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Friday, December 11, 2009 11:43 AM

STORYMARK


Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
I would rather be a neanderthal... than a coward.




Luckily for us, you've shown a capacity for both.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Friday, December 11, 2009 11:46 AM

STORYMARK


Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
"Red, YELLOW & blue, you goofball."

The original color scheme was red, white, and blue... trust me. Im a comic book nerd.



Got ANYTHING to back that with? Cuz' I can find nothing that supports it, and indeed the well-known first appearance of Superman features no white on his suit.



"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Friday, December 11, 2009 11:49 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg


Actually his logo was white, but there was a cross color error... its why his logo appeared yellow in that picture.


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Friday, December 11, 2009 11:54 AM

STORYMARK


Cite please? Otherwise I say BS.

Because there is plenty of white in that pic, so it wasn't a systemic error - and the logo is yellow in issue 2, and 3..... and for decades hence.

So, please, do you have ANYTHING other than your word?

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Friday, December 11, 2009 12:05 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Just to pop in; I watched some of a TV documentary on Superman, and the logo WAS yellow initially. Just to say.




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Friday, December 11, 2009 12:20 PM

STORYMARK


Yup, my understanding as well.

So, what's it gonna be Wulfie - gonna post some evidence, or admit you're full o' shite?

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Friday, December 11, 2009 12:24 PM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg


It was my understanding that the original had his front vest as white.. b/c it was meant to show his coloring as red, white and blue...


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Friday, December 11, 2009 12:26 PM

STORYMARK


So, no proof, then?

See, we both have "understandings", but mine comes with evidence.

So again - proof, or admission of wrongness? Whatcha got?

After all, you just claimed you weren't a coward.


(And.....vest???)

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Friday, December 11, 2009 12:27 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by Niki2:
Interesting: I've been mostly gone for a few days, too (new puppy!!), but didn't feel the need to announce my return.
Quote:

It takes a lot to smack people out of their slumber
Need that attention, do 'ya, Wulf? I guess negative is better than none for some...







OOOOH - NEW PUPPY!!

As of now, this thread is useless without pix! :)

Sorry, Niki, but I just loves me some puppies.

Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde

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Friday, December 11, 2009 12:32 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Silly me, here... sitting and thinking that a woman could fulfill the necessary requirements.

You call me a neanderthal.. so be it. But I prefer to think that women can be as strong as men... maybe not as physically strong.. but strong enough... to do whats right.




So you "prefer to think that women can be as strong as men", eh? And that comes AFTER your announcement that you were silly for thinking that any woman could fulfill your "necessary requirements", no less.

1) You're really not making yourself sound like you REALLY believe any woman could be your equal, and

2) You might wanna rethink how you talk about your "necessary requirements" that no woman can fill, because it comes off sounding like something completely different than what you probably intended. ;)

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Friday, December 11, 2009 12:34 PM

DREAMTROVE


Ack! Oversized images. Resize! Resize!

Thanks

Superman, Kal-El is Israeli, not American. He was always intended as a Judean messianic figure like Neo. No, I'm not making this up. Superman has nothing to do with Nietzsche, despite the name, nor is it about racial supremacy as his origin suggests, rather he represents the moral absolute of the hand of God, who brings good to the world through superior power, as the Christ warrior messiah always does. It's pretty common in our culture, particularly movies, television, if there are enough jewish people, there will be some religious nutjobs, just like any other religion.

(Christ is derivative of Krishna as it turns out, another warrior messiah figure, and a little piece of etymology than *no* religion involved would like.)

Kal-El means the Light of God.
Superman refers to Nietzsche's ideal of a culture in which people would be able to master everything

I always found the comic character Superman very disturbing, because he is such a Machiavellian force.

Lex Luthor is a not too subtle stab at protestants, Lois is better, and a Lane is a narrow path, derivative of hedgerows.

