Here is something that I have wanted to do for a long, long time, which is to blogify the pile of philosophy notes I still have left over from university. I was a marvelous student, but aimless. I...
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Heraclitus of Ephesus
Building Beliefs from MG Recruitment (Pt 2)
Here is the second part of what I began with the origin-skill-trait chart. The idea here is to go through the "lifepath" to borrow Burning Wheel term of your guardmouse, building up a history as you...
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Mouse Guard: Setting and Conflict
I studied literature in school, in both French and English. It may not be apparent to an English speaker who didn't study French literature, but to do any reasonable criticism you need to change...
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Revised Mouse Guard Conflict Cards
I download the Mouse Guard playing card set (available from here), scrubbed all the text off the conflict cards, and put my own text on instead. I did it for two reasons. First, the text was...
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Building Beliefs from MG Recruitment (pt 1)
I think the Mouse Guard recruitment section is well done (as is all of MG) but it is missing two things to make it really great. First, it's not apparent from the text that this should be a...
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Lying for Jesus, Explained
People without religious faith are often flabbergasted by the things believers say in defense of their beliefs, not least because what can come out of their mouths is unequivocally false. Atheists...
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Clay and Air
Creationists point to the eye as evidence of design. This is a sorry strategy, because the human eye is not very well put together. But it isn't the poorness of the design that gets me, though, it's...
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Static Violins
People claim to talk to God all the time. Some high-profile people claim to not only hold discourse with The Almighty, but to receive hand-crafted mandates from him as well. Often these mandates...
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