Cradling it to her body she stands before a mirror to imagine herself wrapped in its loving embrace.
On the surface, it seems just that: its loving, detailed, episodic look at a group of turn-of-the-century Lombardy peasants is filled with the painterly textures and emotional truths that are solely Mr. Olmi's.
As such it mirrors the nobility, wisdom and love of the divine essence and its "loving use of wisdom" becomes by participation "marriage" with God [3.12.11 14].
But what really makes it a period piece is its loving attitude towards the past – teased sometimes, but not mocked, respected but not revered – and towards the present.
The problem, for me, was that the "Parks and Recreation" finale felt less like "Six Feet Under" and more like "Lost," with its loving interfaith church and sideways universe of therapized family love.
Could the first AGI be programmed with a Jesus-in-the-box attitude and become a Judeo-Christian-minded God, an all-powerful entity who believes it died for our sins and wants to make us its loving followers?