Oh, and the creators were religious nutjobs, like the creators of the matrix, and also messianic jews. As far as I know, they weren't knight of the british empire, nor did they worhip molech, but I'm sure someone will correct me on that.

Oh, and the red yellow and blue probably symbolize the availability of four color printing at the time, and nothing else.


ETA:

Mike, I think picking on Wulf just for the sake of picking on Wulf at this point is de trop, It's nothing personal, but Wulf does supply you with the weapon, the ammunition and the target.

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Friday, December 11, 2009 12:51 PM

STORYMARK


Wow, DT.... I was with ya until you got all Pirate Newsie.....

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Friday, December 11, 2009 12:52 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


I guess I'm kinda waiting for Wulf to figure out that if he insults peeps for no reason then he should be expect to be treated like a jerk.

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Friday, December 11, 2009 5:20 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Kal-El means the Light of God.



So that means Kal-El is Satan, aka Lucifer "The Light Bearer". :)

As for "picking on Wulfie", I simply point out where he's wrong. Is it MY fault that he's so wrong so often, and provides such a target-rich environment? ;)

Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde

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Friday, December 11, 2009 5:21 PM

DREAMTROVE


Story,

Nah, I wasn't guessing. The thing that people forget in all of this is that judaism is a religion, like christianity or islam, and as such, it has its fair share of nutjobs.

Matrix is very religious nutjob-y. It's just jewish nutjobs. The guys who created superman were also nutjobs.

Personally, I did find the whole thing machiavellian, and it disturbed me as a facet of our society that we worshiped this philosophy until I found out that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were religious nutjobs, and then it all made way too much sense.

Have you *read* any of the christian comics of the era? It's very much the same sort of thing. we're just too familiar with christian nutjobs, probably because its the dominant american religion.

I recall in 2000 not really taking seriously the idea that Joe Lieberman was a religious nutjob just because he wasn't a WASP. But that wasn't it at all. You can be a WASP religious nut job, and you can be a jewish religious nutjob, and Lieberman is the latter.

I suspect that Siegel and Shuster were unaware of the machiavellian aspect of superman because they were thinking of him as the hand of god; sorta like how the warshawski bros didn't realize that the matrix movies were starting to suck ;)

ETA:

And Story, fix the gorram image. It's forcing the page into four point type. I have to copy and paste to read the damn stuff.

Something that fits. Like this:

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Friday, December 11, 2009 5:36 PM

CHRISISALL


Quote:

Originally posted by dreamtrove:

Matrix is very religious nutjob-y. It's just jewish nutjobs. The guys who created superman were also nutjobs.


It's okay Dream, I post wacky stuff under the influence of Romulan Ale as well.



The laughing Chrisisall

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Friday, December 11, 2009 7:09 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Pic looks fine on a 13" MacBook - I see the full frame, no scrolling.

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Saturday, December 12, 2009 4:41 PM

DREAMTROVE


Chris,

lol


Mike,

That Macbook, does it fit in your pocket?
Just checking ;)

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Saturday, December 12, 2009 5:08 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


DT: Nope, it doesn't. Which is why there's the iPod Touch and the iPhone. ;)


Oh, they work as a handy Sirius/XM radio controller, GPS system, nav system, portable hard drive, storage for music/video/movies, etc., too.

But I guess I'll have to wait for Apple's netbook to see what all it might do...

I'm hoping for more "convergence" - more features, smaller size, lighter weight. Add a book reader and an HDMI output at a true 1080p - heck just put all that in a small unit like the Apple TV with a WiFi capability and BlueTooth, and have the little netbook itself just be the interface/display - all the REAL computing power and/or storage would be either offsite ("cloud" computing) or on the "drive unit" that would be the hub of the home infotainment system. Hell, how about an app that ties into your home's HVAC system so you can optimize your home efficiency while you're on the computer? And why stop there? Why not multiplex into the home wiring to turn lights on and off, etc., while you're not there, to create the appearance that someone IS there?

