tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76116130174758343712024-03-12T16:12:47.429-07:00The Silver Bullet BillThe Silver Bullet. The Silver Bullet Bill. Unravel the Mystery, Today, Tomorrow, or Never.SilverBulletBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14701726167473974334noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611613017475834371.post-76492916362632264742020-07-25T01:06:00.000-07:002020-07-25T01:06:15.367-07:00Remember David Dorn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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know an important story that has been buried under all of this mess,
the last couple months? David Dorn. He was a retired black St. Louis
police captain, who was shot by a black looter (otherwise known as an
armed robber), during St. Louis "George Floyd" riots in early June. <br />
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This man was shot trying to defend his friend's pawn shop from literal
criminals, and died, slowly, out in the street in the middle of the
night, while people FILMED his death with their phones. But not one
single asshole who filmed his death, USED their phone to call help for
him. NO one tried to help him. He died, probably scared and alone, out
in the street, while "virtuous protesting" rioters callously ignored
him, or worse, filmed it and put VIDEO of it on the fucking internet,
including Facebook Live. <br />
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This was a dude who served his
community, for 38 years. He was a loyal friend who always checked in on
his friend's shop any time the alarm would go off at night. And in doing
so, in doing the RIGHT thing one night, some shitbag who was taking
advantage of the riots, like so many others did, to rob his friend's
store, fatally shot this man, and no one helped him, even though PLENTY
of people were around. <br />
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What happened to George Floyd, and other
incidents of excessive, even fatal police force, is wrong, and needs to
change. It needs to stop. But the fact that so many "virtuous" liberals
simply turned, and continue to turn, a blind eye to all the damage and
actual evil coming out of all these "protests", because "oh the
protesters are just expressing justifiable outrage". No, they aren't.
Not like that. No amount of outrage justifies hurting people, KILLING
people, damaging or destroying people's homes, their business, entire
communities. That shit makes me sick, and so do the people who act like
they support it.<br />
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It's one thing to demand ACTUAL justice and
change, when wrongs like Floyd's murder occur. But where is David Dorn's
justice? Yes, the alleged shooter was caught, and is being charge. But
that isn't justice. Where is the justice for the people who stood around
FILMING his death, instead of helping him, which could have saved his
life? This man could, and should, still be alive today. He was a good
man, doing the right thing, unlike most of the rioters in his city,
looting 55 local businesses, burning buildings, hurting and even
shooting people. <br />
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None of that speaks to "justice". No for George
Floyd, whose own family has MULTIPLE times asked people not to loot,
not to riot allow protests to turn violent. Not for racial, or if we're
being honest, economic inequality, where all of this damage and ugliness
is NOT making things better for poor people, but likely worse. And not
for David Dorn, who was a good man, doing a good thing, being an island
of sanity and morality, in a sea of neither. <br />
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You don't hear
people talking about Dorn. You should. Because his name is JUST as
important, and JUST as condemning, of this entire BLM firestorm, as
George Floyd’s. <br />
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Remember David Dorn. Because he deserves that.</div>
SilverBulletBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14701726167473974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611613017475834371.post-54938240974012063682019-10-17T18:43:00.001-07:002020-03-05T18:48:42.129-08:00Stylistic Superiority: Thoughts on Approaches to Writing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span data-offset-key="5cgas-0-0">But here's the thing. There is nothing wrong, at ALL, with "pantsing". In fact, to be perfectly blunt, I'd go as far as to say that that is the more traditional, artistic approach to writing. Meaning, that I'd also be willing to wager that MORE of the most well known, most successful authors of all time than not, people like H.G. Wells, or Mary Shelly, or Mark Twain, or Ray Bradbury, or Stephen King, etc. etc. etc., have been "pantsers". </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3j6sl-0-0">That isn't to say that there is anything at all wrong with being a "planner", someone who sits and meticulously plans and plots out a story. JK Rowling, at least to some extend, did that with Harry Potter. But I do not think that one approach or "style" to writing and story-building, is "superior" to the other. Being a "planner" is NOT better than being a "pantser", any more than being a "pantser" is better than being a "planner". It's all about you, the person, the creator, and what feels write to you, and what works best for you. And frankly, I feel if someone is trying to sell you on one way being "inferior" to another, they're full of shit. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7ncfj-0-0">And if you ask me, someone who would shit all over planning because they happen to be a "pantser", or conversely a "planner" who shits all over "pantsing", is just an asshole. Just because Bob Ross had a very specific, and successful, way of painting, didn't mean that he would ever dream of telling painters of OTHER styles that their way is shit, that you HAVE to paint like him if you want to paint good pictures, and if you don't paint like him you're doing it wrong. Why? Because he wasn't an asshole. </span>And if you're a writer, who actually wastes your time trying to tear down other writers, and other styles and approaches than your own? You're an asshole. Because no self-respecting artist, of any field, should waste their time and energy, let alone show such enormous disrespect. Art is intensely personal, it is literally self-expression, first and foremost. And especially with something as personal as art, what works for one person, may not work for another.</div>
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<span data-offset-key="7h9d1-0-0">Again, that exclusive company, the 2000 yd. club, the 10,000 yd. club, the rookie SB record, being one of only so many RBs who have ever actually WON a SB ring, and more, should have already put Jamal Lewis in the HoF. He was a big player, who was an absolute wrecking ball on the field, with a hard and punishing running style that not only hurt his opponents, making him one of the hardest men in the NFL to bring down, but it also took its toll on his own body. Jamal Lewis gave his body and future health to the sport, as this <a href="https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2778321-jamal-lewis-making-most-of-post-nfl-life-and-preparing-for-darker-days-ahead">Bleacher Report article</a> illustrates. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7h9d1-0-0">His straight ahead, bulldozing style, caused him to get numerous concussions over the years, and that's not including ones he got before the NFL. Jamal Lewis is a man who fights everyday, struggling with very real brain damage, and the very real possibility that it will only get worse over time. He's a man who gave his all, everything he had, to the NFL, to the sport of American Football. And that, along with his accolades, should make him worthy of enshrinement. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7h9d1-0-0">So why isn't he in the Hall yet, when he retired in 2010? Why wasn't a 10,000 career yd., 58 career rushing TD, 2000+ yd. Offensive Player of the Year, former Super Bowl Champion, a so-called "First Ballot Hall of Famer"? Meaning getting voted into the Hall the first year you're eligible (players are eligible five years after retiring from the NFL). Why isn't a player who is, as the stats show, literally one of the best and most dominant running backs in NFL history, already enshrined with the league's most prestigious honor? Lesser players, without his accolades, without his ring, are already in. Other players who lack his accolades and ring, including some in that NFL.com list, will almost assuredly one day get in. And to me, the real question isn't just <i>"WHEN will Jamal Lewis ever get put in the HoF?"</i>, but rather <i>"WILL he ever get put in the HoF?"</i></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7h9d1-0-0">It surely isn't a matter of deserving or having earned it. He did, in spades. As far as I'm personally concerned, the only thing that even slightly diminishes his career, is the fact that he wasn't able to play his entire NFL career as a Baltimore Raven. Ironically, he spent his final three seasons, from 2007-2009, with the very same AFC North rival Cleveland Browns that he made history against. In his 2003 OPOY season, He gashed the Browns for 500 of those 2066 yds., setting the single game rushing record of 295 yds. in one of the two contests. That mark also stood until Peterson surpassed it by one yard in 2007. And I say that in light of his unfortunate 2004 suspension and jail-time, stemming from what essentially was a case of entrapment, and a crime Jamal has vehemently denied ever committing. Even in the face of that four game suspension, he still rushed for over 1000 yds. in 2004. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bfhf7-0-0">It certainly is a very scary time for girls growing up. But let's not pretend it isn't also a scary/hard time for boys growing up. It's a scary time for EVERYONE. Harassment and assault are very real for girls. But it also exists for boys. And FALSE accusations happen a lot more than people seem to want to think. I've written about it before, but just in my life alone, I have known MANY people, including close friends and my own father, who were falsely accused of SOME manner of abuse, and in at least two cases, yes rape. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bhuuv-0-0">Frankly, I'd be just as terrified to be raising a girl in this time, as I would a boy. It's equally dangerous for both. Acting as if ALL boys in our society have it easier because of in-born "privilege", simply because they ARE boys, is not only bigoted, it's intellectually and morally bankrupt. And while the threat of a girl being harassed or assaulted is VERY real, and horrible, that threat also exists, and is often diminished/dismissed for boys. In fact, even by many feminists and so-called victim advocates, boys are often derided or even shamed for coming forward about abuse or assault (often at the hands of girls/women). </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3b9re-0-0">Furthermore, this cute little trend of basically mocking the idea that "It's a scary time for boys", ignores the flat-out BLEAK reality that many boys do actually face growing up today in America. Yes, there are MANY awful threats and challenges that girls today face, INCLUDING the very real and very evil possibility of being assaulted. But when deciding to mock "This is a scary time for boys", you might try knowing a few very cold hard facts first, including but not limited to:</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3dbth-0-0"><b><i>*Boys/men have a FAR lower rate of ever reporting abuse or assault, because they are often not only dismissed, but sometimes they are even mocked and humiliated further for doing so. Because "men don't get assaulted", etc.</i></b></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5fgvp-0-0"><b><i>*Even when many boys/men DO seek help, they are often turned away, either because facilities aren't set up to HELP males, or else the facilities that exist simply aren't INTERESTED in helping males. So they are left to face their problems on their own, in silence.</i></b></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4ltu1-0-0"><b><i>*In conjunction with this, there are far more organizations and structures in place today, helping girls in education and even getting into certain work fields, that in many cases simply do not exist as options for boys.</i></b></span></div>
