RicOlie_2

February 4:

A.D. 1784: First unmanned hot air balloon flight takes place in Ireland.

A.D. 1859: Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.

The codex was once the complete text of the Bible, but half the Old Testament had been lost at the time of its discovery.

A.D. 1847: The first American telegraph corporation is established in Maryland.

A.D. 1865: Robert E. Lee is named Commander-In-Chief of the Confederate Army

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Ph-8i

I'm curious to know why the creator of the Chu Shogi file I'm using decided to portray the phoenix as an elephant head and the drunk elephant as a circle with a sword in its centre.

DH-5i

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He means in your thread. I don't think you need a 40,000 post thread to have it considered the "official podcast thread"!

P-6h

Fair enough. I suppose I was mostly worried about losing half my pieces before I would be able to do anything, since I began a game against a computer and was reduced to shreds before I finally got the opposing lion. I just think the game revolves too much around the lion, but maybe it will be different playing a human player.

Do you think we could try playing a game without the lion? It's a really destructive and hard-to-kill piece, I think, so it would be nice to get a good grasp on the way the other pieces move before having such a powerful piece in play. We'd still be able to get a lion through promotion of our kirin, but it wouldn't come into to play early in the game. I'm fine with playing with it if that's what you want, but I'd rather save it for a second game.

I think I've got this mostly figured out. It'll take a while for me to figure out any kind of strategy, but here goes.

p-8h

I'm interested in Chu Shogi too. I've already downloaded the Zillions file, so I'm ready to go. I don't think I'll be able to make a mock up quite yet anyway, because I've got to take care of a crabby baby and finish up some schoolwork. Chu Shogi shouldn't be too hard to manage while I'm doing that.

How do the annotations work for this game? There are a lot of pieces with two-word names and pieces that share the same initials.

I think I'll mock something up on an excel spreadsheet. I'll have to take another look at the different moves. I think I have the general idea, but I'm not familiar with all the pieces.

So I figured. Alright, good game. What do you want to do next? Ito Shogi?

K-1iii

Don't worry, I remembered. Kx2iv

I said non-organized religion which means it wouldn't have a specific name and its believers wouldn't all meet and discuss the Loch Ness Monster. It's a terrible example though.

I am partially referring to dogmatism, but also to those atheists who have faith in things like bigfeet or the Loch Ness Monster. For them, the lack of evidence doesn't seem to hinder their beliefs and I call them religious. Or how about those who were convinced the world was going to end in 2012? Some of them believed it like a Christian might believe in the second coming. Maybe they aren't really religious in the normal sense of the word, but their beliefs have elements of religiousity (is that a word?) in them.

Jaitea said:

RicOlie_2 said:

It's kind of like saying a-"bigfootism" isn't a religion, but many "bigfootists" are religious, if you get what I mean (and even if you don't, it's still like saying that). I mean they might not call themselves religious, but they behave like they belong to a religion in the way that they are superstitious, are convinced of some conspiracy theories, which shape their worldview, or believe that all religious people need to be converted to atheism (and therefore "preach" atheism just as a Christian might preach their religion to others).

 I don't know of any atheist clubs or churches,.....wouldn't be interested in them anyway, I've got more important things to do than not worshiping

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 'T'ain't what I mean. Religious people don't need churches to be religious. Nor do they need a leading body or a specific organization. I'm not talking about organized religion here, as you seem to think, but unorganized religion.

It's kind of like saying a-"bigfootism" isn't a religion, but many "bigfootists" are religious, if you get what I mean (and even if you don't, it's still like saying that). I mean they might not call themselves religious, but they behave like they belong to a religion in the way that they are superstitious, are convinced of some conspiracy theories, which shape their worldview, or believe that all religious people need to be converted to atheism (and therefore "preach" atheism just as a Christian might preach their religion to others).