Recent content by kingius

There were definitely some good ideas there. First one of these I've ever seen.

That's true, but like in a film (or perhaps more accurately, in a play), wouldn't the audience prefer it if the players took their roles seriously? I was listening to them descending into the underdark thinking, hmmm... lol Anyway, must be difficult to do something like this in front of so many...

I'm surprised by how much railroading there is here. I'm 12 minutes in and I've yet to hear the players actually make a decision about what they actually want to do. They seem pretty passive and content to let the DM move things along and to follow the 'plot'. This is really nothing like the old...

Well I think we both know that I'm completely wasting my time here because right from the start people made their minds up to disregard what I was saying and portray every little bit in the worst possible light, truth of it be damned. At least you have looked, which is something. As for...

Science is atheistic in nature and this is why religion is not accepted. Atheism is itself a belief system (the belief in the non-existence of something), no matter what underpins it, it could still be wrong. So be careful about confusing facts with beliefs. Agnostism accepts that questions...

As predicted you have taken this tactic. I wonder why ;-) You know that it's impossible to win this game from any position but your own because the game has already been rigged. The evidence for out of body experiences is not considered as evidence by the scientific community, so its game over...

This discussion has entered the realms of the farsical. Whatever happened to the goal of people thinking for themselves in an enlightened society? I seem to be encountering people who are unable to do a bit of research themselves and seem to want me to do it all for them. We, as a global...

This has been intentional so as to prompt further enquiry by people on their own terms rather than on mine. My own reading on this has been in book form and not via internet forums or linked articles, though I dare say there could be value in approaching the subject form that angle as well...

This is a noble thought. The problem that scientists have is that they cannot reproduce these phenonoma in a way that works with the scientific method. Hence they are not all over it. The researchers in to these matters have to take the phenonoma on its terms in order to 'figure it out'. These...

No or we wouldn't be having this conversation. What we have instead are vast amount of research into the subject matter, collecting thousands of reports over decades, coupled with out of body experiences being reported in the historical archives... and even into prehistory with myth and so on...

True story - the body of work in 'science' is many and varied. It contains, among other things, theories which cannot be tested, never mind repeated, without jumping billions of years into the future (or the past). Much of what is accepted as canon is speculation expressed through mathematics...

I quote like the Bard in the old Bards Tale series of games. They gave him six songs that he could sing that did things like buffing AC or making magic more likely to fail and a limit on the singing to once per level until the bard could get some alcohol down his neck. They also gave him some...

This is an utterly pointless argument. If people look at the evidence themselves they can make their own minds up. They are quite capable of doing this. An intelligent society benefits us all. While ever people are being discouraged from doing this, and instead looking at theories which do not...

These are good points and should be troubling for mediums and psychics and charlatons. What this point of view doesn't include though are all of the times when psychics made predictions that were right, often occuring in dreams and prophecies and so on. It's really cherry picking the data. What...

In other words: Don't look for yourself, trust us, because only we know the truth... except if you do look you find the theories can be wrong. But don't whatever you do trust your own findings, trust the original sources, trust the evidence, trust your own senses. It's a familiar story. Once it...