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by facepalm 10y ago
Thank you, I will check them out.
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by facepalm 10y ago
Thanks - I've read and liked Earthsea, but it might be time for another one.
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by facepalm 10y ago
But it's different things to include religion, which is just stuff people believe, and actual souls. Religion is just a belief. Churches are just companies. But I admit, in that sense any fantasy novel containing magic might be "r
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by facepalm 10y ago
Maybe I didn't read far enough, didn't think a book about souls could be atheist.
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by facepalm 10y ago
Then probably I didn't get that far while reading, sorry about that. Still not sure how it can be atheist if it is all about souls, though.
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by facepalm 10y ago
So are people basically content, or do they still long for something more free? Has the believe in something Diaspora-like evaporated completely since they screwed up?
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by facepalm 10y ago
So do you have any good books to recommend, or not?
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by facepalm 10y ago
I enjoyed Narnia, but found His Dark Materials unbearable. It's been a while since I read it, though, don't remember the specifics. The soul mate with animal spirit thing just seemed Christian to me - stunned that it is supposed t
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by facepalm 10y ago
Thanks, I will give her books a try!
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by facepalm 10y ago
There are two possibilities: 1. Women write the same books as men. Then it doesn't matter what gender the author of a book has (from the perspective of the reader who only cares about a quality reading experience) 2. Women write differ
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by facepalm 10y ago
It's been a long time since I read it, but wasn't it all kind of about souls and soul mates and stuff like that?
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by facepalm 10y ago
If you have good books to recommend, do.
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by facepalm 10y ago
Pullman is another one for the Christians, I suppose. If you are not religious, it seems unlikely to me that you would enjoy it (I didn't).
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by facepalm 10y ago
Only the protagonist met her in real life. I think you read too much into that.
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by facepalm 10y ago
If you can recommend more female authors on par with, say, JK Rowling, Fred Vargas, Neil Gaiman or Patrick Rothfuss, I'd be happy to read them. It's hard enough to find good books, worrying about the author's gender is very p
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by facepalm 10y ago
As a counterpoint, I really disliked The Sparrow. I guess it could be interesting if you are religious, but even then: why do you have to experience horrible things on an alien planet to start wondering why god let's such things happen
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by facepalm 10y ago
What would happen if he skipped on the homework?
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by facepalm 10y ago
Don't fret - constraints can be a boon, too, making your son more creative. It is not really important to build a fusion reactor, you can just as well build other cool things that cost less. Or you can learn business and marketing skil
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by facepalm 10y ago
As I said, I think racism is real. Your story about the VIP party sounds like a clear cut example. Just hearing it makes me really angry - I hope if I had been your coworker, I would have told the PagerDuty people to shove their wrist bands
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by facepalm 10y ago
> At the risk of telling you how to feel, how about feeling sad that people are actually victims of racism. Both can be true - racism surely exists, and that is sad. But people attributing things to their race or sex that are not actuall
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by facepalm 10y ago
In the German newspapers I read it was reported that the statements in question were actual calls for violence, not merely hate speech (I guess "kill all xyz" vs "xyz are evil"). So the police statement is rather mislead
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by facepalm 10y ago
EU has many of the same problems that are mentioned in the article, though. Here in Germany efforts to enforce proper food labeling so far have failed. The olive oil scam is a thing here, too (so I have heard). Sea food - it comes from the
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by facepalm 10y ago
While the picture seems bad for Ego-Depletion, I find the counter arguments put forward in the article not wholly satisfying, either. So they tried to replicate it in a large effort and failed, but they didn't use the same test as in t
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by facepalm 10y ago
My guess: there is an exact copy of Kidlington in China, and people who live there want to see the original.
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by facepalm 10y ago
It's not winning on Steam, but winning among all users who also have Steam. Still, it is probably an imperfect survey - not sure how they detect presence of a Rift. Maybe the Rift tends to be not plugged in for typical Steam games, so
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by facepalm 10y ago
Then why even bother with bcrypt?
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by facepalm 10y ago
By meritocracy I meant the American beliefthat everybody is responsible for their own success - but in turn also for not being successful. That seems to lead to less charity (judging from outside of the US). So Meritocracy might make you be
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by facepalm 10y ago
I find that Hindu bit fascinating because it is presumably what allows so many people to coexist on so little space. However, it is also a very convenient belief for the people who are better off. Kind of like the meritocracy on speed.
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by facepalm 10y ago
The original blacks who came to the US were not immigrants, they were slaves. For one thing there might be a bias in immigrants that doesn't apply to slaves, like having a certain education or wealth (immigrating tends to cost money).
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by facepalm 10y ago
Surely not the only ones to meaningfully modify earth. If you look from space, earth looks green... Also, wasn't the atmosphere changed to be more rich in oxygen by early microbes?

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