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 Feb 14 2004, 12:32 pm
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It is now official... next year, there will be two Stargate shows on the air, and no Buffyverse ones.
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Feb 14 2004, 12:34 pm
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Garthor
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Sounds more like an issue of people being stupid.
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Hedgemistress wrote:
there will be two Stargate shows on the air Those damn dirty Russians must have got their hands on another Stargate again, curses... At least you can rest assurred that they will always play old Buffy episodes somewhere. Although I'm a little annoyed, they seem to have started skipping everything up until Buffy leaves High School when ever they start again. | |
Say, that makes it easier to tolerate. "Well, you're stupid, but that's because He made you that way. So I blame Him."
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I'm not happy about Angel being cancelled, but what's wrong with Stargate?
...Of course, I seem to be a heretic for liking both Farscape and Tremors. PS: Is it just me or did that Lindsey story in Angel seem really weak? I hope there's more to it. | |
I like Tremors... I don't have much against Stargate, don't love it, don't watch it... I just don't understand how it's good enough to rate two shows on the air at the same time.
(Disclaimer: I have no inside info on Angel. Not because I couldn't but because I enjoy being in the dark.) I deeply suspect we have not yet seen the last of Lindsey, but I could understand it going either way. They build him up as the big bad, and he's gone in his first actual confrontation. It might just be a classic sucker punch... the first potential villain is very rarely the real one... or it might be a one-two. Maybe the senior partners were impressed by Lindsey and are actually giving him a promotion? | |
All I got to say is YEA!!. Stargate is the "Da Bomb!”
ps. I watch stargate on scfi because upn only shows the old episodes of stargate, so I really feel bad for the Buffy lovers :/. | |
I tryed watching Buffy one time, I didnt like it. But I guess people could say the same thing about Stargate, and I love it.
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Scoobert wrote:
I tryed watching Buffy one time, I didnt like it. It grows on you. My sister hated Buffy. Then one weekend they had a Slayerfest marathon going (shows a whole season on one day) which was just sort of on in the background while I was reading. By about noon she had caught onto the plot/characters while passing by occassionally, by the end of the marathon she liked it. I think it's just because most of the show is an in joke. It doesn't really make sense if you don't know much about it, but it looks like it is trying to make sense and be funny. So it just comes off looking lame. | |
What I want to know is why people can use the word "God" however they want: slander it, use it in vain, whatever... yet as soon as someone insults the Muslims, blacks, Canadians, ect. then all of a sudden they've crossed some line and become a racist outcast.
I cannot begin to recount the vast number of times that I have had a group of people scorn me just for saying someone is black or been ridiculed because I said anything against a religion such as the Muslims', yet you hear people not only talk down about God but also cuss and curse at his very name. It's the king of double standards. In case you did not notice, that was directed at the topic title. | |
The same double standard works the other way, depending on the group. Some people have no problem with slandering or deprecating the beliefs and religion of anyone else but insist theirs be treated with respect. Me? I have no double standard. I don't even have a single standard. Some things are sacred, but nothing is so sacred as to be above mockery.
It's also possible to be over sensitive. For instance, I may have invoked God lightly, but where is the cussing, cursing, and/or talking down? All I did was suggest that the unseen hand of Providence is responsible for TV schedules, which follows directly from the idea that God is the unseen architect behind every event in the world. Also, part of the problem is that the word God is both generic and specific... even if I did curse, I did not take the name of your Lord in vain. "God" is not a name, it's a title or descriptor that was co-opted to take the place of the most common name given to your God in most copies of the Christian bible. It's like changing the name of your dog from Butch to Dog, then complaining when everyone else horns in on your dog's name. Now, if I'm swearing by a God other than the one you believe in, I'm having a false god before Him, which is a sin, but not disrespectful to your religion except insofar as practicing another religion is. If you want to say someone is disrespectful because they don't follow all the commandments of your religion, that's going to a bit of an extreme. You might say I'm splitting hairs, but I'm not. You'll notice that I very rarely invoke the name of Jesus Christ, except when actually discussing religion. | |
I'll take your word for the fact that you meant little to no disrespect, still, as you said yourself, many people do and that came to my mind upon seeing the topic. And since this is the place to state my mind, I thought I would.
As for the name "god"; yes, it is a generic name. However, most religions beside Christianity have some name or other for their god(s); and, although Christianity does as well, the word "god" has stuck when it comes to describing the god of Christianity wheras it has not where other religions are concerned. It is similar (yet reverse) to what has happened to many brand-name products today, many people refer to cotton swabs, tissues and bandages as Q-tips, Kleenex and Band-Aids. In this way, the word god (especially when used not as a pronoun but as a name) is usually used to mean the Christian god when used. The name of the Christian god is YHWH, but who is going to even attempt to pronounce that? ;) English speaking peoples have come to use the name Jehova, since that is easier to pronounce, yet that generic name of god is still commonly used instead of the actual name. That is why I (and most other people) think of the Christian god when the word is used. It is acceptable to assume such because it is correct more often than not. As I said before, even if you did not mean it in any derogative fasion, many others do. And as such, my question still stands, though it is more of a rhetorical question than one seeking an answer. I am not so much against speaking lowly of the Christian oppinion (as long the speach is not offensive) as I am against the people who talk bad about it but will not allow anyone to do the same to their oppinion. | |
"god" is the generic term for any god, "God" is the term for the Christian god. If you capitalize the "g" then you'd be referring to a particular one. There's no difference if you're speaking it, but when you're writing/typing it, there is a difference.
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Well, yes, and I'd stand with you on that one. As I said on an unrelated thread, negative opinions are as worthy of expression as positive ones, but freedom of speech has to be a two way street to work at all.
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I would disagree. God is a proper noun when it refers to a specific power and an improper noun when it refers to one of a type of power or being. It's a tremendous (and tremendously narrow-minded) leap to say that the only specific power it can be used for as a proper noun is the Christian God.
When the speech of monotheists of other faiths is translated into English, quite often (not always, not most of the time, but often) their native name for their higher power is translated as "God." Deists who aren't specifically anything but are vehemently not Christian will use the generic God to refer to the higher power they recognize as being basically out there somewhere. This is is how I use it. I'm not Christian, I don't believe in anything remotely resembling the roaring-pillar-of-fire-turned-diffuse-omnipresent-being that's portrayed in the Bible. I do believe in God. | |
My best guess was that you were referring to the Christain god. For all I know you could have been referring to your imaginary pet rabbit that's named "God", how would I have known? If I was referring to some arbitrary god that's not specific to any particular religion, I wouldn't have capitalized it.
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Loduwijk wrote:
The name of the Christian god is YHWH, but who is going to even attempt to pronounce that? I'm guessing you meant Yahweh, which really isn't to hard to pronounce.(Yah-Way) | |
Although I love the idea of having 2 Stargate shows, it pisses me off that they are canceling Angel. It makes me pissed off to no end to find that out. Oh well, better luck next time, right?
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