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- Mon Dec 26, 2022 11:30 pm
- Forum: The Close
- Topic: Can someone explain to me the reasons behind hating Jews?
- Replies: 88
- Views: 16810
I don't think what she says is completely right, because the nazis identified jews - AFAIK - based on ancestry. Also, some people could identify jews on the street based on prior association in addition to documentary evidence of their ancestors. Also, I'm under the impression that black people were...
- Mon Dec 05, 2022 11:22 pm
- Forum: The Close
- Topic: Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2377
I suspect it's a learned behaviour, but yeah, we can't really know for sure. As far as a dog afterlife, I like the idea of the film A Dog's Purpose where the dog is reborn into another dog for several lifetimes to continue their journey. Perhaps humans are the same, but have no consciousness of the...
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 11:07 pm
- Forum: The Close
- Topic: Stephen Fry's 7 Deadly Sins
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2377
I'm not sure that animals are entirely immune to the concept of sin. If my dog pooped in the house (not often happened, but usually when she was sick), she would always go in the same place, a place in the house were where people didn't frequently go quite as much. And whenever someone came home on ...
- Thu Nov 17, 2022 1:34 am
- Forum: The Close
- Topic: Can someone explain to me the reasons behind hating Jews?
- Replies: 88
- Views: 16810
- Wed Nov 02, 2022 11:42 pm
- Forum: The Close
- Topic: Can someone explain to me the reasons behind hating Jews?
- Replies: 88
- Views: 16810
It may be that antisemitism in part exists because we are quite the minority, and sometimes people are just looking for a scapegoat. These days, sometimes I think the jews do run everything, but I also sometimes think everybody else is running everything, or that I do. It is also the case that if yo...
- Mon Oct 17, 2022 1:14 am
- Forum: The Close
- Topic: Pope Francis I
- Replies: 133
- Views: 27539
- Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:12 pm
- Forum: Steven Erikson Forum
- Topic: Erikson: Tales of Witness
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1016
- Thu Sep 17, 2020 4:06 am
- Forum: The Close
- Topic: How Does Evolution Produce Consciousness/Reason?
- Replies: 539
- Views: 81742
That the mind emerges from and is dependent upon the brain is not the issue. No, the question is: When we speak of minds, can someone who would reduce consciousness to biology offer an adequate picture of what it means for us to know something? To know anything? Adequate for what purpose? If it's e...
- Thu Sep 17, 2020 3:38 am
- Forum: The Entire Chronicles
- Topic: Atoning for the rape of Lena as the core problem in TCTC
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8177
To be honest, I think it might make more sense if High Lord Kevin were considered as being the Creator. In this way Kevin and Covenant are more easily identifiable as one and the same person. Covenant has not exactly cast himself into his own creation, it's just that he has forgotten everything abo...
- Thu Sep 17, 2020 2:46 am
- Forum: The Entire Chronicles
- Topic: Ark of the Covenant
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3128
- Tue Jun 02, 2020 12:09 am
- Forum: Coercri
- Topic: President Trump
- Replies: 3914
- Views: 386336
Only an idiot does something because the POTUS appears to suggest it. The people who die from drinking and/or injecting some sort of disinfectant deserve to go pick up their Darwin Award in person in whatever afterlife awaits them. Apparently he has stopped taking it...presuming that he ever really...
- Fri Oct 27, 2017 4:12 pm
- Forum: General Fantasy/Sci-Fi Discussion
- Topic: Bakker's The Prince of Nothing series
- Replies: 322
- Views: 93539
Hmmm, IIRC, Sorweel got killed by the ancient non-man which then provoked him back to sanity in order to overthrow the influence of the Consult on the non-men... --A But didn't Sorweel make it out with Serwa? And then Zsoronga made Sorweel give him a handjob or something? Did the nonmen leave Ishte...
- Thu Oct 26, 2017 9:07 pm
- Forum: General Fantasy/Sci-Fi Discussion
- Topic: Bakker's The Prince of Nothing series
- Replies: 322
- Views: 93539
I have a huge post. I hope it garners some further discussion, as I just finished up the book today. 1: So I'm pretty sure I'm serving Golgotterath. I've been working at an emergency service for doctors and we get a lot of calls for consults. And they ain't from no priests ;) . 2: I'm also pretty su...
- Mon Aug 21, 2017 5:40 pm
- Forum: General Fantasy/Sci-Fi Discussion
- Topic: Bakker's The Prince of Nothing series
- Replies: 322
- Views: 93539
I'm nowhere near done with the book yet, but some thoughts on me brought on by Kelmomas (sp?) You know, Kelmomas was probably among my least favorite characters in the series. But strangely, once he was caught, he seems to actually be a bit more worthy of thought. As far as I know, I've never killed...
- Fri Aug 04, 2017 4:19 pm
- Forum: General Fantasy/Sci-Fi Discussion
- Topic: Bakker's The Prince of Nothing series
- Replies: 322
- Views: 93539
- Wed Jul 12, 2017 9:01 pm
- Forum: General Fantasy/Sci-Fi Discussion
- Topic: Bakker's The Prince of Nothing series
- Replies: 322
- Views: 93539
I have an idea as to why Proyas was raped by Kellhus, and an idea as to the essence of the no-god. Proyas was raped because Kellhus - maybe - is trying to humiliate humanity or one of its leaders in preparation for his failure to eliminate the consult. Either to make them weak enough to survive, or ...
- Fri Jun 16, 2017 11:32 pm
- Forum: General Fantasy/Sci-Fi Discussion
- Topic: What fantasy/science fiction book are you reading RIGHT NOW?
- Replies: 8176
- Views: 1119479
- Sun Apr 30, 2017 1:02 pm
- Forum: General Literature Discussion
- Topic: Anti-recommendations of your favorite books
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15803
- Sat Apr 29, 2017 2:37 am
- Forum: General Literature Discussion
- Topic: T H White: The Once and Future King
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11515
I have only read this work once. It's probably my favorite work of Arthurian fiction for the way it adds gentle and weird humor while also maintaining a grasp of the importance of life. I remember it capturing absurdities of battle that perhaps never really quite existed, but still in some sense sti...
- Sat Apr 29, 2017 2:29 am
- Forum: General Literature Discussion
- Topic: Anti-recommendations of your favorite books
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15803