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(CNN) -- Five years after he resigned as Pakistan's president and left the South Asian nation, Pervez Musharraf will return to the country intent on leading his party in upcoming elections, he announced Saturday.
Musharraf plans to fly on a commercial airline into Karachi on March 24, then attend a rally attended by 50,000 people including more than 200 Pakistani expatriates from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates, he said in a statement.
He plans to lead his political party into Pakistan's general elections, which are slated for May.
Whether the rest of Pakistan welcomes him back, including the authorities now heading the country, remains to be seen.
In 1999, the then chief of Pakistan's army became its president in a bloodless military coup. He remained in power until resigning in 2008 -- a period that included the U.S.-led invasion of neighborhood Afghanistan, starting a sweeping international war on terror -- then went into self-imposed exile in London and Dubai.
A few months before he left office, Benazir Bhutto -- who served two stints, in the late 1980s and 1990s, as Pakistan's first elected female prime minister -- was killed in a gun-suicide bomb attack as she was wrapping up a campaign rally in Rawalpindi.
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Objectivity and inwardnessA person is an objective entity, which as a definite subject has the closest contacts with the whole (external) world and is most intimately involved with it precisely because of its inwardness, its interior life.
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Jul. 7, 2009, at 12:58pm
I think I could spend the day posting the new encyclical paragraph by paragraph. Number three raises a point that came up in the Personalist Project's recent discussions on forgiveness. In my experience, conventional Christian "forgiveness thinking" downplays truth in the name of charity. But more on this later. (Hint: The idea that to insist on truth is "harsh," together with demands that it be set aside in the name of peace and "unity" are, I claim, prime characteristics of dysfunctional relationships—relationships where selves are suffocated for lack of due breathing space.)
Meanwhile, here's the paragraph.
3. Through this close link with truth, charity can be recognized as an authentic expression of humanity and as an element of fundamental importance in human relations, including those of a public nature. Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to charity. That light is both the light of reason and the light of faith, through which the intellect attains to the natural and supernatural truth of charity: it grasps its meaning as gift, acceptance, and communion. Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way. In a culture without truth, this is the fatal risk facing love. It falls prey to contingent subjective emotions and opinions, the word "love" is abused and distorted, to the point where it comes to mean the opposite. Truth frees charity from the constraints of an emotionalism that deprives it of relational and social content, and of a fideism that deprives it of human and universal breathing-space. In the truth, charity reflects the personal yet public dimension of faith in the God of the Bible, who is both Agápe and Lógos: Charity and Truth, Love and Word.
Jul. 7, 2009, at 12:23pm
A reader who listened to Bishop Sheen's talk on marriage, linked below, sends in this question:
This is good. I wonder, however, what Archbishop Sheen would say regarding intimacy during affective dryness. Michael Healy's [June 3rd, available at our downloads page] talk seems to indicate that only romantic love can save acts of intimacy from various perversions (or inordinacies). Doesn't dryness imply a lack of romantic love? If so, it would seem that there should be no intimacy during dryness.
Maybe Dr. Healy or someone else could take it up.
Jul. 7, 2009, at 10:56am
David Brooks mars an otherwise excellent column about the relation between rules of etiquette, personal dignity and the public good with a gratuitous dig at Sarah Palin and strange admiration for Obama.
Whatever policy differences people may have with him, we can all agree that he exemplifies reticence, dispassion and the other traits associated with dignity. The cultural effects of his presidency are not yet clear, but they may surpass his policy impact. He may revitalize the concept of dignity for a new generation and embody a new set of rules for self-mastery.
To me, Obama comes across as detached, unserious and full of self-regard. On several occasions, most conspicuously toward his predecessor in office, he has been egregiously, cringe-makingly discourteous. I find in him none of the marked moral seriousness and conscientious respect for others that are the core of personal dignity.
You can find George Washington's "Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation" here.
It would be interesting for the Personalist Project to develop a 21st century code of etiquette. Proposals in this direction are welcome. I'd also like to know who readers sees as exemplars of true personal dignity in our day. I'll mention a few who have influenced me. Each one has made me feel the "apostolate of being" that is personal dignity, and made me regret painfully my own sloppiness.
Alice von Hildebrand and Tom Howard, the encounter with whom more than twenty years ago caused a radical revision in my aspirations for life.
Cardinal Schonborn.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whom I heard speak and met briefly at a Brandley Foundation Symposium. It came through in her height and stunning beauty, her way of carrying herself, the gentle strength and musicality of her voice, and above all her moral fearlessness.
Samuel Alito. Jules and I got to hear him speak at an ISI dinner in April. He was thoroughly unpretentious. There was nothing particularly great in his speech. But his physical bearing radiated rectitude, piety, modesty, moral seriousness, self-control.
Jul. 7, 2009, at 9:09am
New papal encyclical issued today.
Its first lines are notably personalistic.
Charity in truth, to which Jesus Christ bore witness by his earthly life and especially by his death and resurrection, is the principal driving force behind the authentic development of every person and of all humanity. Love — caritas — is an extraordinary force which leads people to opt for courageous and generous engagement in the field of justice and peace. It is a force that has its origin in God, Eternal Love and Absolute Truth. Each person finds his good by adherence to God's plan for him, in order to realize it fully: in this plan, he finds his truth, and through adherence to this truth he becomes free (cf. Jn 8:22). To defend the truth, to articulate it with humility and conviction, and to bear witness to it in life are therefore exacting and indispensable forms of charity. Charity, in fact, "rejoices in the truth" (1 Cor 13:6). All people feel the interior impulse to love authentically: love and truth never abandon them completely, because these are the vocation planted by God in the heart and mind of every human person.
