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August 24th, 2001, 03:06 AM
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Re: OT - bored with gaming ? Get philosophy!
Read "Wizard War" by Hugh Cook if I recall correctly. A green bottle and a red bottle posed a puzzle for a character. The controls for the bottles were rings around their necks. It took him a couple weeks to figure out how to get past a barred grill using the bottle he found on a desk in a library.
I would not care to attempt a rigorous physical description of creation. I think of it metaphorically as linked lists of data structures. Address pointers are information exchange operators. Data values range along a continuum in reference to "physical constants". The "laws of nature" are local rules entirely dependent on the local data structure.
For more food for thought look up *isms words. Then web search with them. Someone really should create a structured English dictionary that gets rid of this reverse Polish notation.....
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August 24th, 2001, 03:41 AM
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Re: OT - bored with gaming ? Get philosophy!
I love philosophy. I used to spend a lot of time at work talking to another Philosophy buff. God I miss working with him.
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August 24th, 2001, 04:18 AM
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Re: OT - bored with gaming ? Get philosophy!
I would say that God is well aware of all events in creation, from personal experience. In case there is some misconception here I am not God, nor do I speak directly to God, at least so far as I know. I use another old hackneyed cliche "Where There Is A Will, There Is A Way".
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August 24th, 2001, 04:30 AM
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Re: OT - bored with gaming ? Get philosophy!
Amend brother.  I can't agree more on everything you have said.
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August 24th, 2001, 04:55 AM
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Re: OT - bored with gaming ? Get philosophy!
One of the major reasons why I am not trusted, and should not be, is that I have difficulty making the distinction between "can" and "may, between "to" and "with", the list goes on and on. So paraphrase whatever I say if it makes you uncomfortable. Dictionaries that I access are either unreliable or crash the net link I use when I access words. Many links I access, including those which are hyperlinks result in failure to access or once again crash the net link....
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August 24th, 2001, 05:28 AM
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Re: OT - bored with gaming ? Get philosophy!
Upon consideration, the problem is likely that the lists of *onyms I have conceptualized do not agree with common usage. I am fortunate in this regard because this means I am indifferent to attacks which presume I know what is occurring. For example I experienced a mild prickling while reading at one site and finally realized with a laugh that the owner thought that I thought that I was "Superman" and was attempting to attack using "green kryptonite".
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August 24th, 2001, 02:35 PM
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Re: OT - bored with gaming ? Get philosophy!
What happens when the worms come?
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