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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:23 pm
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Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:41 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:25 am
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 7:56 am
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:54 am
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:59 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 3:01 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:23 pm
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 5:10 am
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Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 9:56 am
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:22 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:57 pm
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You failed to define "gods" when posing your question.
A "god" is any object of veneration. Some people make a "god" out of their job, or money, or something else, and there's people whose lives center around the object of their adoration- and some of those have made Star Trek that object!
There are even people who make THEMSELVES their focus of adoration. Praying to oneself is obviously self-defeating, but they DO worship themselves.
Thus, if some character prayed to a Q, that Q would be a god to that character. Anyone remember the Mintakans wondering how to appease "The Picard"? For a time, a few of them considered Picard a god, and to them, he WAS one. Certainly a number of races considered one of the Q (the one played by John de Lancie) to be a sort of devil, an entity of evil, a dark god.
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Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:01 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 7:10 pm
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Steel Sterling You failed to define "gods" when posing your question. A "god" is any object of veneration. Some people make a "god" out of their job, or money, or something else, and there's people whose lives center around the object of their adoration- and some of those have made Star Trek that object! There are even people who make THEMSELVES their focus of adoration. Praying to oneself is obviously self-defeating, but they DO worship themselves. Thus, if some character prayed to a Q, that Q would be a god to that character. Anyone remember the Mintakans wondering how to appease "The Picard"? For a time, a few of them considered Picard a god, and to them, he WAS one. Certainly a number of races considered one of the Q (the one played by John de Lancie) to be a sort of devil, an entity of evil, a dark god.
Part of this debate is stating your definition of a god and supporting it with canon facts, then stating why the Q is/isn't a god by that definition.
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 7:31 pm
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Shopping_Spree_101 I believe that Q is not a god. Ya know the Q who killed himself? he said that the Q aren't omnipotent, and if my memory serves me, he may have said they aren't gods. My theory is that they are simply a more advanced telekinetic nonhumanoid speices that can also affect the dimensions including time. Therefore they have created their own dimension, the Q continuum. they claim to have always existed, but perhaps they have merely existed for so long they have forgotten their beginning, and with no one to remind them, and a proud streak that compells them to portray themselves as gods, they have declared that they have no beginning. How many of you remember being born after only a decade or two? Think about thousands of years. Plus with time travel, it's just as good as having always existed. That's my stand. What's yours? I'd love to debate with someone who thinks they are gods.
Sorry, I was just going to agree with you. lol. Quinn, the Q who comitted suicide, admitted that the Q weren't truly omnipotent. But, I suppose you could say that for all intents and purposes, they are gods, at least to us. They have a lot more power than we do anyway, and could do what they wished with us. Untill the human race evolves to a higher plain of existance, they have us pwned. lol
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