Global Reset

Although I don’t watch the show Trading Spouses, the promo for this week’s show caught my eye. It’s one of those rare commercials that make me back up with my TiVo to see what the hell is going on. Marguerite, the spouse du jour, is completely apeshit. She is screaming at the top of her lungs, like a raving lunatic, about gargoyles and God. It is frightening to see… At one point, you can hear a man (whom I assume is her husband) tell her in a calm voice that it is good to have her home. She continues to scream over him at the camera.

This is an excellent example of how religious folk scare me, even more so than the most immoral criminal mind. At least the thief/murderer/looter, who must necessarily ignore the consequences of his actions, maintains a narrow grasp of reality and what it takes to achieve their ill-gotten gains. This woman appears to be completely lost from reality; she uses the name of Christ to compel the camera man from her home!? She seems worse off (in terms of mental health) than a religious woman you may remember who recently drowned her babies. Hopefully they get some help for Marguerite before she has an opportunity to outdo Mommy Yates.

There is a resource available for people who have serious questions about God. I don’t know if it’ll help the PsychoChristians, but the Official God FAQ does a pretty good job of clearing up confusion. It’s a sparse FAQ, but it covers the most important point very succintly.

The Onion has hit comedy gold again with this article…

Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New ‘Intelligent Falling’ Theory

“Anti-falling physicists have been theorizing for decades about the ‘electromagnetic force,’ the ‘weak nuclear force,’ the ‘strong nuclear force,’ and so-called ‘force of gravity,’” Burdett said. “And they tilt their findings toward trying to unite them into one force. But readers of the Bible have already known for millennia what this one, unified force is: His name is Jesus.”

The strength of my laughter is slightly dullened by how scarily accurate this article is to the actual arguments made by the ‘Intelligent Design’ religionists. The Onion did such a very good job in constructing their argument for ‘Intelligent Falling’ that this article could be refiled as an amicus brief, to help defend Evolution against the (equally silly) ‘Intelligent Design’ theory.

There is a scene in Episode III where Obi-wan exclaims, “Only a Sith Lord deals in absolutes”.

Guess what, asshat? That’s an absolute.

Modern film is riddled with bad philosophy. It just kills me when they state it so explicitly. It’s a slap in the face that I’m even sitting through this crap.

My overall impression of the film is that it had great effects, excellent fight scenes, and a good soundtrack. Much like the original Mortal Kombat movie… Also, like the original Mortal Kombat movie and Episodes I & II, the dialog was awful.