My parents both made it into their '90s. Does that make me an honorary member of the Howard Families? 🤣
My parents both made it into their '90s. Does that make me an honorary member of the Howard Families? 🤣
A #hymn .
https://youtu.be/bDjwUzUnNpU?is=wG7DhPjtCKOLtkke
And #Heinlein 's added verse.
Almighty Ruler of us all
Whose power extends to great and small,
Who guides the stars with steadfast law,
Whose least creation fills with awe;
Oh, grant Thy mercy and Thy grace
To those who venture into #space.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@fatsam/116216674976957047
#Heinlein #GloryRoad #HerWisdom #Star #Empress of the universes.
A story with good entertainment value, and as always a stimulus to thought.
A quotation from Robert Heinlein
Could it be otherwise here? Could any one sect obtain a working majority at the polls and take over the country? Perhaps not — but a combination of a dynamic evangelist, television, enough money, and modern techniques of advertising and propaganda might make Billy Sunday’s efforts look like a corner store compared to Sears Roebuck. Throw in a depression for good measure, promise a material heaven here on earth, add a dash of anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, anti-Negroism, and a good large dose of anti-“furriners” in general and anti-intellectuals here at home and the result might be something quite frightening — particularly when one recalls that our voting system is such that a minority distributed as pluralities in enough states can constitute a working majority in Washington.Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Essay (1952-10), “Concerning Stories Never Written,” Revolt in 2100, Postscript (1953)
More about this quote: wist.info/heinlein-robert-a/82…
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Could it be otherwise here? Could any one sect obtain a working majority at the polls and take over the country? Perhaps not -- but a combination of a dynamic evangelist, television, enough money, and modern techniques of advertising and propaganda might make Billy Sunday’s efforts look like a corner…
A quotation from Robert Heinlein
The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Essay (1952-10), “Concerning Stories Never Written,” Revolt in 2100, Postscript (1953)
More about this quote: wist.info/heinlein-robert-a/64…
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This is a brilliant line that can be read two ways. It’s something I try to do.
#writing #heinlein