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The jesus incident by frank herbert7/8/2023 Theriex to the clones, Frank Herbert, The Jesus Incident From the nothing else comes no reflection of Self, nothing returns. And where there is only one, there is nothing else. It is through the other that the Self is known. As will be the norm, you are welcome to comment and I’ll do my best to respond thoughtfully. So, let’s dive in to some of the ideas I’ve fleshed out a bit and see where things go from there. Is the theme of human conflict with other selves evident yet? In my next piece, I’ll attempt to use this book as an argument against conflict (oh, the hypocrisy!) by outlining the final paradox that I saw in the book. The Jesus Incident contains conflict between humans and the native flora and fauna of Pandora, between humans and humans, and between humans and Ship. I love when authors create religions, I’m making a note that I need to write a post about the utility of religion in scifi. Like the Abrahamic texts from which Herbert sometimes quotes at the start of select chapters, God is testing people to become their best selves through a terrible and vague challenge to worShip satisfactorily. This book centered on a hostile alien planet aptly named Pandora, where a recently-sentient voidShip takes on the role of God to its crew which it had transported from an Earth on the verge of destruction by supernova. Yesterday I wrapped up my first reading of Frank Herbert’s The Jesus Incident, which, unsurprisingly, had very little to do with Jesus.
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