http://voxday.blogsp...4/deported.html
A thought provoking experience. I was pleasantly surprised; the author is a (self-acknowledged) narcissistic jerk.
The subtext I perceive is this question: when does the degree of improbability attaching to specified events tip over into awareness of intelligent intervention?
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A Good, Short, Ghost Story!
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Posted 11 April 2012 - 09:10 PM
Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme. - Karl Popper
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If my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain, I have no reason to suppose my beliefs are true ... and hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms. - J. B. S. Haldane
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Posted 12 April 2012 - 07:50 AM
You're right, Log. It was quite good. The author invited his readers to guess in whose style it was wriitten, and as I was reading some of the names thrown out in the comments afterward, I had given up hope of recognizing the style. I don't read enough of that genre to be familiar with most of those names, but when the correct guess was made I realized that, yes, in fact I have read the author which this author strove to imitate.
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"Sooner or later, there comes a point in a man’s life when he’s gotta face some facts. And one fact I gotta face is that, whatever it is that women like, I ain’t got it. I chased after enough girls in my life. I went to enough dances. I got hurt enough. I don’t wanna get hurt no more." —Ernest Borgnine as Marty, the title character in the 1955 film. (RIP, Mr. Borgnine.)
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Posted 12 April 2012 - 08:58 AM
I have not read Guy de Maupassant, myself.
Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme. - Karl Popper
If my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain, I have no reason to suppose my beliefs are true ... and hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms. - J. B. S. Haldane
If my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain, I have no reason to suppose my beliefs are true ... and hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms. - J. B. S. Haldane
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Posted 12 April 2012 - 09:55 AM
Log, on 12 April 2012 - 08:58 AM, said:
I have not read Guy de Maupassant, myself.
You should. One of my favourite authors. His short stories are very good at showing up hypocrisy and self-righteous, they arfe also very entertaining. If it weren't for Maupassant, then no Chekhov, no Saki, no Maugham, etc., etc.,.
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Posted 12 April 2012 - 10:48 AM
I was thinking of Saki, but only in a general way. Figured it could be him if it was supposed to be a close match. I will have to check out Maupassant.
add-on: looks like lots of options for him on the Open Library...
http://openlibrary.o...s_fulltext=true
add-on: looks like lots of options for him on the Open Library...
http://openlibrary.o...s_fulltext=true
Edited by calmoriah, 12 April 2012 - 10:50 AM.
When you climb up a ladder, you...begin at the bottom...ascend step by step, until you arrive at the top...so it is with the principles of the Gospel--you must begin with the first...go on until you learn all the principles of exaltation. But it will be a great while after you have passed through the veil before you will have learned them. It is not all to be comprehended in this world. Joseph Smith
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Posted 12 April 2012 - 11:15 AM
calmoriah, on 12 April 2012 - 10:48 AM, said:
I was thinking of Saki, but only in a general way. Figured it could be him if it was supposed to be a close match. I will have to check out Maupassant.
add-on: looks like lots of options for him on the Open Library...
http://openlibrary.o...s_fulltext=true
add-on: looks like lots of options for him on the Open Library...
http://openlibrary.o...s_fulltext=true
Saki is one of my absolute favorites. My grandmother gave me a collection of his stories many years ago and I still have it, worn and battered as it is. No exaggeration, but I think I've read it 50 times.
As for Maupassant, some stories I recommend would be Ball of Fat; In the Wood; How He Got the Legion of Honour; A Vagabond; The Mountebanks; The Devil; The Debt; That Pig of a Morin; The Necklace; The Venus of Braniza; A Family; Love; Mademoiselle Fifi.
Some of the stories such as Ball of Fat, the Vagabond, the Mountebanks, and the Devil are shocking accounts of human vice, cruelty and hypocrisy. The Venus of Braniza shows not only the deletrious effects of spousal neglect, but also of teaching that man is hopelessly wicked. Like Ball of Fat, Mademoiselle Fifi and the Debt feature prostitutes who deep down do have integrity and moral impulses. The Debt is particularly moving when it relates the story of self-sacrifice, compassion and gratitude. In the Wood is much lighter, but still very touching.
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I assure you that it is you that is ignorant of ancient Judaism. Read the Bible instead of listening to your teachers who appose [sic] the bible. -Echo
i REALLY NEVER NEW YOU WAS A UNLEARNED PERSON. -Lucy Ann Harmon, a facebook anti-Mormon
I assure you that it is you that is ignorant of ancient Judaism. Read the Bible instead of listening to your teachers who appose [sic] the bible. -Echo
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Posted 12 April 2012 - 11:41 AM
volgadon, on 12 April 2012 - 09:55 AM, said:
You should. One of my favourite authors. His short stories are very good at showing up hypocrisy and self-righteous, they arfe also very entertaining. If it weren't for Maupassant, then no Chekhov, no Saki, no Maugham, etc., etc.,.
Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme. - Karl Popper
If my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain, I have no reason to suppose my beliefs are true ... and hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms. - J. B. S. Haldane
If my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain, I have no reason to suppose my beliefs are true ... and hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms. - J. B. S. Haldane
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Posted 12 April 2012 - 11:47 AM
Log, on 12 April 2012 - 11:41 AM, said:
I am comparatively uncultured and uneducated, apparently.
No, I'm just a nerd. But I do recommend all the above-mentioned authors.
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I assure you that it is you that is ignorant of ancient Judaism. Read the Bible instead of listening to your teachers who appose [sic] the bible. -Echo
i REALLY NEVER NEW YOU WAS A UNLEARNED PERSON. -Lucy Ann Harmon, a facebook anti-Mormon
I assure you that it is you that is ignorant of ancient Judaism. Read the Bible instead of listening to your teachers who appose [sic] the bible. -Echo
i REALLY NEVER NEW YOU WAS A UNLEARNED PERSON. -Lucy Ann Harmon, a facebook anti-Mormon
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Posted 14 April 2012 - 07:48 PM
I know a ghost story, and I also know it is true or rather I have a firm testimony it is true. And it gives me the willies typing these few sentences about it.
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