Burrell, were you to accept blame, you'd have to be creating it. I assigned nor assumed none.

But now I have somewhere to start resolving the blank space.

Burrell, were you to accept blame, you'd have to be creating it. I assigned nor assumed none.

Okay. No blame. I can handle that.

OK - so you are saying nind-body dualism is gendered. OK - I can get that. (If you define it that broadly I can think of at least one woman-written seires with a posltive take 0n Anne McCafferies Ship Who Sang series.)

Even so I'd have to concede your large point. Mind and Body seperate , mind good, body bad is almost always a male thing.

Where maybe we would have a difference (and maybe not) is that the particular example of heads in a jar is almost always portrayed as horrific. I mean I can't think of a case where head in a jar was portrayed positively in fiction. (Doesn't mean there isnt one. I just can't think of one.) I think the particular tropes of head in a jar or bodiless heads in general - to the extent that they deal with mind body dualism they do so critically. But I'm not wedded to this. It just never occurred to me that this was ever seen positively (the head-in-the-jar trope, not mind/body dualism in general.)

I mean I can't think of a case where head in a jar was portrayed positively in fiction.

My point was that it has been entertained in fact, or at least in theory, fairly often, often enough to indicate that there is a sizable number of the intellectual community that finds it a plausible enough idea to investigate.

Although, my only experience in reading the head in a jar thing was A Wrinkle in Time, which is by a woman.

not really argueing that it seems to be a male things, though. I have personally wondered, however, around the 7th grade, whether my life was real or whether I was dreaming it and would eventually wake up. Or maybe my dreams were real and the life was fake.

I have personally wondered, however, around the 7th grade, whether my life was real or whether I was dreaming it and would eventually wake up. Or maybe my dreams were real and the life was fake.

I did that in my first grade class. I can remember where I was sitting, who was around me, and how the room looked (not really detailed or anything, just lighting, etc.). It creeped me right out. My son asked me about that sort of thing this year, and he's in first grade, which got me creeped out all over again.

You know I don't want to defend Niven about anything. Put it this way - he is so far to the right I prefer Heinlein.

Are you sure you're not mistaking Niven for Pournelle?

No - I agree Pournelle is worse. The way I'd put it is that Heinlein was right-wing libertarian. Niven is very conservative, to the right of libertarians. Pournelle is a reactionary, to the right of conservatives. Anderson is (well was) also a reactionary, but tempered with a genuine humanitarianism and hatred of cruelty.

Amy Flower, over at DVD.net.au, has posted her review of the Season 6 Part 1 box set. As usual, it's a great read. Check out her reviews for Seasons 2 - 5 starting here. There is no review for Season 1, unfortunately.

"Angel is broody" *snerk*

I have personally wondered, however, around the 7th grade, whether my life was real or whether I was dreaming it and would eventually wake up. Or maybe my dreams were real and the life was fake.

One of my most vivid childhood memories is of a Passover holiday we spent at my grandmother's (the one who passed away six weeks ago). I was four years old, and my father took me to bed before the 'Seder' was over, because I nearly fell asleep at my seat. Ever since then, and for years, I couldn't shake the feeling that all that is happening to me is, in fact, part of the dream the four-year-old me is dreaming at my grandmother's, and that I can wake up at any minute from it.