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Do you feel better for calling me a douche? I have made two contributions in this thread, both in science fiction, because that's what the vast majority of this thread is focused on. It was an observation. Try being nice today. You can help make the world, and this board, a better place.

This devolved into a mostly a sci fi and fantasy thread. The book that stunned me in the last year in that vein was Children of Time. Three mind blowing comcepts in sci fi woven together for a great story. Maybe the best stand alone sci fi novel I ever read.

I will return with some other recommendations but this. Hyperion is totally different from, but neck n neck with, Dune for my favorite all time sci fi. .

Foles for a third and build around him sounds like a stellar plan. Been my hope for a while. He does not have a lot of miles and even when he was “bad,” he was on pace for a better year than we’ve seen here in a long time. Make the trade race on draft day unless getting the guy they want is cheap. ?

Maggie is going to betray Rick? Does that follow the comics? And they laid the basis for that with Maggie and maybe Daryl, but not with Jesus. Oddly done. Glad Negan is still around. Clearly more to come. And uhh. Let’s be real on Rick’s Negan mercy. Slicing open his throat was not exactly like shooting him in the leg when it comes to chance of death. And he didn’t know a kind of Doc would be right there.

She’s a small step above a Kardashian.

They just re-signed him!!! I hope this is chemically induced because if this is actually the real guy, I start to sympathize with Martin.

Why so sensitive? Of course it’s not evidence. It’s a joke. Nothing more intended.

Ignore that it’s a Kathy Griffin post and enjoy. Viva the Internet.

Patron saint of Deranged Rhino.

More believable than others’ fictional accounts of masculine prowess on here.

The Amtrak NE corridor line makes money because they charge so much. I’d love to take the train from Philly to Boston and have, but it is always cheaper to fly. Always.

If you record a show on any modern device, you jump the commercials. If you buy a TV show or subscribe, no commercials. If it's 1990 or earlier and you watch it live, commercials. Plop plop fizz fizz...

Who watches live TV except for maybe sports?

The difference between frozen yogurt and ice cream is that fro yo has more sugar. Don’t be sucked into 70s marketing. It ain’t health food.

Yup. Delish.

Huge fan of Brain Pickings.

Haha. She was a morally flexible moral absolutist. The best kind.

Already has. Book of Mormon.

That’s Buddhism. Christian’s foundational belied is that Jesus, the son of God, loved us so much that he died for our sins and to give us the possibility of eternal life in God’s love/heaven.

Please yes. I hate that thing. I believe 100% that it has the unintended effect of quieting the crowd. IF the crowd is the only thing responsible for the noise, it brings it.

She has a foundation. It's just not from the bible.Her foundation, of course, has lots to do with the golden rule--but she thinks that's a good path to follow without much concern for hell, Paul's Letters, Revelations, Moses, etc. If she chooses a religion one day, that will be hers to decide. I grew up at the edges of one and never felt a need to dive in. These days, I'm spiritually closest to secular Buddhist. My wife was devout Presby and largely isn't now. My daughter will find her own spiritual path. She's 16. I guide her now. I guided her when she was 4. And I'll guide her as I lay dying. But she's largely starting to steer her own ship.

"I got all sorts of surprises..." This didn't occur to me but it has to be her.

Yep. The only thing I feel my daughter has missed growing up secular is an appreciation of the Bible stories in literary contexts. Other than that, she's an incredible kid with a moral compass to rival anyone, and she did it without a hint of organized religion. I'm not against organized religion per se--it's just not necessary. Plenty of good people living all over the world without it.

Me either. He will put butts in seats. And be a great star to have around. But it won’t change the game here.