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The Seeker
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The following is a story from the British TV series Red Dwarf, it is not intended to mock Christianity a la IPU, I just thought it was a good analogy:
Background
Dave Lister, a low level technician on the mining ship Red Dwarf dreamed of saving up his pay and using it to set up a doughnut diner and hotdog stand in Fiji. He also had a pet cat, Frankenstein, which he kept hidden in the ships ventalation shafts, one day he got found out about the cat and as a punishment, he was placed in stasis (frozen in time), Frankenstein was never found, Frankenstein was also pregnant.
When Lister emerges from stasis, he discovers that he is three million years out into deep space and the entire crew of the ship are dead. However, he is not alone, he is acompanied by a hologramatic simulation of his bunkmate, Rimmer and a (suspiciously human looking) creature who evolved from Frankenstein and her children, known only as the Cat. The Cat relates the creation myth of his people, how Cloister the stupid (worshipped as a deity by the cat people) was frozen in time to protect the Holy Mother Frankenstein and how he will return one day to lead the cat people to "Fushal" (Fiji), but doesn't explain where all the other cat people went.
The Kind of Interesting Bit
Lister obtains a copy of the cat people's sacred text and has the ship's computer, Holly, translate it. The text tells the story of how there was a holy war between those cats who believed the doughnut diner hats would be red and those who believed they would be blue. After nearly wiping each other out fighting, the two remaining factions left in two separate "arks", one of which crashed straight into an asteroid, the sick and lame were left behind. Already reeling from this revelation, Lister further learns that:
Think about it
Background
Dave Lister, a low level technician on the mining ship Red Dwarf dreamed of saving up his pay and using it to set up a doughnut diner and hotdog stand in Fiji. He also had a pet cat, Frankenstein, which he kept hidden in the ships ventalation shafts, one day he got found out about the cat and as a punishment, he was placed in stasis (frozen in time), Frankenstein was never found, Frankenstein was also pregnant.
When Lister emerges from stasis, he discovers that he is three million years out into deep space and the entire crew of the ship are dead. However, he is not alone, he is acompanied by a hologramatic simulation of his bunkmate, Rimmer and a (suspiciously human looking) creature who evolved from Frankenstein and her children, known only as the Cat. The Cat relates the creation myth of his people, how Cloister the stupid (worshipped as a deity by the cat people) was frozen in time to protect the Holy Mother Frankenstein and how he will return one day to lead the cat people to "Fushal" (Fiji), but doesn't explain where all the other cat people went.
The Kind of Interesting Bit
Lister obtains a copy of the cat people's sacred text and has the ship's computer, Holly, translate it. The text tells the story of how there was a holy war between those cats who believed the doughnut diner hats would be red and those who believed they would be blue. After nearly wiping each other out fighting, the two remaining factions left in two separate "arks", one of which crashed straight into an asteroid, the sick and lame were left behind. Already reeling from this revelation, Lister further learns that:
- The cat people considered it a sin to "be cool", preferring "the righteous path of slobbiness"
- Those who failed to eat hotdogs on Fushal Day were pelted to death with stale doughnuts.
- The cat people had all kinds of other crazy rules that had nothing to do with anything he'd ever said
Think about it
