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[โ€“] andyburke@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Like watching people argue fanfic canon in here. ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] yannic@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

That's exactly it, and I'm surprised more people don't see it that way. For such fiction, there will almost always be a bigger nerd that eclipses your own knowledge on any particular aspect of canon, and yet someone pays half-attention to a child's curriculum or reads a Dawkins or Hitchens book and it's treated as an insult to their intelligence to politely inform them of something they may have missed.

At least fanfic arguments tend to lean more civil, and are generally seen as an expression of zeal between peers who all enjoy the same thing, albeit with differing opinions on the details.

[โ€“] jerkface@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Minimize it all you like, but no one ever started a bloody war over "Encounter at Hotpoint". Yes, all human culture is alike in some ways. Very clever observation. I think you will find that most of the people engaged in this discussion are not even Christian. It's still significant and meaningful, if not to us personally, to the world we exist in.

This is one of the more interesting, informative and respectful discussions I have seen in a few days. Why shit on it. The age of edgy Internet atheism has passed. It's okay just to BE an atheist now. No one is coming for you. You can stop fighting.

[โ€“] Hobo@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

You mean Encounter at Farpoint? Or is that just some reference I'm missing. I'm not gonna rule out starting a war over Encounter at Farpoint at some point in the furture though, if for no other reason than the sheer irony.