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by Holsety
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...
by Holsety
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...
by Holsety
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 ...
by Holsety
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

I I think that's unrealistic... Yeah, this is the thing that bugs me...it's like many people see any criticism of the Israeli government as being antisemitic by default. It's like, "I can criticise your domestic policies without hating your religion dude..." :D --A Ya, tell me about it, t...
by Holsety
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...
by Holsety
Mon Oct 17, 2022 1:14 am
Forum: The Close
Topic: Pope Francis I
Replies: 133
Views: 27539

The real question is, if conventional geopolitical discussion is allowed to spread to the Close, where (which subform[s]) would it not be feasibly able to spread to? It seems to me that Mallory's would be relatively safe, for one.
by Holsety
Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:12 pm
Forum: Steven Erikson Forum
Topic: Erikson: Tales of Witness
Replies: 3
Views: 1016

The weasel/stoat/whatever, I think it's name is Creature, owned by one of the malazan soldiers, is once described as something like "it was just smart enough to know how stupid it was, which made it extremely angry." This is a very similar description to one of the descriptions of the Prin...
by Holsety
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...
by Holsety
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...
by Holsety
Thu Sep 17, 2020 2:46 am
Forum: The Entire Chronicles
Topic: Ark of the Covenant
Replies: 4
Views: 3128

I passed by a lady a few days ago wearing a shirt with a heart very beautifully imposed over a skull. A fun way of thinking about that "young/liberals think with their heart and old/conservatives think with their mind." Well I guess it's all pretty easy with a little guidance. I can see a ...
by Holsety
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...
by Holsety
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...
by Holsety
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...
by Holsety
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...
by Holsety
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

I ordered an unholy consult from Amazon, hopefully this book we will have the proper diagnosis for kellhus.
by Holsety
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 ...
by Holsety
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

The Unholy Consult...for the second time. No way! How did you get an ARC? Plus, how is it? I have a friend from TSA who bought it and then sold it to me after he read it. We did the same thing for "The Great Ordeal". It's excellent. The last half of the book is non-stop action. There are ...
by Holsety
Sun Apr 30, 2017 1:02 pm
Forum: General Literature Discussion
Topic: Anti-recommendations of your favorite books
Replies: 31
Views: 15803

Actually I read your description and it sounds great barring time commitment.
by Holsety
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...
by Holsety
Sat Apr 29, 2017 2:29 am
Forum: General Literature Discussion
Topic: Anti-recommendations of your favorite books
Replies: 31
Views: 15803

This thread was a great idea... ..and it's so well-suited to my nature, because I accidentally anti-recommend things that I really like! Here's one about "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch," by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: It's from a story where a bunch of people are in a gulag prison/l...

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