Calculus, also belief, was Re: [UA] Crosswords and Blue Teets

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

Yeah, we're both making dangerous assumptions, but
that's why I asked the question.  I go off half-cocked
enough as it is.

--- Gareth Hanrahan <Gareth.Hanrahan at raidtec.ie>
wrote:
> > That's not really suprising.  Christianity and
> > roleplaying games don't seem to get along very
> well,
> 
> I'm not sure if that's true. I don't think there's a
> lack of strong 
> Christians who are also gamers 'cos Christianity is
> somehow inimicable to 
> gaming, but because there's been a big drop-off in
> Christianity/formal 
> organised religion in youth generally, and most
> gamers are youngish. 
> 
> > Why did I ask the question?  For one thing, I
> wanted
> > to see where people on the list were coming from. 
> For
> > another thing, I think beleif is very important
> when
> > it comes to magic and I suspected that a lot of
> people
> > on the list had strong beleifs (although not very
> > formalized ones.)
> 
> I want to say that I suspect gamers have *fewer*
> strong beliefs than most 
> people, 'cos we're so used to messing with belief
> systems and skipping in and 
> out of our character's moral codes...but I think
> that's a dangerous 
> assumption and over-generalisation....
> 
> Gar
> http://www.mytholder.f2s.com
> 
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