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I haven't read that book by Rohr, but I've heard on the radio (Tapestry, I think) and listened to some of the homilies from his website and he has some interesting ideas though I can't figure out for the life of me why the RC thought police have left him alone. I'll track it down. Might be of interest (given that I'm midlife and perpetually asking spiritual questions :D).
I was wondering about the RC thought police as well, given that Rohr's ideas are reminiscent of Matthew Fox's and we all remember what the RC patriarchy did to Matthew.
 
I've reached the point of my life when it no longer makes sense that I have not read The Chronicles of Narnia. So, I'm currently reading The Magician's Nephew on audio book read by Kenneth Branagh. It's delightful and I can't wait to get into the next one.
 
I got to the end of the story, but not the extras ie. a timeline and there's other stuff that I can't even think of. That will wait for a day when I'm more alert.
Don't worry about the 'other stuff'. It's not part of the novel - some people enjoy knowing background, facts, etc. others just enjoy the story.
Thank you for reading my book. and - did you like the story?
 
Don't worry about the 'other stuff'. It's not part of the novel - some people enjoy knowing background, facts, etc. others just enjoy the story.
Thank you for reading my book. and - did you like the story?
I plan on checking that out still.
I enjoyed the book! The ending disappointed me a bit, but I also understand why you wrote it that way.
 
I plan on checking that out still.
I enjoyed the book! The ending disappointed me a bit, but I also understand why you wrote it that way.

Seelerman also was disappointed in the ending. He thought the main character made the wrong choice.
 
Seelerman also was disappointed in the ending. He thought the main character made the wrong choice.
I don't know if it was necessarily the wrong choice. I would have been happy with him attempting to go back, or to choose to stay there. It was the fact that he wanted to be hidden. Go and talk to them, inform them about what areas where explored, etc. It felt like a bit of regression in character development to me. To keep it matched with history though, either something would have had to have happened with the follow up trip - never to be heard from again, or something would have happened to Alfred on his way to speak to them.
 
Wow, I think that's the first time I've seen the spoiler tag used on here. Like how it works.

(I now return you to your regularly scheduled literary discussions)
 
Wow, I think that's the first time I've seen the spoiler tag used on here. Like how it works.

(I now return you to your regularly scheduled literary discussions)
I've used it enough times for things that weren't spoilers. I wanted to write more earlier, but didn't want to ruin it for anyone and I actually forgot about it's original use earlier. :oops:
 
Did do some reading on my vacation.

Read most of the Sam Harris book I talked about in R&F and I'll post more about it there. Good read but a tough slog in some respects.

And then there was this little novel called Survivor : Ship's Boy in the Arctic.:D Yep, I've read @Seeler's novel. Wonderful story about a poor English boy who becomes a cabin boy on the Franklin expedition which changes his life in some very profound ways. Reminds me a lot of Farley Mowat's YA novels from the seventies (Lost in the Barrens in particular). Hard to say more without resorting to spoiler tags, so I shall. If you plan to read it yourself, proceed further with caution.

The idea of a member of the expedition survive but "go native" and join an Inuit family was a wonderful touch. No real solid historical evidence for it actually having happened, but a very plausible way to avoid having the novel be a total tragedy. Alfred (the ship's boy of the title) is much better off among the Inuit than he ever was in England, even if there is some residual fear and suspicion of him among some of the bands.

So, a (y) to @Seeler.
 
Glad to hear that you enjoyed it Mendalla. A few others on the Cafe have read it, or are in the process. Perhaps a bit later, when everybody interested have had an opportunity to finish it, you might have questions or comments. Or Wondermail me.
 
I am in Christmas reading mode....starting with light reading received for Christmas and via my s-i-l 's book exchange.
Michael Connelly's The Gods of Guilt was exactly as predicted -- standard issue mystery of the LIncoln Lawyer series.
Now reading "The Last Child" by John Hart. not bad, more interesting, less scripted.
 
MORE DEAD TREE STUFF! MOAH!

Finished my dad's bday gift to me in 2010: God Is. by david adams richards. a quiet book on one canadian's search for faith in the world he lives in now

S.T.A.R. Labs 1993 Annual Report by Dr S.L. Godfrey
a compendium of various gadgets from the DC universe with descriptions and some rpg stats

currently trying my hand at:

Why Does the World Exist? an Existential Detective Story by jim holt. after coming across this guy accidentally whilst watching a boffinfest talking aboot how can universe come from nothing, i decided to check out one of his books. he seems to be educating himself, a nonscientist, on what explorations have gone on before and then trying to come up with other hypotheses other than the two 'it just happened' and 'g_d did it'...

The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra -- a mainstay of so many bookshelves i've been around in my life i can't believe i've never ever read it

Proof of Heaven by Eben Alexander, M.D. i've heard so much aboot it i'm actually trying to read it now

(and i'm still wearing my green christmas hat, my tree and lights are still up & the homemade christmas wreath is still up outside...)
 
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Will Durant and The Story of Philosophy ... what a tale of mental conflicts!

It is a pain that could wake the somnolent soul and make it dan's (dense, dunnes) over the flames of the wee gritty Gui within ... "char-lie?" ... somewhat of a smoky pyre to bier with out some clear air to think and look out of the windows of heaven ... to observe the crap that goes on in reality. Ever hear of smoke an mire to protect those thinkers from authorities who tell us not to go there and like on emotions alone ... for as they say knowledge and intelligence is a danger to someone ... that too is biblical!

