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Comment on Retributive Justice Again by smijer

smijer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:31:47 +0000

John – very kind of you to say. My life has changed a bit lately – I don’t have nearly the time to spend on the internet that I once did. I jotted a “quick” note in your thread, but I am going to try to make time to join the conversation more fully later today. Thanks for letting me know about the discussion and inviting me to participate!

Comment on Retributive Justice Again by phil_style

phil_style — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:15:42 +0000

Can I second John’s comment above. I linked from his post and, having now read your thoughts here, would be interested to broaden the discussion.

Comment on Retributive Justice Again by John Hobbins

John Hobbins — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:07:31 +0000

I feel bad about not interacting with you in connection with this post. It just got away from me, more than once.

The topic keeps coming up in other shapes and forms. Right now, there is the quite the blogstorm on it: For example:

http://ancienthebrewpoetry.typepad.com/ancient_hebrew_poetry/2010/03/violence-in-the-bible-a-conversation-with-mike-koke-1.html

I hope you will find the time to join the conversation. I can think of few people more than you who are willing to think through these issues with care.

Comment on No “buts” by Public violence, atheism, UU singing, and more « uuworld.org : The Interdependent Web

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:59:52 +0000

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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:59:20 +0000

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Comment on On the will of the people by smijer

smijer — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:59:33 +0000

Yeah… well… these guys throw the human condition into bold relief. I feel sorry for them, too.

Comment on On the will of the people by Buck

Buck — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:42:05 +0000

And I wind up always feeling horrible for people like Roy Ashburn. I cannot imagine how awful it must be to live the kind of life he lives. To stand up at a podium and rant against the evils of homosexuality while being a homosexual. That is weird to me. Kinda like Ted Haggard and Jimmy Swaggart. I just have a hard time figuring out how they did what they did. I just can’t wrap my head around that kind of disconnect.

Comment on Which one never finished chapter 2? by Buck

Buck — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:48:08 +0000

There is just so much to read and so little time. I will be glad when the times comes that you can plug a cord into a port in your head and just download everything.

Comment on Which one never finished chapter 2? by smijer

smijer — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:54:43 +0000

With apologies to adult fans everywhere (myself included), science fiction is a genre for kids. A few authors wrote social commentary dressed up as science fiction and targeted it to adults & young adults. Vonnegut was one of those, and one of the best. Ray Bradbury did it. Heinlein tried it, but I think appealed mainly to kids. Sci-fi for the sake of sci-fi is like comic books. If you weren’t into it as a kid, you probably won’t get much out of it as an adult. Same but moreso with fantasy.

So, having read Vonnegut, you probably won’t get too much even out of the masters that I remember so fondly… like Asimov, for instance. But you could try…

Comment on Which one never finished chapter 2? by Buck

Buck — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:33:59 +0000

I am

Ursula K. LeGuin
Perhaps the most admired writing talent in the science fiction field.

If I had just cut and pasted all of that gobbly-gook in the comments would it have shown up with photo and everything or would it have just been gobbly-gook?

I have never in my life heard of Ursula K. LeGuin but I have also never been a voracious reader of science fiction. Science fiction sort of started and stopped with Kurt Vonnegut for me. Hell, after you have read the best why fool with all the rest?