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The Year in Games
The Year in Videos
Cloverfield (2008; Holy crap, this was good. Would be a great double-header with The Host.); Communion (1989; Didn't work for me. Walken an odd choice, and it was more humorous than tense.); The 400 Blows (Criterion Spine #4) (1959; Truffaut's first feature; I'm looking forward to the Antoine Doinel followups.); Silent Rage (1982; Great beginning and Norris-appreciation, but slow and meandering ending.); Dakota Bound (2001; An actual plot, good cheesy action scenes, and lesbians. Amazingly good.);
The Year in Books
D&D 4E: Player's Handbook (Hugely better organization; too combat-heavy.); Fantastic Voyage (I'm interested, but man, this book was stuffy.); Sin City 3: The Big Fat Kill (Rereading for ol' time's sake. Still awesome.); Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For (Rereading for ol' time's sake. Still alrightish.); D&D 4E: H1: Keep on the Shadowfell (The first adventure for 4E is ... the same.);
"What about light, magnetism, and electricity? None of these things are matter."
Light: E=MC^2. C is the speed of light. Energy is just MATTER times the speed of light squared. Technically you could say that the world is just organised energy, and be right also. Or, M=E/C^2
Magnetism: A direct effect of things inside a certain part of atoms. (Awkwardly, the school system doesn't tell what part(s) align...
Electricity: The movement of electrons/positrons which are both matter. The movement releases kinetic energy.
"Actually it was the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. I guess the subtext there would be that all the suffering you have is because you think you can determine what is good and what is evil."
I agree with both sentences. Whether the first sentence was factual or not (in realms of actual life, not in the myth).
"The problem is that most gods aren't possible, because they possess some attribute that can not exist without rewriting the myth. And this revising of the myth must continue until, eventually, it becomes as vague as the basic monotheistic concept of God, so that there is no point in distinguishing one from the other. The basic concept of God, as far as we know, can exist, without redefining what it means. So I contend that Stephen Roberts has failed to comprehend that there is a fundamental difference between God and Thor."
This is a problem of people's definition of God. For me, it's whoever/whatever created us. We could be a computer simulation for all you know!