logo Sign In

Regicidal_Maniac

User Group
Members
Join date
29-Jul-2004
Last activity
3-Oct-2005
Posts
345

Post History

Post
#72509
Topic
The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72509/action/topic#72509
Time
PETA has extremists like any organisation I'm sure but for the most part I'm sure they're just seeking fair treatment for animals.

That link was a bit of a beat up. Animals do have rights, not to be tortued or mistreated.

I have a right to order a thick juicy steak be it Beef, Kangaroo or Crocodile (Emu's not that great).

I think I've eaten may way through the evolutionary chart except monkeys, cats and dogs, I may have eaten a rat I'm not sure, I have eaten at my fair share of Kebab shops.

My point is that no-one has the right to be cruel to an animal, and cows raised to be my dinner have a right to comfortable life and a quick death from a clean kill.

I buy free-range, non-battery-farm eggs and grain fed beef/lamb/pork from reputable breeders, some of whom I now know. Farmers are good people.

Jeez I was going to go on about milk and cheese, prawns etcetera but my point is that we meat eaters know that cruelty to animals is wrong and bad, even us Godless ones know that.

EDIT: left out an important 'not'
Post
#72520
Topic
The Next Superman
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72520/action/topic#72520
Time
What's wrong with Hugh Jackman?

Personally I miss McG on this project because, stay with me now, he is a complete breath of fresh air and to simply get a next best thing to Reeve and try to continue on with the continuity seems to be a tad disrespectful.

I'd have rather seen the kind of vision that Abrams and McG were going to give us. The beauty of Superman is that he can be reinterpreted in many different ways while still keeping the core idea/ideals consistent.

A new Superman for a new age.

Instead we're going to get a warmed up rehash of old ideas lamely trying to attach themselves the the earlier flawed series.

They have confirmed the use of flashbacks and the use of the old series designs of Krypton and The Fortress Of Solitude. I do cheer at the ide of Terence Stamp reappearing as General Zod, which seems to be the plan but at the same time I'd rather see what a visualist like McG could bring to the table.

Singer is a good storyteller but he has no eye and McG does have a great eye he just needs a great writer and a great producer.

But Batman doesn't look like much chop either and I've read the script, it aint great.

For sure these films will be no great cinema the likes of Spider-man 1 & 2 or Blade II, but they may be better than Hulk (which I liked) and they have to be better than Punisher (either version) and Daredevil.
Post
#72506
Topic
Are we wasting our lives?
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72506/action/topic#72506
Time
I'm familiar with some of Alighieri's philosophy and I tried to read the Commedia, I got a great deal of the way through but many other things got in the way and I'm not a huge fan of that style of prose.

I've not read any Virgil yet.

I feel that Plato, Socrates and Aristotle are necessary reads alongside Descartes, Hume, Locke, Bacon, Mill, Popper, Quine, Kuhn, Kant, Nietzsche, Satre, Voltaire, Russell and Chomsky.

Especially Bertrand Russell.

Maybe I'll get around to Virgil one day.
Post
#72221
Topic
Lazy, lazy Lucas.
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72221/action/topic#72221
Time
Well here's one scenario:

Anakin, dressed similar to the Vader we know and love (not yet a cyborg) has attained the force focussing Kyber crystal at the Emperor's behest and places it in an acnient shrine on Mount Naboo. Then he begins concentrating his energy and slots his palms into the shrine's long dormant device.

He aims to become the most powerful Jedi ever but his Dark Side energies corrupt the light force power and rejected shoot down into the planet's core causing terrible planet-wide earthquakes.

A quick shot of Ootah Gungah revelas it to have been instantly vaporised by jets of lava racing to the surface.

The ground around him cracks open with eruptions of steam and fire.

Obi Wan shows up to stop him but is too late and as the planet destroys itself around them the two old friends begin their climactic showdown.
Post
#72185
Topic
Harry Potter (spoilers!)
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72185/action/topic#72185
Time
Quote
Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
I remember Entertainment Weekly once discussing how it would be a great idea to have Ally McBeal leave the series with her name on it.


