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Atheists enjoy speculative stories as they *should* be enjoyed: for entertainment purposes only, not to be confused with reality. Members here can have fun discussiung the literature, movies, TV, etc.

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Welcome science fiction & fantasy fans!

As a science fiction/fantasy writer myself, I enjoy taking voyages into the unknown. Looking at the universe as it isn't often helps us put the real world into perspective. It's also fun to take an occasional vacation from the often-harsh reality around us. Unlike the theists, the religionists, the god-groupies who feel compelled to live in fantasy realms, we visit them and then come back home--and then go voyaging again.

I hope you'll all feel free to congregate here and compare your experiences in other worlds and times.

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Comment by Howard S. Dunn on January 4, 2010 at 2:03am: http://io9.com/5431426/70%20minute-review-of-phantom-menace-is-the-...

Long but worth it.

Comment by Adi Ashburner on January 1, 2010 at 4:40pm: Hey all,
I'm cross-posting this on a few of my groups. Naughty, I know, but since this has to do with gays, athiesm and Toronto, I thought it'd be okay. Plus it's fun. And everyone likes fun.

Anyway, I have a comedy webseries that just released its second episode which has a rather a lot to do with religion.

Set 10 years after a cataclysmic event has killed 75% of the world's population, three friends struggle to get by working in the world's now most-successful company: A grief counseling agency.

In episode 2, Lupe has decided that a more spiritual approach to her grief counseling calls would allow her to log more calls in the company, so she embarks on a quest to find the religion that suits her best.

Anyway, you can check it out at http://www.thisdaymustend.com or go directly to episode 2: http://www.youtube.com/user/ThisDayMustEnd#p/a/u/1/5_ewoseF3xU

But I can only assume you'd want to start with episode one, right?

So any feedback - positive and negative - let me know!

Comment by Jo Jerome on December 31, 2009 at 1:14pm: Yeah, in talking with friends I've learned I'm by far not the only one who, at some point in the film, swatted at what I thought was a bug or dust bunny in my face only to realize it's an insect from the film.

Comment by Stephen Goldin on December 30, 2009 at 3:43pm: The best part of it was the little things--ashes, sparks, and those wonderful white floating parachute things.

Comment by Jo Jerome on December 30, 2009 at 1:32pm: Thanks Stephen. Fairly warned.

Meanwhile ... AVATAR 3D!!!

OMFG!!!

NERD-GASM!!! NERD-GASM!!!

Actually, I give the film itself about a 7 out of 10. But the 3D tech and effects were truly spectacular. And I love that there weren't any gratuitous 3D shots. Usually in 3D movies there are those shots of someone reaching or throwing something or something that looks really contrived and was obviously just there for the 3D effect. While Avatar had it's fair share of reaching and shooting and grabbing and throwing, it looked natural, like it belonged and wasn't just there to say "Hey, look at our cool 3D!"

Seeing it again tonight along with "Sherlock Holmes."

Comment by Stephen Goldin on December 28, 2009 at 11:15pm: Yeah, the first 2 seasons of BSG were fantastic. I loved them, too, and invested in them. Then the producer realized he didn't have a cohesive ending and wandered all over the place. The whole thing lost focus and fell apart into goo-goo mysticism. Mary/Jo, don't say you weren't warned.

Comment by Jo Jerome on December 28, 2009 at 8:44pm: Uh-oh, and I'm about 2 seasons into BSG. I'll watch it all now that I'm invested though.

On AVATAR, I'm sold. Will be headed to the big city lights soon to see it in 3D. The planet has a consciousness? Awesome. That's the kind of 'religion' that I don't mind. It's why I identify as Pagan-Atheist. I don't feel too silly paying a bit of homage to solstices and full moons and respecting the land as if it's alive because these things are science, they are reality based.

And finally, to the Far Right pooh-poohing yet another slam against the Military Industrial Complex and yet another cheerleader for the environment ... you guys are more than welcome to make your own unlimited-budget, so-high-tech-we're-pretty-sure-they-time-traveled-to-the-future-to-film-it, insane/ridiculous/indescribable-amounts-of-blockbuster-appeal movie.

Go ahead. No one's stopping you.

Comment by Stephen Goldin on December 28, 2009 at 11:08am: I thought the disgustingly sappy and chaotic ending of BSG was so horrible that I won't be watching Caprica. Producer Moore has shown me he has no concept of what he's doing...which is a shame, because the redone BSG started off so well the first 2 seasons.

Comment by Stephen Goldin on December 28, 2009 at 10:21am: I remember a review someone once gave of a very bad sf book: "Disbelief is meant to be suspended, not hung by the neck until dead." That's where the mainstream religions fall flat.

Comment by Jim DePaulo on December 28, 2009 at 8:57am: Stephen,
There is actually 3 versions, Regular (no 3D), regular 3D and IMAX 3D.
It does play the MIC to be the extreme heavies - Might and money. Any negative portrayal of that clutch of assassins is great with me. Just substitute in Hallibuton, KBR, Blackwater (Xe) and the people of Iraq and Afghanistan and we have today's news.
I particularly like the physical connectivity of all the life on the planet and the religion based on that phenomenon - or would it be a religion if it's reality based. The "deity" they named and invoked was actually the planet consciousness.