Recent content by Hugin

Big Brother, Mini Tru, Doubleplusgood. All of these are terms taken from the book "1984." I think the phrase "Thought Police" came from it as well, but I am not positive on that account. Big Brother was the icon of the Government that controlled and suppressed the thoughts of the citizens by...

Well, you are talking about the state sponsored suppression of religious belief, such governments are somewhat offensive. But I've done what I can... Temple: Skeptics Society Hall "Church": Bureau of Civil Liberties Religious wonder for Atheism: Ministry of Truth (it is a doubleplusgood...

As a Master's Student at one of America's many fine universities I must protest. What kind of professor actively discourages a person's faith? Or perhaps you meant that a professor might go around advocating the cannon and tenats of the Atheistic "faith"? The latter, while possible, still...

I like the idea of this mod and the more I think about it the more appropriate "Crusading Religion" is for Islam. While the Crusades do have a Christian taint, the first several were reactionary against Islam invading Christian (and Byzantine, aka Roman) lands and thus there is that connection...

One relatively minor point: 1) Some historians used AD/BC until quite recently. The most recent work that I can remember off hand that used it was published in the late 80's. It largely depends on the time period that the historian works in. Unless you are looking at modern history (or pulp...

Now perhaps this is just a wacky, hair-brained idea, but for preventing players from selection a philosophy as a state religion would it be possible to use python to modify the Religious advisor screen so that they just "fall off" the edge? That is, seemingly every time someone adds a new...

Usually when I get an idea for a mod I quickly notice that someone has already created something almost exactly like it, only better. While there appears to be a fair number of people working on adding flavor to Religions or expanding the civics model I haven't noticed anyone working to combine...

While I am not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, the GreenMod (if I recall correctly) does have a feature to turn land into ocean/coast and ocean into land. This, at least, would allow one to build something along the lines of the panama canal, though I haven't tried it out myself.

Clinton won because of two words, Ross Perot. Well, okay that may be a little bit of an exageration but not by much. In 1996 Clinton got about 49.24% of the vote, Dole got 40.71%, and Perot obtained 8.40%. Considering how radically right Perot tended to be, it is fairly safe to assume that most...

Has Europe turned into Jr. High? I can see it now, ol "Gerry" Schröder must have been sitting in his room, crying because George didn't say hello to him as they were passing in the hall between 1st and 2nd period. Anywho, on a more serious note, would Schröder have wanted Bush to call him...

Ah, terribly sorry about that. Anywho, I fixed them and checked them twice. But to quickly summarize the point of those collected works, as I want to use them, is that people may be capable of making good decisions but only if people are willing to take the action necessary to make those...

Kerry could come back if it turns out, once the very last ballot has been counted, that he did in fact win. I am not entirely sure how many times Bush and Gore conceeded to the other during the 2000 election, but it happened once or twice at least. Conceeding holds no legal weight, though good...

Out of that list, I believe only Russia publically voiced support for Bush prior to the election. Putin essentially said that if Kerry was elected then the terrorists had won. But other than for that abnormality, no one could reasonably support Bush prior and risk Kerry winning and visa versa...

Good advice, you should listen to it. Among other things, Monroe discusses why altrustic acts are supressed by large crowds Dawkins discusses, from a biological point of view, why humans are basically selfish Barnett considers how large groups of people could consent to the holocaust...

Only 1?! Well Augurey is definately on the right tract, though personally I'd go a step or two further and say the man/woman who wrote down the Elder Eddas (though Snorri Sturlson, author of the Younger Edda, is another good candidate). Of course, I speak more out of wanting to grill them for...