Just a few thoughts.

I hated netbooks at first; seemed like a way of getting you to pay more for far less. The more I think of them, though, the more I see them as the next step in convergence, in putting so much more of your life in your pocket. Your health info, your diet, your medical history... all of it could be in your hands, IN YOUR POCKET, when you hit the ER door. ;)

By the way, if your netbook fits in your pocket, you've got some REALLY big pockets! ;)

Sadly, I'm probably going to remain limited in the size of whatever device I carry with me, by the size of the keyboard. A 13" MacBook is about as small a keyboard as I can comfortably type on, and I'm useless on the tiny little QWERTY keyboards that come on most flipphones these days. My brain knows where "q" and semicolon are, and my pinkies know where they are, but my index fingers DON'T know where those characters are on the keyboard. As such, when I try to "type" on a tiny keypad, I lose massive amount of efficiency, and drop from 75wpm to more like 7.5 wpm. :)

So even with something relatively tiny, I'm going to want at least a foldable (or rollable?) keyboard to carry with me, so I can write on the fly.


Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde

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Sunday, December 13, 2009 8:30 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Quote:

Wow, DT.... I was with ya until you got all Pirate Newsie.....
Ditto. And I STRONGLY agree with downsizing the pic. Bad enuff when PN does it...




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Sunday, December 13, 2009 11:54 AM

DREAMTROVE


Mike

Interesting looking, but I can't read it. Could someone downsize the images?


Storymark,

That mean you ;)


Mike

Apple irritates me with their proprietary systems. Ipod touch is a fine piece of hardware. I don't want to put up with all their, well, you're well aware, I'm sure...

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Sunday, December 13, 2009 12:13 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Oh, I don't mind their proprietary systems, if it means that I can just plug-n-play, and know it will work. I am NOT tech-savvy; I have no desire whatsoever to build computers, nor to program them. I just want to USE the damn things, and when I want to use it, I want it to work. Mac systems have always done that for me.

I'm wireless now. I just hooked up the Airport Extreme base station and got it set up and now I'm on the back porch typing this, and it's 70 degrees and sunny outside.

I tried this last weekend with a NetGear wireless router. Spent five hours wrestling with it, trying to configure it, trying to get it to work. Called a buddy of mine, and he said it takes a Windozeâ„¢ machine to configure it to work with a Mac. Funny, the salesman at the store never mentioned that. And when I specifically TOLD him that I was currently using a 13" MacBook running OS-X 10.4.11 (yes, I even gave him the sub-release number!), he assured me that it would be fine. It wasn't fine. I took the sumbitch back and demanded my money back. And when they could tell that I was amping up and things were about to turn TRULY ugly, they immediately relented and gave me my full refund - which I applied toward the purchase of a refurbished Airport Extreme base station.

So now I'm happy, wireless, and working. And I can print wirelessly now, even on CDs and DVDs (if anyone remembers what those things were...). I can share my music from my iPod, or transfer it around. And if I do things just right, I'm told I can send music wirelessly from iPod to my home theatre speakers.

I'm sure I'm biased, because I've been on Macs since 1985, so they seem intuitive to me. I've got friends who rant about how cludgy the iTunes interface seems, and I had no idea what they were talking about, until one of them showed me how he was trying to download stuff in his iTunes account on his PC laptop - and it WAS clunky as hell. I told him he really should try it on my Mac, which he did. He now owns a MacBook Pro. It's funny - I've converted so many of my friends to Macs, and they all have much newer, much fancier systems than I do now, and I'm a li'l bit jealous, to be honest.

Heck, I'll be happy to upgrade to the new SnowLeopard OS in the next few months... And I may add a new iMac to the network, since more than one can be on at the same time now!

But I really wish Apple would come up with a netbook or something in a similar planform before long.

Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
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Sunday, December 13, 2009 12:27 PM

GINOBIFFARONI






Either your with the terrorists, or ... your with the terrorists


Lets party like its 1939

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Monday, December 14, 2009 9:22 AM

STORYMARK


So, waited several days, and it turns out I was right.

Wulfie doesn't even have a set big enough to admit a tiny mistake.

What a bitch.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Monday, December 14, 2009 9:26 AM

STORYMARK


Quote:

Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Story,

Nah, I wasn't guessing. The thing that people forget in all of this is that judaism is a religion, like christianity or islam, and as such, it has its fair share of nutjobs.

Matrix is very religious nutjob-y. It's just jewish nutjobs. The guys who created superman were also nutjobs.

Personally, I did find the whole thing machiavellian, and it disturbed me as a facet of our society that we worshiped this philosophy until I found out that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were religious nutjobs, and then it all made way too much sense.



I know they were jewish - it's your taking the leap from "they're Jewish" to "Religious nut-jobs trying to brainwash with their movies/comics" that takes you into PN-land.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Monday, December 14, 2009 9:28 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


I haven't been here that long, Mike, but personally I don't remember Wulf EVER apologizing or admitting he was wrong about anything. I don't think he cares, personally, I think once it's put up, unless he can post more of the same in the same thread, he goes on his merry way, having gotten the attention he so desires. I don't think admitting he's wrong is in his mindset, or that it WOULD be for anyone with his mentality.




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Monday, December 14, 2009 9:52 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg


Now what am I supposed to be admitting Im wrong to?

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Monday, December 14, 2009 10:16 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Now what am I supposed to be admitting Im wrong to?




Well, your Superman BS, for starters. :)

Seems you've been rather roundly trounced on that one, and offered NOTHING in the way of evidence to back up YOUR claims.

Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde

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Monday, December 14, 2009 11:18 AM

STORYMARK


But, but.... he had an understanding - why bother with proof?

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Monday, December 14, 2009 8:13 PM

DREAMTROVE


Story,

They admitted to creating Kal El as a messianic figure to lead the world in by example to their interpretation of the will of God. They then targeted this at the masses, particularly children. I don't call that conspiracy, but it's very safe to say that they're religious nutjobs.

It's safe to say that Joe Lieberman is a religious nutjob and Russ Feingold and Arlen Specter are not. It has nothing at all to do with their being jewish, but to do with their religion being the guiding force to their creation.

But also, that fact is just something that people should take into consideration. It doesn't discredit them.

After all, most people would agree that it is safe to say that Orson Scott Card and C.S. Lewis are religious nutjobs. Ain't going to stop most folk from reading Ender's Game or Narnia. In fact, I keep books by both of them by my bed. I don't believe in their religions, and I think they're both over the top at times...

Particularly I find Aslan an unbearable Jesus figure.


But people are making an awful lot of my snark at Wulf. I'm afraid that this makes PN's point for him: We are all programmed to defend jews at all costs.

Listen: My dad's entire extended family was killed in the holocaust, for being jews, it's not like I harbor ill will towards jews, in fact, that fact is part of the reason I support Israel, to a further extent than most people on the forum. I disagree with the govt. of israel all the time, but then, I probably disagree with the govt. of the US even more, and that doesn't make me anti-american.

The fact is, it's okay to point out when jewish extremists hit you over the head with their religion. Hell, we make fun of christians all the time. I think people make fun of muslims a little *too* much, but that's not because of any love of islam, but because it's not just tacky but dangerous to make fun of people your govt. is killing, because it's a step towards dehumanizing them.

But our govt. isn't killing jews, it's bending over backwards to protect them, and there are a number of influential jews in our govt. Our President is a muslim, whether he likes it or not, because you cannot be an ex-muslim, or an ex-catholic.

In particular, most of my relatives were killed in Kristallnacht, probably the biggest single "hate crime" of all time. If hate crimes were up for a vote and I'd vote them down. Crime is crime, no one needs special treatment. It wasn't more wrong when they killed my relatives than it was when they killed communists, even though I personally have serious problems with communists, and personal reasons. Everyone is people.

