From: joetheone@dontchabespamminme.com   
      
   "catpandaddy"  wrote in message   
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   > "Joetheone"  wrote in message   
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   >> What are these colonial weirdoes trying to gain? The freedom to rent a   
   >> gym for a meeting and sock hop?   
   >   
   > Much the same as many other religious movements try to gain.  They see a   
   > world that they think is losing itself to corruption, and they want to   
   > save the souls of that world by any means necessary.  Eventually, the   
   > means they consider "necessary" become as bad as the original problem   
   > itself.   
   >   
   > The whole point of the Caprica pilot and all of these "unlikeable"   
   > characters is to demonstrate that the STO fanatics see before them a world   
   > with no moral center that is almost beyond saving.   
   >   
   >   
   That's a nice generic description, but the ones we see have the same values   
   and act the same way as the culture they supposedly condemn.   
   They're front row center at the V-Ville snuff show.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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