Hi, Interbane! Sorry, but I decided to drift on by and check out your comments. Call me interested. Anyway, I’m a bit confused by one of your arguments. “What organism could tell in a landscape of varying altitude? More to the point, why would they care?” That’s a lot of meta-thinking for something ...

This is such a complicated subject. Naturally, no discussion of ‘truth’ can proceed without a discussion of language. And no discussion of language can proceed without a discussion of consciousness, perception and information transference. It’s a complicated subject. One of many theories of how the ...

The use and promotion of ad hominem argument is not an indication of intelligence, insight or wisdom - no more than is slapping someone's face. Anyone who suggests that “religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt" does not understand the complexity of the human mind or the po...

"The beat goes on." ~ Sonny Bono.

What is assumed of the government, its laws and their enforcement is that no citizen is subjected to judgment based on their religious beliefs, or the lack of them, or that laws be proposed and enacted which require adherence to any particular religion or ideology. This is the important component of...

The belief in a God or Gods is not confined to the Christian faith. The usage of “under God” may be taken as being a form of respect for those under the protection of the Constitution of the United States (the ‘of America’ addition became fashionable later, if I recall) who do believe in God(s). Whe...

To some degree, the thoughts I offer below are on a tangent or digress from the current discussion. Yet I feel that there may be some value in sharing my thoughts. As this discussion has progressed, the subject of the influence of religion on secular law - touching, I would think, on themes of mora...

I’m sorry to be the one to break this to you, discovery363, but there are several problems with your request. 1. This is a book review site that caters to literate, and often critically thinking, people. It would be helpful for you to edit your post for grammar, spelling and style. 2. Claims of disc...

This is a good question, Krysondra. It is certainly psychological and perhaps in the vein of experimental science fiction, and yet I cannot so far characterize it as science fiction. Perhaps psychological fantasy. There is an undertone that reminds me of Stanislaw Lem’s writing. “Solaris” comes to m...

That's an excellent point, poettess. I haven't as yet read far enough to have noticed it. (Or perhaps I missed the correlation.) But I now recall at the end of Chapter 5 on page 73, the scene in which Navidson is playing with his daughter. She asks him to play a game called "always," and h...