J.S. Clark, 900 World Series
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J.S. Clark, 900 World Series
@jsclark5768
900 Worlds and Nagua books author, sci-fi with soul, fantasy with depth. Editor of non-spice indie stories. Journeying to Jewish conversion.
Ohio, USA Katılım Ocak 2012
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Often on Fridays, I drive out of my way to go through the Jewish neighborhood around the shuls. It stirs the ache to convert. How long, HaShem? When? How?
Doesn't seem to help the waiting, but i know HaShem sees it.
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@DBCWriter As a convert circling the conversion runway, I affirm this.
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This is true. Theology aside, observant Jewish life, living a Torah observant, traditional life is rewarding in many ways, for both men, women, and children.
Though I've slacked over the years, looking back, I was the happiest when I was working hard, writing on the side, going to shul (synagogue) in the mornings and sometimes evenings, studying, and observing Shabbat. Having this little island in time, each week, where you carve out a sacred, holy space - it's like a little Thanksgiving each week with prayer, community, and thanking Hashem - G-d - for this wonderful life. It can be bleak and frightening sometimes, for sure, but we are so much better equipped to handle it when we are together - and putting G-d at the center of our lives. G-d, family, community.
Even if one isn't religious, I would challenge anyone to experience a Shabbat in a nice Jewish community and say - this isn't something special.
I want that for everyone in this life (not to become Jewish - haha - but to find solace and peace - and meaning!): Christian, Jew, Muslim, and yes, people who might have trouble believing in G-d (there are those people in your synagogue and church, too!) - everyone. I wish we weren't so divided...
I wish - no, I pray - that everyone finds meaning, peace, and arrives to the knowledge in their hearts and souls, finally and once and for all... that they're not alone.
James Lindsay, anti-Communist@ConceptualJames
Fun fact: Observant Jewish life would inspire most young American conservatives tremendously if they saw it for real and ditched the propaganda against it.
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@SmokingWR3CK4G3 Sounds like what Rabbi Lapin would say in Thou Shalt Prosper
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Me and my coworker discussing fantasy stories. He complains about lack of representation.
"Everyone wants a war horse, but you know? A war horse never brought any of the grain that went into the ale they drank in the ubiquitous tavern."
So, I guess I need to add more pack animals
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@DavidBadurina What they're saying:
Humans are mere machines.
Soulless, replaceable, obsolete machines. No value beyond parts and performance.
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Unironically showcasing ignorance of an obvious false equivalence logical fallacy is definitely a choice.
A writer doesn't "rearrange ideas." A writer filters the entirety of human experience through a unique lens, makes thousands of conscious creative decisions, and produces something that didn't exist before.
This is like saying a blender and a surgeon are both capable of "re-arranging tissue" and thus you are a hypocrite if you see them differently. (Note: Blenders do re-arrange tissue, but maybe opt for an alternative when it's time to get a vasectomy).
The hilarious thing is that this nonsensical-but-clever-sounding motivational-poster mantra actually serves to reinforce and promote the idea that human authors and AI are on the same playing field. Maybe don't do that?
I wish all authors the most success, truly. I want all of you to eat. But the anti-crowd are not bringing their best with absurd takes like this. 🤣
Eric Koester@erickoester
“A writer rearranges ideas and they call it plagiarism. An AI tool rearranges ideas and they call it the future.” – @realBrookNash
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@houseofqllc Some people struggle with children more than others. I have my share as well.
During an extended or ongoing struggle, what helps me is to remember that I didn't create the children. G-d decided what if or what souls came.
So *I* needed this struggle. This is good for me.
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I was thinking of Rob Reiner & the challenges he faced with his son who eventually murdered him & his wife. (Allegedly)
If you're someone who has endured a lot of hardship with your child(ren), do you think it was it still worth having them?
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@mcahogarth All art is moral. Political is a red herring.
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What's your favorite argument against the "all art is political" line? I have a bunch but I'm always looking for new ones.
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@MikeyDiMercurio So we should thank James Kirk for this guy? I'm down.
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This technology was used in the original Star Trek when Captain James T. Kirk was on trial for prematurely ejecting a pod, resulting in the death of a serviceman.
