i think it's just a culmination of geek source material.

was kinda disappointed in second one... similar failing to watchmen - less a work itself and more a cliff's notes summarization.

you too?! last three thrusts right? I! LOVE! YOU!!!

but there are problems whose solutions are completely out of your ability to control:

"The universe cannot have mechanically created itself, because a statement involving "X creates X," presupposes X already exists, but using X to explain the existence of X (even if replaced with 'the universe') is still invalid, regardless of what X is."

"Where did the "stray atoms of hydrogen" come from?"

it's only comedic if you don't understand that morality can stand completely independent of religion. in fact, morality as such probably simply stems from the biological altruism of mother to her children.

it IS a minor and arbitrary distinction. the REFERENT is the same. the INTENT is the same.

and then there's dawkins and hitchens.

look at neon genesis evangelion... christianity in japan is completely alien and for them, it's just kind of a literary tradition that they appropriate in whatever way is convenient for them.

two words... emse bianco... good fucking lord!

does kokiri (forest) mean something in japanese? in korean it's elephant.

diet mountain dew

nevermind frostmourne... what about mournblade?!

i'm totally shocked that vernor vinge's pham nguyen books ain't on the list...

WTF?

what children should really be taught:

" All people have value, and all people have the possibility of enriching our lives, or *gasp* we can enrich theirs without expecting return."

bullshit. that "NOTHING" was no less than the groundwork. that nothing set the stage and the protocols for EVERYTHING that would come after. evidently, you have no idea what the goddamn fuck you're talking about or how far the arpanet developed under the hand of government and our motherfucking universities. …

i thought it was "first the bee, then the frog, then the weemen"