[DuncanWaring]

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[230FMJ]

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[Greysard]

I do not think anyone can define behavior that tends toward extinction as being “moral” without stretching the word “moral” all out of shape.

It's happening all the time now with "gay culture," global warming, fight for malaria and against DDT, etc. etc. Anything is moral according to them, even if you happen to kill millions of humans in the process.

Stalin and Hitler and Mao are probably no longer the greatest villains of this civilization. All they did is they destroyed some millions of bodies. Modern politicians let people keep their bodies but destroy their mind - and they do it to hundreds of millions of people.

[blackd77]

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[MaryFromMichigan]

Excellent read.
Thanks for posting.

[Billthedrill]

A BTT. For those unfamiliar with him, this fellow Heinlein was an obscure junior Naval Officer who left the Navy on a medical discharge due to tuberculosis. Not sure what happened to him after that but I hear he wrote some stuff... ;-)

Oh, and Asimov, who knew him, called him a "flaming liberal" at the time. That one always cracks me up.

[sergeantdave]

It’s impossible to know which phrase or sentence to highlight; they are all so right and correct. Heinlein is like that. Reading his prose is like discovering an apple tree with perfect fruit. Which do you pick?

Anyway, here’s my humble choice:

Your most important classroom is Memorial Hall. Your most important lesson is the way you feel inside when you walk up those steps and see that shot-torn flag framed in the arch of the door: “Don’t give up the ship.”

If you feel nothing, you don’t belong here. But if it gives you goose flesh just to see that old battle flag, then you are going to find that feeling increasing every time you return here over the years, until it reaches a crescendo the day you return and read the list of your own honored dead ? classmates, shipmates, friends ? read them with grief and pride while you try to keep your tears silent.

(How true and the fruit is perfect)

[isthisnickcool]

Heinlien was the writer that had the greatest effect on my young mind. I wish I had met him. A couple of people I did meet when I was young besides my dad were Ron Paul and Chris Kraft

Thanks for posting this..

[killermosquito]

I grok that.

[AdamsPapers]

I Grok!

[Professional Engineer]

bfl

[andyk]

Thanks for the post; I didn’t know this about Heinlein.

[Sherman Logan]

One of their favorite quotations is: “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” ...What they never mention is that the man who made that sneering remark was a fat, gluttonous slob who was pursued all his life by a pathological fear of death.

RAH is quite unfair to Dr. Johnson.

The actual quote, as taken from Boswell's biography: "Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." But let it be considered, that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self-interest."

I really doubt RAH would disagree.

[50cal Smokepole]

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[allmendream]

BTT

[TigersEye]

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