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Galactica season 2 is starting on Skyone next week.
Pitty I do not have sky atm!
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
Going back a bit to Dune.
I have read the next two now.
God Emperor was poor. worse than the children of dune, and Dune Messiah.
However Heretics of Dune was very good. best of the lot. Far better than Dune.
Just gotta read CHapterhouse to finish the originals authors 6. (he had apparently planned a second one before he died).
Probably avoid the 6 written by his son. (3 sequels, and three prequels apparently).
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
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"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
Something occured to me:
Sci-fi is godless coz it relies on Science rather than faith to solve its problems. Sci-fi presumes that Science and logical thinking will outlive religion in the distant future. As Science is beginning to answer alot of the questions that people traditionally turned to religion to answer. And since religion has always been a lil vague in answering questions Science however has always been about precision and tangible facts.
But why can not Science simply prove religion to be true? Can it not exist to prove that religion is the truth?
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Yeah, I guess it depends on the authors and their view of religion too (that is a major bit about scifi - a look into the mid of the people who developed the concept.)
Just need to add that Firefly also has religion - main ones being Buddhism (90% of the population I think) and Christianity (10%). One of the crew members is also a shepherd. (not that means much - another is a whore and there are athiests and Buddhists there too.)
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
True.
In Star Trek, the different races have different religions.
The Frengi being the funniest (they worship money and wealth)
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Did you know that "Ferengi" is the Persian word to describe europeans?
I liked that at the introductions of the Ferengi they made it clear they thought they were beautiful and humans ugly. It reminded me the verse that says that humans are the best/most beautiful of creation, so how the views of the creator of the concept was flawed (his being that every race will find itself most beautiful... even if it had warts on its head.)
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
I think Blade Runner is probably alot more likely of what the future will look like.
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Really? (Was there a daytime in blade runner? - I rememeber it always being dark...)
I did like how exterminating clones was not a "cleansed" event.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
Always night time and raining?
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
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