Posted on 04/07/2021 7:13:11 PM PDT by tbw2
Heinlein was a prophet.
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I have that quote on my homepage.
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The shower scene was kinda nice.
Good post, thanks.
“The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” is my favorite fictional book / story. Followed by James H. Schmitz’ “The Tuvela” (or as published in paperback “Demon Breed”). The latter would make a GREAT movie if done right...
Probably Hollywood took stuff from Forever War and mish-mashed it in.
He wrote a more famous popular book that had pretty much the exact opposite message. Total hippie crap. Grok?
Philip Dick is the one who really nailed things.
Good article!
“American historian Christopher Lasch, whom Bork quotes, said “Liberals have always taken the position that democracy can dispense with civic virtue. According to this way of thinking, it is liberal institutions, not the character of citizens, that make democracy work.”
The reality, Lasch says, is that “formally democratic institutions” are not sufficient for a “workable social order.” If you doubt this, merely look at the conditions in our cities … which “approach those of the Third World.”
I watched the DVD with one of the commentaries running, it was hysterical. The people who made that movie intended it as a critique of “fascism.”
“democracy can dispense with civic virtue”.
It not only can, but always will.
That is why our Founders gave democracy a limited role in our governance.
The biggest problems with the Dune movie.
1. Trying to take a book that covered so much ground and crunching into 1:55 minutes was crazy. It should have been a two part movie.
2. The ONLY things they took from the book were the names of the characters, the spice/melange and the desert planet. It was like none of the writers had even read the book.
2a. The writers must have been on hallucinogens while writing the scripts and the director must have been sharing them. The visualizations of the characters was...WTH?
1. The De Laurentiis kids produced the thing. Their meathooks were all over the place. It looked like they were trying to prove that Daddy Dino had been onto something when he produced Barbarella and Flash Gordon. Both flops as I recall.
A pox on all thing De Laurentiis!!
On this subject:
Walter Cronkite interviewing Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke during Apollo 11 coverage in 1969...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMAmk5Rp1tk
Except Denise wasn’t in it.
Disagree. Lynch’s “Dune” was a masterpiece (albeit with some flaws). I prefer the long version of it, which he disowned.
The attempted satire was kind of my point. The movie basically mocked the very ideas Heinlein’s book supported - patriotism, duty to country, etc..
No he didn’t! He GUESSED correctly. NO ONE knows the future except God.
There are NO MODERN DAY PROPHETS!
“Answer: Right now, the only “prophets” in the world are those in the general sense: those God inspires to warn the world about what the Bible says is to come. We see this reflected in Amos 3:7, “Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.”
However, as for a “Prophet” (note that capital “P”!) in the sense of someone who receives special communication directly from God that conveys information—such as detailed information about the future—that couldn’t be known from, say, understanding the Bible, no, there is no one today who fits that role.
Are there a lot of people who claim to be Prophets? You bet! But when it comes time for the rubber to meet the road with those people, they always fall short. Among other things, the Bible says that a real Prophet has to be accurate in His predictions (see Deuteronomy 18:22) and has to properly preach and teach obedience to God’s laws (see Deuteronomy 13:1-4 and Isaiah 8:20), and, frankly, no current “Prophets” out there fit the bill.
There have not been such Prophets in God’s Church for centuries. Part of the reason is that the Bible—God’s revealed word—is now complete. In the last book of the Bible to be revealed and written down, the book of Revelation, God caps things off: “For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book” (Revelation 22:18-19).
Once we had God’s Word written in the Bible, the need for Prophets among God’s people changed. And God is all about fulfilling the need, not giving fancy titles merely for the sake of giving fancy titles.
Still, there may be Prophets to come. The Bible says that that in the final three-and-a-half years before Jesus Christ returns, He will give power to two people who “will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth” (Revelation 11:3).
But currently, as of this writing, there are exactly nada, zilch, zero known Prophets, and don’t let anyone trick you into thinking otherwise. Still, those with other offices among God’s people—Evangelists, Pastors, etc.—continue to warn the world and preach the Word.”
——NO ONE knows the future except God.-——
And he ain’t tellin’
READ LATER!
I grok RAH. My favorite quote of his:
“An armed society is a polite society”.
In one of his books, I cannot remember which one, he has a character that is “a page at a glance reader”. This fascinated me so in high school so I tried to become one. I never was able to do it but today I am very close. Reading is a drug to me, I read constantly. This ability has taught me that many people around me are not stupid, they just don’t know anything.
One of my all-time favorite novels!
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