Jul. 6, 2009, at 3:04pm
The indefatigable Bill Drennen has thoughtfully challenged a point I made earlier regarding Christopher West's Hefner/JPII comparison and Chesterton's famous assertion that a man who is knocking on the door of a brothel is really looking for God. My point was that, while I understand West's and Chesterton's meaning, their way of expressing it is problematic for this reason: it obscures the dramatic difference between moral goodness and badness.
It is true, as Bill points out, that all men experience a certain restlessness and incompleteness in their hearts for which they try to find a remedy. Objectively and ultimately speaking that remedy is God and God alone. In this sense all are indeed "looking for God": John Paul II, Hugh Hefner, the prostitute and her client, you and me.
What I want to stress, however, is that from the moral point of view—from the point of view of our character and well-being as persons—it makes all the difference in the world how each of us chooses to deal with this restlessness. There are two radically different possibilities—in our lives as a whole and in each of our acts. (This, BTW, is the kernel of truth in the "fundamental option" moral theory. It's also what "conversion" is all about.) There is what John Paul II has called the "utilitarian" approach, which scans the world for anything that can satisfy our desires and cravings, or there is the "value-responding" approach (von Hildebrand's term) which looks expectantly out into the world for things that are truly good and beautiful, and tries to live in accord with them. A person with this attitude does not simply use (and then discard) people and things, but respects and appreciates them for what they are. He finds happiness in so doing. His happiness and peace are not so much the direct aim of his moral acting, but a gift and a fruit of living in harmony with the world of values.
An unqualified "all are looking for God" idea, on the other hand, can leave the impression that saints and scoundrels are not so different from each other, morally speaking. We're all looking for the same thing, all doing our best. Sin is nothing more and nothing other than ignorance—a problem of not understanding where to find the good we all seek. The truth is much more serious and much uglier than that.
Much more needs to said, and what I have said could be further clarified and expanded upon. But I'll leave that for later (if anyone cares to take it up with me), and turn now to some of Bill's specific objections:
1) First, Bill proposes: Even though God is not exactly WHAT the sinner seeks, he is the reason for (i.e. the WHY of) the seeking.
I answer: I understand and agree with what you're getting at, but I don't like the formulation, for two reasons. First, in the sense explained above (2nd paragraph) God is, ultimately, BOTH the what AND the why of our seeking. And second, usually it is precisely the answer to the question "why?" that makes the moral difference between men clear. Why is he going to visit that woman? Because he loves her and wants to propose marriage? or to find a cheap and convenient release for his sexual urges? (This is what St. Anselm refers to when he writes that every act has not only a "what" but also a "why".)
The difference you are getting at (I think) is more like the difference between a blind urge, which impels, spurs, or prods a person to do something (e.g. the feeling of being hungry), and a genuine motive, which is an objective reason for acting in a certain way (e.g. a perfectly cooked steak). What do you think?
2) Bill says: Not every bad choice is a conscious and explicit choice of self over God.
I answer: True. When we gossip, tell a small lie, fail to speak up when we know we should, and so on, we are commonly not thinking about God. (If we were, we probably wouldn't do it.) But our stance toward Him, is nevertheless involved in each case. That's why, if we're serious about holiness, we confess it as a sin and ask for forgiveness. Even in the case of grave sins, such as adultery, we may not be thinking about God or fully realize the effects they have on our communion with Him. But regardless, a rejection of God is implied and accomplished.
3) Bill says: The "love of self to the contempt of God" is very rare and a sure sign of an advanced stage of corruption.
I answer (along similar lines): It is true that we rarely find this attitude in a fully conscious, explicit and deliberate form. It requires sincere and deep reflection on our own behavior to recognize it (such as Augustine's famous reflections on stealing a pear from a neighbor's orchard). There is also the important difference between one bad act, and a vice. In the latter case, it is not just one act but our moral character that is (mal)formed.
Jul. 6, 2009, at 2:51pm
To begin to answer to the question below, let me take a short excursion into metaphysics.
When we examine "Being" philosophically, we see that the first crucial divide is the one between Creator and creatures. On the one hand, Absolute Being, Infinite Perfection, on the other: metaphysical dependence and contingency. No creature can account for its own existence; it was God's gift. The second most radical divide is between personal and non-personal being. On one side, we have the Absolute Person, God, but also angels and human beings. On the other, all impersonal creatures: animals, plans, rocks and minerals.
I recall once hearing Cardinal Schonborne give a talk on evolution in which he mentioned that the difference between a chimpanzee's DNA and ours is minimal, but this "insignificant" difference is the abyss between someone who can say I, somethone who can pray, someone who can love another not because of needs, but because of his beauty and goodness. Because man has an immortal soul, every single organ of his body is elevated to a totally different level. This is why an eagle's superb eye sight does not perceive and therefore cannot contemplate beauty. This is why the amazing sensitivity of dogs to "decibels" does not enable them to be moved to tears by sublime music.
