Really do not want to be. There's a small group of us make decisionsSo you're the guv'nor
Really do not want to be. There's a small group of us make decisionsSo you're the guv'nor
In the film it comes across, too, but in the book it is much more explicit. The last few film scenes are incomprehensible without knowing the book.I remember it well....... the music and that block or obelisk.
I never did quite connect with the last scenes though....... maybe they were just intended for the viewer's thoughts?
Ah..I didn't know about Clarke's ideas about government and control, nor had I read the book. Like you (,I guess) I just loved and was amazed by the film production and scenes.In the film it comes across, too, but in the book it is much more explicit. The last few film scenes are incomprehensible without knowing the book.
Clarke was very much a product of British imperialism, and his work is steeped in the theme of benevolent overlords and a certain notion of progress from "primitive" to "advanced", for a particular understanding of these terms, which goes against all I believe, but I still enjoy his work a lot.
There must be connections between both, and although atheists won't let us in to their clubs I think there are connections there as well.Question to @badger - what if any would you say are the differences between Deism and Animism?
Your 'This universe we are in is just a galaxy within a much larger universe.' is what I have believed for so long.
And there is no reason why that 'much larger universe' might not be part of something greater still..... and on, far far beyond the realms of human perception.
So the Whole-of-Everything (of God) is very very big.
When I think such thoughts I feel calmed, reassured, at peace.
Do you believe in a Big Crunch or a Big Bounce?
Maybe our Universe pulses in a continuing and repeating Big Bounce? It might be part of a nucleus in a greater existence?
God is very very big, methinks.
Please do continue on........... What you are discussing here is about part of everything........ to a Deist it has the status of prayer.