These people that we're talking about created a comic strip that hit people over the head with religious and social ideas of their creators. IMHO, that's just bad writing, but some people like Superman. I never did. I thought it was fascist and Machiavellian. It never bothered me much that it was messianic jewish proselytizing, but I thought that part was obvious, but it's also openly admitted to anyone who didn't catch the character's name.

But people read Narnia, and Harry Potter <-- if you want to talk religious nutjobs. JK Rowling herself said she wanted to target young non-christian children who were not interested in christ with the christian message by stealth means. She also knew how to make a buck doing it.

Harry Potter is still very enjoyable, regardless of what you think of the author or her methodology or beliefs.

Also, It's okay to make fun of people, esp. when they make themselves into targets:

Jewish and Christian targets:


With a muslim target:


Nuff said. But re: Superman, look it up, it's not a speculation. It's okay to like someone else's religious propaganda. We probably all liked Narnia, and we all knew it was religious propaganda at the time.

I never liked superman, but I liked the Matrix. They're different stories. I never care for stories in which the hero uses absolute might to win his point. In fact, it always bothers me, if Mal or Kirk wins a fist fight, and then a moral point. But not nearly as much as Picard using absurd military superiority to enforce an assumed moral superiority.

Starfleet is a socialist military dictatorship ruled by machiavellian principles in which everyone is a slave. Classic trek works because, inspite of this, our characters are chaotic frontiersmen who buck starfleet. Next generation, they are loyal fellow travelers who make me sick. Still, it was fun to watch.

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Monday, December 14, 2009 10:14 PM

FREMDFIRMA


Quote:

Originally posted by dreamtrove:
We probably all liked Narnia, and we all knew it was religious propaganda at the time.


I rather disliked it, especially and particularly cause of how the author nonsensically throws Edwards character under the bus for being a non-believer, it's a combination of two very bad tropes, Character Derailment and Anvilicious that just left me going WTF ?

I mean, like he couldn't find an actual *reason* or write something more believable cause he was so wrapped up in his own faith he couldn't even question it THAT far ?

I found Pullmans work much more enlightening and entertaining, and despite the railings of folk who practice beliefs they don't even truly understand, yanno what ?

The Archbishop of Canterbury agrees with me, about Pullman and just how bloody dangerous unquestioned dogma can be.

I've always seriously hated the hero myth as a form of population pacification, which is why I idolize trickers so much, cause they lead people to do the one thing they MUST, to question what they see, know and believe.

My take on it from even early childhood was always the same, don't wait for a hero, become one - and if no one will accept that, then become a villain!


-F

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 3:13 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

...I probably disagree with the govt. of the US even more, and that doesn't make me anti-american.


Well, it doesn't make you anti-American THIS year. ;)

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 4:48 AM

DREAMTROVE


Frem,

Okay, I mean, probably 'enjoyed..' I had similar issues with Narnia even as a kid. But still, you can enjoy the stories. My main problem with Narnia is the way it just co-opts countless well known tales like the Snow Queen and adds them to it's story, the fantasy is not thorough, and mostly borrowed, to cloak its christianity.

I've not read any Pullman, though my family dislikes him, which probably means I'd like him. ;)

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 6:49 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:
Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Now what am I supposed to be admitting Im wrong to?




Well, your Superman BS, for starters. :)

Seems you've been rather roundly trounced on that one, and offered NOTHING in the way of evidence to back up YOUR claims.

Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde




Bump for the Wulfman...

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:12 AM

STORYMARK


Quote:

Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Story,

They admitted to creating Kal El as a messianic figure to lead the world in by example to their interpretation of the will of God. They then targeted this at the masses, particularly children. I don't call that conspiracy, but it's very safe to say that they're religious nutjobs.





I disagree. Using one's background to influence their creation doesn't strike me as being a religious nut-job. I think leaping to that conclusion paints you as more of a nut job then them.


