Good scifi thread (96)

37 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2006-02-15 22:43 ID:r73me2S+

>>36

You're dangerously close to dismissing all of human communication and intelligence as meaningless there.

Point the first: Authors do write deeper meaning into their stories all the time. And they want you to see that.

Point the second: Even when they don't, their own beliefs and those of the society they live in will influence the story. This is not impossible for the reader to comprehend, either.

Point the third: Sometimes authors write confusing stories just for the fun of it, without any intended meaning, or with misleading meanings.

Point the fourth: It is sometimes hard to tell the difference between points one, two and three, and your own prejudices or delusions. This does not mean that trying is meaningless, nor that success is impossible!

Humans sometimes see patterns where there are none, but most of the time they see patterns where patterns abound.

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