Once all known heartbeats were eliminated, turned out the supposedly "dead" guy was just hiding, based on the machine finding his heartbeat.
And now it's fookin' real.
Collin Rugg@CollinRugg
NEW: The CIA used a secret tool called "Ghost Murmur" that uses AI to find heartbeats to rescue the U.S. airman who was stranded in Iran, according to the New York Post. The secret technology was allegedly used for the first time in the field, according to the Post. "The secret technology uses long-range quantum magnetometry to find the electromagnetic fingerprint of a human heartbeat and pairs the data with artificial intelligence software to isolate the signature from background noise," the Post reported. "It’s like hearing a voice in a stadium, except the stadium is a thousand square miles of desert," the source said. "In the right conditions, if your heart is beating, we will find you." "The name is deliberate. ‘Murmur’ is a clinical term for a heart rhythm. ‘Ghost’ refers to finding someone who, for all practical purposes, has disappeared..." "Advances in a field known as quantum magnetometry, specifically sensors built around microscopic defects in synthetic diamonds, have apparently made it possible to detect these signals at dramatically greater distances." CIA Director John Ratcliffe appeared to hint at this technology on Monday, saying the CIA possessed "unique capabilities" but said he couldn't "tell you everything that you want to know." President Trump also revealed during the press conference that the CIA spotted the officer from about "40 miles away." Insane.
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So is the comet such a big deal? If we follow the trail that big embarrassings like this are the compounding of smaller overlooked ones.
Dare I say, rather than showing the flaws of wokism, it's kind of illustrating that there is a kernel of truth. (Every good lie has one)
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If we follow this logic, then some part of this man's stolen honor (landing on comet) is in part a result of NOT focusing on bettering those little human behaviors.
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I've never been accused of being woke, but the op's summary seems to be that the greatness is in the spectacle, the historic achievement, and we shouldn't miss that for the questions of whether we're being better people.
Ofc, I'm not here to argue with scantily clad women...
Camus@newstart_2024
The guy just landed a spacecraft on a comet — one of the most impressive scientific achievements in years. His reward? A public struggle session because his bowling shirt had scantily clad women on it. Helen Andrews points out the quiet cost of institutional feminization: HR departments now hunt down any maverick personality and stamp it out. We’re losing innovators we’ll never even know about, all because someone focused on the shirt instead of the comet. This is how wokeness actually works. Have you seen real excellence get punished for something trivial like this?
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"Do people read fiction as escapism?" But it isn't asked enough if writers write for escapism.
Starting work on the sequel to Nagua Beneath the Cloud Sea, and in 2 days wrote 5% of first draft.
Was struck how immersed I was. Wondered if I wanted to be there too much.
Sienna Delaine@sienna_delaine_
The hardest part of writing isn't the writing. It's sitting with a story that keeps you up at 3 AM. Characters that feel more real than people you know. A ending you're afraid to write because you know it's going to hurt. Writers don't choose their stories. Their stories choose them.
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@namaferd Great! This is what i shall tell the wife.
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@jsclark5768 Those chores can wait! Writing is way more important. ✍️
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On the one hand, I'm behind on a list of chores that I have no practical hope of subduing.
On the other, after 2 days, I am accidentally 5% through the first draft of Nagua II.
I think I'm doing something new here...
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I can't say that I've read anything recently where the characters were both attracted and consciously making effort not to do anything because they weren't married.
Not they both have "trauma". Not they're just friends, anyway. But restraint based on conviction.
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I wanted my YA to be mature, not in so-spicy-why-is-this-a-YA??? but in the characters actually being young ADULTS while facing that time of life. I wanted them to face temptation, but not in temptation equals eventually everyone sleeps with everyone.
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Oh, hot take: i know Miss Bingley isn't a deeply noble person, but i sure feel for the effort she's putting into Darcy.
J.S. Clark, 900 World Series@jsclark5768
Update on Pride and Prejudice: This is definitely more of what I think of as a good romance. Austen can be difficult to read. Her sentences often require multiple passes (before you come at me, I've read Wells, Shelley, Verne, Dumas). Am keeping my dictionary handy.
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