# Catholic Wolfe *The Urth list — 5 messages, 3 voices, 25 Oct 2014* > 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. --- ### Jeffery Wilson clueland.com *25 Oct 2014, 16:52* > On 10/20/2014 4:40 AM, Allan Lloyd wrote: > I re-joined the Urth group a while ago, prompted mostly by Marc’s > excellent postings on the short stories. I am afraid that I am having my > patience tested my the interminable discussions of maths and the > existence of free will. Surely these things would be better talked about > off-list by the few people concerned. I could say the same about Catholicism, but it's better for everyone for the disinterested to summon the Herculean effort to click and scroll to the next message as needed. ``` Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com > A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab < http://www.tamut.edu/cil > ``` --- ### Gerry Quinn *25 Oct 2014, 23:53 · in reply to Jeffery Wilson clueland.com* > On 25/10/2014 17:52, Jeffery Wilson clueland.com wrote: > On 10/20/2014 4:40 AM, Allan Lloyd wrote: >> I re-joined the Urth group a while ago, prompted mostly by Marc’s >> excellent postings on the short stories. I am afraid that I am having my >> patience tested my the interminable discussions of maths and the >> existence of free will. Surely these things would be better talked about >> off-list by the few people concerned. > I could say the same about Catholicism, but it's better for everyone > for the disinterested to summon the Herculean effort to click and > scroll to the next message as needed. There is something to be said for having more specific titles. Eg. If it goes Catholic Wolfe / Catholic Theology, those who care little about theology can ignore, those who enjoy it can engage. We should try to do that more. - Gerry Quinn --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com --- ### Jeffery Wilson clueland.com *26 Oct 2014, 05:21 · in reply to Gerry Quinn* > On 10/25/2014 6:53 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote: > > On 25/10/2014 17:52, Jeffery Wilson clueland.com wrote: >> On 10/20/2014 4:40 AM, Allan Lloyd wrote: >>> I re-joined the Urth group a while ago, prompted mostly by Marc’s >>> excellent postings on the short stories. I am afraid that I am having my >>> patience tested my the interminable discussions of maths and the >>> existence of free will. Surely these things would be better talked about >>> off-list by the few people concerned. >> I could say the same about Catholicism, but it's better for everyone >> for the disinterested to summon the Herculean effort to click and >> scroll to the next message as needed. > There is something to be said for having more specific titles. Eg. If > it goes Catholic Wolfe / Catholic Theology, those who care little about > theology can ignore, those who enjoy it can engage. We should try to do > that more. I'm game, but it seems unlikely based on past experience. ``` Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com > A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab < http://www.tamut.edu/cil > ``` --- ### Marc Aramini *26 Oct 2014, 14:31 · in reply to Jeffery Wilson clueland.com* >> Jeffery Wilson wrote: > I'm game, but it seems unlikely based on past experience. > > -- These thread titles live to deceive you, sad experience teaches me. [Of course, I do think Catholic and historically heretical ideologies are valid insights into Wolfe's writing - often even interpretational keys.] --- ### Jeffery Wilson clueland.com *26 Oct 2014, 21:37 · in reply to Marc Aramini* > On 10/26/2014 9:31 AM, Marc Aramini wrote: > > Jeffery Wilson wrote: > > > I'm game, but it seems unlikely based on past experience. > > -- > > These thread titles live to deceive you, sad experience teaches me. I've lead mailing list discussions and peer reviews for a gaming publisher, and even a hand-picked panel of referees of games with hundreds of pages of rules and an average of more than one university degree remained iffy on the concept after a decade. > [Of course, I do think Catholic and historically heretical ideologies > are valid insights into Wolfe's writing - often even interpretational keys.] Likewise, and I stayed politely attentive the first seventeen times original sin was deconstructed here, so I think a round of technical science once a year or so isn't out of line for a discussion of the greatest science fiction author living today, or even just the author of "How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion". ``` Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com > A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab < http://www.tamut.edu/cil > ``` ---