Lux Arbuckle

And yet you like the human centipede. Because it's an interesting, well made film and I'm not a baby like most of the movie going public. Extreme cinema is the only working artistic cinema out there nowadays.

I said I liked horror film so I actually have taste, fuck Saw. The Saw movies are jokes. They stop being mildly clever halfway through the second one. I love Carpenter and Cronenberg. Halloween, The Thing, The Fly and Videodrome are always consistently on my top 20 list of favorite films. Shivers was great too.

Don't know if troll or serious. I don't fuck around when to comes to horror. I'm deadly serious. I loved it. I thought it was composed very well, paced well, and I really enjoyed the use of old horror standards with cinema cruelty. I'm a huge, huge fan of the cinema of cruelty. The French are doing it best right now, but there are some others out there doing it right.

I LOVED the Human Centipede. It's a fantastic blend of body horror, experimentation and a good old fashioned case of the director saying 'fuck you' to the audience. I can't wait for the next two. I'm a huge horror and horror film theory guy and I was thrilled with it.

actually, I agree on the single charge of murder thing. I was just too lazy to edit that out of the quote.

The world is a complicated place. People, their emotions and standards are different the world over, you are ignorant of most of it and it's likely you'd come off as offensive to most of the population at large accidentally eventually. Everyone is racist, sexist, homophobic and heterophobic to some extent. You can't understand were everyone is coming from, how they feel and what they've been through and you never will.

Settling in for the night. Looking for a good longplay video to watch, packing a bowl, browsing the forums. Basically the same thing I do every night I'm sleeping at my house.

Gender can play a major role in the actions, or inactions a person takes in their life. If someone is physically male, they could be discouraged, or looked down upon for doing things that are considered 'girl' things. Plenty of people live lie filled lives because the society they live in has strict ideas of what certain genders do or do not do.

Straight up. We're all just people and we can choose who we wish to be.

That depends on your definition of 'alive' and if you see being living and consciousness as two different things or one in the same. I found some good thoughts online in relation to this question: "Consciousness does not and cannot occur until birth, when the infant is given something different from its previous existence to compare it with. It does have the hard-wired faculty of perception, and even of epistemic logic. But until it is given the gift of the trauma of birth, when all of its senses are sent screaming into its mind--where before there was merely a satisfied watery existence from which it was protected from all senses except perhaps sound--then it never gets the chance to experience perception. Perception is the action upon the brain of sensations, the point at which sensations end and consciousness of them begins. Though it can suck its thumb, it cannot gain knowledge of either the action of sucking, nor of the object called its thumb, its mouth, its tongue, etc. until it is thrown into the world of sensory overload. The womb is a sensory deprivation tank, by naturally occurring benign forces: the watery womb protects it, but at the same time it shields it from its sensory organs. Thus, there is really nothing for it to be conscious of, because consciousness is consciousness of something, and until it is forced into the world of the senses, it really has nothing to be conscious of. At the very least, it has nothing to compare its consciousness to, if it is at all aware of the world--which it might be, but it doesn't know it is "the world". Whatever it senses through hearing it presumed to be part of its watery world. An unborn child has no rights except those that apply to keeping it safe from harm, such as fetal alcohol syndrome or drug addiction; and from wrongful death such as through the murder of its mother, in which case 2 murders ought to be the rule. But otherwise, an unborn is merely potential, and has no rights until birth." Or, more personally how I feel, the late, great Bill Hicks put it: "You're not a human 'till you're in my phone book"

I'm not a lawmaker, mathematician, nor a scientist so I couldn't decide for sure what would be the best criteria for productive, effective parents, but I would guess it would be somewhat similar to screening for adoption. Probably would get more streamlined, and adoption itself would probably become more popular. It could be made slightly easier to do, or made into the primary way couples get children since there are so many orphaned children in the world and we only need so many to be born for the next several decades.

Yarp.

Remember when he was funny? God, sometimes I miss the 90s.

Anyone else feel strangely powerful when they have the newest four of five posts on the active post list?

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You probably are homophobic in some way, everyone is. Hell, I'm queer as fuck and I'm a bit homophobic. I make weird assumptions sometimes and say stupid things about other people's sexuality because I'm ignorant to it. Homophobia, like racism, doesn't have to be hate based, it can be just purely ignorance based as well.

I never said word one about China, man. I said that we need a population decrease. I didn't say we need to follow China's suit. I've always thought that having children should require a license, like driving or operating heavy machinery. It's just as (if not more so) dangerous and potentially harmful to the rest of the world and I think only people who have proven they are mentally and emotionally capable should be able to do so. Like being a member of the police force there should be at minimum two requirements for having kids, intelligence and decency.

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Okay, I'll re-phase the parasite remark. Yes, all fetus' are parasites in a sense, but when the child is unwanted, it's a negative drain as opposed to a loving, happy mother who actually wants the life growing in her. It's all a matter of context, some women can/want to have children, some can't, when they can't or don't want to have the child they should be able to rid themselves of the burden. We have a huge population problem, we should be decreasing the population a bit. It would do us a lot of good in a lot of ways. I think it's ethically irresponsible to be opposed to abortion since it's basically saying you only care about the potential of life, but don't give a shit about it once it's here. Most people who oppose abortion don't also support free schools, free housing, free food, free childcare, maternity/paternity leave, free healthcare, and the importance of adoption of the already living unwanted children on the Earth and that seems an awful lot like evil to me. Straight up evil. I'm being perfectly honest. I see pro-life people as hypocritical monsters, every single one. They fight so hard to get these unwanted lives here, then do nothing to help them or the millions of people who are suffering and in need of help.

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I'm sure if we were actually speaking I would have gotten the humor in your joke. Anywhozles, we're really off topic now.

Well, I dreamed I saw the knights in armor coming, saying something about a queen. There were peasants singing and drummers drumming and the archer split the tree. There was a fanfare blowing to the sun that was floating on the breeze. Look at Mother Nature on the run in the nineteen seventies.

Sarcasm doesn't translate into plain text, sir. I've had this conversation with many people who said just that while being completely serious, so I'm highly reactive to it.