/lit/ - Literature

>>14253525
>Our regularly scheduled CATHR thread. Featuring all the same posts that make it abundantly clear nobody has read the thing

>>13883436
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>>13883949
For centuries theologians railed against the idea that the Earth did not occupy a central place in the cosmos. People fought and died over this.
As recently as last century serious theologians regarded the idea of life on other planets as a threat to their doctrine.
I wonder how they would all react to knowing it never turned out to be a problem, because modern "theists" haven't even got the wherewithal to consider it

>>12085447
>is not a testable scientific theory
Maybe not back in dinosaur times grandpa, but we can sequence genomes these days.

>>11523065
>>11523363
>I got the feeling you saw the movie after Nostagia Critic review, and just cooked up the dystopian stuff
>Obviously this montage of brighteyed recruits being shoved through a sci-fi meat grinder is a raucous celebration of the necessity of total war and uncritical submission to the state. They even get to star in propaganda at the end.
The film contains numerous references to Nazi Germany including the designs of uniforms and propaganda, and in the literal words of the literal director it is"A satire about how war makes fascists of us all". Heinlein may have meant his material less critically, but if you think Verhoeven was celebrating it you're a fucking illiterate.
I'm not sure how someone could miss the intent of the film so badly without being an actual sociopath