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@BillW,

R u ok bill?

This rankles with this post you just did “ I take what I call a "Wholistic" view of God. It involves ALL views with equal weight that reveals the truth!”

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@hingehead,

Yeah, I'm OK, just getting older. Short term memory can be a little tricky at times. It sucks to read 20-30 or say 50 pages; then not pick the book up again for a week or so and then have to go back over the 50 and review. So, it is just beat to complete a to in one sitting.

The God thing has been with me for years, it is part of my life. You can go back over that thread and see where I have "talked" about my views in the past.

BTW, thanks for asking!

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GN = graphic novel.
M = manga.
All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Anders: 5/5;
Snotgirl, Vol. 1: Green Hair Don't Care by Scott Pilgrim's writer, Bryan Lee O'Malley: GN 5/5;
Artificial Flowers by Rachel Smith: GN 4/5;
Make Russia Great Again a Trumpian satire by Christopher Buckley: 4/5;
The Rabbit, another by Rachel Smith (I bought 3 or 4 books from her UK publisher, Avery Hill via a tweet): 3/5;
Yotsuba&!, Vol. 1 (Yotsuba&! #1) by Azuma, Kiyohiko: M 5/5;
Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles Volume 1 by Narumi, Naru: M = 5/5.

I'm a sucker for slice of life anime and manga. Great comfort food during these times of anxiety.

The Elementals by McDowell, Michael. Slow burner horror that could make for a great character study if adapted as a miniseries. Wouldn't work as a film. 4/5.

Currently reading a really new YA novel, Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything
by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland.

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@tsarstepan,

THE REYKJAVIK ASSIGNMENT, but doing a very poor job of it. Been sitting on my nightstand for months, and reached page 35. Got this book after visiting Reykjavik many years ago.

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@Rebelofnj,

Rebelofnj wrote:

I just started reading The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. It was published in 1904, and it is generally viewed as a precursor of the popular trope of a masked hero with a secret identity.

The book is about a British member of high society and his alliance rescuing imprisoned royals before they are killed by the new French government. I'm 4 chapters in, and it is clear the book is very sympathetic towards the aristocrats and royals escaping the horrors of the French Revolution, probably because the author is an aristocrat herself.

You hardly need to be an aristocrat to hate what happen during the French revolution.

Thomas Paine was endanger of the French Guillotine and he as never an aristocrat of any kind.

In the end the french revolution committee of public safety turn on each other.

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@BillRM,

Usually, the historical opinion and popular view of the French Revolution favors the working class over the nobility, so it was strange for me to see the other way around.

The book did bring up the Reign of Terror, The September Massacres, and the death of Princess de Lamballe as primary examples of the committee's horrific actions.

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Azumanga Daioh: The Omnibus ([Azumanga Daioh] #1-4) by Kiyohiko Azuma

Outland by Dennis E. Taylor. Yellowstone erupting and ending most of the life on Earth and throw in portal technology to the multiverse? I'm down with this work of science fiction.

Snotgirl, Vol. 1: Green Hair Don't Care (reread)
Snotgirl, Vol. 2: California Screaming
Snotgirl, Vol. 3: Is This Real Life?
by Bryan Lee O'Malley, Leslie Hung

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@tsarstepan,

an antiquarian book store in chester county (South of Lancaster County where we live) was selling out at remarkable prices. I picked up a bunch of autographed first editions of Watson Guptil Artbooks and Eric Sloane and a bunch more. I allso picked up a few books Id not ever heard of.
There was one "Hiroshima" by John Hersey written in 1946. Its creative non-fiction. Its a very short narrative of the people who lived through the Enola Gays flyover.
It was really heart rending and even uplifting about how so many of the victims (those who survived) were so fatalistic and were able to dust off an start over even having lost families.

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@tsarstepan,

BTW. Are you firing your 50 cal? (I dont get the Baka Baka thing)

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@farmerman,

farmerman wrote:

an antiquarian book store in chester county (South of Lancaster County where we live) was selling out at remarkable prices. I picked up a bunch of autographed first editions of Watson Guptil Artbooks and Eric Sloane and a bunch more. I allso picked up a few books Id not ever heard of.
There was one "Hiroshima" by John Hersey written in 1946. Its creative non-fiction. Its a very short narrative of the people who lived through the Enola Gays flyover.
It was really heart rending and even uplifting about how so many of the victims (those who survived) were so fatalistic and were able to dust off an start over even having lost families.

