General Gau had thanked for her candor in this as in all other things and then went ahead and did it anyway.
People don’t mind having the mystical aspect of a church being poorly defined as long as you make the rules of the church clear.
It’s a cat,” I said. “If Donut wants to spend time with you he’ll show up in your room and sit on your important things.
I am also aware that ideals are hard to practice, especially when they are new.
Which reminds me that you’ll be searched on both ends of your journey, on both ends of your body. Sorry, that was a nonnegotiable.” Nadashe shrugged. “I was groped worse in college.” “I don’t know what to do with that information.
When I was a kid I watched a documentary about the movie Planet of the Apes. The first one, with Charlton Heston. They were talking about how they would make up all the extras as various types of apes, like chimps and gorillas and orangutans, and then the extras would go to lunch and they would segregate. All the people made up like gorillas would sit with other gorillas, all the chimps would sit with chimps.
The goal shouldn’t be to make your child eat an entire set of encyclopedias by the age of six. The goal should be to encourage your child to be curious – to want to learn about the world, and explore the things that are in it.
You could say our new colonies live off the bodies of the dead. Only they’re not really the bodies of the dead. They’re just the cast-off bodies of the living.
Still, I’d like to know how you came up with that line of reasoning.” “You can thank a rabbi,” Javna said. “And a hot dog.
When a lie has negative consequences, people dislike it. But otherwise? They move on, and eventually the lie as a lie is forgotten, or in this case, codified as the foundation of religious practice and buffed and sanded into something prettier and more congenial.
The half-life between story of the century and not even the story of the day is quicker than you would ever guess.
Then: “What time is it in Arizona?” “It’s two hours behind here, so about eight thirty,” I said. “Maybe. Arizona is weird about time zones.
Well, isn’t that just like religion for you, Archie,” he said. “One day it’s a nice way to spend your weekends and the next you’re in the middle of a righteous theological clusterfuck.
You are, at least to a certain approximation, human. You’re not supposed to be here.
Look,” I said. “Something that needs your attention. Over there. Away from here.
Life goes on even when Jenkins’ ‘Narrative’ is supposed to apply.
If he dies during the jump, I would suggest it would be politic for you to follow him,” Abumwe said.
I’m trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up. A nice thing to wonder about when you’re thirty.
While the elite of the Interdependency were making their plans to abandon the common people to their fate, the common people of the Interdependency were beginning to come to grips with what, exactly, that fate actually was.
It worked because on a social level, apparently enough people wanted it to, and because at the heart of it, billions of humans living in fragile habitats prone to mechanical and environmental breakdowns and degradation, and with limited natural resources, were better off relying on each other than trying to go it alone. Even without the Interdependency, being interdependent was the best way for humanity to survive.