You know what really bugs me? No one seems to get that the greatest hope of a doomsday prophet is to be WRONG. Their whole point is to warn us that a certain outcome is probable, given a culture's refusal to change it's course. Their message is not, "This is how it will be". It's "Wake up and choose a different course, so that we might avoid this outcome".
Oh yea and TV? Sucks big time, literally as well as figuratively. It's not called "programming" for nothing...
I don't have one either. A TV is to the brain as a washer-dryer is to clothes.
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To put it mildly.
ReplyDeleteHA! Now I don't care who you are, that's funny. Keep rockin' kid.
ReplyDeleteI'm interested in all things eschatological, but I watched it and got bored quickly.
ReplyDeleteYou know what really bugs me? No one seems to get that the greatest hope of a doomsday prophet is to be WRONG. Their whole point is to warn us that a certain outcome is probable, given a culture's refusal to change it's course. Their message is not, "This is how it will be". It's "Wake up and choose a different course, so that we might avoid this outcome".
ReplyDeleteOh yea and TV? Sucks big time, literally as well as figuratively. It's not called "programming" for nothing...
Ray Bradbury: "Science fiction doesn't try to predict the future; it tries to *prevent* it."
ReplyDeletePrecisely! ;o)
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