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Tolkien for me. Lord of the Rings? Yawn of the Rings more like. I can only agree here. When I refer to Tolkien as the Dickens of fantasy fiction, that's not really meant as a compliment. I don't need every leaf in the forest described for me in excruciating detail any more than I need that for ever...

Certainly there are disagreements over what is allegory, poetry, or figurative, but there are few if any biblical literalists who would claim that there is no allegory etc. in the Bible at all. I expect they do exist; humans are capable of accommodating a remarkable level of cognitive dissonance. H...

The song for which my cat is named:

We could look at what biblical literalists themselves say , I suppose. Biblical literalism is the method of interpreting Scripture that holds that, except in places where the text is obviously allegorical, poetic, or figurative, it should be taken literally. Biblical literalism is the position of m...

I'm reminded I need to hit the local specialty market this weekend... one of the vendors specializes in varieties and infusions of both olive oil and balsamic vinegar. The Tuscan herb olive oil and red apple balsamic vinegar are on a salad.

That is the first summing up I've seen that actually makes sense as to why it's a clusterfuck regardless of which way you look at it. May now found herself in the same position as Cameron before the referendum - that is, under a lot of pressure from antsy backbenchers who had now been vindicated by ...

I can't see how a referendum on the real Brexit (as opposed to the unicorn poop sold by Leave, all of which was walked back the day after the vote in 2016 -- hey, how's that loose £350 million a week working out?) can be avoided at this point. I don't get what May's problem is. I thought she was a R...

Joe wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 23, 2019 4:45 pm

In Cunt's defense.... .... I got nothing.

I will enjoy a break from his tiresome blatherskite.

Oh, I twitfiltered him ages ago. And the average intelligence of the board immediately doubled.

That's a truly awful encounter with a badged psycho. Our security personnel was collectively known as 'the grey mice', and they pretty much behaved like them; scuttling around in the recesses of the campus, rarely seen, never heard. I'm not sure what your anecdote is meant to illustrate, though. Th...

Ah. I see what you mean. My attitude is more laissez faire. No fine line between attempts at authenticity and literalism (in so far as those are even possible) on one end of the spectrum and inventive interpolations on the other for me. While I do not like everything I hear, I do enjoy - depending ...

We have some of the same issues with police here, but I suspect less overall. One reason may be the comparative lack of guns - it seems to me that anytime a policeman in the States pulls someone over, they realise that there is an excellent chance that the person is carrying (legally or illegally) ...

Carpenter is doing his level best to do for the organ what Tiger Woods did for golf -- make it cool. There's a lot of debate about the "liberties" he takes with some of the canon, but you know, music can evolve. Can? Did I read this right? Can ? I love people taking liberties, and I think Back, amo...

tattuchu wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 04, 2019 10:02 pm

The gay requirement... does that include butt stuff? Because I don't like butt stuff

S'okay, neither do I, and I am gay. Besides, if everyone has to be gay, then straight men can just re-identify as lesbian. Problem solved!

I don't get the fuss over The Gods Themselves. I listened all the way through, I know Asimov counted it as among his favorite works, but... it just doesn't pay off. I want it do, but it doesn't.

Wow. Virgil Fox is quite the entertainer. Here is Don Muro playing the same piece on a synthesiser. He permits only his feet to dance, but boy, do they ever dance. I quite like synthesisers. Pity that whoever owns the copyright to the stuff Wendy Carlos came up with on the Moog is so militant about...