by Lon on October 29, 2009
i am not a television watcher, but i just watched all four seasons of battlestar galactica over a span of two months earlier this year, and I’ve got to say the series rocked. There’s so much in there, I wish I blogged about it throughout each season.
I don’t want to give away too much if you haven’t watched it, but it’s a sci-fi oriented post-apocalyptic drama – a bit like the explorations of noah’s ark in space. It sounds kooky but the characters and the questions it provokes are phenomenal.
What I loved about the show:
How humans have an incredible capacity to survive the toughest conditions
Questions of why we of all species deserve to survive?
How humans were either atheists or polytheists, while the ‘evil’ robots were monotheists
What it’s like to become that which you hate
pressing the limits of what it means to love and value – regardless of beliefs and even origins
How they managed to mix themes of technology and progress with mythical stuff like angels
The cyclon robots seemed to have a type of militant evangelicalism.
Themes of Islamic jihad and even Buddhist reincarnation were explored (ie. the downloading to new bodies)
Questions of who your creator is, why he made us, and what good is he?
I didn’t like Baltar’s christ-like evolution, but I loved the subtle bits of him despising his farm boy childhood and re-embracing it.
Whether we truly value the soul, or the shell it’s encased in?
I could go on and on. Anyone else love Battlestar? See incredible themes that tie in issues of faith and humanity?
by Lon on September 12, 2008
You’ve got to love google’s ‘contextual’ ads.
Besides ads for various ’solar’ panels, the two ads that google’s been serving up on my site recently are
“Christian Leadership B.S.”
and
“Meet Christian Girls Free”
Some insights from this.
Picking out key words, is not the same as context.
Google can brilliantly identify over 63 billion web pages, but still can identify the pulse of who I am, what I value, and what I write about.
If red flags don’t go up when you advertise your Christian Leadership organization as B.S., do you really have a chance at helping others lead and engage culture in our context?
Maybe Christian Leadership is B.S.
How much are Christian girls supposed to cost?
And if you’re offering them for free, do we really want them?
Besides God, no one will ever fully know the extent of who you are. And every day you and I make decisions based on snippets of reality.
What does it mean to engage others as fully human In a world of soundbites and snapshots, where context is a moving target?
I believe I blogged some thoughts on this before, but I’d love to hear from others as I’ve been gearing up for the big night.
What does spirituality have to do with creativity or artistry?
Last night was part of an interesting event at Coffee Culture. Global TV’s been shooting a documentary on the relevance of Christianity to Canadian millenials.
Last night, Nathan Gerber of Divine Force Company invited leaders and influencers in his circle to dialog and network as they captured our conversations on film. It was thrilling to say the least to be in the company of so many movers and shakers and visionaries.
Besides JD Heffern, who kindly gave me a lift and just started blogging here, I had a chance to connect with Wendy of newdirection.ca, Nathan Colquhoun and Joe Manafo of ‘the story‘, and John Franklin of imago, to name a few.
How’s that for dropping names? For the rest of you I met that night, I didn’t get your contacts, drop me a note and let’s connect further.
What was even more exciting is the sense that as we continue to bump heads, we’re on the brink of something beautiful happening across the country.
This summer we’ll be taking Solar Crash offline for a night.
I just secured a night club for an evening celebrating creativity and spirituality.
All proceeds will be going to drilling a well and providing clean water.
I still need help of every type imaginable. Artists, thinkers, musicians, organizers, designers, talent scouts, poets, planners, craftspeople, you name them, i need them.
(I’m not looking for people who’ve made it big, are signed on labels, or would be charging for something like this, i’m hoping to give undiscovered talent an opportunity to contribute to something bigger.)
If you can help, or know someone who might be able to, drop me a note.
You can find some more preliminary info on the event here.