When God created Adam and Eve, He made them kings of creation. They were masters over material nature. Nature was to feed them, and provide for their needs. All impersonal creatures were given to serve human ends (which of course, does not mean that this ownership could not be abused—something which happened, alas, after original sin).
Because of his dignity as a person, man can never be used as a mere instrument, a mere tool whose purpose is to "serve" others, as if he were a lemon that can be squeezed and its rind discarded. This is so true that God respects human freedom—taking the "risk" that men might abuse this freedom.
This was Kant's great insight when he defined a person as a being who is an end in himself, never to be used as a mere means.
But from this, we should not draw the conclusion that man is his own end. Man, being an imperfect creature cannot be his own "fulfillment". To be person is to be called to be in communion with others. Animals "flock" together. Man is called to love—which is not an instinct, but a sign of his nobility and capacity to transcend himself. He is called, primarily, to be in communion with His Creator, through adoration, praise, gratitude. He is called upon to "love his neighbors"—persons like himself made to God's image and existence. By transcending himself, he fully finds himself.
To suppose that man "does not need" anything beside his own being, is to forget that he is but a frail and imperfect creature. "Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they rest in Thee." (St. Augustine, Confession I, 1)
Jul. 6, 2009, at 10:40am
A reader from Australia has raised a question that I think many share about how the personalistic norm articulated by Kant and then adopted and adapted by JP II, viz. "a person is an end in himself, and never to be used as a mere means" relates to the call to love that is likewise of the essence of personal existence.
Here's the question:
I have just recently come across personalistic philosophy by John Paul II. Forgive my lack of knowlege in this subject but I have a qestion about love.
I am Catholic and practicing. I try to live out theology of the body. I know I need to love but why, if I am made for my own end, my own sake? I don't need to live for anyone, I am my own person and my existence needs no addition to my happiness. Now I am sounding really individualistic. Why do I need to limit or sacrfice my freedom to acommodate for another? Isnt that diminshing my dignity as a person? Do persons really need love when our personhood is enough? To be honest, I am not satsified with the answer,'God is love and that we have to image the trinity.' It's too abstract.
Jul. 5, 2009, at 3:13pm
A good review here, highlighting the moral issues raised by the film, and by Islam in the modern world.
And another, at Pajamas Media, fittingly titled, "An Unflinching Look at the Unconscionable."
Jul. 2, 2009, at 3:17pm
A question from a reader for the philosophers:
I just "happened" upon your website and applaud your efforts to promote a
personalist agenda (particularly rooted in Christian metaphysics).
I'm wondering if you can point me in some directions? I am keenly
interested in Christian personalist expressions and have read material from
different approaches: Martin Luther King Jr., Bowne, Norris Clarke, Dietrich
von Hildebrand, Josef Seifert and John Crosby come to mind. I have been
helped by all of these authors to see that human dignity is objectively
grounded in the perfections contained in being a person (ultimately
reflecting the ultimate person). Unfortunately, here in Canada it is
sometimes hard to get my hands upon good material, particularly from the
school of phenomenological realism. I sense that this particular school has
a good approach to epistemology (an area I'm very interested in) and is a
good antidote to skepticism. I've been particularly interested in good
rebuttals of Descarte's spiritus malingus argument.
Any help you might be able to give, either in dialouge or pointing me
towards written material, would be wonderful.
Jul. 2, 2009, at 1:32pm
I found linked today at the Dawn Patrol this treasury of free audios by Bishop Fulton Sheen. I listened to two of them. "Marriage Problems" and "Sex as a Mystery." Both are very good. I take them as representing the best of pre-John Paul II Catholic thinking on sex and marriage. They contain much wisdom. But, it seems to me, they lack a depth dimension present in the Theology of the Body and in Dietrich von Hildebrand's philosophy of love and marriage. They are not the "new thinking about mankind" that, as I said in my last post, we need to meet the crisis of our day.
I would love to know what others think.
Jul. 2, 2009, at 10:45am
This morning I came across this 1964 quote of Albert Einstein, whom Time Magazine named "Man of the [20th] Century." It comes from an article about nuclear war prevention:
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our ways of thinking. Thus we are drifting toward a catastrophe beyond comparison. We shall require a substantially new way of thinking about mankind to survive.
It strikes me that the same thing could be said about other lately-unleashed catastrophic powers. I am thinking specifically of the unleashing of sex that has been happening across the course of the last 100 years. The other night I watched part of an excellent PBS program on the history of Jazz that made clear how much the power and appeal of Jazz had to do with its sexual connection. Allan Bloom (I think it was) later said the same thing about rock and roll: "Young people know that rock has the beat of sexual intercourse." (Speaking for myself, I didn't know it when I was young. Now I think it's true. And whether we knew it or not, it had the effect of setting loose a primitive power of sex in society. Rap music strikes me as a evoking a consciously loveless sexual force.) There was the legalization of birth control, radical feminism, the sexual revolution…
This unleashing plainly calls for "a new way of thinking about mankind." It strikes me that we have that new way of thinking in personalism. It strikes me further that, in the mysterious economy of redemption, personalism was taking shape at almost the very same historical moment as the scientific, economic and cultural developments and disasters that led us to our present moral condition. We were never bereft of a solution. The turn toward liberalism in morals and religion that coincided with the beginnings of industrialization and scientism, was personalistically addressed by John Henry Newman in the 19th century. Max Scheler's value philosophy and his analysis of shame came early in the 20th. Dietrich von Hildebrand's books on Marriage and Purity rehabilitating the role of love in marriage and in human life and deploring artificial contraception on grounds of love were written in the 1920's—before Margaret Sanger became a household name. Gaudium et Spes, Humanae Vitae, Love and Responsibility all came out in the 1960's, just before the sexual revolution exploded on the scene.
