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 Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 9:36 am Post subject: Terry Pratchett on Religion and Evolution |
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1028222/I-create-gods-time--I-think-exist.html
Excerpts:
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is
unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is
empirical evidence that they exist....
I read the Old Testament all the way through when I was about 13 and was
horrified. A few months afterwards I read The Origin Of Species,
hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time.
Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.
As soon as I was allowed out again I borrowed the sequel and even then
it struck me that Darwin had missed a trick with the title. If only a
good publicist had pointed out to him that The Ascent Of Man had more
reader appeal perhaps there wouldn't have been quite as much fuss.
Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who
would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile
eyes Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us
flip back into monkeys again.... |
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Greg G.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:44 pm Post subject: Re: Terry Pratchett on Religion and Evolution |
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On Jun 29, 7:12 pm, Tokay Pino Gris <tokay.gris.b...@gmx.net> wrote:
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Dr.GH wrote:
On Jun 29, 3:56 pm, Tokay Pino Gris <tokay.gris.b...@gmx.net> wrote:
Jeff Lanam wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1028222/I-create-gods-time-...
[snip]
DAMN! Why do such people have to get such diseases? For all I care,
Terry Pratchett could live FOREVER and write on and on and on and on.....
Please, Terry... write like crazy...
Douglas died, Spider died.... Heinlein is dead for a while now....
please hang on as long as you can?
The world will be a lot emptier when you are gone, whether it is your
actual body that dies or your mind...
But rest assured: Your stories will go on for generations. I will do my
part to make it so...
(Damn... honestly, I have tears on my cheeks....)
Tokay
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Life isn't weird; it's the people in it.
Prachett is (to quote granny) "Aint Ded"
May he live forever... Body and Mind.
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May he don a Wizzard hat and make a Rincewind sprint when Death
appears.
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Friar Broccoli
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:41 am Post subject: Re: Terry Pratchett on Religion and Evolution |
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On Jun 29, 7:12 pm, Tokay Pino Gris <tokay.gris.b...@gmx.net> wrote:
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Dr.GH wrote:
On Jun 29, 3:56 pm, Tokay Pino Gris <tokay.gris.b...@gmx.net> wrote:
Jeff Lanam wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1028222/I-create-gods-time-...
[snip]
DAMN! Why do such people have to get such diseases? For all I care,
Terry Pratchett could live FOREVER and write on and on and on and on.....
Please, Terry... write like crazy...
Douglas died, Spider died.... Heinlein is dead for a while now....
please hang on as long as you can?
The world will be a lot emptier when you are gone, whether it is your
actual body that dies or your mind...
But rest assured: Your stories will go on for generations. I will do my
part to make it so...
(Damn... honestly, I have tears on my cheeks....)
Tokay
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Life isn't weird; it's the people in it.
Prachett is (to quote granny) "Aint Ded"
May he live forever... Body and Mind.
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He seems to already have control over half the minds
in this group. I suspect that in most cases he doesn't
want our bodies |
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Dr.GH
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:51 am Post subject: Re: Terry Pratchett on Religion and Evolution |
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On Jun 29, 4:49 pm, j.wilki...@uq.edu.au (John Wilkins) wrote:
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Dr.GH <garyh...@earthlink.net> wrote:
On Jun 29, 1:33 pm, Jablair <jablai...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 29, 12:36 am, Jeff Lanam <jeffla...@yahoo.com> wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1028222/I-create-gods-time-...
Excerpts:
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is
unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is
empirical evidence that they exist....
I read the Old Testament all the way through when I was about 13 and was
horrified. A few months afterwards I read The Origin Of Species,
hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time.
Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.
As soon as I was allowed out again I borrowed the sequel and even then
it struck me that Darwin had missed a trick with the title. If only a
good publicist had pointed out to him that The Ascent Of Man had more
reader appeal perhaps there wouldn't have been quite as much fuss.
Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who
would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile
eyes Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us
flip back into monkeys again....
That was amazing. Thanks for sharing. I'm going to be extremely sad
when he is no longer with us.
Prachett is (to quote granny) "Aint Ded"
I Aten't Dead
--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Philosophy
University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."
