The Unofficial Badmovies.org Random Thought Thread!

[Alex]

I have a lot of religious friends some of whom have for several years gently trying to pressure me into following their religion which just is never going to happen. Some of them have been saying a lot of things recently that are at odds with what they claim to believe in and this morning I made a post calling them out on it, without naming names. Four hours later half the comments agreeing with me and likes the post has gotten have came from the very people the post was aimed at. Maybe I should have been more blunt and tagged them in the post or something.

Not that I'd actually expect anything I put on their to change peoples attitudes or anything, I just wanted to point out the hypocrisy. I've had face to face arguements with these people before and I figured the ones I was aiming it at would know.

[Rev. Powell]

What's your Twitter handle, Rev?  I'll follow you too!

It's not a personal account, it's my site's account, but you're welcome to follow: https://twitter.com/366weirdmovies

[ER]

I have a lot of religious friends some of whom have for several years gently trying to pressure me into following their religion which just is never going to happen. Some of them have been saying a lot of things recently that are at odds with what they claim to believe in and this morning I made a post calling them out on it, without naming names. Four hours later half the comments agreeing with me and likes the post has gotten have came from the very people the post was aimed at. Maybe I should have been more blunt and tagged them in the post or something.

Not that I'd actually expect anything I put on their to change peoples attitudes or anything, I just wanted to point out the hypocrisy. I've had face to face arguements with these people before and I figured the ones I was aiming it at would know.

"The gravest foe of Christianity is not the atheist, but the hypocritical believer."
--G.K. Chesterton

[AlbertMond]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I truly believe I enjoyed Manos. I recently watched the Creeping Terror, and somehow the movie p**sed me off. Manos is bad, but I really don't like The Creeping Terror.

The weird thing about Manos is that if you take it away from the context of MST3K or its joke status, it's actually a legitimately bizarre, bleak, creepy movie. It's hard to tell how intentional the bizarre vibe was over all, but even things that are dated about it just ring surreal. It's like watching tradition crawl into a clumsy but inescapable trap and die.

[ER]

Watched this documentary on Netflix called DMT: The Spirit Molescule that left me both glad we didn't take ayahuasca when we had that chance last year, and also kind of wondering what if we had.

[Leah]

Aahh DMT, aka the death drug. Named because you dream when you die peacefully. a "friend" of my sister's said that when he took it, he slept for about 30 minutes and he felt like it was 3 hours. Dunno if he's crazy (he slightly is) or not.

Also, I went to a Monster Jam show with my sister, and I gotta say, I was a bit disappointed that only 1 truck did a backflip. Well, I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, since out of 14 trucks, only 3 didn't need the front load to tip them over and move them.

[AlbertMond]

Watched this documentary on Netflix called DMT: The Spirit Molescule that left me both glad we didn't take ayahuasca when we had that chance last year, and also kind of wondering what if we had.

Why glad you hadn't?

It always sounds interesting to me, including the whole culture around it. Like, the certain shared experiences people seem to describe and the different interpretations of them, including a wide belief that they're somehow real in a sense that other hallucinations aren't. I've heard people pull blueprints out of them. Questions of machine elf benevolence or malevolence are really interesting, and bad DMT trips sound like some really epic nightmares.

[ER]

Watched this documentary on Netflix called DMT: The Spirit Molescule that left me both glad we didn't take ayahuasca when we had that chance last year, and also kind of wondering what if we had.

Why glad you hadn't?

It always sounds interesting to me, including the whole culture around it. Like, the certain shared experiences people seem to describe and the different interpretations of them, including a wide belief that they're somehow real in a sense that other hallucinations aren't. I've heard people pull blueprints out of them. Questions of machine elf benevolence or malevolence are really interesting, and bad DMT trips sound like some really epic nightmares.

Interesting, perhaps, but all in all it would've been irresponsible of me to incapacitate myself, it's not who I like to think I am to mess with psychotropic chemicals, and because I tend to slide into the dark side way too easily in my daily life as it is, thinking about death and pain and fear and loss, let alone if I helped my latent melancholia along by taking a drug with a history of bringing negativity out in a lot of the people who ingest it. Sometimes it's better to avoid something instead of confronting it, and I made of point that day of reinvesting the time I would have partaken doing sweet things with my loved ones instead. A better experience.

But I was dismayingly tempted. (I used to starve myself in part because it brought on the most amazing dreams, and I wondered if I might experience something like that.)

[LilCerberus]

Was Travis Bickle A democrat or a Republican?

[AoTFan]

Just had a grudge match idea: Gordan Ramsey vs Simon Callwell.  They take turns trying to break the spirit of contestants on their programs to see who can destroy the most people in the least amount of time.

[Leah]

Callwell would win hands down, Ramsey has a softer spot for the kids and doesn't go ape s**t on them.

[Alex]

It is a strange day when (bearing in mind I am a pagan) I have to quote Bible scripture at one Christian to defend another Christian in an arguement. Maybe I should just quit facebook and have less drama in my life.

[Trevor]

Maybe I should just quit facebook and have less drama in my life.

That is exactly what I did: I actually feel less stressed too. 

[Flangepart]

Got ya beat...I never joined!

[indianasmith]

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