MUAD'DIB SAID

[Dual]

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife — chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."


So after Idaho shot off Leto's flippers at the start of GEoD... was Leto complete? :shock:

 

[Dual]

I NEED TO KNOW.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

WTF is it, Indiana Jones and the Brokeback Mountain Scouts?

 

[Dual]

!!

 

[Mentalist]

Indiana Jones and the Bareback Hairy Scouts

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Take out the "Hairy" and you'd probably have the next Cobra Video offering.

 

[CaptainWacky]

GEoD?

 

[Cassie]

God Emperor of Dune. You really need to read that one Wacky!

 

[CaptainWacky]

I already know Idaho shoots Leto's flippers(?) off so it's ruined!

 

[Cassie]

lol.. there's more than that!

The attitude of the knife was long forgotten by anyone BUT Leto by the time Idaho did that. OMG MORE SPOILERS!!

 

[CaptainWacky]

I still don't get why Paul couldn't have stopped the jihad by just saying "I am your God and I command you not to jihad!"

 

[Cassie]

He didn't control the future he only saw the different paths. All the other paths he saw ended with the destruction of the human race.. except for the Golden Path which he rejected and you should be finding out why very soon, if you haven't already. The Jihad was the lesser of the evils he had to choose from in his view.

Paul didn't have a great understanding of his prescience, he was stumbling blindly along with no one to help him.

 

[CaptainWacky]

YEAH...BUt...okay

 

[Cassie]

Old visions surged around Paul. Would he have to choose the terrible way? Distorted Time hinted at this ghola in that hideous future. Would that way close in upon him no matter what he did?
Disengage . . . disengage . . . disengage . . .

 

[CaptainWacky]

I wonder if he (Herbert) actually had it all planned out with the first book and knew what the possible "hideous future" was or if he just made it up book by book.

 

[Cassie]

I think he made some of it up as he went along, but since the story is so detailed he had to plan it out or he'd lose continuity. OH and what the terrible future actually is, is only hinted at..except the part where humanity is wiped out. He doesn't say how it happens though, only that the human race needs to expand and scatter out so that they can't ever be completely wiped out.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I think we'd probably wipe each other out in some war over the spice of religion or sentient beards or something.

 

[jack]

When wiping out a species, is it front to back, or back to front?