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Awesome ideas, I'm glad to hear they're pursuing such avenues to make the game play more interesting on boss fights. I think it'd be pretty sweet if at some point the boss in the game play video lost an arm or a leg or a jaw, how cool would that be for a surprise during the fight?

Yeah I like the bag systems in wow, makes it more convenient, and in any game I've ever played completely hated the weight systems. Keep it the way it is I say.

Personally I think that necros will play a big part in the story (I remembe reading about those tree monsters and how it was a bi-product of the necromancer magic) just not as playable characters. As the druid goes, I doubt they'll make an immediate arrival, possibly in a later expansion (Partially due to a bias, I liked the druids but I think some other classes will make an appearance first). Glass Cannon Caster all the way for the next announced class in my book :-).

If you also look closely at the picture (And no I didn't read all 70 pages either) You'll notice that there seems to be fire shooting out of his back (Supporting the corruption or punshiment of tyrael theory). The other picture series with him rising up and the scene constantly getting brighter doesn't look like any form of corruption however. It leads me to believe the he is either turning mortal, He's channeling some kind of great power, or perhaps even being destroyed by the will of the high heavens.

http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/media/artwork.xml#48
http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/media/artwork.xml#35

Though my original background was christian, I am spiritual, not religious.

I already stated my view on it, none of which would suggest wican :-P. I could probably find as much rational in a wican as in your belief system though apple ;-).

"The most correct" answer is relative to perspective. If I say the meaning of life is "pink fluffy wolves", and the guy next to me says "Evolution" then most people would conclude that evolution by comparison is a more accurate explanation than "Pink fluffy wolves". The primary problem I see with Evolution as a whole is that the basis falls apart at the very start. You can argue that different things morph into other things over time due to the needs through adaptation and that carbon dating can explain the generalized age of anything you can test, but at no point in recorded history to my knowledge has there ever been a case of anything that was dead becoming alive. All living things come from other living things, and without that, the entire basis for the system is shut down into "This is our best guess and you have to have a level of faith to believe that it works." In that measure of thinking Creationist views are as valid as if not more so than evolutionist because at least there is a somewhat logical sense of "this is how it could have happened."

Concrete at the moment is kind of an oxymoron wouldn't you say? If it's concrete it's not something that will change, if it's subject to the whim of the moment then it's not concrete. Science has always been at the whim of change. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if within a 50 year time frame the "Solid concrete factual age of the earth" suddenly more than doubles or halves or some other seemingly drastic change. I brought up the point of Einstein previously because the idea that you couldn't calculate where for instance an electron would be at any given time essentially drove him insane in a sense. Their arose a theory within his life time that you could merely calculate the probability of an electron's placement and never the actual place it would be, and to that affect, he to the moment he died, writing on bed sheets, tried to figure out how to solve that equation to no avail. I believe the point some others have been making is that the scientific methodology is so subject to change and new information, to say anything is solid about the information is simply a poor observation of historical fact.

Interesting info Magistrate, very good read.

That's an interesting idea, I wonder if anyone else has anything to add to that thought.

Blinked once in a minute. . . that's rather odd methinks. 5 breaths is rather slow but alright we can buy that. Did you use any devices to accomplish said goal? Or were you just counting in your head . . If you used anything other than your conscious mind you missed the point of the excercise entirely. I could care less if you claim to be Christian or not, it doesn't mean that you have a balanced perspective. I have read yours as well as other posts and quite frankly you tend to make quite a few assumptions about things yourself. I trust science to do quite a lot, hence most of my education is actually involved within science you know like Biology, Chemistry, Anatomy and Physiology, Conceptual Physics. Did I mention I was the only person in years my teacher had seen to ace the biology final? No, ya know why? It really doesn't make a bit of difference in the scheme of things does it? If I were to take everything I know and put it into a box it wouldn't even compare to 1% of the total of human knowledge. If I were to take another box and fit all of the information human beings as a collective whole contained it would comprise less than 1% of the total information out there. If I were to make a diagram of a pie chart there would be this very tiny sliver that would be "All of human knowledge". There would be a little tiny portion that would be titled "What we know we don't know" And then finally the other 99% of the chart would be "What we don't know we don't know." I would say to anyone scientist or otherwise that says they have the answers and that no one else can logically be right to be an arrogant fool.

Probably so, hard to say what all they'd run into with copyright laws I suppose.

The human mind is something we use less than 10% of and generally more like 5%. It is your ego and your sense that the conscious mind is ultimately more powerful than the real force behind it that keeps you from making leaps within understanding. Meditation is a method of balancing out the two hemispheres, as people are with only a few fleeting moments of exception left or right brain controlled. You are a text book case of left brain thinking, for which I can find little logical doubt. That, in and of itself, leaves the other half largely falling short of anything near full capacity. You can base your arguments on whatever you like but the fact of the matter is your view point is severely limiting. I would know, I've thought about the question from both sides of the fence, something you might want to try some time. If you'd like you can try applying the scientific method to my little experiment and see how far you get. As far as my explanation of the mind, I doubt anyone on here wants to read pages and pages of information about the intricate workings of the mind.

The primary problem with the scientific method is that it cannot be applied to all situations. It is a system designed to work around many different problems within the physical realm, and certainly aren't designed to explain any number of different things that simply are beyond the scope of numerical values. Aside from that, it isn't as though mathematics is fool proof or that human beings with calculators are infallible. One thing I find interesting is that human beings generally don't look at some of the more powerful mechanics of the mind itself. The mind is divided into two sections: Conscious and Subconscious. If you believe in your infinite wisdom that the conscious mind is all that powerful try to do this little experiment. In a 1 minute time frame, count the number of times you blink, your heart beats, and you breath (In the same minute). If there are any of you out there that can then serious props. That is the most basic, simplistically surface level thing going on and you'd be hard pressed to do it consciously, subconscious on the other hand is doing all that plus regulating the 500 different functions that your liver does for instance. It is unfathomable the amount of calculations you do beneath the surface, and in the performance on the physical level of sports you call it being "In the Zone". It's also a way of relinquishing conscious activity and allowing subconscious overide to take place. Said all that to say this, subconscious is that aspect that I believe is your connection to a higher force (whatever you deem that to be) Conscious mind is merely you and your perception of the world that is merely your ego.

Everything requires faith, either if your belief is by numerical value, or if it is in puffy pink unicorns in the sky. Interestingly, Einstein seems to have died a bit crazy because of his inability to re-write the newer quantum theories.