Random Stuff VIII: The Admin Special

[Kaymyth she/her]

You want to see a pretty good representation of their thoughts in that department? 

 

Feast your eyes.  (No, they didn't write this review, but when they read it, they agreed with every word. Regardless of the fact they never even watched Brother Bear.) 

 

....wow.

[Orlion Blight he/him]

You want to see a pretty good representation of their thoughts in that department? 

 

Feast your eyes.  (No, they didn't write this review, but when they read it, they agreed with every word. Regardless of the fact they never even watched Brother Bear.)

What a loser (The reviewer)

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Eeyup.

[DeathClutch19 he/him]

Check out the game me and Elkannah are running. Please? Join if you want to play! It'll be fun I promise!

http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/53504-the-supremacy-of-arelon/

[Delightful]

I don't think I've ever seen a full episode of ghostbusters but I definitely know the theme.

And I haven't seen Buffy - Twi what platform are you watching it on?

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

I don't think I've ever seen a full episode of ghostbusters but I definitely know the theme.

And I haven't seen Buffy - Twi what platform are you watching it on?

 

I haven't started it yet.  

[Delightful]

Ok. I wanted to watch it for a while but haven't been quite sure where to look.

Edit: so brother bear is evil but there's no issue with the Circle of Life?

"Spiritual muck".

Seriously. Ok.

Twi do your parents know you read Sanderson?

Edited March 18, 2016 by Delightful

[Mestiv he/him]

You see, I also dislike coffee. The proper term for what I'm doing with coffee is "using". I have no idea how people can drink coffee for pleasure.

But sometimes you have to pull through a night... or two... three at best, three's the limit, after third hard night you die the moment you get back home and lie down to sleep. Then, after 16 hours or something about that you respawn.

So what I'm looking for is not the taste, since it's bad anyway (but I dislike it less than I used to). Strength is important for me.

I think I might know somethink you'll like a few months ago I've found that in Mokpol near my home you can buy little bags with caffeine that you can add to any drink, like orange juice. Might be worth a try or maybe some pills from the pharmacy?

[Pestis the Spider she/her]

So I'm watching Daredevil season 2 right now and I just had this thought:

 

When a certain woman is trying to walk into heavily guarded and secured place, they can't let her even bring the paper clips* with her. But they do let her wear high heels. Why? You can totally kill someone with high heels. O.o

 

EDIT: Forgot the word "clips".

Edited March 18, 2016 by Pestis the Spider

[Mistrunner]

So I'm watching Daredevil season 2 right now and I just had this thought:

When a certain woman is trying to walk into heavily guarded and secured place, they can't let her even bring the paper with her. But they do let her wear high heels. Why? You can totally kill someone with high heels. O.o

Well, at many schools, plastic knives are banned but scissors are required for certain classes. Scissors are two knives put together, whereas I've broken a plastic knife whilst spreading butter on a piece of toast.

Security measures should wise up.

[Zathoth]

They obviously wants you to butter with scissors.

[Orlion Blight he/him]

They obviously wants you to butter with scissors.

Hold on, there are people who DON'T butter their crumpets with scissors? Gasp!

[ChickenPlague he/him]

Hold on, there are people who DON'T butter their crumpets with scissors? Gasp!

Yeah I use a pitchfork.

[Orlion Blight he/him]

Yeah I use a pitchfork.

I understand that, it's completely reasonable.

It's this using a "knife"that confuzzles me.

[ChickenPlague he/him]

Oh my god. I just looked at the tags.

[The Honor Spren she/her]

I . . . I'm going to Virginia in June. For, like, 7 or 8 months. 

 

Storming Colors, why. 

[Oversleep]

... when I think I already got used to things like people going "Harry Potter is evil!" I come across Twi's parents banning Disney films.

Seriously, what's wrong with these people? Why can't you both be a Christian and enjoy, I don't know, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman? Why can't you be a Christian and do Witcher LARPs?

What's funny, I've seen more regular people going on crusades like this than priests speaking against such works (apart from some extremal cases).

Edited March 18, 2016 by Oversleep

[STINK he/him]

Uh, anyone else see Chaos post 'Test' and now it's gone?

[Orlion Blight he/him]

I . . . I'm going to Virginia in June. For, like, 7 or 8 months.

