tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514715167862692613.post2039499704361275037..comments2024-03-27T03:16:11.841-04:00Comments on mole in the ground: The BurningDocGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359004200002936544noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514715167862692613.post-54455854873225260782011-10-17T04:10:42.551-04:002011-10-17T04:10:42.551-04:00I am fully agree with your thinking.I am fully agree with your thinking.herbal medicineshttp://www.free-herbal-medicines.com/diseases/bleeding-nose.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514715167862692613.post-64010587997888935012011-08-09T11:21:53.477-04:002011-08-09T11:21:53.477-04:00As for your other questions, no I've never rea...As for your other questions, no I've never read Silverberg. I don't keep up with fiction, I read non-fiction almost exclusively.<br /><br />As far as intelligent life on other planets is concerned, once you understand how natural selection works and how evolution is so heavily based on sheer chance, then you begin to realize how unlikely it is that anything remotely like us could exist anywhere in the universe. We have mouths only because billions of years ago a mutation occurred in the DNA of a single life form, which might easily have never existed. And if that living thing had died in infancy, then the mouth would have died with it. <br /><br />Moreoever, the new mutation survived only because it happened to be so well adapted to the particular environment in which that life form happened to live, which was a very particular environment that existed at a very particular time and place in the long history of planet Earth. How much more unlikely that anything remotely resembling the human brain could possibly have evolved anywhere else.<br /><br />Think of it this way: would you expect to find kangaroos or platypuses or flying squirrels anywhere else in the universe?DocGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17359004200002936544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514715167862692613.post-39572391887593541212011-08-09T11:10:25.265-04:002011-08-09T11:10:25.265-04:00Your comments on the format of "Aliens Among ...Your comments on the format of "Aliens Among Us" are perceptive. It started out as a play, but I decided to recast it as a novel. I could have added all sorts of descriptive passages, but I hate descriptive passages, they usually strike me as contrived. Which is why I rarely read fiction anymore. I hate to read them and I'm no good at writing them. And then I thought, "why bother, everything essential to the story is already there." If it can work as a play, then why not as a novel? And if someone wants to turn it into a movie, why it's already practically a screenplay as it stands.<br /><br />Anyhow, this whole thing is mainly an experiment. I wanted to get my feet wet with this Kindle thing, and I'm curious to see whether this "novel" can generate meaningful sales.DocGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17359004200002936544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8514715167862692613.post-69746172275205896882011-08-08T02:32:10.882-04:002011-08-08T02:32:10.882-04:00Raymond Passworthy: Oh, God, is there ever to be a...Raymond Passworthy: Oh, God, is there ever to be any age of happiness? Is there never to be any rest? <br /><br />Oswald Cabal: Rest enough for the individual man - too much, and too soon - and we call it death. But for Man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet with its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him and at last out across immensity to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deeps of space and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning. <br /><br />Raymond Passworthy: But... we're such little creatures. Poor humanity's so fragile, so weak. Little... little animals. <br /><br />Oswald Cabal: Little animals. If we're no more than animals, we must snatch each little scrap of happiness and live and suffer and pass, mattering no more than all the other animals do or have done. Is it this? Or that? All the universe? Or nothingness? Which shall it be, Passworthy? Which shall it be?<br /><br />___________________________________________<br /><br /><br />I was interested in what form your work is supposed to be in cuz its in a quasi-screenplay format, but unformatted for such and unformatted also as a normal work of fiction. Is this a new writing style or your own creation or what?<br /><br />Did you ever read Robert Silverberg's "Son Of Man?" If so, would be interested to know your opinion(s).<br /><br />At this point for me on possible intelligent life elsewhere, I'm stuck between believing in UFO's and SETI. Since there seems an abundance of circumstantial proof for the former, and none whatsoever for the latter. Kinda weird. You wouldn't partake of "the herb" now and then, would you? ;-P<br /><br />And now back to your 24 hour All Casey Anthony All the Time channel...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com