Star Trek The Next Generation - 03x04 - Who Watches The Watchers

[Katalyzt]

Perfect reasoning. Picard demonstrated through reason Arthur C Clarke third Law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Great video clip! ★★★★★

Katalyzt

[LoneRookRS1]

This episode best reflects Picards good nature. The idea that people of different worlds and levels of development could come together on equal terms, rather than exploiting one another, is very touching and shows how enlightened he is.

[SonOfNye]

@LoneRookRS1 Atheism is a powerful methodology.

[AliTubelog]

another excellent episode

[andyt1313]

A truly wondrous scene.

[starwars15500]

Just as everything about humans evolve so does religion. We no longer really call it religion anymore but spirituality. You can say that religion is responsible for many wrong doings in our history but that would be false. It is the human ego that is to blame and not god. If you look at any true spiritualist who has worked on reducing the ego they are people of peace, joy, and love. Spiritual evolution is realizing that god fearing is irrelevant but to be god loving is the ultimate.

[slashingraven]

@starwars15500 Religion is an excuse, an inexplicably effective way to get away with harmful acts that people would otherwise object to, by claiming they're simply following orders from an untouchable supreme being. Take religion out of the picture, and you make it that much harder for people to justify their crimes against their fellow man.

So religion is at least partially responsible for atrocities committed in the name of a god, by influencing the faithful to look the other way.

[ScreenPkr]

@slashingraven The ones that use religion to justify harmful acts are the ones who either dont understand the religion or the ones that take the basic beliefs and twist them to fit personal goals. Religion is not simply an excuse. not all people who are religious use it as an excuse. religion taken out of context is used as an excuse.

[LoneRookRS1]

Religion is simply an emotional reaction to that which people don't understand. Religion destroy societies. Picard did not want their race to live in the dark ages because they started worshipping the Enterprise.

Christianity wasted thousands of years of human potential.

[AliTubelog]

@LoneRookRS1

You're wrong about the destroy part - that stems from your frustration of not understanding. Now don't get me wrong, I am agnostic. But I think that in rejecting God of current religions, many athests give in to arrgance and forget tht religion in its very creation was a force of positive, a force for poor against the tyrants. They believed in "God" because it was their way, their tradition. Today, when we are inspired, we credit ourselves, not Gods, unlike older civilizations. :)

[LoneRookRS1]

@AliTubelog I'm sure in the past,ignorant tribes appealed to some kind of deity to make them feel they were supported and rewarded for their martydom and nationalism. However, religion is a language of authority that is built on a lack of common reason or science, which leads to totalitarian societies that divert away from the common good. Religion is simply a flawed attempt by people to understand and organise the world and society,

[AliTubelog]

@LoneRookRS1

some politicians and rich use religions to control masses. E.g., in the first few centuries of Christianity, concept of jesus was immortalized by the ruling class to corrupt the fact that he was human - all this to gain advatage over poor. Mohammed rbrought radical change and fought for the persecuted, brought better laws for THAT time too.

Problem is that the belief of God remained static - because relgion became a tool for the rich.

so far thats what I think. research continued

[iAezay]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke

[poleag]

Wrong. You should still fear him.

[harpmaster480]

Dumb. He'd rather blow their evolution by exposing them to technology than allow them to have religion?

[mikehawktv]

@harpmaster480 They had already evolved beyond religion, but when they were accidentally exposed to the technology they began to revert back to religion... Picard didn't want to let their society move backwards because of the crews mistake, so he brought their leader on board in an attempt to explain what they all had seen. It's a brilliant episode.

[roan33]

@harpmaster480 religion is worse for evolution.

[coolkyd383]

quite possibly the greatest dialogue I've heard on Star Trek TNG

[webwombel]

@coolkyd383 I totally agree. But we have to add "Drumhead" to the best-of epidodes with outstanding dialogues.