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From http://www.ladyoftheearth.com/religious/heretic-remarks.txt, which is proving quite interesting:
"...this is how to decide whether somebody prefers to think for himself or not: The people who think also read. People who like thinking read more than those who like it less. People who do not read fiction you should not even try to start a conversation with; they cannot think for themselves.
Mind you: with scientific literature, you do not need your imagination, you do not need to think. It is all in there, you need not visualize it, and what you need to visualize they print a photograph of. Mind you also: What you are reading right now is NOT fiction, so your reading this does not mean that you think for yourself!"
"...this is how to decide whether somebody prefers to think for himself or not: The people who think also read. People who like thinking read more than those who like it less. People who do not read fiction you should not even try to start a conversation with; they cannot think for themselves.
Mind you: with scientific literature, you do not need your imagination, you do not need to think. It is all in there, you need not visualize it, and what you need to visualize they print a photograph of. Mind you also: What you are reading right now is NOT fiction, so your reading this does not mean that you think for yourself!"