Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 15:51:10 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: aw1@stade.co.uk Cc: mike@smith.net.au, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's the daemon chasing? Message-ID: <199709020621.PAA01409@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Sep 1997 03:38:47 %2B0100." <199709020238.DAA25515@titus.stade.co.uk>
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> In article <199709020125.KAA00498@word.smith.net.au> you write: > > <Sagan's Contact> > > >original, or have it on their shelf? There was a lot less religious > >bunkum, and (IIRC) *three* capsule travellers, not one. > > My daughter hijacked my copy. From memory, there was more than one > traveller (three sounds right), and the philosophy formed an > important part of the ending. I've not seen the film, but perhaps > the director was trying for something more than just a hi-tech > adventure story? I'm certain they were, and that's not what I was griping about. The philosophical issues involved in such a scenario are very complex, and in quite a few places they managed to hint at this, but when it came right down to the crunch, the question again and again was "do you believe in the White American Christian God"?, and to me that was more than slightly insulting. Then we can contemplate the scene at the end after she's in the car and he's the one that has to say "yes" in order to validate her belief; what's wrong with her own faith? She needs a "white male of the cloth" to believe in her before she can take/be taken seriously? Please. I've gotten in trouble before getting cross about the insane desire that people have to seek "easier" versions of their questions, and "easy" answers to them; I can smell it happening again 8) mike
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