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I *think* we are mostly in agreement, Daniel. Daniel Petersen wrote (11-03-2012 18:22):…
12 Mar 2012, 10:56
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Marc Aramini wrote (12-03-2012 02:41): It's not a matter of evil existing or not. Evil has even been done in Christ's name, and arguably continues to be. It's a matter of there …
12 Mar 2012, 10:51
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No dia 06/03/2012, ?s 14:46, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> escreveu: As I've stated boringly to tears, it's the knowledge that Wolfe is a catholic that makes me a…
12 Mar 2012, 02:39
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No dia 11/03/2012, ?s 01:55, Daniel Petersen <danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> escreveu: Yes. Indeed. Gensos starts off tenderly. Though I think a Christian should be able…
11 Mar 2012, 17:42
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No dia 11/03/2012, ?s 17:07, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> escreveu: I suppose you mean 'but without Jesus'. Otherwise, it's no stretch at all to imagine *similar* (they…
11 Mar 2012, 17:29
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No dia 11/03/2012, ?s 11:19, "Gerry Quinn" <gerry at bindweed.com> escreveu: As I've said before - imagine a History mostly like ours with a Jesus mostly like outs, but which wasn…
11 Mar 2012, 13:36
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Craig Brewer wrote (10-03-2012 05:11): From a christian's point of view, it should. The very idea of 'forgotten-christian' is too bleak to bear. At least if one cares about the …
11 Mar 2012, 01:59
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Gerry Quinn wrote (09-03-2012 15:57): I just didn't like to see H?ttler brought into the same room as Jesus. It's not the comparison, it's the nearbyness. The issue here is that…
11 Mar 2012, 01:56
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Daniel Petersen wrote (08-03-2012 20:07): Yep. Now I should be writing a lengthy reply, because the issues you raised deserve it, but I have no time so I'll just have to be succi…
11 Mar 2012, 01:39
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Daniel Petersen wrote (08-03-2012 16:30): The key word is *summary*. Otherwise there's just no way to go around all the clear, insistent and absolute *orders* to fully exterminat…
08 Mar 2012, 17:41
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Gerry Quinn wrote (08-03-2012 14:42): I don't know that I like to see *this particular* comparison between Jesus and H?ttler. For some reason I can't explain, I find that more off…
08 Mar 2012, 15:17
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Mo Holkar wrote (07-03-2012 19:34): I actually find these two paragraphs excellent in conveying the idea.…
07 Mar 2012, 19:47
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Gerry Quinn wrote (05-03-2012 19:39): Gad, this is is uberawsum!…
05 Mar 2012, 20:01
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Well, it's good to know you're still kickin'. James Wynn wrote (19-01-2012 17:46):…
19 Jan 2012, 17:54
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Jerry Friedman wrote (11-01-2012 06:04): Well, my point is that the characters you mention are done that way on purpose. Wolfe could have made them distinctive in ways more simila…
11 Jan 2012, 14:11
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Jerry Friedman wrote (10-01-2012 04:52): With the possible exception of Pig's 'eye dialect', how can those characters' specific ways of speaking be presented other than as they a…
10 Jan 2012, 14:52
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No dia 09/01/2012, ?s 19:36, Antonin Scriabin <kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> escreveu: Arrghhhhh!!!! NO, NO, NO, NO! He's DUTCH! It's a masterly rendering of Dutch that Wolfe does …
10 Jan 2012, 02:36
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No dia 25 de Dez de 2011, ?s 07:47, entonio at gmail.com escreveu: Or semantic.…
25 Dec 2011, 07:51
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No dia 25 de Dez de 2011, ?s 06:14, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at clueland.com> escreveu: I also know that has no relevance for the matter at hand. Letters are composed of strokes. That…
25 Dec 2011, 07:47
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No dia 24 de Dez de 2011, ?s 08:34, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at clueland.com> escreveu: But if the science is demonstrably accurate, where does said disbelief come from? Is it somethi…
24 Dec 2011, 10:18
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No dia 24 de Dez de 2011, ?s 08:45, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at clueland.com> escreveu: I covered this with my 'understandable raw data' comments.…
24 Dec 2011, 10:13
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No dia 24 de Dez de 2011, ?s 08:29, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at clueland.com> escreveu: That's grasping at straws and you know it.…
24 Dec 2011, 10:11
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23 Dec 2011, 17:47
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Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote (23-12-2011 16:39): ...contribute to Humankind, not the list, of course.…
23 Dec 2011, 17:27
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David Stockhoff wrote (23-12-2011 16:35): And authority is what so many people are looking for. Those aren't usually the people who contribute.…
23 Dec 2011, 16:39
