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To be honest, I believe that the comment that the letters "may" be out of sequence is a red herring, part of Wolfe's editorial "persona." As someone who's spent years reading and …
16 Apr 2010, 20:42
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Um. Yes, they were. Check Genesis 25.…
09 Apr 2010, 21:46
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I'm writing this up before reading any of the stuff that's come over the list, which I've kept isolated in a folder of its own. I finished TSH yesterday and it seemed to me remark…
05 Apr 2010, 15:36
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In case your messages are somehow appearing but not coming back to you - this one appeared.…
23 Mar 2010, 16:10
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Has anyone determined yet whether this site is legal? They've got a huge library of stuff up there...…
08 Mar 2010, 20:59
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H'mmm. The site seems to be down now.…
04 Mar 2010, 22:04
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I strongly suspect this of being a copyright violation.…
04 Mar 2010, 19:30
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James, At this point I am going to drop the discussion, not because I am convinced, nor because I have no response to your well-thought-out points, but because I fear that we are …
21 Dec 2009, 17:29
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Jeffrey: Equal disclaimer - I hold no grudge against Mormons in general or the CoJCoLDS. I picked Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses as two examples of Protestant groups whom "mainlin…
21 Dec 2009, 02:19
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Obviously, I disagree. If others broke their oaths, that does not excuse him breaking his. If the Pope and all the Bishops jumped off the Wurtemberg tower, would that mean Luther s…
21 Dec 2009, 02:16
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That was the excuse given, yes. The fact is that the (modern) Jewish canon was not set until _after_ the rise of Christianity. The fact is that the early Church fathers, includin…
20 Dec 2009, 19:48
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So there were only two choices? How binaristic. Among other things, Ecclesiasticus (a/k/a Sirach), the first two books of Maccabees, and chunks of Daniel and Esther. You will ofte…
19 Dec 2009, 18:01
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No, but they've redefined terms (you know, like "I believe ... in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church ...") to suit themselves. Too, they tossed out bits of Scripture that di…
19 Dec 2009, 01:43
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Doxology originally meant "statement of belief." And the radical meaning of "radical meaning" would be "root meaning." Shall we go into grammatology?…
18 Dec 2009, 19:30
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Um, no it isn't. "Ortho" = "right" and "doxa" = "belief." Right-believing.…
18 Dec 2009, 19:10
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The question is, then, whether the Orthodox or the Catholic are orthodox as regards the _filioque_ clause. (Will the filioque clause be coming down your chimney this Christmas? Ha…
18 Dec 2009, 18:10
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Well, I pointed out way-back-when that "pen" and "by" can both mean "near," while "orm" is an old spelling of "worm," or "dragon."…
30 Oct 2009, 19:00
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Additional thought: Genre SF is an American phenomenon (in origin). SF is about exoticism. To the largely Protestant and Jewish kids who formed the "golden age" writers bloc, Cath…
22 Sep 2009, 18:51
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One reason is that Catholicism is the Big Dog of Christianity. There is no Protestant sect that comes near Catholicism in terms of total membership; thus, if you want to present a …
22 Sep 2009, 18:49
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Zac, Welcome aboard. I had no idea that this was an undergrad thesis - I've barely even heard of those. To me, the word "thesis" conveys images of Ph.D. I'm also sorry I was so …
22 Sep 2009, 16:47
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... and Arthur Clarke ("The Star") ... and Dan Simmons (Hyperion) ... and Mary Doria Russell (The Sparrow) ... and Peter F. Hamilton (the Night's Dawn trilogy) ... and Walter M. Mi…
22 Sep 2009, 00:04
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Well, Wolfe at one point was talking of having Latro ride a Phoenician boat to the Americas. I suppose that's probably out of the question now.…
20 Jul 2009, 23:32
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http://tinyurl.com/lr4nuw…
17 Jul 2009, 16:42
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Perhaps you can bolster this by A) defining "property," and B) explaining whence the right to have and be secure in it derives, particularly if you can do so without reference to …
20 May 2009, 00:07