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I'm afraid that this makes PN's point for him: We are all programmed to defend jews at all costs.



When have I defended Jews "at all costs", I', of the "let Israel stand on it's own - not our problem" stance, so that claim is at best ill-informed, and just flat dishonest.

But, I do think it says a lot about you that any questioning of your instantly anti-Jew comments is seen as defending them at all costs.

You may have been offended at being compared to Pirate News.... but your actions have only strengthened my opinion that you and he are of the same cloth.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:46 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


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But people are making an awful lot of my snark at Wulf. I'm afraid that this makes PN's point for him: We are all programmed to defend jews at all costs.
Boy, I disagree with that one big time. PN's point is ridiculous in my opinion, and certainly doesn't have anything to do with me. I won't go on at length regarding how I feel about Israel's actions with regard to Palestine; suffice it to say I'm appalled and that I think our government's unquestioning backing of Israel is shameful. I'm certainly not programmed; if you mean that it APPEARS to make PN's point, that's one thing, but his point is ridiculous in my opinion...despite which I will admit that many people's sympathy with what the Jews have gone through leads them to make poor judgments and overlook things which should not be overlooked.

I agree with Story:
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Using one's background to influence their creation doesn't strike me as being a religious nut-job.
Religion, like politics, is something that elicits strong feelings in people. Especially where religion is concerned, people often create out of their feelings, have throughout history, and there's nothing wrong in that, as I see it. Most fables, a lot of art and writing, and a lot of how history comes down to us is a reflection of people's religions...that doesn't make it irrelevant (except maybe the history part, as it changes facts).

I personally see nothing wrong with fables and things like Narnia being reflections of religion; they reflect the CONCEPTS put forth by religions (not how they're practiced necessarily), and those concepts are honorable and valid. If people get the message of something like Narnia and it's a good message, I don't care where the heck it comes from or if it's inspired by religion. Are Michelangelo's paintings any less wonderful because they reflect his religion? (NOT making any comparison!) Would you call him a religious nutjob for having painted them? Is the fact that Superman gives children a concept of honor and right invalid because it was created by people of religion? Not in my opinion. Origins don't mean as much to me as what the creation inspires and has to say to those who experience it.

Military propaganda like "Top Gun" has good values to offer, but it IS propaganda because it's result is to make the military look like all good guys...that's dfferent. But Narnia doesn't prosletize religion, it portrays honor and fairness, shows the wrongness of abused power, incites sympathy for the underdog (or beaver). Those are good messages; I judge things by what they have to say, and enjoyment and production value.

Now THIS would probably be a "rant" ;o) While I have a lot of strong feelings of resentment against organized religion, these aren't two of them. I have no argument with religions, which almost universally encourage good values; and an equal disgust with organized religions that put power in the hands of humans and which prosletize.



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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 8:42 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_logo

I may have been wrong.

However, I do remember watching a series on T.V., talking about the evolution of the creation of Superman.


The whole "Truth, Justice, and the American way.." ect.

Again, I believe his original color scheme was meant to be Red, White and Blue... but according to the article, they changed the logo to yellow to mirror a police officers badge.

My mistake.

Jeeze...

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 8:44 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg


Also,

I too, am against organized religion if it has political power to affect others.

I see nothing wrong with the various religions int he world. Except that they attempt to convert.


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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:10 AM

STORYMARK


Quote:

Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_logo

I may have been wrong.

However, I do remember watching a series on T.V., talking about the evolution of the creation of Superman.


The whole "Truth, Justice, and the American way.." ect.

Again, I believe his original color scheme was meant to be Red, White and Blue... but according to the article, they changed the logo to yellow to mirror a police officers badge.

My mistake.

Jeeze...



Well, what do ya know - a bit of progress. Sure, it's qualified - and you all but say that your memory is more reliable than all the evidence to the contrary..... but at least you're big enough to admit you "might" be wrong.