I read a book back in about 1962 or so for a book report. It was about 9 people who lived through Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was thoroughly eye opening affected me for the rest of my life.

In one story, a man in was talking to his boss telling him how it started with this extremely bright light. Simultaneously, a very bright light flashed from the widows. He proclaimed, "Just like that!", immediately prior to taking cover.

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@BillW,

two kids also had similar reports in the Hersey book. They reported how there was a brilliant flash but no sound at all. They were probably in a compression zone but somewhat protected . They were interviewed in a hospital by a priest who was helping administer to all the burnt , sick and dying.
The two kids died within a few days after, both of burns and extreme radiation sickness. I have to say, after over 25 years experience (on and off) at Oak Ridge,NTS, Sandia, and Rocky Flat I NEVER ever heard any stories of the first A bomb from anything available at these sites.

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@farmerman,

farmerman wrote:

BTW. Are you firing your 50 cal? (I dont get the Baka Baka thing)

I was riffing on an a2k incel who made a thread on why moron should be considered hate speech.
Baka is a very versatile Japanese slang/idiom closely defined as idiot.

Besides, anime is probably the single most watched genre I've been watching these COVID months.

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@farmerman,

farmerman wrote:

It was really heart rending and even uplifting about how so many of the victims (those who survived) were so fatalistic and were able to dust off an start over even having lost families.

I didn't find it heartrending or uplifting. They got what they deserved and they knew it.

They didn't complain about their fate because they knew that they were the bad guys and we were merely defending ourselves.

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@BillW,

BillW wrote:

In one story, a man in was talking to his boss telling him how it started with this extremely bright light. Simultaneously, a very bright light flashed from the widows. He proclaimed, "Just like that!", immediately prior to taking cover.

I'll bet the little thug also learned to not commit genocide and war atrocities anymore.

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@farmerman,

farmerman wrote:

I have to say, after over 25 years experience (on and off) at Oak Ridge,NTS, Sandia, and Rocky Flat I NEVER ever heard any stories of the first A bomb from anything available at these sites.

They probably have better things to worry about.

Still, I do approve of the book. It serves a valuable purpose in informing the rest of the world exactly what awaits them if they provoke us into launching our nukes at them.

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@oralloy,

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It serves a valuable purpose in informing the rest of the world exactly what awaits them if they provoke us into launching our nukes at them.

From the sound of it, the book Hiroshima by John Hersey is more about the horrors of nuclear war and less about fearing American retribution. Especially as other countries now have the ability to produce nuclear bombs.

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@Rebelofnj,

It's the same thing.

Teaching people the horrors of nuclear war is teaching them what will happen to them if we launch our nukes at them.

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@oralloy,

Each National Lab has large historical accounts of all forms of energy in te world and US. They all have especially complete librries and collections of nuclear science and its varies uses and misuses. They employ historians and industrial archaeologists and weapons specialists.
What I was amazed at were the personal accounts of the first A bomb from the viictims POV, in just one short work. It was chilling and uplifting at the same time. It spoke in unpolished prose mostly of the resiliance of the human spirit. I sent the book down to a colleague who is an Industrial Archaeologist and a scholar of the documented and classified sites of the Manhattan Project ,(or as it was first called) the stories of which would improve your understanding about having "better things to do with ones time".

Much of the stuff you buy or think you know about Manhattan is sanitized Bullshit , cleaned up so folks in the US wouldnt freak out

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@Rebelofnj,

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Hiroshima by John Hersey is more about the horrors of nuclear war and less about fearing American retribution. Especially as other countries now have the ability to produce nuclear bombs.

Ollie thinks he;s a nuke scholar.Even His A2k handle is a 1940's term from one of the many National Labs associated with Manhattan. Youre right Hersey's book was a witness and a reflection. It was a very limited production I later found .It was witness, Horror followed by uplifting reflection on a single act in a long war.

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@farmerman,

He’s a sadist who fantasises about torturing and murdering those who don’t agree with him.

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