Posted from 2 addresses as Jeff Wilson, Jeffery Wilson clueland.com, Jeffery Wilson
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Yes! More weight for the PLANET OF THE APES scenario.…
19 Sep 2008, 09:32
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Your system clock seems to be a bit behind the times, Dave.…
22 Aug 2008, 22:35
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Just finished _The Hundred Secret Senses_ by Amy Tan. Another intricate novel-length story consisting of many internested and interconnected shorter stories, it again features a…
22 Aug 2008, 07:58
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er, are you sure you're on the right list?…
15 Aug 2008, 20:25
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Isn't "control" is a bit strong for a peer's plea involving "please" and "let's" ?…
14 Aug 2008, 04:56
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Being on an island, perhaps it was coconut milk? Found on the internet:…
23 Jul 2008, 13:55
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I forgot that you leave off the omnibenevolent, sorry. If God's will encompasses good and evil, how do you distinguish them, again?…
21 Jul 2008, 12:56
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Except for reducing your credibility to a level below the cosmic microwave background, you mean? When you say you believe X is always true, then X might be true, and then that y…
21 Jul 2008, 12:26
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your "OK with that" is not like our earth "OK with that"…
21 Jul 2008, 07:07
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Free furniture and books at bruninans' house!…
21 Jul 2008, 03:47
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Do you mean a sequel, or a second edition?…
20 Jul 2008, 19:16
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By Moses, do you mean Abraham? This is the generally accepted as the case in the OT; Satan ("The Adversary") remains a heavenly presence but takes the adversarial position of pr…
20 Jul 2008, 19:14
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angelos is Greek for messenger, but Hierogrammate was used in the 1600s to mean holy scribe - related, but not the same. It does however match someone who records the Increate's …
19 Jul 2008, 10:58
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The faction is named after the earlier period, partly because it has connotations of the "good old days". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah…
18 Jul 2008, 15:49
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Urth's orbit is already perturbed by the process of moving of Lune closer to it. The White Fountain could be of similar mass to the moon, which produces the majority of tides on …
17 Jul 2008, 22:45
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Where is it written that they make black holes?…
17 Jul 2008, 22:27
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She seems to have several conflicting motivations; at best, I think we can agree she is happy because the struggle is out of her hands for the time being, she can reast, having "…
17 Jul 2008, 21:35
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Keep fishing, guys.…
17 Jul 2008, 07:32
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Kills all life above ground on the Sirius-facing hemisphere and poisons the atmosphere. But this won't happen until you see 40% of the sun's mass flow from Sirius A to Sirius B.…
17 Jul 2008, 06:33
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II Timothy 2:3 (KJV): "Thou shalt endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ." It doesn't have to be literal military action, using martial similies and metaphors for co…
17 Jul 2008, 06:14
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I don't see anything about the world having a literal persona distinct from God, and I don't recall seeing anything like that in Aristotle's elementalism, either.…
17 Jul 2008, 06:08
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Where on earth did you study Astronomy?! Supernovas actually increase the number of stars in a galaxy when their shockwaves cause nearby nebulas to clump and collapse into new st…
17 Jul 2008, 00:56
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cite please?…
17 Jul 2008, 00:33
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1 supernova per 50 years in the milky way, billions per year in the observable universe. Nova events are more common, but that because of repeat occurances, the objects that prod…
17 Jul 2008, 00:23
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You can google "anonymous Christianity" and read all about it.…
16 Jul 2008, 23:38
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Did you miss the various Crusades? Or hymns like "Onward Christian Soldiers?" Militarism's been given the imprimatur for a long time.…
16 Jul 2008, 23:33
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I've been a lifelong Christian, and this is the first I've heard the Great Chain of Being explicitly said to have a place in Christian doctrine. It certainly is not part of the A…
16 Jul 2008, 23:22
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I wasn't aware Wolfe was getting into political writing! When did he start? Several days of extremely high tides doesn't literally drown a planet, though it does drastically chan…
