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[Lapis Lazuli]

 This came to mind as I have been paying attention to the beginning of Football Season at long last. We as sports spectators like to watch most team sports on an infinite cycle. Instead of one big long football experience , we want to have a yearly champ and then start all over again. Football, baseball, basketball, etc. could easily be on a non-cyclic process of matched teams like individuals sports such as UFC and boxing. Teams could be matched up like that to play at any time there's an interest. Instead, the major team sports are guided along a path; much like Sovereign described. It's an endless exercise in entertainment futility. There is every expectation that pro, college, high school, semi-pro, world cup and olympic athletics will go on forever in cycles with different individuals playing the same game with minor tweaks. These cycles don't lead anywhere. So the reapers are simply determining a champ every season...

[xI extremist Ix]

Where is there a theory in this?

[Hepzi3]

I think I know what he is saying.

He is saying that the Reapers "reap" the species that is the best of all in the galaxy at that time.

[Lapis Lazuli]

^^^^^^^

Agreed. The clarify; in human experience, we engage in futile exercises for some kind of amorphous fulfillment that we couldn't possibly explain adequately to beings with a different kind of intellect. Factoring this in, my incredulity is lessened at the possible motivations of a species such as the reapers. Judging by the building of the human reaper, I think humans won the trophy this season.

[Raven4030]

So what's your point?

[didymos1120]

This isn't a theory. It's a clumsy analogy.

[Lapis Lazuli]

didymos1120 wrote...

This isn't a theory. It's a clumsy analogy.

Of course a smooth analogy would render Sovereign's proclamation that humans lack the vision to grasp their motivations totally absurd.

[eternalnightmare13]

 Sooo...you're comparing the mass extinction of sentient organic life across the entire galaxy to sports? ...W....T....F?

Take another 'toke, bro...

[Lapis Lazuli]

eternalnightmare13 wrote...

 Sooo...you're comparing the mass extinction of sentient organic life across the entire galaxy to sports? ...W....T....F?

Take another 'toke, bro...

I will take another toke. However when you say 'compare' remember the parameters. There is no moral comparison here. The comparison is that intangibles are at work as opposed to all the reaper theories (that I have read) that look for concrete benefits to the reapers. Only one of two things can be true: 1) Sovereign is intentionally misleading when he says that humans can't grasp what the reapers are doing. OR 2) Sovereign is telling the truth. This thread is based on the latter. It poses an analogy which mitigates the natural inclination to impose a human concrete explanation.

[-Tentei-]

So your theory is that Reapers determine the best form of organic life in the galaxy at the time, make a reaper in it's image, and repeat every 50,000 years for entertainment?

[Lapis Lazuli]

^^^^^
... Entertainment or some other intagible form of fulfillment to an A.I..like Commander Data listening to 50 symphonies simultaneously The fact of the matter is, every other reaper explanation is implicitly saying that Sovereign was lying; whether the theorist realizes it or not.