re: The Cabin in the Woods. TulaneLSU's 2011-12 movie review thread

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The difference between people like you and me is that when you enter a forest and you see a rock, you see nothing more than the material rock. I see its composition and a poem, a flood of ideas of wonder

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The difference between people like you and me is that when you enter a forest and you see a rock, you see nothing more than the material rock.

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I'm pretty sure I've seen more artistic films than you will ever see and I'm way more knowledgeable and more appreciative about films than you could ever imagine. Don't just assume I'm some ignoramus because I don't suck the Holy Cock and write shitty movie reviews.

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War Horse I do not often write jeremiads, warning that this generation's wickedness is so great that God's wrath will surely fall upon it. I do not romanticize the past, saying that the morality of ages past is superior to the wanton ways of contemporary nations. Caliginous, Cimmerian perspectives of the present ignore the evils of the past. They assume that somehow people are different today from what their ancestors were. At the same time, I am not drunk with the possibilities of progress and revolution. As Weil said, "Religion is not the opiate of the masses. Revolution is the opiate of the masses." One aspect of human nature, or decreated nature, if you believe in the Christian view of a good creation, that it seems we just cannot shake is that of violence. There is nothing as inhumane as the violence perpetuated in war. One could argue that the WYHI threads are just as bad, but with such thought, there is the possibility of metanoia and redemption. The violence and death associated with war make that possibility impossible for so many who are killed too soon. The past is littered with human inhumanity to other humans in war. Cynically, I do not see much change possible, as we continue to find new and more efficient ways to kill others. To be human is to be at war. But to be human is also to be religious. Some will claim that the two -- religion and war -- are so inextricably linked to blame one on the other. I see it differently. That these two fundamental aspects of the human experience are at odds with each other, but because they are so much a part of the being of humans that they are confused. Religion, I believe, saves us from war.

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Who taught you paragraphs? You should ask for a refund.

Seriously, that post may have been the biggest douchebag post ever on this site, even topping GCA's post of being more informed than us because he reads "multiple film sites". Just pretty much said we are all fools and can see the bigger picture when we can't. Just to let you know TulaneLSU, you are a gigantic twat and your "holier than thou" attitude is intolerable.

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Why would anyone play with this idea of TulaneLSU being an admin? Is he friends with Chicken?

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Nobody has been playing with that idea except TulaneLSU himself.

This is what he said about WYHI and WOWYHI threads.

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These threads are a danger and I am stepping forward to offer whatever service to the site the admin find necessary. I am willing to be the WYHI-WOWYHI admin, an admin whose only function is to delete these threads as quickly as they appear, lest they injure and dement our valued brothers and sisters in this community. I am, most humbly, at your service, my lords.

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Nobody really wants him to be an Admin.

I have no idea if he is friends with chicken but he did say that he sends chicken some poetry or some shite like that.

Has this thread been anchored? If so I find that sad and disappointing.

eta: Guess not. :)

I find his reviews interesting. His reviews are not for everyone, it seems.

Everybody should know TulaneLSU's views on religion and understand that these "reviews" are not going to be the opinion of most, even other Christians.

I'm not judging but there is a difference between being a Christian and being religious. TulaneLSU is definitely religious. Not being able to separate the secular world with the Christian world is dangerous, imo.

It leads to misunderstandings and isolation. But like I said before, his reviews are entertaining and I appreciate his effort. There are a lot of inconsistencies in his reviews, though. Why would you even watch The Hangover 2?

Yeah, I'm down to either

A) Troll
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B) Neural Disorder

Explain how you see the difference between the secular world and the Christian world, and then, if you can, show how you believe I do not distinguish between them. It's easy to make very general accusations. It's a little harder to make statements like yours and support them with evidence. Although, I've made it easy for you: I've given you well over 50,000 words in this thread from which to find your evidence.

Why watch movies like Hangover 2? Because they exist. And because they exist, they have the possibility of being good, because anything that is exists cannot be all bad because at the very heart of existence is goodness. Christians have a moral imperative and divine mandate to hold fast to what is good and reject what is bad. How can one reject what is bad without knowing that it is bad? One must know in order to love, even if in that love there is rejection. I will not not know something because it offends the sensibilities of some Middle-American early 20th century pseudo-Protestant Victorian mindset that is removed from the Christian tradition of seeking what is good and true, no matter where it is. Why would you ask such a question? Why not ask, Why did you see Saving Private Ryan. Or War Horse. Or any other war movie? War movies are about the most evil thing there is, and often, violence is given a pass in such movies, this despite what Jesus and the Church have taught. But because of a very misguided version of pseduo-Christianity says that such movies are okay because violence really isn't wrong, watching them is acceptable, even encouraged? And such reasoning for watching it is not based on seeking the truth; it's based on the belief that war and violence are not anathema to the Gospel. Such thought, IMO, is treachery against the Gospel.