The Sublime & Beautiful vs. Reality

This blog is a record of one man's struggle to search for scientific, philosophical, and religious truth in the face of the limitations imposed on him by economics, psychology, and social conditioning; it is the philosophical outworking of everyday life in contrast to ideals and how it could have been.


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The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God
and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.
--Johannes Kepler

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Saturday, August 13, 2011

W: LP: RAH: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

The Moon Is a Harsh MistressThe Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book is laden with great ideas, and may be considered subversive by those opposed to liberty. Just finished it for the second time and loved it. I should be getting a paper copy (listened to audible version this time around) next week, at which time I shall start quoting portions here to stimulate discussion of the ideas contained within. Beyond the great ideas in the book, I also marveled at the perfect pacing of the events in the story and enjoyed all the various characters. The basic science within the story is what makes it "hard" science fiction, but enjoyable in the tradition of the golden age of this genre.

I'll have updates posted here when I have time.

For now,

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