moviefreakedmind

Warbler said:

Ask a doctor?

Do you think it’d be worth a few hundred bucks?

Warbler said:

moviefreakedmind said:

SilverWook said:

Geez, everybody take a stress pill?

Any recommendations?

(only for those that have no problem with alcohol)

2 ounce bourbon
.5 sweet vermouth
.5 dry vermouth
dash of bitters

serve over ice.

Can’t drink. Anything else?

Warbler said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Warbler said:

So you want cops to decide for themselves which laws are just and unjust? You really want cops to decide for themselves which laws they are going to enforce and which they are not? You really want to give cops that much power? I thought you didn’t like cops, I thought you didn’t trust them?

No one worthy of any respect would be willing to arrest someone for smoking marijuana

If someone should not be arrested for smoking marijuana, change the law that says they should be arrested for it.

I don’t have the power to do that and you know it. The cops do have the power to be principled and not arrest people for victimless crimes. They often don’t do that, though because the justice system and our private prisons thrive and throwing innocent people in jail. Like I said, principled men and women wouldn’t be a part of this. Sell-outs that want paychecks might be able to ignore their consciences enough to do it.

I am not totally against looking the other way sometimes.

On cases of drug possession (especially marijuana possession) any cop, judge, or prosecutor that doesn’t look the other way disgusts me and is immoral to the core and is antithetical to American freedom and I think we’d be better off if they were immediately removed from their positions of power.

But when dealing with the death of someone, you can’t just look the other way and ignore the law(barring extreme circumstances like the holocaust)

The law calls for looking the other way. I’m advocating that they don’t look the other way and actually treat this as the crime that it is.

and no one worthy of any respect would uphold laws allowing murder.

So you want the sheriff to just be able to do whatever he wants until it is not what you agree with.

No. I think he should do everything in his power to advocate for reforming the law and until that happens he should step down. You shouldn’t be able to sleep at night if you’re a part of this unjust bullshit.

I’m saying that I don’t respect cops because I don’t respect the laws and systems that they uphold. If anything, I’m saying that the respectable cops need to wake up and get out of their police departments.

So you are saying you don’t like a American and our Constitutional, democratic republic form of government. Got it. I can’t say I am shocked by this.

I would argue that what we have now makes a mockery of the democratic republic form of government that our Constitution is supposed to guarantee us. Corrupt people have more or less monopolized the power in this country and present us with shitty choices each election cycle. My vote, because I’m surrounded by people diametrically opposed to everything I stand for, counts for nothing in elections at the local, state, or federal level. Presumably that is not what “a American” government was supposed to be.

Warbler said:

So you want cops to decide for themselves which laws are just and unjust? You really want cops to decide for themselves which laws they are going to enforce and which they are not? You really want to give cops that much power? I thought you didn’t like cops, I thought you didn’t trust them?

No one worthy of any respect would be willing to arrest someone for smoking marijuana and no one worthy of any respect would uphold laws allowing murder. I’m saying that I don’t respect cops because I don’t respect the laws and systems that they uphold. If anything, I’m saying that the respectable cops need to wake up and get out of their police departments.

I will say however that I having difficulty seeing how “stand your ground” justifies this shooting.

Difficulty?

There’s a quote in there from the sheriff that encapsulates why I hate cops and it’s “I don’t make the law. I enforce the law.” That’s disgusting. That was more or less the same logic behind the defense of the Nazis at Nuremberg Trials. If you are enforcing unjust and bullshit laws, then you’re part of problem.

I don’t think I need him. I’ve been sleeping for 13-16 hours at a time lately.

SilverWook said:

Geez, everybody take a stress pill?

Any recommendations?

So we’re not even allowed to not know what things are and then ask about it? I don’t even know what your fucking problem is. Are you bothered that we’re talking about something that apparently offends you, or are you bothered that we’re ignorant? If you have a problem with something, then tell us. Don’t just act as though it’s a given that everyone wholeheartedly agrees with you. I’m an angry fuck. I hate everything and everyone, but typically I try to give an explanation for my hatred or anger when it comes up, especially if it’s in response to someone. I don’t just say, “Wow, I can’t believe that,” and then leave it at that and expect everybody to read my mind.

My hatred of others has been particularly intense lately, especially today. It’s giving me a headache.

Why?

