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DYRE · 2012-09-09 21:55:08

Eh. I was only half-serious anyway. I don't particularly want to stop hanging out with my friends, and stuff like that.

glennmagusharvey · 2012-09-09 21:55:27

It hasn't been achieved. Some people still acknowledge that belief systems other than far-right Christianity exist.

Uh...

Okay, let me clarify.

What's happening in that movie trailer is the assumption that Christians aren't allowed to publicly display their faith (in the United States, according to the movie's premise).

The problem is that that battle has already been fought and won by those who established freedom of religion in the United States, a few hundred years ago. There is no battle to fight.

However, quoting Richter Belmont:

Count Dracula rises but once every century, and my role is over. If I can resurrect him, then the battle will last for eternity!

ClockworkUniverse · 2012-09-09 22:01:34

True, but these people will claim to be oppressed for as long as nonchristians exist and have rights.

glennmagusharvey · 2012-09-09 22:02:51

Well, they're not claiming that, at least not directly. So what argument are they using?

Stormtroper · 2012-09-09 22:05:24

It wasn't a parody that the other one was, but it recognises the irrationality of its own perspective while also clinging to it desperately. If that isn't some kind of commentary, I'm not sure what is.

Yeah, that's more like it.

ClockworkUniverse · 2012-09-09 22:05:44

I'm not referring to the trailer itself so much as the type of people who watch movies about the oppressed Christian minority rising up.

MadassAlex · 2012-09-09 22:11:28

What I'm afraid of is that the film will actually validate the idea of a "Christian minority" in the minds of its intended audience, at least moreso than currently.

Malkavian · 2012-09-09 22:21:19

>Speaking as someone who is kind of stuck as a shut-in at the moment, it is really fucking boring.

True dat. I don't even have a job to occupy me anymore. >_>

ClockworkUniverse · 2012-09-09 22:58:02

I've been sorta-kinda looking for one, but

Malkavian · 2012-09-09 23:07:49

From what I know you live in a similarly isolated area. Shit sucks. Even McDonald's isn't hiring.

ClockworkUniverse · 2012-09-09 23:13:05

Birmingham is technically within driving distance, but I don't want to go that far,

Malkavian · 2012-09-09 23:15:37

Nearest urban area is forty miles. With gas prices and wages being what they are it's not worth it.

Nearest city worth a damn is sixty.

ClockworkUniverse · 2012-09-09 23:18:36

Oh, wow. I'm not the far out.

Malkavian · 2012-09-09 23:21:23

Well there are supermarkets and convenience stores and whatnot but nothing that's a really worthwhile job and like I said, they're not hiring.

ClockworkUniverse · 2012-09-09 23:28:25

they're not hiring

Yeah, that's my main problem

There's a pretty huge shopping center on the highway nearby because it's vaguely in the vicinity of Birmingham, which is the only city that's even sort of worth a damn between New Orleans and Atlanta, but nobody is hiring -_-

All Nines · 2012-09-09 23:39:09

@shut-in talk: I still have a bad feeling that that's how I'll end up once I'm done with school. With any luck, I'll have some sort of job to keep things going with some level of security, but I still kinda fear that I'll somehow alienate myself from my peers, and force an inward retreat.

._.

I wish luck to those of you who are currently dealing with situations like that.

MillerCross · 2012-09-09 23:39:09

you should just start doing porn movies, jeez

don ya know how to solve your problems

glennmagusharvey · 2012-09-10 00:23:50

NB: The opinion expressed in that speech bubble is NOT endorsed by many Christians in the United States (probably at least a majority of them).

Crimson · 2012-09-10 01:00:52

I was incredibly bored and decided to watch the second Jackass movie.

Um...wow. That was probably the closest thing to gay porn I will hopefully ever see.

Malkavian · 2012-09-10 01:02:17

"Hello, my name is Jesus Christ...

and welcome to Jackass."

ClockworkUniverse · 2012-09-10 01:59:36

Problem: Tiny robots are expensive.

Solution: Remote-controlled cockroaches.

Science!

MadassAlex · 2012-09-10 02:04:06

I'm merely disappointed that the solution wasn't "Giant robots".

glennmagusharvey · 2012-09-10 02:04:41

Doesn't that result in a very confused cockroach?

ClockworkUniverse · 2012-09-10 02:05:39

^^Well, you can't use a giant robot to, say, run under some rubble to check if there are survivors in a collapsed building. We need robots of all sizes for the world to be fully awesome.

^Yes, but it can't do anything about it until you take the device off.

glennmagusharvey · 2012-09-10 02:48:35

Your mention of cockroaches made me go on a video-walk. And despite my best efforts to find videos of cute cockroaches, the only cockroaches that people seem to consider cute are Madagascar hissing cockroaches, and otherwise...the results are not pretty. And they're getting a thread.

DYRE · 2012-09-10 02:50:46

cute cockroaches

glennmagusharvey · 2012-09-10 03:13:30

That's not accurate. Cockroaches have six limbs, and Bioshock isn't a book.

DYRE · 2012-09-10 03:18:43

Of course Bioshock isn't a book. It also clearly isn't drawn as a book in that picture though (it even has the CERO rating shown), so I don't know why you even said that.

Ironweaver · 2012-09-10 06:14:12

I learned that an acquaintance hanged himself, due to love problems.

JHM · 2012-09-10 06:37:21

That's unbelievably awful. I'm really sorry, Milos.

How well did you know him?

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