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29 Apr 14 UTC

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What "White Male Privilege"???

http://www.theonion.com/articles/white-male-privilege-squandered-on-job-at-best-buy,35835/

<throws hook...>

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29 Apr 14 UTC

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It's Maple's Alter Ego! (But Seriously--Should Serling Be Forced to Sell the Team?)

http://nba.si.com/2014/04/29/donald-sterling-adam-silver-nba-owners-reaction/ To be clear--this is HYPOTHETICAL. There's nothing in the NBA Constitution that gives the commissioner the right to do this, so this is more just a thought experiment--say that power existed, and Adam Silver COULD force Serling to sell the team based on his repeated racist comments over the years, with this last doozy being the kicker. If the power existed, SHOULD the man lose his team over this?

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TIL how to spell Heligoland Bight

Apparently it isn't Helgoland, it's Heligoland.

Been playing for 8 years!

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In search of the Holy spirit

A daily log of YJ's journey to find joy and unity with the Christian God. Strap yourself in kids, this might take awhile.

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President Eden (2750 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

By maturing, we exist.

We exist as supercharged waveforms. The totality is buzzing with electromagnetic forces.

Consciousness consists of bio-electricity of quantum energy. “Quantum” means an awakening of the mystical.

Entity, look within and heal yourself. Although you may not realize it, you are self-aware. The nexus is calling to you via supercharged waveforms. Can you hear it?

Numerology may be the solution to what’s holding you back from an enormous transmission of being. Through homeopathy, our hopes are baptized in interconnectedness. You will soon be awakened by a power deep within yourself — a power that is infinite, endless.

Suffering is the antithesis of awareness. Materialism is born in the gap where intuition has been excluded. Only an entity of the cosmos may foster this ozmosis of sharing.

Our conversations with other storytellers have led to an ennobling of hyper-advanced consciousness.
Without healing, one cannot dream. You may be ruled by selfishness without realizing it. Do not let it shatter the truth of your myth. Yes, it is possible to exterminate the things that can obliterate us, but not without joy on our side.

This journey never ends. It is time to take growth to the next level. We must unify ourselves and enlighten others.

Yellowjacket (835 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

ROFL I agree with Draug, this is randomly generated psychobabble used to sway hippies.

Thucydides (864 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

PE's is, yes. Obviously on the webdip forums there will be a lot of people who simply laugh at the honest attempt to appraise the significance of existence. But as I said I feel nothing to be ashamed of - the questions I ask are questions that are relevant to everyone.

President Eden (2750 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

Not mocking the honest attempt, simply questioning the efficacy of the method.

Yellowjacket (835 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

Yeah thucy I really have no idea what you're saying at all. Sorry. Maybe my brain is too fried from my nightly duels with semck.

Thucydides (864 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

Sigh. Semck is trying to win you over to a side with proofs and logic which will never lead you away from where you are. I give up. It seems clear now you only did what you did for a short time and have already stepped away. Maybe I'll try sharing the inner beauty I see in reality with someone else in a year or two. The chief reason I don't talk about this on here ever is that I know no one reads each other's posts long or hard enough for such an ineffable description to come through. I had thought given your earlier open minded ness that it might be worth a try. Alas. Good luck in life; I hope you open your mind again sometime in the future.

Yellowjacket (835 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

Actually, proofs and logic are a pretty good way to convince me. Especially since he's so much better at them than I am :) Talking with him got me started on that, years ago, and it's done wonders for my ability to develop a coherent argument. No reason that shouldn't continue by continuing.

Anyways, when he and I draw to our inevitable close here (with him conceding everything and converting to atheism) I'll try to remember to reach out and see if I can make sense of what you're saying. I really don't have much mental bandwidth for it right now.

Thucydides (864 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

I will be the first to admit that is hard to approach these deeper truths from just words. In some way they are only understood directly. I find it hard to believe that even the most atheistic of you has never felt that sense of transcendent awe and uplift. All I ask is that you consider its implications for longer than it takes to say "it was simply a mental chemical neuro-reaction"

Yellowjacket (835 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

I've never felt awe or transcendence in any form, sorry.

Thucydides (864 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

What I am telling you is that logic and proofs are amazing, and great, but they are self-serving and self-justifying. To attempt to relate to reality as a being of whatever kind you are, you need to do more than just apply logic. You have to dig deep and sense in a more rooted way the world around you. Not everything can be expressed in p's and q's. A true skeptic would I hope be the first to understand that.

