I've said before that what makes a story good (or bad) isn't precisely its content. It's not about the plot or the concept, it's about the quality of the execution ( Read more... )

I'm a rationalist. I believe in overcoming biases and trying to find the truth (or at least be a bit less wrong about it). I'm analytical by nature, and I tend to analyze things to oblivion - to the point, I'm told, of "taking the fun out of it." Which is a stupid idea, but I'll come back to that. I'm an atheist because I have found no compelling ( Read more... )

Communication has always been a bit of an issue for me ( Read more... )

Since I've started college, my views on religion have become rather harsher, for a couple of reasons ( Read more... )

One issue I've been wrestling with lately is the concept of conscious free will - the idea that we actively make our own choices and define our own lives - in conjunction with determinism, which holds that there are conditions under which certain outcomes are assured (gravity is an example - barring extreme circumstance, what comes up must come ( Read more... )

If asked about my religious beliefs, I call myself an agnostic atheist ( Read more... )

Among my obsessions at the moment is Sherlock Holmes - in particular, Conan Doyle's original stories and the BBC modern adaptation. Because I am obsessed, I'm writing all this down in the hopes that it will then stop revolving inside my head ( Read more... )

There has been a lot of controversy recently about sexism in Moffat's Doctor Who.

I love the show dearly, but I am also a feminist (egalitarian, really), and looking at it objectively, I can see the point.

These articles offer an excellent explication of the case against Moffat - essentially that the female characters' lives tend to revolve ( Read more... )

I love stories. Not just books - TV, movies, games, and comics are lovely, too - but for me, it always comes back to the books ( Read more... )

Labels really are a rather fascinating social construct ( Read more... )