Random Thoughts

[Fake Messiah]

There is no good war except for war on Christmas.

[Rev. Rye]

Since my list of Deep Hurting Project-eligible films for this month proved out of date last week, here's my attempt at amending it. Films sorted by genre, all movies are Tubi-exclusive unless otherwise noted:

Action:

• Dragonball: Evolution (Amazon)
  
• Fist of Fear, Touch of Death
  

Comedy:

• Best Night Ever
  
• InAPPropriate Comedy
  
• Joe Piscopo: A Night at Club Piscopo
  
• Surf School
  

Drama:

• Deadly Lessons
  
• Hangmen
  
• Pimp
  
• Singing Forest
  

Horror:

• Alice in Murderland
  
• Ants on a Plane
  
• Arachnicide
  
• Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (Pluto TV)
  
• Creepozoids
  
• Curse of Pirate Death
  
• Hobgoblins
  
• House of the Dead (Hulu)
  
• I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu
  
• Monster
  
• Shark Exorcist
  
• Snakes on a Train (Tubi/Pluto)
  
• Source (Tubi/Pluto)
  
• Tales from the Quadead Zone
  

Sci-Fi: 

• Game Therapy
  
• Rollerball 2002
  
• R.O.T.O.R.
  

Youth:

• Cry Wilderness
  
• Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House (Disney Plus)
  
• Home Sweet Home Alone (Disney Plus)
  
• Leo the Lion (Amazon Prime)
  
• Tentacolino
  
• Zoo Wars
  

So, it doesn't seem to have changed dramatically in the last two weeks, even if I did re-arrange some films into different genres. And since Action/Adventure has been whittled down to two films, I've decided to leave it up to The Empress. And she decided that next week will be Dragonball: Evolution. I haven't watched a single episode of the original show(s) and, fortunately for me, the movie's both so fundamentally broken and so utterly removed from any established canon that even knowing the series by heart won't help me.

[zwanzig]

Having a bit of an internal fight whenever I see anything about being grateful or needing to be grateful in the face of struggles and adversity. On one hand, I understand that gratitude can help you shift your perspective out of a depressive spiral. But I've also been in the situation where things are falling apart, everything is shit, and the advice "be grateful for the things that are not shit(inconsequential things or the basic necessities or dependable constants in my life, while the shit things are often huge and detrimental to the structure of my life)" makes me feel like I'm going crazy, like I don't have a right to feel genuinely upset about the things that are going wrong.

So, I understand the utility of your one-size fits all, petty feel good advice. But it makes me knee-jerk desire to comment that telling someone that their feeling bad about stuff that is difficult to deal with in their life means "you're not being grateful enough about the shit you have left" sounds extortive and abusive.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

‘Gratitude: an imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behaviour (altruism).’ - Robert Heinlein

Boru

[arewethereyet]

Migraine day 2 - Almost put a small bag of trash in the washing machine. Not a good day to do anything that requires much in the way of brain power.

[Silver]

The internet has made knowledge more accessible, but those uninterested in it will call it fake news.

[Angrboda]

You deserve to save.
I need you to hear me.
You.deserve.to.save.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

It's weird how white supremacists use the Bible to justify their racism, when there are no white people in the Bible.

Boru

[onlinebiker]

It's weird how white supremacists use the Bible to justify their racism, when there are no white people in the Bible.

Boru

What about Lot' s wife???

[The Valkyrie]

It's weird how white supremacists use the Bible to justify their racism, when there are no white people in the Bible.

Boru

What about Lot' s wife???

So, you're saying white supremacists are white and flakey?

I can see no fault with this logic.