@FullPresence chronologically, it went something like: Heinlein, Rand (so gross!), Dick, Wilson, Zelazny, LeGuin, Brust, Banks
@FullPresence of course without that we wouldn't get the gorgeous Oxford comma failure, "Dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God"
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@chaosprime Yep. One of the reasons why I want to take back Rand. Plus, what she said about the worst effects of religion? She was right. -
@FullPresence the ol' memory banks don't seem to be pulling that up… what'd she say? -
@chaosprime Basically that it is the ultimate surrender of thinking. -
@FullPresence oh, well, yeah. or at least a species thereof. depending on whether your usage of "religion" requires woo or not. -
@chaosprime I think LaVey was honest about that; yes, it does, but if you do so knowingly somehow it make sense. -
@FullPresence mostly i mean that subsuming your cognition in a system can happen outside of things we normally think of as "religions" -
@FullPresence which iirc Rand addressed by calling Leninism a religion, which seems like terminology abuse to me, but whatevs -
@FullPresence also: every time somebody mentions Uncle Anton i am helpless to not remember how he wrote an essay in which he predicted that… - 1 more reply
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