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Sci-Fi Shrine for Seattle, Complete With Aliens
By STEPHEN KINZER
n the nearly two centuries between Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and "The Matrix," science fiction has captivated countless millions of readers, listeners and viewers. Now one of them is taking his obsession to a higher level, investing $10 million to $20 million to build a temple to the genre.
Paul G. Allen, a billionaire businessman and co-founder of Microsoft, is planning to build a "cultural project" in Seattle that will seek to draw visitors into the science-fiction experience.
Details of the project are to be announced today. Preliminary plans suggest that if it comes to fruition, it would be part museum, part amusement park and part little boy's fantasy.
The project will extend Mr. Allen's influence over entertainment in the Northwest. He has backed a number of films, including "Far From Heaven," and owns the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League and the Portland Trailblazers of the National Basketball Association.
His new venture, tentatively called SFX ? The Science Fiction Experience, is to fill 13,000 square feet of exhibit space that has been part of the Experience Music Project, a multimedia museum devoted to American popular music, especially rock 'n' roll. (The museum was also conceived by Mr. Allen, along with his sister, Jody Patton.) Mr. Allen owns the building, which was designed by Frank Gehry and is a Seattle landmark. The science-fiction project is scheduled to open in the summer of 2004.
According to promotional material, SFX "will explore our culture through the broad, historic and compelling lens of science fiction." The material promises models of "bug-eyed monsters" and exhibits that illustrate "science fiction's alternate realities."
In an interview, Mr. Allen said the enterprise would be incorporated as a nonprofit enterprise but might eventually become a business. He called it "a hybrid project" that would have "a multimedia component" but would "not be a theme park or a ride."
The announcement of this project comes as museums in several cities are postponing or scaling down new building projects. Some arts organizations are reeling from large cuts in public and corporate giving. But Mr. Allen said he would bear all the costs of SFX himself.
"I see it as a jumping-off project for examining the future."
Plans call for a hall of fame for science-fiction heroes, another hall shaped like the interior of a spaceship and a third that would commemorate terrifying aliens and other evil creatures. SFX's advisory board includes the science-fiction writers Greg Bear, Ray Bradbury, Octavia Butler and Arthur C. Clarke.
Writers like those transfixed Mr. Allen when he was young. He said he was a small child when he stumbled on a book called "Spaceship Galileo" and has been "a huge fan" of science fiction ever since.
It is actually going to be part of the Experience Music Project, according to the article, which is already in Seattle, so thats why. He owns everything else here anyway...bought himself an election to have the taxpayers pay for his football stadium, and now the city is going to build a streetcar to connect to an office complex he is developing.
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>> Paul also raped a girl at his home - He setteled out of court and the girl refused to testify - it never went to trial.
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> I just searched Google [google.com] and can find no stories whatsoever to even remotely substantiate this claim.
Try again:
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/9924/featur
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/9939/featur
Allegedly raped & not a girl, but a woman.
The Bible is quite clear (Daniel, Ezekiel, Revelation, Thessalonians, etc.) that the order of events will be:
The Lord Jesus returns "in the clouds" (not coming to Earth all the way) and collects believers. This does not include "nominal" Christians, such as some/many in Catholicism and other denominations.
Some time after that (could be immediate, could be some years), a seven year peace treaty is made between a new world leader (who will be amazingly popular) and Israel. This will include the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem.
During this seven year period, there will be a series of judgments against the earth, as God sends a series of clue-by-four wakeup calls to the remaining atheist and apostate residents.
There will be 144000 male Jewish virgins who will spread the gospel of Jesus Christ, with vast numbers of converts resulting from their preaching.
Skipping many things here...
When the people of Israel realize they missed the Messiah the first time, and ask his forgiveness and deliverance, Jesus returns to destroy the massed armies of the nations of the world who are marching on Jerusalem.
You see, the whole point of our Lord's return is the Jews, who will finally accept Him. Anyone who told you the Jews would be killed in His return probably hasn't read the Bible, or has been listening to some whack-job cult like JW's or Mormons or something like that.
Unless of course you're talking about some other Federation of Planets...
a world in progress...
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