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Picky picky picky |
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Dr.GH
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:26 am Post subject: Re: Terry Pratchett on Religion and Evolution |
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On Jun 29, 8:05 pm, j.wilki...@uq.edu.au (John Wilkins) wrote:
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Dr.GH <garyh...@earthlink.net> wrote:
On Jun 29, 4:49 pm, j.wilki...@uq.edu.au (John Wilkins) wrote:
Dr.GH <garyh...@earthlink.net> wrote:
On Jun 29, 1:33 pm, Jablair <jablai...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 29, 12:36 am, Jeff Lanam <jeffla...@yahoo.com> wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1028222/I-create-gods-tim
e-... Excerpts:
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this
is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and
there is empirical evidence that they exist....
I read the Old Testament all the way through when I was about 13
and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read The Origin Of
Species, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu
at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect
sense.
As soon as I was allowed out again I borrowed the sequel and even
then it struck me that Darwin had missed a trick with the title.
If only a good publicist had pointed out to him that The Ascent Of
Man had more reader appeal perhaps there wouldn't have been quite
as much fuss.
Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account.
Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my
juvenile eyes Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take
much to make us flip back into monkeys again....
That was amazing. Thanks for sharing. I'm going to be extremely sad
when he is no longer with us.
Prachett is (to quote granny) "Aint Ded"
I Aten't Dead
Picky picky picky
It's headology. If you use the wrong words, you get the wrong response.
--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Philosophy
University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."
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My favorite example of headology was in "witches abroad" (pg 322 in
the 2002HarperCollins edition). Granny never had to utter a word. And
then she said, That's headology. It's the only thing that matters.
Everything else is only messin' about." |
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Dr.GH
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:48 am Post subject: Re: Terry Pratchett on Religion and Evolution |
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On Jun 29, 4:49 pm, j.wilki...@uq.edu.au (John Wilkins) wrote:
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Dr.GH <garyh...@earthlink.net> wrote:
On Jun 29, 1:33 pm, Jablair <jablai...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 29, 12:36 am, Jeff Lanam <jeffla...@yahoo.com> wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1028222/I-create-gods-time-...
Excerpts:
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is
unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is
empirical evidence that they exist....
I read the Old Testament all the way through when I was about 13 and was
horrified. A few months afterwards I read The Origin Of Species,
hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time.
Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.
As soon as I was allowed out again I borrowed the sequel and even then
it struck me that Darwin had missed a trick with the title. If only a
good publicist had pointed out to him that The Ascent Of Man had more
reader appeal perhaps there wouldn't have been quite as much fuss.
Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who
would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile
eyes Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us
flip back into monkeys again....
That was amazing. Thanks for sharing. I'm going to be extremely sad
when he is no longer with us.
Prachett is (to quote granny) "Aint Ded"
I Aten't Dead
--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Philosophy
University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."
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Granny (various sources);
“I Aten't Dead”
“I aintnt dead”
“I still ate'nt dead”
Terry Pratchett (Dec 12 2007):
PS I would just like to draw attention to everyone reading the above
that this should
be interpreted as 'I am not dead'. I will, of course, be dead at some
future point, as
will everybody else. For me, this maybe further off than you think -
it's too soon to tell.
I know it's a very human thing to say "Is there anything I can do",
but in this case I
would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain
chemistry. |
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John Wilkins
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:49 am Post subject: Re: Terry Pratchett on Religion and Evolution |
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Dr.GH <garyhard@earthlink.net> wrote:
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On Jun 29, 1:33 pm, Jablair <jablai...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 29, 12:36 am, Jeff Lanam <jeffla...@yahoo.com> wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1028222/I-create-gods-time-...
Excerpts:
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is
unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is
empirical evidence that they exist....
I read the Old Testament all the way through when I was about 13 and was
horrified. A few months afterwards I read The Origin Of Species,
hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time.
Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.
As soon as I was allowed out again I borrowed the sequel and even then
it struck me that Darwin had missed a trick with the title. If only a
good publicist had pointed out to him that The Ascent Of Man had more
reader appeal perhaps there wouldn't have been quite as much fuss.
Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who
would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile
eyes Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us
flip back into monkeys again....
