tcpip | Unicon, Work, Elections and Racial and Religious Madness, Banned Rats!

Spent the weekend at Unicon with

caseopaya. Not a bad event, first gaming con I've been too in several years. Played "Parallel Flight" (Fireborn, not so good), Restoration (Urban Arcana, very good), Get Who (based on Get Smart, death coincidental, fun but severly limited for characters other than agents 99 and 86), Schools Out (Mutants and Masterminds, a d20 superhero game; OK, but combat orientated) and at the top of my enjoyment list "Four Fists of Righteous Fury" (where we had narrative and character development, deadly seriousness and comic relief!). Surprised to see that there were no D&D sessions. Sessions were far too short. Will give a full write-up on experiences on

aus_gamers in the near future. Afterwards went to Mind Games to spend money ;-)

I have been working. Borderlands has shifted offices and their network and all it's wiring needs to be reassembled. This week I start training Prosper Australia on marketing and getting media coverage. I've also picked up a translation job for a set of health clinics in Northern Ireland who apparently need documentation ... in Tetum. Strange but true. CCNA Semester 2 starts on Tuesday. Feeling confident about it.

Schroeder grasps defeat from the jaws of victory and is about to destroy the SPD in the process. Meanwhile, in New Zealand Helen Clark's victory seems assured following the counting of special votes. I will be living in New Zealand by the end of 2006, I swear.

More bombings in Bali. Further evidence to recent suggestions that too much religion is bad for your society. From religious to racial fundamentalism; former US Secretary of Education thinks the way to solve crime is to abort "blacks".

I've banned my rats from the desk drawer and the office. Two keyboard cables and three speakers is too much. They're coping ;-)

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Sure, there's stuff we don't know. Sure, the unknown is not unnatural. Despite your Petrian denial, I'm not sure how we're in disagreement.

There need be no separation. The separation is in our knowledge - known and unknown. The metaphysical is just as much a part of the natural world as apples and pears.

I agree! I agree! Why are we arguing again? :)

Seriously, it was

tcpip who was claiming a special status for the "metaphysical", not me. Thoughts and ideas (no matter how apparently confusing or meaningless) are as much a part of the natural world as apples and pears, and the contents of thoughts/ideas are no different. It's only when one begins to accord the contents of thoughts a special status that "metaphysics" scuttles out from behind the wainscoting to frighten the children.

I don't think he did. Within the context of the accepted meaning of metaphysics he is correct when he says Every worldview has a metaphysical claim, even if that claim is that there is nothing other than the natural world..

But you are making the claim that the accepted definition is moot because there cannot be a separation. You're both correct in that sense.

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