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Roy, I wasn't trying to argue Severian as Christ again. you mention the nature of the Conciliator according to the text. here's one you may have forgotten: from Chap XXI of Sword: …
07 Feb 2009, 00:46
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I'm sorry, I CAN NOT WAIT for tonight's episode. last episode had to be the best so far. Roslin is my girl!!!!…
06 Feb 2009, 22:19
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I completely agree. I've understood it as GOD, the Godhead, is indescribable, but that inaccessibility is the main reason for Jesus to be. To give us a path. This is where the Lo…
06 Feb 2009, 16:43
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Cool. A priest. I love the internet for grouping unlike minds together. Very sorry if anything I've said has offended you, good sir. I like that you directly knocked down my argum…
05 Feb 2009, 22:00
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::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I didn't call anyone here heretics. I said many Orthodox I've met consider Catholics heretics. I'm not Christian. I've made clear that my own…
05 Feb 2009, 18:35
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::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: You can't critique ANYTHING without SOMEONE getting offended. B first) "Hair-pulling to get a reaction" what, so you're saying I'm a tr…
05 Feb 2009, 17:17
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my very small tangent did have to do with BotNS, in that people are arguing about the Severian Christ issue as if there is one understanding of Christ, so I pointed out that ev…
05 Feb 2009, 15:14
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sorry I've got some critical things to say about your momma. It ain't like she's innocent. *resists yo mama joke* No one complained when I bagged on Scientific Materialism. and "Fo…
05 Feb 2009, 07:14
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Fair points. I won't argue, because I don't completely endorse the ideas I mentioned, or very well educated about this. I especially agree with "there's always room for one mor…
05 Feb 2009, 04:04
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I'm not harshing on Catholics, I'm harshing on the Catholic Church. Like I might bag on Iran without offense to Iranians. I've couched any critique with apologies to Catholics wh…
05 Feb 2009, 03:19
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LOL. ~m…
04 Feb 2009, 18:37
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Having a sort of mystic bent to my understandings of this stuff, think the Filioque is a huge change. It takes the basic form of the Trinity and turns it into a flat, hierarchical…
04 Feb 2009, 18:31
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This is all very interesting. I don't understand how there can be only one interpretation of Christ, especially argued by Catholics, who are considered Heretics by the oldest, most…
04 Feb 2009, 17:39
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Good lord, Yes. I've got almost every album. some gaps in the early jazzbeau years. Saw him live once at the Paramount in Oakland. great set. all seated. they wouldn't let me dance…
23 Jan 2009, 00:05
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I'll be utterly shocked if Trey doesn't see through it pretty clearly. The man has a serious gift for insight. Watching The Black Rider stage play with him was revealing. he graspe…
22 Jan 2009, 23:42
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_______________________________ on a tangent, "interpretive violence" reminds me of Biblical Violence. I love this song: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=hella%20biblical%20v…
22 Jan 2009, 23:17
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violence? that may be overstepping. any great work is larger than it's author's intention. But I'm sympathetic with your feeling, despite having to poke at it a bit. What I don'…
22 Jan 2009, 22:56
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I thought about that Nicene creed last night too. It's purely Exegesis to insist that he was divine. I take a bit of issue with your comment about fictional things, though of cour…
22 Jan 2009, 22:02
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This is basically the spirit of my Severian / Christ / Logos comments. I think that JESUS could not be the only manifestation, so I've tried to steer clear of Jesus, and spoke of C…
22 Jan 2009, 20:28
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I'm not sure about corrupted. from the perspective of Long Sun only, I assumed he either thought he could save her and more, and got waylaid, or, symbolically that he copped out of…
22 Jan 2009, 19:21
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Shucks. you guys are the best. thanks for watching out for me. ~witz…
22 Jan 2009, 17:31
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I'm sitting under tubular flourescent bulbs (complete with shade unit) all day long, right now in fact. I guarantee there are shadows. they're sort of diffuse, but they are defin…
21 Jan 2009, 23:54
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whoops. that was stupid. I had two conflicting perceptions of the thing, and clarified in my mind as I wrote, but forgot to cut the translucent bit. It would have to be opaque.…
21 Jan 2009, 23:51
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well....... the sun turns. It may be a cylinder or a plane, but the point is that half of it is shaded. meaning, it's photon vectors are not omnidirectional. At some points the su…
21 Jan 2009, 22:31
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ha ha. duh. how did I miss the Rosebud joke in "The last Cylon is a sled" — genius.…