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In the spirit of the season, I thought I'd share some of what I feel
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fantasy films. Remember, they're MY picks, for one, but for another,
they're also all classics, mostly from the 30s-80s. You're not going to
see anything like Friday the 13th on here. You already know about those
anyway. So just sit back, relax, and let an old movie buff share what he
thinks (and hopes) are some films that you'll take it upon yourself to
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<em>Frankenstein</em> (1910) - Arguably the first horror film, and a once lost piece of film history. You can find it on YouTube.<br />
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<em>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligar</em>i (1920) - German expressionism at it's creepy best.<br />
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<strong><em>Nosferatu</em> (1922)</strong> - Max Shrek is DAMN creepy<br />
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<em>The Phantom of the Opera</em> (1925) - Lon Chaney Sr. at his best<br />
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<strong><em>Dracula</em> (1931)</strong> - Bela Lugosi as THE classic Dracula<br />
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<strong><em>Frankenstein</em> (1931)</strong> - Boris Karloff, ditto<br />
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<em>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</em> (1931) - Fredric March gives the best performance of this tale<strong> </strong><br />
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<strong><em>The Old Dark House</em> (1932)</strong> - The first, and best, "Creepy Mansion" style film.<br />
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<strong><em>The Mummy</em> (1932)</strong> - Boris Karloff, again, shines as Imhotep, a very dramatic role.<br />
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<em>White Zombie</em> (1932) - The first zombie film, voodoo zombies, not "brains" zombies. Bela Lugosi shines again.<br />
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<strong><em>The Invisible Man</em> (1933)</strong> - Claude Rains does an amazing job with his voice alone<br />
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<strong><em>Bride of Frankenstein</em> (1935)</strong> - Amazing sequel, Ernest Thesiger is the best as "Dr. Pretorius"<br />
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<strong><em>The Wolf Man</em> (1941)</strong> - Lon Chaney Jr., every bit as good as his father, in the first iconic werewolf film.<br />
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<em>Cat People</em> (1942) - Not quite what you'd think, but a great, and stylish early psychological horror film.<br />
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<strong><em>Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein</em> (1948)</strong> - One of A&C's best, along with being a great "Monster Mash"<br />
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<strong><em>The Thing From Another World</em> (1951)</strong> - First adaptation of "Who Goes There?", great Howard Hawks film.<br />
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<em>House of Wax</em> (1953) - Vincent Price in one of his first iconic horror roles.<br />
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<em>The Curse of Frankenstein</em> (1957) - A different adaptation of the story, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.<br />
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<strong><em>Night of the Demon</em> (1957)</strong> - Another psychological, supernatural thriller, starring Dana Andrews. Great film.<br />
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<strong><em>The Blob</em> (1958)</strong> - Steve McQueen's first film, and a classy, and classic horror film. The original, the best.<br />
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<strong><em>Horror of Dracula</em> (1958)</strong> - Peter Cushing and Lee again share the screen, in another different, but classic, adaptation.<br />
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<strong><em>House on Haunted Hill</em> (1959)</strong> - Another Vincent Price classic, a great, spooky tongue in cheek William Castle film.<br />
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<em>Plan 9 From Outer Space</em> (1959) - The <strong>ONLY</strong> "bad" film on this entire list. It IS bad, but it's endearingly so.<br />
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<em>House of Usher</em> (1960) - The first of Roger Corman's "Poe Series", starring Vincent Price.<br />
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<em>The Brides of Dracula </em>(1960) - In spite of the title, Dracula himself doesn't actually feature in this movie. However, it DOES feature Peter Cushing's great Van Helsing, and that's enough reason to watch.<br />
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<i>Mr. Sardonicus</i> (1961) - Another William Castle classic, this is a more psychological film, but very creepy.<br />
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<em>The Day of the Triffids</em> (1962) - A classic British horror film, actually making the idea of "killer plants" creepy.<br />
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<em>The Haunting</em> (1963) - A Robert Wise film, and very well directed, one of the most well done "haunted house" films.<br />
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<strong><em>The Raven</em> (1963)</strong> - Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, and one of Jack Nicholson's first films. Nuff' said.<br />
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<em>The Haunted Palace </em>(1963)<em> - </em>Another Vincent Price starring entry in Roger Corman's Poe series, though this one is actually an adaptation of an HP Lovecraft story, "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward". One of the darker entries in the series, and classic Price.<br />
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<em>Kwaidan</em> (1964) - A VERY chilling, very artfully done collection of Japanese ghost stories, from Toho.<br />
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<em>The Last Man on Earth</em> (1964) - Another Vincent Price classic, a very dark first adaptation of "I Am Legend".<br />
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<em><b>Dr. Who and the Daleks</b> </em>(1965) - A very oddball entry to be sure. The original creator of the Dalek concept, Terry Nation, briefly sold the idea to an outside movie studio, and the result was this delightfully weird (but accurate) re-imagining of the first Daleks story from the Doctor Who show. Now starring Peter Cushing as a (assumedly) very human Dr. Who, with his granddaughters in tow, accidentally visiting the alien planet Skaro, home of the evil Dalek race!<br />
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<i>Die, Monster Die!</i> (1965) - One of Karloff's last films, based on HP Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space".<br />
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<em>It!</em> (1966) - Underrated actor Roddy McDowell shines in this classic adaptation of the traditional Golem tale.<br />
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<em>The Fearless Vampire Killers</em> (1967) - A fantastic dark comedy/horror by Roman Polanski.<br />
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<em>Night of the Living Dead</em> (1968) - The first real "modern zombie" film, and in my opinion, George Romero's best.<br />
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<em>The Legend of Seven Golden Vampires </em>(1974) - Probably the weirdest movie Hammer Films ever produced, it's an oddball mash-up of 70s Hong Kong kung fu action, and Hammer vampire horror. But it stars Peter Cushing in his last go-round as Van Helsing, and it's pretty great.<br />
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- Just about my favorite movie of all time, a brilliant collaboration
between Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder, a loving send-up to the Universal
classics, and one of the funniest, most well done, most well acted films
ever made, period. Watch it, you'll be glad you did.<br />
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<em>Jaws</em> (1975) - Spielberg's classic, more of a drama film than horror, really, but still an excellent film.<br />
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<em>Attack of the Killer Tomatoes</em> (1978) - NOT a true horror film, but a fantastic and comical spoof that needs to be seen.<br />
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<em>Halloween</em> (1978) - The <strong>ONLY</strong> "slasher" flick on this list, but I'm including it because it put creepy over gore, period.<br />
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<em>Alien</em> (1979) - In some ways more Sci-Fi than horror, but a genuinely scary and well done Ridley Scott film.<br />
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<em>The Shining</em> (1980) - Out of all the films on this list, this one genuinely creeps me out the most. Jack Nicholson, nuff said.<br />
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<em>Poltergeist</em> (1982) - Arguably the best "ghost story" film ever made. Just great on every level.<br />
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<strong><em>The Thing</em> (1982)</strong> - John Carpenter's take on "Who Goes There?", dread and creepiness pervade throughout. Excellent.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">The Terminator </span>(1984) - The original cult classic sci-fi thriller, about an unstoppable cyborg who comes to the past to terminate any hope for the future, starring Arnold Schwarzenneger.<br />
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<b style="font-style: italic;">Gremlins </b><b>(1984)</b><b style="font-style: italic;"> - </b>A movie that transcends genres, Gremlins is a mash-up of horror, comedy, and holiday/Christmas film. And it works on all of those levels and more. Directed by the great Joe Dante, and one of the best movies ever made, in my humble opinion.<br />
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<i>C.H.U.D. </i>(1984) - A smaller budget horror film, about toxic creatures in the New York sewers, that are the result of negligent government waste management.<br />
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<i style="font-weight: bold;">Ghostbusters</i> <b>(1984)</b> - Much like Gremlins, Ghostbusters is a mash-up that transcends genres. Most people have seen this perennial 80s classic, but if you haven't, you NEED to see it. It's pure film gold.<br />
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<i style="font-weight: bold;">Aliens (1986)</i> - The more action-oriented sequel to the '79 thriller, Aliens finds Ellen Ripley, and a pack of goofball Space Marines, going back to planet LV426 to learn more about the alien threat.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Critters </span>(1986) - Gremlins spawned many similar styled films, but of the "knocks offs", this is probably the best. A small mid-west town is terrorized when a pack of aliens with a voracious appetite crash land on a small farm.<br />
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<b style="font-style: italic;">The Monster Squad</b><b> (1987)</b> - A great and overlooked film, think "Goonies", but with classic monsters thrown in. Awesome.<br />
