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Frisco17
DOOP Secretary
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I think the main reason is that Matt Groening wanted Futurama to be somewhere inbetween a utopian future and a dystopian future, so kinda like it is now just in the future.
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Xanfor
DOOP Secretary
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Do not still drink water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thy frequent infirmities.
~ 1 Timothy, 5:23
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Frisco17
DOOP Secretary
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That actually makes a scary amount of sense.
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Seymour_My_Hero
Professor
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Originally posted by Anarchy_Balsac: Indeed it does. I've got one, why in the future do we have a space probe acting as God's duplicate, but no religions dedicated to duplicates of God? Despite the fact that at least one known being,(Bender) has met it, and several monks very likely saw it through their telescope, most likely recognizing it? For most people, seeing is believing. Since this God duplicate is so far away that the monks have been looking for this God for hundreds of years, people can't prove that it exsist. Maybe that's why at Leela's wedding in BBS the priest says "...before one or many Gods"
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Frisco17
DOOP Secretary
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He says that because he's a priest of the first amalgamated church, which seems to be Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hindu and Buddism combined.
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futz
Liquid Emperor
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If Jesus returned in two-thousand-whatever-it-was, you know when all video tapes were destroyed, then Christianity has run it's cycle.
Space Probe/God pretty much said he doesn't do much anymore one way or another. Since humans are mainly religious to get something good or avoid something bad they wouldn't see much point in worshiping something that has no benefit. But it may take a few millenia for humans to catch on it isn't working.
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CalculonsTalent
Crustacean
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Christianity saw it's hey-day during the Dark Ages. There wasn't anything to look forward to in their lives (aside from disease, famine, and extreme poverty), so they emphasized the importance of living a "good" life on Earth in hopes of reaching Heaven when they died. The whole idea is absurd to me, especially in this day and age. I actually sway toward the Buddhist ideology. Buddhism stresses the importance of living a good life and working towards enlightenment, which basically means realizing that everything around you is fake and material and only true happiness can come from within you.
I also love Agnostics because they live for themselves, hold their own beliefs, and don't live by an organized religion's imposed rules. It is complete freedom, aside from being spiritually enlightened.
But I think I have gone too far off-topic. Sorry!
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winna
Avatar Czar
DOOP Ubersecretary
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Originally posted by CalculonsTalent: Christianity saw it's hey-day during the Dark Ages. There wasn't anything to look forward to in their lives (aside from disease, famine, and extreme poverty), so they emphasized the importance of living a "good" life on Earth in hopes of reaching Heaven when they died. The whole idea is absurd to me, especially in this day and age. I actually sway toward the Buddhist ideology. Buddhism stresses the importance of living a good life and working towards enlightenment, which basically means realizing that everything around you is fake and material and only true happiness can come from within you.
I also love Agnostics because they live for themselves, hold their own beliefs, and don't live by an organized religion's imposed rules. It is complete freedom, aside from being spiritually enlightened.
But I think I have gone too far off-topic. Sorry! Plus. You're wrong. I mean... there's really no way to put it... you're just... pretty much wrong. I'll explain it to you later if you really want to get into an argument, but the fact of the matter is that your whole perspective is illogical and incorrect, so much so in fact, that I felt the insistent need to point that fact out to you.
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DJ Spider Man
Crustacean
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Let's not get into a religious argument here, guys. Besides, you're all wrong, Paganism is the right religion. JUST JOKING! My spiritual choice is no more and no less valid than anyone else's, as long as I live my life in peace and balance with everyone else. Anyways, I didn't mean to get into a religious argument. "an it harms none, do what thou will"
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hobbitboy
Sir Rank-a-Lot
Urban Legend
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Originally posted by hobbitboy: Why, in the future,... aren't there any futuristic sports or entertainments? Responded to by seattlejohn01: There is sports & entertainment in the future. Ape fights, Ultimate Robot Fighting, Blernsball for sports. Logging on to the internet is now a contact sport. Also, there's "All My Circuits" for entertainment.
If your question is, why isn't there anything NEW & DIFFERENT in the way of sports or entertainment Yes, that is what I meant by 'futuristic'. Substituting robots for humans in wrestling matches and soap operas didn't seem like much of a change in 1000 years. it's probably because the series needs to be rooted in 21st century normalcy for an audience to relate to it. If the writers created new sports & entertainment that don't currently exist & are really far out, they run the risk of alienating the audience. Yes, but what's the in-show reason? What answer might Leela or Hermes or the Professor give if Fry asked the same question?
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Xanfor
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by hobbitboy:
Yes, but what's the in-show reason? What answer might Leela or Hermes or the Professor give if Fry asked the same question? Fry: Why does life in the thirty-first century contain so many parallels and similarities to life in the twenty-first century? Leela: Parallels? Nonsense, it's impossible for anything to be parallel. If it were, there'd be a distinct probability that your eyes wouldn't keep curving down while I'm talking to you. Which there doesn't appear to be. Now shut up and load the packages. Hermes: Fashionable Caftan of Manhattan! Things being similar? Thing have to go through the proper papers before becoming different, mon. Society can't just tango up to the desk and change its name to 'Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock'! Now where's the confirmations for those packages you loaded? Professor: What!? Because change is evil! Young people just don't realise the dangers! But the government thinks they do, those lousy conservatives... They think they can halt my research to invent a creature capable of exterminating the Thals... But they'll learn... When my superior races dominates all! Mwah-ha-ha-ha!
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hobbitboy
Sir Rank-a-Lot
Urban Legend
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Originally posted by Xanfor: Fry: Why does life in the thirty-first century contain so many parallels and similarities to life in the twenty-first century? <The room goes quiet as everyone looks intently at Fry> Professor: Fry, You haven't gone back to eating things from truck-stop vending machines again, have you? Amy: Ewwww... puke-a-tronic!
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Xanfor
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by ShepherdofShark: Pure class, I wonder what the Professor would do with the theoretical virus vial.
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