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  1. Storage sale, and Buying things too

    if the vials are still for sale, i take them 6gc each.
  2. Dark Ritual in Thelinor

    Fedora Usl Rehdon Boh and Frostwind (one of them as substitute) Italians do it better
  3. buy/sell

    furs @ 85gc.
  4. Level dependent summoning

    Yeeeeees I was waiting such a change since my first mchim. Ent idea is very good, solving both the problem of stones and of summoning as a fighting skill (mmm...now Learner Combat Skill chart makes more sense). Since my elven heart is black as obsidian, i'd like to see a "crit fail" where the summons strike back to the summoner if he/she is doing something under the recommended/required level in pk...but this is a minor cruelty we can live without. EDIT: at a second thought, Learner point is interesting in terms of incentive to level. Maybe change the % to half the normal if under recommended?
  5. ELG Guild Shop

    I need an unlimited quantity of sunflowers...let's start with 10k
  6. I had something similar few hours ago. For me it was a camera issue: try alt+f, then alt+f again (and tell us if it works).
  7. Astrology GUI

    Checking astro i got this: bug or extremely bad luck Ibook G4, Tiger 10.4.11
  8. Mines, and a new perk

    oh nice, i'm leveling eng now...let's clean nca a bit about the perk, 5 pps are enough imo, and i wont take it (pr0 afker). OT: can we have the same logic applied to summons? (maybe crit hit/dmg = [charm+summ]/5)
  9. Timed Hydro

    I was sitting in Oblivion in an attempt to "harvest" some hydro harvesters, wondering in #gm about the reasons of the lack of action there (frequent ndds)...then i came up with this: Timed Hydro. Basically, restrict the access to the hydro mine, let's say, to 1 random hour every EL day (timezone fair). This little trick may lead to good changes: - Hydro would become a "finite" resource, starting a competition for it - The risk of hydro harvesting, as originally planned, would be there again - Guilds can organize to gain "control" of the hydro mine, influencing hydro price and availability - Pkers would have a chance to earn from their skills (both paid protection and harvesters hunting) - War, blood, pain...fun - More bricks - ... Weak points: - due to the nature of Oblivion (1 acces, 1 exit, ttrs) it would be too easy for fighters to camp there. Maybe adding more entrances, from Hulda and Theli, and more exits (some skulls spreaded in Oblivion) could do the job. - top fighters teaming together ruining the fun (hint: last ndd) and the hydro economy... - ... On the programming side, I guess it shouldnt be a big change...a few checks here and there and a couple of #bc to announce it. On the roleplay side...uh...ehm...Gods? Stars? Favorable moons?
  10. Big Bang and Black Holes

    First, let me add my compliments for all your arguments (and for your mystical attitude which i share with you). Brain vs Mind is another epic struggle. My spirit suggests my consciousness that whenever a struggle arise, it is due to my inadequate knowledge or approach to things. Brain is the organic substrate on which the mind works, mind is what the brain does. A part of the mind is so developed to be able to create a fictional world where a character called "I" exists. There is nothing unexplainable or mysterious about a change of the mind affecting the brain, since due to the structure of the brain, it's inner workings are able to change it's electrical behaviour and viceversa. The brain highly affects the body, and again, nothing strange in a change of the mind changing the body...i have personal experiences about this, i have seen many psichiatric patients at the edge of death for complex and unexplainable diseases, coming back to life in a week with a couple of drugs AND the help of analysis (unseparable imo). Your case is in the same line, an imbalance being caused by a neurotrasmitter alteration or by some "unhealthy" relation of the mind/brain with the world (a.k.a. your life) has been corrected by meditation or, in other words, a forcing of the mind/brain on a certain path of behaviours. For EEG and delta wave...eeg is a very primitive instrument, very inaccurate apart to detect macroscopic phenomena (epilepsy). EEG should be intracranial to be at least usable in such researches, and still is very inaccurate. This said, is completely possible, by the definition of mind, that healers, mediums and the like can enter a not-yet-studied electrical state of the brain...maybe a state where most of the "normal" activities are shut down so some other of them can perform a better attuning to the world and an awesome prediction/empathy capabilities. (As for healers...often is a matter of how you approach the patient, just that...). For the "Tummo", i wont say much since i dont know about it (look, i said i dont know ). Still, mind/brain controls Simpatic System, which in turn is able to act on the body brown fat to generate heat...i wouldnt be so baffled. Last, the "incomprehensible commonality" of religions and more generally of human behaviours are the result of our structure as beings and as a specie (imo). Life is evolution, and the brain/mind is based on the same process (selection of behaviours by sinaptic changes). Evolution is also slow and boring, it repeats the same scheme for ages until an useful variation occurs. Mind in contrast is fast and less stable, it evolves rapidly (thanks to the source of variations which is the interaction with the world). We all start as "animals", where every mind aspect is guided by instincts (a system of values wired in by genetics to direct the evolution of the mind towards goals good for the being/specie). The nucleus of instincts (self preservation, sex, etc...) plus the early-learned notion of "power" (the relation of your strength with the one of other similar beings) lead to what i recognize as the "innate idea of god". Namely the feeling or idea emerging from the constant sampling of your mind of a world where causality is a necessary concept to survive, and the sampling of inter-human relations where respect and obeying to the power is also necessary. Add the ability of the mind to create hierarchical classifications, to cluster things by similarity...and the idea of a god is there (being it a father/mather or a spirit whenever the causality or power/sex aspects gets stronger). As for evolution, new things are often added at the top of old ones...and that makes the today mind a stratification of "historical minds", each layer added both by experience, education and meditation (i suggest you the works of Carl Gustav Jung, they are an awesome reading about the subject). And we will pass it to the next generations, with infinite moral implications...ok, ok, little too much OT now P.S. yes, foolish is way better than silly
  11. Sky client test 5