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<em>The Gate </em>(1987)<i> - </i>A movie about a boy and his best friend, who accidentally dig up a gateway to hell in their backyard. One of the best 80s horror films, in my opinion.<br />
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<b><i>The 'Burbs</i></b> (1989) - In my opinion Joe Dante's best film, and that's a tough call considering how good Gremlins is. A story featuring Tom Hanks, as a middle-class American everyman, who begins to grow suspicious of his creepy new neighbors.<br />
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<i>Warlock</i> (1989) - Something of a dark fantasy thriller, starring the great Julian Sands as the titular Warlock, "son of the devil", who seeks ultimate power to destroy God and remake the world as his own. A bit of a fantasy twist on Terminator as well, as a warrior from the past follows him to the future to stop him and save the world.<br />
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<em>In the Mouth of Madness</em> (1995) - The <strong>ONLY</strong>
90s film on this list, I just wanted to include it because it is the
only example I can think of, of a film that truly portrays the kind of
feel and spirit of H.P. Lovecraft's old stories. A psychological
thriller, with a touch of supernatural, and a strong dose of questioned
sanity. One of John Carpenter's best.<br />
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<strong>Science Fiction/Fantasy</strong><br />
<em>A Trip to the Moon</em> (1902) - One of the first films ever, and a piece of film history. You can find it on YouTube.<br />
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<em>The Lost World</em> (1925) - A cool adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story, and a landmark in special effects.<br />
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<strong><em>King Kong</em> (1933)</strong> - It speaks for itself, the definition of classic. Some say Citizen Kane. I say King Kong.<br />
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<em>She</em> (1935) - A classic film about a lost city, and it's mysterious, immortal ruler.<br />
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<em>The Man Who Could Work Miracles</em> (1936) - A great HG Wells story, and a really great film. <strong> </strong><br />
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<strong><em>The Thief of Bagdad </em>(1940)</strong> - A great Arabian fantasy story, about a prince, Ahmad, and his thief friend, played by classic Hollywood star Sabu, of <em>The Jungle Book</em> fame.<br />
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<em>The Man From Planet X</em> (1951) - A really surreal "alien visitor" type of film, very well done.<br />
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<strong><em>The Day the Earth Stood Still</em> (1951)</strong> - Science fiction, but more philosophy and human condition. One of the best ever.<br />
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<em>The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms </em>(1953)
- One of the first Ray Harryhousen stop motion marvels, based on a
short story by his lifelong best friend Ray Bradbury, this classic also
served as inspiration for the king of "giant monsters", Godzilla.<br />
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<strong><em>20,000 Leagues Under the Sea</em> (1954)</strong> - Fantastic adaption of Verne's novel, starring James Mason and Kirk Douglas.<br />
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<strong><em>Gojira</em> (1954)</strong>
- The original Godzilla (American name) film, as dark and dramatic of a
monster movie as you'll ever find. It really says something when many
film historians consider this the second best Japanese film of all time,
behind Seven Samurai. And beyond becoming THE undisputed king and icon
of "giant monster" films, it was also a sobering (and purposeful)
allegory as to the horrors suffered by the only country to ever
experience a nuclear bomb attack.<br />
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<em>Them! </em>(1954) -
Another great example of a film that takes a concept, giant ants, and
makes it both creepy and a very fleshed out, dramatic affair.<br />
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<em>The Quatermass Xperiment</em> (1955) - One of the few Hammer science fiction films, but expertly done.<br />
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<strong><em>This Island Earth </em>(1955)</strong> - A film with some fantastic sets and cinematography, but also another philosophical one.<br />
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<em>1984 </em>(1956) - The rare original, but in my view superior adaptation of the George Orwell story.<br />
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<em>Earth vs. the Flying Saucers</em> (1956) - Beyond the cheesy name, lies a great classic with a cool story and great effects.<br />
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<strong><em>Forbidden Planet</em> (1956)</strong>
- In my view, this, along with The Day the Earth Stood Still, is THE
best science fiction film ever crafted. Groundbreaking for it's time in
budget and special effects, it also set many standards for what future
space-based Sci-Fi films would be, influencing everything from Doctor
Who to Star Trek. It took science seriously, to the best of it's ability
in 1956, and presented a captivating story full of questions about
humanity and the human mind. It also happens to be an adaptation of
Shakespeare's "The Tempest", and stars a young Leslie Nielson in one of
his early, serious leading roles, decades before his comedy career took
off with <em>Airplane!</em> Amazing film, do yourself a favor and see it.<br />
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<strong><em>Invasion of the Body Snatchers</em> (1956)</strong>
- Yet another Sci-Fi film that reaches beyond the "B movie" stigma, and
presents something bigger, deeper, and better. A film that very much
explored, in part, the paranoia of the Cold War, but also again took a
deep look at society and the human mind, and what it is that makes us,
us.<br />
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<strong><em>The Incredible Shrinking Man</em> (1957)</strong>
- In many ways more of a drama, this film explores how a man might
react if he found himself in the incredible circumstance of gradually
shrinking down to (eventually) atomic size. A great existential look at
life and a man's place in it when everything changes around him, with
great acting by Grant Williams.<br />
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<em>20 Million Miles to Earth </em>(1957) - Another Harryhousen classic, this one focused on a strange alien lifeform, lost on a strange alien world: Earth.<br />
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<em>The 27th Day </em>(1957)
- A largely unknown little film, about what would happen if aliens gave
people from each major power on earth (American, Britain, China,
Russia, etc.), a tiny capsule that was vastly more powerful than an
nuclear bomb, with the option to either use the power for their
countries to strike at their enemies, or to see if they could keep this
from happening, thereby stopping the aliens themselves from invading and
taking over Earth. A great character study, and a cool little film.<br />
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<strong><em>The Fly </em>(1958)</strong>
- A great film, co-starring Vincent Price, about a scientist messing
with experimental technology that goes horribly wrong. One of the finer
done, and classier Sci-Fi films ever made. And again, the original is by
far the best.<br />
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<em>It! The Terror From Beyond Space </em>(1958) - Another somewhat unknown classic, this movie was the primary influence on the later, better known classic <em>Alien. </em>Similar premise: a space rescue expedition accidentally allows a hostile lifeform aboard on their return trip home.<br />
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<strong><em>The 7th Voyage of Sinbad </em>(1958)</strong>
- My personal favorite of the Sinbad films, a Harryhausen masterpiece,
full of magic, giant Cyclops', dragons, skeleton warriors and more.
Kerwin Mathews is great as Sinbad, and Torin Thatcher is equally great
as the villainous sorcerer, Sokurah. Plus, it has a bad ass musical
score.<br />
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<strong><em>Journey to the Center of the Earth</em> (1959)</strong>
- In my opinion, the best adaption of this great Jules Verne story,
it's epic and classy all at the same time, with great visuals, and great
acting by leading man James Mason, who plays Prof. Lindenbrook.<br />
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<em>The Three Worlds of Gulliver</em>
(1960) - Like most adaptations of this novel, it only really goes over
the first couple parts, but it's very well done just the same, and
Kerwin Mathews does a great job as Gulliver. An entertaining classic.<br />
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<em>Mysterious Island </em>(1961) - Another great Verne adaptation, this time with the stop motion wizardry of Ray Harryhausen.<br />
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<em>Jack the Giant Killer</em>
(1962) - Another Kerwin Mathews film, based on the fairly tale, with
stop-motion effects done by two of Harryhausen's assistants/students. A
decent, entertaining fantasy flick.<br />
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<strong><em>King Kong vs. Godzilla </em>(1962)</strong>
- The first major "Monster Mash" feature, with the two biggest monster
movie icons meeting up for the first (and only) time. Kong certainly
looks cheesy in "suitmation" form, instead of stop-motion, but the film
itself is very entertaining and fun to watch.<br />
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<em>Captain Sindbad </em>(1963) - No Harryhausen for this one, but still a classic and entertaining story of magic and swordplay.<br />
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<strong><em>Jason and the Argonauts </em>(1963)</strong>
- What is there NOT to say about this movie? It's one of Harryhausen's
greatest masterpieces, many say his TOP work. It's a great, classic
story, amazing special effects, even to this day, and honestly it's
quite simply one of the best movies ever made. If you've never seen it,
do yourself a favor and do so.<br />
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<em>Mothra vs. Godzilla</em>
(1964) - The next in the classic (best) 60s Godzilla films, this time
pitting G against the earth guardian spirit, Mothra. Plus, this was the
first film beyond the original to firmly establish Godzilla as a nearly
unstoppable badass.<br />
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<em>Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster</em>
(1964) - This film introduced Godzilla's greatest enemy, King Ghidorah,
a three headed, enormous space-dragon that emits gravity ripping beams
of lightning from it's mouths. It was also the first TRUE "Monster Mash"
of the giant monster (Kaiju) films, as it had Ghidorah fighting
Godzilla, Rodan, AND Mothra.<br />
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<em>Robinson Crusoe on Mars</em>
(1964) - A very unique take on the classic Robinson Crusoe story, about
an astronaut stranded on Mars. Great dramatic and classy film.<br />
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<em>The First Men in the Moon </em>(1964)
- Another great Harryhausen showcase, this film is a great adaptation
of H.G. Wells' classic story, and it's highly entertaining besides.<br />
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<strong><em>Invasion of the Astro Monster</em> aka <em>Godzilla vs. Monster Zero</em> (1965)</strong>
- My personal all-time favorite Godzilla film, and the only one to
really embody the Sci-Fi feel, as far as space travel and whatnot goes.
