Do not go gentle into that World of Warcraft

A member of our Christian fellowship used to be heavily into Dungeons and Dragons. Our Bible study teacher challenged him to interject Jesus into the game and see how long He survived by turning the other cheek. Our friend got the point: we don't expect to "win" in this world. We love in spite of the expectation of suffering, persecution and possible death.

Now someone's had a similar idea. They're putting their character Noor the Pacifist into the universe of World of Warcraft.

A college student is attempting to level two "pacifist" characters up to the top of World of Warcraft's character progression, characters he's playing without attacking anything. It's partly to try out the philosophy of pacifism in the violent virtual world, and partly to see if he can do it.

We wish him luck. But I'd put my money on a poison-trained rogue-class Gladiator Draenei with mind-flaying skills instead.

In the words of Mark Twain: "Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done."

Virtual history is even clearer on the subject.

(via BoingBoing)


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