That was amazing. Thanks for sharing. I'm going to be extremely sad
when he is no longer with us.
Prachett is (to quote granny) "Aint Ded"
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I Aten't Dead
--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Philosophy
University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious." |
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Lee Jay
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:20 am Post subject: Re: Terry Pratchett on Religion and Evolution |
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On Jun 29, 7:41 pm, Friar Broccoli <Elia...@gmail.com> wrote:
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On Jun 29, 7:12 pm, Tokay Pino Gris <tokay.gris.b...@gmx.net> wrote:
Dr.GH wrote:
On Jun 29, 3:56 pm, Tokay Pino Gris <tokay.gris.b...@gmx.net> wrote:
Jeff Lanam wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1028222/I-create-gods-time-...
[snip]
DAMN! Why do such people have to get such diseases? For all I care,
Terry Pratchett could live FOREVER and write on and on and on and on.....
Please, Terry... write like crazy...
Douglas died, Spider died.... Heinlein is dead for a while now....
please hang on as long as you can?
The world will be a lot emptier when you are gone, whether it is your
actual body that dies or your mind...
But rest assured: Your stories will go on for generations. I will do my
part to make it so...
(Damn... honestly, I have tears on my cheeks....)
Tokay
--
Life isn't weird; it's the people in it.
Prachett is (to quote granny) "Aint Ded"
May he live forever... Body and Mind.
He seems to already have control over half the minds
in this group. I suspect that in most cases he doesn't
want our bodies
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Decent article, but I have to admit I must be in the other half, since
I don't recall ever hearing his name before this thread - I had to
look it up on Wikipedia to see who he was.
Lee Jay |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:50 am Post subject: Re: Terry Pratchett on Religion and Evolution |
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On Jun 30, 6:33 am, Jablair <jablai...@gmail.com> wrote:
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On Jun 29, 12:36 am, Jeff Lanam <jeffla...@yahoo.com> wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1028222/I-create-gods-time-...
Excerpts:
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is
unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is
empirical evidence that they exist....
I read the Old Testament all the way through when I was about 13 and was
horrified. A few months afterwards I read The Origin Of Species,
hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time.
Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.
As soon as I was allowed out again I borrowed the sequel and even then
it struck me that Darwin had missed a trick with the title. If only a
good publicist had pointed out to him that The Ascent Of Man had more
reader appeal perhaps there wouldn't have been quite as much fuss.
Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who
would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile
eyes Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us
flip back into monkeys again....
That was amazing. Thanks for sharing. I'm going to be extremely sad
when he is no longer with us.
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Aye, 'tis. And I for one would have found it sad if he didn't put
those rumours to rest.
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John Wilkins
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:05 am Post subject: Re: Terry Pratchett on Religion and Evolution |
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Dr.GH <garyhard@earthlink.net> wrote:
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On Jun 29, 4:49 pm, j.wilki...@uq.edu.au (John Wilkins) wrote:
Dr.GH <garyh...@earthlink.net> wrote:
On Jun 29, 1:33 pm, Jablair <jablai...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 29, 12:36 am, Jeff Lanam <jeffla...@yahoo.com> wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1028222/I-create-gods-tim
e-... Excerpts:
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this
is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and
there is empirical evidence that they exist....
I read the Old Testament all the way through when I was about 13
and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read The Origin Of
Species, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu
at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect
sense.
As soon as I was allowed out again I borrowed the sequel and even
then it struck me that Darwin had missed a trick with the title.
If only a good publicist had pointed out to him that The Ascent Of
Man had more reader appeal perhaps there wouldn't have been quite
as much fuss.
Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account.
Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my
juvenile eyes Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take
much to make us flip back into monkeys again....
That was amazing. Thanks for sharing. I'm going to be extremely sad
when he is no longer with us.
Prachett is (to quote granny) "Aint Ded"
I Aten't Dead
Picky picky picky
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It's headology. If you use the wrong words, you get the wrong response.
