Dune: Prophecy

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Aldarion

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Grez said:
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” -Dune

I think it's logical to assume that the Jihad was against these slavers, destroying their machines, and the subsequent creation and enforcement of a prohibition against thinking machines, so that future similar enslavement wouldn't happen.
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Yeah your interpretation is reasonable and makes a lot more sense than the son's books on the subject, where the big enemy was literally thinking robots (with some cyborg battles along the way). Of course what he meant by "enslave them" is open to interpretation.

Personally, when I read that quote now in 2024 I can't help but think that the social media, digital entertainment, grubhub lifestyle is an early version of what he was describing...
 
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Mahes said:
Its in the Dune universe, looks to have great special effects, and it has Travis Fimmel and Mark Strong in it.

Yeah I will be watching this turd as long as it is descent.
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same, usually stuff like this i'll wait until all the episodes drop and binge it but i'll watch this weekly since i love the dune universe. if its at least decent thats good enough for me. it'll be interesting to see if there is shitty modern woke crap in the show or if it tries to stay gritty and brutal.
 
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Kajiimagi

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Bandwagon said:
So who's planning to watch this turd and report back
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I'll 'get' it tomorrow , not sure if I'll get around to watching it or not for a while. I'm backing up drives to move to a new NAS. Got a goddamn HDD that's half retarded too.
 
Bandwagon

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Yea I've got a pretty exciting day planned, too. Going to try making tuna salad. Maybe go to bed, bath and beyond too
 
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nu_11

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Aldarion said:
Yeah your interpretation is reasonable and makes a lot more sense than the son's books on the subject, where the big enemy was literally thinking robots (with some cyborg battles along the way). Of course what he meant by "enslave them" is open to interpretation.

Personally, when I read that quote now in 2024 I can't help but think that the social media, digital entertainment, grubhub lifestyle is an early version of what he was describing...
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I dont interpret that quote as the same master-slave dynamic from history.

If you know Frank Herberts philosophy, he cares about human potential and is wary of highly concentrated skill specialization at the expense of well-balanced human beings. From that, my best guess of what the Butlerian Jihad is is exactly what we are seeing with people farming out their critical thinking skills to third parties (e.g., tech companies) which are ultimately controlled by other people who abuse that power.
 
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Kajiimagi

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Bandwagon said:
Yea I've got a pretty exciting day planned, too. Going to try making tuna salad. Maybe go to bed, bath and beyond too
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Fish is gross but to each their own. Only thing I like that comes out of the water is shrimp, and I don't like them a whole lot.
Didn't realize BB&B was still in business. I could swear I read they went bankrupt. Yep here it is:



Bed Bath & Beyond Bankruptcy new logo! Edaw Edaw
 
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Edaw

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Kajiimagi said:
Fish is gross but to each their own. Only thing I like that comes out of the water is shrimp, and I don't like them a whole lot.
Didn't realize BB&B was still in business. I could swear I read they went bankrupt. Yep here it is:



Bed Bath & Beyond Bankruptcy new logo! Edaw Edaw
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Season 2 Halo GIF by Paramount+


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Mahes

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Its a bit slow but I am intrigued enough to continue.
 
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Kajiimagi

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Well football is fucking boring tonight so I'm going in bros!
 
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Shmoopy

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Not GOT great but not bad. Will watch the one for sure.
 
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tugofpeace

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20 minutes into it and there's already too much woke shit. Old black lady, strong independent woman, chinese benegeserit, pajeet lord, wtf
 
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Kajiimagi

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Well the sisterhood is the one place where girlboss is canon. I'm not finished with the 1st ep but I'm in for the haul. Shame IMDB says there is only 6 episodes total.
 
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nu_11

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Bene Gesserit are supposed to be girlboss because any man that goes through the same process dies. Except the Kwisatz Haderach of course.

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In truth there are many factions in Dune and the Bene Gesserit are only one of them.
 
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Mahes

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nu_11 said:
Bene Gesserit are supposed to be girlboss because any man that goes through the same process dies. Except the Kwisatz Haderach of course.

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In truth there are many factions in Dune and the Bene Gesserit are only one of them.
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Yet we have a man that appears to have gone through the process in a different way. He holds a power yet revealed in this time line. Its the power that leads to the "Test of Humanity" or the Gom Jabbar.

The show was a bit slow, but I am intrigued at how all of the powers are revealing themselves in this time period. The voice is also something that appears to be new in this time line as to how it is used.
 
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