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3691
« on: December 31, 2015, 05:07:02 PM »
Pretty sure Vader getting fucked up wasn't his plan at all.
3692
« on: December 31, 2015, 03:10:07 PM »
My general response to her review is that it's a pretty weak evaluation of the film as a whole. It doesn't really address the acting, cinematography, music, pacing, the story, or its context in the series. I think she should stick with the feminist perspective and expand upon it rather than trying to make a comprehensive review.
3693
« on: December 31, 2015, 03:05:13 PM »
Regardless, I hope you can see that she liked the casting not just because of their skin color. There's a little more to it than that.
3694
« on: December 31, 2015, 02:58:11 PM »
Well there you go. That's all I needed to see. Just like how she says she's not a gamer, nobody should give a fuck about what she has to say about Star Wars.
because only star wars fans can have an opinion on star wars, right
Her favorite part of the movie is the skin color of the protagonists. That is hysterical.
One would expect an advocate for equal representation of minorities in media to be excited about seeing it done so well in something as big as a Star Wars film.
It was already done before in Star Wars 30 years ago with Lando.
Putting a single black guy in a series and calling it done is literally the definition of tokenism.
3695
« on: December 31, 2015, 02:52:58 PM »
Well there you go. That's all I needed to see. Just like how she says she's not a gamer, nobody should give a fuck about what she has to say about Star Wars.
because only star wars fans can have an opinion on star wars, right
Her favorite part of the movie is the skin color of the protagonists. That is hysterical.
One would expect an advocate for equal representation of minorities in media to be excited about seeing it done so well in something as big as a Star Wars film.
3696
« on: December 31, 2015, 02:39:02 PM »
I was intrigued by Finn’s resistance to his lifelong conditioning, and his obvious horror at acts of violence and torture. But it took all of a few moments until he was more then fine killing “the bad guys,” even though he had just been one of them. Weren’t they raised from childhood to be cogs in a military machine just like him? Don’t they have the same potential for good that he does? Are their lives so expendable? This bothered me too, and is one of the reasons I really disliked him.
3697
« on: December 30, 2015, 09:29:03 PM »
Nah
3698
« on: December 30, 2015, 01:58:40 PM »
most people think denominations other than their own are in some way deviant from 'true' Christianity.
I don't dislike most denominations, but I feel that denominations weren't meant to exist.
If denominations weren't meant to exist, half of the New Testament wouldn't be epistles to the various churches addressing their various needs and failings. I think that extends to Islam, as well. So what a hypothetical tribe would do with the Bible, or the Quran, doesn't really matter.
Do you not think Islam and its scripture/theology has a greater propensity to foster violence than other religions?
I do, but I'm not certain that necessitates a 'true' sect of Islam. Some are definitely more correct than others, and some may just be irreparably corrupted, though.
3699
« on: December 30, 2015, 10:34:33 AM »
Pretty much the same I had this year. I've got a workout log excel spreadsheet with goals to meet by the end of the year. I'd like to learn five new skills this year, too.
3700
« on: December 29, 2015, 06:30:58 PM »
>Great Scourge of Malachor V is canon, therefore:
>Non-pussy Mandalorians are canon
>Revan is canon
>Most of KOTOR is tacitly canon
>Darth bane is canon, too
Sauce: No details about the Scourge are actually given in any current Star Wars media, though.
It's an assumption to say that all characters and events associated with it are still canon.
Well yes that's what 'tacitly' means.
You said that Revan was canon before saying that KOTOR was "Tacitly" canon.
He's being a straw man.
Lolwut Jesus guys, chill out.
3701
« on: December 29, 2015, 02:43:09 PM »
>Great Scourge of Malachor V is canon, therefore:
>Non-pussy Mandalorians are canon
>Revan is canon
>Most of KOTOR is tacitly canon
>Darth bane is canon, too
Sauce: No details about the Scourge are actually given in any current Star Wars media, though.
It's an assumption to say that all characters and events associated with it are still canon.
