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The alien's desire to destroy other civilizations is what drives the plot forward. The message that I took away from the novel was not what aliens care about, b
by er4hn 4y ago
The alien's desire to destroy other civilizations is what drives the plot forward. The message that I took away from the novel was not what aliens care about, but that blind reliance on technology will not solve all problems.
Likewise debating angels dancing on the head of a pin, as if it were literal, wasn't the point. Depending on what sources you check it was either a made up story to mock scholars wasting time or a practice topic for debating.
- jonathankoren 4y agoDemonology is a “study” conducted by true believers for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Someone sat down in the 13th century, and earnestly questioned whether Forneus was a marquis or earl, and whether 30 legions of demons under his command was too many. (It was. He has only 29.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forneus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forneus