Mark Twain's "The Mysterious Stranger"

[kingbuzzo]

I love the dialogue in this, and how Satan's voice is androgynous. I just wanted to start a little discussion about the video with the project 1999 community.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diVqham5cKA

[Lune]

I remember this. Good shit.

Similar: Look what God made (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYsTlbDLvkg)

[kingbuzzo]

I remember this. Good shit.

Similar: Look what God made (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYsTlbDLvkg)

I laughed so hard at the "Blood sacrifice" part. Thank you so much.

[Baler]

“We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, that accretion of sensory experience and feelings, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everbody's nobody... I think the honorable thing for our species to do is to deny our programming. Stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction.”

“One day the AIs will look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa, An upright ape with crude language and tools.”

Sic transit gloria mundi

What seemed solid has melted away like breath into the wind.

[kingbuzzo]

“We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, that accretion of sensory experience and feelings, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everbody's nobody... I think the honorable thing for our species to do is to deny our programming. Stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction.”

“One day the AIs will look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa, An upright ape with crude language and tools.”

Sic transit gloria mundi

What seemed solid has melted away like breath into the wind.

I love this Baler. Thank you.

Recently discovered this Superbook series, can't get enough of this shit. Popcorn in hand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJUsH6IRwD0

[stormlord]

When I was young and saw that, I can't remember what I thought. AS I grew older, I related it to the new age movement. Probably somebody who thought they had an alien experience tried to translate the experience to this. Or maybe they were on drugs at one time, trying to tune in, and they tried to convey it. Or maybe a do-gooder turned new ager.

In the movie Communion, the aliens wear "masks", or are not as they appear. I think this was tied to Whitley Streiber writing that they might be demons and being unsure what they really were. Of course, today I don't believe a single word which comes out of his mouth. Why should I? He writes fiction and Communion is fiction. Fiction is his game. Ditto.

So to recap I watched it again and this is my thought...

1) Satan says it's an angel
2) Satan can give life to things and create virtually anything
3) Satan doesn't like humans because they're greedy and irritating
4) Satan can do no wrong because it doesn't know what it's
5) Satan thinks people have no value, but it might create humans if it needs them
6) Satan says there's just empty space and you and you're but a thought

Conclusion: That's me on a bad day.