This guy is way nutso…
I love the quote:
“…get those spectators in the playing field or out of the Arena.”
now, I’m admittedly assuming, “spectators” means people who are not Scientologists or are Scientologists not going equally wacko as this lemon head.
“playing field” seems to imply the effort or converting everyone to this lunacy, since it IS the only way to be happy…
and then I am assuming, again, that “arena” is the whole fucking earth…
so, let’s translate from Scientology gobbledy-gook…
“…get those non-scientologists in to Scientology or off the earth…”
So… you know… I can sort of see why some German’s are comparing this nut and his video with Goebbels…
“(chuckle)I’m sorry but that how I really feel about it…”
doesn’t it make you non-scientologists feel a little bit Kosher all of a sudden…?
oh yeah… and that final bit… ;-)
“(laugh uproariously)There’s nothing part of the way for me…(laugh uproariously)…(knee slap)… it’s just… swoo!!!… (karate chop)!!”
The guys a fucking lunatic!! :-D
Way to go Joey… what a prize!!
HA!! hee hee
like any book that I grew to enjoy and then was made into a movie I was disappointed.
the attempts by Vincent Price (”The Last Man on Earth“) and Charlton Heston (”The Omega Man“) were bad, but never used the title of the book for the title of the movie, so I had hoped that by using the same title there would be an attempt to be faithful to the book…
No such luck.
I can always excuse some changes, things done to expedite the storyline to be compacted into a 1.5 hour visual experience, but I can never get over changes that fundamentally change the nature and intent of the original work.
I’ll give just one example, and that will be enough.
“I am Legend”
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Movie
Neville in the movie never uses that phrase for himself, but the character of Anna describes him as such. She is a refugee, guided by god, from the virus and after meeting with Neville escapes to a safe refuge in New England thanks to the final sacrifice of Neville; which was, of course, inspired by a message from god. He’s a legend because he stuck it out in New York and eventually came up with the cure that saved humanity.
Book
Neville is captured by infectees that have retained some of their humanity and have started to create a new society. Neville’s humanity and continued attacks on the infected, including the more “human” ones, brings him to their attention and enmity. Anna in the book is one of the “societal” infected and meets with Neville to spy on him. The new society eventually captures Neville to execute him. While imprisoned Neville realizes that he is now the last human on earth and is a dinosaur. Once he’s killed he and humanity will only be something talked about in the new world as a myth, as a legend. Hence he himself realizes, “I am Legend”.
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So… I am sure the people who made the new movie had something to say…
I don’t like reading too many messages into movies… no pun intended, but I read for that… movies are for stupid entertainment… though that being said, I do tend to like movies with a message… kinda counter reasoning, eh? oh well…
but, that being said, it pisses me off that anyone will take the message from someone else’s work, throw it aside and use the framework to act as a vehicle for their own message.
It does an amazing disservice to the original creator.
If they wanted to get a message across, that’s awesome… but come up with something semi-original…
It’s not like the idea of a massive viral infection leading to vampirism, zombies or rabid mutants hasn’t been done a million times… from Stephen King’s “The Stand” to the “Resident Evil” video game and movie series…
I’m sure no copyright lawyers would have jumped on these guys if they did something similar to get their message across… whatever it was… if there actually was one besides having faith in god to fix everything… :-(
it was a visually ok movie… but the mutants/infectees were too CGI’d and retained none of the humanity that was in the book… like the attempts by infected females to hyper-sexually seduce Neville or of his neighbour constantly calling for him to come out… in the movie they were just animals…
though that was likely an attempt to minimize the impact on sensitive American viewers of Neville killing hundreds in cruel painful half-assed experiments.. if they aren’t human anymore, why feel any moral outrage…
I mean… no American could be a Mengele could they… especially not Will Smith… ;-)
bah
The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans, data in a new report by the Congressional Budget Office shows.The poorest fifth of households had total income of $383.4 billion in 2005, while just the increase in income for the top 1 percent came to $524.8 billion, a figure 37 percent higher.
Source: New York Times
yeah… so…!
let’s say the US population is 350 million
1%, the rich, of that would be 3.5 million
20%, the poorest of the poor, would be 70 million
3.5 million people share $534.8 billion dollars
70 million people share $383.4 billion
I mean, if we average the income of a person in the 1% bracket we ONLY get ~$152800
wow… that doesn’t seem like much, does it…?
yes, a person can be quite comfortable living on $150K a year, couldn’t they… but I mean that’s not excessive or anything…
so, bully for the rich who aren’t really all that rich… and for shame on the detractors… for shame on the socialists and the anti-capitalists…
false-hoods, tilted facts, propaganda, fear mongering, greed and jealousy is rife in ALL their campaigns!!
