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From: Don <g@crcomp.net>
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Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here...
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 15:26:51 -0000 (UTC)
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Titus G wrote:
> Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> Terry Austin (gutless,jinbini)
> [ Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha] ran me and several others out of here
>> back in 2000 or so with his antics.  I did not come back until 2010 ???
>> when he had calmed down and he stopped nymshifting.
>
> What a laugh. Did these several others have names or were they perhaps
> your imaginary friends?
> I recall events differently.
> 1. That the insult in his latest signature he had had for some years was
> to accuse someone of being stupider than Lynn.
> 2. That he never calmed down.
>
> I find your positivity and enthusiasm for young adult SF incredible and
> it almost outweighs your regular arrogant misinterpretations, (eg
> Murder Bot), and your primitive political and religious views, (Covid,
> AGW, Glossolalia). I also think you are a welcomed institution here and
> I would be sad if you didn't or couldn't post.

   According to January 2023 WordsRated statistics, 51% of YA books are
   purchased by people between the ages of 30 and 44, and 78% of those
   buyers said that they intended to read the books themselves. In recent
   years, librarians report that more middle grade readers (traditionally
   eight- to 12-year-olds) are "reading up" to YA books.

<https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/93417-who-is-ya-for.html>

Although the article above advances arguments about why aged adults read
Young Adult (YA) fiction, in my case it's quite simple. Young adult
fiction furnishes flights of fancy (eg escapism), to me.
    The closer a given protagonist resembles me, both outwardly and
inwardly, the better. The more easily digestible the science is, the
better.
    Bohmian theory is hard. As is playing the apostate to debunk
Scientism invented by Science Fiction titan Francis "Shakespeare"
Bacon. From my perspective, Hubbard's Scientology is but a dull
reflection of Bacon's brilliant Scientism.
    Yet, despite my proclivity for YA, the fight continues. Robert
Frederick offers world class research on Bacon. He recently released
another free episode:

    The Gnostic Romeo and Juliet: Sex, Death, Violence and Vampires

    Romeo and Juliet is possibly the most famous and popular
    play of all time- it's filled with death, not love and
    there is barely any romance! I make a detailed scene by
    scene case that this play is hiding a horror movie.

    <https://thehiddenlifeisbest.com/post/episode-17>

Danke,

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