- fetsiboomsticks: Cultural ghettos are places where we congregate with people just like us. Where we otherise others by affirming ourselves and by actively ennumerating what differences the differences of others.
- frustration is very stimulating. Learning a language, being frustrated that you can't express in fine detail keeps you trying.
- a reader wants to see the manifestation of the identity of the author in the story
- fetsiboomsticks: you are not a creator, an actor takes roles that he 'agrees' with, that he is prepared to endorse, that's what we think.
- multicultural writers are expected to write their culture, English writers are allowed to be more imaginative
- she was prosecuted for words she had written and she objects because it is fiction writers are entitled to their opinions, but it is not politics its fiction, separate things
- fiction is a connector, politics is a divider
- Muslims read books by Palistinians and vice versa, they connect. Politicians stop you from listening
- She likes not knowing what she will write about next or what characters will do in the next ten pages
- Perhaps we should not teach students to write what they know, instead write what we can feel outside of their cultural ghetto
Dawkins has become outspoken in his atheism , coining the word "bright" (as an alternate to atheist), and encouraging fellow non-believers to stand up and be identified. intelligent design is creationism redressed creationists are right that evolution is hostile to evolution statistical improbability of the complexity of design - intelligent design but the intelligent designer wouldn't have made such a hash - why would the designer be bothered with disapproving of our sex lives, favor our side in the war Dawkins suggest rocking the boat - attack religion as a whole taboo of speaking ill about religion - Douglas Adams said, sacred ideas at the heart of religion, holy cows, you can support any operating system you want, but the challenge of religious ideas is off limits science and religion are corrosive to each other - religious explanations are trivial and improbably, teaches people to accept authoritarianism takes the example of famous scientists and imagines ...
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