Way into the future, when we've learned the folly of our McDonald munching, carbon emitting ways. When reality TV has long since been discarded as the banal, dispiriting moronity-inducing drivel that it is, religion will still be here. Yes, the human race can be that stupid. Still it makes me wonder. Will the evangelists and proselytisers seek to convert the intelligent new life forms among us? When biological and synthetic humans are indistinguishable from each other will they be permitted to attend Friday prayers in the Mosque? Will the dubs and LDS's be knocking on the doors of the more affluent E.T districts looking to recruit brothers from the 'new worlds'? Oh what a future our great, great, great grandchildren have to look forward to!! Nic'
Mechanised Muslims & Mormon Martians
by nicolaou 4 Replies latest jw friends
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nicolaou
Damn Firefox!!! Can't post at all in IE though!!
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nicolaou
(Damn post! This is my last attempt at presenting it properly.) Way into the future, when we've learned the folly of our McDonald munching, carbon emitting ways. When reality TV has long since been discarded as the banal, dispiriting moronity-inducing drivel that it is, religion will still be here. Yes, the human race can be that stupid. Still it makes me wonder. Will the evangelists and proselytisers seek to convert the intelligent new life forms among us? When biological and synthetic humans are indistinguishable from each other will they be permitted to attend Friday prayers in the Mosque? Will the dubs and LDS's be knocking on the doors of the more affluent E.T districts looking to recruit brothers from the 'new worlds'? Oh what a future our great, great, great grandchildren have to look forward to!! Nic'
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Qcmbr
I'm sure we will
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Leolaia
Ray Bradbury covered this subject in his short story "The Fire Balloons". Basically, two Episcopalian missionaries come to Mars and their mission really is to address the spiritual needs of the godless miners and industrialists who drink it up to compensate for the harsh life on the planet. But one of the priests is drawn to the lore about the possible existence of life on Mars and has heard stories about fiery globes of energy that are sentient, and he goes out unprepared into the desert to preach Christ to them...getting lost in the process, but then they find him and they save him from a deadly rockslide...proving to him that these are sentient beings with free will. He tests them further by posing moral dilemmas to them to see if they have a moral conscience, and then when they save him again, he declares to them that he would build a great church for them in the desert where they can seek God and repent from whatever sins they have, and instead of a cross it will have a great blue orb (normally, a pretty sacriligious thought).
And while he was caught up in a religious frenzy about how he was there to SAVE them, he hears a voice very much like Jesus from one of the fiery orbs, and they tell him that they have no need for temple or church because they are their own temple and know not sin nor anguish; they once were creatures like himself but had managed to free themselves from the constraints of the body and now lived in pure energy. They told him to go and help those among his kind who have such needs. Greatly humbled, and realizing that presumptions were very wrong, he goes back to the settlement to his own people.