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Do You Believe In God?


ok, seriously, what was the supposed "Secular" government doing asking "Do You Believe in God? I don't get it wtf well um i got pissed off that he died and i was really shocked it happened at all.

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Where in the movie does it say their government is secular? The government is Cube's world is probably this totalitarian state and they are chuckin any radicals into the Cube.

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If they throw radicals into the cube, then shouldn't they ALL be thrown in there?

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My two cents: The society shown in Cube Zero is all about submitting to a higher authority. The 'lab rats' are controlled by the techies, who are controlled by the men in suits, who take their orders from 'the boys upstairs'.

The purpose of the final question is to determine if the prisoner is worthy of society. But in this world, being worthy of society means submitting. If the prisoner doesn't submit himself to God, well then he sure isn't going to submit himself to any other type of authority.

Perhaps the reason that no one has ever said 'yes' is that the people are put in there because they didn't submit to the government in the first place. What are the crimes? We don't know, but Rains was just a protester. Meyerhold doesn't seem like the killer type. Owens presumably asked too many questions about his job.

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It is probably like the burning at the stake, immolation, or similar methods of execution, or even excommunication or exile used in medieval times for crimes of heresy, witchcraft, or blasphemy. But remember what Wynn assumed earlier, that what if the reason why they are there, is because the people they put in are people they didn't like, which could mean the consent forms were fake.

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If anyone said yes, do you honestly think they would let them out?

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No they wouldn't let them out but I suspect they would then work for the cube as techies or whatever position they are suited for.

However, it is highly likely the writer(s) put that line is to elicit controversy. It may have been designed to be vague and keep mystery to how the Cube works.

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> The purpose of the final question is to determine if the prisoner is worthy of society. But in this world, being worthy of society means submitting.

That makes sense, except it ends up being a bit of a hollow question since the subjects have had their memories wiped out. That would mean that, effectively, they've never been exposed to the concept of God.

That would be like taking you to an alien planet and asking you whether you believe in their God Ba'ken-der'won. You'd have no idea who that is and you'd honestly have to say, "No."

> Perhaps the reason that no one has ever said 'yes' is that the people are put in there because they didn't submit to the government in the first place.

I would like to know more about the people and the cube. Because it doesn't seem to me like the cube is an actual legitimate experiment. I mean, what kind of data can you collect from people blindly stumbling into traps and an occasional person avoiding them all?

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It's ALIENS, people. ALIENS are conducting the experiments, the technology is clearly alien, especially in Cube 2. Now, why do I say that? Mostly because of the inhuman nature of the traps. Why put rats in a maze if you are just going to kill them? Just kill them, to see their reaction to whatever biological weapon that is under development.

How about the text on the screen, when the techies take over in Cube Zero? It was in no language I could recognize. The techies seemed like some sort af enhanced humans, that were able to understand the ciphers, and work in high speed, but it seemed that controlling the Cube was their only function.

So why the question about God? Because any civilized being, should recognize that there is NO GOD, and a person like that would not be a good slave. All in all, the cube is a highly sophisticated questionare, to see if people are good slaves or bad slaves. It's a prelude to an invasion.

So how about the military involvement in the Hypercube? If an invasion is eminent, the best thing to do is to infiltrate the government of all the countries in the world, or perhaps the most powerful one. Obviously they don't pick U.S.A. because of it's good nature towards mankind. If U.S. of Bullies wanted to convince the rest of the world to surrender to an alien invasion, because they already have, the rest of the world would.

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o yea, like what?

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Obviously they don't pick U.S.A. because of it's good nature towards mankind.
quoting for good laughs

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"Because any civilized being, should recognize that there is NO GOD"

So what is the purpose of civilization ? A self destruction ? As seen from statistics, history and other freely available data, atheistic regimes have a tendency of self destruction and atheistic individuals are basically unable to at least sustain the society to it's current level, as their life with a lack of any meaning seems to affect their ability to be productive members of society in a great way, so it damages demography, economics, etc to a great level.