--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Philosophy
University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious." |
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John Wilkins
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:38 am Post subject: Re: Terry Pratchett on Religion and Evolution |
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Lee Jay <ljfinger@msn.com> wrote:
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On Jun 29, 7:41 pm, Friar Broccoli <Elia...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 29, 7:12 pm, Tokay Pino Gris <tokay.gris.b...@gmx.net> wrote:
Dr.GH wrote:
On Jun 29, 3:56 pm, Tokay Pino Gris <tokay.gris.b...@gmx.net> wrote:
Jeff Lanam wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1028222/I-create-gods-tim
e-...
[snip]
DAMN! Why do such people have to get such diseases? For all I care,
Terry Pratchett could live FOREVER and write on and on and on and
on.....
Please, Terry... write like crazy...
Douglas died, Spider died.... Heinlein is dead for a while now....
please hang on as long as you can?
The world will be a lot emptier when you are gone, whether it is your
actual body that dies or your mind...
But rest assured: Your stories will go on for generations. I will do my
part to make it so...
(Damn... honestly, I have tears on my cheeks....)
Tokay
--
Life isn't weird; it's the people in it.
Prachett is (to quote granny) "Aint Ded"
May he live forever... Body and Mind.
He seems to already have control over half the minds
in this group. I suspect that in most cases he doesn't
want our bodies
Decent article, but I have to admit I must be in the other half, since
I don't recall ever hearing his name before this thread - I had to
look it up on Wikipedia to see who he was.
All you have to do is read one of his novels, preferably one of the |
really good ones like Small Gods or Guards! Guards!, and then pass over
all your fiction budget to Himself for the next 5 years. In return, he
gives you back your soul (it's a give of reverse deal with the devil).
--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Philosophy
University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious." |
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John Wilkins
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:01 am Post subject: Re: Terry Pratchett on Religion and Evolution |
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John Wilkins <j.wilkins1@uq.edu.au> wrote:
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Lee Jay <ljfinger@msn.com> wrote:
On Jun 29, 7:41 pm, Friar Broccoli <Elia...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 29, 7:12 pm, Tokay Pino Gris <tokay.gris.b...@gmx.net> wrote:
Dr.GH wrote:
On Jun 29, 3:56 pm, Tokay Pino Gris <tokay.gris.b...@gmx.net> wrote:
Jeff Lanam wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1028222/I-create-gods-tim
e-...
[snip]
DAMN! Why do such people have to get such diseases? For all I care,
Terry Pratchett could live FOREVER and write on and on and on and
on.....
Please, Terry... write like crazy...
Douglas died, Spider died.... Heinlein is dead for a while now....
please hang on as long as you can?
The world will be a lot emptier when you are gone, whether it is
your actual body that dies or your mind...
But rest assured: Your stories will go on for generations. I will
do my part to make it so...
(Damn... honestly, I have tears on my cheeks....)
Tokay
--
Life isn't weird; it's the people in it.
Prachett is (to quote granny) "Aint Ded"
May he live forever... Body and Mind.
He seems to already have control over half the minds
in this group. I suspect that in most cases he doesn't
want our bodies
Decent article, but I have to admit I must be in the other half, since
I don't recall ever hearing his name before this thread - I had to
look it up on Wikipedia to see who he was.
All you have to do is read one of his novels, preferably one of the
really good ones like Small Gods or Guards! Guards!, and then pass over
all your fiction budget to Himself for the next 5 years. In return, he
gives you back your soul (it's a give of reverse deal with the devil).
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s/give/kind/
No idea what the fingers were thinking at that moment...
--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Philosophy
University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious." |
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Lee Jay
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:01 pm Post subject: Re: Terry Pratchett on Religion and Evolution |
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On Jun 30, 11:16 am, Friar Broccoli <Elia...@gmail.com> wrote:
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On Jun 30, 10:47 am, Lee Jay <ljfin...@msn.com> wrote:
On Jun 30, 7:32 am, Friar Broccoli <Elia...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 30, 8:55 am, Lee Jay <ljfin...@msn.com> wrote:
On Jun 29, 11:38 pm, j.wilki...@uq.edu.au (John Wilkins) wrote:
Lee Jay <ljfin...@msn.com> wrote:
On Jun 29, 7:41 pm, Friar Broccoli <Elia...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jun 29, 7:12 pm, Tokay Pino Gris <tokay.gris.b...@gmx.net> wrote:
Dr.GH wrote:
On Jun 29, 3:56 pm, Tokay Pino Gris <tokay.gris.b...@gmx.net> wrote:
Jeff Lanam wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1028222/I-create-gods-tim
e-...
