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Ultimately, of course, ownership, like pornography, like being a miser, is a matter of opinion. It's infantile to actually claim such things do not exist and thus cannot be discussed intelligently simply because nobody can agree on what exactly the definition is. Nobody is claiming this. People wan...

We are not the ones claiming that "own" is meaningful. If it's so meaningful, you should be able to tell us what about it is meaningful. Oh no, wouldn't dream of it, y'all are way too smart for this bumpkin. Nothing I've said here is original, or not well known. I've quoted historical fac...

How about the works of Ben Okri?

Calibron wrote:Oh, yes, I know. I wasn't trying to imply they're a panacea, just that it's stupid to try to overextend yourself with them as opposed to boosting your normal capacity; of course one must be careful of addiction and side effects one may be prone to

And state-dependent learning.

I changed my "live and let live" policy with spiders after I found one hanging out in my bangs. Besides, their are so many spiders in this town that there's no way we could possibly get rid of them without a gassing the whole town via airstrike, not even joking. Gassing won't kill the spi...

Socialism works because there are some goods and services that are more efficiently allocated through central planning, but assuming that necessarily holds for all vital goods and services is a mistake of hubris. This seems to be basically what Frank is saying when he distinguishes between Property...

K wrote:Human Sexuality was probably the best class I ever took. It was the only time I felt like school really opened my eyes and changed me as person since it made me realize how pointlessly judgmental I was at the time. It was a Psych class.

Could you elaborate?

Ghostwheel wrote: After all, why journey to the temple of the flame which holds the most sacred fire of Dislun which is a direct copy of the most primal of flames when you can get it simply by planeshifting to the elemental plane of fire and scooping some of that up?

Because you are low-level.

Sashi wrote: Note that I said agnosticism is the only scientifically sound position to take.

Never make a post conflating inductive and deductive logic ever again. It hurts our brains. It hurts even more when you do so while arguing that another person is doing exactly the same thing.

I used to play the free version of Minecraft, without the monsters and inventory and stuff. The full version sounds a lot more fun, but still, free version was cool. It is really excellent, but the multiplayer is still in dev and thus crazy unpolished. This sucks, because multi is the best part of ...

I am now addicted to minecraft. I wish that I weren't in school at the same time.

Really? You think that 3 was worse than 2?

(yes, I'm biased but lots, lots, lots more folks get psych degrees than math degrees, and supply/demand and all that). You're ignoring the 'demand' bit. Lot's of people want therapists. This is true, but the real monies are for those who go to medical school. A good old fashioned PhD won't let you ...

Doom wrote: (yes, I'm biased but lots, lots, lots more folks get psych degrees than math degrees, and supply/demand and all that).

You're ignoring the 'demand' bit. Lot's of people want therapists.

So, I've been playing for a while now, and I was wondering if someone could give me a rundown of the gameplay differences between the eras. I've been doing EA, with a smattering of MA and LA. Is it true that later eras have less magic (and not just a default setting of fewer sites). Why is MA, as Fr...

Kaelik wrote:Is there any way to patch the game without destroying it and without doing each of like elevendy billion patches one after the other in order?

Did you buy the game?

I learned that when the brakes on my bike have been recently replaced, they work really well. Then I learned how much a broken arm hurts. Fricken awesome weekend.

The political discussions in MPSIMS have been some of my favorite online reading. Please allow more to happen.

Also, a lot of the most interesting gaming articles have been politics-related. Witness the tomes.

So you're not going to learn because inevitably you'll fail at being able to apply it to your own behavior? You know, that's discussed in the book too... The whole thing where people who are bad at something or feel like failures actually feel worse for having succeeded at something. ;) Coincidenta...

Balderdash. When people actually commit themselves to Christ, they will follow the teachings in his word. In other words they will change. Change fundementally. Clutch Well then. I'm not entirely sure as to what you mean when you say "actually commit to Christ" or "follow the teachin...

I'm a hard-core Christian. I've never really understood how people get so far away from: 1. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, your mind, and your Soul. 2. Love your neighbor as yourself. "1st Corinthiens 13: So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love....

There's really no reason for the tax code to be complex for the end user aside from lack of will*. The government could seriously put out a program like Turbotax every year for free dowload, and then you wouldn't have to understand the weird math and syntax, you'd just fill in the blanks. *Or the pe...

I would either divide disciplines along the lines of physical/sorcerous or physical/sorcerous/cult.

EDIT: I mean for the character sheet.