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Heath
Apr 30, 2008

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I will strongly second Sagan's book. I think it had a bigger influence on me than any other book I read as a teenager.

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Heath
Apr 30, 2008

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Xander77 posted:

That strikes me as very generic off-label christian tosh. Badger the writer (or the character) into drawing any actionable conclusions, and once they're done jerking themselves off over how humble and spiritually fulfilled they are, it will end up with "come on, stop prioritizing your selfish worldly desires over what I want you to do for my benefit.

Orson Scott Card's "we're all the same tribe, we all have the same rules, by which I mean human rules" speech in Xenocide, if you will.

This degree of cynicism is depressing

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