Nerdanel Posted October 31, 2011 Author Share Posted October 31, 2011 I'm kind of impressed. Good job he's just a lone nutter and no-one in government holds similar views, right? Right??Wright has an adoring fan squad on his blog that keeps lapping up his logorrhea and thinking it's insightful. I could dig up several quotes but I don't think I'll bother. He is also writing a book of Christian apologetics.Wright didn't use to be just your garden variety atheist - he was a hardcore Ayn Rand fan, much like Terry Goodkind. Wright still agrees with the Objectivists in many things, such as the evilness of Immanuel Kant. So it sounds like he was always like that, just with a different authority figure to base his existence on.Wright claims to have had multiple visions of Jesus and Virgin Mary and to have received secret messaged that he can't reveal because they are secret. He knows the visions are true because Jesus told him he would judge everyone in the last day, something that isn't all that obscure as far as Biblical knowledge goes and something that was likely told to him earlier by some Christian, but since John C. Wright apparently doesn't believe in the subconscious he is certain the supernatural is the only explanation. Having already wanted to convert to Christianity to the point of praying to God for a sign to believe only makes the whole thing even more miraculous. Imagine: Suffering a heart attack and then surviving it because his wife prayed for him! The condition of his arteries prior to the heart attack and the skills of the doctors who treated him are of course completely irrelevant. Prayer did everything and such a thing definitely couldn't have happened by random chance.I wonder if Wright is gradually heading to a Dave Sim style meltdown or if he is relatively stable in his crazy thought processes like Card and Goodkind appear to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grack21 Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 Wright has an adoring fan squad on his blog that keeps lapping up his logorrhea and thinking it's insightful. I could dig up several quotes but I don't think I'll bother. He is also writing a book of Christian apologetics.Wright didn't use to be just your garden variety atheist - he was a hardcore Ayn Rand fan, much like Terry Goodkind. Wright still agrees with the Objectivists in many things, such as the evilness of Immanuel Kant. So it sounds like he was always like that, just with a different authority figure to base his existence on.Wright claims to have had multiple visions of Jesus and Virgin Mary and to have received secret messaged that he can't reveal because they are secret. He knows the visions are true because Jesus told him he would judge everyone in the last day, something that isn't all that obscure as far as Biblical knowledge goes and something that was likely told to him earlier by some Christian, but since John C. Wright apparently doesn't believe in the subconscious he is certain the supernatural is the only explanation. Having already wanted to convert to Christianity to the point of praying to God for a sign to believe only makes the whole thing even more miraculous. Imagine: Suffering a heart attack and then surviving it because his wife prayed for him! The condition of his arteries prior to the heart attack and the skills of the doctors who treated him are of course completely irrelevant. Prayer did everything and such a thing definitely couldn't have happened by random chance.I wonder if Wright is gradually heading to a Dave Sim style meltdown or if he is relatively stable in his crazy thought processes like Card and Goodkind appear to be.Fuck, I'd take Goodkind over this guy any day. Hell I'd probably take Card. And you know how I feel about good old Orson.Also, I need to pick me up some Kant it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Selig Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Time for a bump because of his recent Hugo infamy. Great choice, Puppies. This guy isn't a wack job at all. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinDonner Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Oh god are the puppies still at it? After their resounding success last year? Ffs. Go chew some slippers and shit on the floor instead, that'd be more welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 They are still at it and apparently really. Uh. Effective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xray the Enforcer Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Hey Min, you should read Ran's thread on the 2015 Hugos. They're not just "at it" -- they actually got people who believe that women do not deserve the right to vote, who think blacks and Muslims are actually subhuman, and who think homosexuals should be subjected to corrective rape, on the ballot this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinDonner Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Good fucking Christ. Gogo Internet voting. That's horrifically depressing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Yeah it's upsetting, and I normally don't give two shits about the Hugo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightysnake88 Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Wait...what? Who are the people who believe that stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Vox Day, Wright, probably a few others. Fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightysnake88 Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 When the hell have they said THAT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Well I'm not going to google all of it for you but I remember distinctly Vox Day going after NK Jemsin with a long detailed article about how African/African Americans/etc were genetically inferior to white people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sci-2 Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Part of me is horrified, but part of me thinks this just proves what a ridiculous joke the Hugos can be and possibly always were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 Part of me is horrified, but part of me thinks this just proves what a ridiculous joke the Hugos can be and possibly always were.You just said what I've been trying to say all weekend, but better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sci-2 Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 You just said what I've been trying to say all weekend, but better. That's because I'm you from the future...exactly 285 bans from now. ;-P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 I've just been reading the Vox Day rant Darth Richard was on about (I'm not linking it here because it's just too disgusting but if you really want it it's easy to find). Fucking hell, how does someone completely and utterly horrible have any kind of voice and influence in the genre? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 he's priceless. if I wanted to write a parody fascist to hold up for ridicule, i'd write beale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 PG,Is that the one where he calls NK Jemisin a "half-savage"? I'd hate to think he has anything worse than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sci-2 Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 I've just been reading the Vox Day rant Darth Richard was on about (I'm not linking it here because it's just too disgusting but if you really want it it's easy to find). Fucking hell, how does someone completely and utterly horrible have any kind of voice and influence in the genre? He has influence in the online community which IMO is different than the actual genre as a consumer-producer relationship, and even that is minimal. Best to ignore him, like you would any other silly troll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 PG,Is that the one where he calls NK Jemisin a "half-savage"? I'd hate to think he has anything worse than that.That's the one.It's like... that's the sort of thing that puts me off the idea of absolute freedom of speech. Especially when some people think 'freedom of speech' means that not only is he allowed to say things like that, but that you can't censure him in any way like, for example, kicking him out of a private group. He has influence in the online community which IMO is different than the actual genre as a consumer-producer relationship, and even that is minimal. Best to ignore him, like you would any other silly troll. As parochial as one might consider the Hugos, they're a very visible part of the genre, and he's managed to damage them badly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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