Multiheaded comments on Rationality Quotes February 2012

Multiheaded 2 Feb 2012 20:45 UTC
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A few from M:TG flavour text.

When nothing remains, everything is equally possible. ~One with Nothing

“Believe in the ideal, not the idol.” -Serra ~Worship

“War glides on the simplest updrafts while peace struggles against hurricane winds. It is the way of the world. It must change.” ~Commander Eesha
- Bugmaster 3 Feb 2012 22:20 UTC
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  I must admit that one of my favorite quotes from M:tG is one of the less rational ones:
  
  Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire.
  
  -- Sizzle
  - CronoDAS 5 Feb 2012 8:36 UTC
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    Step 1: Find your cousin.
    Step 2: Get your cousin in the cannon. Step 3: Find another cousin.
    
    -- Fodder Cannon
    
    The card art of Browse gives this gem, which I think I may have posted before:
    
    “If A=B and B=C and C=D, then do not get a job proofreading.”—Quid’s Theorem
    
    But the best flavor text ever is still Martyrs’ Tomb.
    - Bugmaster 5 Feb 2012 18:59 UTC
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      But the best flavor text ever is still Martyrs’ Tomb.
      
      I don’t know, I find the Wall of Vapor quote inspirational, as well:
      
      Walls of a castle are made out of stone,
      Walls of a house out of bricks or of wood.
      My walls are made out of magic alone,
      Stronger than any that ever have stood.
      - Daermonn 10 Feb 2012 5:45 UTC
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        From Shattered Perception (Discard all the cards in your hand, then draw that many cards.):
        
        “You must shatter the fetters of the past. Only then can you truly act.”
        
        I think this one takes the cake, in terms of rationality.
- JoshuaZ 3 Feb 2012 5:38 UTC
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  “War glides on the simplest updrafts while peace struggles against hurricane winds. It is the way of the world. It must change.”
  
  To a large extent it already has. Humans are much more peaceful now than they have been in the past. This is part of a large set of broad trends. See Pinker’s excellent “The Better Angels of Our Nature”. At this point, I’m not sure this quote is really accurate.
- Eugine_Nier 3 Feb 2012 4:01 UTC
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  When nothing remains, everything is equally possible.
  
  True in the sense that 0=0.
  - shokwave 4 Feb 2012 12:49 UTC
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    I understood it as advocating a maximum ignorance prior. In hindsight, it’s an MT:G card, so probably not.
    - Eugine_Nier 4 Feb 2012 17:50 UTC
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      Also I don’t recommend throwing out what you know to have a maximum ignorance prior.
    - CronoDAS 5 Feb 2012 7:50 UTC
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      Incidentally, the card itself is notorious for being among the most useless cards ever printed and routinely shows up on “worst card ever” lists.