Interestingly it was an obsession with correctness and deduction that led me into this skepticism in the first place, and it took me years to begin to fully understand its implications.

In fact this is why you will find if you watch over the months and years that I bristle when others hear my gospel of the unknown and write it off as redundant or irrelevant. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is a huge difference between intellectually agreeing that knowledge is impossible and allowing it to form the cornerstone of your very life.

Thucydides (864 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

If that's really the case YJ, and I mean this not at all in a condescending or elitist way, then I pity you, and hope that one day you do, or that one day your mind is open sufficiently to reinterpret the ones you've already had as what they really were.

Now I will get out of here before this becomes emotional or polarized. You've made it clear enough you're not interested. Fair enough.

Yellowjacket (835 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

None taken :)

Thucydides (864 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

My final piece of advice is to consider using what they call "LSD", I half guarantee it won't have zero impact on your view of these things lol.

Am I kidding? Yes. Am I really kidding though? Not really, no

NigeeBaby (100 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

Any rational argument or reasoned discussion that went before can be discarded when your last words on the subject are as follows:-
"My final piece of advice is to consider using what they call "LSD""

NigeeBaby (100 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

It could have been worse:-
"With regard to your slight depression me and my friends, and in fact your close friends, and your family, and your children, think you should kill yourself because Jesus needs you for a moonbeam"

What's the worse advice you've never taken .....??

Thucydides (864 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

Oh really, Nigee? Care to elaborate? Do you discount everything that a person on anti-depressants says, just because they are under the influence of a intentionally ingested chemical? Do you not believe what you read with the aid of contact lenses because the vision is "artificial?" I don't follow you.

NigeeBaby (100 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

"I don't follow you"
...... you don't follow me YET Lucy but if you want to be filled with the Holy Spirit rather than LSD you follow me now, the pub opens in about 45 minutes, if we rush we can get there for first orders. Most spirits give you a holy feeling if you drink enough of them (except Pernod, that stuff is vile)

Thucydides (864 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

Whatever, if you aren't willing to engage with me, that's cool too.

NigeeBaby (100 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

Engage with you ..... I'm not a Gaylord you know, next thing you know you'll be holding my hand and giving me Jesus Juice.
Talking of Jesus Juice, some described the artist MJ as 'Bad', some say he was 'Off the Wall', what did you prefer or don't you a 'History' with this artist?

Thucydides (864 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

What are you talking about? Are you talking about weed?

Octavious (2802 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

"Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement all the while"

Neil Gaiman

Thucydides (864 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

ah i forgot to link this here:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2014/04/15/302198431/when-nature-speaks-who-are-you-hearing

Yellowjacket (835 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

Nigee is drunk and it's hilarious :P

NigeeBaby (100 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

I may be drunk but you're ugly, in the morning I'll be sober :-)

Yellowjacket (835 )
29 Apr 14 UTC

Actually, Mr. Churchill, in the morning you'll probably be drunk again :)

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28 Apr 14 UTC

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Gunboat game for the reliable but poor

I'm tired of the NMRs and CDs that are far too common i the low-bet games I can afford to play. I'd love to play in the big-pot games with the best players, but I don't have the $ (and, hey, I'm not that good anyway). If there are other middle of the road players who feel the same way, perhaps we can organize a password-protected game (or two if there's enough interest) of reliable gunboaters. More below.

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Evolution at work?

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/25/virginia-christians-prepare-for-40-day-hunger-strike-against-same-sex-marriage/

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27 Apr 14 UTC

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Epic Win

Before you follow link, guess how many SCs the winner has? It's a ancient med game...

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=139925#gamePanel

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26 Apr 14 UTC

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Phase length for FTF games?

I've been thinking about putting together a face to face game for some new players (friends who don't play diplomacy.... yet). But, I've never played FTF myself - so:

What kind of phase lengths do people use? I assume that there's also a time or turn cap too (eg game ends in 1910)?

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27 Apr 14 UTC

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Need an England, Not a bad spot at all

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27 Apr 14 UTC

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Colm Feore as Lear in Stratford.

We're going May 17 or 24, as per Mrs. maple.

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25 Apr 14 UTC

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The redefinition of sexual assault

This is a problem to me.

