(Okay, fine. If I am to remain TVTropes bitch, I can at least get work done on the side.)
Ah, thanks for the Wiki save, jae hoon. I could have verified myself, but I don’t like people staring at me–and yet I have giant painting of a staring, cycloptic abstract eye in my room across from my bed–and I was just being lazy.
Good to know my memory isn’t horrible as I keep thinking it is.
Wow, my respect for Anne Rice just grew three sizes today.
Well she also said she does not think Stephanie Meyer is a bad author and said she might have wrote Twilight if she was in her shoes or something to that effect. Basically trying to be polite while saying her shit sucks at the same time. Also Anne Rice is a hardcore Christian now.
(In the same vein of Bards, fuck Summoners. No Yuna.)
Sigh, you quoted my imperfect version. Damn it. I need to proofread more diligently.
Oh, I’ve known that for a while, hence why my respect for her didn’t increase more. That said, even saying that she doesn’t think Stephanie Meyer is necessarily a bad author, Rice still has my respect for saying that she would have never written her most popular book if she had known it would lead to trash like Twilight becoming popular.
Being genuinely polite while kicking someone’s ass doesn’t mean that said person’s ass didn’t still get kicked.
Steven King said it best when he said something to the effect that my 4 year old son could write a better book. Granted King is pretty much half assing it now but even his worst books are better then Twilight. Dreamcatcher was an amazing book imo, one of the few books I have read more then once. Also I never proofread my shit so you have me beat. I just started proofreading like 2 days ago, when I realized how bad my spelling and punctuation have got. My punctuation is still awful though, pretty sure I need to use some semicolons were I put commas. I don’t remember any of that anymore.
I thought Rice had jumped back off the Christian bandwagon. She said it was hypocritical and couldn’t take it or something to that effect. Well, maybe not being a Christian, but organized religion.
On July 29, 2010, Rice publicly renounced her dedication to Christianity on her Facebook page:
[INDENT=1]“For those who care, and I understand if you don’t: Today I quit being a Christian. I’m out. I remain committed to Christ as always but not to being “Christian” or to being part of Christianity. It’s simply impossible for me to “belong” to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten years, I’ve tried. I’ve failed. I’m an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.”[61][/INDENT]
A few hours later she clarified her motives:
[INDENT=1]“In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.”[61][/INDENT]
She reaffirmed her faith in Christ with a stance of non-adherence to organized Christianity an hour or so later:
[INDENT=1]“My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn’t understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.”[62][/INDENT]
Subsequently, in an interview, Rice further clarified her statements:
[INDENT=1]“My commitment to Christ remains at the heart and center of my life. Transformation in Him is radical and ongoing. That I feel now that I am called to be an outsider for Him, to step away from the words, “Christian” and “Christianity” is something that my conscience demands of me. I feel that my faith in Him demands this of me. I know of no other way to express how I must remove myself from those things which seek to separate me from Him.”[63][/INDENT]
[INDENT=1] [/INDENT]
[INDENT=1]I have to be honest and most people on here know I was a Christian for years before I became Agnostic.(Which is what I currently am, even if people do think it is a cop out). I pretty much thought what she did. I never understood why there were so many different denominations and why they seemed to look down on anyone who did not believe what they did. It pretty much went completely against what they taught which was treat everyone with respect even if they do not believe what you do. Let you who be without sin cast the first stone. It is one of the things that really turned me off from it in the first place. Although the treating people like shit goes beyond religion and into everyday people. Atheist treat people just as shitty if they do not believe exactly how they do. I better stop before I start ranting, which I have a tendency to do.[/INDENT]
fucking biggest piece of shit on the front page (imo), mostly because i rep big dudes in games which contain big dudes and that fucking video … UGH.
ENERGY! SCIENCE! ELECTROLYTES! SCIENCE!!
fucking lame.
Because as soon as it was written down, things were open to interpretation. Once a book is written, discussion ends up at all the different things it says, does or tries to do because it is almost impossible to hammer any one piece of literature to one meaning.
I think this is why the Native American religions go so damn hard. They didn’t write shit down; no time to argue; they also take their religions seriously (to varying degrees based depending on the tribes).
Angelpalm hella trolling people by saying FlameMammoth goes hard. That guy is the definition of Black Knight; he was already left battered and brused but he keeps on trying to fight.
So with the “Big Three” Metallica albums (Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, …And Justice for All) they all follow a very specific formula. They being with with an soft intro heavy first song (Fight Fire with Fire, Battery, Blackened) which then follows into a long title track (Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, …And Justice for All.) Also on Track 4 for each album we have the “Ballad where we utilize the second fret of A string and 4th fret of the B string” (Fade to Black, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), One). The last part of this formula is having the penultimate song being an instrumental (Call of Ktulu, Orion, To Live is to Die.) Of coure the one disparity in this formula is the fact that Call of Ktulu is actually the last track on ‘Ride the Lightning’ which we can just chalk up to a freshman mistake.
I <3 you boel.
I am black and what is this?
the only metallica that matters.
This.
Cryoh for once not going Tom Dubois on us and showing his blackness.
It’s all about Load and ReLoad. Then St. Anger.
I typed this with a straight face.
I also typed that with a straight face.
Midway through previous sentence is where I lost it.
Black Album is their best album, sorry Mr Boel. I knew St Anger was going to be awful when I kept hearing what sounded like someone saying “They flush it out” in the actual song St Anger.
What…why…
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^ cool…
disney does own the rights…
wtf I thought I had libgtk installed when I went through all that bs to install DBus and ORBit and all that shit to compile and install gConf. Apparently I don’t, and can’t compile and update some stuff. Shit doing this on purpose.
Maxx that basically just said an artist working for Marvel illustrates it, which you know artists get around and such.
Fables is a book using public domain characters In a semi-interesting way. I could legally make a comic using the same characters and have them in gangs roaming a fairy tale hood and call it “Dat Fablez”
Just a stupid thing to argue about.