you can always bail on a long show.
Ive been watching Severance. It's an interesting show. Not quite a great show, but its got some moments that make me think a little about our existence and what it means to be human. It is slow as hell, and i find the occasional levity to be at odds with the overall serious, somber mood they are trying to create, but if I peer closely I think I can see what the show runners are trying to put down. The soundtrack/score is also pretty well done.
Im concerned that it's built up this heavy, existential end game that will ultimately fail really badly, but im intrigued to see what comes.
Some of the acting is stupidly over the top, but i think Jon Turturro and Adam Scott are great in it.
Im concerned that it's built up this heavy, existential end game that will ultimately fail really badly, but im intrigued to see what comes.
Some of the acting is stupidly over the top, but i think Jon Turturro and Adam Scott are great in it.
looks like inane liberal entertainment par excellence.
it will end like Lost. a flan whose thin pastry walls collapse under the weight of its own ornamentation.
it will end like Lost. a flan whose thin pastry walls collapse under the weight of its own ornamentation.
- SuperJail Warden
- Gone Forever
- +656|4099
I finally got around to Googling what "The White Lotus" is. Crazy how far HBO has fallen.
not to be unfairly critical of productions worked on by many hundreds or thousands of people to entertain (for money), but from what heights are we talking? at the dropoff of a speedbump, or?
in wider context? literally, "home box office." weren't people watching its logo rotate on straight-to-vhs years and years ago? hbo knew what they were about since long before fm got a taste for awms.
in wider context? literally, "home box office." weren't people watching its logo rotate on straight-to-vhs years and years ago? hbo knew what they were about since long before fm got a taste for awms.
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- Gone Forever
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Lost 6/10
Mostly background noise. I can't watch TV anymore. It seemed like it was trying to say something. I don't know what. Never dull though.
Mostly background noise. I can't watch TV anymore. It seemed like it was trying to say something. I don't know what. Never dull though.
The Dustbowl - Ken Burns documentary.
Really makes you think that maybe man-made climate change could happen.
The US and the Holocaust.
Key takeaways:
No-one wanted the jews living amongst them, not Russia, not Europe, not America, America did everything to keep them out.
Really makes you think that maybe man-made climate change could happen.
The US and the Holocaust.
Key takeaways:
No-one wanted the jews living amongst them, not Russia, not Europe, not America, America did everything to keep them out.
Fuck Israel
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Christianity is fundamentally antisemitic. Jewish people and Israelis know it. I feel that most Christians don't think about or acknowledge it.
Well, Jesus rejected judaism and the jews betrayed and had him killed for it, its not hard to see why christians are peeved.
Fuck Israel
lol nice to see we are doing the classic anti-semitism as well as the alex jones conspiracy theory type too. you're versatile!
'the jeWz kiLleD jeSus'. check out the resident theologian over here.
jesus took exception to the arrogance and activities of the pharisees and sadducees, considering them perversions of a good and ethical religious life. they were the equivalent of the political suits or theocratic clerics who pervert and blight religions today. he basically was hounded by the year 5 BC version of AIPAC for criticising israel.
there were actually jews at the time and still surviving traditions within judaism today that accept jesus's claims to be the (or a) messiah figure. same as jesus's prophethood is acknowledged as islam.
i'm not saying all of this stuff isn't blatant gobbledigook, but making out that every jew today can't wait to backstab his christian neighbour because of the 'they killed jesus' libel is just so fucking funny. what is this, the 14th century?!
'the jeWz kiLleD jeSus'. check out the resident theologian over here.
jesus took exception to the arrogance and activities of the pharisees and sadducees, considering them perversions of a good and ethical religious life. they were the equivalent of the political suits or theocratic clerics who pervert and blight religions today. he basically was hounded by the year 5 BC version of AIPAC for criticising israel.
there were actually jews at the time and still surviving traditions within judaism today that accept jesus's claims to be the (or a) messiah figure. same as jesus's prophethood is acknowledged as islam.
i'm not saying all of this stuff isn't blatant gobbledigook, but making out that every jew today can't wait to backstab his christian neighbour because of the 'they killed jesus' libel is just so fucking funny. what is this, the 14th century?!
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this is the guy who's like "racism is 50 years done, get over it" talking about how actually it's not hard to get why someone harbors a 2000yo grudge conveniently leveled against jews (but not romans).
christianity has some navel-gazing to do on its own sins against others (and its own members).
see also: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_cou … te_en.html
christianity has some navel-gazing to do on its own sins against others (and its own members).
see also: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_cou … te_en.html
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clarification on jesus rejecting judaism? let's see where dilbert goes with this.
dilbert doesn't actually care about theological differences between christianity or judaism, or the history of organised religion and the atrocities committed in its name. he just seizes upon any old thing, pell mell, to justify his vicious hatred and personal hang-ups. definitely some jewish person wronged him or his family in the past. that's literally all there is. you don't need to invoke vatican documents. dilbert doesn't like jews just like he doesn't like seeing muslims around in his white suburb, and doesn't want to deal with indian taxi drivers for neighbours.