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    Chicago/Mount Prospect (Games Plus Store)

    I'm still in for your game starting the 21st.
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    Is this possible?

    Acrobat has "back" and "forward" buttons to flip between last viewed pages/pdfs. They are the black arrows on the toolbar.
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    Good place to live?

    I know that Bank of America in Chicago is looking for new hires. specifically, I know of positions in web infrastructure and web application server administration (java servers, though knowledge of java can be gained after hire)
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    Chicago area gamer looking for a good group

    just chiming in as another Chicago gamer. I'll be in Mark's game starting a week from tomorrow (Sunday), and I don't have much time for another one, unless it takes place at lunch time on weekdays downtown.
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    Color Test

    whatever it was, it was too long.
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    Color Test

    9 seconds is too long.
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    monotheism in D&D

    Conan is polytheistic. Each culture had their one main god and then multiple minor ones that were rarely mentioned, and then there are the Great Old Ones which are kin to the Great Old Ones of Lovecraft's stories.
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    Real Professions anyone? or What did you do when you grew up?

    Wow, a cleric in our midst. A retail cleric at that. I'm a web application interface designer and developer.
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    How many people here do actual magic? How do you do it?

    well JPL, the argument that I'm pushing eventually comes down to what the scope of the universe is that you're gaining the "cheat codes" to. What relation is the mind to the universe? I'm afraid this argument may be exceeding the scope of this forum, so if you guys want to start an email...
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    How many people here do actual magic? How do you do it?

    I feel my earliest post to this thread illustrates my stance on this issue. I argue that the fact that there are results is objective, but the level of success of the exercise is subjective. The same goes for many practices of medicine.
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    How many people here do actual magic? How do you do it?

    I want to pat Faraer here on the back for bringing up what I think is the most important thought on the subject. EDIT: Tyler Do'Urden, I have a question for you and would appreciate it if you would email me. omokage at omokage dot com, real simple address.
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    How many people here do actual magic? How do you do it?

    There are observable results with magic, just the same as there are observable results with other forms of psychotherapy. EDIT: I'm trying to be brief in my replies since I know this is a high-traffic time and a lot of people are making posts here in a short time.
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    How many people here do actual magic? How do you do it?

    That is the same as saying that Medicine and Psychology are meaningless delusions because they only benefit the patients.
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    How many people here do actual magic? How do you do it?

    What he was saying was that whether or not gods, spirits, etc. were real entities, working with them as if they are real in the ways he outlined brought about results. Whether those results are "successful" is subjective because the intent of the work is subjective, not objective. In certain...
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    How many people here do actual magic? How do you do it?

    Aleister Crowley, probably the most famous and influential individual related to this subject wrote at the beginning of his book Liber O vel Manus et Sagittae There's a statement in Buddhism that everything is illusion, and there are exercises in various Buddhist traditions (I specifically am...
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    XML list of monsters

    an undeclared entity '&' in this case would cause an error, but I got some other errors too, one involving a tag ending with ) instead of > for some reason.
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    TV before bed bad for sleep?

    Just picked up this news item (http://health.discovery.com/newsbreak/focus/saboteurs.html) from Boing Boing which suggests that watching television before bed can disturb sleep and that the flashing lights can reset circadian rhythms. Piratecat probably knows all of this already.
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    XML list of monsters

    it's not "pseudo-xml" that I can tell (I don't think there is such a thing), it just has errors in it that keep it from parsing correctly.
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    Secret Window

    Speaking of Kingdom Hospital, and King's name. I'm slightly upset that all the ads for Kingdom Hospital say something like "this can only come from the imagination of Stephen King," which simply isn't true, since it's based on Lars von Trier's "The Kingdom." And speaking of "The Ninth Gate," I...
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    Problems with firearms?

    I think the links in the signature are what you're looking for slingbld
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