Did the Prophets intend for the Bajoran Occupation to occur?
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Personally, I don't see this as a rant, but a legitimate question.
SUPERNATURAL has Chuck as God. Dean Winchester makes very valid observations on his abandonment of the world.
Put it this way... if God is supposed to be the father of all, with humans as his children, then he abandoned his children. It's one thing to allow your children to grow up and grow, but it's another to be completely absent. That's called abandonment. A father abandoning his children is a dick, plain and simple.
Or am I missing something?
And to be clear, faith is a good thing to have. If you believe in something, fantastic. I'm sure it helps you get through hard times and is a huge comfort for many.
But blind faith is not a good thing. People should be able to ask a legitimate question about the subject without being called blasphemous or ranting or whatever term.
I just can’t see bringing the huge topic of theodicy into a discussion about the DS9 Prophets.
They did send Sisko the vision in “Rapture” that prevented Bajor from joining the Federation at the wrong time, which would have allowed total destruction by the Dominion-- that would’ve been far worse than the Occupation.
But basically they’re written as limited, vulnerable life forms who have no significant power beyond the wormhole--when they wiped out the Dominion fleet, it took place entirely within the wormhole.
Maybe they simply were unable to help Bajor during the Occupation, even if they wanted to.
They did send Sisko the vision in “Rapture” that prevented Bajor from joining the Federation at the wrong time, which would have allowed total destruction by the Dominion-- that would’ve been far worse than the Occupation.
But basically they’re written as limited, vulnerable life forms who have no significant power beyond the wormhole--when they wiped out the Dominion fleet, it took place entirely within the wormhole.
Maybe they simply were unable to help Bajor during the Occupation, even if they wanted to.
Maybe the Prophets can be considered a lifeform in the phase between noncorporeal and Q-like.
Certainly above humanoids, but definitely below Q. (And Quinn said the Q are nothing more than supremely advanced in technology... he compared Voyager to a less developed civilization in the same way. Clarke's Law applies.)
Certainly above humanoids, but definitely below Q. (And Quinn said the Q are nothing more than supremely advanced in technology... he compared Voyager to a less developed civilization in the same way. Clarke's Law applies.)
Be kinda cool if, in the newest episode of SNW, the sentient nebula is in fact a Bajoran prophet, expelled from the wormhole because she wanted to intervene before Cardassians began their occupation ... ? It'd be about the right time to intervene. ... In TNG Chain of Command, Picard speaks of a Cardassia long ago known for art and literature, before the military state took control.
Maybe this sentient nebula was the lone voice of compassion, pleading to redirect the course of Cardassian politics; but the rest of the "wormhole aliens" insisted Bajor had to conduct their own affairs without interference.
Maybe this sentient nebula was the lone voice of compassion, pleading to redirect the course of Cardassian politics; but the rest of the "wormhole aliens" insisted Bajor had to conduct their own affairs without interference.
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You make it sound like Oma Desala from SG-1.
In powers, perhaps. In attitude, the Q don't seem all that mature. Either in how they try to impress 'lower' lifeforms and play with them for their own amusement, or how they are bickering amongst themselves (see the civil war - OK, the prophets have the Pah-wraiths), not knowing how to raise their 'children'. Or it is just how they present themselves to us for some reason. At least the prophets seem to know exactly what they want and how it should be achieved.
Power wise and beingwise, if that can be a word, yes. That's what I mean. In maturity and temperament, the Q are not the righteous beings they think they are.
But to be fair, though, the only Q we really see cause mayhem is John de Lancie's Q... and his son. The rest don't seem too concerned with anything else that goes on in the galaxy.
But to be fair, though, the only Q we really see cause mayhem is John de Lancie's Q... and his son. The rest don't seem too concerned with anything else that goes on in the galaxy.
Yes, I think they did.
I think that was how to get the Bajoans out of a cast system of living.
But an awful way to have growth and change for a people.
I think that was how to get the Bajoans out of a cast system of living.
But an awful way to have growth and change for a people.
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