It's the only Godzilla film where Godzilla leaves Earth at all, and
overall, to me it's got the best overall plot and action, other than the
original.<br />
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<em>Gamera </em>(1965) - Another company's
attempt at creating their own Godzilla type franchise, Gamera is, as
absurd as it sounds, a giant, flying, fire-breathing turtle. But the
original is actually pretty good, and an entertaining film.<br />
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<em>Fahrenheit 451</em>
(1966) - While it's missing a few key elements of the book, this is
still a great adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian science
fiction novel.<br />
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<em>Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster</em>
(1966) - This was the first Godzilla movie I ever saw as a kid, and was
what made me fall madly in love with the big monster in the first place.
Not the greatest of the series, but a very fun romp just the same.<br />
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<em>2001: A Space Odyssey</em>
(1968) - Arguably Stanley Kubrick's finest film, this was a very unique
case in which the novel by Arthur C. Clark and this film were actually
being created at the same time, with each the writer and the filmmaker
collaborating, and creating their own final products. It was mainly
based on Clark's ideas, but Kubrick's genius shines through. It was
probably the first major Sci-Fi film, beyond <em>Forbidden Planet</em>,
to both take a serious scientific approach, but also to have (for the
genre) a fairly large budget. This film was groundbreaking in many ways,
and it's an absolute classic, even IF the stupid "Starchild" at the end
creeps me out to this day.<br />
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<em>Planet of the Apes</em>
(1968) - A great film, and Charlton Heston's first real foray into
science fiction. A great, serious, and well done film, with some of the
most classic and iconic moments in film history. Roddy McDowall does a
great job as ape scientist "Dr. Cornelius" as well.<br />
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<em>Destroy All Monsters</em>
(1968) - One of the best "Monster Mash" movies, for the sheer fact that
it features nearly a dozen of Toho's Kaiju creations in one film, and
it's a nifty "alien invasion" flick besides. One of the last Godzilla
classics.<br />
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<i>Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster </i>(1971) - Arguably the most bizarre of the original "Showa Era" Godzilla films, this movie has a distinct environmental message, but it also has one of the most creative and interesting monsters in the series' history. A fun ride, all around.<strong><em><br /><br />Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory</em> (1971)</strong>
- I would be remiss not to mention this film, even though I'm sure many
have seen it. The Tim Burton film doesn't hold a candle to this, and
Gene Wilder IS Willy Wonka. End of story.<br />
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<em>Silent Running</em> (1972) - A sombre, serious, largely unknown film, starring Bruce Derne, about man's bleak future.<br />
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<em>Soylent Green </em>(1973)
- A film that plays out much more like a film noir than science
fiction, it stars Charlton Heston, and deals with a dystopian future in
which overpopulation and exhaustion of resources have led to the most
dire and sinister of circumstances. A very dark, and but very good film.<br />
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<em>The Golden Voyage of Sinbad</em>
(1974) - The second of Ray Harryhausen's epic Sinbad adventures, this
one features a young Tom Baker right before his role as the infamous
Fourth Doctor in Doctor Who, as the villainous sorcerer Koura. It also
features, as usual, some awesome monsters, including a six-armed Kali
statue. A great fantasy film.<br />
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<em>Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla </em>(1974)
- Pretty much speaks for itself: Godzilla, Robot Godzilla, duke it out.
The last exceptionally good entry in the classic "Showa" series, to me.<br />
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<em>Escape to Witch Mountain</em>
(1975) - A classic Disney production, about twin kids with psychic
powers, on a quest to find their real family. Really a great film, and
one of my favorites when I was a kid.<br />
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<em>The Land That Time Forgot</em>
(1975) - A great adaptation of the classic Edgar Rice Burroughs story,
about enemy sailors banding together after finding themselves stranded
in a strange land in the arctic, full of prehistoric wonders.<br />
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<em>Terror of Mechagodzilla</em>
(1975) - The very last of the "Showa" era films, and also the very last
film that the most famous, and best director/creator of the series,
Ishiro Honda (a great director in his own right, along with Akira
Kurosawa), ever directed. It's a decent wrap up to the series, but it
also makes sense that chronologically speaking, <em>Destroy All Monsters</em> is supposed to be the last (classic) Godzilla film.<br />
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<em>Logan's Run </em>(1976)
- Another great, dystopian future film, arguably the best, actually.
Starring Michael York of Austin Powers fame, and Richard Jordan, who
would later feature in the 1984 adaptation of Dune. I'd say this is
easily one of the better science fiction films ever made. The show they
made afterwards? Not so much. Watch the movie.<br />
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<em>Close Encounters of the Third Kind</em>
(1977) - Naturally, I have to mention this. It's only one of the best
Spielberg, and extra-terrestrial based films ever made. A genuine
classic, and if you've never seen it....get to it already.<br />
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<strong><em>Star Wars</em> (1977)</strong> - Again, naturally. When I was a kid, <em>Return of the Jedi</em>
was my favorite one, but now the original is. It's just a great,
classic, self-contained story, and no matter what people want to try and
say about George Lucas now, he is and always will be a genius for this
movie alone. One of the greatest sci-fi/fantasy stories ever told.<br />
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<b><i>The Hobbit </i>(1977)</b><i> - </i>My favorite film of all time, basically tied with Young Frankenstein. This made-for-TV animated movie by Rankin/Bass, is SO much better than the Peter Jackson films that it's not even funny. It features great animation and art, a great soundtrack, incredibly voice acting, you name it. And it's actually accurate to the book, with only a couple elements cut for time. If you want to experience Tolkien at its BEST, at least in my opinion, you MUST watch this film.<br />
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<em>Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger</em>
(1977) - The last of the three Harryhausen Sinbad films, this one deals
with a prince who has been transformed into a baboon, and Sinbad's
search for the mythical Greek alchemist Melanthius, who happens to be
played by another Doctor, the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, in a
great role.<br />
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<b><em>The Lord of the Rings </em>(1978)</b><em> - </em>A lesser known adaptation by cult animator Ralph Bakshi, it is a dark but very accurate take on the first more or less two and a half books in the trilogy. The story is sadly unfinished, as he never got to make the sequel, but what's there is bizarre and beautiful, a mix of rotoscoped animation and filtered live action. It's an odd take, but also pretty great.<br />
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<em>The Cat From Outer Space</em> (1978) - It's a comedy, but it's a cat, who talks, from space. What more could you want?<br />
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<strong><em>The Black Hole </em>(1979)</strong>
- Probably the darkest "Disney" film ever produced, a great, classic
science fiction film, in my opinion one of the best ever made.
