It's payback for all of the reprehensible things I have seen from what I thought were solid aquaintences, now I can fill their timeline with shit they don't care about, except it's not youTube videos and my latest bi-polar episode with a love interest, it's about the way the world works and why, and asking people to step up and have a fucking opinon. If they can't do that, then, well, at least I finally have irritated them as much as I have been by sheer banality.
I want to know people who care about things. Do you care?
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) signed a bill yesterday that will allow pharmacists in the state to refuse to fill a prescription they think could be used to induce abortion.
This shit is heading to Indiana real soon, and my belief is that if national influence is going to buy state elections, states rights are no longer an adequate response to the erosion of civil rights for any of the body politic, it is an assault on the whole. End States Rights claims to vindictive aims against women and gays under the guise of religious freedom.
Reader comment on the cast/creator Q&A following the series end:
I really don’t think the god of the show, the Head Baltar and Six, are demanding the annihilation of 2 races. I don’t think they’re gleefully watching man and cylon destroy themselves, either.
I take it more like this: There’s an ancient force – perhaps a god, perhaps just some alien race, perhaps even a precursor of the humans on Kobol, Earth, the Colonies, etc.
This being and its followers (the Head Baltar and Six, Starbuck), have followed the Cylons and Humans and seen that they continue to destroy themselves. Maybe they’ve even tried to intercede directly (the Lords of Kobol?), but the cycle continues. So they tried to intercede subtly. The angels/demons/visions decided to manipulate two of the most important figures in the most recent destruction (Baltar the unwitting traitor and Six the childish tool of destruction) and guide them to help their people. They also sent a more sleeper-agent-like Kara to literally lead the people to a new, fertile world, when they were ready. They gave visions to Roslyn, and perhaps to others (there was a throwaway line by Anders where he said that they’d all seen visions, people who no one else could see, to warn them).
The God and Head Baltar/Six are warning people throughout to walk a different path, and egging them toward becoming one people, toward ceasing the cycle of destruction. Then they sit back and watch how the people react.
Some consider it cruel that they weren’t more obvious, didn’t come right out and say, “If you do this, you’ll all die, over and over, for all time,” but maybe they’ve tried and failed before (the possible Lords of Kobol thing).
Much like the Christian God, who offers guidance and warnings, but ultimately leaves man to follow his free will, this god seems to leave the salvation of the fleet to the fleet.
