Virtual Illusions

There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.

From London’s Atheist Buses

Carry on.

Philosophy/Religion, Quote

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.

- Dave Barry

You can’t be a Real Country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have a football team or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least, you need a beer.

- Frank Zappa, 1940 - 1993

24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?

- Stephen Wright

Alcohol, Beer, Quote, Quotes

“In Washington, meanwhile, Republicans are desperate to hold power. Not to govern, mind you, just hold power.”

–Harold Meyerson, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101071.html

Politics, Quote

“PCs are not afraid of a minigun, nor a tank, nor a dragon.
They are afraid of confident unarmoured sword-wielders, pistols to the face and subdual damage.”

–Mr. Venom, http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=277131&page=2

“When approaching a game, consider things in this order of importance:

1. People: Who are you playing with. What are their tastes? Do they gel as a group? Do you even like them?
2. Story: What kind of stories do you hope to tell? What’s the genre? Will it be scripted or totally open? Are there specific things you want to include or will you react solely to the players desire?
3. System: Which game will best allow you to engage 1) and express 2)?

The only reason I offer this up is that many instances of gaming dysfunction I’ve seen have occured when the GM follows the list in reverse order. People, then story, then system. It’s really that simple.”

–Ahnirades, http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=277131&page=6

Gaming, Quote

Recent quote by in regards to funerals being turned into media events.

“If the death doesn’t hurt you for who the person was, not what they did, the funeral shouldn’t really be for you.”

Culture, Quote

“Finally, we kindly [ask] that our attendees refrain from summoning Elder Gods. Poor manners…Devouring our staff…Rifts into the Netherworld. That sort of thing. (All rights and respects to Mr. H.P. Lovecraft)”

– Katsucon (animation/japanophile convention) website

Quote

From Aric’s Sig:

Sadly, there are times that even my lucky rocketship undies are no help.

Quote

“Many of today’s problems can be attributed to clean-shaven men in suits.”

– FRANCIS W. RODGERS, Rensselaer, N.Y.
Tuesday, July 26, 2005; Page A18
Washington Post, Letter to the Editor, “A Sandal Scandal? No.”

Quote

License fees:
This is not free software, it is licensed per site. In order to use this software, you are required to pay one cent per site. For the purposes of this license, a site is defined as a planet with people on it.

– by jridley (9305) on Wednesday June 08, @08:59PM (#12764090),
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=152088&threshold=5&mode=nested&commentsort=0&op=Change

Quote

To whatever degree atheists are fighting against Frist and DeLay and Bush and Joe Schoolboard in Podunk, Kentucky trying to make everyone live by their narrow religious views, i am an ally of atheists. To whatever degree atheists crusade against all religious beliefs in general and seek to demean people of faith, i am not their ally.

–Bonhoeffer, http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=22425567

Philosophy/Religion, Politics, Quote