16 Jul 2008, 23:13
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Not drowned, baptised and born again as Ushas with all our sins washed away.…
16 Jul 2008, 13:38
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Except for stories where they war with humanity, my experience is the opposite; they are almost always used as a superior moral example in contrast to humanity's short-term and s…
16 Jul 2008, 13:33
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I'm thinking it is intended that the Hieros built the Hierogrammates out of hubris in attempt to make a perfect, godlike creature. They are thus living graven images and as false…
14 Jul 2008, 22:38
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After further cogitation, it has occurred to me that the Botanical Gardens are the Yesodi evacution plan for Urth. A fairly feeble one, but I realized they *are* resource limite…
12 Jul 2008, 05:31
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I'm hoping to gather some on my next, "Sister Juturna" read-through, as soon as I can gather new copies of the volumes. Nessus isn't exactly "teeming" as there are five buildings…
11 Jul 2008, 22:03
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Loss is necessary, or at least unavoidable, and presumably loss in the name of God (sacrifice) is better than loss for no reason. I agree that whenever wrong is done there is a p…
11 Jul 2008, 21:24
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By confounding do you perhaps mean "compounding" or "conflating"? That's what "Yesodis" is intended to do, to refer to all of these higher beings as a group, and this is useful b…
11 Jul 2008, 19:49
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http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2tmhh/gwjbj3.html I beg your pardon, it is James B. Jordan who actually mentions the part about the kittens, but about 8-10 answers down the p…
11 Jul 2008, 19:37
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I don't subscribe to the usual free will/predestiny dichotomy. You can't escape God's plan because He's eternal and outside of time and space, any more than A. Square can escape …
11 Jul 2008, 19:21
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His interviews affirm this; he says we are lucky to live in a Christian society cos the rest of the world (like Turkey) is a depraved hellhole where people kill kittens for fun.…
11 Jul 2008, 18:39
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That was pretty much the discussion in progress just before you arrived. I'm not convinced that God has no part in a plan involving the White Fountain; as the omnipotent, omnisci…
11 Jul 2008, 18:34
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There's Wolfe's answer to the problems of pain and evil right there: God has the infinite and unfailing moral judgment to decide when people should suffer or die, and it's good t…
11 Jul 2008, 18:23
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The Goddess' world in _There Are Doors_ is a pretty tranquil liberal democracy similar to 1950's Britain - She reigns with the lightest of hands and suffers Her people to govern …
11 Jul 2008, 17:23
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Would you agree that it can be good for the Increate to do something that it would be evil to be done by a man?…
11 Jul 2008, 07:10
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in re "moral segregation": Moral relativism vs moral absolutism generally is not argued with respect to nonhuman intelligences. I think it likely that the human condition boils …
11 Jul 2008, 05:38
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Dismiss it?! I've been discussing it with these fellows for years on the list, and years before that on GEnie with mantiss and Hartwell and the gang. Trying to reverse engineer a…
11 Jul 2008, 04:20
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I don't think moral relativism enters into it so much as moral segregation. The same Increate to which humans attribute their moral code against incest they also attribute the cr…
11 Jul 2008, 04:12
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That would be "on individual *human* life." Life in general will benefit enormously from the coming of Ushas, returning to the world-wide range where it had flourished in eons pa…
11 Jul 2008, 01:15
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The difficulty is in agreeing on the units of moral judgment. A Hierogrammate may be a race unto themselves and destroy an intelligent individual whose actions they disklike the …
11 Jul 2008, 01:11
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Okay, they evacuate everyone from Urth, then what? Where do they put the people? How do they get out of being responsible for them until the end of time? If they are responsible …
10 Jul 2008, 17:37
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I'm stuck by the parallel to the original Trek episode, "Empath", where the crusty, mean aliens torture McCoy within a whisker of death to see if the mute healing empath woman ca…
10 Jul 2008, 16:44
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To an alternate universe with where their misguided worshipers suffer the inevitable consequences of idol worship like being forced to choose between celibacy and and early, pain…
10 Jul 2008, 16:23
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