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<blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 436351" data-attributes="member: 6533"><p><strong>Awakening the Body as well as the Mind</strong></p><p></p><p>I have to chime in with Monk. And I'm serious.</p><p></p><p>Firstly, this is the most embodied class, no other class is going to actually help the dinosaur to use his teeth better, save maybe druid or rogue.</p><p></p><p>Secondly, the experience of being awakened would, if it were excited by being sentitent that is, make an animal pretty interested in introspection and exploring the limits of being a thinking embodied being.</p><p></p><p>Third, Neal Stephenson has a fantastic story of a T-Rex learning Judo in Diamond Age.</p><p></p><p>The T-Rex basically has this life changing experience, the death of all other dinosaurs, which makes it realize that big teeth aren't the best survival strategy anymore. So it looks at what survives and decides that it can't really cooperate with its own kind like ants can or fly and be cool like birds can. He could try to be cunning like the mammals. The mice challenge him to beat their champion and he realizes that this mouse has killed many animals larger than him, challenges the mouse to a game of tic-tac-toe (a popular dinosaur game unknown to mice), defeats the mouse, and then begs to be the mouse's pupil. The mouse knows kung-fu.</p><p></p><p>A fine story with a proper moral lesson, but also a potential example of the path of a dinosaur who has just had his world-view radically altered.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dr. Strangemonkey, post: 436351, member: 6533"] [b]Awakening the Body as well as the Mind[/b] I have to chime in with Monk. And I'm serious. Firstly, this is the most embodied class, no other class is going to actually help the dinosaur to use his teeth better, save maybe druid or rogue. Secondly, the experience of being awakened would, if it were excited by being sentitent that is, make an animal pretty interested in introspection and exploring the limits of being a thinking embodied being. Third, Neal Stephenson has a fantastic story of a T-Rex learning Judo in Diamond Age. The T-Rex basically has this life changing experience, the death of all other dinosaurs, which makes it realize that big teeth aren't the best survival strategy anymore. So it looks at what survives and decides that it can't really cooperate with its own kind like ants can or fly and be cool like birds can. He could try to be cunning like the mammals. The mice challenge him to beat their champion and he realizes that this mouse has killed many animals larger than him, challenges the mouse to a game of tic-tac-toe (a popular dinosaur game unknown to mice), defeats the mouse, and then begs to be the mouse's pupil. The mouse knows kung-fu. A fine story with a proper moral lesson, but also a potential example of the path of a dinosaur who has just had his world-view radically altered. [/QUOTE]
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