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You know what really grinds my gears?: The moaning thread.
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(August 27, 2014 at 9:42 am)Losty Wrote: I haven't done this since I was a teenager, but I think the very best way to watch a scary movie is with someone who isn't scared (especially if they're the nice kind who won't scare you bc they think it's funny). Just get under their arm in kind of a ball with your face against their side. Then you just turn into them and hide for every scary part. Yes that's definitely the best way. Losty you are ADORABLE.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<--- (August 27, 2014 at 9:42 am)Losty Wrote: I haven't done this since I was a teenager, but I think the very best way to watch a scary movie is with someone who isn't scared (especially if they're the nice kind who won't scare you bc they think it's funny). Just get under their arm in kind of a ball with your face against their side. Then you just turn into them and hide for every scary part. Yes that's definitely the best way.When I was a child, my dad would let me watch scary movies and TV shows late at night, mostly to piss off my mom. He would boast to people how I could remain calm through the scariest parts of any movie or show. I never told him, but I wasn't calm... I was still. As in petrified. But I loved it. I don't see the point in watching a scary film if you don't get scared. But I was never the type to scream and cover my eyes. I might get startled and laugh nervously after a particularly effective scare, but I don't panic. So I guess we could watch scary movies together. But if you pressed your face against me it would feel like you were getting a massage due to the shaking and shivering.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould RE: You know what really grinds my gears?: The moaning thread.
August 28, 2014 at 7:57 am
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2014 at 8:00 am by Losty.)
(August 28, 2014 at 3:00 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Losty you are ADORABLE. Does this mean you would watch a scary movie with me? (August 28, 2014 at 5:50 am)Tonus Wrote: When I was a child, my dad would let me watch scary movies and TV shows late at night, mostly to piss off my mom. He would boast to people how I could remain calm through the scariest parts of any movie or show. I never told him, but I wasn't calm... I was still. As in petrified. But I loved it. Well, I guess you can be scared too hehe. Try not to jump too much (because that tends to scare me) and don't forget to tighten your grip when you can tell I'm really scared. So what will we watch? (August 28, 2014 at 7:57 am)Losty Wrote: So what will we watch?Let's start with something mild, like The Exorcist. True Story: I didn't watch the full, uncut film until a couple of years ago. I can remember seeing parts of it on commercial TV as a teenager and being scared witless. But I have to admit that seeing it so many years later was something of a downer. It was a landmark film for its time, and still considered one of the scariest movies ever, but I don't think it has aged very well. Or maybe I have. I was impressed at how they managed to make it with what seems to have been a pretty tight effects budget (most of which I assume went towards the make-up). And at least it doesn't have any of those (now seriously over-used) scenes where a character is dragged off by an invisible force. (this is my attempt to stay on-topic)
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
I haven't seen it. Hopefully it's not too scary.
And yea I totally forgot this thread is not the "talk about scary movies" thread. (August 28, 2014 at 8:46 am)Tonus Wrote:(August 28, 2014 at 7:57 am)Losty Wrote: So what will we watch?Let's start with something mild, like The Exorcist. Yes, that was a pretty scary film at the time. I've never felt the need to watch it again, tbh.
Here since I contributed to the hijacking of this thread, I will try to put it back on track by whining about my life.
No one even warned me that A) seven year old boys never stop eating, and B) taking on 2 extra kids would make me feel like I don't like kids anymore. Ahhh
Back to whining:
damn this West Nile fever crap. Over 3 weeks into this, and I still get instantly tired if I exert myself, and then within minutes, I have soaked my clothes in sweat. Yuck!! If I try to push myself I get shaky and dizzy. I'm clearing my calendar a week at a time, but this semi-invalid way of living is annoying. I have stuff I HAVE to get done, dammit !!
When a driver is too slow getting into the intersection. Missed two lights in a row today because people don't know what it means to accelerate....not to mention the asshole who did not move when people were stuck in the intersection behind him. One of these days, I want to be right behind one of those jerks and shove them forward with my car.
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
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