Ah—yes. I knew Gibson had done some X-Files. Didn't know Gaiman had.

I knew Gaiman wrote an episode in season 5... I didn't know that Gibson had written episodes for B5 though. If you don't mind, can you tell me which one(s)?

I'll admit that it seems to come down ultimately to temperament.

I don't disagree with any of what you're saying. It's just a difference in perspective. The only thing I would add is that if all of us are God, and therefore none of us are special... that's not handwaving, that's exactly the point. We're not particularly special, except that we are. You are unique, just like…

All good points Corpore;

Hello Corpore,

Thanks! I completely agree.

Hey Corpore—I just wanted to let you know that I will be writing you a detailed response. I've been away much of the weekend, and have to go out again, so it might be a day or two, but I will write you back. Until then, take care!

I heard there were a few, including a chapter where there's a train crash and she goes on to itemize exactly why everybody on the train deserved to die. This is why I'm so reluctant to spend any time investigating it. Lots of intelligent people whose opinions I respect have told me it's bunk; and I've been generally…

Probably... I'll maybe start with some of her lighter works and see how far I get. Cheers!

The individual and social liberty part is what mainly interests me, so Anthem sounds like an excellent place to start. Thanks for the info!

Awesome! I have just enough philosophy under my belt to be extremely suspicious of Rand, but probably not enough to properly critique it. But I'll check out this new source you gave me. Thanks for the link!

Not only that—but our goals, conscious or unconscious, at the time of seeing something will greatly alter the aspects of it that we see. Our perceptions are always framed by what we want.

I'd like to. I have a copy, I just haven't played it yet. I don't get much time to play games these days, but one day I'll get to it.

Well, I get that part. The part I don't get is how she makes a rational argument for that, because that just seems like an Objectivist axiom, rather than the product of reasoning from more basic premises.

That's awesome! It's a decent school, if you can get past how crowded it is. But cool professors to look up if you're so inclined and get the chance...

:D

I'll re-watch that film with Rand in mind; but yeah, when I think about it, it does kind of fit.

Sounds amusing, one way or the other :)

Well, that's true. I was being partly facetious with my intitial comment though, in that a god who demands your worship, and your starship is pretty obviously not a real god.