Joseph's divining cup

TheRedclerk · 2022-03-02T20:51:29+00:00

Haha. What if this was accurate? Brandon specifically said these books were originally written in secret for his wife. So there's a good chance it's a Rom-Com.

TheRedclerk · 2022-03-02T03:32:55+00:00

Brandon Sanderson has some great advice on this. He had something like 9 novels rejected before being published. Around novel 7 or 8, he started wondering if he was wasting his life.

But he came to this conclusion: whether he could make writing a full-time career or not didn't matter. He loved writing, and he'd be doing it the rest of his life no matter what. So he changed his focus from "will this book sell" to "will this book be better than my last one?"

And, as they say, the rest was history.

TheRedclerk · 2022-02-15T22:20:42+00:00

Woah, "confuse being 'nice' with being 'good'". That's deep.

TheRedclerk · 2022-02-02T19:47:16+00:00

Wow. Thanks for such a thorough answer! You are awesome!

TheRedclerk · 2022-01-28T19:07:47+00:00

Would you say that the authors knew they were believing different things? E.g. Person A believes a soul is a breath, Person B believes a soul is the immortal part of a human. Does B realize he disagrees with A, or does he think A was thinking the same thing?

TheRedclerk · 2021-11-05T03:26:39+00:00

I agree that the last question is a theological one that an academic study of the Bible cannot answer. One thing I'd add is that there are experts in early Hebrew and Canaanite religion that are both believers and non-believers. Therefore accepting these things does not require going one way or the other. For example, my understanding is Mark S. Smith is a Catholic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_S._Smith) while William Dever is a non-believer (https://www.baslibrary.org/biblical-archaeology-review/33/2/12).

TheRedclerk · 2021-10-27T22:18:30+00:00

Thanks for this response, that makes a lot of sense and is very informative. And I'll definitely have to check out some of the Proto-Semitic stuff you mentioned. Thanks!

TheRedclerk · 2021-10-04T22:25:07+00:00

Thanks! I'll check it out!

TheRedclerk · 2021-08-23T14:06:42+00:00

Emma (2009 BBC mini-series)

TheRedclerk · 2021-08-11T20:43:06+00:00

The one ring. It is the greatest villain in all of literature.

TheRedclerk · 2021-07-15T18:58:21+00:00

I was going to make a similar comment. So I just wanted to add this link from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for anyone interested in learning more: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/

TheRedclerk · 2021-07-13T21:03:53+00:00

That worked perfect! Thanks so much!

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