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What are you reading?
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 (April 27, 2024 at 7:57 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Weekend is a great time for some novelization reading Books like this confuse me. A book, based on a movie, based on a book. It's like the plot of a librarians version of the movie "Victor, Victoria." 
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And to add to the confusion - there are editions of the original novel where they slapped the new title "Blade Runner".
![[Image: Bruner.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/JzYSvJYx/Bruner.jpg) Interestingly or not but the novel does not use the word Blade Runner. They added this word for the movie because it sounded "cool", but it has nothing to do with the novel. Blade runner is someone who uses rollerblades.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
The Hollow Dead by Darcy Coates. It's the 4th book of her grave keeper series.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
 RE: What are you reading?
June 27, 2024 at 1:52 am
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2024 at 1:54 am by Rev. Rye.)
(May 1, 2024 at 1:03 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: And to add to the confusion - there are editions of the original novel where they slapped the new title "Blade Runner". Actually, a Blade Runner is a person who fences medical supplies for people who don’t qualify for medical treatment under the eugenics laws of an entirely different Sci-Fi dystopian novel. One whose title was bought by Ridley Scott for the purposes of the film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bladerunner And weirdly, a slightly more faithful adaptation (and that’s not saying much) of that original novel would be filmed around the same time, but released as Taking Tiger Mountain. Although, that said, given how christballs insane that movie was, even the word slightly is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
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![[Image: harmlesskitchen.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/yxR97P23/harmlesskitchen.png) I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
Ah, and I naively thought Rev was about to tell us what he is reading, but no. He is giving us (or me in this situation) another one of his trivia lectures. I mean, why didn't you become a schoolteacher when you like to give such elaborate lectures, frequently with YouTube videos and links to encyclopedias?
Fun fact: I know all that and more. The title Blade Runner came from the screenplay writer who was reading William Burroughs' screenplay for the never produced movie of the same name based on some SF novel (but only difference was that it was one word). And even more trivia is that the music video for Duran Duran's "The Wild Boys" seemed to be a teaser for producers and execs to make that particular movie, and on and on. I could have said all that, but I didn't because I didn't want to bore people with trivia. You have to learn to edit yourself. You don't want to be a New England schoolmarm, do you? Or a stuffed shirt? Btw, do you know where this reference is from? Considering that you also like to communicate through movies, here is that scene from "Citizen Kane"
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
People still read?
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter  (June 27, 2024 at 8:09 am)Foxaèr Wrote: People still read? Nothing pisses me off more than the trend of online news services to switch from the printed word to some talking head reading it to me. Some used to offer both, but many have eliminated the print version entirely. I don't appreciate being treated like a fucking idiot.
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