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published in November, 1973,
Reed Richards has to use
his antimatter weapon...
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on his own son who Annihilus
has turned into a human atom bomb.
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It was a typical predicament
for the Fantastic Four...
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because they weren't
like other superheroes;
they were more like a family.
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And the more power they had, the more
harm they could do to each other...
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without even knowing it.
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That was the meaning
of the Fantastic Four:
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that a family is like
your own personal antimatter.
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Your family is the void
you emerge from and the place
you return to when you die.
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And that's the paradox:
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the closer you're drawn back in,
the deeper into the void you go.
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[ Man ] The dilemma Dostoyevsky
claims here to have discovered...
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goes to the very core of Christianity's
relationship to the modern world.
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But it is a dilemma that--
Yes, Libbets.
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But Dostoyevsky is saying
here is that...
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to be a Christian is to choose, because
you have to choose of your own choice.
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And since you can't choose
to be good...
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because that'd be too rational,
you have to choose to be bad.
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- It's existential.
- Thank you, Libbets. That's
a very compelling summary.
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But, of course,
existentialism, per se--
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Libbets ? Hey,
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Dostoyevsky--
I'm also really a fan.
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And, uh, what you were
saying, you know--
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- Have you ever read The ldiot ?
- The ldiot ?