Jan 22, 2016
polytheists
just realized after 20+ years of practising, how nice it is to be a polytheist. Having voices in my head makes so much more SENSE now... =P heh
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polytheists
just realized after 20+ years of practising, how nice it is to be a polytheist. Having voices in my head makes so much more SENSE now... =P heh
godspoken replied to your post: *preparing for event a week ago, didnt eat and...
yummy green tea latte!
it IS very yummy tho
Hey, just wanted to thank you for the "music" section of this blog! Every musician on this show is great and I've been looking forward to seeing what the songs were since season one. <3
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it! :)
godspoken replied to your post:WHY ARE PEOPLE’S ICONS SLIDING UP AND DOWN THE...
Maybe if you didn’t skip over staff’s five-part post about it you would know!
ngl i got really mad for a second bc i was like who the FUCK is talkin shit to me but it's just you
also i follow over 600 people so i probably just missed it
godspoken replied to your post “oi to anyone that owns persona q i kinda want to get it but i’m...”
Persona Q is easier for me than P4, and I played P4 on Easy mode. Granted I've played every Etrian Odyssey game, but still.
ahhh well i suppose we all must start somewhere... maybe i'll get it when it's in the sorta bargain bin
What it comes down to, what I really like about Card's portrayals of religion, is that they're varied and complex, and the individual characters deal with religion in the same ways that real people do. Some struggle with their beliefs, some find comfort in them, and some reject them, but those are all realistic ways to engage with a religion. I think it's elitist enough to assume that a scientific paramilitary organization like Starfleet would be composed entirely of atheists (which sends the message that they have shed their religious thoughts because religion and intelligence are mutually exclusive), and it's just poor writing to assume that whole civilizations would travel to the stars and not bring the trappings of their belief systems with them. Although my honest opinion about the sequels to Ender's Game is that they are a tiresomely long philosophical treatise masquerading as a science fiction story, they do bring up some interesting issues as far as religion and belief is concerned. It's not a tack I've seen any other writers take, and I think there's a definite lack of that train of thought in sci-fi. Unfortunately the books are a chore to get through, given that the story and the characters seem to always be playing second fiddle to the message the books are trying to send. It's not quite an Ayn Rand novel, but it's a close thing. And that's what frustrates me so much, on a personal level. It seems counter-intuitive that Card, who clearly has a great philosophical grasp on the nuances of religion and the different ways it can serve and hurt society, still personally embraces such hateful views.
--from "Oh, My Pop Culture Speaker for the Dead: Orson Scott Card and Ender's Universe," originally posted October 2013.