RE: A Si Fi watchmaker.
March 21, 2015 at 10:52 am
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2015 at 10:59 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Yeah, you know, I managed to read L Rons sci fi without turning into a scientologist. I just don't know that the problem you see actually exists. 
hrugs:
We tell stories, sure..some people are nuts, sure....but the former really isn't the origin or source of the latter, eh? Sci fi isn't "claims"......it's fiction, a story, decidedly so and self declared (hell that's kind of why they call it fiction, after all...). Do you think that even the authors feel that they are making some sort of claim, and if so...are you sure that the claim has anything to do with science? Is there a claim, for example, in "A Scanner Darkly" - what is it? Or, just pick something you prefer, something you're familiar with....tell me the sorts of claims you see?
hrugs:We tell stories, sure..some people are nuts, sure....but the former really isn't the origin or source of the latter, eh? Sci fi isn't "claims"......it's fiction, a story, decidedly so and self declared (hell that's kind of why they call it fiction, after all...). Do you think that even the authors feel that they are making some sort of claim, and if so...are you sure that the claim has anything to do with science? Is there a claim, for example, in "A Scanner Darkly" - what is it? Or, just pick something you prefer, something you're familiar with....tell me the sorts of claims you see?
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