On What RPG truely Means
OceansOfThought @ June 1, 2010 # Comments Off
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. – Abraham Lincoln
RPG. Remember when that used to mean something? Role. Playing. Game. Role playing. Immersive, complete, take over Role. As much as a love a good MMOrpg , and the graphics [...]
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On Cash Cows and Cancer
OceansOfThought @ June 29, 2009 # Comments Off
Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.-Abraham Lincoln
New ways of tackling Cancer are always being highlighted, -See below- but, there have been no advanced changes in the fight of this disease. One thing that has been identified at contributing to [...]
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On Stuff People Eat
OceansOfThought @ March 30, 2009 # Comments Off
Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you! ~Tommy Smothers
Among the insatiable desires we, as humans have, is the need to constantly change and rework our food. I marvel at the culinary delights we concoct, and just the natural ones. I’m not even going to go in to the [...]
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On Living in the Past, Metaphysically Speaking.
OceansOfThought @ August 21, 2008 # Comments Off
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” -Albert Einstein
Naturally, there was some confusion with this post; The one about time. What was I really saying? Let me clarify. The Speed of Light is awesome, but it limits our world and we’ve used it to limit ourselves. We’ve defined it as the [...]
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On the Purpose of Time, minus Light
OceansOfThought @ August 19, 2008 # One Comment
Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. ~William Faulkner
In this plane of existance that we share and inhabbit.. time is the factor.
The fastest thing we know allows us to see ourselves and relativeisticly know when [...]
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On Standup Comics and Race
OceansOfThought @ July 24, 2008 # Comments Off
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.- Abraham Lincoln
Let us talk about Race, Just like we did before.
How acceptable is it to tell a stereotype joke if you are from that stereotype? and dO you have to tell a stereotype joke? We ask this because there are many comics out there in the [...]
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On the Problem of Being Immortal
OceansOfThought @ July 10, 2008 # 3 Comments
And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln
We humans are near the cusp of a break thru on human evolution and longevity and we shouldn’t do it.
Let’s work with some numbers (thou false, they illustrate the point). Take for instance a normal cell. [...]
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On Crime, Laziness and Means, Motive, and Opportunity and Rationality
OceansOfThought @ July 7, 2008 # Comments Off
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.” -Abraham Lincoln
One may say humans are inherently lazy and when faced with obstylces we tend to take the lesser path. This reasoning comes from the fact that we evaluate things according to their benefit to us. When reason fails, passion [...]
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On Our Goverment Acting like a Spoiled Child
OceansOfThought @ June 26, 2008 # Comments Off
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. – Abraham Lincoln
I hope you remember this post, It’s about the EPA not enforcing a court order [...]
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On Solving the Credit Crunch
OceansOfThought @ June 22, 2008 # 2 Comments
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. – Abraham Lincoln
A friend asked me about this post, the flow of invisible money, then asked me, which plan was better, was it, less corporate [...]
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