Läzuli: What over? I know there's been some bitter arguments about the site on the TVT forums, but I had no idea it had spread. I guess about the "porn is now evil and we don't want it" thing.
Actually it was mostly totally unrelated to the picture at hand. The 4koma in question lead to discussion of Lets Plays, which lead to discussion of DeceasedCrab, who is known to vigorously ban anyone who makes so much as a passing mention of the site.
While interviewing Umberto Eco in a 2008 issue of The Paris Review, Lila Azam Zanganeh characterized The Da Vinci Code as "a bizarre little offshoot" of Eco's novel, Foucault’s Pendulum. In response, Eco remarked, "Dan Brown is a character from Foucault’s Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters’ fascinations—the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist."
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
Jack Chick is totally awesome but I really don't care for how he and the rest of the Christian movement stopped thinking rationally in terms of magic and demon invasions the latter half of the 20th century
I posted this on FB the other day after running across it in my old Bible dictionary:
"[The Scriptures] afford no evidence that man can gain supernatural powers to use at his will. This consequence goes some way toward showing that we may conclude that there is no such thing as real magic." Dr. William Smith, Christian minister and author of The Bible Dictionary, 1884
They were thinking this way in 1884, I wonder what happened. I blame TV
Jack Chick is totally awesome but I really don't care for how he and the rest of the Christian movement stopped thinking rationally in terms of magic and demon invasions the latter half of the 20th century
Roger Ebert described it (The Da Vinci Code) as a "potboiler written with little grace and style," although he did say it did "supply an intriguing plot."[22] In his review of the film National Treasure, whose plot also involves ancient conspiracies and treasure hunts, he wrote: "I should read a potboiler like The Da Vinci Code every once in a while, just to remind myself that life is too short to read books like The Da Vinci Code."[23]
He touches on that point in the entry, and basically states that the witch of Endor was no different than the table-tippers and cold-readers of today, which is why she was scared shitless whenever Samuel actually showed up
Jack Chick is totally awesome but I really don't care for how he and the rest of the Christian movement stopped thinking rationally in terms of magic and demon invasions the latter half of the 20th century
Didn't that start in like the 20s?
It could be a side effect from all that spiritualism and rosucrucian crap that was en vogue at the time
I'm trying to process the level of cognitive dissonance required to believe humans are mostly irrational assholes and then get surprised when another human disagrees with an argument they consider rational and is aggressive about it.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
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Rutabagas.
ANON
What is air?
Just GOOGLE it, you dumb bitch.
/tumblrchan
I forgot, I need to look at more of his stuff
hooray!
In response, Eco remarked, "Dan Brown is a character from Foucault’s
Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters’ fascinations—the
world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the
Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is
connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist."
....
hooray!
oO
Thats too crazy to be real.
The Seabreacher is the orca cyborg / submarine / speedboat you’ve been saving up for
I'm trying to process the level of cognitive dissonance required to believe humans are mostly irrational assholes and then get surprised when another human disagrees with an argument they consider rational and is aggressive about it.
HERE COME DE JUDGE! HERE COME DE JUDGE!
HAW HAW