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  • kill living beings
    look, the point is it's not the friggin bible, it's a kid's book. if some kid can enjoy it more imagining the chosen one looking like them it's pretty ridiculously stodgy to go "uhhhhh hello you can see in chapter 9, verse 3 that you're wrong"
  • if jesus can be a white guy harry potter can be a brown guy

    even-stevens
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    I am reminded of Blaise Zabini.

    He was a throwaway Slytherine character who was imagined as a girl and a possible romance for Draco, but then he was confirmed to be a guy.

    He was then re-imagined as a pale bishie Italian, until it was confirmed in a later book that he was a handsome black guy.

    Much kerfluffles were had.
  • naney said:

    if jesus can be a white guy harry potter can be a brown guy

    even-stevens

    TBF, white people aren't exclusive in making that mistake. The Chinese do that a fair bit too.
  • kill living beings
    probably due to white missionaries?
  • Don't tell me you've never heard of red-haired, green-eyed, pale Indians

    Genghis Khan was stated in some accounts to be red-haired.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Let me tell you about Jesus's brother, Isukiri
  • probably due to white missionaries?

    As in, they depict Jesus as Chinese.

  • some of the pharaohs had red hair

    cant remember which ones tho

    they were not white tho obvs
  • edited 2015-05-24 17:59:13
    Panurge said:

    Let me tell you about Jesus's brother, Isukiri

    Hong Xiuquan?
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    some of the pharaohs had red hair

    cant remember which ones tho

    they were not white tho obvs
    yami_yugi.jpg
  • kill living beings
    Acererak said:

    probably due to white missionaries?

    As in, they depict Jesus as Chinese.

    o
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    that's a common thing for the Buddha, too, isn't it, to make him look like a local?
  • TUMUT CREW REPRESENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tumut
    naney said:

    if jesus can be a white guy harry potter can be a brown guy

    even-stevens


  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    The important thing is that anyone can be the Buddha, so it's important to show that everyone is.

    Also, I think native Indian Buddhist strains disappeared a while back.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    stormingtheivory.tumblr.com/post/119812007935/particularscarf-you-know-one-thing-i-really#notes

    In which Tumblr is wowed by the moral conclusion literally every episode of CSI, Law And Order, and Criminal Minds has taken
  • how much do nerds watch those shows though

    other than GMH and L&O
  • edited 2015-05-25 02:12:11
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Because GOD FORBID our increasing knowledge of psychology and sociology shake us out of our belief in Caveman Morality
  • Unsurprising reaction, considering that villains like Anakin or Sephiroth tend to get romanticized on Tumblr.

    I mean, it's not like the narrative justifies THEIR actions, or even fails to condemn them. It's just that Daredevil came out later, when they were old enough to act smart instead of side with the bad guys.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    This made up story about a blind ninja who punches gangsters taught me how human beings and morality function
  • There's an interesting post going around about how people who try and justify the villain's actions were often vilified themselves in their lives, and chose the wrong people to identify with as a result.

    Real villains don't identify with fictional ones, they think they're the hero. :/
  • villains look cooler and often have sharp teeth
  • I AM THE GREAT TRAITOR. THERE MUST BE NO OTHER. ANYONE WHO EVEN THINKS ABOUT DESERTING THIS MISSION WILL BE CUT UP INTO 198 PIECES. THOSE PIECES WILL BE STAMPED ON UNTIL WHAT IS LEFT CAN BE USED ONLY TO PAINT WALLS. WHOEVER TAKES ONE GRAIN OF CORN OR ONE DROP OF WATER MORE THAN HIS RATION, WILL BE LOCKED UP FOR 155 YEARS. IF I, AGUIRRE, WANT THE BIRDS TO DROP DEAD FROM THE TREES THEN THE BIRDS WILL DROP DEAD FROM THE TREES. I AM THE WRATH OF GOD. THE EARTH I PASS WILL SEE ME AND TREMBLE. BUT WHOEVER FOLLOWS ME AND THE RIVER, WILL WIN UNTOLD RICHES. BUT WHOEVER DESERTS...
  • naney said:

    villains look cooler and often have sharp teeth

    That on the other hand is a reasonable reason to like villains.
  • Panurge said:

    This made up story about a blind ninja who punches gangsters taught me how human beings and morality function

    fun fact: if you write out the plot of any story in the stupidest way possible it will sound stupid.

    DAE remember le magical zombie rabbi that christians believe in xD
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    I just mean that establishing beliefs about how the real world works from fiction is a bit silly in the best of cases
  • naney said:

    Panurge said:

    This made up story about a blind ninja who punches gangsters taught me how human beings and morality function

    fun fact: if you write out the plot of any story in the stupidest way possible it will sound stupid.