Such shadows of reality can haunt you like phantoms and create some really sad songs of bleus ... as such just draws you into the mess we're in. Is there escape into the fabric of land's cape ... that's the parietal case of de mudder lands ... an unreal domain ... perhaps obscure presentation of the rational in an irrational setting! You don't believe we're in an irrational setting? Have you really looked about at the real environment? Eventually you're sucked into it ... old Semite myth? God as the word did say an icon (symbol) would be sent! That's right out of the bible ... right Jae? Did you know Jae is a redaction of Jah ... a sign of scattered bit of god ... like Ja' Hoo Dah and Kel Li Jah ... carved from a tree by a carpenter of crude proportion ... extremely creative projection of the hamadryad effect. Then Li is a symbol from the past of Lam/lamp, or lamp of god ... that distant light in the darkness .. close thunder boid ... or eLiChii expressed as a double of eLiJa' ... but who'd extract that from THE WORD on mythical's tuff in the unwinding ... since truth is forbidden by the overly emotional worshipers!

The lords of reality don't like people of imagination (in determinates as unreal visions?) to leave here ... as how would they process their unknowns? Thus they make laws like there's no escape mechanism ... for their own good ... regardless if the critical thinkers are in real pain ... that's life ... or so the 80-20 rule proclaims ... and 80+% of the world is in need of something ... but the rich can't see deficits ... why? And these people believe me odd! mathematically there is one in ever pair ... allowing for depth of parse and derivation of pairis .. again open to redaction! If it is possible in the infinite real ... it can happen but perhaps way out there ... some patience may be required!

Is that naiveté-iddy (-ite; is an alloyed point, while "ide" is roué) at its best when they don't trust world (whirred as God) as god with all the depths and heights to-wit? Why is such information so deeply expressed (imp-rest)? Cause the patriarchs of Kirk didn't wish us to know anything about common sense ... then it would be obvious how they use the mono-theistic side of the Golden Rule as it shimmers ... and thus one should take the plunge into the quantum state ... there if it can happen it will---Murphy, it's an alien law that most haven't dug into yet ... like the archiologists discovered the denied Troy-all balance even though authority said it didn't exist and the earth had nothing of arcane value ... like olepharts and PEWs in the church ... a'theists in the fundamental churches? If this is sacred domain ... how will those that believe only prescribed truths know the dark truth that follows 'eM like a Shadow ... a' post oles IHC-ei as pits of the psyche? It has a cholesterol-water basis ... for floating fat ide' e's ... when high autoority is above such castes, or castings ... appearing as skatt in their case ...:barefoot: in the sans?

One has to believe they cannot know much without the desire to use their spirit-brain ... as bread within ... perhaps just the head-chi'z is ... or as is manifest as an ugly gob chite .. that's from Erse? Mostly enough to make Celts danse on edge ... thy's word ...
 
Is a diverse (divine) mind that's rejected by religion a variant of reality ... or just a spectre as devious appearance? Manifest ... incarnation! Some say the mined is unreal ... perhaps just partly abstract or anon existent! Sort of out there like sans ... without tales attached to the dark letter m'n?

Thus the devil is a thought to an emotional spirit ... like dividing the light (Lameth, lambda, on Charlie's Lam ... at night being counted) from the dark (obscure, or just occultation of intellect in the dark when the unconscious faction arises as a bump?

Should people with fixed beliefs about knowing everything and lack of it (nothing) laugh at their selves? Some say such philosophy about complex things burn them as they'd rather keep it simple ... thus Charlie Burns as a bobbing thing in de flames ... the highlanders believed this worth perusing! And the myth goes on right out into the Shadow lands ... an obscure region to those fixated by emotions ... the wisdom of ole phar-tess iates! You know Tessier ...anikon of fermentation on things they say you shouldn't know!

Is what you know about to kill yah or what you don't know? depends on whether you can think on ID as Cana ...
 
s'more fun stuff for sf-lovers to check out:

Motherboard is trying out an online subsite...section...magazine called Terraform -- short (up to 2,000 words -- and they're asking for submissions from the public...go fellow WC writers! they pay .20 c a word, which is a lot for short fiction...click here for guidelines) dispatches from the world of tomorrow today

they already have some by several known writers (Rucker, Fillippo, Sterling...)
 
Phew ... just finished reading Patrick Rothfus' "The Name of the Wind" and then the second in the series "The Wise Man's Fear" - they were long (didn't realize HOW long, as I was e-reading!) and I'm a slow reader! They were recommended by Pinga and I loved them. A great yarn with interesting and complex characters, elaborate creation of a world that I imagined in some ways to be evocative of historic Britain (but clearly it is not!) some magic and fantasy ... great use of language. Now I'm waiting for the third book to publish so I can see this wrap up! There is another, written about one of the more minor character, which I may read in future.

Now I've started "The Rosie Project" by Graeme Simsion - quite a departure! Reminiscent of Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory ... but in book form :-) I can hear his voice as I turn the pages. I received this at Xmas, along with "The Rosie Effect" - a follow-up book, as you might imagine.
 
Reading "Drop Dead Healthy" by A.J. Jacobs. He is the author of "My Year of Living Biblically".
 
Now I'm waiting for the third book to publish so I can see this wrap up! .


Don't hold your breath. When IO9 did their roundup of 2015 fantasy and s-f, they left it and the next Martin off because there is still no firm date for them.
 
True Mendalla - I checked Rothfus' website & what you say is true - I hope by time the 3rd book comes out that I will remember enough of the ones I've just finished reading ...
 
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