(July 29, 2013 at 4:29 pm)Drich Wrote: ok,_____________ (fill in the blank with whatever version of your screen name you like) I see my error, and I retract my statement about Joseph Smith and substitute it with L.Ron Hubbard.
Accepted. Graciously. As for preferred name, anything other than what you wrote - and about which I commented, not particularly seriously - would be fine, thank you. I don't know why this should be such heavy weather for you, I honestly don't.
(July 29, 2013 at 4:29 pm)Drich Wrote: LRH wrote alot of stuff, what words of his are you reminded of when you read my work?
I genuinely have no interest anymore. Hubbard wanted to get rich from selling tenth-rate sci fi as religious crap; I made an observation that you seemed to me to be doing something similar... though "work" is stronging it more than somewhat, if we're all honest with ourselves. I was forgetting quite how literally-minded my audience can be.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
