[extropy-chat] (not-so) Stupid Comics

[Amara Graps]

Stupid Comics
http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/index.html


These comics are hilarious -- and relevant to this group, as here in
satirical form is a good example of a 1950s meme still running around
today illustrating the ever-present fear of some people towards science.

Amara

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(from the commentary)
"But there are lots of other spirit-filled folk out there toiling away
at the drawing table trying to get people to come home to Jesus. One
of the more interesting is this anonymous gem of the "cheesecake"
school of saving souls, FORBIDDEN PLANET.  [...]

That's right, it's a Christian interpretation of the classic 50s
sci-fi flick starring Leslie Nielsen and a guy in a robot suit. But
what makes this tract special is the slick, commerical artwork that
prominently features good lookin' babes."

(from the comic)
"So this was a movie with a meaning about how science had learned to
recreate the thoughts of your own mind and cause them to materilise.
But they began to create evil images and monsters and demons and this
big one in particular that was going around causing destruction,
killing people, and finally almost killed the professor himself. And
it seemed to hint that the higher civilisation that had existed on the
planet before had done the same thing and had used these monsters at
first to protect them from other invaders and so on, but finally they
turned on them and wiped them all out!

So the moral is that the evil imaginations of evil minds can be
recreated by science and have been today. So that now science, like
the scientist on that planet, has created a monster that looks like
it's about to destroy them -- the Atomic Bom! -- The atomic monster
that has come out of the evil imaginations of their evil minds by the
power of the Devil, really spiritual power."

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I actually _liked_ The Forbidden Planet.. Robbie the Robot was cool.

Amara
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