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Post by jklinders on Nov 4, 2014 11:02:16 GMT 1
Pretty sure Revelations was talking about Emperor Nero as his Latin name literally spelled out to 666 and he was quite hostile to Christians. Pretty sure Revelations was written in the Roman Empire and therefore in latin. Even if I am wrong the author's own reasoning works against them. As there were many aristocrats with the name Charles, by their own admission.
I propose Baffin island a a suitable place to house this crazy person.
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Post by Clint Johnston on Nov 4, 2014 17:14:54 GMT 1
Well I will grant that Revelations talks about things to come, my new friend and that page are cherry picking to get things to fit their assumptions. Very Very weird. And you'd give up a Canadian Island for the weirdos? It's true, you guys really are nice!
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Post by jklinders on Nov 4, 2014 19:25:54 GMT 1
We don't want it. There are probably less than 50000 people on that God forsaken iceball and most of them are Inuit. They are not putting up with any shit these days and will probably float them away on a raft of ice. trust me when I say I am not being nice there.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Nov 4, 2014 23:42:31 GMT 1
We don't want it. There are probably less than 50000 people on that God forsaken iceball and most of them are Inuit. They are not putting up with any shit these days and will probably float them away on a raft of ice. trust me when I say I am not being nice there. LOL I love this...
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Post by Mister Buch on Nov 7, 2014 16:10:33 GMT 1
Heard they're making a Toy Story 4. Why must they make sequels to films with perfect (and deliberately conclusive) endings? Gahhhh. Knowing the previous three Toy Story films I expect this will be a good movie, but whyyyyyy must they spoillllll perfect movie endingssssssssssss.
Indiana Jones 3 had them literally riding into the sunset, didn't stop them. Wrath of Khan, Spock dies, entire ending framed around Spock's death - didn't stop them bringing him back. Alien 3 ended with the heroine irrevocably killing herself whilst succumbing to the alien / ending the motherhood arc in the same moment, didn't stop them. Terminator 2, same deal - didn't stop them three times. Toy Story 3 ended with Andy leaving his childhood behind forever, the toys confronting death and finding a seemingly perfect, timeless safety that maybe represents appreciation of childhood as a way of resolving fear of mortality before a slow pan into a blue sky in one of many moments that deliberately creates a bookend with the first film while the lead characters gather round and wave goodbye......... DID. NOT. S.....
Massive pet hate.
Apparently to every writer in Hollywood, endings aren't so much one of three central components of a story but a slight inconvenience that makes it a little harder to make money. We used to have a name for drama that went on forever for the express purpose of keeping its staff in work and deliberately ignored story structure - soap opera. That's a derogatory name referring to their having a primary purpose of making money off of soap adverts. Now this model is just the the norm for all our most successful fiction and no-one except me appears to even....
MASSIVE pet hate. Stop typing now Chris.
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Post by Clint Johnston on Nov 8, 2014 0:39:26 GMT 1
This bugs me too, but what bugs me more is when they put little to no effort in these sequels. George Lucas ruined Indy with his insistence that 4 had to feature aliens.
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Post by Mister Buch on Nov 11, 2014 19:46:43 GMT 1
I hope this isn't too controversial - but 'people who misuse the poppy or miss the point of Remembrance day'.
I see a lot of celebrities wearing poppies on TV but choosing to wear fancy glass or metal or card ones instead of the ordinary paper ones - or wearing giant ones, or wearing them on a hat or a sleeve instead of the lapel. As though they were a fashion statement. I saw one TV presenter in particular who asked for a 'prettier' one on live TV and switched to one of the showoffy metal versions during commercials. It's not there to make you look *** pretty....
Also I keep seeing people on the news being interviewed, all of whom say they're honoured to remember 'the bravery, to thank brave men for giving their lives for our country / freedom etc.' Now I'm certainly not going to say serving armed forces aren't 100% brave and shouldn't be thanked for acting as defence - even I'm not that mad. And I don't mean to imply I'm opposed to all military action either. Please don't get that idea. Sometimes men and women in uniform really do give their lives to save the world. WW2 is a big part of today as well.
But I thought the point of the poppy as symbol was to remember the dead, the waste of life, the futility of the first World War so that we might try not to repeat it and waste more lives. It's not a badge of honour, it's what grew over thousands of unmarked graves in the Somme - over people from many nations who died for an out of control territory dispute. We're proud of those men, but we're not proud of what we did to them. I'm seing people standing by a mass display of those poppies, in period uniform, saluting a monarch. No, that's not what it means.
