A well-written, hot mess. Doesn't work from me (even after reading the comments and rereading the narrative). I liked the 'futuristic' details juxtapo...
We don't know – possibly not. The observable universe is the only "existence", however, that matters significantly to us (i.e. terrestrial life). In t...
My read of (modern) history is that the pendulum, so to speak, swings back and forth from intolerance to tolerance, some times in faster-shorter cycle...
IMO, what an artist should do is always be interesting and never be boring by creating for herself (e.g. what she wants/needs to read, or listen to, o...
Sheesh. My story has received low votes without overt explanations and I'm not whining about it. Maybe I'm not thin-skinned enough or too calloused to...
I try not to repeat myself in style or theme from story to story as much as possible to challenge – stretch – myself and keep the 'guessing game' inte...
IMHO, cosmology (physics) concerns only modelling the development of what we call "the observable universe" and not "beginnings" or "origins" or "esse...
Describe "our nature as a species" and explain how you determine that to be so (unless you mean something like 'Aristotle's teleology', then never min...
Sure it's "common decency" but often it is also not worth the bother to repeat what others have already offered as constructive criticisms even when I...
Amen. I mean ... why "must" he/I/we "dream"? The tale seems an allegory for awakening religious fantasy (re: "the hand of" ... Simon) in children. Als...
I finished my BS (it took me 6.5 years) at Syracuse U in the 1980s and had some good visits to Rochester & Buffalo during those years. Thought I knew ...
It is "not honorable" to accuse someone without evidence or impugn that person's motives without personal acquaintance. As for taking this event serio...
You misconstrue atheism which denotes 'lack of belief in god' and / or 'belief in the nonexistence of god' and is not a statement of knowledge (i.e. n...
So do you think it is "irrational" to know that there is a god and not to believe in that god (just as a wife can know that her husband exists and doe...
Yes it does, and trifling. Someone doesn't like my story and doesn't care to comment? Okay. Why should I care about an unexplained '1' vote? They can'...
Living in the US Southeast (Atlanta, Georgia) until spring 2022, I'd contracted Covid-19 twice in the winter and again in the fall of 2021 wearing mas...
Okay, more or less. Dynamic models "require" initial conditions but what they model (e.g. the univerde) does not. In other words, wouldn't you agree w...
Among semitic peoples, "anti-Jewish" makes more sense than "antisemitic". Criticism of Israel's "Greater Israel" policies is called "antisemitism" by ...
Agreed, more or less my feeling too. The intro & outro are too spare and seem tacked on. The "email" also needs some edits and more intimate touches a...
I enjoyed how ordinarily the extraordinary is dealt with – oblivion chasing bellies full of wine. I wish the characters were developed further, their ...
This narrative doesn't work for me even though the writing is evocative. The first person voice feels more hallucinatory (à la Poe) and less surreal o...
If (post-Newtonian) spacetime describes an unbounded, finite magnitude like the surface of the Earth (or torus, Klein bottle, Möbius loop, etc) – does...
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