Sure they are…Think of gravity interacting with the inertia of matter in motion as being the teeth of the gears. After all, it IS the force of gravity that gives the universe is shape & form & motion is what keeps the gears turning. The teeth of the gears are *there* but are invisible because our eyes weren’t made to be capable of seeing *everything*
BTW, all that I said up above IS a matter of proven science, even in our “real world.”
Yea, we shall have faith in the invisible teeth of the gears, for surely they are indeed there, no matter what our eyes tell us. Because gravity. And inertia. And stuff.
Ignore the fact that they’re totally visible on the outer surface, ye faithful children of the cog, for that way heresy lies!
I hope you’re being sarcastic. If not, then tell me if you can see the air. Truth is, you can’t see air but you know it’s there because when air moves it rustles tree branches & blows dust up into clouds.
How do you think scientists discovered the Higgs Particle recently? They could never see it & still can’t actually see it…But they DO see the effects that it has in the surrounding environment as it moves through.
That picture above only shows a graphic using gears & cogs as allegorical to the way the solar system & universe works. The picture is an allegory, not a literal.
Of course I’m being sarcastic, but still – what the OP and myself are saying is that it’s a piss-poor graphical representation. No self-respecting gnomechanic would ever use that image to illustrate the point that “at the center of it all is the cog that turns all others”. He’d be laughed out of the workshop!
Well, Jason Waltrip was the illustrator, and I think he did a pretty good job of reproducing an image that he just got a glimpse of. I mean, if he were a gnome or even a human mechanical engineer, that would be a different matter. But a human webcomic illustrator, with a very limited amount of time… I think we can let it slide.
A propos of nothing, I had a Corruptor Beast-inspired nightmare, properly mixed with some LoEG-themed stuff & eldritch abominations. I should try to write it down somewhere, it had some really fun elements, like Queen Victoria trying to escape the unraveling of reality by TARDISS, commandeered by an incarnation of the Doctor with a close visual resemblance to LoEG’s Captain Nemo.
It’s sort of, but not really, pantheism. Really more like the belief that there’s some kind of Prime Mover, but it’s not really personal. Gnomes just sort of go along with that being their “god” so people will stop bothering them.
Phil Khan is great. Thank you! I have been having difficulty posting so I e mailed him and he fixed it right up so I can post again. Any way this is my response to Cassandra/Loki’s question. It has been posted in the proper order in the original thread of many days ago, http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-35-page-4/
No I don’t think so. Their belief seems to just be that since everything is run cogs, every living thing is just another cog in that huge network. They aren’t Gods at all (as they don’t believe in Gods), just cogs in the machine as everyone else is.
It’s actually like some religions that don’t have Deities (Such as some branches of Buddhism), they have an understanding of how the world works but not some higher power running or involved in it.
Interesting. I came up with the same exact thing for my gnomes in Trigonometry and Gnomeregan Forever. Nature is a great machine, a collection of cogs, wheels and gears. I have them utter “curses” like “gear stripper” and “Oh my cogs.” Just goes to show, creative minds think alike. :)
When The Five and buddies discover their world is possibly a part of a huge machine all being controlled by a central clock that determines when each world will do what etc… the Gnomes would be the first and possibly last group I would tell as a race. Their beliefs seem to make that idea less shocking.
It’s better to be a cog than a clog.
That planetary gear system makes no sense. The teeth of the planet gears aren’t even connected to their respective annular gears.
An interesting ideology that I kinda favor more towards.
[artist’s rendition]
Fair enough
Sure they are…Think of gravity interacting with the inertia of matter in motion as being the teeth of the gears. After all, it IS the force of gravity that gives the universe is shape & form & motion is what keeps the gears turning. The teeth of the gears are *there* but are invisible because our eyes weren’t made to be capable of seeing *everything*
BTW, all that I said up above IS a matter of proven science, even in our “real world.”
Yea, we shall have faith in the invisible teeth of the gears, for surely they are indeed there, no matter what our eyes tell us. Because gravity. And inertia. And stuff.
Ignore the fact that they’re totally visible on the outer surface, ye faithful children of the cog, for that way heresy lies!
I hope you’re being sarcastic. If not, then tell me if you can see the air. Truth is, you can’t see air but you know it’s there because when air moves it rustles tree branches & blows dust up into clouds.
How do you think scientists discovered the Higgs Particle recently? They could never see it & still can’t actually see it…But they DO see the effects that it has in the surrounding environment as it moves through.
