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<blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8748097" data-attributes="member: 6855114"><p>Your personal opinion is as important as the opinion of anyone else. Including me. That I love the books or that you hate them is irrelevant. Saying do not read that book is censorship. </p><p></p><p></p><p>You should watch it. Not a great movie, but far from being the worst ever. And I watched simply because others said it was crap. I went out of my way to see if they were right. They were not that off the mark, but the movie isn't as bad as some make it appear to be. And this is exactly what censorship is about. If you follow blindly those that say "DON'T" then censorship IS showing its ugly head.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Of course the real world has an impact on what a human will write. Most of the time, this is an unconscious process. As one of the author of DL is Mormon, it is absolutely normal that some of the Mormon's way will show. Just like a Buddhist might have some Buddhists element in his/her writing. It does not mean that this was its goal. Hickman admitting that his Mormon's heritage influences him in his writings does not mean that he sought to convert the readers to his religion. Being inspired and actively making propaganda for something can look alike, but they ain't.</p><p></p><p>Knowing this, unless the author is actively seeking to promote something, correlation of fictional works with real life event/person/groups is dubious to make at best and malicious at worst. Usually, if an author wants to promote something, it will not be in a work of fiction but in a political treatise or an essay. Yes, in fiction it might be tempting to make associations, but the vast majority of time, it is only inspiration and not a malicious intent from the author. Those that do this kind of malicious correlations to degrade things/people/culture simply do not sell books. It shows too much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Helldritch, post: 8748097, member: 6855114"] Your personal opinion is as important as the opinion of anyone else. Including me. That I love the books or that you hate them is irrelevant. Saying do not read that book is censorship. You should watch it. Not a great movie, but far from being the worst ever. And I watched simply because others said it was crap. I went out of my way to see if they were right. They were not that off the mark, but the movie isn't as bad as some make it appear to be. And this is exactly what censorship is about. If you follow blindly those that say "DON'T" then censorship IS showing its ugly head. Of course the real world has an impact on what a human will write. Most of the time, this is an unconscious process. As one of the author of DL is Mormon, it is absolutely normal that some of the Mormon's way will show. Just like a Buddhist might have some Buddhists element in his/her writing. It does not mean that this was its goal. Hickman admitting that his Mormon's heritage influences him in his writings does not mean that he sought to convert the readers to his religion. Being inspired and actively making propaganda for something can look alike, but they ain't. Knowing this, unless the author is actively seeking to promote something, correlation of fictional works with real life event/person/groups is dubious to make at best and malicious at worst. Usually, if an author wants to promote something, it will not be in a work of fiction but in a political treatise or an essay. Yes, in fiction it might be tempting to make associations, but the vast majority of time, it is only inspiration and not a malicious intent from the author. Those that do this kind of malicious correlations to degrade things/people/culture simply do not sell books. It shows too much. [/QUOTE]
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