I also should’ve added the Special Editions to the destruction of the Star Wars legacy.

SilverWook said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Apparently Good Morning Vietnam, too.

a Blu-Ray compilation of themed Star Trek TOS episodes I’d never seen before

I didn’t know that such a thing was on the market! Not that it is something I need since I have the whole blu-ray set, but it reminds me of the old VHS and Laserdisc copies of select TOS episodes available before DVD. I never owned any of them, but my sister would rent them for me sometimes. Good ol’ days…

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I’d rather that fans have less content to enjoy if it means that I see less advertising for Star Wars content. It may be selfish, but that’s how I feel.

Anyone who wants Star Wars to just give up is selfish.

On this issue, I guess so. That’s not my only reason for wanting it, by the way. I think that the legacy of Star Wars has been largely destroyed by all the prequels and sequels.

I don’t give a shit about the MCU but you don’t see me wanting it to go away just so I don’t have to see commercials for it.

That’s okay, I want that enough for the both of us.

Why what the hell? I don’t know the difference either. I honestly have never really known what either is.

I’d rather that fans have less content to enjoy if it means that I see less advertising for Star Wars content. It may be selfish, but that’s how I feel.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/33371/should-james-gunn-have-lost-his-job-disney-ben-shapiro

Disgusting hypocrite Ben Shapiro rides the fence and says it’s kind of okay to try to get James Gunn fired because he’s on “the Left”. What a fucking a hypocrite. You can’t complain nonstop about PC culture and then be in favor of it when people you don’t like get fired. Why does anyone follow these rightwing hypocrites? They are so painfully full of shit!

I also love how these cowards claim to hate the alt-right, but then always bow down to them. If you hate the alt-right then stop firing people because they asked you to.

One of the tweets was from 2008. Either way, who cares? Comedians tell jokes. Fuck Guardians of the Galaxy 3, fuck Disney, fuck James Gunn for being an apologetic coward, fuck Mike Cernovich for being a rapist and constantly trying to get people fired, and fuck everybody that thinks an off-color joke warrants interfering with a piece of entertainment.

I totally agree with him on the people who fired James Gunn. That pile of shit alt-right guy Mike Cernovich (who’s a rapist by the way) has been looking for controversial tweets of people’s from years ago to try and get them fired. It’s ridiculous and shit like that is going to ruin entertainment. Oh, you made a mean joke ten years ago, you’re fired!

Handman said:

Any meaning that you or I find in life is unique and meaningful only to you or I. Whatever meaning I gleam from something is something I’ve attributed to it, not something in it that I’ve discovered. Any good thing that I do and that other people find meaningful is something that is meaningful because it touched other people in an apparently beneficial way rather than it being some deed of cosmic significance.

This doesn’t sound like nihilism to me. This may seem like an odd question, but your wording prompts it. Were you by chance raised in a religious household?

Not really. A couple older siblings raised me for the most part till I was about 13 and then I was a loner until I was 17 and graduated.

I should’ve phrased it better. I was trying to say that any meaning found in something isn’t intrinsic in the thing itself, because everything is meaningless. Whatever meaning found in something is relevant only to the person that thinks it’s there.

It has.

Right. I have a zero-tolerance policy.

Apparently Good Morning Vietnam, too.

I have no tolerance for computers that don’t work.

I’m a nihilist and I find that a lot of people have an immediate, negative gut-reaction to that outlook (including on this forum, when everyone attacked me for encouraging it in someone that obviously wasn’t enjoying the meaning that society says we’re supposed to find in life) and I don’t get why. I don’t see how anyone could possibly believe that life has any intrinsic meaning, but more than that, I don’t see why it’s good or uplifting to believe that life has meaning. I just think, and perhaps this is a personality quirk of mine, that if life did have meaning then it’s just more depressing when everything inevitable fucks up. If life has no intrinsic meaning, then it also doesn’t matter how you ruin or waste your life. Any meaning that you or I find in life is unique and meaningful only to you or I. Whatever meaning I gleam from something is something I’ve attributed to it, not something in it that I’ve discovered. Any good thing that I do and that other people find meaningful is something that is meaningful because it touched other people in an apparently beneficial way rather than it being some deed of cosmic significance. I find that kind of pleasant. Why don’t other people find that comforting? I don’t get it.

Thank you.