If you activate the Bender with two elves on the table, then cast something like Gilt-Leaf Ambush during combat, the Treefolk becomes 4/4 instead of 2/2, correct? Or is the P/T set when the ability is activated?
Its when the ability resolves and no other time, I believe.
I am consistently amazed by one thing in this debate. Namely, there is no need to offer a positive belief in order to either win a debate or to be correct. The purpose of a discussion about the rationality or lack thereof of God is to answer a question and to approach truth.
I agree in totality about the nature of this debate generally, and would only offer that, as you yourself hinted at a few posts down, "truth" is really a rough-and-ready generalization for a vast set of processes by which the human animal tries to understand any given concept or reality. I consider philosophy important not because it provides objective conceptual truth, as quite frankly I can provide myself with said truth at any given time within my own head, and it will be about as worthless as any Hegelian rational progresion. Philosophy, and this debate by peripheral extension, are important due to perspective, due to lines of reasoning rather than Reason with a Capital R.
Perhaps I have read too much Nietzsche to think otherwise.
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It is perfectly logical and rational to suggest that belief in a classical construction of God in any of the three Abrahamic faiths is illogical as well as many (if not most) of the tenets of the major Eastern faiths. It is not logical or rational to argue that God does not exist, because there is no proof or argument that can support this conclusion.
My only observation, mostly in support: Humans are far better at proving themselves wrong than they are at proving anything true. This is mainly due to mind-fryingly vast complexity of this awesome universe we kick around in. 3D would suck. When we argue back and forth about the illogic of both Atheism and faith, I feel we lose the perspective necessary to consider the original question of why Humans are religious in the first place.
People believe in Religion because people cannot explain why the stars are in the sky, or why love is possible. What is not known, what is not explained, these are things that a Human consciousness wants explanations for. Even things that are known, and presumably have an explanation for them could be more fully understood from a religious outlook, since "knowing" is not a pre-requisite for belief.
Please do not confuse religion with faith in a god.
I don't see how anyone could reasonably draw "the line" at physical deformity here. Seems totally unreasonable. A child can be born with one arm, or a soldier could have one blown off, the end result of a one-armed person is the exact same. Serious and lethal physical diseases like Tay-Sachs may well be a different case, given the essentially 100% death rate and intense pain. There is an indeterminate amount of time during pregnancy where a fetus ceases to be a fetus and becomes a child, and quite frankly I would personally avoid the whole issue either at the very beginning of pregnancy (in the case of terrible and lethal diseases), or not at all.
I played this deck in standard for a while, and I play it now occasionally in extended. I use a simple list whenever possible, Turn 5 Ideals instead of turn 4 usually, but its consistent, and most Agro is a bye:
I feel that this archtype needs to change a bit now, given what Paul Cheon piloted to a win at GP Krakow. He ran U/W, zero blink effects. 4 Phyrexian Ironfoot and 3 Wrath MD. O Ring gave him an answer to everything that 4 MD cryptic Command did not. The Pickles Lock was I think a 2-of, with Sower SB. Personally his deck really shines to me as an example of how to blend two archtypes to make the pickles lock truely worth it against all matchups.
we saw one pass I think, knock on wood, but I doubt this would happen.
Its when the ability resolves and no other time, I believe.
Please no, the last class I did on the ontological argument was enough.
I agree in totality about the nature of this debate generally, and would only offer that, as you yourself hinted at a few posts down, "truth" is really a rough-and-ready generalization for a vast set of processes by which the human animal tries to understand any given concept or reality. I consider philosophy important not because it provides objective conceptual truth, as quite frankly I can provide myself with said truth at any given time within my own head, and it will be about as worthless as any Hegelian rational progresion. Philosophy, and this debate by peripheral extension, are important due to perspective, due to lines of reasoning rather than Reason with a Capital R.
Perhaps I have read too much Nietzsche to think otherwise.
My only observation, mostly in support: Humans are far better at proving themselves wrong than they are at proving anything true. This is mainly due to mind-fryingly vast complexity of this awesome universe we kick around in. 3D would suck. When we argue back and forth about the illogic of both Atheism and faith, I feel we lose the perspective necessary to consider the original question of why Humans are religious in the first place.
Please do not confuse religion with faith in a god.
That really did not help at all. What problem permanents does pernicious deed remove that I desperately need to be rid of?
Correct. I don't own any. Why would I need one though?
It's an illusion, happens all the time in draft where you think you've got it all set out, and pack 2 you get wasted by the guy to your right.
4 Enduring Ideal
2 Form of the Dragon
2 Solitary Confinement
1 Dovescape
1 Honden of Seeing Winds
1 Confiscate
Filter: 11
3 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Court Hussar
3 Ponder
4 Talisman of Progress
2 Azorious Signet
Board Control: 8
4 Wrath of God
4 Orim's Chant
Land: 25
4 Cloudpost
4 Vesuva
4 Adarkar Wastes
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Flooded Strand
1 Island
2 Plains
2 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
The sideboard changes way too much to post it, but it most often has remand and a Man plan against local players.