Big worms cool.

I think about Dune everyday. It is such a beautiful story with powerful messages and I think it is timeless. It is so fortunate that I never had it spoiled, was never forced to read it, and came to love it all on my own. I constantly think about how GEoD. I am atheist, but if tomorrow I met someone who could analyze things faster than a computer, could tell when you were lying, had almost irrationally accurate intuition, knowledge of everything in the past and knew everything that could happen in the future, could change the universe at their leisure, control your will with their voice, and was immortal; then I would probably consider them god. The only thing that separates this character from God, would be intangibility. Which at that point I begin to question the existence of nature? Its so unsettling to me because what if by raising people to believe in any God, you will their existences and prophecies too. Where is the line between logic and wisdom? Autonomy and morality? With Paul you could genuinely argue about who is using who more: the fremen or Paul. With Leto II you see the bigger picture, without adversity there is no progress. There's so many layers. The present is control by the past and the price of the future is paid in the present. Abominations are just people in the present possessed by the will, memories, and values of the Dead. There's no independence or agency for people like this. I am not sure if this was the actual intent of Frank Herbert but to me this is a beautiful metaphor for the existential crisis I feel about religion. Morality is not something anyone should decide for you because that absolves you the burden of thinking for yourself. How miserable can you justify making the present to honor the will of the past or to make a future worth living? In the past they dreamed of a green paradise planet for Dune. Once it became Green, the ones who dreamed were long gone, and the ones who lived in it have no connection to the old world. They are weaker for it. The Fremen who lived in the desert have changed through environment, appearance, culture, values, and identity. The standard of what's right and wrong can change over time. Every planet is habitable, every human is stronger and smarter, there's no thirst, hunger, war, or any adversity. Yet they never asked for this universe they can't travel it, change it, and they are oppressed by a God Emperor who controls all of their futures and they have no free will in anyway that actually matters. How can you truly have freewill if God has a plan for you and everyone? Think of all the personalities God could have, would he even be on our side? To what extent? What if your morality does not line up with Gods? By all reason and logic you might think you are doing the right thing, but in the face of infinity its all so short term that you can never really consider what the right thing should be for those who don't exist yet. TLDR: Changing the world/universe takes some serious audacity. Felt validation for my religious nihilism.

Yeahhh Quinn is so cooool

That would actually be goated.

Hell yes

For both a Dune and Cthulu series of videos

For real 🔥

Also Spice is an allegory for oil.