I just thought he meant that power unearned somewhat presumes important cautionary lessons were skipped that would have otherwise been encountered and learned. A sort of extension of respect for great force. You're not supposed to fear or dismiss the severity of a sawblade, you're supposed to respec...

5. Minor points of inconsistency. While the company emerges desperately thirsty from Lost Deep, Galt's needs are virtually ignored for something like 24 hours as he keeps the Croyel prisoner and everybody else drinks, eats, and bathes. I guess he's just tough and doesn't have needs. But along the s...

Nice post, I definitely connect with what you're saying here. The chapter "Private Carrion" really got on my nerves, not only due to SWMNBN's drawn-out 'attack', but also because of SRD's constant reference to the imaginary bugs and creepy-crawlies that She's presence inflicted upon Linden...

SRD sometimes chooses names for his characters with care and deliberation - Martiihr, Stave etc obviously both having a double meaning. For the same reasons, the Ramen Cord who you're referring to is VERY definitively Pahni, and NOT Phani... He he, that may have been a Freudian slip on my part beca...

I'll restrict myself to a short answer. Once you accept the notion that all of these characters find their genesis in Covenant's mind, the explanation is clear. Naturally they know all the words he knows. This does not imply it's a dream or hallucination, at all to me. That would stand to reason in...

A reluctance to spill blood? Okay, maybe in ROTE and FR (in these, pretty much the only character of any interest/depth that buys the farm is the Mahdoubt and even then of her own choosing). But in AATE??? Surely SRD becomes the Grim Reaper all of a sudden and abruptly scythes pretty central charac...

I don't like them. Well, it's really not that I don't LIKE them. It's just that they're boring and there are too many of them. I can't keep them straight. I loved Foamfollower in 1st chronicles. I've said many times over the years that he's one of the best characters in fantasy. I loved the Giants ...

I strongly urge everyone who does not like this book to give it another reading. I think this is the best book in the entire series. I'm riveted. Donaldson is in top form. Every character is vivid and human in ways that teach many lessons about the struggles of life. As per usual, the reader will b...

That's why I love this show. It's my favorite on TV right now, and has been since the pilot. Even 'Lost' couldn't take that spot. This show has done this for me several times now. Totally shocking me without betraying character motivations. Walt's move last night is consistent with his character, th...

Ok, well I've been following this thread for months, to help put the pieces together from week to week. Personally, I loved the finale, the whole battle between Locke and Jack was great, the closing of the eye to end the series. I even kind of like the dead afterlife flash sideways mess - gives us a...

There's nothing "badass" about telling someone to fuck off. It's a breakdown in character and self control and I'm goddamn ashamed of it. This is not what I signed up here, at this forum for: Are you still speaking to me? Or is this another instance where you're talking about my pyschology...

Ok, this is not what I signed up for. Go fuck yourself Z.

So if the warming had been larger, we couldn't measure it in that time period? Sure we could. Or if the time period was longer. The warming observed was too small to clear the weather noise potential. If it's going to warm that gradual, you'll need a longer time period to measure it. If it's going ...

Disband all the parties, start from scratch, give everybody 10K of public money to campaign, pick the 1 guy from each state who gets the most votes to be congress or whatever. :D --A Initially, George Washington and others believed that political parties were a terrible idea, and attempted to disco...

It's more than an admission of a mathematical fact. Reality itself has shown no warming beyond our ability to meaningfully measure it. That is also a fact. The statistical insignificance in Jones's warming reveals more than a negative fact about mathematics, it also says a positive fact about the e...

I'm not basing my beliefs on any irrational attachment to anything. I never said that this one article represented my beliefs. I said that it was a serious question. To be fair, I was discussing why I reject the method of propping up articles about complex scientific subjects that experts write bec...

If our GHGs are increasing (and they are), and the temperature of the planet is increasing (well, that's the claim), then we're not talking about a one-time event that would show a temporary decrease in escaping heat, and then stabilize at this higher temperature. The amount of heat escaping to spa...

There is absolutely no security interest in getting off of oil. We export oil (to 70 countries--buy it from 90 countries). Sure, we import more than we export, but we're not even drilling for all the oil we have here. We could get off foreign oil if we wanted to. It just doesn't make economic sense...

No, no, Palin, it's all right, you see...............(wait for it) .............................. because it's satire :roll: Are you joking? How is it satire to make fun of one particular down syndrome kid? I saw Colbert's joke. That would actually qualify as satire (making a political statement ab...

Well seeing as CO2, which is necessary for plant cells to respirate, is being called pollution... let's be honest the descriptor 'pollution' can be thrown around just as carelessly as any other politically loaded term now... And you can die from water. And oxygen. Go figure. (By the way...that's wh...