Storming Colors, why.

That's odd

[The Invested Beard]

I grew up in Virginia. It's nice there, you should enjoy it. Well, where I lived was nice...

[Voidus]

Ok. I wanted to watch it for a while but haven't been quite sure where to look.

Edit: so brother bear is evil but there's no issue with the Circle of Life?

"Spiritual muck".

Seriously. Ok.

Twi do your parents know you read Sanderson?

I was going to ask that too, I find the whole concept intrinsically confusing. I'm an atheist but I wouldn't ban my kids from watching anything just because there are religious characters in it. 

[ThirdGen]

It's the kind of site that "warns" people that there are Catholic characters.

[The Invested Beard]

Not suitable for children: Contains viewpoints and things that exist in the real world around them.

 

 

That being said, I do believe there are certain themes and subjects that I don't want my kids tackling until they're old enough to understand them and also understand why I don't agree with them or whatever. But still that's no reason to completely shelter a kid from differing beliefs. If you are strongly convicted about your own beliefs, you should have the apologetic chops to have discussions with your children as to why you think things are the way they are or not. If they aren't convinced, they do have free will a lot of time to come around if what you believe really can convince them.

 

I'm a Christian and I let my little kids watch stuff with magic in it. I don't find it a really big threat to the guidance I give them when they aren't watching TV.

Edited March 18, 2016 by The Invested Beard

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

... when I think I already got used to things like people going "Harry Potter is evil!" I come across Twi's parents banning Disney films.

Seriously, what's wrong with these people? Why can't you both be a Christian and enjoy, I don't know, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman? Why can't you be a Christian and do Witcher LARPs?

What's funny, I've seen more regular people going on crusades like this than priests speaking against such works (apart from some extremal cases).

Ok. I wanted to watch it for a while but haven't been quite sure where to look.

Edit: so brother bear is evil but there's no issue with the Circle of Life?

"Spiritual muck".

Seriously. Ok.

Twi do your parents know you read Sanderson?

I was going to ask that too, I find the whole concept intrinsically confusing. I'm an atheist but I wouldn't ban my kids from watching anything just because there are religious characters in it. 

 

They do know I read Sanderson, and both parents read and enjoyed the first two Reckoners books. I haven't suggested they read anything Cosmere, because I know my mom would take issue with Sazed's acceptance of all religions as valid. (Don't even get me started on what she'd say about the end of the third book.) And they did disapprove of The Lion King, but since they didn't preview it before they bought it for my brother and I one Christmas, they were stuck with it.  

 

I almost don't want to explain why they so limited my entertainment choices, because I neither agree with nor endorse their views, but since you guys asked, I will. 

 

When I was growing up, my parents were fond of the brownie analogy. For those unfamiliar, what you do is you make a batch of brownies, let everyone take a piece, and then while they're eating it, you say "They're so chewy because I mixed a little dog poop in there." Then you use your audience's disgust as a segue to talk about how just like a tiny bit of dog poop ruins a good batch of brownies, a tiny bit of immoral content can ruin a good piece of entertainment. 

 

To be fair, I don't think my parents ever actually made my siblings and I think we were eating dog poop brownies. But they let us read illustration after illustration of the analogy, so we got the point: A little bit of bad ruins something good. If a piece of entertainment has the smallest bit of objectionable content, then all of the good and beauty is moot. If there's a little bit of bad, the good may as well not exist. It's ruined. Spoiled. No better than dog poop brownies. 

 

It was this view that made them feel not only justified, but moral, in banning movies like Mulan, books like Harry Potter and His Dark Materials, any music that wasn't from a Christian label. Mulan worships her ancestors, so none of her courage or self-sacrifice are worth mentioning. Harry Potter attends a school of witchcraft, so the fact he ends the seventh book as a literary Christ figure is beside the point. Pullman's series is all about a quest to depose a corrupt God figure, so if he makes a good point about corruption in the church, it's worthless. Secular artists don't put at least one worship song on their albums, so their music is evil. 

 

I remember when I was sixteen and had just been caught listening to secular music. I brought up Simple Plan's "Crazy," told my dad that it denounced things like the media holding women to impossible standards and parents not spending enough time with their kids, even though it used the d-word. "Would you listen to it with your sister because of that word?" I said no (my sister being eleven at the time). "Well, if you couldn't listen to it with your sister, why are you listening to it?" 

