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, 00:37, 8 May 2007→Other meanings for Boaz as in Hurricane boaz
There is also a old testiment figure with the name of Boaz.
For one, don't forget to sign with four ~'s, secondly, where did the name Boaz come from? and thirdly, due to the recent departure of Kurt Vonnegut, one of the greatest American novelists of our time (beeteedubs), I decided to re-read the very little known part 1 to Slaughterhouse V titled The Sirens of Titan. In this book, one of the best friends of the protagonist is named Boaz.
Boaz, after crashing a spaceship with the main character on Mercury, decides that he doesn't want to go back to civilization because he 'found him a place where he can do good without doing any harm' which was to sit around and not think about humanity until the day he dies, and spend his time with the unemotional creatures that live on Mercury because "hunger, envy, ambition, fear, indignation, religion, and sexual lust are irrelevant and unknown" to them.
Also, prior to making this decision, Boaz used to be the commanding officer in one of the regiments of the Army of Mars (read the book) and the way the Martian army was controlled was that all of the soldiers were installed with a brain effecting devise that could be turned on creating a painful, near paralyzing shock with the switch of a button. The commanding officers had these decises to control everyone, and Boaz described (after losing the devise and becoming friends with the main character) that he used to "pretend all his army life that he had understood what was going on, and that everything that was going on was just fine", but now that he doesn't have the devise, he realizes that he knew nothing about the world and was brainwashed himself from the power of the devises.
This might be the Boaz reference, considering we've been pointed towards Vonnegut before and that he is a HUGE moral-subject writer. Anyways~ Boaz makes me think - "Vonnegut"... Hope this helps! [[User:Jgrizzy89|Jgrizzy89]] 17:37, 7 May 2007 (PDT)
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