That picture above only shows a graphic using gears & cogs as allegorical to the way the solar system & universe works. The picture is an allegory, not a literal.
Of course I’m being sarcastic, but still – what the OP and myself are saying is that it’s a piss-poor graphical representation. No self-respecting gnomechanic would ever use that image to illustrate the point that “at the center of it all is the cog that turns all others”. He’d be laughed out of the workshop!
You’re probably just pissed the Earth isn’t being represented as flat and at the center of everything :I
Well, Jason Waltrip was the illustrator, and I think he did a pretty good job of reproducing an image that he just got a glimpse of. I mean, if he were a gnome or even a human mechanical engineer, that would be a different matter. But a human webcomic illustrator, with a very limited amount of time… I think we can let it slide.
I guess the order of the triangle in circle in a square is another offshoot of the order of the bloodshot eye?
Shapists?
It’s inspired by the old Mazda rotary engine. Orthodox gnomes are called ‘Rotarians’.
There’s nothing funnier to me right now than a cloister of nuns actually called “The Order of the Triangle In Circle In A Square.”
Now I’m imagining you all rolling around giggling like the Pilsbury Dough Boy over this “Triangle in Circle in a Square” business.
“We shall now read from Geonometricians, chapter 2, verse 3:14.”
Oh my Glob, you guys.
Typo- “captial”
With that in mind, it’s surprising you don’t see more gnomes geared up in the Gastonian military.
The smaller the cog, the higher the gear…
Oh my cog, I can’t gear this any longer. I was riveted to my seat while she spoke. Why do people alloy this?
I’d give you a B- for trying. But don’t think I’m screwing you over, it was good that you had the nuts to try and make some puns of your own.
I hope he doesn’t bolt off after he sees the grade you gave him – you might make him feel he’s all torque.
I say we should cut the guy some slack…We all need to resort to Dues ex Machina to pull some puns out occasionally.
Ooops…A typo on Deus ex Machina up above. Apparently even the best gears can slip once in a while.
I was wondering what automated teller machines had to do with puns.
Oh, wait… Are they responsible for the same dull puns being spit out, every time an axe is shown or mentioned on a page? ;)
A propos of nothing, I had a Corruptor Beast-inspired nightmare, properly mixed with some LoEG-themed stuff & eldritch abominations. I should try to write it down somewhere, it had some really fun elements, like Queen Victoria trying to escape the unraveling of reality by TARDISS, commandeered by an incarnation of the Doctor with a close visual resemblance to LoEG’s Captain Nemo.
Woohoo! Glad to hear a little bit about gnome culture and ideology. I really enjoyed this one!
Tyler, your name is familiar. Did you go to Maury in the 80s? Or do I have the wrong guy?
Cool question, btw.
It’s sort of, but not really, pantheism. Really more like the belief that there’s some kind of Prime Mover, but it’s not really personal. Gnomes just sort of go along with that being their “god” so people will stop bothering them.
Pretty interesting.
Phil Khan is great. Thank you! I have been having difficulty posting so I e mailed him and he fixed it right up so I can post again. Any way this is my response to Cassandra/Loki’s question. It has been posted in the proper order in the original thread of many days ago, http://guildedage.net/comic/chapter-35-page-4/
“There is no higher power, only mechanical advantage”
Wow. Nice one. I may have to remember this one next time anyone asks me about my religous beliefs.
IN COG WE TRUST
That last panel…
Do all gnomes consider themselves gods, then?
No I don’t think so. Their belief seems to just be that since everything is run cogs, every living thing is just another cog in that huge network. They aren’t Gods at all (as they don’t believe in Gods), just cogs in the machine as everyone else is.
It’s actually like some religions that don’t have Deities (Such as some branches of Buddhism), they have an understanding of how the world works but not some higher power running or involved in it.
So giving a nickname to the driving forces of the universe? I guess this is an example of . . . cog-gnomen?
I hope Bandit doesn’t read from the book titled: Necro-cog-nicon…
That’s actually a really cool idea for how the universe runs. c:
Interesting. I came up with the same exact thing for my gnomes in Trigonometry and Gnomeregan Forever. Nature is a great machine, a collection of cogs, wheels and gears. I have them utter “curses” like “gear stripper” and “Oh my cogs.” Just goes to show, creative minds think alike. :)
-Trig
When The Five and buddies discover their world is possibly a part of a huge machine all being controlled by a central clock that determines when each world will do what etc… the Gnomes would be the first and possibly last group I would tell as a race. Their beliefs seem to make that idea less shocking.