Re: [UUPoly-L] Stranger In A Strange Land

["K Kylev" <sweetbinbi@gmail.com>]

Good Morning!

I am new here, so  I am not sure of the proper etiquette for coming into a
discussion.  If I am out of order then please forgive my interruption.
 However,
if it is permissible to just delve right in, I would like to comment,
please. . .  Thank-you.

I am a Heinlein fan.  However, I do see the point of each who has shared
here.  Nevertheless, I am grateful for the doors Robert opened to the public
in his time and especially to the literary and SIFI world.   I read the long
version some years back and found it very revealing, open-minded and to the
extreme of what the times would accept even in Science-Fiction.   Or I
should say in my own arena of Science-FictionJ.  Still, if I had been the
one recommending Heinlein rather than *Stranger In A Strange Land*,  I would
have suggested anyone willing to invest the time to start out with *Time
Enough For Love*, an excellent read in my option and even more diverse in
it's open-mindedness.  After reading it I gave it as birthday and
Christmas/Chanukah gifts to all I knew---those who actually read it loved
it.   It is truly worth the energy and time to my point of view.  Of course,
to save time one could always invest in a revised audio-version.

Thank you for allowing me to add my thought here.

Also, I am assuming these discussions are people from everywhere---rather
than particular locations, correct?   I found this site googling
poly-friendly counselors in the Seattle area.  Is anyone here from this
area?  I have visited the UU Church several times in my area over the years
thinking they would be open-minded enough for Poly.  However, found that
most do not have a clue and the ones who do don't go there---meaning PolyJ.
Of course, I have not met everyone in the congregation by any means.   So,
it is very possible there are Poly-people within the congregate.  Would any
of you know any near me?

Thank you for your time. . .  Have a wonderful day.
Blessings
Kayla (katt)

PS  I must say I was surprised at how many postings I have so quickly
received from submitting to the mailing list.  Though, this is the only one
that has interested me so far.   Is everyone here a member of UU?  I am not,
as you likely deduced from above.  But, I will be visiting again my local UU
Congregation this Sunday.  Wondering, does any one know how many UU
Poly-people there are?


On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Bitsy <darthbitsy@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I read SiSL in the summer of 2000, when I was 15,* so I'm afraid I don't
> remember it well.  What I
> do remember is that all the ideas made so much sense to me that they
> clicked well enough that I
> didn't find them odd or different.  So what I noticed was the homophobia,
> and how shallow the
> women were.  I almost couldn't read it because it bothered me so much.  The
> shallow women I could
> write off as being a product of the authors time (though I shouldn't have),
> but the idea that
> someone could be so positive about sex and yet so homophobic really got to
> me.
>
> There is more then one criticism to make of this book.  That doesn't make
> it not worth reading.
>
> Bitsy
>
> *Indecently I was also just starting my first (and still primary)
> relationship that summer.  It
> was an interesting time to read it – when I was trying to figure
> relationships out in general.
>
> --- Ned Sudborough <sudborough@cybermesa.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > A few months back, enough discussion of "Stranger"  brought me to
> > read the book.
> > As I was once told, it was "a founding document" for polys.
> > Considered separately
> > from that importance, I found the book  longer than necessary,
> > tedious to read,  stylistically
> > coarse,  with frequently mentioned characters uncharacterized and
> > with several chapters
> >   interpolated as humor that undermine the seriousness with which
> > we might consider the book's separate ideas and his whole thesis as
> > well.
> > Encouraging people to read the book calls for some warnings, also.
> >
> > Ned
> >
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