Got to ask...GDI?? NOD??

[VampireA05 0]

i played the game both Renegade & Tiberian Sun...

but whats GDI & NOD stands for??

 

boy, played the game for years but still didnt know the meaning..

[Thierry 0]

GDI stands for Global Defense Initiave, forgot what NOD meant though :?

[Saracen 16]

Nod follows the biblical story of Kane who was exiled to the Land of Nod.. It was here back in the beginning of the human race, he began to build a Brotherhood to exact his revenge on God and ending the human race. Hence the Name, Brotherhood of NOD :wink:

[Sonic 295]

To be really picky, the letters should not be capitalised, it should just be Nod.

[VampireA05 0]

To be really picky, the letters should not be capitalised, it should just be Nod.

 

so Nod is not a short form of something...

but anyway, thanks for the info..

 

yeah, i always wonder what those short form mean...

 

King,

hmm..thats mean i need to read bible a lot...

its been a while i didnt go to church.

x-mas is around the corner & i'm not yet go for my confession...

[LawyerNinja 0]

o i always thought that was spelled like N.O.D. and i thought i stood for something u have way too much time on your hands to be looking up what Nod means

[Scorpio XIII 0]

Yeah, as C&C King Stated, Nod is a location from the bible.

[VampireA05 0]

Yeah, as C&C King Stated, Nod is a location from the bible.

 

where's that??

[Guest MadBadger]

Why do i have a horrific sense of de-ja voo?

[VampireA05 0]

Why do i have a horrific sense of de-ja voo?

 

..and whats that??

[rEdaSbLood 1]

werd im gettn deja vu also....

 

its only the die-hard fans/series followers that know the meaning....bit of irony....just a bit.....

 

i mean its common sense for a game to explain its origins (no matter the sequel #) ....guess not?

 

you know whats great though????

 

people love the game regardless its great story line

 

it was the CnC game as a whole....

[Alphabear 11]

you serious? it never had Global Defence Initiave anywhere in the game? i mean i can understand if someone thought Nod stood for something if they just played renegade but surely GDIs full name was there somewhere. I must play it again and have a look

[TheBlackOut 6]

you serious? it never had Global Defence Initiave anywhere in the game? i mean i can understand if someone thought Nod stood for something if they just played renegade but surely GDIs full name was there somewhere. I must play it again and have a look

 

GDI.. If you play TD and a Nod mission, one briefing says... "And the Global Defence Initiative is closing in on us" or something like that. Also, when Kane frames GDI for an attack on a village, the reporter says "This onslught brought by the Global Defense Initiative..."

 

Also, on TS it states it.

 

Also, my clan on ZH is [GDI] so I know what it means. And so should every C&C fan.

[Alphabear 11]

yes i know its in all the RTS games i was talking about renegade

[TheBlackOut 6]

yes i know its in all the RTS games i was talking about renegade

 

Its in there too.

[Alphabear 11]

yeah i thought it would be. cant check it though as i cant find my renegade disks. ah well first decade pack should be out soon.

[VampireA05 0]

missed that part i guess...

 

i pay no attention to briefing. just stick with mission objectives.

[Redhawk 0]

I think it says G.D.I. Full name in Renegade... but maybe it dosne't i don't fell like playing the game again if you have ANY other C&C game in the tiberian series it says it multiple times

[VampireA05 0]

lol..i'm tired of briefings....

 

damn...tomorrow 3 days shutdown to the whole complex & i havent ready yet!!!

 

i hate my offshore working life....

[aaaalex06 0]

well on Renegade it states Global.Defence.Inisitave also yes kane was kicked out of the land of god and started his cult THE BROTHER HOOD OF NOD meaning nod was the negative of god ovisly also Kane did get his renenge on god i hope (i hate god) lol

[Heretic 0]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_Nod

 

read it all !

8)

 

*edit*

yeah, he was kicked out of eden because he had killed his brother abel, cursed to forever walk the land of Nod.

 

"Summary

 

Cain leads Abel to Death, by James Tissot.Genesis (4:1-17) presents a brief account of the brothers. It states that Cain was a tiller of the land while his younger brother Abel was a shepherd, and that one day they both offered a sacrifice to God, Cain offering fruit and grain, and Abel offering the fat, fatlings, or milk as Josephus has it (the possible renderings of the consonantal Hebrew) from the firstborn of his flock. For an unspecified reason, God favors Abel's offering, and subsequently Cain murders Abel, for another unspecified reason, often assumed simply to be jealousy over God's favoritism. The story continues with God approaching Cain asking about Abel's whereabouts. In a response that has become a well-known saying, Cain answers, "Am I my brother's keeper?"

 

"Finally, seeing through Cain's deception, as "the voice of [Abel's] blood is screaming to [God] from the ground", God curses Cain to wander the earth. Cain is overwhelmed by this and appeals in fear of being killed by other men, and so God places a mark on Cain so that he would not be killed, stating that "whomsoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be upon him sevenfold". Cain then departs, "to the land wandering". Early translations instead stated that he departed "to the Land of Nod", which is generally considered a mistranslation of the Hebrew word Nod, meaning wandering. Despite being cursed to wander, Cain is later mentioned as fathering a lineage of children, and founding a city, which he named Enoch after the name of his son"

 

 

"Wanderer

As, in the Torah, Cain was ordered to wander the earth in punishment, a tradition arose that this punishment was to be forever, in a similar manner to the (much later) legend of the Flying Dutchman. According to some Islamic sources, such as al-Tabari, Ibn Kathir and al-Tha'labi, he migrated to Yemen."

 

" The last known claim of a sighting appears to have been in the United States in the year 1868, when he was reported to have visited a Mormon named O'Grady (see Desert News, September 23, 1868). Prior to this in 1836, another early Mormon - David W. Patten - claimed to have encountered a very tall, hairy, dark-skinned man in Tennessee who said that he was Cain. Patten claimed that Cain had earnestly sought death but was denied it, and that his mission was to destroy the souls of men."

 

 

 

"Despite these later traditional beliefs of perpetual wandering, according to the earlier Book of Jubilees (chapter 4) Cain settled down, marrying his sister, Awan, resulting in his first son, Enoch (considered to be different to the more famous Enoch), approximately 196 years after the creation of Adam. Cain then established the first city, naming it after his son, built a house, and lived there until it collapsed on him, killing him in the same year that Adam died."

 

BUT since we are true followers of Nod, we know that the earlier book if jubilees lies.