Online quizes "what kind of x are you" are silly.  You'll usually visit a link someone sends, see how long the survey is, compare that to what it was you were setting out to do on the computer, and most of the time say no way.

This time I was caught.  And the results were humorous.  Especially the part about stature:

A venerated sage with vast power and knowledge, you gently guide forces around you while serving as a champion of the light.

Judge me by my size, do you? And well you should not - for my ally is the Force. And a powerful ally it is. Life greets it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us, and binds us. Luminescent beings are we, not this crude matter! You must feel the Force around you, everywhere.

 
I guess thats the best character the world can come up with for a person of faith.  There wasn't even an option for "absolutely" to the question of whether you believe in the afterlife, there was only a "pretty sure".  Oh well.  Just silliness.   Click on the picture if you would like to give it a go.

A couple days ago I was listening to the radio and caught a brief snippet of a review about SWe3 - RotS. It was talking about how wonderfully the Cannes Film Festival in France applauded the movie for supposed Anti-American Sentiments. George Lucas' response was also interesting but not because he straight out said: "yeah, it's Anti-Bush" but because he was so vague about it. The reviewer read it as being politically oriented towards Anti-Bush so that he pleases the French and keeps the Americans happy and viewing his film. This may or may not be true, but the there are only a few instances that it seems to be Anti-American in so far as anything against absolutism could be considered evil.

The one problem I have with science fiction movies is that they often are trying to present a philosophical view of the world. In T3 it was predestination, Xmen pushed the religion of evolution, and The Matrix movies had too many to count. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is no exception.

The Guide pushes the world view of nihilism. Quickly put, this view believes that god does not exist, we have no purpose in life, and therefore nothing has meaning. Life thus is a cosmic joke, and we are on the receiving end.

Look at the link to: Exclusive Clip: "Whale"

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/thehitchhikersguidetothegalaxy.html

I know Orson Scott Card as the author of one of my favorite Science Fiction books of all time, Ender's Game, which some have been waiting to appear in movie form. What I did not know was that he had been using his writing to comment on society and politics more directly than is often accomplished through science fiction.

[HaRiojas] recently pointed me to a an article by Orson Scott Card, Watching the News republished in Wall Street's Opinion Journal. Originally the essay appeared in Orson Scott Card's weekly column called World Watch on a site called The Ornery American.

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is quite entirely the most interesting, simple-complexity I have ever read. It is Sci-fi, after a fashion, but not in any serious sense; only in that it takes place in space with aliens and androids, however putting that aside ... it transcends catagories.

It is, in fact, a collection of five novels by Douglas Adams; a series with titles such as: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; Young Zaphod Plays it safe. It follows the adventures of: Arthur Dent, the last of two living earthlings; Trillion, the other earthling; Ford Prefect, an researcher from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the fugitive, ex-president of the Galactic Council; and Max, the Paranoid Android.