Re: Joan Of Arcadia too subtle for American audiences?

"Buckaroo Banzai" <blackhole34@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Steven O." <null@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 03:51:48 GMT, "Buckaroo Banzai"
>> <blackhole34@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>without question... unless of course you don't believe.  I think it's
>>>getting tiring that she questions every little thing God has her do.  I
>>>personally don't believe in God, but if I was faced with what she's
>>>experienced, I'd damn well humble myself and do what I'm told.... tuit
>>
>> I think if God spoke to me from a Burning Bush, I'd probably fall in
>> line pretty quickly.  But if God was showing up looking like my
>> annoying ex-girlfriend or my beer-buddy, I'd be inclined to engage in
>> a bit of give and take too.
>>
>> In the JOA storyline -- and for whatever reason -- God is showing up
>> as people who seem like just plain folks.  Whether it's the telephone
>> lineman, or the janitor, or even the cute boy, these are exactly the
>> kind of people to whom you'd want to say, "Exactly why are you
>> bothering me this time?"  And in many ways, I think it's part of what
>> actually makes the show compelling (even for you "disappointed in the
>> second season" grumpies), because really, I think that is how many
>> people relate to God.
>>
>> Think about it.  Even for people of faith, since they can't actually
>> see God or hear God's voice, don't many of them engage in an ongoing
>> dialog, saying to themselves, "Today, am I going to be a good
>> Christian/Jew/Muslim, or today am I going to take a day off and party
>> instead?"  Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that is precisely how
>> a lot of people relate to God. and JOA simply makes that tangible
>> through these offbeat Gods-in-the-flesh.
>
> I'd give you all of the points you've made, the first 10 or 20 times God

> showed up as a stranger, told me to do something, and when I did it, I 
> learned a lesson from it... after that, I think I'd take it on faith
that 
> the stranger that seems to know me is the real deal and I'd stop 
> questioning every little thing I was asked to do....

hey if it can occupy a body to tell me what to do, it can plainly do
the things itself too, why bother me? I never understand why joan has to
do 
it?
I think God is having some fun on the planet.