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Posted on 05/08/2014 7:29:55 PM PDT by Perdogg
Robert Heinlein could not win a Hugo Award today.
If you are a fan of science fiction, you know how shocking that statement is. If you are not a science fiction fan, I salute you for having better things to do with your time than read stories about space princesses being rescued from bug-eyed monsters by stalwart and clean-limbed fighting men of Virginia; but please let me explain why this is shocking.
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One example was counting hairs on fuzzy caterpillars.
That was given as an example of how the federal government could find find something that any applicant could do, even if they were a blind quadriplegic, should they wish to earn citizenship.
I can’t see that as a particularly hazardous duty.
BTW, I think John Kerry may have served in Vietnam...
OTOH, no one has seen John F'n Kerry's DD-214...
Does being drafted fit Into your theory? Just asking.
Nope. No one was drafted, even in all out war. It was all volunteer, and you could quit just before going into combat, if .you so chose.
But it’s not my theory, and I’m not advocating for it. It’s just that so many people misunderstand what the idea actually was, and set up strawman arguments. Not saying that you’re doing that. You’re asking.
Let’s let Sci-Fi writing remain one of the last PC-untouched bastions of literature.
Too late. I let my subscription to “The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction” expire a couple years ago. I had subscribed since I got it as a birthday present in 1967 but it turned left. HARD left.
During the 2012 election they ran a story that was, not even thinly disguised, mormon-bashing. Add the tree-hugging, gaia-worshipping, human hating that is part of the warp and woof of leftism, and F&SF lost its charm.
They went from Ed Ferman, Isaac Asimov, Baird Searles, and all the great authors to being an organ of the DNC.
Hey, F&SF, ESAD! *spit*
Remember, though, that was just Juan Rico's speculation, and a somewhat facetious one, at that. He just said that they were legally obliged to find the blind man something to do to earn his franchise.
Maybe they were poisonous, spiky alien caterpillars with a bad attitude? :)
Good point...
I wouldn't mind the system. I served my hitch.
Any system will work as long as the guys with the guns want it to. Will it work as well as they taught in the “History and Moral Philosophy” classes? Don't know.
It couldn't be worse than what we've got today, with unelected federal judges and nameless bureaucrats making the rules, and a gutless Congress unwilling to stop them.
No one has. Kerry would probably have been kicked out of a properly run outfit, though.
The formula of Liability is:Loads of Scientologists read #2 as requiring personal danger. It doesn't.1. Decide who are one’s friends.
2. Deliver an effective blow to the enemies of the group one has been pretending to be part of despite personal danger.
3. Make up the damage one has done by personal contribution far beyond the ordinary demands of a group member.
4. Apply for reentry to the group by asking the permission of each member of it to rejoin and rejoining only by majority permission. And if refused, repeating (2) and (3) and (4) until one is allowed to be a group member again.
I wouldn't mind the system. I would be disenfranchised.
That movie was so good the first couple of times I saw it. Saw it a couple of years ago and the edits ruined it.
oh you mean Heinlein.
read the book many years ago....saw the movie (the movie was a mockery of Heinlein pure and simple)
oh I though it was your theory.
in a perfect world Heinlein is right (or in a world where humans are fighting arachnids....). in reality there are people in the military as in civilian life who should not be allowed to vote/live next to me/ or breathe.
but I am not in charge of who lives or dies or votes.
Seems if you are a Dhimmicrat you can vote multiple times on election day and that does not go away after you are dead....funny right?
there are unedited versions...still being printed that way. you must have seen the broadcast tv version.
once out...why would anyone want back in to the religion that worships Xemu or Xenu or whatever?
my take on this cult is that it is EST with aliens...(or is EST, scientology without Aliens)
I do love the south park take on it called “Trapped in the Closet” (seems Tom Cruise wont come out...)
Xemu is regarded as an ancient Pol Pot/Hitler/Genghis Khan ultimate bad guy. One who has so badly bruised the human psyche that the damage done 75 million years ago still lingers to this day, and makes life on Earth a living Bedlam.
Second off, the data regarding Xemu are only found on OT-III and above. This data is NEVER EVER EVER discussed or disclosed to anyone on the lower levels. Scientology dogma says that the mere mention of this to someone not fully prepared by having worked their way up through the lower levels will cause the recipient to die (of restimulation caused pneumonia, for example).
Despite the second point, even beginning scientologists know that the world is a loony bin, and that through some process scientology offers the (only) hope of adding some sanity, both personal and societal, to the mix.
If one believes that, then one is very motivated to be a part of saving the world.
Also, I too liked that South Park episode, everything they say scientologists believe is true of any scientologists who have been exposed to OT-III and above only. They did leave out some of the more interesting details, the ones that make scientology actively dangerous to the environment...
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You are correct.
I learned to read thanks to Edgar Rice Bourhoughs, John Carter, and Tarzan!
Mark
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