It seems to me that in John Paul II's personalist anthropology and his Theology of the Body, we have the new thinking that is more than capable of meeting and overcoming the power of evil in our present generation. The old ways of thinking won't cut it.
Jul. 1, 2009, at 1:54pm
As my friends know, I have had a book on courtship on the back burner for years. Yesterday I got an email from someone who had read this article of mine, asking whether I've published anything on the topic since. I haven't. But now that the Linde is up and running, I shall try again. I find I write best in dialogue with others, so if you have thoughts or questions or objections or feedback, please do write!
My hope is to apply the personalist insights of JP II and Dietrich von Hildebrand to the question of courtship. I am particularly interested in trying to throw light on the role of love in courtship—something that I think tends to be oddly neglected in popular Catholic teachings on dating. Here is a paragraph from that article:
Just last night, reading George Weigel's biography of John Paul II, I was struck by this line: "Love, for Karol Wojtyla, was the truth at the very core of the human condition…" (p.101) Similarly, he saw it as the core of authentic courtship. In the experience of falling in love, Wojtyla shows, the meaning of the universe is mysteriously revealed, and with it the lover's personal vocation: to give myself in love to this other, and to receive the gift of his love for me.(5)
Jul. 1, 2009, at 1:54pm
John Allen previews Benedict XVI's new social encyclical, due to be published within a week or so, here.
Hat tip American Papist.
"Love is the test of truth," the pope said. "Ever more we must be measured by this criterion, that truth becomes love and that love makes us truthful."
Jun. 26, 2009, at 7:42pm
Here is an insightful and sobering analysis in the American Thinker of Obama's cultural identity from an American woman of West African descent. (Hat tip Rush Limbaugh.)
She charges him with having absorbed from his father a marxist ideology out of resentment against the ravages of colonialism in Africa.
Like many educated intellectuals in postcolonial Africa, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was enraged at the transformation of his native land by its colonial conqueror. But instead of embracing the traditional values of his own tribal cultural past, he embraced an imported Western ideology, Marxism. I call such frustrated and angry modern Africans who embrace various foreign "isms", instead of looking homeward for repair of societies that are broken, African Colonials. They are Africans who serve foreign ideas.
And this:
Like imperialists of Old World Europe, the ACP sees their constituents not as free thinking individuals who best know how to go about achieving and creating their own means for success. Instead, the ACP sees his constituents as a flock of ignorant sheep that need to be led—oftentimes to their own slaughter.
Like the European imperialist who spawned him, the ACP is a destroyer of all forms of democracy.
Her argument puts me in mind again of what I learned from Desmond Tutu about African "ubuntu" philosophy and its relation to Christian personalism.
Jun. 26, 2009, at 12:38pm
It seems the very least those of us who are serious about defending human rights and promoting the dignity of the person can do is listen to those who are trying to make injustice known. The Stoning of Soraya M., based on a true story, opens in theaters this weekend.
Jun. 26, 2009, at 9:48am
Matthew B. Crawford, author of a fascinating New Atlantis article with deep personalist resonance has just come out with a book of the same name.
From the article:
A decline in tool use would seem to betoken a shift in our mode of inhabiting the world: more passive and more dependent. And indeed, there are fewer occasions for the kind of spiritedness that is called forth when we take things in hand for ourselves, whether to fix them or to make them. What ordinary people once made, they buy; and what they once fixed for themselves, they replace entirely or hire an expert to repair, whose expert fix often involves installing a pre-made replacement part.
So perhaps the time is ripe for reconsideration of an ideal that has fallen out of favor: manual competence, and the stance it entails toward the built, material world. Neither as workers nor as consumers are we much called upon to exercise such competence, most of us anyway, and merely to recommend its cultivation is to risk the scorn of those who take themselves to be the most hard-headed: the hard-headed economist will point out the opportunity costs of making what can be bought, and the hard-headed educator will say that it is irresponsible to educate the young for the trades, which are somehow identified as the jobs of the past. But we might pause to consider just how hard-headed these presumptions are, and whether they don't, on the contrary, issue from a peculiar sort of idealism, one that insistently steers young people toward the most ghostly kinds of work.
Jun. 26, 2009, at 9:21am
New York state will begin using tax payer dollars to pay women to donate their eggs for embryonic stem cell research. Washington Post article here. Hat tip Mona Charen at the Corner.
"We want to enhance the potential of stem cell research. If we are going to encourage stem cell research as a solution for a variety of diseases, we should remove barriers to the greatest extent possible," said David Hohn, vice chairman of the board's two committees that endorsed the move. "We decided to break some new territory."
