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steelsheen
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Sci-fi Dec 4, 2005 22:26:10 GMT -5

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According to the opinion of many critics Brave New World, Fahreneheit 451 and the two George Orwells were the 'Best' sci-fis ever.

Personally, New World was MUCH too promiscuous, and 451 was just STRANGE, and George Orwell was plain boring and a little too... scary is not the right word, but it also is...

Oh, just give me my lord of the rings and C.S. Lewis and Star Trek and Star Wars ANY day over that type of book! If I wanted to read politics in fiction I would go chew on Vanity Fair...

Prayer

Good Lord in heaven,
Look down on us now,
Take pity on those
With a hard row to plow.
Listen, please, as we tell our woes.
Heal our broken hearts,
Help us to forgive
(seventy times seven)
Teach us to live.
Thank you, father, for life,
For my home, my child, my wife.
Be beside us when we die
Take us to our home on high.

(original composition)

falklands Extreem Wow member Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Posts: 1,090	Sci-fi Dec 5, 2005 13:22:34 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by falklands on Dec 5, 2005 13:22:34 GMT -5 steelsheen said: If I wanted to read politics in fiction I would go chew on Vanity Fair... If you wanted to read politics in non-fiction go read Plato's Republic - although that isn't just about politics ;D
	Never digress from the topic of your sentence too much. I had an uncle who always used to do that and it was very annoying. He lived in a log cabin in Massachusetts and he owned a white horse named Shark, which was coincidentally also the name of the Ohio-class submarine that sunk the Pharaoh in 1942... It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Bob?

heartofgold Wow Member "Life is wasted on the living." Douglas Adams Posts: 652	Sci-fi Dec 5, 2005 18:52:32 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by heartofgold on Dec 5, 2005 18:52:32 GMT -5 Believe me, the book has as lot of stuff besides politics (like a plot), 400 Meter long Sand worms aren't politics.
	Proud (Hopefully) Vice President 42 "Shucks, I've been living in an abominable manner my entire life" Bullwinkle Moose (when told he must live in the Abominable Manor for one week) Bitter and Cynical forever Fair is a place where you ride rides and eat cotton candy I'd rather be surprised as a pessimist than surprised as an optimist Chouvan, v. "Lets take this one outside."

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Sci-fi Dec 5, 2005 21:13:25 GMT -5

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Scary things, plots!!! Lol, Sand worms- worms in general are not generally a Must Read for me....

Plato's republic... hmmm- I doubt my library, which is the size of a large closet, has that one... it doesn't even have Dantes 'Inferno' which I TOTALLY want to read.... Also, I just don't like Plato, thanks to Bob Jones history!

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Prayer

Good Lord in heaven,
Look down on us now,
Take pity on those
With a hard row to plow.
Listen, please, as we tell our woes.
Heal our broken hearts,
Help us to forgive
(seventy times seven)
Teach us to live.
Thank you, father, for life,
For my home, my child, my wife.
Be beside us when we die
Take us to our home on high.

(original composition)

heartofgold Wow Member "Life is wasted on the living." Douglas Adams Posts: 652	Sci-fi Dec 6, 2005 2:00:43 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by heartofgold on Dec 6, 2005 2:00:43 GMT -5 Sand worms- worms in general are not generally a Must Read for me.... There's a 400 meter Earth Worm living under your house... its going to eat you up... (did you ever hear the Bill Cosby "Chicken heart" routine?)
	Proud (Hopefully) Vice President 42 "Shucks, I've been living in an abominable manner my entire life" Bullwinkle Moose (when told he must live in the Abominable Manor for one week) Bitter and Cynical forever Fair is a place where you ride rides and eat cotton candy I'd rather be surprised as a pessimist than surprised as an optimist Chouvan, v. "Lets take this one outside."

steelsheen Wow Member The penguin has flown. Posts: 584	Sci-fi Dec 6, 2005 10:48:24 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by steelsheen on Dec 6, 2005 10:48:24 GMT -5 Funny. Actually- I don't really care. I'll just go get one of my many guns out of the attic and my brother and I shall go plinking! ;D
	Prayer Good Lord in heaven, Look down on us now, Take pity on those With a hard row to plow. Listen, please, as we tell our woes. Heal our broken hearts, Help us to forgive (seventy times seven) Teach us to live. Thank you, father, for life, For my home, my child, my wife. Be beside us when we die Take us to our home on high. (original composition)

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Sci-fi Dec 6, 2005 11:27:35 GMT -5

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heartofgold said:

Believe me, the book has as lot of stuff besides politics (like a plot),

400 Meter long Sand worms aren't politics.

You seem enamoured with Sand Worms...how are big, ugly, cinnamon-breath, mindless animals nice? I have to admit they are quite cool, though. ;D

Plato's republic... hmmm- I doubt my library, which is the size of a large closet, has that one... it doesn't even have Dantes 'Inferno' which I TOTALLY want to read.... Also, I just don't like Plato, thanks to Bob Jones history!

