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imagine feeling like you're interrupting something....... IN YOUR OWN HOME...........

there's so much to unpack here.

"It was a joke. Technically also true." -> Asking your pal of like 3 or 4 days to get on his hands and knees and then realizing after the words have left your mouth that it sounds quite suspect but you refuse to take it back. Also you have to refrain from thinking too hard about that exact setup so you clarify that it's a joke. Mostly.

which contrasted greatly with my own experiences with religion. honestly PC reminds me so much of my own experiences as a teenager deconstructing a faith that was once my whole world only to become crushingly aware of an absence despite so desperately wishing otherwise.

yet i also like the idea of aslan representing wonder and even faith in the irreligious sense. even as life itself. that life does grow bigger and expand into things greater than you could have imagined. even though scarier. something like that cs lewis quote about one day becoming old enough to read fairy tales again.

Vampires do not live symbiotically with humanity. They do not share in the daily struggle of human life. Instead, they feed, siphoning away our vitality in order to extend their own unnatural existence. But if we are their fuel, are we not also their strength?

-Dinner is important! -We'll go out. STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY (2026–) 1.03

Look at the sequence of events. The cryonics project was a secret. Most of the planet knew it was bad, but they didn't know it was THAT bad, hence why some of the most important work was being done in a small town in New Zealand. The plan is to get everything lined up so that by the time they have to break the news that, yeah, we're gonna have to evacuate the Earth, they'd have a solution ready to go. Sure, there would inevitably be some panic, but nothing as bad as revealing it without the cryonics figured out and ships ready to go.

Then John decides to livestream himself playing with cadavers, and also reveals that the Earth is doomed and they don't have the technology to evacuate everyone yet. The economy is tanked. Country turns on country. A major world leader has to be puppeted by John because his death would destroy the country. The whole planet is directly thrown into crisis mode, and the trillionaires use the chaos to snap up all the funding and research for their "leave everyone else to die" plan. And since cryonics research has been halted because the main guy in charge is now using the lab as a cult compound instead, they're able to convince people this is the only viable option.