    Compiled out of cvs for mac and it looks great. I have a noticeable fps drop even without reflection and a reduced max view distance. I recompiled using SIMPLE_LOD and it goes smooth...can we have simple_lod as an option under video tab? Frame drop is also triggered by the first use of minimap (and remains there even if i close the window) EDIT: spelling
  12. Storage sale ;o

    tilongs and wt furs for 45k, pm me.
  13. Big Bang and Black Holes

    Eheh, science has left behind the idea of absolute truth since ages (but i agree not all the scientists around do the same) substituting it with the absolute doubt (the "I dont know" you where talking about), a thing that is absent in religion where you have a mystery instead. A doubt can be answered with some effort, a mystery is unsolvable by definition...hence science is dynamic and tends to increase knowledge, whereas religion (not spirituality, just religion) is static (look at how slowly clumsily the churchs catched up in the centuries...) I dont see this matter as silly...actually religious and scientific fanatism are both the "evil" of this centuries. On one side we have the "faith" on the Market and the neverending Progress. I heard people telling me that global warming is not a real problem, because soon we will colonize other planets... On the other side we have the "faith" is some god which tells you not to have sex, not to use condoms (spreading this way HIV all around Africa), not to study evolution and so on. Both examples of what happens when you lack an healthy doubt guiding your actions and thoughts. And it is even worse when the two help each other. Last i disagree on subjective and objective knowledge to be unmixable. I think i pointed out in some post before that science cant give you a moral or a ethic, but can help you build one to achieve the civilization you strive for. Your moral guides your actions and they modify the world...isnt better to know how the world works to a good extent before choosing a moral?
  14. Ye Olde Alchemist's Booth

    max order of life essences
  15. Storage Sale

    i take the LEs, 4.5gc each...try to catch you in game tonight.
  16. Selling My Store :(

    i buy 12 serp stone at 4.5k each and bindings at 7k
  17. Combat Level for events

    could be a really interesting test...may i suggest the use of tigers/bears/spiders(?) only? Not so powerful, still nice tactics. EDIT: obviously bears/tigers/spider from stones
  18. Combat Level for events

    You can buy summoning stone, i'd say summoning is more a mixing skill nowadays *cough* red dragon *cough*
  19. Client text macro commands

    Very nice! But aliases like this, crash the client: #alias 1 #1 #1 I know i'm evil
  20. Big Bang and Black Holes