 

It seemed reasonable back then, but not reasonable enough to make me give up my secular music. And as I've gotten older, I've realized how wrong he was. There are some pieces of entertainment that you can't enjoy with a child by your side, because they're meant for the enjoyment and edification of adults. Would I take an eleven-year-old to see Deadpool? Storms, no. But that doesn't mean it isn't worth watching. It doesn't mean that there's nothing good in that movie. It just means that it takes an adult to sort the good from the bad, and to accept the good with the bad. The same holds true for other things my parents denounced: Mulan's sense of honor and loyalty exist not in spite of her ancestor worship, but in many ways as a result of it. The good in that movie should be commended, and it's a great mistake to dismiss it out of hand because Mulan's religious beliefs don't resemble Christianity. 

[The Invested Beard]

They do know I read Sanderson, and both parents read and enjoyed the first two Reckoners books. I haven't suggested they read anything Cosmere, because I know my mom would take issue with Sazed's acceptance of all religions as valid. (Don't even get me started on what she'd say about the end of the third book.) And they did disapprove of The Lion King, but since they didn't preview it before they bought it for my brother and I one Christmas, they were stuck with it.

 

I almost don't want to explain why they so limited my entertainment choices, because I neither agree with nor endorse their views, but since you guys asked, I will. 

 

When I was growing up, my parents were fond of the brownie analogy. For those unfamiliar, what you do is you make a batch of brownies, let everyone take a piece, and then while they're eating it, you say "They're so chewy because I mixed a little dog poop in there." Then you use your audience's disgust as a segue to talk about how just like a tiny bit of dog poop ruins a good batch of brownies, a tiny bit of immoral content can ruin a good piece of entertainment. 

 

To be fair, I don't think my parents ever actually made my siblings and I think we were eating dog poop brownies. But they let us read illustration after illustration of the analogy, so we got the point: A little bit of bad ruins something good. If a piece of entertainment has the smallest bit of objectionable content, then all of the good and beauty is moot. If there's a little bit of bad, the good may as well not exist. It's ruined. Spoiled. No better than dog poop brownies. 

 

It was this view that made them feel not only justified, but moral, in banning movies like Mulan, books like Harry Potter and His Dark Materials, any music that wasn't from a Christian label. Mulan worships her ancestors, so none of her courage or self-sacrifice are worth mentioning. Harry Potter attends a school of witchcraft, so the fact he ends the seventh book as a literary Christ figure is beside the point. Pullman's series is all about a quest to depose a corrupt God figure, so if he makes a good point about corruption in the church, it's worthless. Secular artists don't put at least one worship song on their albums, so their music is evil. 

 

I remember when I was sixteen and had just been caught listening to secular music. I brought up Simple Plan's "Crazy," told my dad that it denounced things like the media holding women to impossible standards and parents not spending enough time with their kids, even though it used the d-word. "Would you listen to it with your sister because of that word?" I said no (my sister being eleven at the time). "Well, if you couldn't listen to it with your sister, why are you listening to it?" 

 

It seemed reasonable back then, but not reasonable enough to make me give up my secular music. And as I've gotten older, I've realized how wrong he was. There are some pieces of entertainment that you can't enjoy with a child by your side, because they're meant for the enjoyment and edification of adults. Would I take an eleven-year-old to see Deadpool? Storms, no. But that doesn't mean it isn't worth watching. It doesn't mean that there's nothing good in that movie. It just means that it takes an adult to sort the good from the bad, and to accept the good with the bad. The same holds true for other things my parents denounced: Mulan's sense of honor and loyalty exist not in spite of her ancestor worship, but in many ways as a result of it. The good in that movie should be commended, and it's a great mistake to dismiss it out of hand because Mulan's religious beliefs don't resemble Christianity. 

 

That's ridiculous. The Bible has plenty of bad stuff in it that God doesn't technically approve of, but it happened and He allowed it to be preserved because it's part of the big picture of redemption. If you believe the whole thing that is. I think it's intellectually dishonest to put blinders on.

 

For what it's worth, this is coming from a former drug addict with a pretty dark past.