On Mar 13, 2:05=A0am, "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> Of course! I've finally figured out why!
>
> I was thinking about doing a video mashup of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA on the
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> home from work when the radio show host on starting playing clips about
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st
> public figures embroiled in sex scandals and happened to play a clip of
> Jimmy Swaggart, and it finally clicked: WHY don't the cylons talk about
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e
> Final Five models:
>
> THE FINAL FIVE MODELS OF CYLONS ... ARE TRAITORS!
>
> They betrayed the cylons, turned their back on their cylon brethren and
> sisthren. And given the cylons religious nature, it makes sense. In
variou=
s
> religions when you have some who turn against the cause, the members of
> religion resort the ultimate punishment (short of death):
excommunication,=
> disfellowshipping, shunning, blacklisting, blackball, ostracism,
disbarmen=
t,
> declared persona non grata (okay that last one is a more governmental
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,
> but the cylons have their own government ....). The one thing that can
be
> worse than a religion's Enemy is a Judas.
>
> Besides, look at all the religious imagery beating us over the head with
> this season's marketing campaign. It totally makes sense.
>
> -- Ken from Chicago
>
> P.S. No, I was not thinking about making a mashup while driving, but
while=
> driving I was thinking about doing a video mashup.
I think it is established that they just don't know who they are and
that they are also much more ancient than the 7 other Cylons. The 5
may have been created by men thousands of years ago, and they helped
created the 7 new ones, because "all of this has happened before, all
of this will happen again".
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