(September 15, 2016 at 9:17 pm)Kernel Sohcahtoa Wrote: Are we currently equipped to objectively discover and interpret that one truth?  How can we be sure that if and when we discover this one truth that our subjectivity won't be making it into whatever we want it to be?

It's a part of our decision making process to always choose what we consider to be best (for us). How would we function if we weren't always convinced that what we are doing is "the best?" We couldn't. What would we choose -- that which we feel is not best? No. Believing that we always have the best beliefs follows along in the wake of this psychological truth. We consider ourselves right and everyone else wrong because it is the only view compatible with our bedrock basic operating rules. That these rules inevitably produce spurious results, especially about ultimate truths, is an unfortunate side effect. But feeling-wise, we must believe that what we've chosen is the best. Any other choice would feel wrong and crazy. Even if those feelings sometimes betray us, when dealing with "Objective Truth".

(September 15, 2016 at 11:38 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:

(September 15, 2016 at 10:39 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Is there a right and wrong way to eat an Oreo???

If you're not putting it in your mouth, you're doing it wrong

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Well, I'm not sure if this counts, but I think the world would be a better place if everybody were to role-play all the time.
Give me ONE situation where role-play wouldn't make it better. Just ONE.

(September 16, 2016 at 11:00 am)A Handmaid Wrote: Well, I'm not sure if this counts, but I think the world would be a better place if everybody were to role-play all the time.
Give me ONE situation where role-play wouldn't make it better. Just ONE.

Open heart surgery?  I wouldn't want my doctor rolling a 1 while giving me a bypass.

(September 16, 2016 at 2:45 am)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Given the nature of infinity and probability, it doesn't sound too mad to me that our lives may inevitably occur "again" for lack of a more appropriate term, and we may be trapped in a cycle of eternal occurance.

Fuck, I hope not.

I'd want fair warning so I can do things right next time around.

(September 16, 2016 at 11:36 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote:

(September 16, 2016 at 11:00 am)A Handmaid Wrote: Well, I'm not sure if this counts, but I think the world would be a better place if everybody were to role-play all the time.
Give me ONE situation where role-play wouldn't make it better. Just ONE.

Open heart surgery?  I wouldn't want my doctor rolling a 1 while giving me a bypass.

Wouldn't doctors have lots of skill points so that they are guaranteed to roll a 6? Isn't that what college is?

(September 16, 2016 at 11:00 am)A Handmaid Wrote: Well, I'm not sure if this counts, but I think the world would be a better place if everybody were to role-play all the time.
Give me ONE situation where role-play wouldn't make it better. Just ONE.

Oh god, it sounds like a really nerdy version of the zombie apocalypse; a fucking horde of Larpers, roaming the ruins of civilization in search of sick XP, rolling their crits and masquerading their vampires and whatnot.