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Terry Pratchet
January 14, 2010 at 11:14 am
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The Hogfather
Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
The Hogfather
Death: Humans need fantasy to *be* human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?
Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
Susan: They're not the same at all.
Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.
Susan: But people have got to believe that, or what's the point?
Death: You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense
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RE: Terry Pratchet
January 14, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Awesome stuff! I love Terry Pratchet. Have you read, "Small Gods" it makes me want to read the other discworld books. I love the idea that gods are fed by belief, if only it were that simple.
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RE: Terry Pratchet
January 14, 2010 at 1:16 pm
I've got Hogfather and Colour of Magic on my DVR, but I need to figure out how to rip them to my computer.
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RE: Terry Pratchet
January 14, 2010 at 5:42 pm
I love the character 'Death'. Mort is the best I've read so far.
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RE: Terry Pratchet
January 15, 2010 at 6:24 am
I loved the movie of The Hogfather. Loved that Pratchett directed and starred in it too 
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense
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RE: Terry Pratchet
January 15, 2010 at 6:42 am
Read ALL of them!!
I think that Terry Pratchet has a very no nonsense take on human nature and with the prevalence of Religion in our world would pay the theory that gods thrive on belief....by Io!!
Terry Pratchet is noted in the credits as "mucked about with by.." 
I would love to get all the available DVDs and wonder if ....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/...t-religion
(hope the link works)
So love the way this guy thinks!!
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RE: Terry Pratchet
January 15, 2010 at 9:14 am
(January 14, 2010 at 11:14 am)Lilith_86 Wrote: The Hogfather
Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
The Hogfather
Death: Humans need fantasy to *be* human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?
Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
Susan: They're not the same at all.
Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.
Susan: But people have got to believe that, or what's the point?
Death: You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?
TERRY PRATCHETT
I have ALL the books,(one autographed) a couple of the movies, and the T-shirt.
And even the mouse pad(anthill inside)
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RE: Terry Pratchet
January 21, 2010 at 4:14 pm
(January 14, 2010 at 11:14 am)Lilith_86 Wrote: The Hogfather
Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
The Hogfather
Death: Humans need fantasy to *be* human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?
Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
Susan: They're not the same at all.
Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.
Susan: But people have got to believe that, or what's the point?
Death: You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?
Partchett is far and away my favourite author, even surpassing Douglas Adams, (this will upset Darwinian).
Read all his books used to have soul music on video but no longer.
All of his books, as well as being vastly entertaining, have some deeper truth to impart, like a modern Dickens.
His dementia will rob us of a great writer, but not just yet!
Small Gods my favourite
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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RE: Terry Pratchet
January 22, 2010 at 8:20 am
His true genius is to be able to make it all make sense.
If you're not supposed to ride faster than your guardian angel can fly then mine had better get a bloody SR-71.
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RE: Terry Pratchet
January 22, 2010 at 8:58 am
That was a very moving and prescient piece. The part about how justice and rightness is not real, so we make it real, and then it is real, but only because we make it so. Reminds us of something else?
I will certainly make an effort to find this book, sounds interesting.
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