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Good or evil is not something you are, it is something you do. We are all capable of both. We we can choose to do either. I think most people see themselves as good, and try to do the best they can. For many, though, there are other competing goals. Good is not their main focus. In particular being seen to be "good" is often mistaken for genuinely striving for good.

I have an analogy I like to use when talking to folks who believe there is but one true path. Imagine that we are standing in various places around the world, and our common destination is at the North pole. If you examine the direction I choose when starting from Edinburgh, it would lead in a very strange direction - possibly underground, off into space, or simply in a weird direction when starting from Santiago or Mumbai or Los Angeles. Even when very close to the goal, those coming from Asia would appear to be heading in the opposite direction to those coming from the Americas. Yet we all have the same goal in mind.

From what little I know the NRSV is fully acceptable but many Catholics prefer the older RSV edition. You might also find this passage from The Prophet useful...

Another guitarist here - Spanish/Bass/Electric/Steel-strung in rough order of competence. I used to know the basics on flute and tin whistle but haven't played in decades. I'm finally trying to get my vocals up to scratch, and then plan on getting to grips with the fiddle.

Heinlein varies a lot - don't bother with "I will fear no evil". At the good end of the scale I would rate "Double Star", "Citizen of the Galaxy" and "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" Hard SF faded for a while, but seems to be slowly recovering. Try Ken McLeod, Timothy Zahn or Alistair Reynolds.

Smoke from ancient peat Malted grains, clear spring water. Uisge Beatha: Slainte! And to answer the question in the thread title - haiku is the plural.

How about "belua"? Or "laestrygones"?

Thouroughly deserved, bless you both. Congratulations.

Most of what was there I had seen previously on sites like physics911.

Thouroughly deserved. Congratulations, Von.

Jimmy Lindsay fan here. Check out Children of Rastafari if you don't have it already.

Casting the net a little wider... Robert Pirsig - Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance Brian Bates - The Way of The Wyrd Starhawk - The Spiral Dance Irving M Copi - An introduction to Logic.

Yes indeed. I actually blindsided our GM into giving our paranormal detective agency the twilight zone theme as a 'phone number!

Just finished re-reading The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick.

I am a huge SF fan - I have literally thousands of SF books, so picking out faves is difficult. I'll list a bunch of authors and a good book or 2 by them - other stuff by them is usually good too. Brian Aldiss - The Canopy of Time. Poul Anderson - The Rebel Worlds Piers Anthony - Macroscope. Isaac Asimov - The Gods Themselves Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man. LLoyd Biggle Jr - Monument James Blish - Jack of Eagles. (Also check out "A Case of Conscience", a rare theologically based SF novel). David Brin - Startide Rising series. John Brunner - The Shockwave Rider. Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game & sequels. C J Cherryh - Serpents Reach, The Faded Sun trilogy Richard Cowper - Twilight of Briarius, and the White Bird of Kinship series. P K Dick - The Man in the High Castle Gordon R Dickson - The Way of the Pilgrim, The Dorsai series. Samuel R Delany - The Jewels of Aptor Alan Dean Foster - Into the Out Of, and the Spellsinger series. M.A. Foster - The Morphodite Robert Forward - Starquake Randall Garrett - Too Many Magicians (One of a kind - a locked room mystery in a world of magic.) Harry Harrison - Deathworld Robert Heinlein - Citizen of the Galaxy Frank Herbert - The Dosadi Experiment Robert Holdstock - Mythago Wood Colin Kapp - The Wizard of Anharite + Short stories - the unorthodox engineers. Stanislav Lem - The Star Diaries C. S. Lewis - Out of the silent Planet/Perelandra/That Hideous Strength. Anne McCaffrey - Crystal Singer Ursula Le Guin - The Dispossessed, and the Earthsea series. Larry Niven - Neutron Star Niven & Pournelle - The Mote in God's Eye. Andre Norton - Plague Ship, the Witchworld series. George R.R. Martin - They Dying of the Light, A song for Lya. Walter M. Miller Jr - A Canticle for Leibowitz. Frederic Pohl & C.M Kornbluth - The Space Merchants Jerry Pournelle - King David's Spaceship Kim Stanley Robinson - Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy. Bob Shaw - Orbitsville Robert Silverberg - A time of Changes Clifford Simak - City Norman Spinrad - Songs from the Stars Neal Stephenson - The Diamond Age (* - probably my favourite SF book). Theodore Sturgeon - To Here and to the Easel Bruce Sterling - Involution Ocean Of Mena and Monsters - William Tenn Jack Vance - The Languages of Pao. Vernor Vinge - The Witling, A Fire on the Deep Ian Watson - The Jonah Kit Charles Williams - The Place of the Lion John Wyndham - The Kraken Wakes, Jizzle. Jane Yolen - The Cards of Grief Timothy Zahn - Spinneret Roger Zelazny - The Traveller in Black I'm sure I've missed a bunch which I would put in there if I could think of them. Should be enough to get you going, though. Happy reading!