It was created by the ancients and it's only function was to brainwash people into thinking whatever you want them to. Yet when the Ori were attacking, the ancients didn't want to use it "as a weapon". What other use would a brainwashing machine have OTHER than a devastating weapon? Why create it at all? If they didn't create it to be used as a weapon, was it's original intended purpose?
shareIt's original purpose was to avoid using a weapon, and simply FORCE everyone to see the truth so the Ori could be defeated. However they decided it was unethical to use when it was actually completed - which was the scene you saw in the actual movie.
shareYeah, it looked like the opinions were divided on it when it came to crunch time.
shareThere is such good political satire in that scene. The ancients would not have passed a "Patriot Act" either I don't believe.
shareProbably not. What I've been musing about, is what if I had an ark to point at religious fundies, whatever the religion. The only answer I can come up with is, Of course I would! And these fundies aren't even trying to totally enslave or kill everyone. What were they thinking?!
"The men people admire are daring liars; those they most detest are men who speak the truth"
but the thing we have to remember is that the ark can only change people to the truth, not the users POV
shareAh, but Upor, you will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon a certain point of view.
shareTouche ;)
But take into account the whole evolution v divine will argument.
ALOT of people believe that God made us the way we are a few thousand years before now, but there is STRONG evidence that life existed millions of years before and that we have evolved from aemoba or what not. So basically, the people who believe that our origin is with God, and not science could possibly not use the ark to change us others since there is strong scientific basis in the theory of evolution.
Or the Ancients could have just stuck us here, who knows....
Go away and think about it, maybe it will come to you sometime.
The whole series was about different races etc., all trying to convert people to their 'beliefs'. The Goa'uld wanted people to worship them. There are all these religions in the world competing to rule the world, but all of them have an agenda. The 'Ancients' were worried about what would happen if people didn't have some religion to follow without understanding that the only really important issue is 'Truth' and the 'Ark' contained the Light which exposed the truth to them. That all their so called 'religions' were a lie. I think it was a brilliant ending, no pun intended.
... Love keeps her up when she oughta fall down... Mal
the ancients created gazillion weapons that could have won all the wars but they were too chicken to use any of it.
shareYeah the ancients came up with all sorts of things. But yeah, they were generally misused, not used when they should have been, or didn't work right at all. And the weird thing is, they never think to get rid of these things afterwards, they just leave them lying around.
shareWhat was the purpose of the Ark?