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[BoyNextDoor]

http://i.imgur.com/vktjLfc.jpg

 

[Iceprincess12]

I missed the important part I think. I saw the bang and he didn't die, but he passed some test. Maybe someone will give me the cliff notes version.

It didn't seem exciting enough which is why I skipped to the end

 

[BoyNextDoor]

So here is a life lesson: You have to read it all. Yourself. There is no substitute for experience.

 

[Iceprincess12]

But there aren't any cool superheroes, spiderbites or evil villains. This feels like school.

Back to reading what I skipped...

He must not have been Catholic. Suicide is a sin.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

But there aren't any cool superheroes, spiderbites or evil villains. This feels like school.

Back to reading what I skipped...

He must not have been Catholic. Suicide is a sin.

Well ... maybe that is what made it the ultimate selfless sacrifice and so it spoke highly of the human race .. ? Maybe?

 

[Libsam]

He must not have been Catholic. Suicide is a sin.

The cartoon is def Jewishy.
It's like a spin on the Old Testament story of God testing Abraham with his son, Isaac.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

I missed the important part I think. I saw the bang and he didn't die, but he passed some test. Maybe someone will give me the cliff notes version.

It didn't seem exciting enough which is why I skipped to the end

The alien stopped the bullet in midair. It's floating next to his head.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Very old story. Someone prepared to die for the world's sins. Sound familiar. I'm sure the motive runs through many a story and myth.

Has that 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' thing.

Read a sci-fi short story that had a herbivorous alien come to judge the world. Unfortunately he was shot by a policeman responding to a call just as he made the decision to spare the planet due to a belief in universal good (I think was the ideal).

 

[Iceprincess12]

I don't think bums are the lowest of our kind. They are more unfortunate than lowly.

God didn't ask Abraham to sacrifice his son to save the world. Those kind of choices where someone needs to kill themselves for no reason don't teach any lessons. That bum should have watched Armageddon. (Spoiler Alert).

Bruce Willis sacrificed himself to save the world, it wasn't a mindless act of suicide.

 

[Hypoxia]

The cartoon is def Jewishy.
It's like a spin on the Old Testament story of God testing Abraham with his son, Isaac.

Deities and other aliens who test us to see if our race and planet should survive are not the kinds of neighbors I want.

BTW 'God' is a job description, not a proper name.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

It may not be said that there is no God, it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Deities and other aliens who test us to see if our race and planet should survive are not the kinds of neighbors I want.

BTW 'God' is a job description, not a proper name.

On the Kardashev Scale of things, you're not even gonna have a choice about it to begin with.

http://www.machinetics.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Kardashev-Scale-Type-Civilization.png

If we're not fit to join a higher order of beings in a greater community that relies on evolved thinking in order to live higher - and better - that's on us. If we've had plenty of time to better ourselves instead of wallowing in regressive praxis that makes us an eventual threat to their collective harmony or maybe even just plain ol' unnecessary and they decide to be proactive about taking care of biz, yeah, that's fucked, but that's also on us.

In order to achieve Type I, which we're likely gonna be forced to do in the next century or *insert throat cutting gesture here* we're gonna have to dead a massive amount of ego and enact a sea change in how we live as a society. Not gonna live to get there, but it sure would be amazing to see the community thinking that enables that level of civ. Then maybe those aliens won't be so ready to murk us.

 

[Hard_Rom]

How about an earth origin AI making that decision? Programmed and built by humans for humans and still says "Sorry about this but...".