I wrote a little while ago:

> Bob writes:
>
>  > Bob Graham
>  >  Director of AMISYS Computing Support
>  >
>  >  "Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers.
>  >  Fellow creators the creator seeks--those who write new values on new
>  >  tablets.  Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for
>  >  everything about him is ripe for the harvest." - Friedrich Neitzsche,
>  >  "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
>
>  Sometime when the group feels up to a truly "off-the-wall", off-topic
>  subject, we'll have to discuss the theology of the movie, "2001: A Space
>  Odyssey," which was influenced rather heavily by Neitzche's retelling of
the
>  Zarathustra story, a story that makes its way into a later Christian
>  theology and its interpretation of the notion of free will.
>
>  Most people misinterpret "2001", believing it to be merely science fiction,
>  but it is perhaps the most profound theological movie ever made.

While it is a little crazy to reply to your own postings (a little bit like
talking to yourself, I presume), the one thing I meant to mention in the
previous posting that I didn't is that the passage that Bob quotes from "Also
Sprach Zarathustra" is exactly the thesis of the subtext that underlies all
of "2001". If you've seen the movie -- but didn't understand it -- read Bob's
quote again very carefully and then ruminate about the movie a bit. Bob's
passage is the key to the story.

Wirt Atmar