urn:wd:wdlabs.com:atom1:twilight Your Home For Snappy Repartee 應龍 urn:wd:wdlabs.com:atom1:twilight:20070922.2228 2007-09-23T02:28:00 2007-09-23T02:28:00 2007-09-23T02:28:00 <p> Today Tristan was asking me about Transformers again. This pleases me because this is the list of the things that I am somewhat expert in (no particular order):</p> <ul> <li>Transformers</li> <li>C/C++</li> <li>Star Trek</li> <li>Perl</li> <li>Doctor Who</li> <li>Photography</li> <li>Thursday Next</li> <li>Never Being Confused</li> </ul> <p> Anyway, he was asking me about where the Transformers came from and I told him about Primus and Unicron, the gods of the Transformers. This is sort of how it went:</p> <p><b>me</b>: Primus and Unicron are the gods of the Transformers. Primus created the transformers to battle the evil Unicron.<BR/> <b>Tristnan</b>: Did Unicron create the Decepticons to fight the Autobots?<BR/> <b>me</b>: No, Primus created both the Autobots and the Decepticons<BR/> <b>Tristan</b>: Why did he create them just to fight each other?</p> <p> I really love the questions that Tristan asks. Now, granted we are talking about a mythology that nobody believes in, but you could easily recreate this exact same conversation using a number of “real” religions that I can think of, and this is exactly the sort of abstract thinking that should be applied to the subject.</p>