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STARQUEST: SPACE PIRATES OF ANDROMEDA
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Space Opera must be Great! Gallant! Gigantic! Grandiose!

This tale told by a Grandmaster vows to return the glory that was lost! Remember the days gone by, when science fiction was fun? Now new hope is here!

If you are weary of weak, wan, woke and wasted works, your wait is ended! Here is an epic, as grand as any tale of old -- here you will hear wonders told!

Meet Captain Athos Lone, Ace agent of Star Patrol, in his one-man mission of vengeance! He must infiltrate the Space Pirate fleet to kill the haughty King of Pirates. He dons the Deathmask of his ancestors to assume the powers of the Ancient Mariner, who like an iron ghost, when slain, must rise again!

Meet the mysterious spymaster called Nightshadow, who walks in dark worlds but serves the light! He faces the sinister Syndicate of Space, ruled by the Secret Seven, a gathering of galactic gangland crimelords!

Meet an Imperial Deathtrooper fated to reverse his loyalties, and fight his own clone-brothers! A thought-policeman for the Inquisition, tasked with hunting down any deviants displaying traces of psychic talent, he hides his own ancient heritage in the psionic arts!

Meet the mystic Space Princess Lyra, heiress to eerie powers, sole survivor of a destroyed planet, robbed of realm and family by the Evil Galactic Empire. She seeks to find and end the star-killing super-weapon known only as the Great Eye of Darkness! But first she must find her missing past.

Against these heroes looms the unseen menace of the Four Dark Overlords: Lord Pestilence, Lord Famine, Lord War, Lord Death!

An utmost evil the unwary galaxy thinks long dead! Will Darkness fail and Light prevail?

Read On! For All True Tales are but Part of a Greater!

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@UgoCannon There is one word wrong.

Atheism in one sentence:

"I don't accept the existence of gods after evidence is provided."

There. Fixed.

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There is a parallel between Nazi, Commie ideologies and Christian teaching about the Fall of Man.

Rosseau held that utopia consists of savages in cities, the freedom of primitive man combined with the luxury and power of civilization.

There are likewise parallels with Nazi and Marxist ideology, as secularized ersatz religion. Marx did not propose abolishing factories when private property was abolished: he wanted to retain the prosperity of their output, but without the private property which, to him was the Original Sin. Likewise, the Nazi did not wish to return to the barbarism of pre-India Aryan tribal life, but to harness the nobility and strength of pagan lawlessness to the purity of their imagined racial utopia.

Both wanted to return to the Garden before the Fall, but keep the wealth and splendor of Babylon and Sodom.

To be precise, Marxism and Nazism want prelapsarian man, the noble savage, but not to live in garden:

Marxist lore teaches that after the World Revolution, comes Utopia. Christian lore teaches that after the Armageddon, comes the Millennium.

Please note the Christian lore holds that a city, the New Jerusalem (of which the temple and tabernacle of Earthly Jerusalem were mere human reflections) will hold the paradise of souls restored to the innocence of Eden.

In other words tie 'city' where the noble savages of Rosseau, once they achieve the superman morality of Nietzsche or the Socialist species-being of Marx, is their version of the New Jerusalem.

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@harm3t If God does not exist, then I have devoted my life to a falsehood that somehow promotes love, love of truth, love of beauty, and, ironically, love of my enemy.

What would you prefer?

The only other options are selfishness, leading to despair, or stoicism, leading to suicide.

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Koine Greek (in which the New Testament is written) is was the standard language written and spoken in Galilee in the First Century.

Jesus had 11 Disciples and 40 followers hearing is every speech for 3 years and could have corrected each other's memories. They began preaching and baptizing immediately. The need for a written record only appeared after churches had been established for several decades among the many provinces of the Empire.

Since all ancient learning preserved to the modern day passed through a period of verbal memorization and recitation, the burden is of proof is on you to support your extraordinary statement.

Or do you make the same claim for Homer, Thucydides, Xenophon, Caesar, Cicero?

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@Defensofidei Praying for my enemies.

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@lampwright4 That looks somewhat yellow to me

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Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow,
Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow.
None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the Master:
His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.

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If the wife of an earl turned traitor, and, as the cruel old punishment held, had her ears cropped off, would she be an earless earless?

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@Celebrim42 @BillArnoldTeach Nor do we.
It has been four hundred years and more, brother. Can you give this tired falsehood a rest? It is like saying the Jew in days of old 'worshipped' the Ark of the Covenant, on that grounds that David danced before it, and priests carried it with ceremonial solemnity

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@lampwright4 On February 4, 1824, J.W. Goodrich introduced the public to the first rubber galoshes. Good to know Tom Bombadil had them in the Third Age of Middle Earth.

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When you are asking for the odds about a universal metaphysical proposition, you are asking, in effect, out of all the universes, how many per each hundred were created by design vs arose by spontaneously, without cause?

If a universe can create itself from nothing for no reason, we live in a cosmos where cause and effect is a local phenomenon, an illusion. So all talk of chance falls by the wayside. There can be no talk of chance in a universe without causes and effects.

Contrariwise, if a universe can only arise from rational design, arising spontaneously is impossible. Again, no chance involved.

If, on the other hand, you are merely asking how likely I am to see the design in nature and ascribe it to a rational designer? I would say that this is an inescapable conclusion. Even those who deny there is design in nature ascribe intentionality to nature, as when they say evolutionary adaptations are 'for' survival, wings are 'for' flying, eyeballs 'for' seeing.

Intention implies a mind.

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@lampwright4 Yes , a somewhat yellow leathery brown. Not rain galoshes.

Are we going to argue with Old Tom? Besides 'brown' does not rhyme with 'fellow'

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@monsterhunter45 If you had told me in 1999 that I would see eunuchs demanding woman's rights, SPLC funding KKK, CHAZ in Seattle, MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+, Mostly Peaceful riots, J6, Trump as Pres AND as a Ruskie Spy, and Disney's 'The Last Jedi' -- I would have lost my ability to detect sarcasm also.

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@PoagMahone I would say the Fox who sniffs the hobbits, wonder what their business is, but then goes off about his own is the coolest. He clearly a talking fox from Narnia, who wandered in to the book of his fellow Inkling...

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@lampwright4 Those boots are somewhat yellow.

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@DiP11s @DPGBehler I am pleased to meet a fellow admirer of Lafferty. His non-science fiction books are also a strange and wild read.

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@billpu63 Sola is one of the best characters in the book, next to Woola the space dog.

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In Frank Herbert's DUNE , among the Fremen, all moisture belongs to the tribe, including water in one'sblood.

In Edgar Rice Burroughs A PRINCESS OF MARS, among the Green Martians, all children are raised in common.

STAR TREK evolves beyond the need for money.

Space Commies