(January 23, 2013 at 5:19 pm)AtlasS Wrote:Quote:No human has the ability to visualize what 'the conclusion' of their actions might be. They really are quite myopic creatures, I've found.
Chess players disagree.
You don't play chess, I take it? Until the later stages are reached, when the options are more limited, the game could almost have been what Field Marshall von Moltke had in mind when he said "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy."
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'