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In reply to the discussion: CEO shooter Luigi Mangione laid out his motive on Good Reads [View all]Hekate
(96,033 posts)45. Grok iirc is full and complete mental and spiritual understanding between people or of a situation...
I ended up outgrowing Heinlein pretty thoroughly, but because his books were in (or passed thru) the house I did read just about everything of his.
Some things I recall with pleasure that is, parts of things, but I find that for me at least his opinions have not aged well at all. My sisters husband once long ago said Heinlein had only one woman character, and that was of rather thin cardboard. I said I thought he had three: a 12 y.o. girl who would grow up to be sexy and also brilliant, a sexy and brilliant adventurous redheaded wife, and an unpleasant wife/mother. OTT my BIL could have been right.
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Prison rape jokes and hopes are not permitted on this Board, last time I checked
Prairie Gates
Dec 9
#2
Our "justice system" protects the one percent. That's become more apparent with every high profile
BComplex
Dec 9
#29
He supposedly killed a member of the ownership class of this country. He will be suicided.
AZLD4Candidate
Dec 10
#70
If I were a juror and he had personally witnessed the death of family/friend because of denials, I might have had
Silent Type
Dec 9
#7
From his reading list, it looks like he has back problems and an interest in psychedelics among other things.
LudwigPastorius
Dec 9
#8
I believe grok is from Stranger in a Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.
ShazzieB
Dec 9
#18
If you don't think fantasy fiction has anything to offer, give it a miss. However, if one likes the genre...
Hekate
Dec 9
#41