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Money can come from any number of places, but ultimately it needs the authority of something like government to make it work. You're smart enough to know that. Meanwhile, by attac…
19 May 2009, 21:02
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This is a nice fallacy. It isn't that the Mormon system doesn't work, but that there's no coercion is a fallacy.…
19 May 2009, 21:01
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It's not very complicated, actually. One chooses to be a member of a society. If one does not like that society, one leaves. If one chooses to remain, one has agreed to "play" by …
19 May 2009, 20:48
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Josh, Some of us call it "playing by the rules of the game." Money as such (that is a standardized and common currency) is a creation of a government and as such subject to rules …
18 May 2009, 21:57
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Legolas, in the library, with the revolver.…
13 May 2009, 19:56
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Do the Neighbors have tails? Do the inhumi?…
04 May 2009, 23:21
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Where's this list?…
24 Apr 2009, 15:46
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That's weird. In our diocese there's a clear distinction between "transitional deacons" who expect to become priests and "permanant deacons" which are the married men who assist in…
20 Apr 2009, 16:49
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2009/4/20 "Fernando Q. Gouv?a" <fqgouvea at colby.edu>: There have been a few exceptions granted for clergy from other denominations converting and becoming priests, but that is v…
20 Apr 2009, 15:59
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While to do it right would take a bit longer than 15 minutes, "The Detective of Dreams" would be fairly inexpensive to film and would (I think) translate fairly well.…
16 Apr 2009, 20:14
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Just think "Velikovsky."…
08 Apr 2009, 17:22
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Interesting. I was reminded of Mao's Little Red Book.…
03 Apr 2009, 17:51
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A festschrift is a book -- usually of essays -- "presented to" someone to celebrate their life and work. This is an academic tradition for a highly-respected colleague. In the cas…
31 Mar 2009, 17:29
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Perhaps a festschrift would be more appropriate?…
31 Mar 2009, 15:54
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You're right. Here I am joining in the politics again and I swore I wouldn't. Damn drugs...…
26 Mar 2009, 21:10
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I'd hate it where you are. I like cities. You know - civilization, in the root sense of the word. Absolutely. The only people from whom taxes are extracted by force are the anti-s…
26 Mar 2009, 20:57
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I'm talking about the gummint going bankrupt, silly boy. If you take that as your given libertarianism almost makes sense. However, it isn't a very exact description of how taxati…
26 Mar 2009, 20:32
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Sigh. You're just begging to have it explained how the magic Invisible Hand of the Marketplace would somehow make busses affordable. Libertarians are ineducable.…
26 Mar 2009, 20:23
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This is a formula for bankruptcy.…
26 Mar 2009, 19:42
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I read the first book and a half. I enjoyed the first one, got bogged down somewhere in the second and never went back.…
19 Mar 2009, 23:43
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Possibly to the godfather of all generation-ship stories, Robert Heinlein's "Orphans of the Sky." The common greeting on that ship, and one of the last lines of the book, is "Good …
19 Mar 2009, 23:10
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In what way are the Elves a meritocracy? The Silmarillion, and for that matter the massive "History of Middle-earth," are silent on how the three original Elven-Kings were chosen f…
19 Mar 2009, 19:54
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However, the point is made at least once (by Aragorn), and so Gene "I hate it when they repeat things" Wolfe is bound to have noticed, that the "benign anarchism" of the Shire is p…
19 Mar 2009, 19:27
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David, I think you're on the right track. However, I don't suppose Wolfe is proposing any specific answer to the question of what a soul is, let alone whether it can be copied or …
19 Mar 2009, 18:59
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It is lawful to use violence to protect one's goods and chastity. Jesus never said it wasn't. However, Jesus called men to a higher standard than the Law: He called them to moral p…
18 Mar 2009, 17:49
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You know, If I wanted to have a lengthy discussion of RKBA politics, there are lists I could go to for that. Can we get back to Wolfe please?…
18 Mar 2009, 16:11
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