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🗓️ 15 May 2009
⏱️ 50 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, good day all, and welcome back once again to another edition of the Atheist News Network. Now what we have on tap today |
0:16.3 | is actually probably going to take us a little bit longer than our normal 15 minutes to talk |
0:21.3 | about because the person discussing this I have called people |
0:26.6 | retards in the past but this guy is the ultimate he is the king of |
0:30.6 | retards in my opinion. This is impressive unless unless you just |
0:36.5 | shut up and let me talk I think we're going to go over that 15 minute mark I |
0:39.8 | think you're right. Yeah, yeah, well what hey. All right well what this is is this is |
0:49.2 | Orson Scott card now have you ever read Enders game? No, no. |
0:54.0 | In fact, I've actually heard that Orson Scott Card is a good writer, |
0:58.0 | but I've never bothered to read any of his works of fiction or non-fiction for that matter. |
1:04.1 | You know, Enders Game was one of my favorite novels. |
1:08.0 | Oh, second. |
1:11.6 | Do you mind waking up? We're doing a podcast. |
1:14.0 | Um, Enders Game was one of my favorite novels in high school. |
1:19.0 | Enders Game is all about this little kid who's really smart and bright and special and everyone |
1:27.6 | bullies him because of it. He's a total victim and it's just because he's so darn special. |
1:34.0 | Why does that sound like a Mary Sue character? |
1:37.2 | It sounds like Orson Scott Card is thinking about himself and he was bullied. |
1:41.0 | It's actually, you know, I liked it right up until I had training in philosophy because the whole thing really is about how Ender is guiltless because his intentions were good. |
1:59.8 | So Ender's game and actually even more Speaker for the Dead the one that followed |
2:03.4 | the speaker for the day explicitly points this out it's all about your intentions |
2:09.6 | the action really doesn't matter it's what you intended to happen and I think that's |
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