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I don't understand your point here. Nobody starts with a complete vision. You might think you do, or you might have some vision when you begin that feels complete (feels and is are two different things), but then you start writing, and things change. When you start writing things always change...

It depends on what you mean by natural. Most people would think of a primum mobile as being over and above or beyond nature, for example; that is, as being literally supernatural. But I agree with you: by definition nothing that exists is superexistent.

I'm sure Tyler, everything he says, everything he stands for, was supposed to be popular with the public. The people who like Fight Club, the ones who watch it more often than they get to bed before 4 a.m., the ones who own the DVD's and books, the ones who carve quotations into walls and paint...

It was good. Obviously they were going to be wiping memories like crazy, but at least, for the most part (with the exception of Clark getting his memory back), the plot was structured so that it's resolution didn't have that deus ex viridi feel.

Heh, nice avatar Starman. One of the things I liked about Fight Club initially was the simple inversion of the use of soap. Freud says soap is the yardstick of civilization? Palahniuk has Tyler use it to blow stuff up. It's the little things..

Yeah, Fight Clubs aren't uncommon in the least, and are probably a pretty healthy thing to be involved in no matter what sort of views you have. It's not a whole lot different than what you'd call MMA training these days. I was thinking more of the Project Mayhem approach to conflict...

What I am getting here is that you think Tyler's program for the world is the "point" of the movie, yes? It sounds like you know about twenty kids who seriously base their entire life on their misinterpretation of that movie. I've met a few of those guys, so I sympathize.

Which idea did you find interesting Crothian? I daresay the movie has more than one.

That only works if you assume that more words equals more book.

The preview also showed

That one's obvious. The impact of the weapons on the ship causes its gravity generators to become momentarily "dizzy," like a shot to the head ;) .

On the subject of gravity (though only vaguely sci-fi), one of the things that I've always found odd (or curious, maybe I'm wrong) is superheroes who can run at superspeeds. When you run, you always push up as well as forward, but if you were running at that speed, gravity wouldn't have time to...

I don't think that's true. I could start eating horribly, stop exercising, try to bulk up while switching to a more slovenly appearance and do even more geeky things, and I'd still be me. People might treat me differently then, the way they may treat you differently now, but I'd be me either...

Nah, the gas in this analogy would be covered by your ISP subscription. I wouldn't mind as much if Blizzard released the engine for modders, or if the ability to run your own WoW server was there (whether there was a proviso in the EULA stating you couldn't charge money or not). Seeing as how...

Some rules for playing gods could be great fun, like Birthright on steroids: instead of just tracts of land and people, bloodlines and the occasional lines of magical power, you have all of that multiplied across any number of worlds, plus whole domains, types of magic, planes, societies of...

First, as I said in my post, I mentioned a few people I expected you to be familiar with, based on your stated area of study; and the point, which I think you would have gotten if you had had a less emotional or threatened reaction, was simply that of the three names I listed, there was a...

You can also use google, although it won't often be totally up-to-date. Just phrase your search in such a way that it looks through its cache of ENWorld pages.

I hope so! Hong's rendition of The Princess Deleuze was bad enough. :heh:

Hey, he said he studied European history (look at me I have credentials!), which is the only reason I brought it up. (Assuming whatever was here was directed at me) If it isn't kosher to talk about historiography here (Marxist historiography, for example, because some people might mistake it...

So you're applying the assumptions of whichever historiography you're trained in to Eberron, and then saying there's a problem with Eberron because it doesn't correspond with those assumptions? It might be helpful, then, to know what these assumptions of yours are. Jean Hyppolite's idea of...