Billed by Laughing Squid (a SF-area blog) as humorous, I simply think this is sad:
God forbid we build beautiful buildings with architectural features like—gasp—crosses, domes, and straight-edged roofs, which don't have any potential for the kind of ridiculousness seen above.
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From a friend's blog post on Avatar:
People applauded at the end of the film, which I found a bit disturbing. Visually, it was awesome. But we just saw humanity slaughtered on an alien planet. We just saw the greed of humanity at its worst. We just saw a terrible spirituality exalted as ideal. And, finally, we just saw the remnant of the humans sent back “to their dying planet,” and we cheered.
No wonder people feel depressed after stepping out of the theater and back into reality. We are scum. We are parasites. We deserve to die on this rotting planet for our sins against Mother Earth.
What follows below is a paper I wrote for my 'Philosophy of God' class -Jeff
Commit it to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
-David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Sect. XII, Part III), concerning any volume of divinity or metaphysics
