{"id":2913,"date":"2010-04-14T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/04\/lost-in-a-well-of-souls-the-outer-limits-of-dark-matters\/"},"modified":"2010-04-14T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T14:35:00","slug":"lost-in-a-well-of-souls-the-outer-limits-of-dark-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/04\/lost-in-a-well-of-souls-the-outer-limits-of-dark-matters.html","title":{"rendered":"LOST in a Well of Souls: The Outer Limits of Dark Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

After watching last night\u2019s episode of LOST, I was reminded of an episode from The Outer Limits<\/em>, \u201cDark Matters<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0in which there was some dark matter that was catching space ships in its gravitational pull, and even when the crews eventually died, their souls could not escape. <\/p>\n

I remember being particularly struck by the exploration of religion in the episode, since one crewmember was disturbed by the implication of these souls being left trapped there, since it suggested that either God didn\u2019t care or didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

Does anyone else remember that episode? I just discovered that it can be watched on Hulu<\/a>:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/embed\/wj9Zi_cg_kqCe-ys451F5g<\/p>\n

I remember once upon a time when you vaguely remembered watching something and couldn\u2019t just find it online. My how things have changed. Maybe someone reading this can help me find a movie I saw part of once. It was in black and white, I think, and I only saw the last half hour or so. The characters were on a space ship and there was some sort of weapon they wanted to destroy. A well-intentioned character tossed it out of the ship in the direction of the sun, but not having calculated for gravity and other factors, the weapon ended up headed towards earth. They send a signal to appeal for help from the universe or its transcendent mind. They are answered in a way that changes the life and attitude even of the \u201cbad guy.\u201d As I recall, it ends with two of the characters teaching their children about what had happened. Does this ring bells with anyone? I may be completely misremembering much of it, but I have long wondered what the movie was, and thought it might be worth seeing in its entirety because of the religion-and-science-fiction connection.<\/p>\n

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