Announcing a New Book by Alamo-Girl and betty boop [Update at #329]

Alamo-Girl and betty boop | November 13, 2006 | betty boop

[jwalsh07]

Congrats.

I don't know if I'm "intelligent" or a "generalist" but I am a reader so I'll be taking a peak.

[jwalsh07]

Peek with two e's dumdum.

[editor-surveyor]

Excellent achievement from the great minds of two of FR's finest.

How do we obtain our own copies?

[Kevmo]

Very Cool.

Please let us know how we can purchase a copy in time for Christmas.

Kevin O'Malley

[Cicero]

I think I'm on the ping list, but by all means let me know about any further developments on the book when you announce them. I should have said that before.

[rusty millet]

Interested in a copy bump

[ckilmer]

"To get a grip on how profoundly The Arian Heresy gripped the western imagination, its helpful to understand that the deepest reason that Melville began Moby Dick with the words "call me ismael" is that Melville was not a trinitarian."

You don't happen to have a scintilla of proof to substantiate this claim do you?

I tried Googling this, to see if anybody else has come to this bizarre conclusion -- and no. All the hits lead straight back to you. This seems to be an obsession with you.

Funny none of the Melville scholars ever heard of it.

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Melville scholars are generally liberals.

This history of the Unitarian Church says:

Before the inauguration of Lincoln, four U.S. Presidents identified themselves as Unitarians (later there would be a fifth, W. H. Taft), and in the arenas of literature and philosophy, Unitarians would remain prominant until WWII: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville Theodore Parker and Ralph Waldo Emerson before the Civil War; Mark Twain, John Dewey and e. e. cummings afterwards - - just to name a few in each era.

From wikipedia:

In Herman Melville's Religious Journey, Walter Donald Kring detailed his discovery of letters indicating that Melville had been a member of the Unitarian Church of All Souls. Until the advent of this revelation, little had been known of his religious affiliation.

From the Harvard Square Library

Melville's masterpiece Moby Dick, a tale of his whaling expedition, initially received small praise and small sales. Years of rheumatic pain during his resort to writing short stories for magazines were relieved by his appointment as an inspector of customs in New York City, where he joined the All Souls Unitarian Church.

//////////////////////////////// The unitarians got their start in the early 1700's mainly at the behest of the Sir Issac Newton who was an avowed arian. Newton was held God like status in the anglo saxon world for two hundred years -- until the 20th century. They called themselves Unitarians because they believed in the Unity of the Godhead. They didn't believe that Jesus was fully God as well as fully Man. Nor did they believe in the holy trinity.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for your encouragements! We'll let everyone know as soon as we figure out how it will be published.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you oh so very much, NormsRevenge! Wouldn't that be amazing? LOL!

[Alamo-Girl]

LOLOL! Thank you so much for your encouragements!

[Kitty Mittens]

Congratulations on this Wonderful Work! Our Lord Bless your Endeavors Mightily and Enlighten Many Minds through your Book!

[Alamo-Girl]

We are the posterity of absolutely brilliant and blessed men.

So very true. Thank you for your encouragements, knarf!

We will ping you once we get the publishing side "figured out."

[TChris]

Congratulations, ladies!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you, 68 Grunt!

[betty boop]

I have always regarded such statements as hyperbolic, deliberately provocative if you will, especially from folks as smart as LaPlace.

I'm inclined to agree with you there, ModelBreaker. I think Laplace probably had a pretty wild sense of humor.

However, the (humorless, I'd even say grim) logical positivists seem to have seized on Laplace's statement as the model for their own method.

But as you say, truly Laplace was a world-class thinker, and his work on Bayesian probability theory was truly foundational.

Thank you so much for writing, and for your kind words!

[Alamo-Girl]

Precious graphics! Thank you, FreedomProtector!

No surrender. No retreat. Remember the Alamo!

[Alamo-Girl]

LOLOL! Thank you so very much for your book review, dear hosepipe!

Especially when it comes to metaphors, you speak with great insight.

[Sam Hill]

LOL!!!! That's it?!

From the (perhaps) fact that Melville was a Unitarian you say Moby Dick was a Arian Heresy tract?!

Hilarious.

There are at least a dozen more likely explanations for "Call me Ishmael." Not the least being that Ishmael was a bit of an outcast, as was the narrator of MD.

Sheesh.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you, Jack Deth!