Catholic Wolfe The Urth list — 5 messages, 3 voices, 25 Oct 2014 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/6691 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------