They sort of did that with the series "Valerie" which became "Valerie's Family" when Valerie Harper was fired from the show after just one year and then finally it became "The Hogan Family".

They also continued "8 Simple Rules For Dating My Daughter" after John Ritter died and his character's protectiveness of his daughter was the reason for the show's title.
Post
#72151
Topic
It's official...
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/72151/action/topic#72151
Time
Kingsama you are definitely well versed in the historical origins of your beliefs, which is something I respect a great deal. Knowledge and intelligence don't oten go hand in hand with faith, you may well take exception to that but you must also realise that most people are, to put it kindly, not very smart.

I HAVE studied my opposing views as I mentioned my upbringing already. My profile will tell you where I'm from but I don't see what being an Aussie has to do with this discussion.

I've mentioned before than I waver between Atheism (denial) and Agnoticism (apathy) depending on what I've been drinking and what mood I'm in. I am well aware that a distinction exists between the two and I almost never pay religion, the churches or God any consideration until they start to annoy me somehow. I have some spiritual belief based on what I've experienced but that too I have researched the origins of and found it to be similar to a near death or a K-holing/third-eye type experience.

I know I can never convince someone that the things they believe are bunk, although it would be nice. I know that a great many people turn to religion because the world is too complex and religion softens the hard edges of reality. I know that religion offers a moral compass to those who otherwise get lost in life's great maze. It can be a crutch or a pillar of strength for those people and that's fine, good for them. I would like more people to understand what they believe and question why. To question if they believe that those things that are thoroughly untestable, not just unprovable but completely unfalsifiable because they cannot even be tested, things that have no impact on the world should be the genesis for laws that discriminate and promote ignorant hatred (jimbo) toward others for reasons unknown and nonexistent.

I'm not a hostile person at all I just get argumentative in discussions with people who don't think that morals can come from anywhere except the bible and that there is one true belief and that this true belief states that this kind of person is right and this kind of person is wrong and the wrong person will be punished in death so we are free to legislate against them in life. That kind of idiotic thinking is what disgusts me.

Religion is my pet peeve and as I said before I make sure I don't associate with many of their type (the bible wavers) in my life as they only end up pissing me off with their high and mighty attitudes and life's too short to share a drink with a tongue-clucker. I don't mind what anyone believes as long as they know why they believe it and why they shouldn't NOT believe it and as long as they keep it to themselves and out of government and legislature.

The internet is a different place it's like a really big "right room for an argument". If you're a Monty Python fan you'll get the reference.

Anyway arguing that black is white with people who believe otherwise may be pointless, especially when so many of them just give up.

I have said before I don't know if there is a God or not and I don't care either. It has no impact on my life one way or the other. I have looked back far enough to see that the bad elements were put in later to scare people and keep them in line. If there is a God He has no power on Earth and everyone meets Him. But then I don't really think there is a God and so except when arguing about it on the 'net I don't think about it much.

I think I got to this point in the thread because Bush is a dangerously stupid Theocrat who believes in things I'm sure he has never questioned. I don't doubt that he believes as I know from first hand experience what a powerful thing a drug-addled born again experience can be, but in my case I continued to question it until my sanity returned and Bush likely did not question the root causes of such a vision. It's a common enough occurence but there's nothing divine about it so far as my inquiries and research can ascertain. But then I'm still looking, is Bush? Or is he going to smite the heathens because his vision commands him to do so?

That's what scares me, that this organisation that has been built out of a thousand lies and one possible kernel of truth has so much power in the greatest (not a value judgement just a statement of financial and economic greatness) country on this tiny blue dot.

Ultimately both sides believe the same thing and see the other as evil and that's idiotic. The fact that they will fight to the death to ensure that their bastardised version of the same story will be the winner is sickening.

EDIT: Just saw some transposed letters.
Post
#71959
Topic
The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/71959/action/topic#71959
Time
Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Reality TV. Agreed. TV will continue to get worse until we stop watching such stupid shows


Oh tell me about it, it puts money in the hands of talentless producers and diminishes the opportunities for creative people in the industry. Not to mention it devalues the status of the industry as a whole by giving every two-bit slob their fifteen minutes at the expense of those of us who have studied and make our living in the field.

