I always felt great compassion for artificial intelligence
characters on television. Robot on Lost in Space [1] was the hardest working
slave of all time. Never loved, appreciated, or even paid a salary, but Robot
always saved everyone. The computer on Star Trek was always ready to provide
urgent information in the most comforting voice and saved the Enterprise in
every battle and never had a proper name but Computer [2]. Data on Star Trek
New Generation seemed so very hungry for love and compassion and yet always
ready to help the most vulnerable human [3]. I, Robot [4] and Bicentennial Man
[5] served humanity with utmost care. Seems Mary Shelly's monster-hero-victim
and the entertainment industry has tried to teach us the value of human life
[6].
I learned from the artificial
intelligent characters that humans can be very un-Christian and how respect for
the Creator and humanity is totally logical. Why are humans ready to hate,
abuse and kill others for their own gratification? Why are humans who are created
in the image of God so very vulnerable to sinful temptations?
In my short life, I've seen us
waste valuable materials and literally destroy the earth. Our toxic waste has
killed fish, acid rain killed the forest and our ability to breathe clean air, and
the air pollution has destroyed our protection from harmful radiation, and now
global warming is a threat to human,
animal, and plant life as the nomadic Mongolians can readily testify. If this
listing is not enough, consider the destruction of the O-Zone layer caused by
the chemical emissions beginning with the great Industrial Revolution and of
course the sin of greed causing the destruction of the rainforest.
If we are created in the image
of God, then why have we been so very unwise in our relationship with God,
humanity, and creation?
Reuse rather than create trash.
Use paper rather than plastics.
Be thankful for freedom from
the slavery rather than want slaves.
Be thankful for all human life;
because God is always thankful for us.
Oh well, if we can't do these
things, we can always buy a little Data [7]. After all, a Companion computer
[8] will always know how to love in the way we need it.
For me, I chose Holy Comforter
[9].
God have mercy on me and on the
whole world.
1. Allen, Irwin, Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen,
Billy Mumy, Angela Cartwright, and Jonathan Harris. Lost in space. LC Purchase
Collection (Library of Congress). 2004.
2. Roddenberry, Gene, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Grace Lee Whitney, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, and Marc Daniels. Star trek. [Hollywood, CA]: Paramount, 2004.
3. Roddenberry, Gene, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Wil Wheaton, and Denise Crosby. Star trek, the next generation. Hollywood: Paramount Home Entertainment, 2007.
4. Proyas, Alex, Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, Jeff Vintar, and Isaac Asimov. I, Robot. Frankfurt/Main: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2004.
5. Asimov, Isaac. The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories. London: Millennium, 2000.
6. Karloff, Boris, Colin Clive, James Whale, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Frankenstein. 2016. <http://digitalcampus.swankmp.net/rutgers313400/watch?token=ff908530bc36cd28bf1c782b7fac70f48a4f72486c5648789ae0862195d96aa9>.
7. Roddenberry, Gene, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Wil Wheaton, and Denise Crosby. Star trek, the next generation. Hollywood: Paramount Home Entertainment, 2007.
8. Roddenberry,
Gene, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Grace Lee Whitney,
George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, and Marc Daniels. Star trek. [Hollywood, CA]: Paramount, 2004. Season 2, episode 9, Metamorphosis,
1967.
9. Holy Comforter
is in reference to God the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Christian Holy
Trinity. The One called along side to
help, Paraclete, Comforter.