[snip]
DAMN! Why do such people have to get such diseases? For all I care,
Terry Pratchett could live FOREVER and write on and on and on and
on.....
Please, Terry... write like crazy...
Douglas died, Spider died.... Heinlein is dead for a while now....
please hang on as long as you can?
The world will be a lot emptier when you are gone, whether it is your
actual body that dies or your mind...
But rest assured: Your stories will go on for generations. I will do my
part to make it so...
(Damn... honestly, I have tears on my cheeks....)
Tokay
--
Life isn't weird; it's the people in it.
Prachett is (to quote granny) "Aint Ded"
May he live forever... Body and Mind.
He seems to already have control over half the minds
in this group. I suspect that in most cases he doesn't
want our bodies
Decent article, but I have to admit I must be in the other half, since
I don't recall ever hearing his name before this thread - I had to
look it up on Wikipedia to see who he was.
All you have to do is read one of his novels, preferably one of the
really good ones like Small Gods or Guards! Guards!, and then pass over
all your fiction budget to Himself for the next 5 years. In return, he
gives you back your soul (it's a give of reverse deal with the devil).
Oh...that explains it. I don't read fiction,
Not fiction. History, philosophy, and the importance of
NOT speculating on cosmic truths.
and haven't in nearly 25
years (since 10th grade). So that makes my current fiction budget
pretty small, doesn't it!
Your budget is doomed. Resistance is futile.
Unfortunately, being forced to read "the classics" in High School
poisoned me against reading books (which I did frequently up until
that point). After that, it caused me trauma to do so, so I gave it
up. Further, it takes me forever to read a 2-300 page book (50-100
hours) because I "zone out" as soon as I start reading and often don't
realize until the end of the chapter that I've been thinking about
something else since the end of the chapter's first paragraph.
The above is a nearly perfect description of me up until about 45,
Including the effects of school. (I made sure my son enjoyed
reading etc before six so the system couldn't do the same thing
to him)
After that I was able to focus (somewhat anyway) and can now
read whole books on evolution etc., however I never had any
such problems with Terry Pratchett, and I am herewith providing
you an exclusive MONEY BACK guarantee (Wilkin's money) that
you will have not the slightest difficulty either attending to or
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I was reading nearly 300 books a year from 7-9 (the RIF program -
Reading Is Fun). Isn't it a shame what they did to me?
I'm only 38. Perhaps by the time I'm 45, things will change. ;-)
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| Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:15 am Post subject: Re: Terry Pratchett on Religion and Evolution |
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Lee Jay <ljfinger@msn.com> wrote in
news:461e03f8-05a6-4c3e-9b19-e11ca2336e62@z66g2000hsc.googlegroups.com:
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I'm only 38. Perhaps by the time I'm 45, things will change. ;-)
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:14 am Post subject: Re: Terry Pratchett on Religion and Evolution |
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On Jun 30, 12:53 pm, j.wilki...@uq.edu.au (John Wilkins) wrote:
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Robert Carnegie <rja.carne...@excite.com> wrote:
I speculate that the new project, in which "a world very like this
one" /could/ be Discworld or not specified, was overtaken after
original conception by one or more this-world global catastrophes. At
the least, you'd want to see what happens in real life before
developing the story. Then again, catastrophes happen all the time.
This world carries six billion and more people, and bits of it do harm
to large proportions of that number with distressing frequency.
Any links on this? I'm allowing him time to write new books rather than
six a year as he used to, on account of his diagnosis, but I'm waiting
breathlessly.
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It's the first that I've heard of it. The actual rate has been around
two books a year, mostly set on Discworld, but according to this
report, this other book has been in gestation for years in the
background. I have in mind that either the tone is too dark for
Discworld, or he wants to reach readers who reject Discworld as too
silly - and that events such as the Asian tsunami, hurricanes, and
earthquakes, might make you put such a project aside while you wait to
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