A Few of My Favorite Songs

I don’t do these kinds of entries very often, but since I have a math take-home exam due on Wednesday, and I cannot justify avoiding working on the exam without doing something semi-constructive like writing a journal entry, I have no choice but to come up with something. So, here it is: a list of [...]

Magic: The Gathering

The following is taken from one of my previous journals, dated 10/10/2002.
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The first time I saw a Magic card was on June 22, 1996 in the early afternoon. I was at a summer school type program at a boarding school. There were two people there playing, and while it did catch my attention [...]

On The Use And Uses Of Skeptical Thinking

Originally posted at the MTGNews.com forums.
 On The Use And Uses Of Skeptical Thinking

A lot of the threads here in the Outside Magic forum are argument threads, and many of those arguments are on rather important subjects. Take Highroller’s Philosophy Thread for example. The level of subject matter discussed in that thread isn’t exactly what most non-Magic players would expect on [...]

On Prejudice

My heart’s just not into anything today. Although I went to class this morning at eight a.m., I remember none of the lecture at all. I don’t recall falling asleep in class, nor do I recall waking up, so I’m pretty sure that I was awake the whole time; it is just that when the [...]

The Best Strategy Game

I like strategy games. I see no purpose to games of chance; what is the point of them? But in strategy, one’s wits are tested, and I enjoy that. I think the aspect I enjoy most from strategy games is the fact that they just feel right. I know that sounds vague, but it is [...]

The Ideal Society

::sigh::
Another day has passed. But nothing has changed. Rarely do things ever change.
Today, I slept until about three in the afternoon. I was tired, I guess. But more to the point, I didn’t feel the drive to do anything today. Not much really matters to me anymore, anyway… I’m tempted to say that’s a bad [...]

Magic: The Gathering

The first time I saw a Magic card was on June 22, 1996 in the early afternoon. I was at a summer school type program at a boarding school. There were two people there playing, and while it did catch my attention for a second or so, I only spent a short moment watching them, [...]