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The pathways which are emphasized and strengthened in our minds are determined by what we are doing, so we can influence them! When we were very young and our brains were developing, they were acclimated to certain activities and actions and words. This effect is most pronounced at a very young age, when the brain is growing, but continues into adulthood. The brain doesn't have a preset, genetic plan for which areas of the brain will be stimulated/emphasized, it's determined by our actions and choices and what we choose to experience. If we choose to experience something different, our brains will become different. Humans are versatile, not static.The fact that everything isn't genetic doesn't mean that we have free will. We can't choose what we experience as a baby. Thus we can't choose what we experience as a child, since what we "choose to experience" as a child is decided by our genes and what we have experience as a baby. And what experience as adult is due to our genes and our childhood and so on forth.
Currency is so easy, even a monkey can do it.Didn't yet have time to read the whole study, but that is some interesting stuff. I wonder how long it would take for us to teach monkeys concepts of work and wage? How fast we could teach them some system of law, where they punish criminals themselves? How long it would take them to adapt to human-like society, if we slowly introduced more and more complex concepts and ideas?
Yet Christian Atheists actually exist, and are really cool people.And how do the miracles work without god?
"Jesus was a cool guy. Do as he did. There is no god though - that shit is just crazy."
I have only just started to get better from my illness so my game is being pushed back.Someone linked this earlier in the thread. Even though it is for 5th edition, I don't think there has been changes on character generation between the editions. I made a quick test char with it and everything seemed to work fine.
Also someone found a character gen yet?
Those canons aren't particularly effective against submarines, though. Unless the submarines try to sink it with it's deck gun. Dunno how common it was in the war for subs to go with deck guns against lone transport ships, instead of using torpedoes.I like to think they sneak on board the ship while it's in port, then stab all the crew in their sleep, finally cornering the captain and kicking him into the boiler while yelling "THIS IS SPARTAAAAA!"Of course, cargo ships did carry light cannon for most of the war, though they were rarely effective with them (generally the Navy provided excess guns and ammo, but couldn't spare troops, so the civilian sailors had to man them).
By the same token, I've had games of Axis and Allies where a transport ship more or less cleansed the Atlantic of U-boats by itself.
