... Well obviously I wasn't being serious.. I'm not infavor of Jen getting murdered and Kira crippled either. I just have a very dark sense of humor in case...
... Yes, totalitarian systems are not known for innovation and discovery precisely because they intentionally eliminate the smartest members of their society...
... Well I've had lengthy discussions with Kira and also you Louise.. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be enough traffic to this website these days so it's...
... A thought just came to me with regards to totalitarianism and probably one of the most notorious depictions of it Orwell's classic 1984.. In 1984 Big...
Dear Mondo Generator, Human totalitarians WERE "freaks" in most communities before the Kurgan invasions. Since these invasions peaked between roughly 5 and...
... That's a pretty open ended question, Louise, given how many subjects I've talked about here over the years. Kira Kindala Operational Ruler Kingdom of...
Dear Mondo Generator, The lyrics to "O My Beautiful Doll" incorporate: "Oh my beautiful doll,my great big beautiful doll..." if you decide to alter this to...
Few Gelfling ever liked to think lying thoughts: but they would have learned to do it if Jolen had abused them much longer. This would have brought them...
Kira from this forum of course.. Last november we had a long discussion about human vs gelfling nature it was interesting. I was actually responding to what...
... I've already begun work on a kind of well let's say Edgar Varese/Captain Beefheartish melody for crack that crystal.. I think that's the peice I'm going...
... No but we are a species that has been burdened by totalitarianism for quite a long time. So human totalitarians are not really freaks anymore. ... Well we...
... Really it is possible for Gelfling to lie in their thoughts?.. This is truely interesting. I mean the thing I always found interesting about dreamfasting...
... Even if true, it is still ordinary politeness to apologize before criticizing someone. This appears to be common sense since both Gelfling and Humans tend...
... Only if one is significantly more powerful mentally than the other as was the case with Doria and Jolen. Doria has very little mind power. I have managed...
... That's just the thing right I mean you take our closest cousins the chimanzee and we share 98.9% of our DNA.. 98.9% of our DNA is EXACTLY the same. You...
... If that were true, would we not already have it? At the conjunction when the Crystal cracked, our technological sophistication was similar to your iron...
... Okay.. Well then maybe I'm mistaken so perhaps you could correct be here but I was under the impression that Gelfling were a much younger species than we...
... Yes, I know what "prehistory" means. But the problem is how do you define an evolving species? Gelfling and Humans both evolved in stages, changing very...
Dear Kira Kindala: John hesitates to finish his projected work because there are obvious problems: John's projected Gelflings had most deadly weapons. ...
... From: louise rothstein <crystalfan2912@...> Subject: Fw: Re: [CrystalCorner] Re: Gelfings, Podlings, Aughra and what they already know about their...
... Well yes you have a point there. There is no way of knowing for sure exactly when we evolved.. With humans it was roughly between 200 000 to 100 000...
... So then what specifically causes non-Skeksis to consider this music as "non-music"?.. Is it just bizarre chord progressions, obviously since Skeksis who...
... Although you addressed this question to me, since it involves John's work and not my world, I think I will allow John to answer your questions. John? Kira...
... Because they cracked the Crystal within minutes of their creation long before the Gelfling fully realized what they were. Even in Jim Henson's version of...
... Which would be my case as the Sandlings were a creation of John's version of the Dark Crystal Universe, and that is the version I inhabit. Kira Kindala ...