21 Jan 2009, 22:25
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I KNEW IT!!!…
21 Jan 2009, 21:44
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Exactly. When I read that I felt it did not invalidate the idea that he was providing a food source. Not having read much of short sun, it already has been suggested that there WA…
21 Jan 2009, 20:47
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That's how I read that passage too. but guys, I wasn't really trying to spark the debate. I suppose it can't be helped from such a provocative comment though. sorry. RE: BSG, I'v…
21 Jan 2009, 20:45
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I hadn't read that. but my point stands from his first line. "In so far as there is a Christ figure, it is Severian" I'm talking about symbolic metaphor, or loose analogy, not mund…
21 Jan 2009, 19:48
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I knew both Watkins and Brewer couldn't leave that one. :D we all are. and we all must overcome our Typhons. ~witz…
21 Jan 2009, 19:23
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thanks again for that Dave. this one strikes me as odd: 12. Who was Blood's father? -- Patera Pike. [DRL: This was a complete surprise all round, by the way.] I thought that was p…
21 Jan 2009, 19:15
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haven't read yet. but that link was 404. here is a new link: http://www.ansible.co.uk/cc/cc77.html ~witz…
21 Jan 2009, 18:51
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That's an interesting idea, a body for the gods to inhabit. I can't help but feel that Mucor and the Possessions by Gods are flipsides of the same thing. How does mainframe beam …
21 Jan 2009, 17:07
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just reread it. it's not oblique. the monitor changed course. but I don't think that alone is enough to deny that Quetzal might have been trying to send them to the Inumu (inhumi…
21 Jan 2009, 15:39
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So, you're saying the Monitor decided, after seeing his corpse, to change course. i thought that was vague, but yeah... but did he know he was gonna die? I should read that agai…
21 Jan 2009, 15:27
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I finished Long Sun the other day. An excellent book. serious page turner for me, burned through it really fast. too fast, I'm sure, to catch all the hints, but the basic gist do…
21 Jan 2009, 15:16
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OOPS! It's just that they cut it in two volumes for a paperback edition. (even though my old paperback has the full story) thanks for pointing it out Jordon. (on another board) /Em…
16 Jan 2009, 23:54
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OH MY GOD, there's a sequel????????!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?! and 14 years old. How the hell did I never bump into that. jesus. maybe my reread of Moby Dick will have to wait. ~witz…
16 Jan 2009, 23:26
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TORTURE!!! I can't watch it either because I just started season 4 dvds last night. I've haven't watched any regularly programmed TV show in my adult life, I'd thought I might chan…
16 Jan 2009, 23:22
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I've got the perfect Severian: Michael Trucco the guy who plays Sam Anders in Battlestar Gallactica. he's just about the right height too. 6'3" just a bit Taller than the Lexicon…
16 Jan 2009, 19:21
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You know, I laughed, but it's not such a bad suggestion, once I found an older picture. I haven't seen those. probably should. Good Suggestions. Raquel Welch, perfect. so are Gan…
15 Jan 2009, 19:12
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this is fun. I like Rowan Atkinson for Incus. Tim Curry would be good for Patera Ramora. I really like the Jimmy Stewart as Silk suggestion. Redford isn't bad either, though I t…
15 Jan 2009, 17:38
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Jonathin Frid is a good suggestion for Talos, as well as young Redford for Silk. Currently I have: Severian: Christian Bale Palaemon: Max von Sydow Malrubius: Clint Eastwood (G…
15 Jan 2009, 00:50
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yeah, Silk is 23. Laurie is now too old. Keanu does come to mind, but I'd have to reject him on principle :D and he's already been cast as a messiah. I don't watch movies or tv e…
15 Jan 2009, 00:30
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Good idea. a dude on that new genewolfebookclub board said he had one made at one of those one-off shirt places. Now you've tempted me to design an image for it. I'd imagined si…
14 Jan 2009, 19:13
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Thanks. oops. I'd forgotten that I had considered Alcalde. the other spanish words were easier to find. You don't suppose there is a theocratic component when it's sanctioned by th…
14 Jan 2009, 17:38
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Just finished Calde of the Long Sun. what a read! I haven't searched the list yet, in order to avoid spoilers,but I can't find anything to define "Calde". I'm not clear if Calde is…
14 Jan 2009, 17:04
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RIGHT ON!!! registered. nice forum! can't wait to see this thing build up. thanks for the tip. ~witz…
11 Jan 2009, 19:47
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Hey Tim, thanks for the Cayuga Park tip-off. what a cool place. had a nice walk and a picnic and some playground time. really cool sculptures. Lot's of love in that place. cheers…
11 Jan 2009, 19:18
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MOST APPRECIATED.…
09 Jan 2009, 21:06
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