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Does Slow Johnny still pull the wings off flies
On Saturday, January 16, 2021 at 4:17:43 PM UTC-8, John B. wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 15:00:41 -0800 (PST), Tom Kunich wrote: On Friday, January 15, 2021 at 8:06:06 PM UTC-8, Joy Beeson wrote: On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 20:34:41 -0800, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:58:23 -0500, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 1/14/2021 6:04 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: I suspect that the next translation of the bible will be into text message abbreviations and acronyms, which is the common language of todays youth: https://www.webopedia.com/reference/text-message-abbreviations/ Long ago I read a science fiction novel (probably by Heinlein) that featured some sort of secret society. As I recall, to be inducted one needed a high degree of intelligence; but once inducted, trainees learned a new language, one that was heavily abbreviated. The claim was that we think by internal use of language, so learning a language whose information was very dense (in terms of ideas per syllable) allowed much faster processing of data - i.e. faster and more efficient thinking. I read the same story, but can't recall the name or author. I did some random Googling for clues, but can't recall enough of the story to construct a working key word search. As I vaguely recall, my first thoughts were that high speed thinking was of marginal value because it also accelerates one's rate of making mistakes and reduces the available time to consider side effects and "what can go wrong" thoughts after the high speed decisions are reached. While one can probably learn to communicate at high speeds, there's no guarantee that they will also think at high speeds. Found it! It's _Gulf_ by Robert A. Heinlein. Wikipedia says that the story was written after the table of contents for the magazine was composed, which explains why it fits its title very loosely. I was never able to understand why do many writers visualized a race superior to humans when the ultimate thing made by the hand of God himself with all of his foibles is the human being. No Tommy God did not make humans he made Adam and Eve who in turn made the rest of humanity. And, quite obviously the blight set in very early in the game. After all, One of their sons murdered the other one. Perhaps you you should spend a little time reading Genesis before shooting your mouth off. |
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