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Dave Lebling wrote (23-12-2011 16:19): It all depends on degree. Like interpretation of Scripture, beyond a point, enhancement is just superimposing your paradigm on the data. L…
23 Dec 2011, 16:37
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Dave Lebling wrote (23-12-2011 16:19): Some of the Lee's recent statements I've seen look a bit like that, but they were made in a context.…
23 Dec 2011, 16:28
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Dave Lebling wrote (23-12-2011 15:55): My reply is perfectly comprehensible, even if it may not be explanatory. What you and everyone else have seen who followed the link is a 'vi…
23 Dec 2011, 16:26
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Dave Lebling wrote (23-12-2011 14:52): No, you haven't seen a photo of an electron, nor will the link above allow you to.…
23 Dec 2011, 15:24
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Gerry Quinn wrote (23-12-2011 13:44): What we use doesn't matter, because this discussion is about how things _really_ are. Classical Physics is very at odds with Current Science…
23 Dec 2011, 15:16
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Jeff Wilson wrote (23-12-2011 05:42): It may be so, but we could do much of that with classical science. 'Our Theory of Gravitation is as good as perfect', ironical or not, was w…
23 Dec 2011, 11:15
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Gerry Quinn wrote (22-12-2011 21:30): In abstract and technical terms, yes, but not really in the people who combine these terms with many other things in order to do real life wo…
22 Dec 2011, 21:50
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Daniel Petersen wrote (21-12-2011 23:16): In my opinion there's no magic in the 'LotR universe', but I won't enter an argument over that. I'll just say that all 'powers' present …
22 Dec 2011, 12:30
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Jeff Wilson wrote (22-12-2011 04:22): But one can't just decree something to be 'psi'. There has to be a shred of plausibility.…
22 Dec 2011, 12:19
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No dia 21 de Dez de 2011, ?s 00:34, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> escreveu: I thought 'away without books',…
21 Dec 2011, 02:56
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There was a time I know how to write, but it is long past. One point though: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (20-12-2011 17:30): Of course. But that's not the point I was making. I wasn…
20 Dec 2011, 17:55
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote (20-12-2011 16:28): Nothing is set in stone for eternity. God can revoke it at any moment. What's guaranteed is that the Church is _right_ in teaching wh…
20 Dec 2011, 16:44
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How heartless of Gerry to have chased all of them away.…
16 Dec 2011, 22:47
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Jeff Wilson wrote (16-12-2011 17:33): You don't? Some people think that not only an sf writer has to know everything there is to know about the plausibility of time travel and gr…
16 Dec 2011, 18:49
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Jeff Wilson wrote (16-12-2011 16:43): Which is different from being an expert in those fields, able to come up with ideas the researchers themselves aren't. I'll have to disagre…
16 Dec 2011, 16:51
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David Stockhoff wrote (16-12-2011 16:28): There are all too many unsympathetic characters among Elves and Western Men, and the Dwarves aren't blond and big at all. Nor are the ho…
16 Dec 2011, 16:38
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Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote (16-12-2011 15:47): 'The honour of Israel Gow' came to my mind frequently when I had the patience to read these discussions!…
16 Dec 2011, 16:15
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I think I should say what I think regarding GW's science (and history and mythology). Some apparently believe GW to be some sort of expert physicist and biologist (and historian…
16 Dec 2011, 15:53
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Daniel Petersen wrote (16-12-2011 11:23): I was the one who replied to that, and I was not saying you were saying that it WAS s&s. I was saying I didn't get even the surface feel…
16 Dec 2011, 12:48
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Look, David, we're all interested in reading what you have to say about fairies, magic, the otherworld, literary tradition and, yes, the structure of argumentation. I think it wo…
16 Dec 2011, 12:40
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David Stockhoff wrote (16-12-2011 01:42): The discussion was about what it looked like on the _surface_. If you only find out at the end of the story that a character seems to fi…
16 Dec 2011, 12:24
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I think you said it all. Craig Brewer wrote (15-12-2011 15:17):…
15 Dec 2011, 16:09
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Gerry Quinn wrote (15-12-2011 14:34): Again curiously, the scene with the man-apes felt more like early sf or lost race fiction to me.…
15 Dec 2011, 15:00
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Daniel Petersen wrote (14-12-2011 14:24): Maybe the *look* is there, obvious and given, at least in the first pages, but for me the *feel* never sets in (and the more the story p…
14 Dec 2011, 16:03
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Daniel Petersen wrote (14-12-2011 12:57): Curious bit here: I've never got the 's&s' feeling from any of the Sun books, not even NS. Nor do I get much futuristic sense from tFHoC…
14 Dec 2011, 13:32
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