{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/6691", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 6691, "subject": "Catholic Wolfe", "messages": 5, "voices": 3, "first": "2014-10-25T16:52:39+00:00", "last": "2014-10-26T21:37:48+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "<544BD557.5030206@clueland.com>", "from": { "name": "Jeffery Wilson clueland.com", "address": "jwilson at clueland.com" }, "date": "2014-10-25T16:52:39+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Catholic Wolfe", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On 10/20/2014 4:40 AM, Allan Lloyd wrote:\nI re-joined the Urth group a while ago, prompted mostly by Marc’s\nexcellent postings on the short stories. I am afraid that I am having my\npatience tested my the interminable discussions of maths and the\nexistence of free will. Surely these things would be better talked about\noff-list by the few people concerned." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I could say the same about Catholicism, but it's better for everyone \nfor the disinterested to summon the Herculean effort to click and scroll \nto the next message as needed." }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >\nA&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab\n< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >" } ] }, { "message_id": "<544C3805.1050801@bindweed.com>", "from": { "name": "Gerry Quinn", "address": "gerry at bindweed.com" }, "date": "2014-10-25T23:53:41+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Catholic Wolfe", "in_reply_to": "<544BD557.5030206@clueland.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On 25/10/2014 17:52, Jeffery Wilson clueland.com wrote:\nOn 10/20/2014 4:40 AM, Allan Lloyd wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "I re-joined the Urth group a while ago, prompted mostly by Marc’s\nexcellent postings on the short stories. I am afraid that I am having my\npatience tested my the interminable discussions of maths and the\nexistence of free will. Surely these things would be better talked about\noff-list by the few people concerned." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "I could say the same about Catholicism, but it's better for everyone \nfor the disinterested to summon the Herculean effort to click and \nscroll to the next message as needed." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "There is something to be said for having more specific titles. Eg. If \nit goes Catholic Wolfe / Catholic Theology, those who care little about \ntheology can ignore, those who enjoy it can engage. We should try to do \nthat more.\n\n- Gerry Quinn\n\n---\nThis email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active.\nhttp://www.avast.com" } ] }, { "message_id": "<544C84DF.3020800@clueland.com>", "from": { "name": "Jeffery Wilson clueland.com", "address": "jwilson at clueland.com" }, "date": "2014-10-26T05:21:35+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Catholic Wolfe", "in_reply_to": "<544C3805.1050801@bindweed.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On 10/25/2014 6:53 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:\n\nOn 25/10/2014 17:52, Jeffery Wilson clueland.com wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "On 10/20/2014 4:40 AM, Allan Lloyd wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 3, "text": "I re-joined the Urth group a while ago, prompted mostly by Marc’s\nexcellent postings on the short stories. I am afraid that I am having my\npatience tested my the interminable discussions of maths and the\nexistence of free will. Surely these things would be better talked about\noff-list by the few people concerned." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "I could say the same about Catholicism, but it's better for everyone\nfor the disinterested to summon the Herculean effort to click and\nscroll to the next message as needed." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "There is something to be said for having more specific titles. Eg. If\nit goes Catholic Wolfe / Catholic Theology, those who care little about\ntheology can ignore, those who enjoy it can engage. We should try to do\nthat more." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I'm game, but it seems unlikely based on past experience." }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >\nA&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab\n< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Marc Aramini", "address": "marcaramini at gmail.com" }, "date": "2014-10-26T14:31:18+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Catholic Wolfe", "in_reply_to": "<544C84DF.3020800@clueland.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "Jeffery Wilson wrote:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "I'm game, but it seems unlikely based on past experience.\n\n--" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "These thread titles live to deceive you, sad experience teaches me.\n\n[Of course, I do think Catholic and historically heretical ideologies are\nvalid insights into Wolfe's writing - often even interpretational keys.]" } ] }, { "message_id": "<544D69AC.6010506@clueland.com>", "from": { "name": "Jeffery Wilson clueland.com", "address": "jwilson at clueland.com" }, "date": "2014-10-26T21:37:48+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Catholic Wolfe", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On 10/26/2014 9:31 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:\n\n Jeffery Wilson wrote:\n\n\n I'm game, but it seems unlikely based on past experience.\n\n --\n\nThese thread titles live to deceive you, sad experience teaches me." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I've lead mailing list discussions and peer reviews for a gaming \npublisher, and even a hand-picked panel of referees of games with \nhundreds of pages of rules and an average of more than one university \ndegree remained iffy on the concept after a decade." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "[Of course, I do think Catholic and historically heretical ideologies\nare valid insights into Wolfe's writing - often even interpretational keys.]" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Likewise, and I stayed politely attentive the first seventeen times \noriginal sin was deconstructed here, so I think a round of technical \nscience once a year or so isn't out of line for a discussion of the \ngreatest science fiction author living today, or even just the author of \n\"How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion\"." }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >\nA&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab\n< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >" } ] } ] }