Gendanken on the "Passion of the Christ"

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I don't take anything seriously accept my dry martini, which would almost exclude me from geek status.

 

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MONKEY AND NEBUCHADNADS!! Stop it or the both of you will be torn to shreds. You realize how much bandwidth you eat up with your Simon-Says-I knowyouarebutwhatamI bullshit?

You have been warned.

Bells and Killjoy:

Shit you not- I actually bought a sterling silver nail with with a John 3:16 engraved on the side. I've also got a T-shirt that says "Jesus is My Homeboy". Only for amusement.

This is what bothers me most- and I'm sure its been said countless times even by the faithful that the commerciallism of their faith is upsetting, but at least with me I've dissected what I find insulting in it (and no, I am not religious).

It reinforces this idea I have of the civilized man, how docile a maginficent beast has come to be in the leisure of his technologies. Like those that wear lucky charms or place their faith in astrology it is this idea of man nowadays defining his worth, his beliefs, and His Self by commodities that surround him.
Almost like spidergoat but not quite.
Modern man has become just like the withered old witch in her cabin with her roasaries praying at night like the lazy coward she is afraid of thunder.

Yes, I know said before said before but godammnit its TRAGIC.

Nebuchadnezzar:

You're kidding, right?

REASON ONE:
"The power of art and its intoxicating effects on its public is fine until you find yourself putting up with born-again Christians howling about their Saviour...they cling on to you at the supermarket, at the Wal Marts, at the shopping malls and even when they see you're avoiding them like dogshit they will hunt you down in the parking lot.

They are more loving and kind and considerate and look on everything with this disgusting benelovance only common to the bored middle class."

REASON TWO:
"All these innocent hard working lambs who at this moment sit in their cubicles wasting their boring little lives away were duped by that " flesh-colored wetsuit they'd hacked up with a serated knife!" named Jim Caveiziel or Jesus. All this contraversy instigated by a charlatan."

REASON THREE:
"So Behold! I present to you all with Gibsonitis, a disease the weak mind has little or no immunity to, a theatrical malaria that can only touch a nerve with hysterics; he is a quasi artist who is only memorable if he is as violent, vulgar, and as authoriatarian as pop culture......"

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST THE FOURTH REASON TO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE HYPE SURROUNDING THIS SNUFF FILM:

"HOUSTON - A man who had gotten away with murder confessed to police after seeing “The Passion of the Christ” and talking with a spiritual adviser, authorities say..........."

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4607592/

I suggest you read the thread my dear.

Monkey:

Watching Jesus with his dick in a woman was sweet.

 

There is no self, so any definition of it is an illusion.


"Do it your damn self!"
Gendogma


"Get thee to a nunnery."
Shakespeare

 

How would you know? You're a self-hating pit-plucker!

 

I myself once owned a shirt which depicted the battered upper torso - not Mel-class battered, of course - of JC nailed to his clothesline pole with large red letters underneath the pic reading:
If I'm OK and You're OK... EXPLAIN THIS!
I thought this was pretty sarcastic in spite of being sold by a firm which specialized in a sort of "salvation-oriented" clothing.
The wierdest thing was when the occaisional person would see me in it, smile beamingly at me and ask enthusiastically:
"Are you saved, brother?!"
Sorta took all the fun out of it...

That aside said...

Oh, certainly "civilized man" is more like an "organic robot" than...
Well, Herr Doktor Professor Fred's Ubermensch, let's say.
Just push the appropriate buttons with the proper campaign devised by the ad-men, and
bzzt!
His conveyance compounds his virility...
His contrivances make him captivating...
That, at least, has been going on since mass production began.

But were they really ever anything else?
The ancients had the same sort of nonsense going on, short obviously of the electric power they didn't have and we do...
Didn't those same Romans Nietzsche seemed to think were the Apex of humanity, and who according to him were rotted out by Christianity have malls, and foodcourts, and slimy lawyers and, power politics, and status games, and "bikini waxing", and ointments made from the sweat of gladiators which were supposed to somehow imbue the user with some of that "feral" vitality...?

 

One benefit of the movie is that it gives petty, pathetic hatemongers something to do; attacking Gibson and Christians. Spurious the pathetic, petty little twerp has something to whine about. Hakman the bigot gets to make some cheesy posters. And intellectual shrimps like Bells and Killjoy have a chance to have some purpose, however fleetingly, in their meaningless existences.

 

Hang on...

I gotta pull your oh-so-effective lance outta my side...

ahhh... that's better...

didn't get any "shrimp spooge" on yer, did I...?

That stuff stains like a muttha, I ain't lyin'...

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Perhaps the "debate" is merely another symptom of Gibsonitis...

 

I have been warned? gee thanks for letting me know i've been warned, that means SO much to me, i'll settle down now, cos' if i don't you'll probably.....do f#ck all?

And as for your qausi decent reasons: They only apply to one shitty nation on this planet, the US, where everybody, not just the lay people, but everybody from the High Court Judges, Scientists and Uni Proffesors down is completely routed in the head.

It is your own fault if you happen to be influenced by an Australian born actor who went over to your Hollywood/MTV worshipping nation and made it big. Now he has so much money that he can make any movie he pleases, and he does. SO F#ckin' what?

Here in Oz we see the movie for what it is. A movie. Yes it has it's message but we know how to SEPERATE ourselves from that, we don't go out and kill people after seeing movies.

It's not Mel Gibson's fault that he makes movies you don't like.

it's your own countries fault. It's the hype which you make over every little piece of crap just to try and make more money. What other nation has things like the Oscars and makes such a big deal over them? They are just shitty entertainment awards. The funny part is you would know more about Mel Gibson than most of us, and you claim to hate him, you've probably seen ALL of his movies.

Genius! :bugeye:

 

You sound alot more like a snob to me

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It is what it is..........people see it how they see it, how your father saw and how i saw are just two ways too see. I didn't cry, i didn't think it was profound, i didn't learn much except that in the story Peter betrayed Jesus three times before he died. Nothing else was new.

Perhaps your parents live out in the burbs? which is what most of America is like i can imagine.

I live in Sydney and I know that the audiences here recieved the movie with a critical and open mind, because we don't brain wash easily, sorry i don't see the big deal.

As for Americans thinking they are Scottish after seeing Braveheart. THAT SAYS NOTHING ABOUT THE MOVIE!!!

It does however say Americans are fucking mindless morons who'll support and follow anything they are told to. Which confirms most people's beliefs that they are amoung the most brainwashed and thoughtless people on the planet.

 

I mean come on, America is the only country that would judge a person like OJ Simpson Not Guilty. The US worships Celebrities, the US made it that way, It is not the fault of the Celebrities, it is one of societies problems.

 

Bells:

Them folks gots da Gibsonitis... sho' nuff...
Best t'ing you let yer fella shreeump Killjoy set ter Burnin' 'em alive
'fore they infect yer whole purty li'l Island...

 

What? Them foklks in Oz got Gobsonitis?

No we generally don't worship celebrities, we don't go to the movies that much, we have beaches everywhere and we use them, it's healthier.

 

What about the Ozone Hole...?
Methinks thou must useth a mighty coating of anti-radiation cream!
One hopes that it contains many emolients...
That it might also condition and maketh thee look youthful...

ah, hell...
I just thought of something...
We're "wasting bandwidth"...
You know what that means...

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The wrath of Gendanken!

let us flee!