    I agree that all matter is made up of atoms. However, life is not matter. Life is a property of a system able to reproduce itself (namely, transmit the information to build similar systems). Every part of a life being is aimed to that goal. Also a life system has a local decrease of entropy at the cost of an increase of the global entropy. This means, i need energy to keep my structures functioning and not decomposing. How do you claim, in science pls, that life is not matter and energy? The lack of knowledge to describe in detail such systems is not an argument against them being made of matter and energy only. Moreover life is in no way incompatible with physics. You ever wondered why we die? Why every life being have a different life span? Information cant be stored in a system for long time because it gets degraded by the increasing entropy. Once information and hence structure is ruined not much can be done apart throwing the system away. And that is also why life needs to reproduce itself, to refresh that information. In the reproduction process however, always due to entropy, inevitable variations are included giving birth to different beings with different capabilities and chances of reproduction... Dont you find all of this extremely elegant, beautiful? (and yet, terrible in many senses). Dont you see the that matter and energy have the wondrous ability to organize themselves in such complex systems and over the time give birth to our consciousness (i should say my, but let's assume all of you have one, even if i dont have an experiment to prove it)? I personally find all of this way more impressive than every god a man can think about, even just for the ability i have to study and measure it. Not to mention the fact that from such knowledge you can derive (out of science) a moral and an ethic which have no comparison with any religion...but that's another long story. Matter and energy interact, their interactions are the basics of life systems. Claiming life is something more is the same of seeing a ball rolling down a cliff and assuming that the rolling is something more than matter and energy because at first it seems a different thing. First try to explain the rolling in terms of physics, if you can nothing else is needed. What has changed? At least one fundamental thing: the electric properties of cells, hence no brain functioning (so no consciousness), hence no heartbeat, hence no electrochemical gradient between cell walls, hence decomposition, loss of information and the entropy wins. We can create something similar to a cell, membranes of lipids with very primitive enzymes in the inside, starting from inorganic molecules and electricity...most likely as has happened ages ago.
  21. Big Bang and Black Holes

    When I said that there is a realm that defies logic, I took it for granted that it would be understood that it also defies science. So, I'm afraid I cannot provide an experiment to prove God. and like I said, while we Africans may not be the best scientists, but we certainly are a very religious race that seems to have more trouble understanding science that it does the supernatural! As a result, I have trouble understanding this comment:- And oh, Africa is a continent, not a tribe! Thank you for bringing up this topic. I totally agree with you. I'm not a machine, i have feelings, i have, imo, a deep and complex spirituality (built on top of my scientific knowledge), i'm training to be a doctor and i often experience a sort of emphaty which helps me a lot in helping my patients. I also experienced moments in my life (often on drugs, but not always) where i can get in touch with "something perfect", or "see the whole picture"...i can continue with lots of examples. Moreover i think i have something less than the Africans you are talking about, something really precious that western civilization has lost. And far from me to be unrespectful, i simply quoted what you said, namely that your experience of god defies logic and science SO it is outside of it...exactly as my emphaty. To be more precise, i'm not saying tha science cant understand that emphaty, it can by scanning my brain and measuring my neurotransmitters and, and, and...however science cant say nothing about what that mental state is for me, what is the feeling of experiencing it. And for the meaning of it...again, out of science. There are at least two kinds of truth, the one of science and the one of the consciousness (or by extension of a bunch of conscious beings having similar experiences). The first can be discussed, proved, reproduced...the second cant. And most important, the two doesnt overlap so arguments of the first cant be used in the second and viceversa. Dont you find that our duty should be to use both these truths the right way? Imo, a society of spiritual people with a rigorous scientific culture is not only possible, but desiderable. I use god instead of God because afaik God is meant to be the one of the monotheistic religions, while I mean the idea of god, which being an idea doesnt require capitalisation. Another thing is certain: having both the experience and the argument never puts you at the mercy of anyone EDIT: typos
  22. Big Bang and Black Holes