Jun. 25, 2009, at 10:34am
Before gracefully bowing out of the discussion, Professor Seifert made a point about burqa banning that deserves a separate post:
[M}any of those who want to force Moslem women to take off their veils do so out of an idolization of Western pseudo-civilization and forget the horrors of our own libertarian and degenerate society. Compared with the acts of "legalized" crime and oppression (that alone the abortions here and the increasing threat to the freedom of conscience constitute), I find wearing burqas (even if I wish women replace them by other decent robes) not only completely harmless but in no way intrinsically wrong, and certainly nothing that our states should hypocritically forbid (in contrast to some of the other practices you mention: forced marriages, honor killings as well as schariah laws such as to kill one's own child if he or she become Christian etc.), where of course the state has to interfere against crimes and grave oppressions of religious freedom of this nature. [see entire post]
I agree with him that it would be wrong to ban burqas on secularist grounds, as France does—making public schools, for instance, "religion free zones." I also deplore any idolization of Western civilization, (though I may not call it a pseudo-civilization.) But though I, too, regret the prevailing fashions of Western clothing, I do think the freedom that women have in the West is a genuine and great achievement, for all its attendant evils. And if burqas were to be banned in the West, they should be banned on grounds first of women's freedom and equal dignity as persons and citizens, second of common social values, and thirdly on practical security concerns.
I don't agree with him that burqas are "completely harmless" and "in no way intrinsically wrong," since, as Teresa Manidis expressed so well in her comments on an earlier post, they go hand in hand with the subjugation and de-personalization of women. (It is the element of coercion that at least approaches intrinsic wrongness, I think.) It's true that they do not remotely compare in grievousness with the moral crime of abortion. But surely we shouldn't refrain from addressing injustices recognized by our society because it fails to recognize worse ones?
Finally, I suspect that as a matter of fact, unreal romanticism and multi-cultural relativism is a greater factor in our failure to stand up against the oppression of women in much of the Islamic world than an idolization of our own society. Aren't we more prone to cultural self-hatred than triumphalism?
Jun. 24, 2009, at 4:59pm
Hat-tip American Papist.
Jun. 23, 2009, at 11:39pm
Friend Teresa sent me this link to the incredibly inspiring video testimony of abortion survivor Gianna Jessen.


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C.P.R. Station in the Rockies, 1901
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
How Old School Got Me Going
While reading up on my usual blog rounds (in particular those of Odyssey and Chgowiz), I started to think about my own participation in the old-school renaissance and retro-clone communities. Now, one of my first RPGs (and certainly one of the most influential) was Rules Cyclopedia D&D, back in '93 (a year which can only grant me Junior Grognard status, I freely admit). So, you can say I am not without some background and appreciation for the play and broad philosophies supported by this renaissance.
But the thing that puzzled me, as I began to examine my own place and direction in the hobby, is why my level of involvement, participation, and especially content generation is so high compared to only a few years ago. By all means, it should be the opposite. I have 3 young kids, a family, an involved job, and less time than ever to write game material and read and play RPGs. My current job hours are less forgiving, and I am slowly adjusting to that lessening of personal time that can make hobby participation so tough. So how is it that I am writing more, reading more, and (I hope) being a more productive member of our hobby?
I think the answer is found within the old-school community itself. I don't think I've ever been party to as big an emphasis on Do-It-Yourself thinking and personal RPG customization as I have with that group. Publications like Fight On! emphasize adding your own rules, toying with the ludicrous, and put your own stamp on things. I saw people putting their ideas out there in various articles, products, and blog posts. Some were brilliant, some I thought silly, but that's just seemed to help all the more.
Now there are wonderful homebrew rules, ideas, and settings out there for just about any type of RPG you can think of—and this is where the words get a little tough—but for me, I was never totally comfortable with putting my ideas out there. I know that's on me and not those game communities. But I think it's the type of encouragement and peer example I've had from so many within the old-school community that have made the difference. You might say it helped me get over a case of writing "stage fright", so to speak.
I was really too young to participate in any sort of molding or contribution to those originals off which the retro-clones are largely based. Now, I feel like I'm part of a community, with each of us throwing in our own bits and ingredients. And ok, maybe no one will use the article I posted to Fight On! or the new items I put on my blog. But they might, you see, and just the thought that something I wrote can be shared and might cause a spark makes it worthwhile. This is our way, our shot, to contribute to the games we've loved so much.
We are plotting the dungeons. We are writing the magazine articles and supplements. We're sharing the wild charts and tables. And though many have come before, it's a great thing to be contributing to yourself.
Maybe we all have different entry points for this sort of thing. Mine happened to be the old-school renaissance, from the Troll Lords to Jamie Mal and Jeff Rients.
In a lot of ways, guys, along with this blog, you've given me my hobby back. So thank you, and Fight On.
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- Alex Schroeder said...
I wrote in the conclusion of my Fight On! #2 review: "The wide range of articles and drawings, and the maps and drawings less polished in particular, encouraged me to write things up and submit them. I loved it, and I wanted to be a part of it. That's how cool it was!"
- April 15, 2009 at 8:25 AM
- HinterWelt said...
Back in the day, it was a lack of rules that made for the "Do it yourself" attitude. I never really got on board with the "It must be from the company" supplement train. I prefer to see folks doing their own creation for the games they play. More than a retro-clone or old school renaissance, I am hoping for a revival of this sort of thinking.
- April 15, 2009 at 10:39 AM
- Zachary The First said...
@Bill: I completely agree. And I think it's something that can extend beyond any sort of old-school/new-school classification. Like I said, I think people have different entry points for it (and that happened to be mine), but I really appreciate the entire DIY concept.
- April 15, 2009 at 10:54 AM
- Oddysey said...
