Necessitate

Do the gods of Mundus create a situation in which banditry and other less-than-savory elements continue to exist?

After writing about Christer and Fjola last week and realizing that she was a) following the old Nordic pantheon and b) doing so legitimately (as Stuhn is a god of ransom), I started thinking about the wider Nordic pantheon and then the other gods as well. And I began to wonder if it would even be possible to have a Tamriel, or even a single country or hold, at relative peace.

There are, of course, various aedra and daedra and the image presented is that aedra are worshiped by the majority and daedra by minor cultic groups or individuals. Except that's not the case.

• The Ayleid worshiped Molag Bal, hence their oppression of the slaves and practice of flesh sculpture and gut gardens.
• Orcs worship Malacath who, granted, is a bit of a special case. However, it seems that only when Malacath was worshiped as Trinimac were the orcs able to have relative peaceful relations with their neighbors. Even in Skyrim, although there are Orcish strongholds which are peaceful, there are some places (like Bilegulch Mine and Cracked Tusk Keep) which are clearly strongholds but are antagonistic.
• Probably the best example is Morrowind being originated and organized around the worship of the "good" daedra. Before Tiber Septim, they were so much more xenophobic than the worst of the Stormcloaks and openly encouraged warfare between the houses, slavery of the Argonians, etc.
• Some of the gods of the Khajiit openly encourage thievery, especially Rahjin, although there are others.
• Baan Dar exists in both the Khajiiti and Bosmeri pantheons.
• Reachmen. 'Nuff said.

I don't see this so much in the Altmeri, Breton and Direnni pantheons (although there is a considerable amount of merish supremacy in Summerset). But the old Nordic pantheon definitely lends itself to lives of war and/or banditry. You have:

• Shor, who encourages open warfare with the elves.
• Kyne, a patron of hunters but also of war and of men. She's the one who sent Morihaus and Pelinal.
• Stuhn, god of taking captives for ransom.
• Tsun, god of trials and adversity.
• Also Ysmir and Alduin.

Dibella, Mara and Jhunal weren't terribly important to the Nords; but these other ones were worshiped by most. And none of them would inspire a peaceful life of farming, business, in

I do not strictly identify as an atheist or agnostic, but do not practice religion and do not believe in a metaphysical deity.

In my room, on my windowsill, I have a tiny vessel filled with sand and water. In this vessel live a handful of ciliates, unicellular organisms just large enough to be seen with a strong magnifying glass. That vessel is their universe. They have been born, lived, and will die in those 5 ml of water. They do not know they owe their entire existence and the existence of their universe to me, an entity advanced inconceivably beyond their comprehension. By all intents and purposes, I am the creator of their universe. They live and die at my mercy.

But I am no god. I live and die as they do, the functioning of my body underlies the very same laws of physics, chemistry and biology that govern them also. They have no method of communicating with me, nor I with them. Were they to pray to me, worship me, I would neither understand their pleas nor would the problems faced by a single-celled organism be of any concern to me. I would rather they live on, but one day they will have served their purpose, which is study, and become irrelevant to me and I will most likely casually cause their death and the eradication of their universe by washing out their vessel with a little soap and running water.

I do not preclude the possibility that a being advanced far, far beyond our means of comprehension created our universe. I do not, however, think of this being as a god, think it above the laws of science, or believe that it is worthy of my worship. I do not believe this being would care about us beyond the mere indifferent acknowledgment of our existence. Whether there is a creator or not is a question of no consequence, and such a creator need not be considered a deity.

Command economies are fantastic at the production of new technologies, the creation of large scale projects (eg. the space race) and is able to produce a large amount of primary and capital goods. It tends to falter in increasing gross productivity due to the lack of new businesses. This is quite a severe issue in that a slow in the growth of gross productivity can cause stagnation.

A solution for this would be to implent an alternate economic system with less reliance on a governing body. Could this be done whilst retaining the central tenants of socialism

Yet here we are. Has any indication ever been given/hinted at in media as to why the creators didn’t do this?

the one compatibilist position i've encountered in full that makes sense to me is that determinism is true or close to true, and there aren't really things like "people" and "choices" at a fundamental level, but we can truthfully talk about those things to the extent they are shorthand vocabularies that reduce to more fundamental ontologies. but i don't see how this necessitates moral responsibility. i can see how it might lead to it with additional premises, but i agree with the account given yet not the idea of moral responsibility, for my own elaborate reasons. am i being contradictory in this? do all compatibilist theories necessarly lead to moral responsibility? is that the real motivation behind compatibilism?

Anyone else feel like shouting this particular platitude loudly and often this semester?

Would the evolution of higher order thinking (i.e. metaconsciousness of consciousness) in any species lead to dominance of nature? Or is it conceivable a species could possess higher order thinking and remain on the lower end of the food chain?

For two reasons:

1. Scorestreak spam is ludicrous, and dampens the hope of getting dogs/blackbird streaks as DLC 🐶. However, instead of nerfing, we could use it as an opportunity to balance perks/wildcards

2. Having direct counters to scorestreaks usually mean stealth perks. CoD developers as a whole are scared shitless to introduce these because of the PTSD they got from constant "Nerf Ghost!" complaints a decade ago

Here's my proposal:

Bold = Perk is in current form

Wildcards:

• Perk Greed

• Harmony: Unlocks additional abilties when choosing all perks from same row

• Row 1: Increased equipment range and durability + slight increase in stun/gas duration

• Row 2: Very slight increase in tactical grenade damage + equipment/grenade damage delays heal for X seconds

• Row 3: Highlights all players that have been stationary for X seconds on the mini-map (even with Ghost/Cold Blooded)

• Row 4: Equip an additional, non-lethal scorestreak

• Row 5: Reduced flinch and ADS sway while strafing + hold breath longer (scope) + Increased regen speed while running

• Row 6: Run/climb/mantle +7% faster + very very slight increase in sliding/non-combat knife melee distance

• Dynamic Duo

• Equip 2 primaries, each with additional attachments. Equip one additional perk, with "synergy" perks enhancing each other (each pair of perks with the same letter enhance

I am having a hard time trying to think of a scenario in which b theory of time doesn't necessitate bivalence of logic. If it was not the case, then there must exist statements for which truth values are not known.
If such statements do exist (IE bivalence of logic is false) then can B theory still be true?

Perhaps being chased by something and the wire being the only barrier to escape?