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2004-08-20 Afghanistan/South Asia

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Posted by 2004-08-20 5:32:41 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Full of sound and fury, signifying.........nothing. A prolix mass of verbiage boiling down to "we're right and they're spawns of the devil." Why not just say so and be done with it. If all the writers of all these words are indeed inspired by god, then there must be more than one god. Ie: perhaps the islamic god is the one responsible for the creation of Cain's wife. Who knows? If they aren't all inspired by god how do you sort out who's right? To me this tonnage of talk is beside the point, attempting as it does to describe the undescribable and understand something that by it's very nature can't be understood. Men have killed each other for thousands of years because of arguments over words like these, dancing on the head of a pin. The words are full of anger and hate. Do we then assume that god is full of anger and hate? I hope not.

Posted by DLS 2004-08-20 7:11:11 AM|| 2004-08-20 7:11:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Remember God wants you to worship him because he's sensitive and lonely.

Posted by Shipman 2004-08-20 7:35:44 AM|| 2004-08-20 7:35:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Gods do indeed become lonely. In fact, when all their worshipers die, the gods themselves die. Also Sprach Zarathustra.

Posted by DLS 2004-08-20 8:04:52 AM|| 2004-08-20 8:04:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 this post to long.

Posted by muck4doo 2004-08-20 8:22:20 AM|| [http://www.meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2004-08-20 8:22:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 DLS,
that was the plot of "Who Mourns for Adonis" on the original Star Trek. Leslie Parrish (who looked spectaculer) was the female lead.

Posted by mhw 2004-08-20 8:24:26 AM|| 2004-08-20 8:24:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Mucky, you thought that too?

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-08-20 8:44:36 AM|| 2004-08-20 8:44:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 mhw. I remember the episode well. Agree re: Leslie Parrish. I starting wondering if the epsode had been written by Harlan Ellison, who wrote several episodes for Star Trek in the 60's and published the classic book about the death of the gods in 1975: Deathbird Stories. I looked it up and it was actually written by Gilbert Ralston. Can't be right all the time. Thanks for the memories.

Posted by DLS 2004-08-20 9:19:21 AM|| 2004-08-20 9:19:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Harlan Ellison wrote Classic Trek's "City on the Edge of Forever," which was the best of the bunch.

Posted by Mike 2004-08-20 11:58:22 AM|| 2004-08-20 11:58:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Harlan Ellison wrote Classic Trek's "City on the Edge of Forever," which was the best of the bunch.

Infidel! Dog! In the name of the Great Tribble, I slay you for blasphemy!

Although, you know, "City on the Edge of Forever" has great relevance today. In that episode, time is screwed up when McCoy saves a woman's life. She was a pacifist idealist whose influence kept the US out of WWII, so that the Nazis won. Kirk has to see that she dies -- which is too bad, since he's fallen in love with her.

But the moral of the episode is that sometimes lofty ideals, like the love of peace, must be cut back in order to flourish in the future. I'll bet Harlan Ellison would spit in your face if you tried to draw a parallel between his story and the events of today. But he's a bit of a flake.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-08-20 12:37:05 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-08-20 12:37:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Tribbles = best of the best. No contest. The City on the Edge of Forever is instructive, as you point out. Sometimes there are no good choices. See Phillip K Dics's "Man in the High Castle". Or "Sophies Choice". In which case we have to choose the lesser of two evils, as Kirk did, even though they were forbidden to interfere in any culture. Harlan Ellison would indeed have a screaming fit if you compared his story to today, since he is a MAJOR flake, although one of the best scifi writers ever to take up a pen.

Posted by DLS 2004-08-20 2:10:28 PM|| 2004-08-20 2:10:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 C'mon, guys.... Mirror, Mirror! Nichelle Nichols and Barbara Luna with bare midriffs and thigh-high leather boots! (And Spock with a goatee for the she-geeks.) What more need be said?
Um, this is a "Page 2" story, right? Between this and last night's "anime girl" gibberish, I'm boldly going toward the sinktrap at this rate.

Posted by Another Dan 2004-08-20 2:41:32 PM|| 2004-08-20 2:41:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 LOL!, check out the right-column ads on this page!

Posted by Another Dan 2004-08-20 2:43:22 PM|| 2004-08-20 2:43:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Started off more or less serious. Kind of hard to follow since the original looney tune post got pulled. Has definitely drifted off into a degree of silliness, but still on the subject of the gods. Really like the pic of Nichols. Old hottie

Posted by Anonymous6131 2004-08-20 3:08:12 PM|| 2004-08-20 3:08:12 PM|| Front Page Top

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