Way, way too young to have participated in the original go round, but I feel exactly the same way about old school. For all "get off my lawn!" kinds of jokes, the online community really is incredibly welcoming.
- April 15, 2009 at 1:40 PM
- Chgowiz said...
Viva La Revolución!
I wrote a post for Examiner today about Free RPGs and in researching it, I was shocked and appalled that to play a 4E D&D game by purchasing the core rules, you need to spend close to $100. That's ridiculous.
I think that the DIY feeling is going to spread a lot more as the Internet democratizes our ability to design and play games that appeal to us.
- April 15, 2009 at 2:13 PM
- Ragnorakk said...
it is pretty amazing and wonderful - by whatever terms and names are applied to it - that there is so much production, so much collaberation, transparency, etc.
It's inspiring! Not in a cheesy way - it's just hard not to think more, develop more, to enjoy the whole thing more.
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Btw my character is unkownkiller on azuremyst
I've been tanking for a while, I would say for at least a year and almost everyone says i'm a really good tank and my groups almost never wipe when I do tank. But lately I've been noticing some problems with keeping aggro with BIG groups. Now I don't use macros and i really don't know if this is a big deal or not because I never have a problem with aggro unless it's a big group. Any other warrior tanks know how to solve this? Please take a look at my character and give me some pointers on talents, or whatever you see fit even macros if it really is that big of deal. Thanks
Btw my character is unkownkiller on azuremyst
Anything on macros?
Cause for aoe i do everything it says all ready
If we're talking raiding I've found the greatest tool for keeping AoE agro is yelling at the dps. Tell them when they're being idiots about starting AoE too soon and eventually they will learn.. or not but I still find it enjoyable yelling at the dps once in a while.
On AOE packs in 25 man, I usually just let the DK or pally do most of the tanking, and I'll target around and make sure no DPS is getting facesmashed. I can pull decent burst threat but after the first few seconds of DnD or Cons I'm up the creek without a taunt. I don't really care who's tanking as long as it's tanked, and I can sit in and provide debuffs and aoe stuns.
Or go afk and browse forums or get dinner or soda, that's what I did /shrug. (that is a joke btw... sorta...)
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Well I usually don't have a problem with raids, it's usually on the big mob pulls in heroics if there a good dps they'll pull them off me after all my AOEs are on cooldown.
If you're having issues with DPS pulling off of you then some more help may be needed :P Is that hte issue you're having?
*Edit: Screwed against a DK or Pally on 25 man trash
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My advice is simple, and works most of the times (talking heroics here):
Hold your trigger on shockwave for a few seconds. If an aoe happy mage pulls aggro you can then stun them all and start working on shield slams/ devs etc. to build aggro again.
I can see Aggathon, sandwich in one hand mouse in the other during trash pulls.....
RNGesus - Saving you unreliably since BC.
Running with a Pally co-tank on 10 - yeah, trash pulls are not much fun.
1. Vig on Pally so I can taunt any that get free
2. Taunt any mobs with directional AoE to me (so they face away from the group). If only one, then taunt some other random mob too. (or Plague scientst so I can SB/CB him to keep him from turning DPS into oozes)
3. Move them *slightly* away from the big group so they are next to each other.
4. Revenge/cleave them to keep them happy about going after me.
5. Throw down TC/Demo Shout/Shockwave when availble so I feel like I'm doing something.
6. Hope the DPS burns them down quickly so we can get to a boss and I don't feel so useless.
Also just a quick note, shield block is also a very good AoE ability too since it increases your BV by 100% it also doubles the amount of damage your damage shield does. Tclap -> shockwave -> tclap and shield block as soon as shockwave wears off, cleaving and revenging as much as possible.
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Let the Pally and or DK tank it. It's their job. Warriors tank bosses pallys and DKs tank adds. Not my opinion it's just the way the game is.
Agreed, look for lose mobs toss in a taunt. Toss in your aoe abilities but don't expect to out aggro a paladins aoe or death and decay aggro on massive mobs.
Thanks everyone for the advice. I thought it was just me not doing something right but Now I get that were just really underpowered when it comes to holding threat with AOE.
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BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS -- I'm writing concerning an abuse of power concerning the southbridge housing authority I call it an abuse of power because I really don't know what else to call it on the my sister is in line for the next section 8 voucher and she was told by the person in the office that if in a week she didn't find an apartment she would be bypassed and go back to the end of the line after waiting for so many years for this she is very stressed and depressed and she has bypolar and she will be sick any day she called me crying because Monday she will loose her right to a section 8 voucher I don't know how they expect her to find an apartment in a couple of days, and if in this office she is the only one that this has been done to, so where is the justice for poor and disabled people in mass and we don't know where to go to stop someone from doing this
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Skye on 08/20/2011:
I'm not sure why you consider the rules and regulations for Section 8, to be abuse of power.
She probably should have been looking for apartments, while waiting for her section 8 housing assistance.
Where has she been living all this time, while waiting? She's been given the same exact opportunity as everyone else who has been on the waiting list for years.
madconsumer on 08/20/2011:
what is she looking for? why weren't any of the apartments she was shown acceptable?
clutzycook on 08/21/2011:
There are thousands of people in line behind your sister waiting for those vouchers. That's why the state only gives the recipients a certain amount of time to find a place to use them in. If she is unable to do it on her own, perhaps you should help her. Grab a few of the free rental circulars that are outside most grocery and drug stores and make a few phone calls to see if they take Section 8. I would bet this could all be resolved in a day or two.
