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[mrissa]

And here's the second Meme Therapy question I answered: "Is it worth maintaining the thin red line between Science Fiction and Fantasy?" Oh, just guess what the gist of my answer was. C'mon. You can do it. I believe in you.

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[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure, make an lj and don't friend me.

But yah, I think that some fans are addicted to being the aggrieved minority, and they don't know what to do when surrounded by like-minded folks except subdivide. I believe there's a joke about nearly every religion this way, to the effect of "if there are X [members of religion] on a desert island, they will form X+1 [places of worship for that religion]."

[evangoer.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry! I just created a lj ID this very morning -- *just* so I could drop in and say hi on you livejournal! (And the livejournals of my two cousins.) I'm still figuring out this interface thingy...

As for that quote, I have always heard something similar, "If you put 40 Jews in a room to discuss a subject, you'll get 41 opinions."

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I wasn't actually offended, as I hope you understood.

I've also heard, "If you put 40 Frenchmen in a room, they'll form 41 political parties," but all of it except the opinion format really seems like a piker job of it to me now that I think of it -- combinatorics allows for many, many more! You could be members of three or four political parties at once!