Maximilian Schell plays a fantastic villain, and great performance by
the likes of Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine, and Roddy McDowell as the
robot "Vincent". As a matter of fact, another endearing robot character
is played by none other than Slim Pickens, as "B.O.B.". Great movie!<br />
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<em>Mad Max</em>
(1979) - The original and first of a trilogy starring Mel Gibson, this
classic is set in a post-nuclear war Australia, where a cop tries to
defend his family from a land overrun by gangs. Dark, but good.<br />
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<b><i>The Return of the King</i> (1980)</b> - After Bakshi was unable to make the other half of his LOTR movie, Rankin/Bass swooped back in to more or less tell the rest of the story. There's a bit missing, but they again tell a very faithful version of the final book in the trilogy, minus (for whatever reason) Legolas and Gimli. In a perfect world, Bakshi would have been able to make his sequel, AND Rankin/Bass would have been able to make the entire trilogy themselves also.<br />
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<strong><em>Clash of the Titans</em> (1981)</strong>
- Ray Harryhausen's magnum opus, and the last full film he ever worked
on, and in my mind, his finest work, even better than the amazing Sinbad
and Jason movies. This is one of my top favorite films of all time, and
if you've only ever seen the piss-poor "remake" that just recently came
out, you're missing out big time. Do yourself a favor, see the
original, and you'll see why it, like Jason and the Argonauts, is one of
the best films ever made.<br />
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<i>The Last Unicorn </i>(1982) - Another Rankin/Bass film, one of their best works. It tells the (rather dark) story of a bumbling magician, who tries to help the last known Unicorn in existence.<br />
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<i>E.T. The Extra Terrestrial </i>(1982)<i> - </i>Nearly everyone has seen this classic, but I would be remiss not to include it.<br />
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<b><i>The Secret of NIMH </i>(1982)</b> - The first solo feature film by the great Don Bluth, and one of my all-time favorites. It tells the tale of a struggling single mother mouse, who to save her family has to get the help of a mysterious group of strangely intelligent rats.<br />
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<b><i>The Dark Crystal </i>(1982)</b> - Another of my favorite all-time films, and in my opinion Jim Henson's masterpiece. A dark fairy tale about a totally alien world, fully realized in puppetry and animatronics. There was nothing like this before, and hasn't been anything like it since. It's a must see film that I think FAR more people need to see.<br />
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<i>Space Raiders </i>(1983)<b style="font-style: italic;"> </b>- A story about space pirates who accidentally kidnap the son of a corporate higher-up. A Roger Corman produced cult film, that is both endearing yet surprisingly dark.<br />
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<i>The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai</i> (1984) - A very weird cult classic, bizarre to the max, starring a great collection of characters such as Peter Weller, Christopher Lloyd, John Lithgow, and Jeff Goldblum.<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Starman </span>(1984) - Another John Carpenter film, this one starring Jeff Bridges as an alien lifeform who has crash landed on earth, and takes the form of a woman's recently deceased husband to try and find his way to a pick-up point, so he can be rescued.<br />
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<b style="font-style: italic;">Conan the Destroyer </b><b>(1984)</b><i> - </i>The sequel to Conan the Barbarian, and listed over that movie because I find this one more fun. It is a perfect "Sword and Sorcery" type fantasy/action film, starring Arnold in the titular role.<br />
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<i>The Last Starfighter</i> (1984) - A cult classic and childhood favorite, this is a story of a teenage boy from a small town, whose love for an arcade game literally takes him to the stars.<br />
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<i>The Ice Pirates</i> (1984) - A comedic take on Star Wars type action/sci fi, it follows the exploits of a crew of galactic outlaws, who deal in the galaxy's most precious commodity: water.<br />
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<i>The Ewok Adventure</i> (1984) - A made-for-TV spinoff of the Star Wars universe, about a family who crash-lands on the Endor moon. The children must save their parents, with the aid of a group of Ewoks, including young Wicket.<br />
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<i>Red Sonja </i>(1985)<i> - </i>Another movie starring Arnold as basically Conan (but with a different name), this movie focused on the adventures of a young warrior named Sonja, as she fights to avenger her family and save the world.<br />
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<b style="font-style: italic;">The Black Cauldron</b> (1985) - Probably the darkest animated film Disney has ever produced, and also one of their least known films. In my opinion one of their greatest works, and an excellent fantasy adventure besides.<br />
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<i>Explorers </i>(1985)<i> - </i>A lesser-known Joe Dante film, about a trio of friends who, through telepathic dreams, discover how to build themselves a home-made spaceship, to visit the stars.<br />
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<b><i>Big Trouble in Little China </i>(1986)</b><i> - </i>A criminally underrated John Carpenter cult classic, this is one of my favorite movies of all time. A genre-bending mix of action, comedy, horror, fantasy, and martial arts, it is, in my humble opinion, one of the best movies ever made. A weird, awesome adventure.<br />
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<b><i>Castle in the Sky</i></b> <b>(1986)</b><i> - </i>Directed by the great Hayao Miyazaki, this is a story about a young boy, Patzu, who encounters a girl who falls from the sky, as they both try to uncover the secrets of the lost floating city of Laputa.<br />
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<i>Flight of the Navigator</i> (1986) - Another childhood favorite, about a boy who gets abducted by a UFO and taken into the (near) future. Features the voice talent of Paul Reubens (aka Pee Wee Herman).<br />
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<b><i>Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home</i> (1986)</b> - I'll only list this Star Trek movie, even though I like all six of the original series, because in my opinion it's the best one, and my personal favorite. Captain Kirk and crew, have to travel back in time to the 1980s, to save future Earth.<br />
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<i>The Princess Bride </i>(1987)<i> - </i>Another film most people have seen, but a great fairy-tale type fantasy nonetheless, starring a great cast of characters, not the least of which is Andre the Giant!<br />
<i><br /></i><i>Robocop </i>(1987) - In the grim-dark near-future of dystopian Detroit (basically now Detroit), a good cop, Alex Murphy, meets a grisly fate at the hands of criminals. But modern technology can make him "reborn", as the first in a line of new cyborg super-police. He is now Robocop, and he is the law!<br />
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<i>Willow </i>(1988) -<i> </i>A fantasy classic, starring Warwick Davis and Val Kilmer, about a small would-be sorcerer, who tries to protect a baby who can save the land.<br />
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<b><i>They Live</i> (1988)</b> - Another John Carpenter classic, a paranoia thriller about the hidden world behind the world, starring Roddy Piper and Keith David.<br />
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<i>Short Circuit 2</i> (1988) - People should definitely see the first film, but for my money, this is a rare case where the sequel is better. The sentient robot Johnny 5, winds up having some wacky adventures in New York City.<br />
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<b><i>Back to the Future Part II</i> (1989)</b> - Another film where people should definitely see the first movie (in fact it's really kind of mandatory to understand what's going on), but I think again the sequel is even better, and this is my favorite entry in the series.<br />
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friends, is where I'm cutting it off. I only included films up through the 80s on purpose, as I consider that more of the "classic" era. As far as horror is concerned, I actually mostly consider the "classic" era to have ended in the 60s, but I digress. I've listed more than enough I think. That is one shitload of
classic films for people to look at, and while I would personally
recommend that you see MOST of the films on this list at some point, I
would hope that at least a few catch your eye. I love these films, I
love classic films like this in general, and the only thing better than
enjoying these films to yourself, like most art, is sharing them with
others. So there ya go folks! Enjoy!SilverBulletBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14701726167473974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611613017475834371.post-90711464373168691312018-09-21T22:38:00.000-07:002018-09-21T22:38:05.827-07:00The Cult of Superiority<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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First a disclaimer: I do not have anything personal against vegans who aren't obnoxious, belligerent, bullying assholes about their lifestyle choice. There ARE vegans are totally chill, reasonable, rational, respectful human beings. It just so happens that there are a LOT of vegans out there, who have absolutely earned their negative reputation as snotty, confrontational, entitled, self-righteous assholes. The following is addressed to THEM.<br />
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<span data-offset-key="1i7fv-0-0"><b>3. They genuinely believe that veganism is THE only way to go, and THE only thing that is going to save the world. They believe this so much, that they constantly proselytize it, and actively desire to keep on spreading veganism until everyone on earth is vegan. </b></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="85a8j-0-0">IE It isn't merely a dietary or lifestyle choice as far as they're concerned, they believe it is "The Way", and they wish to spring this "One and Only Truth" to the masses, to "save" us from our own ignorance and evil. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="nj3p-0-0"><b><i>Word to the wise: Your dietary or lifestyle choices do not make you "superior" to anyone. And while farming practices do absolutely need to change/improve, no, you don't need to spread your "superior" ways to anyone else. And yes, people can care VERY much about the planet, in fact likely far more than you claim to, while also choosing to eat meat. Keep your bullshit to yourself, and respect those who don't choose to live that way. Otherwise, you don't deserve an ounce of respect yourselves. </i></b></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3iac4-0-0">As someone who has dealt with depression, loneliness, misery, and yes, even suicidal thoughts, for over half my life, I've gotta say....a lot of the things that are said and proliferated about depression and suicide really bother me. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="575k8-0-0">For one thing, NOT everyone who is depressed, or even deals with LONG-term depression as I have, is "mentally ill". NOT everyone who has ever wanted to die, or to kill themselves, felt so because they "couldn't help it", because they had some chemical imbalance or mental "disease". </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5a6rr-0-0">YES, some people genuinely have that, and it's awful. But NOT everyone who suffers these things does. Sometimes? Sometimes life just fucking sucks. Sometimes, the world is a cold, harsh, lonely, and shitty place to live, and the experience if LIVING in it, makes you so miserable, that you see no other way out of the perpetual hell, than to die. That isn't ALWAYS just some psychological issue. Sometimes, you're just hurting that much, and you want it to stop. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="dk9ue-0-0">NOT everyone who has ever found themselves teetering on the edge of suicide, found themselves there because of "mental illness", or because they "couldn't help it". Just because that is the case for SOME people, does not make it the case for ALL people. And this notion that "suicide is just the final symptom of the disease called depression", is such an absurd, condescending statement that it actually makes me want to punch someone in the face. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="59lb-0-0">AS someone who has very much wanted to die, at times BADLY, countless times in my life, I find it dismissive, insulting, and diminishing of what I was feeling and what brought me there to that place, to claim that my depression and my pain were "mental illness", I just "couldn't help it", and thoughts of suicide were a "symptom". No, thoughts of suicide were me NOT wanting to be miserable, hurting, and alone anymore. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3fq0c-0-0">And yes, suicide was 100% a CHOICE. Want to know how I know that? Because ultimately, I CHOSE not to kill myself. Weather it was being too chicken shit to do it, or some deeper part of me simply realizing that "Hey, look, if you go out like this, then your death will mean exactly what your life has: nothing. If you take your own life, alone, for nothing, your life WILL have been a lonely, pointless failure, just as you fear it already is, and you will have proven yourself right, that your life is worthless and not worth living." I don't want that for myself. I HATE being alone, and miserable, and sad, and angry, and depressed. It's gross, and if you've never truly BEEN there, you have absolutely no idea just how dark, and cold, and scary a place that is to actually be. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="afepr-0-0">I told a friend once, when talking to me about the concept of "Hell", that I know "Hell". I know what it's like, because I've lived it, in some ways STILL live it, every day of my life, for well over half my life. I know "Hell", because, as I put it, it's a state of being, not some mythical place you go. When you're lonely, and angry, and frustrated, and hurting, and depressed, and miserable in your life? That is "Hell". There is no better or more apt way to describe it. And these are things that I usually don't talk to most people about, because quite frankly, it's not any of anyone's business, unless I choose it to be. And frankly, most people don't deserve to hear it. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="b17na-0-0">But I choose to talk about it today, just like I've CHOSEN, countless times in my life now, NOT to kill myself, even though I was right back there, teetering on the edge of the good ol', familiar gaping Abyss. I full well realize that for SOME people, depression IS something that is a mental illness, and for SOME people, perhaps, JUST perhaps, though I still don't agree with the idea, suicidal thoughts are indeed just some "symptom" they can't help. But that STILL doesn't change the fact that at the end of the day, suicide, like almost everything ELSE in life, is a Choice. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="97vep-0-0">There is a hell of a lot to be said for the concept of "Mind Over Matter". The concept that the Power of your Will, is ultimately stronger than a lot of things life can dish out at you, yes even many illnesses. This pervading notion in modern psychiatry that people are essentially helpless victims of the things they suffer, and that they truly have no choice, unless of course they're paying for therapy or expensive medication. And while for SOME people, suicide may well be spurred on by some psychological malady that they have no control over, for a lot of OTHER people who have killed themselves in this world, or even simply HAD the feeling of "I want to die" ever in their life? You don't need to be mentally ill for that. You just have to be miserable, pushed that far, and see no other way out. It's not rocket science. It's just a shitty, dark reality of life for some people. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6fa6v-0-0">I know this, because I've lived it. And this notion that "Suicide ISN'T selfish", I'm sorry, is not only wrong in my view, it's also damn irresponsible. Why? Because even FOR those that are genuinely suffering from some kind of mental illness that is spurring on their depression, the reality, the TRUTH is, that yes, suicide is STILL a choice. 99% of the time in life, the tired cliche "I had no choice", is flat out wrong. You ALWAYS have a choice. The choices may not all be appealing or preferable, but you STILL always have a choice, in almost any situation you're facing. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8qtu7-0-0">And that includes killing yourself. So yes, I'm sorry, it may be a painful thing to hear, for those who have considered or even attempted suicide, as well as those who have suffered the suicidal death of someone close to them, but suicide IS a selfish CHOICE that people make. There is no two ways about it, as far as I'm concerned. I can't tell you how many times in my life I've told myself that "If I die or disappear tomorrow, no one I know will truly care, and my death would not really affect anyone I know, because no one I know honestly cares for me all that much." The bottom line was, I was trying to convince myself that if I killed myself, it wouldn't hurt anyone that I knew, that the only person I would be hurting was ME, except even THAT wasn't true, because I would be "Freeing myself from the pain of life". Which, you know, there IS some truth to that. But at the same time, how do I know that the few people in my life, WOULDN'T be hurt by my suicide? How do I know that there isn't at least even ONE person out there who knows me, who would not only be hurt, but permanently affected by my choosing to end my own life? </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="adisr-0-0">The truth is, I DON'T know that. Which means, that like ALL suicide, hell, like a LOT of depression, it is a very selfish head-space to be in. Why? Because you're not thinking about ANYONE else but you. You're focused on your pain, your loneliness, your misery, whatever. It's 100% about you. And trust me when I tell you, deep depression, the kind where you are SO low you actually think about wanting to die? That's some serious shit. And you can talk yourself into all kinds of stupid shit, whether it's actually true or not. Things like "my family wouldn't care if I died" or "the people in my life would be better off with me gone", etc. When you're in that head-space, you can and WILL tell yourself anything and everything you need to hear, to convince yourself that it would, essentially, be OKAY to kill yourself. That it's NOT going to really hurt anyone else, that it might even HELP them or be "better" for them somehow. THAT is what being in that head-space is like. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2pmhp-0-0">And this is not about shaming anyone. This is not about dismissing the seriousness and severity of depression and suicide. TRUST me on that. I don't personally know a single soul who knows living with pain and loneliness and anger, and just being trapped in your own headspace, wrapped up in your own misery, where ALL you want to see is that Darkness, than I have. There was a time, when I was on a home school field trip, at the age of 17, to go to Yosemite National Park. We climbed up Half Dome, to the top, and were hanging out, resting, and there I was, standing at the edge, looking over. And while the people around me, kids, families, even a couple of my own friends, were all just chilling out and having a good time, do you want to know what I was doing? I was thinking about jumping off. I was thinking about getting a running start, and leaping straight off to my death, because in my own words "I'll never have a better way to go, and I'll never be any closer to feeling like I'm flying". </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="976u3-0-0">I gave no real thought, in that moment where I was really considering it, to how it would ruin those families' day, or week, or month. I gave no thought to how it might scar those poor kids for life, even. I certainly gave no thought to how it might hurt my friends, because remember, they won't really miss me too bad, they'll get over it, and their lives will likely be better without me around. And all of that? That was SELFISH. It was me, wrapped up in my own pain and despair, which I usually kept all to myself, both because I didn't want to bother people with it, and because in many cases, people just didn't understand, or didn't want to hear it (because it's hard to hear, or deal with). But there it is. In that moment, I was only thinking of myself, and how I wanted to end MY pain, practically romanticizing Death, and seeing it as some grand release from all of this. I didn't think one bit, about all that it might do to the other people there, who would see someone kill themselves. Or to my friends who actually knew me. Or to the fun, innocent weekend everyone was having, that would be utterly destroyed because some teenager in pain thought it would be romantic, and ideal, to jump off of Half Dome.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="d26pi-0-0">There was a time that I actually considered killing myself in the kitchen of my first real job, with a knife. I gave no thought to how that would affect my co-workers, some of whom I got somewhat close with. How it would ruin their day, their week, perhaps the rest of their lives, to come in and find a dead body in a pool of blood in their work break-room. I gave no thought to how it might hurt or affect anyone but myself. Because, again, suicidal thoughts, and the act itself, ARE SELFISH. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="97vum-0-0">There are so many other countless stories I could tell, of times I thought of dying, or trying to convince myself that no one really cares about me, and that my death would be just as unnoticed and meaningless as my life is. You try to convince yourself of the dumbest fucking horseshit when you're hurting and depressed. But like I said, anything and everything you have to tell yourself, to make it "ok" to do the deed. And for some people, is that the result of mental illness? Sure it is. But that doesn't mean that's the case for everyone. And that CERTAINLY doesn't mean that suicide is something that we, as survivors of it, or survivors of someone else who DID it, can't get mad at. Can't feel hurt by. Can't hate with all our hearts. Because guess what? Other people have that right too. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="c8cka-0-0">I KNOW only too well how horrible and awful living with pain and loneliness and depression really is. Because those things have been old friends of mine since I was at least 16 years old, perhaps in some respects even younger. I have not had, to be blunt, a very good or easy or happy life. It has been full of hardship, and pain, and many other very unpleasant things. I have more often than not felt isolated, alone, angry, and hurting, somewhere down deep. But in spite of all of that, I'm STILL here. Because I have made the CHOICE to be here, even in spite of how much it sucks. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="etsqe-0-0">And as I've said before, IF I had love in my life, IF I had the wife and children, the family, that I've craved and dreamed of since I was literally a little boy. Things that to this day I believe at my core, even in spite of how broken I am inside, how broken life has LEFT me inside, that they would make me as close to happy as I am capable of being. And IF I had that love in my life, no matter HOW broken and hurting I might still BE inside, I would never desire, let alone CHOOSE suicide. Because here's the reality: perhaps on some level, I've been right in the past, up till now. I have "no one" in my life, I have no wife, no kids, no family. If I killed myself tomorrow, there is a VERY very small handful of people that would probably affect, and who knows how much. But they would, in all likelihood, even if it did hurt them, find a way to move on. It would STILL be selfish of me, but less so. But if I had a wife and kids? Or even JUST a wife? And to kill myself THEN? My God. How fucking self-involved, self-absorbed and how much of an outright colossal, callous DICK would I be, to hurt her THAT much? To do THAT to her?</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="apfi5-0-0">Because THAT is the reality of suicide. For the person who killed themselves, it's over. It's done. It's sad, but they're gone now. And whatever comes after, IF anything comes after, well all of that is going to sort itself out whether you want it to or not. But just like ANY kind of death, what matters once the death has occurred is NOT the dead. They are gone. What matters are the LIVING, who are left behind. Period. And with respect to that, yes, when you have people who LOVE you, even NEED you, in your life, and you kill yourself? That was a selfish choice. The ULTIMATE selfish choice. Because you were only thinking of yourself. If I were to do that to my wife, my kids, were I to have them, it would destroy their whole world, it would flip everything upside down, and they would be permanently hurt and scarred from that, for the rest of their lives. How absolutely self-centered do you have to be, in THAT selfish of a state of mind, to willingly hurt people you claim to love and care about, THAT much? </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2ira4-0-0">Yes, there is something to be said for mental illness, and being in THAT much pain and "not being in your right mind". I know a bit about that too, whether I consider my depression "mental illness" or not. And as I said earlier, NO one should be shamed, while they're still alive and hurting, about feeling like they want to die. This isn't ABOUT shame. But it IS about being honest, and telling ourselves the Truth. The TRUTH about suicide. It is not some "final symptom" of depression. It is an ultimate and final act, that we DECIDE on, that we CHOOSE, no matter what frame of mind we're in. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1mp95-0-0">Yes, people who are depressed and hurting DO need help. They absolutely need help, if nothing else just in the form of people who will stick with them, and stand by them no matter what, while they weather their own private storm, their own private hell. Depression and THAT kind of emotional pain, it's hard as FUCK to live with, especially for a very long time. And I have every bit of sympathy and empathy for people who are suffering with it, because I KNOW exactly what it's like. But even so, I'm sorry, but don't even TRY to tell me, that suicide isn't a choice. That it ISN'T selfish. Because it absolutely is. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="b63fv-0-0">It is entirely possible, to be sensitive and empathetic to someone's pain and despair, and the sensitive, very dark and very real nature of depression and suicide. And to STILL also not sugar coat shit, and not try to tip-toe around the unpleasantness, and outright EVIL of it, at its core. Let's be honest about what this shit is, and what it MEANS, not just for the people suffering it, but for those people in their LIVES as well. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="143pq-0-0">Love, REAL love, is when you care about someone else, MORE than you care about yourself. And believe me when I tell you, I KNOW what it's like to feel like you aren't loved, that you've NEVER truly tasted love. I know what it's like to feel like you don't really have anyone. And that's a shitty, empty, scary place to be. I know, I live there, and have pretty much all of my life. So in that frame of mind especially, it's easy to convince yourself no one cares, and that your death will mean nothing, and hurt no one. But again, IF I finally had that love that I crave, that I NEED, in my life? I would never, COULD never do that to them, even if I hurt inside for the rest of my days. Why? Because they would matter far more to me than I would to myself. My love for THEM, would mean far more to me than my own selfish pain and brokenness. I would literally choose to live for them, because even if I'm somehow incapable of ever being TRULY happy, they damn sure would make me as close to that as I could possibly get. I would want to live as long as I could, as a matter of fact, to get as much time with them as I possibly could, and that means that much more coming from someone who has lived the better part of 40 years of life feeling utterly alone. And I CERTAINLY, would not ever make that selfish choice, to end my life, to hurt them and smash their lives apart like that. For what? So my pain can end? And I can leave them with the sadistic, selfish "gift" of lifelong pain because of what I chose to do instead?</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3ots2-0-0">I know this is a very touchy topic, and my blunt views on it seem to rub some people the wrong way. But I still feel like these are things that need to be said, that I have to say. Even if only a few people read them. Depression and thoughts of suicide are SUPER serious, and deserve to be treated and taken so. But that doesn't mean we coddle people who are in that space, or make suicide out to be some tragic, unavoidable thing some people just couldn't escape. Because that is incredibly untrue. AS someone who has dealt with depression and thoughts of death for over half my life, I refuse to believe that suicide is something some people "just can't help, that they had no choice". I'm sorry, but bullshit. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ekmll-0-0">If you've made it this far, and find yourself disagreeing with what I've said, or let's say I've even upset you, well, I apologize. Not for my earnest, from the heart thoughts and feelings on the matter. But sorry you were upset, because that wasn't my intent, or for whatever reasons simply could not see my point of view. However, I do hope that the things I've said, harsh or not, blunt or not, have reached or spoken to SOMEONE. Because these are thoughts and feelings from a survivor, from one who knows exactly what it's like to be there, to feel that. These words are coming from a good place, at least to me. I am a firm believer in personal responsibility, and the power of choice and will. We are free agents, and life is a series of choices we make, moment to moment, day after day. And that doesn't change, whether you're miserable, or genuinely suffering mental illness. You still have a choice. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1lkim-0-0">I think that should be an empowering message. I think people should realize that, embrace it, and spread it. Yes, we need to be there for people and try to help them out of their Darkness. But the truth is, NO one can fully pull you out of that Darkness for you. Everyone has to ultimately choose to lift themselves out of it. Depression is a valley that each of us navigates alone. It absolutely helps, and is perhaps even integral, to have people there to listen to us, to just be there, to be around, to lend their strength, or moral support, or whatever. But it's STILL a solo journey, and a very hard, shitty one. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1lkim-0-0">But I think the message of "Mind Over Matter" is important. Don't tell people they can't help it. Tell people they CAN help it. Tell them they always DO have a choice, and don't HAVE to die. There CAN, and SHOULD be a tomorrow for them, and they can CHOOSE to wake up tomorrow and greet it. The power of choice, personal choice in our moment to moment lives, is the ONLY power we as humans actually possess. And I think that should be an incredible source of inspiration. On the one hand, realize that by killing yourself, you are selfishly hurting those who care about you, perhaps permanently. Why would you want that? And on the OTHER hand, what could possibly be more powerful, more uplifting, than the knowledge that you always hold within you the power to CHOOSE for yourself. You don't have to let despair and pain and death beat you. Those things don't OWN you, and you owe them nothing. They are not your master, you are theirs, and you can defeat them, day after day, by CHOOSING to live, in spite of everything. You can give yourself the chance at a better tomorrow, by choosing tomorrow for yourself. </span></div>
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SilverBulletBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14701726167473974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611613017475834371.post-17543445811537599612018-08-29T01:42:00.001-07:002018-10-13T23:54:45.543-07:00Tools of Destruction<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Once again, another senseless, tragic (mass) shooting has occurred, and more people who should be alive right now, are dead, because someone had a bad day, or a bad life, etc.<br />
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My three cents on the issue:<br />
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1. Yes, people with mental health and psychological/emotional issues DO
need help, they DO need people to be there for them, and they DO need
healthy outlets.<br />
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2. Having said that, while we do need to understand and confront the
PROBLEM, murderers do not deserve empathy or understanding. Even IF
someone has a mental illness, and "isn't in their right mind", if they
do something awful, if they rape, or kill, it IS still a choice that
person is making. That kid CHOSE to bring a loaded gun to that event. He
CHOSE to murder innocent people before he took his own pathetic life.
That was a choice, whether it was "in his right mind" or not. Shooters
like that deserve zero empathy, once they have made that choice. Once
you cross that kind of line as a person, IMO, fuck you. Those people
then deserve nothing but what's coming to them.<br />
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3. The endless "pro gun/anti-gun" debate, and whether "the problem is
guns", or "the problem is mental illness", is honestly incredibly
tiresome and gross. All people want to do is argue, and virtue signal
(people ACROSS the "political spectrum"), and literally get nothing of
any value actually DONE to change things, to save lives. Yes, obviously
anyone who would do this kind of thing, IS mentally ill. That's a fact.
And if you take all the guns away, ALL of them, yes, mental illness and
people being broken inside and committing heinous acts will still exist.<br />
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But, as I have been pointing out to people for decades, guns, by simply
existing, ARE a problem, no matter how people try to rationalize or
argue the issue. Guns have one function: to kill/destroy. They are not a
tool, like a knife, or a baseball bat, or a shovel, or a chainsaw, or a
CAR, or whatever the hell else that people could care to bring up, that
crazies HAVE used, in recent times more than ever, to hurt and murder
others, that have some other use. Guns' sole function is to destroy. To
fire a projectile through something and damage or destroy it. Period.
And yes, that CAN be used to defend your home, or your family, or
yourself, in case of attack. But that does not change the fundamental
nature of the gun, which is inarguable: that it is a tool to harm/kill.<br />
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People like to bandy about cute slogans like "Guns don't kill people,
people kill people." Which, on the most base technical level, IS true.