What do you mean by Bob Jones history? Plato is really an excellent philosopher, even though he did not quite grasp the whole truth. I like his style of writing. As St. Augustine says, his way of writing is "graceful and elegant." I'm set on reading Dante's Inferno, as well; I'm looking forward to it.

Waitttttt... how did a discussion on whether Star Wars or Star Trek was better turn into a discussion on philisophical literature?

;D ;D ;D

Never digress from the topic of your sentence too much. I had an uncle who always used to do that and it was very annoying. He lived in a log cabin in Massachusetts and he owned a white horse named Shark, which was coincidentally also the name of the Ohio-class submarine that sunk the Pharaoh in 1942...

It behooves us to avoid archaisms.

Bob?

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Sci-fi Dec 6, 2005 12:39:15 GMT -5

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I no know!

Bob Jones' history- I am homeschooled, and I had the course of History from them, and ancient Greece had some stuff with him, and I hated it!!!

I did War of the Worlds Audio tape- the orginal radio broadcast (dramatization) frightened people who thought it was a true happening, so people began readying for a fight!

I don't understand the preoccupation with large worms either...

Dantes Inferno- Abandon all hope, ye who enter here...

SWEET!

Prayer

Good Lord in heaven,
Look down on us now,
Take pity on those
With a hard row to plow.
Listen, please, as we tell our woes.
Heal our broken hearts,
Help us to forgive
(seventy times seven)
Teach us to live.
Thank you, father, for life,
For my home, my child, my wife.
Be beside us when we die
Take us to our home on high.

(original composition)

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Sci-fi Dec 6, 2005 16:56:36 GMT -5

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I don't understand the preoccupation with large worms either...

Large Worms are going to take over the world some day. You'd better be preoccupied with them...
No, acutally I just thought they were really, really, cool

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42

"Shucks, I've been living in an abominable manner my entire life"
Bullwinkle Moose (when told he must live in the Abominable Manor for one week)

Bitter and Cynical forever

Fair is a place where you ride rides and eat cotton candy

I'd rather be surprised as a pessimist than surprised as an optimist

Chouvan, v. "Lets take this one outside."

steelsheen Wow Member The penguin has flown. Posts: 584	Sci-fi Dec 6, 2005 17:28:53 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by steelsheen on Dec 6, 2005 17:28:53 GMT -5 Like I said- Plinking with our 30-06 rifle!
	Prayer Good Lord in heaven, Look down on us now, Take pity on those With a hard row to plow. Listen, please, as we tell our woes. Heal our broken hearts, Help us to forgive (seventy times seven) Teach us to live. Thank you, father, for life, For my home, my child, my wife. Be beside us when we die Take us to our home on high. (original composition)

falklands Extreem Wow member Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Posts: 1,090	Sci-fi Dec 6, 2005 21:55:50 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by falklands on Dec 6, 2005 21:55:50 GMT -5 steelsheen said: Like I said- Plinking with our 30-06 rifle! Huh?
	Never digress from the topic of your sentence too much. I had an uncle who always used to do that and it was very annoying. He lived in a log cabin in Massachusetts and he owned a white horse named Shark, which was coincidentally also the name of the Ohio-class submarine that sunk the Pharaoh in 1942... It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Bob?

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Sci-fi Dec 6, 2005 21:57:07 GMT -5

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steelsheen said:

Bob Jones' history- I am homeschooled, and I had the course of History from them, and ancient Greece had some stuff with him, and I hated it!!!

Was it because of his viewpoint or because of his presentation? I am also homeschooled, by the way

Never digress from the topic of your sentence too much. I had an uncle who always used to do that and it was very annoying. He lived in a log cabin in Massachusetts and he owned a white horse named Shark, which was coincidentally also the name of the Ohio-class submarine that sunk the Pharaoh in 1942...

It behooves us to avoid archaisms.

Bob?

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