{"id":4004,"date":"2005-11-04T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=4004"},"modified":"2005-11-04T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T23:02:00","slug":"love-the-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=4004","title":{"rendered":"Love the machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just finished watching series one of Battlestar Galactica. I’m impressed. Much more going on than I was expecting, particuarly in the sphere of theology. I’m intrigued to see where they go with the ‘love of god’ theme, which seems to be playing a great part in the plot.<\/p>\n

It is reminding me of two things. The first is the Matrix trilogy, and the peace made between the matrix and humanity. The second is Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – that the Buddha is found in the pistons of an engine just as easily as in the flowers of a lotus petal.<\/p>\n

In other words, I think there is a message here, coming through the collective unconscious, prompted by the Holy Spirit, about a reconciliation between humanity and technology, in order to move forward.<\/p>\n

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Having also finished book three of my ‘Peak Oil’ collection (full discussion tomorrow) the future survivability of human civilisation is on my mind.<\/p>\n

“We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another – doubtless very different – St Benedict”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just finished watching series one of Battlestar Galactica. I’m impressed. Much more going on than I was expecting, particuarly in the sphere of theology. I’m intrigued to see where they go with the ‘love of god’ theme, which seems to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,20,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crisis","category-culture","category-film-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-12A","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}