From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 10/19/25 19:13, Don wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   	I went to a RC Parochial HS and it was explained to me that religion is   
   primarily   
   a way of life. The Chinese Communist Party is a way of life.  Thus it is   
   a religion.   
   Zen and Chan Buddhism are religions and ways of life.   
      
   >      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.   
      
   	All priests and all clergy should have a degree in BS. Nothing to do   
   with science.>   
   > 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.   
      
   	Ever hear of Father Coughlin? A radio priest in the 1930s, rabidly   
   anti-semetic,   
   on the side of the German American Bund and the old America First movement.   
      
   	Well that is futile since most of the Central Americans have been   
   converted to   
   evagelical protestantism of one sort or another.   
      
   >   
   > 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."   
      
   	Well we are all rivers and like rivers you can never find into the same   
   one twice.>   
   > --   
   > Don.......My cat's  )\._.,--....,'``.                     veritas    _|_   
   > telltale tall tail /,   _.. \   _\  (`._ ,.               liberabit   |   
   > tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'              vos         |   
   >   
      
   	bliss - Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed   
   a human soul in this world - and never will. (Mark Twain)   
      
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