Loving your neighbor as yourself. ; )

Well its that time of the month again, oh you know writing another blog and relating it to World of Warcraft as well as something spiritual. Today I chose to talk about something that is or can be hard for a lot of people, which is loving our neighbors as yourself. The question that I have always asked is who are my neighbors? Is it the person next door to me? or is it the guy across the street? Well let me share with you somethings that I think will shed some light on this subject. Loving our neighbors isn't just being kind to the person next door to us or even across the street, it means to love everyone as ourselves. In John 13:34-35 , Christ says:                                                                                     

                                                                             
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

You might be thinking, that is great and all but how does that show that we need to love our neighbor as ourselves?

Be prepared for the unexpected

Today I want to share with you a couple of stories. One of which is a real life situation and then the other is in the World of Warcraft. I'll start with the Real life situation and then go to the WoW story. There once was a missionary who went to Wal-Mart one day to go buy some things. Well as the two Elders (Elders is a title meaning teacher, which is a shorter name for missionaries.) Anyways as the two elders were going up to the counter to pay for the items. elder B swiped his card and then heard this beeeeeeeeeeeepppppppppppppp. With a shocked look elder B swipes the card again and tried entering in a pin number, when he entered in the pin he heard this beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppppppppppppp. Well what happened? elder B asked, elder F said "well elder looks like you ran out of money." With that Said elder B went to a back up card and was able to pay for his things. Now I want to share a WoW story with you. When I was playing on my Holy Paladin I was running around one day looking for something to do...

Get Out of the Fire Noob!

In PvE there is a simple formula to winning. If you know the boss fight, do your job, and get out of the fire, you will ultimately get fat lewts. It sounds simple enough, but sadly there are many "bads" and "noobs" that decide that they want to exchange their lives for foot warmth. While the success of a raiding guild could be attributed to leadership, communication, and patience, the downfall of guilds and boss attempts might very well be that there are too many noobs standing in the fire.

There is a solution to this! The easiest way to avoid death by fire, void zones, poison, and otherwise treacherous things under foot is to get out of there as quickly as possible...

Be An Example Unto The Players/Believers

For just a moment I want you to take a minute and think about an old saying in life. "The FIRST IMPRESSION is a LASTING IMPRESSION." How true is that?  Many times when I was playing WoW I would always ask players for help or I would always ask questions about the game. Many times they would tell me that I needed to learn how to play (L2P.) So what did I do? I learned how to play the game! I watched other players and checked out their stats and what it was they did that was different from what I did...

"Cry Moar Scrub"

It seems that I've been writing quite a bit about WoW terms recently! Hopefully this does not disappoint anyone, but I feel the need to write about another. The term, as you can see from the title is "Cry Moar (More) Scrub". The term is quite straightforward, but the context of its use is quite particular to WoW. Say for example someone is getting ganked and wants help from other players. They'll spam chat and say, "HALP I IZ GETTING GANKED!"  The usual nice person (or RPer [role player{c wut i did ther?}]) would say "I will certainly come to thy aid kind sir and vanquish the Alliance scum, which are running rampant in yonder regions!" On the other hand any normal PVPer would say something like "Cry moar scrub! L2P (learn to play)!"  

Sympathy isn't meted out much in WoW, but players who respond with the phrase "Cry moar scrub" do have a point...