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xirax

Top 10 movies, revision 5

Oct 04, 2009 20:21

Seriously, what can you do after this? This should have been a series finale or something.

Amelie
Whisper of the Heart
Fight Club
Run Lola Run
Sin City
Love Actually
House Season 6 Episode 1
Pulp Fiction
The Prestige
Hairspray

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Comments 6

Seriously anonymous October 5 2009, 06:35:12 UTC

The first thing I said after I watched that episode was that it was good enough to be a stand-alone movie; and a great movie at that.

anonymous October 5 2009, 15:55:27 UTC

1. Someone doesn't need to be just like you for you to respect them. If you only respect people "very much like" yourself, the only person you will respect will be the narcissistic, egocentric man in the mirror. What you really want is someone with MORE intelligence and MORE experience than you. THAT is what Nolan will have that you will want and respect ( ... )

xirax October 5 2009, 18:22:16 UTC

1. Perhaps. By "respect" here I mean I can associate with them -- put myself in their shoes.
2. No. Let me be patronizing here and say that what you're born into has at least as much or more influence as decisions that you call your own. They are your own, but they are based on what you've been taught.

I choose to remain a member for the same reason that converts choose to become a member: it makes us happy
I know what I need to be happy. It's not that...at least not directly that. I am perfectly fine without a "foundation to build life on" -- I've been without one for 25 years. I have a good enough moral basis without promises of rewards/punishment in the afterlife.

I don't need someone to teach me Mormonism. I need someone to tell me why I want to learn it by telling me why they went over to it.

mentorship of some hypothetical father-figure?
I am not looking for a father-figure either, more of a brother-figure.

anonymous October 5 2009, 23:31:52 UTC

I can't argue about who you'd personally respect. You seem to have an incredibly narrow set of requirements for who you respect, though, to the point of excluding everyone but yourself. Just my outside view, though ( ... )

xirax October 6 2009, 00:29:58 UTC

You seem to have an incredibly narrow set of requirements for who you respect
I've used a wrong word there. It's more of whom I feel I resonate with. I don't consider people that are different from me stupid, but the causes that drive their actions are less likely to drive mine because they are different from me.

My point is that you don't know how much weight I personally give (consciously or subconsciously) my birth environment when I make decisions.
I don't know about you personally, but I am pretty sure statistically a person is way more likely to follow their parents. How do you know you can claim that your decisions are your own, whatever that means, as opposed to be subconsciously instilled by your environment? I can't. I am not religious because I was raised that way. I don't see why that's wrong though.

Another person might not think twice about the fact that they were born in poverty, go on to corner the oil market in the United States, and become the richest man in the history of the world.How many people born in poverty ( ... )

anonymous October 6 2009, 03:50:59 UTC

An all-mighty entity that creates a "Son" and gives him a human form, and has a human form itself, and for some reason chooses some people to be prophets, and cares for people believing in itself makes no sense to me, sorry. WHY would it do all that???

[Emporer Cuzco's Voice]Well, ANYTHING sounds bad when you say it with THAT tone of voice.[/Emporer Cuzco's Voice]

Come on. You're trying to make sense of an enormous field that you've only dabbled your toes in? That doesn't work with any other field, and it doesn't work with religion.