Well, at least movies from Christians of the loony variety aren’t mainstream.
You wanna know the plot of Assassin 33AD?
Rich Muslim dude who had his family massacred because they were Christians gets some kid to build a time machine so he can go back to the past and kill Jesus before he can fulfil the scriptures by being crucified. I am NOT MAKING THIS UP.
Does this make any fucking sense at all LMAO???
If you BELIEVE that Jesus will fulfil the scriptures by being crucified, rise from the dead and ascend into heaven, why the fuck are you a MUSLIM since by extension you must also acknowledge the existence of the Christian God, which should completely invalidate your belief in Islam?
This is one of the LEAST dumb things in the movie.
I don’t know what this is. I’m not sure if films are made that cater towards the evangelical crowd.
I saw the passion of the Christ… this might have pandered towards that base. That film was arguably more graphic than many of the saw films. It was a solid two hours of watching a man be tortured in barbaric fashion.
I’m not against watching graphic horror films, but I turned this off. I didn’t see the point in watching a man needlessly suffer for so long. I know the story, however I feel as if this depiction was exploitative and needlessly disturbing for the sake of shock value.
Here is a breakdown from what I remember seeing
whipping to the point of flesh peeling off the man’s back
people having their knees crushed with mallets on screen
birds poking holes in people’s eyes
Jesus Christ repeatedly being stabbed, whipped, beaten, having nails driven into his hands and more… Did I mention the whip has thorns?
It’s somewhat accurate from a biblical context… But God DAMN…
But that’s exactly the point. From what I’ve read, other than the number of whip strikes, it was very accurate. To me, it wasn’t graphic to be gratuitous. Rather, it was shocking because it’s realistic.
Here’s how the prophet Yishayahu/ Isaiah described him in chapter 52:
“Just as many were astonished and appalled at you, My people, so His appearance was marred more than any man and His form [marred] more than the sons of men.”
Read Yishayahu/ Isaiah 53 and compare it to what’s depicted in The Passion.
Oh sorry, I just realized I was tagged in this thread. I skipped through the first 170 posts and I gotta say it’s not my cup of tea, so I won’t join the discussion
I’m curious, does anyone on this forum have a relationship where you both agreed to never shout/yell at each other or is that uncontrollable. I mean if you both have a disagreement you would have a conversation rather than yell like some stupid banshee. Wait a minute isn’t that very important in a relationship anyway?
I had one for a little over a year. Never yelled. Technically raises my voice ONCE. She came home drunk from a night out with friends and insisted we have a serious talk that should have been done sober. Closest I came to yelling.
I might yell at a dude depending on the circumstances, but with women, especially one you’re in a relationship with I couldn’t imagine it. If we can’t talk like adults, even if we both need to step away and calm down, then I don’t think I want that in my life. Communication is huge
I think this is pretty individual. I do not lose my temper at home so even if there’s a potential for a fight that would end up with screaming matches, it’s never happened but not for the lack of trying on my wife’s part initially lol. My wife has thus adapted and goes with the soft/guilt trip approach when she really wants something.
There’s a Chinese saying about different people:
“Eat soft, won’t eat hard” (吃硬不吃软）and vice versa. In this case, it’s about relenting to a particular situational demand that involved conflict and inevitable threats, hence the “eat hard” part. Losing my temper be relenting because no man has ever won a fucking screaming match with his spouse in history LMAO. You get mad, you lose and once you’ve cooled down you wonder why the fuck you gave in to demands that you would never have done. That’s how this game is played.
Since this is “The Dating Thread”, I’m going to reiterate what Bill Burr has said in one of his comedy segments about relationships that I’m to lazy to post here with some stuff from Jordan Peterson that I actually agree with. And this might ruffle a few feathers.
Men, in general, do not go all the way with the insults because we anticipate the potential of physical violence when we argue with other guys and push shit too far when growing up.
Women, in general, don’t have this filter. They WILL go all the way if the situation escalates enough and you will do something fucking stupid, which is why you will lose.
But you guys need to understand that I had A LOT of relationships before I met my wife and have suffered a lot of losses because of emotional decision making so by that time I had somehow developed an emotional “switch” than can be turned off at will- like my mind suddenly gets disassociated from myself as if I were on K - when I mentally anticipate I’m going to do something stupid and, believe me, I can do really fucking stupid things when I’m really mad.
It’s why I think people these days shouldn’t get married without much prior relationship experience. If this were a simpler time where communities were tight and lots of societal rules were still being implicitly enforced, like @BrickHead is longing for, I wouldn’t be saying the same thing.
Why would your generation be doomed? Humans have survived plagues, pandemics that wiped out 50% of the human population, natural disasters even like the tsunami just over a decade ago that killed over 200,000 people with the actual stats estimated to be several times more because 3rd World Countries were hit the hardest in South Asia when we already had FUCKING DETECTORS and infrastructure built for this shit, REAL government tyranny, shit like The Crusades, 2 fucking World Wars, 2 fucking A bombs dropped on Japan that wiped out 2 major cities and left survivors even in surrounding cities with several fold increases in cancer risk, nuclear shit like Chernobyl and Fukushima etc.
Lol thanks. It’s a tribute to an old poster here because he had one similar pic at some point in time.
And I guess my point here is you young guys and gals should go live your lives the best way that you can without getting worked up or rattled by all this political shit. I don’t care if it’s right wing or left wing shit. I’m NOT saying SOME issues aren’t important but if you spend too much of your time worrying about stuff that you can’t change, you are doing a disservice to yourself and your own dependants (present or future) because you won’t be able to put in your full focus into enriching your life, and, by extension, their lives.
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Dating thread:
I’ll tell you a story about an old friend of mine during my uni days who couldn’t get laid because he was fucking short. Like so short but not short enough for it to be considered a physical impairment like a midget so we’d fuck with him while playing billiards by constantly snooking him instead of gaining points when we had clear chances lol.
This dude isn’t the kind of guy who’d just get dejected and join some fucking INCEL group online and start licking his wounds with others. Instead, he had an epiphany one day some time after we tried some kind of gambling math equation betting on big/small at a casino and lost all our gains by the 4th day because of an anomaly that fucked up the equation when a 3 of a kind occurred lol. This would have like a 0.4% chance of occurring if we just used the casino’s odds. It’s obviously substantially less in reality.
He decided that, based on the laws of probability, if he went to the club and approached 10 women per night, over the course of 10 days he would have approached 100 so there should at least be a 1% probability that he would get laid.
That’s what he did. After a couple of months, friends were whining about how this fucker was able to get a different girlfriend every other week lol. Eventually, he met a nice girl and settled down.
While I’m not suggesting that people do shit like this, it’s obvious that the ROOT of his problems was that he had a confidence issue, which also had an impact on this ability to communicate effectively with the opposite sex with regards to even non-verbal cues and he gained these with enough practice. There are several other better ways to solve the root of this problem as long as you can identify it in the first place. The girl he settled down with wasn’t someone he picked up at a club.
I’ve been with my better half for close to 10 years now. I don’t think we’ve ever shouted at each other. It’s not a spoken agreement, just how it happens.
I’ve had a conversation with my better half around sentences like this. Why does that first sentence need to happen? Assuming there’s no possible fix, the conversation can’t possibly lead to positive things.