Good sci-fi is about the present

Good sci-fi is about the present

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@fmf said
The best science fiction is not about predicting the future; it's about contemplating the human condition now.

Thoughts?
Sometimes, but not necessarily.

The present is prelude.

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The book of Revelation could be described as science fiction.

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@divegeester said
The book of Revelation could be described as science fiction.
Have you seen Stapledon's timelines?

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@divegeester said
The book of Revelation could be described as science fiction.
Or it could have been a C1st equivalent of QAnon.

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@divegeester said
The book of Revelation could be described as science fiction.
From Rev 22
“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”

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@kellyjay said
Believe it, or not the NT scriptures were written as historical documents, not just some text to make people believe.
I disagree. I see the Bible as literature.

Are the things described in Matthew 27:52–53 historical facts?

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@kellyjay said
From Rev 22
“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”
Is it a "historical fact" that John-somebody-or-other had a "vision" of the already-60-years-dead Jesus, while he was alone in is his house on the island-of-something-or-other, and that these are objective truths that form the basis of the "historically accurate" Book of Revelation

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At this stage of the game, the few surviving gelatinous pyramids of Mars have their own radio culture that no one else can understand, and that's fine.

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@fmf said
Is it a "historical fact" that John-somebody-or-other had a "vision" of the already-60-years-dead Jesus, while he was alone in is his house on the island-of-something-or-other, and that these are objective truths that form the basis of the "historically accurate" Book of Revelation
Island of Patmos

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@fmf said
I disagree. I see the Bible as literature.

Are the things described in Matthew 27:52–53 historical facts?
Yes

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You can't handle the present.

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@fmf said
Is it a "historical fact" that John-somebody-or-other had a "vision" of the already-60-years-dead Jesus, while he was alone in is his house on the island-of-something-or-other, and that these are objective truths that form the basis of the "historically accurate" Book of Revelation
Yes.

But Revelation is about the future, not history so it cannot be “historically accurate.”

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@kevin-eleven said
@PB1022

You can't handle the present.
You have a present for me?