    Yes, what is not scientific in this beahviour? new experiments can weakean a theory, it gets adapted in weak points, until one day a better experiment gives insights...relativity has been found this way. AS i said, want ID in science? Give an experiment for it. Sorry, i disagree. Microevolution is the theory of natural selection applied to genetics. It studies how allele frequencies change over time (mutations and other mechanisms). Macroevolution is the study at popolation level of the same thing nd studies the variation of features instead of genes. This means a macroevulutionist studies how and when the spine has appeared, the mass of brains and so on...which are without doubt a product of the genome which varies in microevolution. Nothing "falls outside laws of genetics", simply macroevolution is more difficult to explain since it has less data to speculate on. ID can be a scientist beliefs...never heard one using it as an argument for explanation though, since it is not scientific. That's all. It's not logical or illogical requiring an explanation, it's just human (again, not scientific). This is a straw man. We have only one possibility being considered and taught currently, and that is that there was no designer (often as fact, despite the lack of hard evidence). If we explore the possibillity that there was no designer, does it not make sense that we explore the possibility that there was? It is the logical alternative. Note that neither theory can really be proven because we can't observe it happening today. Instead, we tend to try and outlaw the other possibilities, which leaves us with the most likely solution. I dont know what school you was in, my school didnt teach me nothing about ID or not ID. Those arguments are relegated out of science and are not taught by the science teacher anywhere. You are free to explore every possibility buit be warned that Logic is not Science. Aristotele was logical, still he said lot of bullshit. All the Medieval metaphysics is completely logical, still more bullshit if possible. My sentece is the same as radu's with a different subject. I have no experiment for a giant artichoke (but wait, maybe genetics...let me try...kidding ), you have no experiment for ID. Logically both out of science. Now, science uses things like my giant artichoke in theories to explain temporary unknown facts, to fill the hole left by an unknown mechanism (i.e. the gravity force i told about) but never adds something not needed in explanations. ID is not needed, it doesnt add knowledge at all. And as giant artichokes cant be accepted until a decisive experiment. I disagree, ID doesn't make sense. An intelligent creator... wait, where is the intelligent creator from? Self-created? ID is something to believe in regardless it makes or doesn't make sense. There are different explanations. The one that I am most familiar with is the Christian "theory", which says that God has always existed. The key difference between this and a non-ID "theory" is that this theory allows for the supernatural (influence from outside the natural laws). This allows matter and energy to be created from nothing, if you will, and the universe to have a starting point. I should say "OMG!", but it is not the case. You are aware that your claims are really...well..uncorrect? what is the difference in saying a giant artichoke or an ID "influences from outside the natural laws"? what outside? what supernatural? pls experiments for these, else out of science. Matter and energy created from nothing thanks to the wonderful theory of ID? so we found how to do it? nice! let's all be rich...k, end of sarcasm. Again Logic is not Science. What makes sense is not necessarily the right explanation (think of quantum mechanics...does it makes any sense?!? but it predicts things and can be used practically) No paradoxes at all, science studies what can be measured, it is not interested where matter/energy come from unless there is an observable source. Again, free to believe in a ID that comes from the artichoke land and creates a big bang or whatever, just take it out of science. In the end, you are mixing scientific claims with metaphysical ones. Again Logic is not Science, implications with "must" are not strong, and bold doesnt make them stronger. Note: I dont want to sound sarcastic or rude, i'm enjoying this discussion and your points are clear stated. I dont want even to put myself higher than you, but as a scientist i strive for accuracy, so I use a bit of ardor in making things clear (expecially when putting things inside science when they doesnt belong). EDIT: messed up with quotes...
  23. Big Bang and Black Holes

    Who said that? I'm a scientist and i have my beliefs (not religious tho)...just the two CAN'T mix. I'll never try to disprove god with science, simply because it's a foolish thing done with the wrong tool. The other way around, i'll never put god into a scientific argument. It doesnt make the argument stronger... Logic is not science. Science is a bunch of experiments...try to defy them if you can. Logic is the mathematical tool used to reason on results from experiments. What comes out of an experiment is true, what comes out from a reasoning can be wrong depending on the starting assumptions (and in science assumptions are experiment results, so they are true until better experiments are performed). Logic can be a human concept (not going to try suggesting that logic could be as it is beacuse the world is indeed logical...), but experiments are not. So give me an experiment to prove or disprove god. If you can find one, i'll be your first follower...else leave god where it deserve to be, outside of science....exactly where the african tribe put it.
  24. Big Bang and Black Holes

    Again, ID is not a scientific theory. Bigbang is, and i agree it can be wrong. However it doesnt say "nothing --> explosion", it says "given our knowledge of physics and red shift and backgorund radiation and, and, and... we can come up with a coherent model explaining dynamics of universe until a small delta before time 0"...doesnt say there was nothing, simply (as with black holes) we cant say much. But lack of knowledge or impossibility of it, it is not a proof and not even an argument for existence of a god or an ID. About ID making sense: saying so has the logic and scientific accuracy of this sentence "A giant artichoke decided to make the Universe"...it may have sense for artichokes, calm down their veggie urge for answers, but surely it cant be used in a theory (F->T/F = T). About causality: actually causality is not needed anymore in physics. Modern physics describes systems in term of operators and state change, regardless of what causes the change. The concept of "Force" itself has been discarded long time ago, it is still there for teaching purposes and for the cool speach of Master Yoda. No scientist believe in a "gravity force", they just observe mass and energy behaviours (which in the end are the same too). Why? because these concepts are not needed for a coherent theory, there is no evidence of a gravity force in the universe and no experiment for it. Science is neat, it eliminates even what it has been used for centuries...why add a useless god now?
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