Isocracy and Bushfires, Impossibility and Philosophy, Gaming and Reviews

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The first real action of the Isocracy network (inspired by brock_ulfsen has been to generate practical ideas on prevention of bushfires for the impending Royal Commission. So, if you have any great (or even not so great) ideas on the subject (cause, prevention, cure), please feel free to contribute. The network itself is growing at the rate I expected and would want it to do so (i.e., roughly one person a day). I will this opportunity to highlight 17catherines's efforts with the vicbushfirefund.

Next Sunday at the Unitarian Philosophy forum I will be presenting on "Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast", which discusses the (mis)use of metaphysics (logic, ontology and theology) in philosophy and modern criticisms of metaphysics from Hume, through to Kant and to Ayer and Popper. I will be concluding with the rise of epistemology, the need to separate theology from philosophy, and a universal pragmatism towards verification. Apropos a University of Hawaii lecturer in philosophy tries to explain what metaphysics is not (such things are actually possible in transcendent metaphysics because it doesn't rely on verification); hat-tip to erudito.

My review of the Zin Letters (a Finnish Glorantha 'zine) has been put up on rpg.net, and a review of Greg Saunders' Summerland should be there soon. Have just started a new PBeM based on the old Chaosium product Questworld but using Steve Perrin's Quest Rules. Karl B. ran a session of Gulliver's Trading Company on Sunday with good setting and character interaction; the FUDGE/FATE based system is slowly being bashed into some shape.

Comments

[imajica-lj.livejournal.com]

I have an idea for bush fire prevention. As in an idea that will stop a plasma fire dead.

We should talk.

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Well, you know how to contact me :p