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thatguythere47 Since: Jul, 2010
#201: May 4th 2014 at 10:56:46 AM

[up][up] Doesn't Ragnarok feature zombie vikings? Because anything featuring zombie vikings would be hella fun.

Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?
Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
bookworm6390 Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Abstaining
#203: May 4th 2014 at 11:55:12 AM

How can a movie have God be the one to save the day? And it not be a Deus ex Machina? Is that even possible? Aside from adaptations of Exodus. Like a disaster movie where the heroes tried, but humanity is doomed! Is that Jesus and a bunch of angels on white horses? Maybe God doesn't like doing Deus Ex Machinas.

Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
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#204: May 4th 2014 at 12:00:02 PM

Deus ex machina only applies when a force outside the context of the narrative solves a seemingly intractable problem and is never seen again. In a religious movie, God would hardly be outside the context of the narrative.

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lancesolous13 from California Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Dancing with Captain Jack Harkness
#205: May 4th 2014 at 12:09:23 PM

Though, of course, the plot could be that the Heros are trying to end the apocalypse... Except, they fail and have to accept their fate?

I'm a critical person but I'm a nice guy when you get to know me. Now, I should be writing.
bookworm6390 Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Abstaining
#206: May 4th 2014 at 12:17:56 PM

Oh, right! Except that if you write that God saves the day, what does everyone else do? Like a comet headed directly towards earth! And it disappears...

Xopher001 Since: Jul, 2012
#207: May 4th 2014 at 12:38:30 PM

Please, stopping a comet is cheap and easy

DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#208: May 4th 2014 at 12:40:08 PM

I guess you could have God save the day without it being a Deus ex Machina by making God the protagonist. As for how there could be any tension in that case... well, maybe God is attending like a Gods' convention or a Gods' High School, where our world is like his graduation project. The antagonist would be an evil bully God or rival nerd God who wants to ruin his project by causing a preemptive apocalypse, and it'd be up to our God to stop it so he could win the Gods' Science fair and make his daddy proud or something... at least, that's one way.

bookworm6390 Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Abstaining
#209: May 4th 2014 at 12:48:45 PM

Except there can only be one capital G author class God in Christianity(I'm a Christian). And for lowercase g class gods(random tidbit Elohim in Hebrew just refers to powerful beings in general, like angels and Physical Gods,Flying Bricks, Superweight 4 and above, I'd guess.), Thor? I wonder if any theologians have posited that God made the universe for fun?

DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#210: May 4th 2014 at 12:52:31 PM

Well, if God is eternal and without an origin, I would suppose the presumed eternity he spent alone doing nothing before creating the Universe must have been pretty boring.

bookworm6390 Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Abstaining
#211: May 4th 2014 at 1:15:34 PM

What about a movie of what would happen if Christians who died immediately came back with Resurrection bodies? And based on some medieval speculation, think Flying Bricks. Hijinks ensue?

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#212: May 4th 2014 at 1:44:42 PM

I wonder if any theologians have posited that God made the universe for fun?]

This is a smarter way of saying that our reality might possibly be a very large game of The Sims. Mostly based on how fast computers have developed in the last 20 years.

Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
bookworm6390 Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Abstaining
#215: May 4th 2014 at 2:17:59 PM

Heh. And they have tvtropes too! I can have fun with that hypothesis. Wonder what's with the idea that Christians can't have fun with hypotheses that wouldn't make sense in our worldview? Spoilsports. Though the Real Life page is pretty funny. If history is a story(Christian worldview), what would be the Climax? Easter? Would there ever be an ending? And would having everyone be resurrected mean no way humanity would ever go extinct?

TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#216: May 4th 2014 at 3:37:33 PM

Wonders what would happen if they ever made a movie of "The Salvation War". Would the guys who make this kind of film just spontaneously combust?

Rem Since: Aug, 2012 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#217: May 5th 2014 at 8:12:49 AM

How can a movie have God be the one to save the day? And it not be a Deus ex Machina? Is that even possible?

It probably wouldn't do that well (Too religious for some folk, too heretical for the rest,) but maybe a movie where God is planning on destroying the world, but humanity convinces Them not to?

Fire, air, water, earth...legend has it that when these four elements are gathered, they will form the fifth element...boron.
GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#218: May 5th 2014 at 8:14:37 AM

Like Legion? Only with more badass humans?

Xopher001 Since: Jul, 2012
#219: May 5th 2014 at 8:17:01 AM

Didn't thy already do that, but with aliens?

Hadley Hadley from Mississippi Since: Jan, 2001
Hadley
#220: May 5th 2014 at 12:47:10 PM

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Actually, such a story does occur in the Bible (Read Exodus 32:10-14). Granted, it wasnt the entire world, but he was just about to destroy his people before Moses convinced him not to.

Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#221: May 5th 2014 at 6:22:10 PM

And it was attempted in Genesis as well. God said He was going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah for their wickedness and Abraham kept trying to get Him not to by asking if he'd destroy them if there were still X amount of righteous people in the cities. God said He wouldn't and Abraham kept decreasing the number until all that was needed was 10 righteous men in the cities for them not to be destroyed.

Turns out they couldn't find ten.

GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#222: May 5th 2014 at 6:27:42 PM

Sometimes, I think those stories are more about God testing humans. Not humans convincing God of anything.

bookworm6390 Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: Abstaining
#223: May 5th 2014 at 7:02:25 PM

Yep. He likes to do that. Equivalent of "losing" a fight with a toddler? What is it called when the only reason you beat the powerful entity was that he/she/it let you win? And as far as the post about the salvation war, if whoever made a movie of it wasn't in a contract with God, I don't think He'd care. I read the Tv Tropes page and the supernatural entities are nerfed and OOC to the extent of being completely different than the real versions. Maybe a deconstruction of the popular view of Heaven and Hell. How about a metastory about contrasting straw gods with God? Though what percentage of Christendom would go for something like that? How can I put a WMG that the new universe will have starships?

edited 5th May '14 7:03:43 PM by bookworm6390

Odd1 Still just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson
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#224: May 6th 2014 at 9:25:42 PM

Wait, you mean to tell me that we're in one giant computer game and none of this is actually real?
Nonsense. The Earth is actually an elaborate social experiment conducted by mice.

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GethKnight Since: Apr, 2010
#225: May 6th 2014 at 9:28:22 PM

I thought the mice were using the earth to figure out the Ultimate Question.


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