Anonymous on 08/21/2011:
Curious to know how long you think she could be given to find an apartment? She's been on the list for months. How you feel if the reason she's had to wait so long is because the person ahead of her took 3 months to find an apartment? And the person a head of that person took 4 months? I'm sorry your sister is in this situation and I sincerely hope you are doing everything in your power to help her. I don't understand why it would take more than 1-2 weeks to find her a place to live but I hope you guys find something!
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Miller fence company
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WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS -- As a consumer from your state, I felt it was my responsibility to bring to your attention the following incident.
Dear AG,
I live in Worcester. A few years back when we bought our home a neighbor approached us and asked if he could take our fence down so he could get a back hoe in to grate his land. He would put up a new fence in turn.
He held up his end of the deal and had Miller Fence Co install a fence. They came in the dead of winter to put it up, they had to return to reset the fence as it was leaning. They still didn't set it correctly. The neighbor with-held $300 and told them to set it right, they refused. Last Friday May 26th 2006 the company came out. I thought to fix the fence, when I looked again, the workers were gone and so were 3 sections of fence. Since then I have not been able to have my 17 month old little boy play in the yard as it is a safety issue.
I contacted the police, who told me it was not criminal, even-though I pointed out they trespassed onto my property, stomped in my tomato plants and stole my fence.
This matter needs to be handled as quickly as possible as My son has every right to be able to play in our yard, in a safe environment.
As a resolution, I would like the following:
I would like the company to come out and put the fence back where it was,and do it correctly.
Please contact me if you need more details regarding this incident.
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Anonymous on 05/31/2006:
Maybe they removed the sections because they were damaged and need to be replaced? (And, didn't have replacements with them??)
Also, I never had a fenced-in yard when my child was yours' age...I just made sure I was outside with her so I could keep an eye on her. She's 16 now, so I guess I did alright...
squeekie on 05/31/2006:
I am always outside with my baby, but children are fast, and it is worcester. That may not mean anything to people who don't know the area, but I do and I don't blame the person for wanting the fence back up.
Doc J on 05/31/2006:
Perhaps call Miller Fence to find out why they were on your property and why did they take your fence? Somehow, that seems a more appropriate action than calling the police. I sense another, unstated issue here.
Hugh_Jorgen on 05/31/2006:
I would make this your neighbor's problem. He is the one that contracted with Miller - you had a perfectly good fence until he took it down to get a tractor in his yard. You are trying to be the good neighbor, but you are getting walked on. Tell him he's got x number of days to whip Miller into shape or you will hire someone else to fix it correctly and send him the bill.
squeekie on 05/31/2006:
call mass consumer affairs they will guide in helping you write a demand and return letter. the company will have 30 days to comply.
Anonymous on 05/31/2006:
They should've told you their intent but you also should do you homework, find a fence company through the BBB listings, check their reputation and see if they have a website, next time.
Anonymous on 05/31/2006:
According to the BBB the Miller Fence Co has one compliant - Oi!
Anonymous on 06/01/2006:
That is lovely information except she didn't hire the fence contractor, the neighbor who tore her fence down did
Doc J on 06/01/2006:
Amani-Don't confuse folks with the facts. LOL
Anonymous on 06/01/2006:
lol Doc, sometimes the sanctamonius lectures get old
Anonymous on 06/01/2006:
OMG! and I must learn to spell (or spell check) sanctimonious is what I meant to say, sanctimonious!
Doc J on 06/03/2006:
No prob. I have an IQ above room temperature. I get it. LOL.
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Transouth won't give me my title!
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BEDFORD, TEXAS -- I have numerous complaints about Transouth Financial, but this is my biggest one and hopefully last one yet... Here's the deal...I overnighted my payoff check in the amount of $12,000+ to their payoff department in Minnesota and typed clear instructions as to what I needed done with the title to my vehicle... Well, Transouth could sure take my money but as of today, over 2 months later, they still haven't sent me the title... I have called about four times and the reps say my account has been paid off and the title is on its' way... Texas law says that the seller/leinholder has 20 days to transfer title to the buyer... So, Transouth, where's my title? As far as I'm concerned, your company is nothing but a bunch of uneducated, low-life thieves who have nothing better to screw your customers by taking their money and not coming through on your end of the deal!
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Tyster on 05/03/2006:
Good Luck! I bought a Jeep through TranSouth Financial in 1998 from Florida. I live in Ohio and needed the title sent from their office in TX to Ohio so that I can get plates. The State and myself faxed and contacted TranSouth numerous times to have them send the title to Ohio. I had been chasing them for years; meanwhile, I told them that I can't drive the vehicle legally so come get it! I stopped my payments (after already paying over $9000) and let the vehicle sit. They immediately labeled my account as a "charge-off" and turned my account over to a collector. So, here I sit with a 1998 Jeep with 80,000 miles; cannot get tags; they won't pick it up; and have a charge-off on my credit! I now have to petition the State of Ohio for help to get a court ordered title. I can relate to ALL the comments made in this website. It doesn't get any better!
kb6srt on 11/27/2007:
With Regard to Transouth Financial. I bought my 1996 Ford Expedition back in 2000 and paid it off in 2003 (1 year early) over 4 years ago in 2003 and I STILL haven't received my clear title.
