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[Garloid @Carloid1020]

@SDMolokai @Jason_Catholic @JimmyAkin3000 Worshipping God under a false image, worshipping God incorrectly, etc. is sinful. It is not enough for the object of your worship to be God.

[Garloid @Carloid1020]

@ErickYbarra3 I think most people larp about primary sources. I very rarely read a primary source on its own because im not a scholar.

[Garloid @Carloid1020]

@PaulSkallas lots of immigration works the same way. You marry a citizen? All is forgiven basically

[Garloid @Carloid1020]

@WalmartThomist WE ALL finding our wives at ASU

[Garloid @Carloid1020]

@Soar_126 A mix of us being early, life being rare, intelligence being rare, self annihilation being common in intelligent beings, and space being big. Theres probably also a hard cap on a lot of tech. And also God said no aliens.

[Garloid @Carloid1020]

@kingofthehood89 Dont forget name dropping OF girls for reason.

[Garloid @Carloid1020]

@El_Xico99 seen this but it was filipino. Not sure if that even counts tbh

[Garloid @Carloid1020]

@newphilologyX My dad is not very bright and went to a public school where they would regularly beat up teachers. He read the prince in HS

[Garloid @Carloid1020]

@Shiftant @Prot7777 Source: I made it up

[Alain Astruc @alainastruc]

I think I finally understand what is wrong with Nolan: his universe is adverse to myth. It is made entirely of causality, and causality alone.

He may be the most gifted filmmaker working in big-budget Hollywood today. But he is going to crash on myth the way sailors crashed on the rocks below the Sirens.

When I criticized the teaser, I was told: wait for the trailer. When I criticized the trailer, I was told: wait for the film. Then I read the two-hour interview Nolan gave to Time Magazine, and something clicked.

The tell is in a detail Nolan offers with obvious pride. He found a solution to what he saw as a narrative problem: why would the Trojans believe the horse was empty and drag it inside their city? His answer is to make the horse half-submerged, sinking into the sea, so the Trojans would rescue it rather than accept it as a gift.

It is a solution to a problem that never was one because it is a myth. The Trojans bring the horse inside because it is a gift and it has wheels. The poet tells you something plainly impossible with the same tone he uses to describe the sunrise, and in doing so he is signaling that the level of reality goes beyond mere causality and exists on other levels.

He is the kind of guy who would explain that Santa can fit through the chimney because he designed it wide enough from the start, using proper construction methods and reliable materials. And then explain how the reindeer are fed to sustain that much effort in a single night, and how Santa elaborated a clever logistics route to deliver all the gifts on time.

Watch him justify the armor despite its fantastical look, or explain the absence of orchestra because there was no orchestra in Ancient Greece. There were no IMAX cameras either, Christopher. A simple authorial act would have sufficed: because I like it better that way. That honesty might have opened a door out of causality.

This narrative prison is precisely why people eventually seek out avant-garde and experimental cinema, why they feel something release when causality finally breaks. Because causality is already the weight of our ordinary lives.

As long as Nolan stayed away from myth, his causal world of mirrors and clever tricks and puzzles worked beautifully, sometimes brilliantly. But this is something else. This is the gut of myth. This is the Dionysian spirit of mud and blood and the salt of the sea. This is the beautiful lie that makes you erupt with sacred joy.

[Garloid @Carloid1020]

@WASPmexicano Mom grew up in the restaurant business, bachelors in accounting, do basic stuff for small businesses, etc. The amount of laborers whose retirement plan is a small business is insane. Also people think paperwork and organizing shit is optional for some reason.

[Garloid @Carloid1020]

@CTrefugees Catholics are starving for a futurist. Dont start hating just cause Teilhard was the first one to fill that role.

[Garloid @Carloid1020]

@vogon_laureate amlo

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@El_Xico99 @The__Solstice Real ones know the “uncivilized” nomadic indios are taller and better looking.

[Garloid @Carloid1020]

@CTrefugees @OutlawKitsune nah its peak

[Garloid @Carloid1020]

@OpenNoteGrapple If Islam Mackhachev wouldnt do it, you shouldnt either. That arm bar was energy that could have been spent elsewhere.

[Open Note Grappling 📝 @OpenNoteGrapple]

ilia going for submissions in R2 is going to be remembered as a historically bad decision making

[Garloid @Carloid1020]

Crispus attucks was one of the first people to die for the revolution.

[J🧟‍♂️🖤 @zombiemanjay]

Black man saying “WE” when talking about America fighting for its independence like we were included in that freedom….

[Garloid @Carloid1020]

@bravado8513 @Anon__anon5 @apoliticalkosmo no lmao