From: g@crcomp.net   
      
   Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   > Don wrote:   
   >> James Nicoll wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Man Plus  (Man Plus, volume 1) by Frederik Pohl   
   >>>   
   >>> Mars being unfit for humans, there is no alternative but to make   
   >>> humans--or at least a human--fit for Mars.   
   >>>   
   >>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/no-place-to-raise-your-kids   
   >>   
   >>      So are the covetous eyes China casts on Australia, although the   
   >>      means by which New People's Asia hopes to gain Australia is a   
   >>      bit unusual: not conquest, but a simple utilitarian argument   
   >>      (with supporting evidence) that Australia would be better off   
   >>      as part of New People's Asia. The flaw in the approach is that   
   >>      Man Plus' Australians may be more racist than greedy.   
   >>   
   >> Abstention is best when given a choice to exclusively worship either   
   >> Phobos (god of fear, whose domain includes xenophobia) or Mammon.   
   >>   
   >> The commencement of my Milton PARADISE LOST hearing already hit pay   
   >> dirt with the SPACE SEED episode of Star Trek: TOS. The thing unearths   
   >> a Milton motherload and mentions him in its denouement. Your review   
   >> leaves me with the impression this Pohl may follow a similar vein.   
   >>   
   >   
   >                Most of the old nations of Asia are racist including the   
   Chinese   
   > Communists   
   >        and regard the Western nations/races as less evolved.   
   >                Maybe we are.   
   >                Mammon and Phobos are poor choices but are widely worshiped   
   around the   
   >   world by every people in every nation under the guise of other   
   > organized religions including Communism.   
      
   The Chinese Communist Party is officially atheist and promotes atheism.   
   A small number of Catholics are tolerated as party members as long as   
   such Catholics keep their beliefs private. When an episcopal office is   
   vacant, the Chinese Communist Party offers the Pope a party approved   
   slate of candidates to choose from.   
       Pope Leo proclaimed his primary duty is to spread the gospel instead   
   of solving the world's problems. When a reporter recently asked Leo for   
   his opinion on a current event in USA politics, Leo declined to answer.   
   The mathematicians in our midst may find Leo's BS degree in mathematics   
   interesting.   
      
   Catholic Nick Fuentes is unofficially in the running to replace Charlie   
   Kirk. In the past, Fuentes' views on immigration were xenophobic. Such   
   views are anti-Catholic.   
      
   Despite John Milton's anti-Catholicism, PARADISE LOST is well written   
   and easy to understand. Its audio book played through my earbuds during   
   this afternoon's fat tire bicycle spin around the summit of a nearby,   
   muddy mountain.   
       My bicycle's dog assisted. She pulls me along, with all her Doberman   
   might, on a rope connecting her harness to the front of my bicycle.   
       You came to mind when this PARADISE passage played through my   
   earbuds: "And where the river of Bliss through midst of Heavn."   
      
   --   
   Don.......My cat's  )\._.,--....,'``.                     veritas    _|_   
   telltale tall tail /,   _.. \   _\  (`._ ,.               liberabit   |   
   tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'              vos         |   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)