Dune

[JohnEmmett]

Middle Earth is not Arrakis.

No, it's a name for a familiar place

 

[musket]

Sigh. It's a name for a desert planet which was the product of Herbert's imagination and nothing more. He made it up. Why can't you accept the power of imagination?

 

[JohnEmmett]

Sigh.

Ordinary people are mundane


As for me… the supramundane

 

[musket]

And with that I wish you a supragoodnight.

 

[brianvds]

weak faith, I understand…

Very weak indeed.

testing your faith is asking a lot

What faith I have is untestable, sort of by definition. If it can be tested, it's science.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Very weak indeed.

Paul Atreides: We Fremen have a saying: God created Arrakis to train the faithful.

 

[musket]

The same sentiment could have been expressed, and maybe even was, by T.E. Lawrence.

 

[JohnEmmett]

The desert is clean ~ and pure and the past is kind ~ for it is over

-John Emmett

 

[musket]

And that sentiment definitely was expressed by Lawrence-- read Seven Pillars of Wisdom.