Reality TV must be stopped.

By the way thanks for the point-by-point.
Post
#71911
Topic
The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/71911/action/topic#71911
Time
Ignorance.

Stupidity.

Sexism.

Racism.

Homophobia.

Nationalism.

Conservatives.

Blind Faith.

Lies.

Legislation based in fantasy that restricts personal freedoms.

Cockroaches.

The Prequels.

The Official N-"OT" DVDs.

Parsley.

Coriander.

Reality TV.

People who talk in the cinema/theatre during the screening/performance.

Drunken Witless Hecklers.

That 'Wet Dog' smell.

'President' George W. Bush.
Post
#71990
Topic
It's official...
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/71990/action/topic#71990
Time
Quote
Originally posted by: Count Dushku
I'm curious...what are atheists denying? I mean...if there ISN'T a God, then Who or What are they denying? How can you claim to believe something doesn't exist if it already doesn't exist? I choose to not believe that the OT exists on licensed dvds...yet surprisingly they already don't. See my point?

Obviously since you are a member of these forums you like fantasy/science fiction...tell me, do you like C.S. Lewis or JRR Tolkien at all? Both men where Christians, and i know Lewis recorded his journey from being a rather violent and active athest and agnostic to becoming a Christian. Mere Christianity by CS Lewis. Check it out.

you know, radical Islam wouldn't exist without being like Reg and their mirror counterparts. Both the "extreme fundamentalist" and the "totally agnostic" are equally dangerous. You can't be either one of the extremes.


What a load of piffle.

But since you're curious.

The history of atheism and agnosticism is not the one soaked in blood my friend that history is maintained by the Church the blood was spilled in the name of faith and not rational inquiry.

There's nothing dangerous about agnosticism it's not an extreme of anything, it's a lack of belief in things that have no proof. If God, why not the Toothfairy the same proof exists in each case. If God why not Aliens or Ghosts, or Goblins and Witches. Because it's all meaningless bullshit that has no basis in facts and no bearing on the world and life. I mean, if there isn't a toothfairy then who or what are you denying? I mean, if there aren't witches then who or what are you denying?

Wondering whether there is a God is like wondering what triangles smell like or what colour thursdays are or whether there is a meaning to life. They seem like proper English sentences but they are absurd and without merit lacking any and all consideration.

Choosing not to believe in something for which there exists no evidence whatsoever is not a choice at all it's the only option. The surprising thing is that people will believe any guff you feed them if it comes from a book that is covered with enough dust. It's surprising that given the massive weight of evidence against religion and the zero proof for that there still exists any free-thinking fully-functioning humans who can swallow such lies, sophistry and illusion.

True I do like fantasy but I don't believe that somewhere out there The Jedi exist because like religion and God the films were fashioned by men.

If you bothered to read the previous page you'd find that I actually addressed your points even before you made them.

Quote
I would encourage (Reg was it?) to actively seek out people who truly know the Bible...and I'm afraid I can't think of even one Catholic who can answer any of your past/present questions.


I have and you're right no-one knows it because there is nothing to know. So we agree.

Oh and Bush is an Imperialist Theocrat who must be stopped, the man believes in the 'End Of Days' for pity's sake. He believes in Armageddon and he may well be the one to bring it about. How can anyone take such a man seriously?
Post
#71955
Topic
Holiday Special vs. PT
Link
https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/71955/action/topic#71955
Time
Quote
Originally posted by: Zombie Chewbacca
Why would a species that supposedly has a reputation for ripping arms off have holiday called Life Day?

Can they rip their own arms off?


You'll wish you could when you watch SW-THS.

The first time, but after a while it wears you down either that or there is hidden substance in the special.

To praphrase Andrew Dice Clay from 'The Advetures Of Ford Fairlane'- "Watching the Holiday Special was like masturbating with a cheese grater: slightly amusing, but mostly painful."