timelighter

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[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nonzero chance that abiogenesis occurred in there

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No there wasn't.

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The cosmogony in this comic is pretty close to what I believe, lol

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the idea is that it's a bad dream for him because he won't make it as a musician

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I've read 12 of Vonnegut's books. He is fundamentally a social progressive, but there are also some moments in some 70s novels (particularly Breakfast of Champions) that I find homophobic. He also has a habit of making women either passive pleasers or full nutso.

But he also explicitly and repeatedly pushes kindness, egalitarian social justice, and willingness to change.

I highly highly recommend every human read Mother Night.

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's not his views... that's from an essay where he's parodying the mainstream ultrasimplification of political alignment.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/cold-turkey

You left out some language that I think clears up his ironic tone:

If you want to take my guns away from me, and you’re all for murdering fetuses, and love it when homosexuals marry each other, and want to give them kitchen appliances at their showers, and you’re for the poor, you’re a liberal.

If you are against those perversions and for the rich, you’re a conservative.

What could be simpler?

Totally changes it, doesn't it?

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

He also said his fatal mistake was making one of the tools too closely resemble a saw

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe this time they can put in some GOD DAMN TOM BOMBADIL

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

comes back

Bilbo is gay!

dies

comes back

Nazgul are just men in dresses!

not canceled cause that's true

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (8 children)

"Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."

Kurt Vonnegut

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Olive olives

[–] timelighter@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I mean, yeah. You never make a glue glove?

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