Posted on 11/27/2012 9:03:57 AM PST by marktwain
The Stars. my destination.
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This truely is the price of freedom, Morality.
...for those interested. :D
FBI asked to probe Obama 'vote-changing' machines
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2963240/posts
Wow! Rand Paul on On the Record with Greta-where was this message in the campaign?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2963254/posts
Life at Conception Act: Rand Paul's Bold Plan to End Abortion via Roe v. Wade
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2963255/posts
As corroborative evidence, see his book ...
...for those interested. :D
FBI asked to probe Obama 'vote-changing' machines
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2963240/posts
Wow! Rand Paul on On the Record with Greta-where was this message in the campaign?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2963254/posts
Life at Conception Act: Rand Paul's Bold Plan to End Abortion via Roe v. Wade
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2963255/posts
...for those interested. :D
FBI asked to probe Obama 'vote-changing' machines
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2963240/posts
Wow! Rand Paul on On the Record with Greta-where was this message in the campaign?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2963254/posts
Life at Conception Act: Rand Paul's Bold Plan to End Abortion via Roe v. Wade
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2963255/posts
“My name is Gully Foyle,
and Terra is my nation.
Deep space is my dwelling place,
And the stars my destination.”
Unforgettable - one of the best things Alfred Bester ever wrote.
I liked Heinlein a lot. But even Heinlein ended up becoming a Deist. I came to Jesus when I realized that even with my best efforts, I still needed forgiveness. I made mistakes. Everyone does.
Based on the first volume of the Heinlein biography, I'd call him more of an experimental pantheist, with some weird friends. Jack Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard were in the circle of people he knew. His second wife*, Leslyn, was a witch of some sort.
I await the second volume.
*First marriage was very brief, just after his Naval Academy days.
Rah’s second wife was named Virginia. Ginny.
It might be a better idea to create gun “set asides”, specifically for crime victims in need of a weapon. This would help insure they got a good, functional weapon, appropriate to their needs, and probably free ammunition as well, and training on request, along with range training.
There is a lot of common sense with this, as for long the FBI has compiled statistics about crime and victims, and discovered that some victims are “frequent flyers”, being victimized repeatedly, for assorted reasons. Many can’t seem to stop the cycle of victimization on their own.
I’m not sure Deism explains RAH, at least in his later and weirder years.
Best I can figure is he had some notion that the universe (or universes) came into existence because sentient beings believe in them. Sort of a Tinkerbell approach to Creation.
This of course makes those who create the stories which become creation myths into God. Which of course is flattering to writers of stories.
Pretty much everything he wrote after 1973 is garbage. Some of it interesting garbage, to be sure.
you brought a tear to my eye...
Just when the books start getting good, out comes the wife-swapping.
It made the last 1/3 of some of his later books unreadable.
As for “blood running in the streets,” as long as it’s the right blood...
Righto. Though a good bit of that was in there as far back as the 60s with Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. Two of his best, especially Moon.
He also drifted into time travel for the purpose of incest, which is a little too bizarre for me. Later books started at least hinting at homosexuality.
Icckk.
Still, he had a hell of a run and wrote a lot of stuff that still stands up very well.
I grew up devouring Heinlen (and Asimov and a host of others of the era) and loved his works. He got a little outre’ near the end, but even then he showed an understanding of where we were going as a society and I like to think his versions were the softer, gentler versions of what he knew we would end up with. Then again, maybe he turned more towards sexual freedoms as an antidote to old age - as an elderly gentleman friend once remarked, “I had to go to the doctor to try to get my sex drive lowered”. My wife looked at him and said, “Mr. Stewart (first name Stewart - southern convention of address), did I hear you correctly?” He pointed at his head and said, “Yes, I want to get it lowered from up here to down where it belongs”.
I just re-suffered through the last 1/5th of “The Number of The Beast” and he hit all of those things; swapping, incest, homosexuality. Only the animals were left un-molested.
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