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DuracellEnergizer

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#600169
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/600169/action/topic#600169
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Tobar said:


Watching films with family is not recommended. =P


I usually don't if I can help it. Unfortunately, in this case, I couldn't. As there are only two TVs in the house which receive satellite service, I would've had to choose between the living room or my mother's room, and since she just got out of the hospital after having surgery, I wasn't going to disturb her, so I had to go with the former.

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The Lottery (1969)

This short film is faithful to Shirley Jackson's short story, but faithfulness doesn't keep it from being mediocre; the cinematography has no flare, and the actors weren't very good - the guy who played Old Man Warner being the worst offender.

5/10

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#600030
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Last movie seen
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/600030/action/topic#600030
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Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Thanks to my dumbass father, I missed the first five or ten minutes of the film, and then, throughout the rest of the film, I had to listen to my sister ask her usual dumbass questions (You want to know what's happening, then WATCH, you ignorant bitch!) and make her usual dumbass comments (No, it would NOT be better in colour, and BTW, who CARES if Johnny looks like a goddamn nerd?!) Suffice to say, I had a hard time enjoying it. I've seen the movie before, though, and enjoyed it a lot more then, so perhaps under better circumstances I'd have given it a better rating.

6/10

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#599943
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The thread where we make enemies out of friends, aka the abortion debate thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/599943/action/topic#599943
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darth_ender said:


And I am aware of your (DuracellEnergizer's) view on human life--quite existential if I remember correctly (can't remember where I read that, maybe earlier in this thread?).  I'm equally curious as to your views on euthanasia, eugenics, murder, etc., considering "humans are the source of everything wrong with this world," or something along those lines.


Yes, I am a supporter of euthanasia. If someone wants to die, then they should be allowed that right. I do wonder why those people want medical assistance to get the deed done, though, instead of just taking the matter into their own hands or getting a friend/family member to help them.

As for eugenics and murder ... I'll admit, I'm not comfortable with them, especially if the victim suffers physical violence/trauma while it happens. Unfortunately, I've been cursed with the burden of having to adopt moral nihilism/skepticism - the concept that morality doesn't exist, or, more optimistically, that morality may not exist. It's not a concept I'm happy or content with - it makes me sick to my stomach that I have to excuse the actions of people like Hitler or Charles Mason - but until I see some convincing evidence to show me otherwise, I'm stuck with having to say that neither eugenics nor murder are good or evil.

And, JFTR, summing up my antinatalism as simply being a belief that "humans are the source of everything wrong with this world", doesn't quite capture the depth of my opinions. Yes, I believe humans are seriously screwed up - that there is an underlying insanity which affects us all - and we have become little more than a malignant cancer on this planet. Beyond that, though, is something more; we may be victimizers, but we're also victims - victims of a horribly chaos-ridden universe, ultimately doomed to suffer and die senselessly as entropy rots the cosmos away. Overall, especially in this day and age, I think it's just callous to bring children into such a world.

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#599834
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The thread where we make enemies out of friends, aka the abortion debate thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/599834/action/topic#599834
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darth_ender said:



DuracellEnergizer said:

 


darth_ender said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Abortion frees the spirit from the prison that is flesh.



So, by the same logic, killing of any kind is acceptable, right?



The entity goes with a minimum of fuss, feeling no pain or awareness as the deed is done. Working someone to death in a concentration camp, however, and similar scenarios, belong to another hand altogether.

 


But at least they're freed from their prison of suffering flesh when they die!

Of course I find such things horrible, but to me, the value of human life does not depend on the person's ability to recognize that his/her life is in any danger or the suffering that precedes that death.


Well, someone can get just as clean bathing in a frigid stream in the middle of winter as they could with a hot shower, but one is decidedly more tolerable than another.

As for your value of human life, while I truly don't share it anymore, I can see where you're coming from. Of course, I don't understand why you invest so much concern into abortion. You believe in an afterlife, correct? And fetuses, should they die before birth, should just go straight there, straight into God's presence, right? If that's so, then why is it so bad to send the child directly there? Why must he or she suffer through the senselessness and pain of physical existence with the very real possibility of growing up into an unbeliever/apostate hanging over his/her head like a blade about to drop when such a glorious alternative is available?

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#599715
Topic
The thread where we make enemies out of friends, aka the abortion debate thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/599715/action/topic#599715
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darth_ender said:



DuracellEnergizer said:

Abortion frees the spirit from the prison that is flesh.


So, by the same logic, killing of any kind is acceptable, right?


The entity goes with a minimum of fuss, feeling no pain or awareness as the deed is done. Working someone to death in a concentration camp, however, and similar scenarios, belong to another hand altogether.