Mario Perez and Steve Walsh (M.A.'s in Communication and Philosophy) tackle these 2 issue:. Do men really go out on dates with women for their rapier wit, and why do women fall in love with their local neighborhood Local Yokels rather than striving to obtain someone distinguished.

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Before the final season of the single greatest show of all time airs, I care to use some of my skills to propose an argument that strongly unravels the mystery that bounds us all.First, to lay down the ground work for this argument, there are several pieces of information that need to be made available to you. These key pieces of information are based on comments from both Ron Moore and several key actors on the series.

Having offered that disclaimer, I'll now state what has been revealed so far. In addition to being "fundamentally different" than the "Original Seven" introduced previously, they have been Cylons from the beginning.

In addition, an interview (circa 2005) with Moore asserts that "the idea was that these models of Cylon were sort of developed out of their own study of us. The Cylons on some level looked at humanity and said 'You know what? There's really only 12 of you.' If these are the 12, and sort of if you look at them they each represent different archetypes of what humanity is."

Now what of Starbucks wondrous return from the dead? It's not because she's a Cylon, or so says Sackhoff in an interview with the recent issue of SciFi magazine, claiming that "no way would [Moore and Eick] let that happen."

So now that they have been "activated", where's the final Cylon? More importantly, why didn't they show themselves during "Crossroads"?

The Purpose of the Final Five

Before any further reveal, it is important to identify the "fundamental differences" between the Five and the Seven. Center to the Final Five in this "third act in the three-act structure" is their role. Dream sequences shared by Laura Roslin, Caprica Six, and Athena tend to indicate that the Five are adversarial to the Significant Seven. Also, Caprica-Six informs Gaius Baltar that the Seven don't talk about the Five; the implication is that the topic is verboten, particularly in lieu of the Seven's drastic decision to box the Threes.

As laid down in "Crossroads, Part II", the particular focus is the Five's apparent threat to Hera who symbolizes the Seven's plans to create a new hybrid race with humanity. In response to the dream sequence in, Caprica-Six tells Agathon and Roslin that she felt the need to protect Hera with her life.

In a way, people have conjectured that the Five are protectors of humanity. Of course, this may turn out not to be the case, however there is some compelling evidence for this conjecture.

Who could be the Last Cylon?

As you can imagine, there are multiple candidates to choose from. From Moore's and Thompson's comments, the character has already been introduced to us as early as season one. Aside from eliminating guest stars and characters with little value to the viewer, a good bulk of characters have been removed from suspicion.

Starting with characters shown from season one, we have the major characters of William Adama and Laura Roslin. With William Adama, Moore himself doesn't consider him to be a Cylon per his Frak Party podcast for "Crossroads, Part II". In regard to Laura Roslin, who is dying from a cancer then saved by Hera's stem cells, she reasserts her (alleged) role as the dying leader prophesied in the Sacred Scrolls. While she seems to have the ability to "project" -- a form of daydreaming Cylons do, as introduced by Caprica-Six to Gaius Baltar in "Torn" -- as exemplified by her illusion of snakes on the podium, she seems to be able to do this only as a result of a drug named chamalla. As chamalla is known to have hallucinogenic properties in humans, and used by both religious leaders and followers in the series, Occam's razor stipulates that this is a human reaction, not a Cylon one. Also, these illusions come at random and thus are uncontrolled. Additionally, Cylons tend to have robust immune systems that are resistance to most common human diseases and ailments, including cancer.

Now there's the glorious Gaius Baltar, whose involvement with the Cylons has been his association with the Original Seven and their plans to destroy and, later, subjugate humanity. It was the human weakness of his arrogance, coupled by his fait accompli for female conquests, that lead to the fall of the colonies. Essentially, he has more or less been an unwitting accomplice to the Seven's plans, and is apparently central to them and their quest for the hybrid. Making him a Cylon would, therefore, lose this aspect of an otherwise narcissistic human being who works with the enemy only out of self-preservation.

Then there's the miraculous resurrection of Kara "Starbuck" Thrace at the end of season three to consider. Thrace has been surrounded by a destiny that, while correlative with the Final Five, implies that she is somehow outside of the Five, thus being something else entirely. As mentioned in the promotional materials in the show, her return is believed to be Cylon-related -- thus an easy red-herring. In addition, Sackhoff has repeatedly denied that she is the last Cylon.

Revealing the Last Cylon

For the purposes of the story, the last Cylon needs to be important -- far more important than the reveal provided in "Crossroads", particularly since the series will come to a close in only 20 episodes.

Frankly, the only person that comes to mind is Lee Adama.

Indeed, if the twelve Cylons are representative of how they view humanity, and provided that Ron Moore hasn't reneged on his belief, not one among them is as whiny, pretentious and so unsure of themselves as Lee Adama. Actually, not one of them is whiny at all -- or even a seriel contrition! All the models to date have been pretty much self-assured, varying only by belief systems and attitude towards their race, humanity, the universe and everything.

