From: lukas.mariman@NOSPAMgmail.com   
      
   "POD {Ò¿Ó}"  schreef in bericht   
   news:Xns9BEE7A9EB734WeLovePOD@193.202.122.114...   
   > Gnomus  once tried to test me. I ate their liver with   
   > some fava beans and a nice chianti   
   >   
   >> In article <01f49965$0$6988$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>, Luke Hooft   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> snip!   
   >> Some seem to   
   >>> actually be quite unhinged and somewhat dangerous even, especially   
   >>> when they start to think they own the franchise they love.   
   >>   
   >> Well, think about it.  These things become a part of the fabric of   
   >> popular culture.  Who owns popular culture?  We all do.   
   >>   
   >> It's like civic pride.  You don't technically "own" the city, etc.,   
   >> where you live, but since you contribute to the community, in a way   
   >> you become linked.  It's also a responsibility; the state of that   
   >> community depends on what you and a lot of other people choose to do   
   >> with it.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I've made this statement in the past, and I stick by it.  It's a crying   
   > shame that these people, often very bringt people, waste their energy on   
   > such pointless triviality.  You feel that if the brain power and budget   
   > that goes on sci-fi nerdom was to be invested in medical research,   
   > mankind would be better off.   
   >   
   > Alfie's post explaining all my SW nitpicks?....all that time and effort   
   > invested in explaining away plot holes in a roapy bit of fiction, if   
   > they had spent that time picking up litter of planing seeds?.....   
   > Imagine the world we would live in.   
   >   
   > Please people, investigate the human condition instead, go make babies,   
   > don't go investing your whole life in something that doesn't even   
   > exist.....   
      
   I see what you mean, but then again, if we extend that, by the same   
   reasoning most of us should have left this ng ages ago, no?   
      
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