Comment on Trusting Expert Consensus

Sat, 19 Oct 2013 02:14:52 GMT

I've seen these assertions before, of course, and the object-level parts may well be correct. But when I "look closely" at this, it "sure looks like" a metaphor for the destruction of the Temple. To the point where it seems natural to doubt that Mark intended anyone to read any of his original work literally. And the oldest ending in our possession likewise "looks like" a metaphor for the same events.

Orson Scott Card put a lot of his religion in the first four Ender books, but I doubt you could ever converge on his actual beliefs if you only had the text to go on.

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