Well yes that's what 'tacitly' means.
3702
« on: December 29, 2015, 02:11:25 PM »
>Great Scourge of Malachor V is canon, therefore: >Non-pussy Mandalorians are canon >Revan is canon >Most of KOTOR is tacitly canon >Darth bane is canon, too Sauce:
3703
« on: December 29, 2015, 01:55:05 PM »
I'm sorta conservative but not Far-right
A practicing Christian really has no choice but to be somewhat conservative by today's standards.
This simply isn't true. The vast majority of Christians I'm close to are much more liberal than just about anyone on this site.
But you're Lutheran, right? Marty's church is into all kinds of neoprogressive bullshit. The Lutheran church takes a lot of stances that seem, to me, to run counter to Christian teachings.
It would be cool for the various theists on sep7 to have a crossfaith discussion.
Protestant, but I like Lutherans. I'm not sure what specific part of their statement of faith you take issue with, but in general most people think denominations other than their own are in some way deviant from 'true' Christianity.
3704
« on: December 29, 2015, 01:38:13 PM »
Bump
3705
« on: December 29, 2015, 01:13:29 PM »
I also can't understand the dissonance between believing both the Old and New Testaments, while claiming Jesus essentially supersedes or revised the former. He didn't do either of those things. Anytime someone rebuts an out-of-context OT passage by saying Jesus invalidated the commandments of the OT either doesn't really understand that part of theology or is just using a shorthand because of frustration over encountering the same misguided criticism so many times. Similarly, if we gave nothing but the Bible to a tribe we oughtn't be surprised if we came back to find something approaching the Westboro Baptist Church. This is a wholly unfounded claim. WBC are clearly influenced by the counter-culture of the South and their upbringing; take a typical example of biblical isolation -- monks, the priesthood, nuns, etc. -- and you see wellsprings of charity, sacrifice, peace, and scholarship. I'm not really sure what that has to do with modern liberal Christians, though; I disagree that there even is a "true Christian" in the sense of a perfect set of social and political beliefs. I think that extends to Islam, as well. So what a hypothetical tribe would do with the Bible, or the Quran, doesn't really matter.
3706
« on: December 29, 2015, 12:04:09 PM »
I'm sorta conservative but not Far-right
A practicing Christian really has no choice but to be somewhat conservative by today's standards.
This simply isn't true. The vast majority of Christians I'm close to are much more liberal than just about anyone on this site.
3707
« on: December 29, 2015, 11:09:58 AM »
Damn, they're actually going with a modern protagonist, too. I was really hoping they'd move on from that.
3708
« on: December 29, 2015, 10:57:23 AM »
Literally watching an episode where the team sells their teeth to a weird flamboyant tooth fairy who challenges Raven to a tooth-eating contest to win back their own teeth.
What the fuck? Remember when Teen Titans was one of the best cartoons on TV and wasn't ripped from the imagination of an autistic kid tripping on shrooms?
3709
« on: December 28, 2015, 06:37:58 PM »
Oh dear Lord, are people seriously thinking the 15 year old Darth Jar Jar joke/myth is something Lucas seriously envisioned?
"Jar-Jar is the key to all of this."
Tell me how else I'm supposed to take that.
In context, maybe? "Jar Jar is the key to all of this because he's a funnier character then we have ever had in any of the other movies."
3710
« on: December 28, 2015, 06:36:27 PM »
I don't know who told you this, but it's simply not true.
Weren't you one of those people who knew about the Jar-Jar = Sith Lord theory?
That was just a Reddit meme. Lucas never said anything of the sort.
3711
« on: December 28, 2015, 02:39:28 PM »
What was his original plans? I don't think that matters at all though. Regardless of how you "intend" for something to come out, it doesn't change what we actually got.
It does, though. His original plan was for Jar-Jar to be the Sith equivalent of Yoda, which completely negates any shit he gets in TPM.
I don't know who told you this, but it's simply not true.