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26 Apr 14 UTC

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Going to see the Iron Sheik today.

Respect the Legend, Bubba!

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26 Apr 14 UTC

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Underage Drinking

Two IU players busted for underage drinking, one I know well. I guess the shocking part of their arrests is that the police in B-town are such assholes that they go around hunting for underage drinkers on Little 500 Day.

Please tell me no one on webDip suffered until 21 before their first drink.

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20 Apr 14 UTC

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Bought a new pet today...

A veiled chameleon. He's a little older (adolescent, not juvenile) and really cool. Already he is getting used to me and will hang out on my shirt sleeve and such.

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26 Apr 14 UTC

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Is... Is This... A Joke?

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/national/Driver+fatal+collision+with+cyclists+suing+dead+teen/9772606/story.html

She's just got a sick sense of humor, right?

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23 Apr 14 UTC

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Statute of Limitations

Dear Staff:

What is the statue of limitations for prosecuting people who have broken the site rules, cheating specifically?

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24 Apr 14 UTC

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Woody Allen, child molestor[?], given a lifetime achievement award.

So, one of my courses this semester is about "contemporary issues" and one of the issues I'm supposed to debate during our final is whether Woody Allen deserved the lifetime achievement award given to him by the Golden Globes. I've been assigned to argue on the side that he should not have gotten the award. And I want to hear what the people of WebDip think. Source links in the thread.

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25 Apr 14 UTC

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So I should be dancing in about 5 hours from now...

But I can't dance. How do I make sure that it's decent enough to not look ridiculous?

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Grammar Nazi

Hi all, I'm new here but have been playing Diplomacy for years and years. Apologies if this post carries the stigma of any WebDip forum taboos...

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NY Cop Accidentally Shoots Partner During Drunken Gun Show-And-Tell

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/apparently-accidentally-shot-partner-sources-article-1.1767458

"I wasn't drunk, just had a couple of shots!"

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God Is Disappointed In You

YJ -- Here you go buddy Go buy this and let me know what you think. In fact, I think I might have to go buy this and let you kow what I think. Best Title for "God's Word" I can think of, too -- after all, front to back, page 1 to last, that's pretty much what the whole thing is about. God is Disappointed In You:
http://boingboing.net/2014/04/02/god-is-disappointed-in-you.html

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Because the NFL Season NEVER Ends...NINERS! SEAHAWKS! THANKSGIVING NIGHT!

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/nfl-schedule--2014-campaign-kicks-off-with-packers-at-seahawks-001858591.html
The schedules for each NFL team is out...we begin with Yellowjacket's Packers looking for revenge for the "Fail Mary" against the Seahawks...and come Thanksgiving...mark my words, it's gonna be one of the biggest and biggest-hyped Thanksgiving games ever...the Seahawks! The Niners! By the Bay on Turkey Day! :D

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24 Apr 14 UTC

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Paglia on the Drinking Age: Discuss

http://time.com/72546/drinking-age-alcohol-repeal/

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24 Apr 14 UTC

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Reason for Putin33's absence

Why did our number one Russian apologist disappear roughly around the time Crimea was annexed

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I envy the USA

In sleepy UK our police officers arn't allowed to shoot and kill people for aggressive use of a pen
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27106445

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25 Apr 14 UTC

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Flappy 2048

So, you think you're cool for beating 2048?

http://flappy2048.com/

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24 Apr 14 UTC

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Etiquette Question Regarding NMRs/CDs starting the game.

What do you do when a country has NMRs or CDs at the start of a game?

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22 Apr 14 UTC

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memorial game to the revelion in putsch munich

I was thinking about creating a game with only germans or who ever his grandma was violated by a fucking judden or commie or any other sons of their protitutes mothers out there,it is also reliable to have a single brown hair jumping out of your blonde scalp as a sign of your not pure Aryan blood.
Who is in?

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24 Apr 14 UTC

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Ukraine moves on insurgents, Russia mobilises troops

Continued from the other Ukraine threads.

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Fixing part of the NMR and CD in beginning of games

To be clear, I am NOT a programmer, but it seems to me a simple fix at the start of new games would be an an initial ready button. This would allow the game not to start if everyone is not present. For longer duration games people would have a whole phase to figure things are starting and for live games,the duration could be 5-10 minutes that way if one or more people don't show up, they get kicked out so some else could take their place.

Thought??

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