    DAE remember le magical zombie rabbi that christians believe in xD
    tbh I think describing Jesus as a magical zombie rabbi makes him sound much cooler.

    Like some kind of Jewish Lich.
  • Panurge said:

    I just mean that establishing beliefs about how the real world works from fiction is a bit silly in the best of cases

    dude everyone experiences the real world in ways influenced by the stories they read and learn and grew up with and stuff

    like, one of the most beautiful things about fiction is how it can help you understand new things and develop new perspectives on the world we live in
  • naney said:

    Panurge said:

    I just mean that establishing beliefs about how the real world works from fiction is a bit silly in the best of cases

    dude everyone experiences the real world in ways influenced by the stories they read and learn and grew up with and stuff

    like, one of the most beautiful things about fiction is how it can help you understand new things and develop new perspectives on the world we live in
    yeah but there's a gap between that and claiming you can divine someone's childhood from what Avengers characters they like.
  • edited 2015-05-25 02:43:39

    maybe i misread the thing odradek posted but i dont recall that post saying anything like that at all
  • naney said:

    Panurge said:

    I just mean that establishing beliefs about how the real world works from fiction is a bit silly in the best of cases

    dude everyone experiences the real world in ways influenced by the stories they read and learn and grew up with and stuff

    like, one of the most beautiful things about fiction is how it can help you understand new things and develop new perspectives on the world we live in
    yeah but there's a gap between that and claiming you can divine someone's childhood from what Avengers characters they like.
    That's not what's being said here, though?
  • why are i and o so close together

    i hate phone typing
  • Acererak said:

    naney said:

    Panurge said:

    I just mean that establishing beliefs about how the real world works from fiction is a bit silly in the best of cases

    dude everyone experiences the real world in ways influenced by the stories they read and learn and grew up with and stuff

    like, one of the most beautiful things about fiction is how it can help you understand new things and develop new perspectives on the world we live in
    yeah but there's a gap between that and claiming you can divine someone's childhood from what Avengers characters they like.
    That's not what's being said here, though?
    I mean not literally but that's mostly what I'm getting out of this
    Acererak said:

    There's an interesting post going around about how people who try and justify the villain's actions were often vilified themselves in their lives, and chose the wrong people to identify with as a result.

    Real villains don't identify with fictional ones, they think they're the hero. :/


  • o

    that is p dumb
  • Ah. Well that's someone else's post and based on someone else's experiences, so I can't really justify it. I'll try to look for it when I'm free.
  • kill living beings
    that episode of daredevil was pretty good, though

    i can't compare it to CSI et al as i have not seen them
  • naney said:

    Panurge said:

    This made up story about a blind ninja who punches gangsters taught me how human beings and morality function

    fun fact: if you write out the plot of any story in the stupidest way possible it will sound stupid.

    DAE remember le magical zombie rabbi that christians believe in xD
    tbh I think describing Jesus as a magical zombie rabbi makes him sound much cooler.

    Like some kind of Jewish Lich.
    There are never any good liches, are there?
  • all my fave D&D characters were necromancers

    idk i just found them fun
  • There is little that is not fun about raising the dead.

    More games need to follow Diablo II's example when it comes to necromancers.
  • oh except for one, who was a shark lady pirate captain who wasn't actually a pirate captain, she just tricked people into thinking she was for the purposes of her elaborate con-schemes

    she's like my fave character i've ever come up with period
  • I came up with a necromancer who took to the profession so that his countrymen wouldn't have to die when invaders came around. Which I may have stolen from Mardek III

    There are a surprising number of uses for the undead that aren't evil, even if all the undead can do is fight.
  • I have a chracter like your shark lady, but I can't talk about him because I still plan on using him and that might happen on this very site.
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    18:29:47< Myrdradek> I am so tired of nerdhate
  • naney said:

    Panurge said:

    This made up story about a blind ninja who punches gangsters taught me how human beings and morality function

    fun fact: if you write out the plot of any story in the stupidest way possible it will sound stupid.

    DAE remember le magical zombie rabbi that christians believe in xD
    tbh I think describing Jesus as a magical zombie rabbi makes him sound much cooler.

    Like some kind of Jewish Lich.
    There are never any good liches, are there?
    There are in Eberron.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Well my problem is not so much with Daredevil, which I've heard is good, so much as this particular point being held up as particularly novel or brave.
  • Yeah, it's something pretty much every show I've seen does.
  • Panurge said:

    Well my problem is not so much with Daredevil, which I've heard is good, so much as this particular point being held up as particularly novel or brave.

    There are worse things in the world than excessive (but not unearned) credit. These people don't know much about writing and misguided or not it's nice seeing an attempt to engage with it.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Not really.
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