If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.
I bet you're all wondering where I've been. Well, I'll tell you where. I've been in the living room playing videogames (I've played Disgaea for over 40 hours this week); and no, I'm not at all ashamed to admit it.
Playing videogames, however, is not the only thing that I've been doing. My more intelligent readers will have already picked up on the fact that since I've only played Disgaea for (roughly) 40 hours, and that there have been more than 40 hours between today and my last update, I must have been doing other things besides leveling up the axe-wielding warrior that I named Kevin Sorbo.
Among the things that have kept me occupied between Biggie-sized #3's from Wendy's is watching movies. I particularly enjoyed The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; however, I was very upset when that blonde chick mispronounced Friedrich Nietzsche's name. As Kevin "Ug" Lee from Salute Your Shorts would say, "Get it right or pay the price."
But I'm not going to lie to you; I didn't quite understand everything that was going on in that movie (Yes; as arrogant as I can sometimes be, I'm still able to admit to the fact that there are some things that go over my head). Anyway, I decided to go to some websites and do some research on the movie, so that I could get a better grasp of the ideas that it was trying to convey -- besides the whole "it's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all" thing. That was pretty straight-forward.
During this search, however, I encountered a website that basically told parents whether or not this movie was suitable for their children -- it had a bunch of different sections breaking down all the bad things in the movie that children shouldn't be exposed to. And in one of these sections (the one that counted up all the swear words), the movie was condemned for misusing the names "Jesus" and "Christ" 15 different times.
Needless to say, this immediately put me in a bad mood. The number of swear words in a movie directly affects its rating; and if people are generally counting the misuse of Jesus' name as a swear, then that means that the number of times Jesus isn't shown respect also has a direct effect on a movie's rating.
...
What's that? You're Jewish and you don't worship Jesus Christ as your lord and savior, so the fact that someone misused his name doesn't offend you? Tough shit. The bunch of Klan members we have rating movies nowadays are pissed off because the Divine Gay Basher wasn't treated the way they feel he should have been.
But I digress.
The worst thing about it is that kids can't legally get into movies with certain ratings unless they're a certain age, so that means kids can only be exposed to positive images of Jesus -- they can't see him denounced until they're "old enough."
Mmmm... sweet, sweet indoctrination.
Good-bye, critical thought; hello, glorification of weakness.
Playing videogames, however, is not the only thing that I've been doing. My more intelligent readers will have already picked up on the fact that since I've only played Disgaea for (roughly) 40 hours, and that there have been more than 40 hours between today and my last update, I must have been doing other things besides leveling up the axe-wielding warrior that I named Kevin Sorbo.
Among the things that have kept me occupied between Biggie-sized #3's from Wendy's is watching movies. I particularly enjoyed The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; however, I was very upset when that blonde chick mispronounced Friedrich Nietzsche's name. As Kevin "Ug" Lee from Salute Your Shorts would say, "Get it right or pay the price."
But I'm not going to lie to you; I didn't quite understand everything that was going on in that movie (Yes; as arrogant as I can sometimes be, I'm still able to admit to the fact that there are some things that go over my head). Anyway, I decided to go to some websites and do some research on the movie, so that I could get a better grasp of the ideas that it was trying to convey -- besides the whole "it's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all" thing. That was pretty straight-forward.
During this search, however, I encountered a website that basically told parents whether or not this movie was suitable for their children -- it had a bunch of different sections breaking down all the bad things in the movie that children shouldn't be exposed to. And in one of these sections (the one that counted up all the swear words), the movie was condemned for misusing the names "Jesus" and "Christ" 15 different times.
Needless to say, this immediately put me in a bad mood. The number of swear words in a movie directly affects its rating; and if people are generally counting the misuse of Jesus' name as a swear, then that means that the number of times Jesus isn't shown respect also has a direct effect on a movie's rating.
...
What's that? You're Jewish and you don't worship Jesus Christ as your lord and savior, so the fact that someone misused his name doesn't offend you? Tough shit. The bunch of Klan members we have rating movies nowadays are pissed off because the Divine Gay Basher wasn't treated the way they feel he should have been.
But I digress.
The worst thing about it is that kids can't legally get into movies with certain ratings unless they're a certain age, so that means kids can only be exposed to positive images of Jesus -- they can't see him denounced until they're "old enough."
Mmmm... sweet, sweet indoctrination.
Good-bye, critical thought; hello, glorification of weakness.