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That explains the prevalence of zombie films in Christian media!Artabax wrote: ↑Tue Feb 19, 2019 1:05 am Twain wrote Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court. Twain was perfectly familiar with Time Travel as a fictional trope.
Prime Directive defines that if anyone writes a story about X, then they believe in X and automatically believe anybody who claims to be X. For example, Christians believe that one man rose from the dead, which proves that Christians will automatically believe anybody else who claims to be resurrected. Sarcasm mode OFF
Hey, that was a plot point in Back to the Future 3 involving Clara and her reading Jules Verne.Artabax wrote: ↑Tue Feb 19, 2019 1:05 am Twain wrote Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court. Twain was perfectly familiar with Time Travel as a fictional trope.
Prime Directive defines that if anyone writes a story about X, then they believe in X and automatically believe anybody who claims to be X. For example, Christians believe that one man rose from the dead, which proves that Christians will automatically believe anybody else who claims to be resurrected. Sarcasm mode OFF
Mind you, he's also a Southerner who wrote a book about how slavery was evil in a time that could get you killed.Yukaphile wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 7:31 pm He was confused in "Time's Arrow" as to how Twain could have just so easily accepted they came from the future? Well, here's a theory I have. It might be that, well... Data looks inhuman, with his pale skin and yellow eyes. Twain probably thought he was a future alien, and hence a bit of racism came into that. This is, as Chuck himself noted, a guy who put the use of 200 N-words into his books.
You know, now that you mention it, I would watch an entire season of Star Trek that was just Mark Twain arguing with the TNG era crews about why their philosophies and ideals are flawed and in the end self-serving.CharlesPhipps wrote: ↑Thu Feb 21, 2019 2:05 pm What I refuse to believe is that Twain wouldn't be tearing the Federation down at every chance he could get because he was one of the word's most notorious cynics.
And now it seems we've flipped hard in the other direction, with a big ol' muddy mess paying occasional lip-service to utopic ideals not supported by the show. Oh well.