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From chapter XVIII: A man becomes a heretic less for what he writes than for what others believe he has written.
This is still happening, also in our discussions here.
This is still happening, also in our discussions here.
Manuel wrote: "From chapter XVIII: A man becomes a heretic less for what he writes than for what others believe he has written.This is still happening, also in our discussions here."
Well It is true that the discussion has been tense. I suppose that i wished is that the book liked, but It is not ever the things conclude well. However i think that we are doing Big progress. The discussion is having a lot of comments. We can do in the movies of John Ford at the beggining their Characters have cruel fights but at the end. They conclude being Friends. This is the main purpose of a good discussion that at the end despite of our different opinions we can see the best of the person Who with we discuss. Today is 16th of october we have fifteen days to make the discussion that we want to do It. Personally i want to present my excuses i wanted that This book was chosen to the Professor could enjoy thinking that This book could like him as "Canticle of Saint Leibowitz" or Unlimited Orbit I have never wanted that Eifelheim was a not fiction book of the science of the Middle Age. I also recognize that being a historian i have not said anything about books of history i did It. Because i am not an expert in Middle Age, my specialty is the Next period of the history the modern Age. In Europe we consider that the modern Age is the period Who starts with the Discovery of América with Christopher Columbus and concluded in 1789 with the french Revolution. In America i suppose that It Will be a bit different. Neither i want to write names of historians that It made that the discussion was more bored i am thinking in George Duby, Huizinga, or Pirenne because This group is for writing about Catholic literature and not everybody like the history or everybody can follow the language of the historians. I Will try to Read more books of history in the degree we have the bad custom of not reading books of history because with the lecture notes was enough not only for passing the exam It was enough to obtain the A+.
I promise that i Will be more respectful in the discussion and It Will be the end of the heresies. Because i have never found best persons that in This group and i have learnt a very valueable lesson not all things that likes me must like the others.
I Will follow an advise of a good friend that i have never given Up loving and This is that i do not want to impose my taste i only want to share with you, and It is with the critics as we get old and we grow Up not with triumphs and the success.
"Sin lay not in the concrete act, but in the will. Behind the woman's recitation lay the cardinal sin of which these mean transgressions were but the visible signs...Unless the inner flaw were healed, repentance--however sincere...--would shrivel like the seed upon bad ground.""No field of knowledge is so transparently simple as another's."
"I suppose anything is possible if we ignore the details."
"Peace needs the consent of all, while one alone may raise a war."
"For thanks. If I must die, at least I have lived. If my companions have perished, at least I have known them. If the world is cruel, at least I have tasted kindness...The world is full of miracles."
"When your words come out of your mouth and back into your ear, your brain gives them a second rinse and cleans them up a little better...When he tried to explain things (to her), his own thinking clarified."