The only actual reason why human kind is actually still progressing and developing is that the atheists are only about 10% percent of world's population and they are mostly concentrated in the old Europe, which will soon be clean of them and replaced by muslim fundamentalist regimes.

Thanks to the atheist regimes of past, today my country is also on the brink of extinction, so i'm really looking forward to all these new changes, as they may also provide opportunity to get rid of all these remnants of the vile ideas of past, and that may be the only chance of survival.

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So what is the purpose of civilization? A self destruction?


Your question presupposes that there is a purpose.

As seen from statistics, history and other freely available data, atheistic regimes have a tendency of self destruction and atheistic individuals are basically unable to at least sustain the society to it's current level, as their life with a lack of any meaning seems to affect their ability to be productive members of society in a great way, so it damages demography, economics, etc to a great level.


Wrong, any statistics you will find on any "atheistic regime" (there's no such thing, by the way) will in fact be a communist regime, an anti-theist regime, or some other related personality cult. A secular regime with no ulterior motive to oppress the religious or force people to worship a leader will have no negative impact on society and I challenge you to find one. Furthermore, you're confusing atheism with nihilism, there are atheists who are not nihilists and even if they were nihilists, nihilism posits the absence of objective meaning in life, not subjective meaning. You have no argument.

The only actual reason why human kind is actually still progressing and developing is that the atheists are only about 10% percent of world's population and they are mostly concentrated in the old Europe, which will soon be clean of them and replaced by muslim fundamentalist regimes.


I highly doubt that, at the moment atheism is continuing to rise rapidly. 

Thanks to the atheist regimes of past, today my country is also on the brink of extinction, so i'm really looking forward to all these new changes, as they may also provide opportunity to get rid of all these remnants of the vile ideas of past, and that may be the only chance of survival.


You're proposing that we "get rid" of atheists, and you think this is not a vile idea?






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I highly doubt that, at the moment atheism is continuing to rise rapidly.

Source ?

When I Google for statistics about religion, I usually get the opposite data. Mayhaps you've done some research on your own and would care to share it ?

You're proposing that we "get rid" of atheists, and you think this is not a vile idea?

I'm an opportunist. I like Realpolitik. Meaning also I like using every situation to my advantage, using one enemy against another. But I would, of course, try to avoid breaking commandments, as that would incur negative consequences for myself.

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Source ?

When I Google for statistics about religion, I usually get the opposite data. Mayhaps you've done some research on your own and would care to share it ?


Of course, here's a few:

http://www.ibtimes.com/pew-survey-predicts-rise-atheism-us-europe-despite-growing-religiosity-worldwide-1869696

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160422-atheism-agnostic-secular-nones-rising-religion/

https://www.barna.org/barna-update/culture/713-2015-state-of-atheism-in-america#.VynOd4QrJhG

I'm an opportunist. I like Realpolitik. Meaning also I like using every situation to my advantage, using one enemy against another. But I would, of course, try to avoid breaking commandments, as that would incur negative consequences for myself.


First of all, who's the "enemy" here? Secondly, do you think your deity would appreciate you avoiding breaking commandments for selfish reasons? Especially since (assuming you're Christian), correct me if I'm wrong, he preached loving one's enemies, not getting rid of them.







"I have no idea what "hammer time" is. Or how it differs from regular time."

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Yes.

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just as bad guys think of their enemies as the real "bad guys", totalitarian governments rarely refer to themselves as such. the men from upstairs refer to their government as a "democracy" despite its medieval regime. sound familiar?

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it's just a mind game,
had he said yes, they would have asked "Which God do you believe in?"

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had he said yes, they would have asked "Which God do you believe in?"
no, there are not buttons for this

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I think they should have asked a different question.

Do you prefer coke or pepsi?

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<<I think they should have asked a different question.

Do you prefer coke or pepsi? >>

Either way, you are fried to death!

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