The Hall of Fire

Reminds me of a Sam Vimes take on Democracy. It appeared to have deffinite possibilites to him, until he realized that while he would have a vote in every decision, there was nothing to prevent Nobby Nobbs from having an equal vote. At that point drawbacks immediately became apparent.

Nike!

I mean, Just do it!

Like TP, Semprini and Vison , I enjoy disagreement. That may come as a surprise to certain posters who may have formed an opinion of me as a peaceful person who avoids conflicts. I don't take disagreement as a personal attack and while sometimes I get angry when the other person is being obstinately...

Whistler wrote:Try not to hate me!

* tries not to hate Whistler *

It worked! I would really love to see your thoughts on the subject.

Jn, I never thought I could disagree with you so thoroughly.

But that needs a week's answer, or none at all, and I'm horribly pressed for time.

Voronwë - :love: "It's simple. It's not easy, but it is simple." Faramond , that was a brilliant post. :bow: I think when it comes to religion the best we can hope to achieve are two things: To hold to a respectful disagreement To approach those of different faith with the desire to learn...

But it never starts that way. It starts with a joke, a snub, a cold remark that is allowed to go unanswered. An eyebrow arched significantly during a news broadcast, just at the appropriate moment. I do not disagree with that, but I would bring up two points. One is that whichever way it "star...

Jny, not being either TP or V, I can't hope to achieve much coherence on the subject, but in my mind the difference is clear. Tolerance is letting everybody worship in the way they desire - in their houses of worship, their homes, or not at all. What goes on on public property, paid for by public mo...

I typed up a long post on the subject, but then I decided to wait until TP had a chance to reply. ;) Seriously, though, Jnyusa raises two points in this thread. One is the "secularization" of Christmas, and by extension of Hanukah (my preferred spelling, as it contains approximately the ri...

Thanks vison. :) Another thing I used to think beautiful was a steel plant. We used to go on field trips to a steel plant where I lived, and I remember iron, blidning like that last ray of sunset, pouring out of the huge dipper, sparks flying like fireworks. And the white-hot cylinders gliding along...

Oh, yes, sheets dried on the line are beautiful. I remember when I was little sheets were hanging outside in winter, frozen rigid and ringing like iron. I love drying my son's things outside, over my lemon bush and mint and near jasmine. Now that I'm temporarily without a washing machine, I had to r...

I've lurked in Tolkien Virgin thread, and Impish is right, it was delightful to see the impressions of the newcomer. Especially when the first-time reader speculated about the future events, and even more so when they did that based on Da Movies . When it comes to Austen, I'm a dilettante and I'm re...

As I said in another thread, I have a Pride and Prejudice on my shelf waiting to be re-read after a long break, and I would welcome company.

I mostly stick to escapist literature. I went through several Pratchetts and my last read was The Other Wind by Le Guin. Pride and Prejudice is waiting on the shelf.

He added: "Now, you know, I can't go any further in talking about it. Obviously, the United States does not have a responsibility when a sovereign country engages in something that they disapprove of."

That struck me as quite an astonishing statement, coming from Rumsfeld.

Scribbles wrote:What hand could raise this height so far,
and fill this depth with a carpet of stars
that sparkle more fair than any diamond of earth,
some dying, some living, some just giving birth.

* shivers *

Regarding Galadriel's address to Gimli - here the language is but a tool of her wisdom and goodwill. There is Gimli, all ruffled feathers, blindfolded, insulted and none too fond of Elves to begin with. Celeborn proceeds to accuse the Dwarves, Gimli's kin, of stirring up the evil in Moria and effect...

Faramond , I loved poetry since childhood and could recite dozens of poems from memory. But the deepest emotion and experience captured in the verses were only a story that was told to me. As I grew older, fell in love, lost a friend, had a child, I began to recognize the echoes of my own heart in ...

Hunter, you can post a link to a picture file inside the tags, but the image must live on the Internet, not on your PC. Do you have a photobucket account? If not, it's free at www.photobucket.com, and you can use it to store pictures from your PC so that you can link to them from the boards. Photobu...

Hullo, Hunter, we just met the other day at the Writer's Cafe.

Hey hal!

Scirocco, I was mostly reading you in books, and I'm looking forward to reading more of you.

did I miss anybody?

Ah yes,
SYLLY!

I can't say why, Jn. It just... grabs me somehow. Of course the translation was hastily done by me, so...

And back on topic of nature, one of my favorite lines from Pasternak:

And you cannot cross the road by the fence
Without trampling Creation...