Comments on: My Kids http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/07/my-kids/ a Ruins Explorer and SF / Fantasy Author in Japan Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:15:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: 10 Stories of Ruin | michael john grist http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/07/my-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-11363 10 Stories of Ruin | michael john grist Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:26:33 +0000 http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/?p=3078#comment-11363 [...] My Kids [...] [...] My Kids [...]

]]> By: MJG http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/07/my-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-5776 MJG Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:51:06 +0000 http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/?p=3078#comment-5776 David- Ha, interesting read on it :) I don't think I dread having kids, but.... David- Ha, interesting read on it :) I don’t think I dread having kids, but….

]]> By: David Meyer http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/07/my-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-5775 David Meyer Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:46:26 +0000 http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/?p=3078#comment-5775 I later thought that maybe the story means you just really dread having children. They're not so bad, really. At least I don't have any broken bones, yet. ;) I later thought that maybe the story means you just really dread having children. They’re not so bad, really. At least I don’t have any broken bones, yet. ;)

]]> By: MJG http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/07/my-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-5770 MJG Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:57:55 +0000 http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/?p=3078#comment-5770 David- Thank-you for such a thoughtful post- I've never read that short story but checked it out after you mentioned it, very interesting stuff. I'll roll with you that things are generally more positive than as depicted in this story. Most of my writings are, actually- but sometimes a bleak one slips through. David- Thank-you for such a thoughtful post- I’ve never read that short story but checked it out after you mentioned it, very interesting stuff. I’ll roll with you that things are generally more positive than as depicted in this story. Most of my writings are, actually- but sometimes a bleak one slips through.

]]> By: David Meyer http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/07/my-kids/comment-page-1/#comment-5729 David Meyer Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:59:25 +0000 http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/?p=3078#comment-5729 "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison. I wonder what this well-written but disturbing story means. That our comfortable lifestyle, bonds of familial affection, our very humanity itself is ephemeral and illusory? I know comforts and dignities are meaningless. Love and humanity do sometimes fail, but I think that generally they last and sustain us, and we are never beyond hope of their recovery. “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” by Harlan Ellison.

I wonder what this well-written but disturbing story means. That our comfortable lifestyle, bonds of familial affection, our very humanity itself is ephemeral and illusory? I know comforts and dignities are meaningless. Love and humanity do sometimes fail, but I think that generally they last and sustain us, and we are never beyond hope of their recovery.

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