[the_old_crowd] Intelligent Manifestos

[ewe2]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 06:39:18AM -0500, susiequsie23 wrote:

> There are also a couple of people who lately have been a bit frighteningly
> adamant that they KNOW how JKR thinks and what she's doing so intimately
> that they KNOW character X represents Christian character Y or Christian
> theme Z.  LL, though, to the best of my recollection, has never joined in
> this activity, nor have I ever seen anything of ID as a part of his
> particular requirements for the "correct" worldview.

No, LL is just a very good stirrer who enjoys being on both sides of the fence
and pretending to be just an onlooker. Probably a tabloid journalist in RL.
His scary fans (and you're right about that, Susan) however are eager to press
on...

> But it may be that what's being said here in this thread is that, rather
> than the actual *content* of ID, it's the method of going back to "fix"
> things by finding "evidence" and making it "fit" the "proper" worldview that
> was being referred to.

Precisely. With the same agenda to make that worldview indistinguishable to
common culture.


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When all you have are foxes, everything looks like a henhouse.