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Mad Props Out To:
ALL of the members of SISL Tribe
(Water Brothers)
including those that I invited that know who Michael Valentine Smith was, as well as those that hadn't read Stranger (or any other books by Heinlein) but accepted my invitation anyway...
and especially those of you who have joined this tribe over the past year, sharing your knowledge and passions for all of the stories by Robert A. Heinlein...and helping us all to "grow ever closer"
Thanks for being here my friends.
Please introduce yourself and tell us about how and when you were first introduced to Stranger in a Strange Land and/or any OTHER of Heinlein's books, and why reading RAH means enough to you that you've praised and cherished his ideas and added grokking to your vocabulary along with the phrase 'Thou art God'
Peace
and Love,
PABlo
-- on the eve of the 1 yr. anniversary
of becoming a member of Tribe.net
ALL of the members of SISL Tribe
(Water Brothers)
including those that I invited that know who Michael Valentine Smith was, as well as those that hadn't read Stranger (or any other books by Heinlein) but accepted my invitation anyway...
and especially those of you who have joined this tribe over the past year, sharing your knowledge and passions for all of the stories by Robert A. Heinlein...and helping us all to "grow ever closer"
Thanks for being here my friends.
Please introduce yourself and tell us about how and when you were first introduced to Stranger in a Strange Land and/or any OTHER of Heinlein's books, and why reading RAH means enough to you that you've praised and cherished his ideas and added grokking to your vocabulary along with the phrase 'Thou art God'
Peace
and Love,
PABlo
-- on the eve of the 1 yr. anniversary
of becoming a member of Tribe.net
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Re: YOU ALL GROK!
Thu, December 9, 2004 - 11:23 PMI Grok, I am Ravyn. here SoCal. I am a member of CAW. I first came across SISL when I was doing research on world religions and actually the first time I listened to the book on tape. It actually had a profound effect on how I viewed the history of religion. From there I continued reading RAH because of how well he wrote and found that he and I wrote much of the same way. I continue to read RAH because even though Robert is called the Godfather (grandfather in some cases) of SciFi I found that more he was writer of the social and human condition that simply used a Scifi backdrop in able to get his point out. I feel his ideas are more relevent today then when he wrote them. RAH was truly a visionary. But I am only an egg.
Drink Deep
May you never thirst.
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Re: YOU ALL GROK!
Fri, December 10, 2004 - 4:55 AMHAPPY TRIBE ANNIVERSARY, PABlo! (my one year anniversary was 10/22)
But it feels like I've known you a very long time. It's a good feeling.
Thanks for inviting me to join you on your journey.
Peace and Love right back at ya'!
Vera
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Re: YOU ALL GROK!
Fri, December 10, 2004 - 6:08 AMDuring the summer of '91, when I was just a young'n, I was living in a halfway house for 'troubled youth' (middle class kids who didn't subscribe to middle class values) and working at a Japanese resturaunt across town. I spent 2 hours a day riding the bus to and from work, so had plenty of time to read. I had read Heinlein on the recommendation of a mentor, liked his stuff (I think I read Moon is a Harsh Mistress first) and before long got to SISL.
After I got throught the first section, I read the rest of the book in one night. Stayed up 'till 4:30 in the morning reading it.
Now I was in a bad place emotionally at that point in my life. Reading SISL I got a sense of "That's it! That's how I've been feeling and thinking all this time, but couldn't put it into words!" and suddenly felt much less lonely and hopeless, and much more connected with myself (if that makes any sense) and the universe. It helped me reconcile a lot of discrepancies I had noticed between my instincts and my thought patters, and society.
I've read the book 9 times now, including the long version published a few years ago, and each time find something new in it that relates to where I am on this goofy roller coaster of life.
Whew.
Thou (ye?) are God,
Otter
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Re: YOU ALL GROK!
Sun, December 12, 2004 - 3:06 PMI started reading RAH's 'young adult' series, way back in (please don't tell anyone!) the early 70s. I discovered him at the same time I discovered Roger Zelazny, my other favorite writer. Whodathunk that a 10 year old kid would have his nose buried in a new book every week? First read SiaSL when I was 11 or so.
Anyway, first time I read SiaSL, it blew the doors off my certainty that I had grown bored with Sci-Fi, over that year, and soon realized that this book was as important to a xenophobic 10 year old as 'studying the human condition and why societies and cultures succeed or fail' was to a cultural anthropologist..er..I mean, 'former Naval officer and science fiction writer'.
Since then, I've made presents of about two dozen copies of the book, usually picked up at the local used book seller for a couple o' bucks (I've given away many copies of all my favorite books, especially Time Enough For Love).
When the "Original Uncut Version" hit the shelves, I bought it immediately, and loved it in all its fullness, actually feeling like I was reading the story for the first time, again, even though all the characters and all the events were familiar from a dozen re-reads over the years.
Thanks for the tribe, Pablo. It is a goodness.
Never Thirst.
T
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