charity wrote:There was an epidsode of Star Trek which had LDS teachings in it. Two Enterprise crew members get struck by lightining or something and start to develop super powers. The male goes all power mad, thinks everyone else is just ants and he can kill as he pleases, but the female recognizes that super power can be really bad, and zaps him after he has zapped her and she is dying.
We are tested here to see who can be trusted with the "super powers" of godhood.
If this had been how the gospel were taught in Sunday School, I may have stuck around a bit longer! I can imagine the lessons now: "Brothers and Sisters, we are here on this earth to see whether we'd kill people like ants, or kill those who would kill people like ants."
Of course, charity didn't indicate which way was the "right" way. ;o)
Dear mother of Joseph Smith profiteer of the restoration! Charity is a frigging trekkie?
charity wrote:There was an epidsode of Star Trek which had LDS teachings in it. Two Enterprise crew members get struck by lightining or something and start to develop super powers. The male goes all power mad, thinks everyone else is just ants and he can kill as he pleases, but the female recognizes that super power can be really bad, and zaps him after he has zapped her and she is dying.
We are tested here to see who can be trusted with the "super powers" of godhood.
If this had been how the gospel were taught in Sunday School, I may have stuck around a bit longer! I can imagine the lessons now: "Brothers and Sisters, we are here on this earth to see whether we'd kill people like ants, or kill those who would kill people like ants."
Of course, charity didn't indicate which way was the "right" way. ;o)
Dear mother of Joseph Smith profiteer of the restoration! Charity is a frigging trekkie?
That explains a lot.
That's a bit of a leap. She mentions one episode and you assume she's obsessed. Never watched one Porter?
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
We are tested here to see who can be trusted with the "super powers" of godhood.
Hmmm... what exactly would be the "super powers of Godhood?"
The whole "test" idea is nonsensical to me.
Seriously, what professor/parent/leader would give a test where no one even knew the questions, where they didn't even know they were given a test, where the answers were non-existent?
~dancer~
"The search for reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings for it destroys the world in which you live." Nisargadatta Maharaj
Star Trek contains some truth, but Star Wars is the only true and living space movie upon the face of the earth, with which I, AmazingDisgrace am well pleased, speaking of the Star Wars films collectively and not individually.
"Every post you can hitch your faith on is a pie in the sky, chock full of lies, a tool we devise to make sinking stones fly"
The Shins - A Comet Appears
Charity proves that evolution is true. If you're looking for the missing link, look no further. Charity is to mopologetics what South Park is to serious drama.
Hey, I wonder if the Star Trek crew ever visited kolob.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
Some Schmo wrote:Charity proves that evolution is true. If you're looking for the missing link, look no further. Charity is to mopologetics what South Park is to serious drama.
Uh, that's assuming that there is such a thing as serious apologetics.
Hey, I wonder if the Star Trek crew ever visited kolob.
Hey, I wonder if the Star Trek crew ever visited kolob.
No, that was Battlestar Galactica. :-)
LMAO
You know, if you told me that in all seriousness, I'd be very tempted to believe it. The fact is, I still am! Wasn't one of the writers or producers a Mormon?
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
Hey, I wonder if the Star Trek crew ever visited kolob.
No, that was Battlestar Galactica. :-)
LMAO
You know, if you told me that in all seriousness, I'd be very tempted to believe it. The fact is, I still am! Wasn't one of the writers or producers a Mormon?
I was being serious. The whole Galactica thing was based on Mormon notions of Kolob and premortal life, etc. It was Glen Larson's attempt to meld science fiction and missionary work. Totally bizarre.
Hey, I wonder if the Star Trek crew ever visited kolob.
No, that was Battlestar Galactica. :-)
LMAO
You know, if you told me that in all seriousness, I'd be very tempted to believe it. The fact is, I still am! Wasn't one of the writers or producers a Mormon?
I was being serious. The whole Galactica thing was based on Mormon notions of Kolob and premortal life, etc. It was Glen Larson's attempt to meld science fiction and missionary work. Totally bizarre.
*shudder*
Talk about tragically funny.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
Here's a concise summary of the Battlestar Galactica series from the Internet Movie Database:
The leaders of the twelve human colonies are making plans to sign a peace treaty with their mortal enemies, the Cylons. On the eve of the ceremony, the Cylons attack and destroy most of the colonies. The remaining Colonial ships, led by the battlestar Galactica under the command of Adama, head out into space and seek out a "lost" 13th colony, which turns out to be Earth. Along the way, the Colonials encounter various races (both friendly and hostile), the legendary human warrior Commander Cain, and the planet Kobol, the mother world of all the colonies. All the while, the Cylons--led by the human traitor, Baltar--are in hot pursuit.