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[footnotefetish]

One problem with using those short, Asian-style tables is that if your cat decides to sit on your lap while you're eating a meal, and then she decides to turn around on your lap, her posterior can pass dangerously close to your plate. Last night as I was eating dinner, I had to quickly push my plate away to avoid what I feared would be a cat-

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[footnotefetish]

The thing about Plutonians is that they're like a lot of oppressed people. They've been taught by colonialism to struggle against other people in their situation, instead of against their oppressors. I always read about how Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's. This kind of threatening action is counterproductive. The people of Pluto and Neptune need to come together and respect each other's orbits.

Sowing the same crop.

[mi_tigre]

I noticed that many of your books cover the same social-econ-political theme. Wonder what you think of this list of hundred books.

Are any of them just stories, because that is where I personaly have found most of my viewpoints in life.

[footnotefetish]

I'm pretty certain you've left a comment of this nature in my journal at least once before, so if you think I need to have more variety in my reading, you could start by offering more variety in your commenting.

Just kidding!

But I would like to point out that the average American reads about four books a year (more or less, depending on who's consulted for the figure). I exceeded that number with the number of novels or collections of short fiction I read this year: seven (not counting poetry). Also, I hope you see the irony in the fact that your reading seems to center around fiction, but you seem to find my reading to be "sowing the same crop

[mi_tigre]

I guess, its sorta of a knee jerk reaction, while living in KKKS, many people talk about book that only fit within their own political/God views

[footnotefetish]

I guess I feel as if my intelligence is being insulting when you worry that by reading things that reinforce my viewpoint, I'm becoming like those people who assume the same politics and religious views as their parents and then spend their lives in near-complete ignorance.

Whether you're reading things that fit within or beyond your views, the point is whether or not you're actively reading, evaluating the logical merits of what's being presented on the page. What I'm doing is a very far cry from that Christian person who reads (1) the Bible, (2) religious fiction, and (3) non-fiction books by Christian scholars and, in the end, still thinks the Bible is an appropriate tool for guiding our lives today, because (s)he isn't reading anything critically but is merely accepting it all, out of obedience to "God