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Skriven 2007-08-09 11:23:16 av LK (3440.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Attn: JMS: Galen's Acceptance
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On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:08:44 -0000, robin.moss@gmail.com wrote:

>On Aug 8, 1:11 pm, LK <fountainmdom...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Two quick things, since I'm still on deadline lockdown....
>>
>> 1) Let us remember that time travel is also a form of technology
>> (which is all I'll say about this for now).
>>
>> 2) Galen would likely have been content with either solution, as
>> noted, as long as one or the other was implemented.  But this one is
>> better.
>>
>> jms
>>
>> Don't' ask me why, but I this morning I read Corwin's "This I Believe"
>> essay for NPRhttp://thisibelieve.org/dsp_EssayResultsPublic.php
>> --which happened to be about baseball just before NPR began a report
>> about B. Bonds' "record" home run attempt.
>>
>> Where Mr. Corwin writes about evil and good and compassion being
>> communicated , I thought of your second comment above.
>>
>> As much as decent people want the right thing done or the necessary
>> thing done, decent people want it in the right way.  I think,
>> generally speaking, humanity or the justice part of us want the action
>> accomplished in a way that feeds our individual and our collective
>> soul.
>>
>> Galen may have accepted a decision by Sheridan to murder and lie about
>> it afterward, but even when such decision appears necessary I doubt
>> that action toward a currently innocent person sustains or enriches
>> anyone's soul.  Galen is cynical and harden but I sense there is still
>> a hunger for justice and compassion and kindness that drives, or at
>> least influences, his choices in who to manipulate/nudge in his view
>> of the big picture.
>>
>> ....Oh, dear.  That sounds a little like need and consideration of a
>> compassionate and merciful god.  ...Wasn't where I expected to end up
>> when I started thinking and writing about this.
>>
>> So, again, I feel and will say "Thank you" for provoking thought and
>> consideration.  I also think you set up another Rorschach test for
>> viewers with these episodes.
>>
>> LK
>
>So are you saying anyone with a hunger for justice, compassion and
>kindness needs, wants or believes in God? Either I've misunderstood
>you or you've made a rather questionable leap in logic.
>

I don't think so.  Old Testament (since I don't know enough about
Torah, etc.) the God of Abraham had the "big picture" in mind when
speaking to Abraham to take his family and servants and slaves and go
forth toward Cannan.  I think it is fair to say that it is commonly
believed God/god/godesses have "the big picture" in mind when speaking
to an individual to get them to explore a new path, escape an
addiction, preach encouragement and support of the downtrodden.

Desire for justice does not equal belief in a god or deities but is it
an important concern in many religions even if the object of justice
applies only to one's "own kind" or "tribe" and not to the group's
"enemies" or non-members.

As I wrote, the phrasing I used _reminded_ me of phrasing I've heard
before in a religious context.  And that prompted a bit of my own
understanding as to a possible layer of meaning behind the religious
phrasing so the religious phrasing sound less like empty rote from
seminary  or Sunday school.

I think your interpretation is your focus on one sentence in the
paragraph and ignoring the next sentence in the same paragraph.
--Then it is also my fault because I left unwritten my remembering
G'Kar's comment of assuming a wall is the source of a spot of light
rather than the wall being the place where the light falls.

Thinking about Sheridan's choices and Galen's actions opens my mind a
little to considerations of Galen's motives and concerns rather than a
bumper sticker conclusion about Galen.

LK
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