Aside from Galen Tyrol-who didn't believe in the religious teachings of his parents and didn't care to follow the religious route they took-no other model to date has epitomized wanting to leave their father's (or creator's) shadow, or to blow away the expectations of others so resoundingly as Lee.

Now how is Lee important?

He's the "new kid" on the block at the start of the series. We don't know much about him, other than what is defined through his relationship with his father. The same can be said about the Cylons: we know about them through only to their relationship with the Colonials.

At the beginning, much of his relationship with his father mirrors the relationship the Cylons had with their creators. Both have a loathing that always boiled to the surface in the presence of their progenitor, and both parents attempt to reconcile with their children.

As we see in the miniseries the Colonials create an armastice station, sending an  officer every year for the past forty years. The Cylons send no one-they don't want to talk and have been silent up until the time they decided to attack the Colonies. The same can be said for Lee. When Bill tried to talk to his son, who only came aboard Galactica for the decommissioning ceremony, Lee didn't care to talk.

Both Lee and the Cylons have been slighted by their parents.

As with the relationship between the Cylons and the humans, Lee's relationship with his father becomes better developed and more complex. The Cylons are the same way. To start, they begin a war with humanity, whereby they are expelled from the Colonies Like children with little frame of reference, they mirror their development after what they know: their parents. So they develop themselves very much in their parents' image, selecting twelve basic archetypes for humans. Why shouldn't these archetypes directly mirror themselves? After all, human children have been known to have the same attitude of their parents that the Cylons have. Some children have even gone on to kill their parents, much like the Cylons would later do, but only on a grander scale.

Now that we see the pendulum consistently going from one extreme to the next, we have to deal with the issue of how Lee Adama could possibly be a Cylon, since he was born to parents. I will note that the same question could be asked of Galen Tyrol, or any of the other Final Five Cylons, since they had to be raised somehow and come from somewhere. Remember that they are fundamentally different and have been on the Colonies for longer than the Significant Seven in terms of decades. Their memories are real, according to Moore, and not false like Sharon "Boomer" Valerii's memories.

Then the Gods said, let there be Leoben...

Also, there's still Leoben's claim to Laura Roslin made in "Flesh and Bone" way back in season one. If the more astute of us can recall, she is told that "Adama is a Cylon" before Leoben is jettisoned out an airlock. Noticeably, as did most of the audience, she believed that it was William Adama whom Leoben referred to. This was clearly a red-herring. As the most discerning of us would expect, Leoben's comment seems to have never reared its head again; hell, if Bill isn't a Cylon, then Lee isn't right?

Of course, that was assuming that Lee was a direct biological child of William Adama. Per my previous point, Lee could very well not be a biological descendant of William Adama.

So how do we deal with the fact that Leoben tends to mix truths with lies?

To his credit, Leoben was, thus far, proven right about Kara Thrace having a destiny. His model may have misled Thrace on New Caprica with the whole Kacey mind-frak, but if that's the extent of his lie, then the act was one done by the writers to discredit Leoben's statements.

Now that the above evidence has all been laid out, it becomes apparent to me that Lee Adama is, in fact, the Last Cylon yet unmasked.

Ultimately, this doesn't and shouldn't come as a surprise, as the overall story deals with the relationship between siblings. Whether they be father versus son, or man versus machine, Battlestar Galactica has always been driven by this basic, timeless set of relationships.

In summation, there is no better mirror to how complex the Cylon relationship with humanity has become than Lee Adama's relationship to his father. For as Romo Lampkin said, "There's no greater ally, no force more powerful, no enemy more resolved than a son who chooses to step from his father's shadow."

It's hard for me to properly write that Metallica is a "good" band without defining what "good" is (even thought everyone already knows Metallica are the giants of the music scene). So instead I am going to prove the "musical fitness" of the earth's greatest bands, Metallica. The data that I provide are what these indie, emo, and punk bands could only HOPE to be one day. And much like matters of faith, their hope is about as valid as the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

With "musical fitness" being defined as the ability to dominate at the same potency over a bands life span, then we can see- via the following evidence- that Metallica's fitness makes bands like Rilo Kiley, White Stripes, Rhianna, Sublime, Bon Jovi, Guns and Roses, and just about anyone else, seem like they are still playing in the amateur hour.

What Metallica has done that your band has not (according to Rollingstone.com, Amazon.com, and Billboard.com):

-100 million albums sold.
-Has hit gold or platinum in over 40 countries.
-Has won 7 Grammy's.
-Since 2000 Metallica leads ALL record sales only behind only one band, the Beatles- not a bad band to follow.
-Since 1990 they are 5^th in ALL touring acts.
-Only 1 out of 3 bands to have played in sold out shows in 50 states AND 50 countries!!!
-1 artist on the radio…..BY FAR.
-5% of ALL radio play, at any given time during the day, is Metallica.
-They are the only band to have a "dedication hour", once a week, in every state in the USA.
-Have a philosophy textbook dedicated entirely to their music.

The problem is that everyone loves the lucky loser (any indie, punk, or emo band) and hates the King and the wealthy. Is it not time you just recognize that Metallica makes your band look insignificant and petty, ESPECCIALLY since they already conquered the scene of "fringe music" back in the 80's? I think it is, or else you are just one of the insecure people who hates success.

