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That is your experience, and I do not seek to devalue it. But... Well, you admit that you came in with a prejudice, so please consider the following points in that light. I disag…
15 Mar 2012, 19:40
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Hear, hear!…
15 Mar 2012, 19:19
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Well thought out and stated, Lee.…
15 Mar 2012, 16:48
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What makes you think that the one excludes the other? I might now suggest that you reread the books, and concentrate on the Cathedral of the Pelerines.…
14 Mar 2012, 21:40
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Hi, Jordon. Good to "see" you. I'm inclined to think so -- indeed, the translator seems to substitute saints' names for whatever past/future terminology people of the Commonwealth…
14 Mar 2012, 21:37
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To be sure. Nor could Severian's manuscript. But it is cast into the currents of time -- is it possible that the occasional spaceship (which Severian thinks of as a tower) could al…
12 Mar 2012, 21:06
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Exactly. Wolfe is a tricksy writer and a less-than-forthcoming interviewee at times, but I refuse to believe that he outright lies. Urth is not our future.…
12 Mar 2012, 20:05
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Hee -- I do exactly the same thing!…
12 Mar 2012, 20:01
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I think you misunderstand how creativity works for Catholic fantasists. While free to subcreate a Catholic fantasist seeks to imitate the work of God in doing so. Thus, for example…
12 Mar 2012, 15:33
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Without going into all the details of your post, which was quite interesting, I want to clarify something: I do not believe that Christ has come, or will come, in the Sun universe.…
09 Mar 2012, 16:41
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But pagan gods commonly drink the blood of their worshippers...…
08 Mar 2012, 21:22
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You're right, and again Able gives his blood voluntarily, making it somehow salvific.…
08 Mar 2012, 21:17
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But what's different at the end is that Able's blood is given voluntarily.…
08 Mar 2012, 21:09
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"Susan Delage."…
08 Mar 2012, 17:36
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Well, he _does_ mention the Theoanthropos.…
08 Mar 2012, 17:17
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Agreed. But... The Christian PoV is not that this is an evolving God, but an evolving religion -- an evolving _response_ to God. The standard Christian storyline is that God took …
07 Mar 2012, 18:28
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Lovely!…
07 Mar 2012, 17:04
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No correction from me. C.S. Lewis put it very succinctly: "Aslan is not a _tame_ lion." God is good but he isn't _nice_.…
06 Mar 2012, 22:20
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Agreed; these are standard Gnostic terms. An interesting idea, and I like it. It has great explanatory power. Agreed. Yet... I don't speak for anyone else, but I do believe that…
06 Mar 2012, 20:34
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Lee Berman wrote: ... much that I agree with, actually. There is a great deal of non-Christian allusion in most/all of Wolfe's major work, and often it is more obvious than the Ch…
06 Mar 2012, 18:41
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Not to agree with Gerry or anything, but clearly the Christian allusions are primary.…
05 Mar 2012, 21:57
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Ah. You pulled my leg so hard it came off in your hands.…
02 Mar 2012, 19:32
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I take it, Mr. Stockhoff, that you believe that "Finnegans Wake" and the poetry of TS Eliot have no meaning whatsoever...…
02 Mar 2012, 19:07
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I suspect the truth (slippery thing that it is) lies somewhere in between. Wolfe has a definite primary meaning in mind, in which the meanings of Silent and Silver are as given in …
02 Mar 2012, 17:04
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Certainly less cataclysmic than "adding a second moon," which I don't believe anyone has suggested, but more cataclysmic than you apparently understand. The tidal effects of Lune a…
10 Jan 2012, 18:12
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Actually, that would have horrendous tidal effects, probably including massive earthquakes.…
09 Jan 2012, 19:13
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That's a good point. Wait, what. What other possibility?…
06 Jan 2012, 20:57
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See, the thing is, I have never been completely convinced that the bean story was about the megatherians. I don't have an alternate explanation, but there it is. Sometimes I think…
06 Jan 2012, 19:18
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Yes, but _where_ did they "start small"? We know that they can "swim" between the stars.…
06 Jan 2012, 18:12
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H'mmmm. It seems to me that Apu-Punchau's eclipse might well be local, even more local than a solar eclipse normally is. In that case, a smaller object than Lune will do. Perhaps…
06 Jan 2012, 17:52
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Back at you, Antonio, and to the rest also. Whatever you celebrate, even if it's nothing at all, may you be happy this season. 2011/12/23 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.…
23 Dec 2011, 18:14
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I second this "Yes!" -- and so, I add would Aleister Crowley.…
22 Dec 2011, 21:08
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Then you are not like Crane, who insists that everything have a clear scientific explanation. To me, the soul is extremely mysterious. My "dualism" merely seeks to define the area…
22 Dec 2011, 19:13
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I'm not sure what people 10000 hence will laugh at. I hope they have something to laugh at. By all means, I believe that there are such layers of meaning in experiential reality.…
22 Dec 2011, 19:11
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Thank you. I'm glad I didn't misrepresent you. Okay, so far as it goes. But... Agreed: we are _told_ this. But... ...but I think that talking about Lupine fiction, and _especial…
22 Dec 2011, 18:20
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Depends on who's doing the thinking. Aquinas, for example, somewhat-following Aristotle, believed that souls came in three varieties: The _vegetable_ soul, which gives life and t…
22 Dec 2011, 18:14
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Bingbingbingbingbing! That is _exactly_ what I am getting at. Thank you. Well, except in that "science=real" allows for imaginary science like, well, hyperdrives and psionics. Per…
22 Dec 2011, 17:30
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Would that I had the humility to have such candor about my ignorance and/or misunderstanding! I am suggesting -- no, I am _saying_ that the soul is precisely the same thing in che…
22 Dec 2011, 16:47
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Correct, so far as it goes. But there is an implied technology behind "hyperdrive." In the case of psi, something just -- magically? -- happens to give these people powers and abil…
22 Dec 2011, 16:27
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Precisely.…
22 Dec 2011, 16:25
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More specifically, outside the hobbyhorses of John W. Campbell, who also took up Dianetics, the Dean Drive, and the Hieronymus machine. He was a nutbar in his later years, but stil…
22 Dec 2011, 04:29
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The "Catholic Encyclopedia," while convenient, is actually no more authoritative than Wikipedia. The soul is the underlying principle which gives life to both body and mind.…
22 Dec 2011, 01:41
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I see the basic problem. You do not know the difference between a soul and a mind. I suggest you read some basic pneumatic theology.…
21 Dec 2011, 22:16
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Exactly so. The big distinction is between magia, the application of natural laws like sympathy and contagion; and goetia, dealings with supernatural powers. Some years ago I wrote…
21 Dec 2011, 21:30
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All of them. Correct. Not so fast. We get nothing from the point of view of a possessed person, except at a double remove (what is told to Silk, as re-related from him to the aut…
21 Dec 2011, 21:25
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No. The definition of evil is rejection of God or deliberate disobedience of His will. This _causes_ separation from God, which is the definition of damnation. And yet the Catholi…
21 Dec 2011, 19:44
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Because Wolfe is not such a fool as to offer a scientific (or psientific -- which can also mean "pseudo-scientific") explanation for the soul.…
21 Dec 2011, 19:12
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And yet Mucor's powers turn out to have a great deal to do with the soul. Magic. "I say it's spinach, and I say to hell with it." -- James Thurber…
21 Dec 2011, 18:35
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"psi" is a fancy word for magic.…
21 Dec 2011, 16:58
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It seems to me that what the sorcerers in the woods do is "real" magic.…
21 Dec 2011, 16:50
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