I mean, even the poor are getting $383 BILLION dollars…
read it again!
BILLION
come on… EVERY American is rich!!
sheesh… that means on average a US citizen in the bottom 20% income demographic makes a whopping…
well, let’s see…
$383.4 billion divided by 70 million people would be…
umm…
errrr…
oh..
$5477
well…
that doesn’t mean anything!
I’m sure if you found out all the money THOSE people make selling drugs, selling their bodies and stealing from us, which DOESN’T go reported, they’d be much higher… probably higher than the 1%!!
and frankly… with people like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and the Google twins adding to the top 1% of income, I’m sure the total income made is substantially lower… they slew the data!
this doesn’t mean anything!
Statistics can be made to say anything
the New York Times is a liberal news paper with a Communist agenda anyway…
Fox News never covered this!!
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;-D fucking capitalism!
BBC NEWS | Business | Cash rescue plan helps rates fall
This was a case of the most disgusting pandering to the business community and the wealthy I’ve seen in years…
These people and their money fucked up, people…
let them fall…
no, we can’t have that though because the poor and middle-class would get screwed because of it…
and why is that important?
not because they care… it’s because they don’t want the poor and the middle-class to learn exactly what is happening behind the scenes…
imagine… presidents of banks that go bankrupt and lose people’s cash…
they’ll be on their yachts and travelling to Fiji by the end of the week… while millions of people are now homeless and living on the streets…
can you imagine the upswell of rage that would create…
one bank is fine… one Enron is fine… only a limited and manageable number of peasants will be anally fucked by that…
but if the banks and businesses of the world that SHOULD fall because of what they’ve done actually fold, then there would be millions of people bending over to grab their ankles…
that could present a slight problem…
this is corporate welfare… this is cronyism… this is patronage… this is capitalist oppression of the weak and disadvantaged…
can’t people fucking understand that?
please, stop thinking about how you can afford that 32″ flat panel TV and start thinking about how these people can afford to put a 50″ flat panel plasma in the guest room closet on their yacht!!!
Dear zombie Jesus, fucking open your eyes people!!!
Ezekiel 23
Two Adulterous Sisters
1 The word of the LORD came to me: 2 “Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother. 3 They became prostitutes in Egypt, engaging in prostitution from their youth. In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed.
5 “Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians-warriors 6 clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all of them handsome young men, and mounted horsemen. 7 She gave herself as a prostitute to all the elite of the Assyrians and defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after. 8 She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when during her youth men slept with her, caressed her virgin bosom and poured out their lust upon her.
11 “Her sister Oholibah saw this, yet in her lust and prostitution she was more depraved than her sister. 12 She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men. 13 I saw that she too defiled herself; both of them went the same way.
14 “But she carried her prostitution still further. She saw men portrayed on a wall, figures of Chaldeans portrayed in red, 15 with belts around their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like Babylonian chariot officers, natives of Chaldea. 16 As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea. 17 Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and in their lust they defiled her. After she had been defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust. 18 When she carried on her prostitution openly and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister.
19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. 21 So you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when in Egypt your bosom was caressed and your young breasts fondled.
One day in the pavilion at Karakorum the Khan asked an officer of the Mongol guard what, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness.
“The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you,” responded the officer after a little thought, “and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares.”
“Wrong!” responded the Khan, “To crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best.“
- Harold Lamb - “Genghis Khan: The Emperor Of All Men”
yeah, that doesn’t react well with my politics, but after 50,000 years of evolution as a hunter it makes my blood boil; makes me want to drink fermented yak’s milk til I vomit and pass out, makes me want to go burning villages, stealing their gold, raping their women, chaining the remainder up as slaves, makes me want to leave the house and car behind and live in a hide covered tent on the steppes with my herd of horses and cattle just outside!
yeah! that is best!
cause deep down, we all know that as horrible and awful as those times were, as cruel and despicable as those men were… politics aside, they still understood honour, community and comradeship. Something woefully missing in today’s individualism with no responsibilities, abhorrent consumerism, obscene consumptionism and impotent “political correctness”.
If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes.
But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense.
If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.
(paragraphing was added by me)
