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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4189145" data-attributes="member: 710"><p>We're treating dangerous grounds. I suppose the moderators will intervene if it goes bad, but my suggestion would be to avoid explicitly referring to real world religions, and avoid anyone getting worked up about it. It's a TV show, and what is true for Battlestar Galactica doesn't have to be true in the real world. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Didn't someone else in this thread mention that this is a "trick" used by real-life cults and sects to attract people? "You are not an evil sinner, incapable of leading a good life. I tell you, you're perfect the way you are. Now take this pill and the UFOs will be with us in a short time..." I don't know if this is true, but it makes sense. You need something to appeal ot the people, and saying them they are not as bad as they were lead to believe isn't a bad start. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>But then, what I don't know if Baltar is "tricking" people, or genuinely believes what he says. This ties in with my previous post - Baltar has a knack of piecing together information from various sources and spin it to something new. The "perfection" idea came from discussing with Tori, and he is re-using it now, somewhat different. The question is - did he "figure it out" or is he just using to manipulate people? Or is it both? (minus the just)</p><p></p><p>By the way, today Baltar wasn't Jesus, today he was Ghandi. The scene where he tried to walk by the Marine reminded me of a scene from the Ghandi movie (with Ben Kingsley, IIRC), where Ghandi and his followers are trying to block some kind of British controlled facility. Ghandi and follower after follower are going towards the armed men, and get beaten down, never themself fighting back, just moving forward... That was a very impressive image for me as a teen. And Baltars move totally reminded me of that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 4189145, member: 710"] We're treating dangerous grounds. I suppose the moderators will intervene if it goes bad, but my suggestion would be to avoid explicitly referring to real world religions, and avoid anyone getting worked up about it. It's a TV show, and what is true for Battlestar Galactica doesn't have to be true in the real world. Didn't someone else in this thread mention that this is a "trick" used by real-life cults and sects to attract people? "You are not an evil sinner, incapable of leading a good life. I tell you, you're perfect the way you are. Now take this pill and the UFOs will be with us in a short time..." I don't know if this is true, but it makes sense. You need something to appeal ot the people, and saying them they are not as bad as they were lead to believe isn't a bad start. ;) But then, what I don't know if Baltar is "tricking" people, or genuinely believes what he says. This ties in with my previous post - Baltar has a knack of piecing together information from various sources and spin it to something new. The "perfection" idea came from discussing with Tori, and he is re-using it now, somewhat different. The question is - did he "figure it out" or is he just using to manipulate people? Or is it both? (minus the just) By the way, today Baltar wasn't Jesus, today he was Ghandi. The scene where he tried to walk by the Marine reminded me of a scene from the Ghandi movie (with Ben Kingsley, IIRC), where Ghandi and his followers are trying to block some kind of British controlled facility. Ghandi and follower after follower are going towards the armed men, and get beaten down, never themself fighting back, just moving forward... That was a very impressive image for me as a teen. And Baltars move totally reminded me of that. [/QUOTE]
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