I like Remembrance day, I think it's important. But I feel like the more time passes, the more people misunderstand what the day is for. It's not to celebrate war, any war, and it shouldn't ever be to celebrate your country's part in it. Have a different day, a different symbol, for that if you really must. And it sure as hell isn't to look good on TV.
Today's rant is over, I will now return to fangirling about Dragon Age.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Nov 12, 2014 2:54:05 GMT 1
I would like to think that the soldiers who were lucky enough to return home safely deserve to be thanked and honoured just as much as the ones who gave their lives defending our country. Whether they died in battle or not, they still went courageously into dangerous places and knew going in that they might not survive and they did it anyway.
My cousins are in the Canadian Military - three of them on Navy ships, and one who retired from active duty after nearly dying in Afghanistan. I give all the honour and respect to them that they deserve, for doing what they do, and I believe that after nearly giving his life in a war zone, my cousin deserves many many honours. One of his troop-mates actually did die in the same incident that almost killed my cousin. He also deserves much respect.
They all do.
Maybe Remembrance Day was originally started as a tribute to the fallen soldiers from WWI, but... there have been many wars since then, and I believe that all soldiers who participate in the defending of our rights and freedoms deserve more than our thanks and respects.
I am not glorifying war, or celebrating it, or any of that rubbish. I am celebrating the courage and sacrifice of our soldiers. And so, I would assume, are most people who observe Remembrance Day.
Though I will agree that primping the poppy and demanding a 'prettier poppy' is a little crass. I'm satisfied with the soft material poppies distributed here in Canada.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Nov 12, 2014 5:52:00 GMT 1
As a rule, I'm not one for elaborate rituals and such when it comes to days like today. Hell, I kinda feel weird when someone sees me in uniform off base and thanks me for serving. That said, we should honor those who gave their all. War is a terrible thing and should only be sought if and only if peaceful means are the worse alternative and those who put on the uniform essentially write a check to their country in the amount of "up to an including my life" and it isn't something to be taken lightly. People who make a great show on Veteran's Day (as we call it in the U.S.), Memorial Day, etc. really tend to annoy me as it smacks of said people trying to bolster their popularity on the backs of those who lived and died on the battlefield. Of course, I will admit to having bias as my own remembrance ritual (if you wish to call it that) is pouring a shot of the best booze I have available and leaving it out in honor of those who died. After the day is over, I take up that shot and toast those who fell and then I drink it in remembrance of them while praying that others won't have to share their fate (hey, it makes sense to me). It's not elaborate and I don't advertise, which is how I personally prefer such things to go.
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Post by Cali on Nov 17, 2014 4:04:24 GMT 1
I really don't know what the connection is between King of the Hill videos and Men's Rights/Manosphere videos, but I get shit by Thunderf00t and RedPillWhatever/etc in my suggested videos every time I try to watch one of them.
Is it too much to ask to laugh at Dale Gribble and not having it ruined by seeing TheAmazingAtheist's ugly ass face in the side bar?
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Post by jklinders on Nov 17, 2014 10:50:56 GMT 1
I really do wish that Thunderf00t had stuck to atheism and making fun of really bad creationist pseudoscience and not stuck his head into the feminist debates. It would have been easier to forget what a cunt he is.
Hank Hill is about one small rant away from being a Men's Rights Activist himself. I'm not even sure it's satire to be honest. OK OK of course it's satire, but it could just as easily be dead serious if you watch that show with few enough working brain cells.
I'm almost as disgusted that The Amazing Atheist has a following as I am that Jordan Owens and that bald guy who looks like Kane from C&C have a following.
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Post by Cali on Nov 18, 2014 0:22:45 GMT 1
Aurini shaved his goatee. Motherfucker looks like that alien dude from Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy" music video.
I love King of the Hill's humor. It's so deliciously dry.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Nov 18, 2014 20:45:49 GMT 1
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Post by Clint Johnston on Nov 19, 2014 1:18:00 GMT 1
Luther... is Luther. Half the mystique of the show is lost by throwing it in an american setting. Wiffout Dat Accennt, Loofer is just another cop with the drive to hunt bad guys... sometimes catching them.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Dec 2, 2014 23:17:47 GMT 1
The fedora meme. It's pretty much just a tool to mock someone who says something you don't agree with.
Also, you can't say anything positive about Carl Sagan on the internet anymore without people posting their oh-so-hilarious image macros.
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