I was clicking through "http://www.mp3lit.com/" (a site you may wish to check out, seeing as it provides literature on "audio" in two formats), and I stumbled...
Timothy Virkkala
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Aug 3, 2000 3:28 pm
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David Graeber's essay in "In These Times" is an interesting one: http://www.inthesetimes.com/graeber2419.html Normally, one would expect me to chide its author...
Timothy Virkkala
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Aug 4, 2000 1:31 am
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Than the zoo. More peanuts? Less peanuts? Smellier? Just ivining....
Byron Marshall
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Aug 4, 2000 7:31 pm
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... But we do belong here, among our fellow men. That's the problem with these flattery books. We, the self-satisfied Potter readers, are wonderful, superior...
Paul Rhoads
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Aug 5, 2000 9:04 pm
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... Being somewhat dyslexic I could not read at all until about age 9 and didn't start reading real books until age 13 or so. My first books were Tolkine, then...
Paul Rhoads
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Aug 5, 2000 9:04 pm
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Sorry to dredge up the past (he coos insincerely)... ... (Tim's gentle, peace making pedantry, impatiently hacked away }:-) ... This ... are ... surround ... a...
Paul Rhoads
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Aug 5, 2000 9:04 pm
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Paul, I'm afraid, has given me an excuse to write a long post. I apologize in advance. Most of you will no doubt not want to read it. ... Those philosophers...
Timothy Virkkala
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Aug 6, 2000 1:46 am
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... I find myself in that same camp. Michael...
Michael Emrys
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Aug 6, 2000 3:39 am
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... And to my mind, the correct definition of evil is that it is not a "thing" in itself, but an attribute of things, or even more precisely of actions. That's...
Michael Emrys
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Aug 6, 2000 3:39 am
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As Tim knows, I am a militant Vance promoter, and I appreciate his insightful comments on Emphyrio, one of my own very favorite Vance books. ... I agree with...
Paul Rhoads
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Aug 6, 2000 12:56 pm
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... Vance's footnotes and the (mostly) fictional quotations that begin many chapters in the Demon Prince books are almost all there as part of the comic ...
Paul Rhoads
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Aug 6, 2000 12:56 pm
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... As a present (and recently converted) Catholic, I would like to point out that, in my opinion, Christian ethics are vastly supirior to Wiccan ethics ... ...
Paul Rhoads
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Aug 6, 2000 12:56 pm
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Byron wrote: "...(the) awkwardly and unattractively named "Bobos in Paradise()" (is e)vidently (...) a gimmick book based on the idea that the silicon valley ...
Paul Rhoads
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Aug 6, 2000 12:56 pm
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... To say that there exist different moral systems that contradict each other only has something to do with the problem of what is right and wrong in the ...
Paul Rhoads
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Aug 6, 2000 2:45 pm
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... Ah, now we get to one of the joys of reading Vance: he is a smart writer who respects intelligence in his readers, and conveys this respect without ...
Timothy Virkkala
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Aug 7, 2000 12:37 am
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... This, despite the fact that most Americans are theists of some kind, and atheism a decidedly minority philosophy? I take it that, outside of the church and...
Timothy Virkkala
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Aug 7, 2000 12:37 am
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... "Big Planet" ... Big Planet was written in 1947. The currently published version has long sections written by two other people. Much of the original Ms is...
Paul Rhoads
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Aug 7, 2000 1:15 am
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... Well yes, but not among the ellites including the media, which are majoritarilly anti-clerical and atheistic. ... Humph! :-) Read First Things: the June...
Paul Rhoads
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Aug 7, 2000 1:15 am
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... That's for sure! The back of the copy I tried to read had Damon Knight compare it to "The Worm Ouroboros," another book I've never been able to read....
Timothy Virkkala
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Aug 7, 2000 5:17 am
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... William Tyndale was an Englishman who translated the New Testament and I think big chunks of the Old Testament into the English of his day, in the process...
Timothy Virkkala
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Aug 7, 2000 5:17 am
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... very ... 1944 and 1954 respectively. The proper title for the latter is "Clarges" by the way. And yes; there is good work in what I call the "early period"...
Paul Rhoads
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Aug 7, 2000 9:11 am
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... to ... because ... This is exactly what I complain of! Your quotation does not say who persecuted Tyndale, nor why (it is certanly _not_ because he...
Paul Rhoads
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Aug 7, 2000 9:12 am
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... [How quickly it gets to the "sex with dogs" argument... No one has pulled this one on me personally yet, but the thought of it always gives me a chuckle....
Eric D. Dixon
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Aug 7, 2000 2:49 pm
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... [How quickly it gets to the "sex with dogs" argument... No one has pulled this one on me personally yet, but the thought of it always gives me a chuckle....
Eric D. Dixon
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Aug 7, 2000 2:49 pm
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... CA). ... I am sorry to be heavy handed about this: Those uninterested, please delete... - - - - - - - - - - My dog example happens to be good. I know...
Paul Rhoads
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Aug 7, 2000 6:36 pm
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[In light of the Biblical discussion going on, perhaps some of you might be interested in this review... I bought this book a year and a half ago, but haven't...
Eric D. Dixon
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Aug 7, 2000 6:39 pm
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VANCE, etc. Nothing really important here, but I wanted to make clearer a few of my comments, particularly the ironic ones. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough about...
Byron Marshall
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Aug 7, 2000 11:07 pm
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Re: Translation of the Bible, etc. Neat. This may offer another opportunity to go off topic, which I will here avoid. Except to say, that this is what I was...
Byron Marshall
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Aug 7, 2000 11:14 pm
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Thank you both for your interesting and insightful commentary. Would you be so good as to come to full consensus, expand on the thesis, give an example, and...
Paul Rhoads
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Aug 7, 2000 11:50 pm
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... And now I redeem myself with a super ON-TOPIC comment! There is certainly no greater book on this subject than Leo Strauss' Tyranny and the Art of Writing...
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