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What makes the ripples from the Frankenstein stone stand out from all the rest?…
04 Jun 2010, 08:45
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The equation of a created being (like a human) with Allah is called shirk, which is just about the most severe form of "heresy" Islam has.…
04 Jun 2010, 07:47
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I still have a problem calling anything non-trinitarian Christianity. It would be like calling the Nation of Islam the same as Islam, despite it maintianing the divinity of its f…
04 Jun 2010, 02:23
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Gabriel appears in the OT as a messenger from G-d to the prophet Daniel. It makes sense for him to appear to Mohammed, also a prophet. Obviously Jesus is a Christian influence bu…
04 Jun 2010, 02:09
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Some of it is kind of jokey, like referring Urth as being much older than our current Earth - of course it's older, duh! The book is set many millenia past our era, whether this …
03 Jun 2010, 23:44
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I don't think that is supportable; Islam claims it began as Mohammed's reform of the corrupted Judaism of his time and place.…
03 Jun 2010, 20:15
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In terms of Wolfe's prespective, yes; slavery is the exception rather than the rule, and democracy has alleviated naked tyranny for most of the world. In the time of Urth, things…
03 Jun 2010, 20:08
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I think it's possible Sev just wasn't very motivated to save Jolenta; he had already had the grudge sex with her and was done. As for the chimera Jonas, remember the Claw heals b…
03 Jun 2010, 05:14
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I could buy an android Katherine, perhaps "borrowed" from some ancient amusement park, or perhaps recovered from the mine at Saltus.…
02 Jun 2010, 10:32
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A recently serviced vehicle for your viewing "pleasure". http://thereifixedit.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/129187855173854450.jpg…
02 Jun 2010, 10:27
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If you see a flaw, I'm open to criticism.…
30 May 2010, 08:51
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I was speaking of the usage of the phrases, not the concepts they purport to describe.…
24 May 2010, 16:54
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Not the state force monopoly kind, more like the proprietory syndicalist kind.…
24 May 2010, 16:50
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.. Apparently you think you can, condemning voluntary enforcement while maintaining actual existence of the supernatural.…
24 May 2010, 16:44
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I must agree my experience bears this out; do not feed the energy creature.…
24 May 2010, 16:42
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Ranjit-appointed cops would be ideal, avoiding numerous of the pathologies you mention.…
24 May 2010, 16:39
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it's not a hopeless cause, it just requires enforcement. I do it on playtest discussion lists all the time: I lay out the rules for subject lines, ask people nicely to follow the…
24 May 2010, 08:56
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In my experience, it is unless you have a moderator with the ability and the will to enforce pertinent subject linces. People don't participate in discussions to compose and reco…
21 May 2010, 14:01
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It's just Brunians' time of the month, it'll pass.…
21 May 2010, 04:03
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At least you're sincere about being insincere.…
21 May 2010, 04:01
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then why are you talking?…
21 May 2010, 03:54
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Doubtless Wolfe has read Twain. Does anyone see a particular influlence on Wolfe, other than the probably accidental superficial plot similarities between HUCK FINN and BOTNS?…
21 May 2010, 03:44
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I happen to agree with this very strongly, in that the qualities of the knowledge is often very heavily dependent on the qualities of the experience. I have objective knowledge t…
21 May 2010, 03:40
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I love you, man!…
21 May 2010, 03:11
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You do, if you want to meaningfully communicate about actual existence.…
21 May 2010, 03:09
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It's a HUCK FINN reference. You've yet to contribute to establishing their actual existence (as opposed to subjective existence), however.…
21 May 2010, 02:18
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Actual existence in a context that is beyond nature seems like a combination of attributes that is almost free of meaning. If the supernatural powers have ceased to provide fishi…
20 May 2010, 16:05
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How does the lack of free will prevent direct action against humans?…
20 May 2010, 01:21
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They might have similar diameters, but the Whorl is similarly long or longer lengthwise, and is visibly (from the outside) made from an asteroid. The Wall is overtly artificial and…
18 May 2010, 21:27
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The Wall's big, but not that big.…
18 May 2010, 14:54
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If you man the cock and the angel, that's the angel's opinion. However, the angel turns out to be wrong about the fundamental moral of the story, and IIRC the angel makes his sta…
18 May 2010, 14:01
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The preparation of the blade's metal and the mercury is within the means of a medieval society, but drilling the channel down the finished center and fitting it with a threaded s…
18 May 2010, 01:52
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True, but he has recently been given a +1 by the Holy Father: http://ncronline.org/news/ecology/pope-cites-teilhardian-vision-cosmos-living-host…
17 May 2010, 19:07
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Unless you dress it up real fancy, Teilhard de Chardin-style.…
17 May 2010, 18:39
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I think they interfere as little as possible both because they are at base moral creatures who know they constantly risk catastrophic changes in their "client" civilizations and be…
15 May 2010, 00:30
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Time travel. Once causality begins to loop back, there are no coincidences, no probability in the chain of events. What determines the chain of events is that it requires the lea…
14 May 2010, 18:21
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You agree it adds nothing, subracts nothing, and needs nothing in common. How then can we tell a linkage exists, and why should we even bother to check? We could more profitably …
11 May 2010, 03:27
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It has become increasingly common for big name SF authors to link together their various works as if they were intended to form a grand design from the beginning, lack of continu…
11 May 2010, 01:40
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I like to think that GW is a bit more original than that. There are also several multi-world structures in his existing works that seem incompatible like the Yesod-Briah-Abbadon st…
10 May 2010, 20:39
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I suppose this could lead back to John V. Marsch, though he presumably became a scholar only after losing his memory.…
21 Apr 2010, 07:13
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What about Clute, then?…
09 Apr 2010, 23:05
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Could be; it was maybe about 1996 when Neil and I discussed his theory that the other GEnie network Wolfe topic denizens like Mantiss and Joe Mayhew seemed to already know about. C…
09 Apr 2010, 21:52
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Some times it's madder than others: he was on the nose with all the clues that the 5HC narrator was "Gene Wolfe", but also nominated the alzabo as a sort of gene-seeking wolf.…
09 Apr 2010, 16:56
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But don't want to get so many going that we'd be swamped.…
08 Mar 2010, 21:38
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Good ol' Brunians, always the first to leap to conclusions.…
08 Mar 2010, 21:05
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While we are at it, what does he say about another early story? And I mistakenly reversed Bill's title. It is FANTASYLAND/AGGIELAND, linked from this page: http://cushing.libra…
08 Mar 2010, 08:01
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I am a fellow matriculant at Texas A&M and a couple of years ago I met Bill Page at his home, the infamous Monkey House. Bill is one of the curators of the University's SF collec…
08 Mar 2010, 03:19
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Did you see the thing last year? A predator microbe that becomes photosynthetic if it eats this other microbe, then fissions into the original separate microbes again? He said i…
28 Jan 2010, 07:43
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And Wolfe definitely loves his Herodotus; if you look at his portrait in _The Faces of Science Fiction_, it is perhaps the most prominently displayed volume in his basement libra…
28 Jan 2010, 07:09
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_Twister_ aside, I don't think she is intended to be the same cow that leapt over the moon. She had to run awfully far for refuge for a river nymph, across the Bosphorous and all t…
23 Jan 2010, 03:27
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