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Why do you say that? .…
08 Dec 2008, 18:14
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Viewing involves the use of myrrh and physically shunting involves the use of datura. The use of myrrh is relatively safe: you can eat the powdered myrrh, though when I was really…
08 Dec 2008, 17:06
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I don't know: I have no evidence. Either way works for me. .…
08 Dec 2008, 16:38
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Which event goes in which world is certainly God's will. I find the whole structure very esthetically pleasing, actually. Of course, I really like the Gita.... .…
08 Dec 2008, 16:26
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That's a key to this whole thing. I believe what I believe because of some unusual experiences that I have had. If you, not having had these experiences, believed the same way I d…
08 Dec 2008, 16:23
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Well, that's how I look at the World, and how I think it is arranged. You are free to come up with ideas that suit you better. .…
08 Dec 2008, 12:30
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I am not sure that I understand you. .…
08 Dec 2008, 09:30
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The latter, of course. .…
08 Dec 2008, 08:32
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Well! It's hard to say what's real and what's not real in these matters, but there are known methods for both moving from one timeline to another and for perceiving what is happeni…
07 Dec 2008, 23:34
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I solve that problem by assuming that all possible timelines exist. .…
07 Dec 2008, 23:11
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Individual entities may or may not know the will of God. This does not stop them from doing the will of God. Nothing happens save by the will of God. God, will, occurred, did not …
07 Dec 2008, 21:32
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The sun on the spring equinox moving into Pisces is the more likely origin of the fish symbol. The person who came up with the astrological schema that you are critiquing had one …
06 Dec 2008, 19:10
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That is indeed what I am saying. And I feel that I am on safe ground here, as Gene Wolfe has said the same thing on more than one occasion. .…
06 Dec 2008, 07:25
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He is, according to Wolfe a manifestation of the Mystical Body of Christ. Perhaps it is more accurate to say that he participates in the Mystical Body of Christ. In Catholicism, t…
06 Dec 2008, 04:33
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The original meaning of these terms has been obscured to some extent. Heaven is the sky. Hell is the Antarctic sky, that is, the part of the sky that is never seen from the north…
06 Dec 2008, 03:25
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Sometimes He chooses not to. This is an act of will. See above. .…
06 Dec 2008, 03:21
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Interestingly enough, long before I read TBoTNS I would have these occasional dreams or visions or hallucinations etc wherein I was to be taken up by space aliens and judged in som…
06 Dec 2008, 03:01
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God is omniscient and omnipotent. What occurs is the will of God. What is not the will of God does not occur. That's it. It's truly amazing to me how people complicate this. …
06 Dec 2008, 02:45
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Good to see you back, Nigel, and apparently in good health. .…
05 Dec 2008, 21:26
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I doubt your theory? .…
05 Dec 2008, 16:39
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How can you be certain that what you are experiencing right now is "real"? .…
05 Dec 2008, 16:34
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I don't see any profit in it. .…
05 Dec 2008, 16:33
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I have still to read the vast bulk of MacDonald. Thank you for reminding me. .…
05 Dec 2008, 11:55
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One exercise for recovering early memories consists of putting yourself where your earliest memory is and then seeing what you remember. My family happens to have moved when I was…
05 Dec 2008, 11:53
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Believe or disbelieve, it makes no difference to me. I know other people who have memories that go back before three years old or so. .…
05 Dec 2008, 11:50
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On the web! http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/hamlets_mill/hamletmill.htm .…
05 Dec 2008, 07:27
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Yes, he will start writing this totally egregious academic prose. I have never been able to read those passages. Every third line until it is over.... .…
05 Dec 2008, 07:16
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All or just about all mythology is written in an astronomical vocabulary. Consult "Hamlet's Mill" to learn more of this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet%27s_Mill <= this arti…
05 Dec 2008, 07:02
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Where is a Delany list? Can you say anything more about it? .…
05 Dec 2008, 06:57
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I don't understand what you are saying. .…
05 Dec 2008, 06:50
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Me some too! .…
05 Dec 2008, 05:58
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This is your personal opinion. .…
05 Dec 2008, 05:53
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I think that Wizard Knight is Wolfe's ideas of the kind of thing that happens to a decent, relatively innocent, but non-Christian person after death: the world that Able finds hims…
05 Dec 2008, 05:52
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That stuff is scriptural. The Catholics, very wisely, don't emphasize it and in fact generally consider it a mistake to pay too much attention to it, but it is in the Bible. .…
05 Dec 2008, 03:49
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Sure. Everything Wolfe writes is good. Even the bad stuff is good. .…
04 Dec 2008, 23:51
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Nessus is Buenos Aires. The society of the Commonwealth is based upon the Byzantine Empire. .…
04 Dec 2008, 18:09
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There is no doubt that it says that. I'll be darned. .…
04 Dec 2008, 16:59
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I am extremely skeptical of the jib sail being invented as late as the late eighteenth century. It just pegs my BS detector. .…
04 Dec 2008, 14:22
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So did Aquinas, though not necessrily more at the end than the beginning or middle.... .…
03 Dec 2008, 22:28
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A ghost is a remnant of a dead entity, normally a person. A ghoul is a creature that eats the bodies of the dead. It may or may not have been a living person at some point. That …
03 Dec 2008, 12:23
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Just for a couple of days. Then he was wandering around and doing stuff. And then he was puppeteering Paul all about the place, and (as the story goes) has been doing similar thing…
03 Dec 2008, 11:46
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People have been talking about solar sails for decades. I believe one or two have even been tested. .…
01 Dec 2008, 23:38
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Societally it is Byzantine. Physically it is Buenos Aires. .…
01 Dec 2008, 23:21
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That is Cheiron. Nessus is the one who instructs Heracles wife to skin him and make a shirt from the skin, which poisons/burns Heracles' skin when he puts it on, precipitating Hera…
01 Dec 2008, 21:14
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Right. .…
01 Dec 2008, 19:32
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Gene Wolfe stated to me, in so many words, that Nessus is Buenos Aires. He could have been lying, I suppose. .…
01 Dec 2008, 19:23
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The Amazon has been rerouted. Or something like that. Anyway, I heard this from Wolfe personally. .…
01 Dec 2008, 19:17
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It is North. Nessus has been moving south. .…
01 Dec 2008, 15:26
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Nessus is the descendant of Buenos Aires, it has moved south (other things, some more and some less plausible, are also assumed to have happened). House Absolute is thus to be foun…
01 Dec 2008, 11:42
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Roger Zelazny did a similar thing, most excellently, with The Buddha in "Lord Of Light". .…
26 Nov 2008, 01:19
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