Star Trek: Picard

[Fawqueue]

Originally Posted by Christendom [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Put your faith in the Lord, not pop culture rubbish. Oh ye of little faith.

One of the best aspects of Star Trek is that it portrays an enlightened future where we stop praying to sky wizards and start taking destiny into our own hands. You all are tripping if you think the words of some dudes who would shit themselves if they saw a lightbulb somehow nailed the truth 2000 years ago.

[Mblake81]

Originally Posted by Fawqueue [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

One of the best aspects of Star Trek is that it portrays an enlightened future where we stop praying to sky wizards and start taking destiny into our own hands. You all are tripping if you think the words of some dudes who would shit themselves if they saw a lightbulb somehow nailed the truth 2000 years ago.

the truth?

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[Fawqueue]

Originally Posted by Christendom [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Because we're totally progressing toward the Star Trek universe in today's hedonistic environment where savages shit on the sidewalk in the morning before crawling back into their tent to shoot up breakfast.

Wait, what does this have to do with religion? Are you suggesting that bad people are not religious, and good people are? I'm not sure I follow you otherwise.

If we find our way into a Trek-like future, it certainly won't be credited to silly devotions to archaic texts and mysticism.

[Mblake81]

Originally Posted by Fawqueue [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Wait, what does this have to do with religion? Are you suggesting that bad people are not religious, and good people are? I'm not sure I follow you otherwise.

If we find our way into a Trek-like future, it certainly won't be credited to silly devotions to archaic texts and mysticism.

People will still carry it into the stars, the same as they have everywhere. Even in star trek it is still there but they get to paint it with a different color because they can use alien races for it.. Romulans, Klingons, Ferengi and all of them represent humanity in some way or else it wouldn't be recognizable. Like I said, they got me with all of that gay space communism in my wide eyed youth. It's a reassuring show for athiests.

These days I would rather read Battletech. It's GOT in space and the only enemy is man (because there are no aliens)

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[Polycaster]

Originally Posted by Fawqueue [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Wait, what does this have to do with religion? Are you suggesting that bad people are not religious, and good people are? I'm not sure I follow you otherwise.

If we find our way into a Trek-like future, it certainly won't be credited to silly devotions to archaic texts and mysticism.

1st para:
False. Science has proven many times over that religion is logical.

Religion increases social trust, among other things:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4971023/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...14292116300605

(note how the negatives of religion are almost all negative actions towards 'outsiders' which is actually a positive in practical terms)

the importance of social trust:
https://www.russellsage.org/publicat...rust-society-0

https://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Cathe.../dp/0226901351


2nd para:
also false, and doubly so- the future won't be Trek and it will be due to archaic texts and mysticisms-
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Personally, my favorite ST is Voyager due to it's gritty, anti-PC realism. They finally put a woman in charge and what does she do? Gets them lost for 8 seasons, never admitting its her fault for getting them lost and never being practical when opportunities to get home regularly occurred.

Seriously (?) though, my favorite ST episodes are the ones from the last season of ST: Enterprise where they go into a mirror universe. I loved how it meshed w/ the original ST episodes, and especially loved the window into a much more badass world than the namby-pamby pearl-clutchers of the Federation. Perhaps someday Trump and Putin will be able to unite the 2 halves of the world that each will soon possess into 1 through a marriage between Barron and a Putin granddaughter. When their line is united in a Child who sits upon the Golden Throne shall we then venture boldly into space. Not as cringeing explorers, but as triumphant conquerors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h67JpMyrOVE

[Wonkie]

Originally Posted by Christendom [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"Bad" and "Good" is such a simpleton's way of seeing the world [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sometimes doing the right thing isn't the right thing to do.

Sometimes malarkey is better.