3712
« on: December 27, 2015, 05:22:11 PM »
Isn't there a problem with nuclear waste disposal right now? Like, scientists and engineers haven't really figured out the best method of getting rid of it? Nuclear power isn't something I read into a lot.
Nah it's super easy, relatively speaking. Some can be recycled, and the rest is encased in concrete and buried in dirt. Having a few sites for disposal is infinitely better than having millions of tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Ah, but why do I hear about nuclear waste disposal being problematic so frequently? Like, it was even talked about somewhat in my Natural Resource Conservation class last semester.
Really? I mean, at face-value it doesn't sound ideal, but there haven't been any notable instances of contamination or theft from disposal sites.
3713
« on: December 27, 2015, 05:11:35 PM »
Isn't there a problem with nuclear waste disposal right now? Like, scientists and engineers haven't really figured out the best method of getting rid of it? Nuclear power isn't something I read into a lot.
Nah it's super easy, relatively speaking. Some can be recycled, and the rest is encased in concrete and buried in dirt. Having a few sites for disposal is infinitely better than having millions of tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
3714
« on: December 27, 2015, 05:10:34 PM »
I really wish they'd forced some officer lackey to do it rather than Phasma. But maybe being held at gunpoint to betray the Order gave her a personal reason to be a bigger villain later on.
3715
« on: December 25, 2015, 11:23:30 PM »
I'd like to try sometime. How was it?
3716
« on: December 25, 2015, 01:39:35 PM »
Roast yourself in the oven, obviously.
With an apple in my mouth?
3717
« on: December 25, 2015, 01:35:22 PM »
Cutting? Poison? Asphyxiation?
Be creative. Merry Christmas!
3718
« on: December 24, 2015, 03:16:08 PM »
I urge you to read the entire article before discussing it, if only to prove its thesis wrong and respond to it rationally rather than because you feel offended by its premise. I've pulled out a few quotes that will give you a general idea of what the article's on about if you don't have time to read the whole article. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-metta/i-racist_b_7770652.htmlBut here is the irony, here's the thing that all the angry Black people know, and no calmly debating White people want to admit: The entire discussion of race in America centers around the protection of White feelings. A white person smoking pot is a "Hippie" and a Black person doing it is a "criminal." It's evident in the school to prison pipeline and the fact that there are close to 20 people of color in prison for every white person. There's a headline from The Independent that sums this up quite nicely: "Charleston shooting: Black and Muslim killers are 'terrorists' and 'thugs'. Why are white shooters called 'mentally ill'?"
I'm gonna read that again: "Black and Muslim killers are 'terrorists' and 'thugs'. Why are white shooters called 'mentally ill'?"
Did you catch that? It's beautifully subtle. This is an article talking specifically about the different way we treat people of color in this nation and even in this article's headline, the white people are "shooters" and the Black and Muslim people are "killers." White people and Black people are not having a discussion about race. Black people, thinking as a group, are talking about living in a racist system. White people, thinking as individuals, refuse to talk about "I, racist" and instead protect their own individual and personal goodness. In doing so, they reject the existence of racism. People are dying because we are supporting a racist system that justifies White people killing Black people. And White people, every single one of you, are complicit in this racism because you benefit directly from it. Here's what I want to say to you: Racism is so deeply embedded in this country not because of the racist right-wing radicals who practice it openly, it exists because of the silence and hurt feelings of liberal America. Again, read the whole article, and maybe scan through the comments before reacting to some of the inflammatory rhetoric from the author.
3719
« on: December 24, 2015, 11:21:46 AM »
The rebels were insurgents, not terrorists.
3720
« on: December 24, 2015, 12:24:53 AM »
Yeah, I'm not gonna go out of my way to defend the IP but he's talking to mostly uneducated, unskilled laborers that got picked up because they're young, relatively fit men. They're probably not a volunteer force, and don't have the training or equipment to march down a road and fuck shit up, as he says they ought to do.
He's right, though. Iraq had a shot at self-sufficiency and they let ISIS form right under their noses.
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