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Disclaimer, I am a Mormon. I also am skipping the context of the above paragraph, as it isn't relevant to the information below. Just a quick point out. The Mormons went with th…
21 Dec 2009, 02:16
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I find his style too much Perelandra and Anthem and not enough Middle Earth and Brave New World. I love Wolfe and Chesterton and Tolkien and ... precicely because while the author…
22 Sep 2009, 23:51
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One of the beautiful things about spoken English is the common practice to insert syllables, words, and phrases in the middle of other words and phrases where the iambic rhythm lar…
31 Jul 2009, 12:25
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Yet more proof I really really need to read that book. Jeff…
09 Jul 2009, 17:18
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Didn't feel smeared at all. There are bad eggs here, just like everywhere else. There are lots and lots that are well meaning but horrible with the implementation (we're all amat…
22 May 2009, 11:49
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Perhaps things have changed a little since you were last active, here is more or less how things are now within the Mormon church. "Fast Offerings", which are the funds the church…
20 May 2009, 22:41
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It is only theft if it isn't consentual. The mistake that Socialists make is when they remove the consent. The parallel problem with libertarianism is that a free market is an …
19 May 2009, 18:29
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If the glass intensifies the light, couldn't these be underwater habitats using the glass to provide natural sunlight? Jeff…
05 May 2009, 18:15
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Most definitions of YA put it in the range of I've seen are tween-16 Jeff…
17 Apr 2009, 18:04
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Yup, so popular, that google shows him and one other guy using it. Jeff…
14 Apr 2009, 19:11
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Those are pretty cool. I had jumped to the "Good Hunting" from Kipling's The Jungle Books, but there really isn't much reason to like mine. Jeff…
20 Mar 2009, 11:42
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Of the three major races in Tolkien (Man, Elves, Dwarves), only the Men have the semblance of a divinely-appointed king. The elves appear to be a meritocracy, and only in, one occ…
19 Mar 2009, 19:40
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He was, but he already had the ring at that point. And the Neighbor feigning to be Horn makes Horns' permission for the Neighbors to be on Blue pointless. Jeff…
19 Mar 2009, 02:32
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I concur that it is made pretty clear that Babbie did it. Jeff…
17 Mar 2009, 11:18
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Eating, no, but I play the games quite a bit, and everytime I saw a picture of one of the ships, I would squint to try to see BSG designs :) As far as the show goes, I'm still stu…
03 Mar 2009, 17:18
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This comment has confused me for a while, as their ships don't look Battlestar Galactica at all, and I think I finally figured out what happened. Ad-Astra has three lines now rath…
02 Mar 2009, 18:27
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Plus, if it were a conventional rocket ship, they wouldn't have been so quick to call what they were living in "Towers" Jeff…
18 Feb 2009, 21:04
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Landing gear retracted? Wings extended? I know you said you imagined no wings, and with anti-gravity type tech you probably wouldn't need wings, but that isn't the only wing like…
17 Feb 2009, 18:40
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Volant is a heraldry term (as is clear from the text), and while the word does translate as flying, I think it usually means seen from above. (like a pin-board for insects) Jeff…
17 Feb 2009, 17:44
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Rotates may be a better term than inverts, due to each corner having its identity :) Jeff…
05 Feb 2009, 19:59
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You should be able to get a reasonable estimate of the interior cross-section of the asteroid from the fire descriptions in BotSS Jeff…
27 Jan 2009, 19:18
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Well, see I'm running off of memory, as I don't have the nice searchable texts that some of you have. Experiment, help humans grow by showing themselves through a mirror darkly, g…
23 Jan 2009, 01:46
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I'm guessing you haven't read Book of the Short Sun yet. Spoiler warning for BotSS I seem to remember that it was stated fairly explicitly by the Neighbors that they got the inh…
23 Jan 2009, 01:08
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The last Cylon is a sled…
21 Jan 2009, 21:20
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Or he was shrewdly betraying his people. Not unheard of.…
21 Jan 2009, 15:59
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Err I mean Patera Quetzal, not Silk or Severian Jeff…
15 Jan 2009, 16:54
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I can't think of anyone that can play smarmy authority figures better than Tim Curry. He may be a bit too tall though Jeff…
15 Jan 2009, 16:47
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Who requires you to be moral to receive His grace. We cannot ignore the mechanism for the freedom (Him), but it is the morality that is the part that is in our control, not Him.…
08 Jan 2009, 18:27
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Freedom being equated to being unconstrained by morality seems a bit antithetical to the Christian belief that morality is what sets you free. Jeff…
08 Jan 2009, 17:27
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I'm assuming that by Missing Years, you mean between age 8 and 30. The Mormon claim is actually that Jesus spent time in America after his resurrection.…
11 Dec 2008, 21:28
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You mean like this http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/solar_sailing/ Jeff…
01 Dec 2008, 23:28
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Clearly not forgotten, but just before the current economic crisis, the price of metals was high enough that people were starting to bandy about mining the land fills as cost effec…
01 Dec 2008, 20:23
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At least one Christian group believes that Noahs' flood did act as Earth's baptism to be later followed by a baptism by fire (second coming?). While I didn't find your comment par…
16 Jul 2008, 17:25
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Err, not impossible at all. The easiest way to transport a black hole would be to dump a bunch of electrons into it and then use an electrical field to move it around. If you had…
10 Jun 2008, 13:10
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