Maybe my group of friends had the wrong sci/math/engineers majors at USC, but they were mocking all of us non-STEM majors our senior year because of our fretting about the immense costs of a graduate degrees. My ex-girlfriend at the time said, "My doctorate will be free, no loans. That's how it is for everyone in science, you don't actually pay for your degree, the university does, because it's actually useful." And they did go on to get their PHDs. Now she posts angry rants on facebook about how women scientists are treated. I bailed on a graduate degree and got a real job. :-p
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in any event, I resurrected this thread because I saw an interview with Darren Aronofsky about Noah. paraphrasing he said: people don't think of the story of Noah from Noah's perspective. This wasn't just a nursery school story to him: This was the End of the World--Apocalypse! it's not just about the blessed winning and God punishing the wicked, it's about your entire world just... gone.
(also, the muslim community is issuing a fatwa against the film since Noah is in the Koran and therefore cannot be portrayed. some theatres have already refused to play it, fearing terrorist attacks from islamists).
And that comment made me think:
What if the Inchoroi are the Inchoroi that are NOT wicked. These are the good ones the God saved because all the others were so bad.
That's why the ship they're on is called the Ark.
The first apocalypse is not the no-god, becuase that didn't wipe out the world.
The first apocalypse is God destroying the Inchoroi's world for their wickedness.