When do they actually come through. Maybe they should go bankrupt sp we can get some satisfaction.
Mr Thank You on 05/21/2009:
Thanks for the education guys I was looking to get a loan from Transouth - and now when I hear the name Transouth
I will run as fast as I can
pissed-off on 06/22/2011:
Ibought a car from Transouth in 2004 still waiting on title! {2011}
frank fleming on 03/10/2012:
I have the same problem in Ore 2002 KIA paid off in 2005 and now I want to sell and I couldnot find my
title and find out no title DMV still has them as
lean holders very frustated!!!!!!!!!!!!1
not happy on 08/03/2012:
Bought a 1996 in 2001. Transouth was lienholder now its 2012 can't get a title from the dmv...why? Because transouth was still listed as the lienholder...DUH! If I hadn't paid that vehicle of after 11yr the would have repo it 10yrs ago. NOW WHat should I do can't sell it without title!!!
Ashley on 06/03/2013:
I'm trying to help my dad get his title from on his truck he paid off in 2003. Has anyone had any success? if so please email me.
Feelin Screwed on 06/22/2013:
Soo... Many of the same issues. I bought a Jeep in Ohio with Trans South as my lender. Paid loan off in 2007, and no title. Upon research the company sold off to City Financial, but I cannot find anything on the web connecting them. I got the runaround....lies.. And craziness of no one actually able to give me the straight answer as to who to contact or who's responsible. A year later I loaned my Jeep to my ex husband.... Who is an ex cop and currently a P.I. And he came up with no results !! I am now starting my own business as a L.L.C. And need to transfer title to company name.....and I'm bake to where I was in 2007. I've just come upon another site, to where someone at there DMV instructed them to send a certified letter to last know address of Trans South, and if it's returned UNOPENED, that the DMV will consider the title...cleared. And move to issuing it as a cleared title. I have my credit report showing it paid off, and I will be trying the registered letter and see if I can get my DMV to accept the returned letter and my credit report as proof to move forward. Wish me luck !!! I hope this helps... Anyone else out there dealing with this as well !!! I will keep my results updated here, good luck fellow duped friends !!
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State Lottery
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MASSACHUSETTS -- This concerns the drawing of the lottery numbers in our State. The Mass. State Lottery has decided it no longer has to spin the balls that come up with the winning numbers. We the public deserve this courtesy. We spend our hard earned cash in hopes of winning a couple of dollars.
Another thing is the scratch tickets they need looking into Cahill has made a scam out of our lottery. There should be a law against this practice.
Bill Moore
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Eloise on 08/03/2009:
How does any of this change your chance to win? Also, you might want to consider using Spell Check in the future.
Skye on 08/03/2009:
If everyone was a lottery winner, there wouldn't be a lottery. Nobody is forcing you to play any of the games.
Instead of buying tickets, take that money and start saving it.
goduke on 08/03/2009:
I prefer to go to Vegas and donate to the Steve Wynn retirement fund. At least there I can guzzle a cocktail while walking down the street.
Anonymous on 08/03/2009:
Although Skye makes the most sense on this one the daytime crabbie is going to have to go to goduke. LOL.
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Buy.com - return policy 14 days from ship date?
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BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS -- As a consumer from your state, I felt it was my responsibility to bring to your attention the following incident.
I purchased a On Hold Plus OHP-7500 MP3 Digital On Hold Audio System for Analog/KSU-Less with Integrated CD Autoload Drive for $362.99 and it was shipped 8/20 but I received the item 8/24. They said it was not with the 14 days from the time it was shipped. I first think 14 days is too short. Second the date I received it should be the day the return policy starts. I am out 362.99 :O(
As a resolution, I would like the following:
I would like for the company to allow me to return a new item I bought for them.
Please contact me if you need more details regarding this incident.
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Anonymous on 09/12/2007:
When you made the purchase you agreed to their terms which clearly state the 14 days. Did you request an RMA from their web site? Their returns policy is at https://secure.buy.com/corp/support/returns/default.asp?what=returns
Anonymous on 09/12/2007:
Newegg has better customer service and 30 days return policy on most items.
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Polywell Computer
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As a honest consumer from your state, I felt it was my responsibility to bring to your attention the following incident.
I recenly bought a computer from Polywell, and have had numerous problems. I have tried multiple times to have these issues addressed, to no avail. I was hoping that you or someone on your staff can investigate/shame this company.
My story is as follows:
When I was designing my system I specified that I wanted an extra quiet system, since my study is sandwiched between two bedrooms.
1) System TOO loud compared with any other similar computer on the market. They finally shipped a replacement quiet power fan, but the system is still too noisy.
2) The firewire connections do not work - I have tried to use multiple devices.
3) The system shipped without a digital video card (as per specs). after a lot of calls, they shipped me the correct part, but charged my AMEX card for the original part, which was hauled away by the service tech - as per their instructions.
4) The CD-RW and the DVD-ROM are on the same IDE bus - burning is slow and error prone.
5) I have on site warranty service. The service company however will only call back after numerous calls, and it takes weeks to schedule any on-site service (I live on cape Cod, MA).
I am rather angry and frustrated at this point, and want my money back - since the company has seen fit not to/or cannot resolve these issues. If that is not an option, I want a system that works as advertised...
Wilfred Mamuya
Please feel free to contact me if you would like more details regarding this incident.
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