Satan (Devil), now i understand why he did not let anybody see him.
Yes the Satan with hooves and hoorns, not like the bible says he looks like.
There is a reason... We have always known on a basic physic level that they were coming is why.... an if you want a real spoiler... that is not the n real secret
Yeah, isn't it ironic? That was a big laugh out loud moment for me. I did not understand why everyone kept pushing to see him since his actions did speak a whole lot louder than anything that he could have looked like. Sometimes ignorance is bliss indeed. And to see it from a biblical point of view (not that I'm an expert), Lucifer technically was an angel - wasn't he?
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Yes, technically he was an angel. He was cast out of heaven by God. That's all I know. 😑
I kind of saw it coming long before they finally showed him. Just sort of figured that had to be the direction they were going with it.
Yet at the same time, it doesn't add up for me. There was a comment from him when the farm guy was pressing him on the "why don't you show yourself?" issue where he references that they've gone through this routine on other planets before and it hasn't gone well when they've shown their faces too soon...
"The devil" / demons and this appearance that matches a stereotypical "personification of evil" visual is all a human concept. There's no reason to expect that an alien culture might independently come up with the same concepts. Even within our own cultures we have different concepts of what "evil" would look like. For some it might be the red-skinned goat-legged guy with horns. For others it might be a giant squid-faced winged tentacle monster (Cthulhu). An image search for "personification of evil" brought up more than a few images of this thing from Indonesian culture:
http://c8.alamy.com/comp/AJC15C/rangda-mythical-widow-witch-personification-of-evil-commonly-depicted-AJC15C.jpg
(Also, Hitler. You see him in some of the search results too.)
So I just can't buy their explanation that different alien races would all have the same negative reaction to this alien race's appearance. The reaction would be very specific to a particular culture.
Even we could have some resemblance to what some alien culture out there might describe as "evil". But that would also be very specific to interactions with people of that race. It wouldn't be a universal rule for all alien interaction.
It would be universal, because every alien culture would have a premonition that these people would be coming some time in their future, and only this 1 group of people who look that particular way. It wouldn't be a racial memory of something that happened in their past, but a premonition of something that will be happening in their future.
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So... watching episode 2... it seems as if we might as well just forget the whole aliens angle because apparently the entire thing was meant to be religious in tone all along. Bleh. With this, I don't know if I'm going to feel like watching the rest of this when it airs. It started out well enough, but everything from the very end of episode 1 onward seems to be going downhill fast.
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Part of Clarke's explanation is that perhaps the Overlords came to Earth earlier, say a few thousand years ago, and "things didn't go too well", with humanity having a very negative reaction to the mission (agenda) of the Overlords, hence the association with evil in our collective history/pre-history/culture. So they waited till we largely forgot/got over the fear and when we more a bit more mature as a species, before they came again. Still, they hid themselves for a while til we became comfortable and trusting of their presence.
Lucifer or Baphomet. A C Clarke was a freemason
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It was very Christian-centric. Considering like 2/3 of the world's population is not Christian or Jewish or Islamic, his appearance wouldn't mean anything, really.
"Can you keep a secret? Can you know something and never speak of it again?"
I'm not Christian, Jewish or a Muslim, and I'm certainly not an authority on any of them. That said, and I could be wrong but, I don't think that, "The Devil", has ever been described in that stereotypical cloven hoofed, horned, red-skinned way in any of the Abrahamic religions. It's more of an amalgamation of various mythological beings cobbled together by various Church PR writers and artists.
Either way, truly representative of religious belief or not, pretty much everyone, no matter what Spaghetti Monster you believe in, recognizes that appearance and knows it's associations and so it would mean something, really.
Jesus and Satan were spirit brothers. According to the Mormons that is.
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