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post #51 of 56
5/2/09 at 3:47pm
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Originally Posted by Atomic Ross View Post
I think the most mind-destroying thing for myself in the whole faff is the "Simple majority can and should overrule the non-encroaching rights of others" angle so many fundies and Mormons (redundancy?) harp on about.

That's the funny thing about the so-called Conservative core these days. The objectivist and libertarian founders of the party would just shake their heads in dismay, perplexed as to how the party of liberation and small government became the party of disenfranchising whole groups of people without anything other than moral outrage and fanatical dissonance guiding their actions.
The problem is that the Republicans are in not way conservative, hence the Neo in front of the Con. The Republican party now a days practices the same kind of socialism that that the Nazis did, which is not to say that Reps are Nazis, just that they have the same ideals about social structure, both are corporatist.
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post #52 of 56
5/2/09 at 8:57pm
Card's been doing rants like that one for a while. Never read Ender's game, not sure if I can bring myself to after reading the essay I link to as well as the one at the top of the thread.

Also, Ultimate Iron Man (penned by Card) SUCKED ASS. Seriously, Tony Stark a) has a super power and b) his super power is blue skin-encasing armor?

I guess I've been living in the Smartland too long...
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post #53 of 56
5/4/09 at 3:08am
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Originally Posted by eenin View Post
The problem is that the Republicans are in not way conservative, hence the Neo in front of the Con.
True as that may be, it's about as accurate as saying "neo-nazi" is a movement for Zionists.
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post #54 of 56
5/4/09 at 4:32am
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Originally Posted by Alan "Nordling" Cerny View Post
I'd so put THE LAST STARFIGHTER over ENDER'S GAME. TLS has Robert Preston.
Card could never have had Robert Preston. The Music Man swung the other way.

As for the "Ender's Game is an anomaly among Card's otherwise terrible output" argument, I merely comment that the fearsome unseen alien enemies in that book are called... buggers.
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post #55 of 56
5/4/09 at 10:06am
http://www.mormontimes.com/mormon_vo..._card/?id=5572
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post #56 of 56
5/4/09 at 9:13pm
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Originally Posted by Orson Scott Card View Post
http://www.mormontimes.com/mormon_vo..._card/?id=5572

"I can imagine all kinds of back-and-forth arguments. The Nativity scene was an affirmation of a faith, not an attack on a rival faith, while the atheist sign was nothing but an attack, and was put up on someone else's holy day instead of their own."

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"But don't deliberately seek occasions to offend others when nothing is at stake; and willingly admit whatever good things others believe in and do."
This from the guy who, in case you missed the beginning of the thread, was suggesting revolution in order to prevent the legalization of gay marriage.

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I do, however, see in these atheists, as in the Puritans, an intolerant insistence that anyone who thinks differently from them is not only wrong, but evil, so their doctrines must be eradicated.
Two paragraphs later:

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What are the relative merits of the beliefs and practices of atheists on the one hand, and Christians on the other -- in particular, Latter-day Saints? (It's not our job to support the views of other Christians where they differ from ours.)
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