In the words of the wise and sage-like James Hetfield, "bury me deep when there's no will to be better than you."

Someone once stated :"Tell me ONE thing that Obama stands for!" This was a statement made me think, it made me think as to pigeon hole you into a political continuum. And that hole is one that promotes categorical and absolutes. Let me streamline this for a bit....people ague that Obama has no pretty packaged politics to-go gifts (for Mario's upcoming bday). And since Obama has no gifts to the blind masses then everyone is suspect to getting coal in their sock.     But is that really the case?????  Being absolute and categorical are HARD responses, and can establish "positions" of political candidates. But what the flip side of that coin is is that there is little maneuverability for the myriad of political concerns amongst our population's. Yes, Obama may be rather nebulous and liquid with his "positions," But that does NOT sully his ability to create vast change to our current political zeitgeist. So Is Obama bad for not being pigeonholed or categorized for being in a certain position, the answer is no. A wise man cannot know the answer to ANY situation without fully weighing the contingencies around him. That's like saying we are "America is devout to national defense, AFTER Al-Queda and the Iranians have been properly erased." I see them as arcane beliefs that need to evolve.

Let politics evolve beyond Christian Evangelism and more towards to a candidate who will actually weigh each case based on intelligence and politics.

Enough said........

I am happy to say that I am now 100% confident about my 1^st  , academic, South Carolina publishment. I've had to go out and "hire" a scientist- a neuroscientist to be exact- to give me all the hard data I will need to validate my claims.

I bet you're wondering what I'm writing about!

Well, I fully plan on writing out a case that suggests that the memes we create are extensions of nature. Memes were always thought of being a topic of biological study when rather they are subject to communicative studies.  Just as a fire is natural to shrink the over growth of a forest, so as is war to humans. Let me make it less vague. It's all about the memes that are produced by men that creates the zeitgeist of an era. The reason why one memeplex acts in a certain way is reflective of the behavior of a gene or other biological organism. In essence, while we may create the instruments that detach us from nature, we are- in fact- an extension of natural processes.

(By 'hire' I meant ask a friend nicely to help and will fully be given all due acknowledgements.)

I just want to thank everyone who attended the debate of Feb. 24th! The turn out was freaking AMAZING! There were over 80 people in attendance!

Besides the fact that i was called a monkey, the debate went well.

For those who were not there, and for those who were there, here is synopsis of what happened.

With the power of my Cohort (Tim , Steve, Ray , Bree Stewart [she knows how to dress a man], and Josh) I was able to present myself as charming and "nonevil" during the beginning. My opponent, Randy Jernigan, was one HELL of a speaker. He was calm, smooth, and seductive; however, his points were not valid. The evidence he produced was superfluous and at best, circumstantial.

After each of us gave our opening constructive the debate QUICKLY went from advocating intelligent design to the attack of evolution. Thus, RJ knew his material had fallen to the weight of reason, evidence, and a court case that deemed the intelligent design movement to be disengenous. Realizing as such, he attemped to get me to answer questions of conciousness and reason- this had nothing to do with intelligent design. Admittingly, my understanding of conciousness and reason were the quality of a masters student (compared to a Dr.). So while i knew where i was going (within 3 mins), as well as the 2 Dr's in the audiance, the overall audiance may have been a bit confused.

It should also be noted, that during my questioning of him he NEVER ANSWERED A SINGLE ONE OF MY QUESTIONS! He gave fantastical stories, then turned it back to an attack on evolution.

I believe, as well as others, I won on substance. However, neither of us brought our "A" game. There will be a rd. 2 as many, many people are requesting a "rematch."

But i just want to thank my friends who actually showed up, it meant a great deal to me and proves that we humans do have purpose outside of supernatural explanations. As i said in my debate: if there is a designer, we cannot help him/her, but what we CAN do is love our lover, family, and friends. Each persons purpose doesn't rely on the supernatual, it relies on yourself and each other. Each of us helping and being with one another; is there any other happiness than being amongst pleasant humans?

-M

p.s. I would like to tell Nellie, James Brough, Bree Stewart (and Mom), Breanne, Tina, Tim, Doug Moon, Steve the Pirate, Amanda, Michele, Ray Miller, Waren Austin, Steph (from all the way in Hawaii), Ali Anderson, Ali Fentermaker(she provided me good evidence, you go girl!),  JZ, Jessica the Jezebelle, Tina, Reagan, Ray Miller-Tim Oleksiak-Josh-and Steve (once again),  thank you very very much for supporting what i do and my passion.

So Hillcrest Church, on nine mile road, is expanding their building by a factor of 10..............MILLION!

Their congregation isn't even that big to warrant an expansion, but noooo, they need to keep up w/ Olive Baptist Inc., so they decide to go witha 10 million dollar expansion!

So here we live in a city with not 1, not 2, not even 3, but FOUR Ft. God's!

I thought the purpose of the church was to help the needy and less fortunate, but now it has become abundantly clear that the church is nothing more than a means of wasting resources!