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The Egg (2009)

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Re: The Egg (2009)

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ivm wrote: post #28
A_D_E_P_T wrote: post #8

Hah, it's literally Schopenhauer's hell: Humans as both the tormenting demons and as those doing the suffering. In this case, one human -- which further frames suffering as an inescapable, masochistic cycle. "You were victimizing yourself" says the demiurge. That everything is predetermined and that time is nonlinear is also something that should trouble every contemplative person. It's basically a devil's brew of ni…

> It's especially funny as the author, with very little awareness of what he was writing, tried to strike positive "we are all one" notes... And ended up with something that would give Ligotti nightmares. That's German Romanticism which is the invisible 90% of the iceberg of the modern perception of religions, New Age ideas, and humanistic psychology. Here's a summary of how the Romantic thought has distorted the Wes…

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Re: The Egg (2009)

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siliconc0w wrote: post #44

I asked Weir about the The Egg at a signing and whether he planned to write anything similar- I got a weird vibe back, "I shat it out over a weekend" - like be kinda resented it or possibly just people asking about it.

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Re: The Egg (2009)

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Post by Chiyote »

Ashymad wrote: post #48
siliconc0w wrote: post #44

I asked Weir about the The Egg at a signing and whether he planned to write anything similar- I got a weird vibe back, "I shat it out over a weekend" - like be kinda resented it or possibly just people asking about it.

Honestly I am not surprised. I imagine he wrote it quickly as this fun quirky look at the universe but then it got extremely popular, kurzgesatz video released and all. A lot of people based their personal beliefs off of the story. Imagine you write a small story for fun but then it becomes nearly a religion. It must be a little frustrating for Andy.

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Re: The Egg (2009)

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Post by tstrimple »

dmcc365 wrote: post #27
maxhille wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny coincidence - I just finished the Project Hail Mary audiobook this morning and loved it. Any recommendations for the next audiobook?

Mickey7 is pretty good if you enjoyed Project Hail Mary. Alternatively, the Murderbot series.

The main thing keeping me from the murderbot series is the value prop. They are incredibly short which doesn’t play as well with a credit based purchasing system. For seven credits I get a little over 20 hours of content. Project Hail Mary is 16 hours for one credit.

Re: The Egg (2009)

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Post by ZeroTalent »

Chiyote wrote: post #83
siliconc0w wrote: post #44

I asked Weir about the The Egg at a signing and whether he planned to write anything similar- I got a weird vibe back, "I shat it out over a weekend" - like be kinda resented it or possibly just people asking about it.

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This is not plagiarism.

These two works express their ideas in very different ways and with very different details, structures, and styles.

That's like saying that Orwell's 1984 is a plagiarism of Yevgeny Zamyatin's We or that Harry Potter is a plagiarism of Ursula K. Le Guin's Wizard of Earthsea.

You are just tackling similar topics. Maybe he took some inspiration from you. You should be proud instead of being butthurt for 15 years.

By the way, the notion that all beings are manifestations of a single consciousness—or that we are all God—is far older than either of you.

Re: The Egg (2009)

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Post by amiga386 »

Chiyote wrote: post #83
siliconc0w wrote: post #44

I asked Weir about the The Egg at a signing and whether he planned to write anything similar- I got a weird vibe back, "I shat it out over a weekend" - like be kinda resented it or possibly just people asking about it.

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And who wrote

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe (1940)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Zombies (1959)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Folded_Himself (1973)

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