Steve
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Well I just joined. I liked your answer on Freud, and actually I had a valid reason for asking. It was and IS my life experience, that made me agree with your answer. Now how did analyze the blank slate?
Lois McMaster Bujold
When a query looks a bit odd, a check of the poster's page shows their stats. If they have more books than friends, I figure they are here on GR for the right reasons. Granted that's not a good proxy when a person has just joined.
I don't auger down any more than that, because I am not here to vet people. Or be responsible for them in any other way, by preference. (I have to overcome decades of parental and placation reflexes for that, a work in progress.)
Freud seems to be the psychology equivalent of the phlogiston theory: seemed logical in its day, spawned lingering metaphors, obsoleted by further data.
Ta, L.
When a query looks a bit odd, a check of the poster's page shows their stats. If they have more books than friends, I figure they are here on GR for the right reasons. Granted that's not a good proxy when a person has just joined.
I don't auger down any more than that, because I am not here to vet people. Or be responsible for them in any other way, by preference. (I have to overcome decades of parental and placation reflexes for that, a work in progress.)
Freud seems to be the psychology equivalent of the phlogiston theory: seemed logical in its day, spawned lingering metaphors, obsoleted by further data.
Ta, L.
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Russell Hobart
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Hello Lois, You've brought me endless hours of joy. Thank you. How are you able to bring so many dark aspects (I'm thinking specifically Mirror Dance with Mark and Ryoval, etc.) but the story feels uplifting? I compare this to The Road which I still feel scarred by. Character trajectory is part of the answer but I feel I am missing something.
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