that fond of religious conservatism as well (at least, the really vocal, ignorant ones) :)

So, an interesting way to share your opinions :D
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~DeinonychusEmpire Sep 4, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you! I should probably put some kind of description explaining this stuff on the website.
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