Something has been bothering me about this when I watched it again in the past hours and as I watch the season finale episodes of that first season of the "Battlestar Galactica" Nazi propaganda trash I still think back to this scene.
I think I remember noting it when the episode premiered in the United States and I think that either I had thoughts about the scene of "Baltar" having his arms outstretched as though he was being crucified or that is something I read later on the internet after the episode premiered. Either way, that is a notion that I might have been thinking about when the episode premiered in the United States on 11 March 2005 and as I watched in that apartment I had in Kent Washington State where I moved to after moving back to the Seattle area from Spokane Valley Washington State.
What I am thinking about specifically today, outside the obvious references to these emotional cripples such as Will Smith and his thieving gang who are behind this and that are determined to take as many of these conspirators to United States federal prison as they can possibly get, all because they are emotionally crippled and cannot stand anyone in authority because their delicate ego's cannot stand being ridiculed, is that this DVD is part of the information I take with me when I time travel back to the past day of 3 May 2003.
What is happening with me and my observations, especially my dreams, about the criminal activity directed at me, is about how information that is created in the future can be transferred to the past. That is why there are teams of legitimate investigators inside certain media organizations, especially those in Seattle Washington, to observe the activities of the media organizations in Seattle Washington, and with probable cause because all mainstream media in Seattle Washington are directly under the control of the Bill Gates-Al Qaeda-Al Qaida terrorist propaganda network.
Earlier when I watched again this episode, which seems to be the third viewing I have made of this episode over the course of distinct periods of sitting down to watch it, I thought seriously about how the dialog is correct about how that character is an instrument of God. How else to explain how that information, that data, in the form of that episode, was created in perfect match to the DVD collection I brought - I bring - with me as a time traveler to the past.
He is an instrument, that is certain. The righteous punishment.
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season1/galactica-110.htm
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
1X10 - HAND OF GOD
Original Airdate: March 11, 2005 (USA)
Baltar's Daydream
#6: Have you read the Pythian prophecy, Gaius?
Baltar: Not since the sixth grade. I can't say ancient history is my favorite subject.
#6: You should have paid closer attention, hmm?
Baltar: To what?
#6: All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.
Baltar: Everyone knows that verse. What are you getting at?
#6: Remember this one? "Led by serpents numbering two and ten."
Baltar: The vipers... they're the serpents.
#6: There's a later verse, Gaius, you should read it. "Though the outcome favored the few, it led to a confrontation at the home of the gods."
Baltar: Are you telling me that god guided my finger to that target for some... arcane scriptural purpose?
#6: You are part of god's plan, gaius.
Baltar: So god wanted me to destroy the Cylon base.
#6: You did well. You gave yourself over to him.
Baltar: Yes, suppose I did. Yes, there's-- there's really no other logical explanation for it. I was--
#6: Am...
Baltar: I am an instrument of god.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifixion
Crucifixion
Crucifixion is an ancient method of painful execution in which the condemned person is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross (of various shapes) and left to hang until dead. The term comes from the Latin crucifixio ("fixing to a cross", from the prefix cruci-, from crux ("cross"), + verb figere, "fix or bind fast".)
Crucifixion was in use particularly among the Seleucids, Carthaginians, and Romans from about the 6th century BC to the 4th century AD. In the year 337, Emperor Constantine I abolished it in the Roman Empire, out of veneration for Jesus Christ, the most famous victim of crucifixion. It was also used as a form of execution in Japan for criminals, inflicted also on some Christians.
A crucifix (an image of Christ crucified on a cross) is the main religious symbol for Catholics, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox, but most Protestant Christians prefer to use a cross without the figure (the "corpus" - Latin for "body") of Christ. Most crucifixes portray Jesus on a Latin cross, rather than any other shape, such as a Tau cross or a Greek cross. The term crucifix derives from the Latin crucifixus or cruci fixus, past participle passive of crucifigere or cruci figere, meaning "to crucify" or "to fix to a cross".
Crucifixion was often performed to terrorize and dissuade the onlookers from perpetrating the crimes punishable by it. Victims were left on display after death as warnings. Crucifixion was usually intended to provide a death that was particularly slow, painful (hence the term excruciating, literally "out of crucifying"), gruesome, humiliating, and public, using whatever means were most expedient for that goal. Crucifixion methods varied considerably with location and time period.
The Greek and Latin words corresponding to "crucifixion" applied to many different forms of painful execution, from impaling on a stake to affixing to a tree, to an upright pole (a crux simplex) or to a combination of an upright (in Latin, stipes) and a crossbeam (in Latin, patibulum).
In some cases, the condemned was forced to carry the crossbeam on his shoulders to the place of execution. A whole cross would weigh well over 300 pounds (135 kilograms), but the crossbeam would weigh only 75–125 pounds (35–60 kilograms). The Roman historian Tacitus records that the city of Rome had a specific place for carrying out executions, situated outside the Esquiline Gate, and had a specific area reserved for the execution of slaves by crucifixion. Upright posts would presumably be fixed permanently in that place, and the crossbeam, with the condemned person perhaps already nailed to it, would then be attached to the post.
The person executed may have been attached to the cross by rope, though nails are mentioned in a passage by the Judean historian Josephus, where he states that at the Siege of Jerusalem (70), "the soldiers out of rage and hatred, nailed those they caught, one after one way, and another after another, to the crosses, by way of jest." Objects used in the crucifixion of criminals, such as nails, were sought as amulets with perceived medicinal qualities.
While a crucifixion was an execution, it was also a humiliation, by making the condemned as vulnerable as possible. Although artists have depicted the figure on a cross with a loin cloth or a covering of the genitals, writings by Seneca the Younger suggest that victims were crucified completely nude. When the victim had to urinate or defecate, they had to do so in the open, in view of passers-by, resulting in discomfort and the attraction of insects. Despite its frequent use by the Romans, the horrors of crucifixion did not escape mention by some of their eminent orators. Cicero for example, in a speech that appears to have been an early bid for its abolition, described crucifixion as "a most cruel and disgusting punishment", and suggested that "the very mention of the cross should be far removed not only from a Roman citizen’s body, but from his mind, his eyes, his ears."
Frequently, the legs of the person executed were broken or shattered with an iron club, an act called crurifragium, which was also frequently applied without crucifixion to slaves. This act hastened the death of the person but was also meant to deter those who observed the crucifixion from committing offenses.
Ancient Rome
Crucifixion was used for slaves, pirates, and enemies of the state. It was considered a most shameful and disgraceful way to die. Condemned Roman citizens were usually exempt from crucifixion (like feudal nobles from hanging, dying more honorably by decapitation) except for major crimes against the state, such as high treason.
Notorious mass crucifixions followed the Third Servile War in 73–71 BC (the slave rebellion under Spartacus), other Roman civil wars in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, and the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. To frighten other slaves from revolting, Crassus crucified 6,000 of Spartacus' men along the Appian Way from Capua to Rome. Josephus tells a story of the Romans crucifying people along the walls of Jerusalem. He also says that the Roman soldiers would amuse themselves by crucifying criminals in different positions. In Roman-style crucifixion, the condemned took days to die. The dead body was left up for vultures and other birds to consume.
The goal of Roman crucifixion was not just to kill the criminal, but also to mutilate and dishonour the body of the condemned. In ancient tradition, an honourable death required burial; leaving a body on the cross, so as to mutilate it and prevent its burial, was a grave dishonour.