Bravo.

Golf clap.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:10 AM

DREAMTROVE


Story,

Okay, dif. of opinion. I would call CS Lewis a religious nutjob, but I would disagree with Wulf, I think that's it's valid to use your religion in your art.

The term "nutjob" is so subjective that it's hard to get a clear definition.

I actually find JK Rowlings Christian subtext far more bothersome than that of CS Lewis or that of Siegel and Shuster. Actually this isn't what bothers me about Superman at all. I think that the Messianic judaism of Siegel and Shuster is pretty much above board in the same way that of the Wachowski Bros is.

Since, as I said, this is well traveled ground, even on this very forum. I was just snarking Wulf.

I would take the use of the word as more disturbing as it mutates from Nietzsche to Shaw, carried to its logical extreme here. Superman, as a character, is right because of his might, and that those views coincide with the views of the audience is happenstance, but like much fiction, they only coincide on a certain overt level.

Directly, Luthor will do something that will result in people dying, and we oppose people dying, but this is "kittening." Underlying each mission is some action that the writers are associating with "death" and the opposition to it with "life" which has little or nothing to do with religion, it's just a manipulative form of writing, and what really bugs me about the stories. Take any tragedy that Superman saves people from in any situation in any rendition of the story, and mentally flip the life/death element of the story: Would you still support Superman if in order to stop Luthor's idea, Superman would have to kill X number of people, rather than save?

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:12 AM

STORYMARK


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Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
Also,

I too, am against organized religion if it has political power to affect others.

I see nothing wrong with the various religions int he world. Except that they attempt to convert.




Hey, a topic where you and I are in total agreement.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:19 AM

STORYMARK


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Originally posted by dreamtrove:
Story,

Okay, dif. of opinion. I would call CS Lewis a religious nutjob, but I would disagree with Wulf, I think that's it's valid to use your religion in your art.

The term "nutjob" is so subjective that it's hard to get a clear definition.

I actually find JK Rowlings Christian subtext far more bothersome than that of CS Lewis or that of Siegel and Shuster. Actually this isn't what bothers me about Superman at all. I think that the Messianic judaism of Siegel and Shuster is pretty much above board in the same way that of the Wachowski Bros is.

Since, as I said, this is well traveled ground, even on this very forum. I was just snarking Wulf.

I would take the use of the word as more disturbing as it mutates from Nietzsche to Shaw, carried to its logical extreme here. Superman, as a character, is right because of his might, and that those views coincide with the views of the audience is happenstance, but like much fiction, they only coincide on a certain overt level.

Directly, Luthor will do something that will result in people dying, and we oppose people dying, but this is "kittening." Underlying each mission is some action that the writers are associating with "death" and the opposition to it with "life" which has little or nothing to do with religion, it's just a manipulative form of writing, and what really bugs me about the stories. Take any tragedy that Superman saves people from in any situation in any rendition of the story, and mentally flip the life/death element of the story: Would you still support Superman if in order to stop Luthor's idea, Superman would have to kill X number of people, rather than save?



I find Superman interesting mostly because of the messianic overtones. I think it was a great idea to use such a pulpy character to explore concepts that are so deeply rooted in many cultures. Sure, it's simplistic good/bad stuff - but there's a place for that, so I've no objections to it.

I don't know that I'd agree that his might makes right - sure, he's got the might, but his moral underpinning is very much rooted in his family (granted, I'm looking at the character's history as a whole, and not just the Schuster/Siegel original at this point), and to me, the best stories are the ones where his might isn't what's needed, and instead must address problems by other means.

And as to your last question - well, that depends on how well the story was told. I sure do like Watchmen though, and it basically comes down to the same premise.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 3:44 AM

DREAMTROVE


Story,

Interesting, and I agree particularly on the last point.

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 3:44 AM

DREAMTROVE


Story,

Interesting, and I agree particularly on the last point.

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