But it's absurd and so far beyond the point. Because while PEOPLE kill
people, they are doing it WITH guns. Those GUNS are killing people, by
being utilized to do the only thing they were ever meant to do. And to
reiterate, yes, that IS a massive problem in and of itself. If guns
didn't exist, at all, yes, the world could be and likely would still be a
totally mental and scary place. But it would STILL inarguably be a less
immediately dangerous one. If someone comes at you with a knife, or a
bat, or even a car, you have options. You can at least TRY to flee, you
can try to get out of the way, or (excluding the car perhaps), you can
even choose to fight for your life. With a gun, someone can hurt or kill
you in the blink of an eye, before you can even react, without even
trying. It takes zero real effort to squeeze a trigger, be it from point
blank range, or from a great distance. There is little to no defense
against a loaded gun, unless of course you yourself ALSO have a loaded
gun. In which case, it becomes a "shootout" scenario, where you HOPE
you're a better shot or a better wannabe commando than the other person,
and meanwhile, innocent bystanders can STILL get hurt or killed, by
either party.<br />
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The point being, that while the issue is FAR more complicated than "it's
just guns", and mental illness, drugs, bad parenting, and societal
failure/sickness in general, are ALL elements to this insanity. That
doesn't change the FACT, that guns merely existing, makes it all so much
worse, and so much more dangerous for everybody. Is there an easy
answer? No, of course not. Because I can't just snap my fingers right
this moment, and make all guns disappear. But, while ridding the world
of guns at this point WOULD be hard, it is not impossible. It just would
take serious work and concerted effort, and the actual will/desire to
do so.<br />
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Guns are NOT the only problem, but people acting like they aren't even
PART of the problem at all, are naive and ignoring simple, fundamental
facts. Guns kill, they were MADE to kill, period. And they offer someone
holding a loaded gun, a power over the life and death of ANYONE else
around them, a power than can be exercised with, again, almost
negligible effort. Mental illness DOES play a big part, as do all those
other things. But that does not negate or alter the FACT, that so many
shootings have happened, because someone was having a bad day, someone
cut them off in traffic, someone said the wrong thing at the wrong time, that was the proverbial "straw that broke the camel's back", and they
just so happened to have access to a loaded gun in that moment. And guess
what? For a LOT of people, being presented that kind of power, ANY time,
is dangerous, because most people with power, cannot handle it. They
WILL abuse it, given the right motivations, the right circumstances. But
people given that kind of power, to end someone else's life in the
blink of an eye, without them being able to defend themselves, without
you even having to really TRY to kill them, just squeeze a trigger,
boom, they're hurt, or dead? In an irrational moment like that, that
MOST of us have, where our day sucks, our week sucks, our LIFE sucks?
Where you've had it, and you've just snapped, and here in your hand, in
your power, is a thing that can kill people, BOOM, just like that? It's
too much.
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There is, IMO, no such thing as a "responsible gun owner". There are
people who have a high moral fiber and/or great self-discipline. And
then there's most other people. A LOT of people, who are generally not
"bad people", given the proper circumstances, and then presented a thing
that can allow them to act out or vent in the most extreme or evil way
possible? A lot of those people would pull the trigger. Why? Because
that power is there, they aren't "in their right mind", and the most
compelling reason: because they can. I know for a fact, even though I am
a good and rational and moral person, that there have been many times
in my life, when I've just fucking HAD it, I'm on the point of snapping,
because of shitty neighbors, or a really bad day, or work being
dogshit, or having a fight with someone, you name it. Where if I had a
loaded gun anywhere NEAR me? Even though I am loathe at the thought of
just MURDERING someone? I can't say that temptation wouldn't still be
there, and be STRONG, that all I had to do was pick it up and pull that trigger. And even for the most "responsible gun owner" in the world, I
don't care who you are, there ARE going to be a set of circumstances, where that would COULD be true for them too.<br />
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It is incredibly rare, almost impossible to find, to have a person who
CAN'T be, in the most extreme scenarios, pushed too far, pushed THAT
far. That isn't to say all those people are BAD people. But life can
really suck, PEOPLE can really suck, and IMO, the existence of a tool that
can SO easily kill, the existence of something that SO quickly and SO
easily can give you the ultimate power over someone else, you getting to
choose whether they live or die? That is not a power that most people
should ever have. That isn't spoken from a PRO or ANTI gun "stance".
That is just, at the end of the day, practical common sense.<br />
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And yes, I have personally thought out the scenario: "What if my home
was attacked by someone with a gun?/ What if I was out somewhere and
attacked by someone with a gun?/ What if I HAD a wife and family, and
they were threatened by someone with a gun?" And that's a tough, shitty
question to ponder. I WOULD want to be able to defend myself, and
CERTAINLY would want to be able to defend my family. In fact, if somewhere were threatening me with a gun, much LESS a prospective mate and children, I can tell you right now, if I ALSO had a loaded gun in that scenario? I'd be extremely tempted to empty the goddamn clip into them, not just to stop them, but for having the audacity to threaten MY life or the lives of people I love, in the first place. That is how I would feel, even though I am generally AGAINST guns and AGAINST killing, in that moment.<br /><br />I DO get that
mentality, for sure. But that still doesn't change the nature of the
gun. And frankly, human society is NEVER going to progress, until we
actually make the conscious CHOICE, to progress past our paranoia and
obsession with weapons, with guns, and bombs, and vile, evil things like
man-made viruses and chemical weapons, etc. Is that "pie in the sky"?
Sure, you can say it is. But it's also the Truth. Humanity will NEVER
experience meaningful progress as a race, until we are actively willing
to let go of our tools of destruction, and move on from them. There is
no other way about it. The "next step" in our evolution as a people, is
impossible, without evolving BEYOND things like guns. And for us to
survive, that moment in our history HAS to come about, sooner rather
than later.<br />
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No, it isn't easy, and there IS no easy answer, unfortunately. But it's
either believe that it IS possible, and that it CAN happen, that it
eventually HAS to happen and WILL happen. Or else you adopt the absurd
(and far too common) attitude that "oh it'll never change", and succumb
to the reality that eventually, humanity will just kill themselves off.
Which is precisely what will happen if we never CHOOSE to evolve past
tools of destruction. And personally, I choose to believe in a future
where mankind actually grows the hell up, and that if I ever am lucky
enough to get to HAVE children, that there IS a "Better Tomorrow" we can
create, for them to inherit.SilverBulletBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14701726167473974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611613017475834371.post-60404432410913633272018-07-08T13:52:00.000-07:002018-10-13T23:57:18.893-07:00Scientific Facts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span data-offset-key="8f081-0-0">This is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. No matter someone's opinion on LGBTQ issues, science is science. Science doesn't change to fit feelings, it just fits facts. This is as bad as climate change denial, or "Flat Earth" theory. Nature/Biology is gendered, period.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fthc7-0-0">And the scary thing is, this isn't a gag. It's serious, and seriously the idiotic, anti-science kind of shit they're starting to try teaching kids in ACTUAL schools now. Anatomy IS female or male. Humans DO exist as a "Gender Binary", just like every single OTHER mammal on the planet. That isn't up for debate, it isn't open to interpretation. It is hard, LONG-since-established scientific reality, easily and readily observable THROUGHOUT Nature. Not just in mammals, but in the VAST majority of beings on Planet Earth, including most plants and trees. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2g7js-0-0">The silliest part of all this is, the entire POINT of "Being Trans", to people who feel they are Trans, regardless of anyone else's personal feelings on the subject, is SPECIFICALLY that they feel they are actually the opposite gender, of the TWO genders human beings biologically come as. Ignoring all of the myriad "gender fluid" static that some others talk about, the exact point of Trans, specifically, is that they feel they are the OPPOSITE gender than they were born as. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2io14-0-0">In fact, some of the same people who I'm sure support this "non-gendered sex education" bullshit in schools, the same people who actually with a straight face sit there and claim that "gender is just a social construct", are the SAME people who also claim that if you "misgender" a Trans person, IE see them and assume based on visual evidence (or otherwise) that they are one gender or the other (out of two), that constitutes as "hate speech". Which of course it doesn't, that is also not what hate speech is, and yet another example of just how dazzlingly anti-intellectual these types and their rhetoric actually are. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6a3um-0-0">The bottom line is this: Scientific fact exists. Yes, many facts are debatable, and completely open to new data. But there are SOME very simple, very EASY facts, such as the fact that we NEED oxygen to breath (like most creatures on the planet except plants and trees), such as the fact that gravity exists and pulls things towards the ground, such as the fact that the Earth is verifiably "round", and such as the fact that almost ALL beings on Earth, and absolutely ALL mammal life on Earth, DOES exist in a "Gender Binary", that "Male and Female" are not only the default, but the ONLY genders natural Biology produces or recognizes. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="98aus-0-0">It is incredibly disingenuous, even terrifyingly ignorant and arguably evil, to actually suggest that speaking up/out against the FACTS that the forced mass migration of Syrian/Etc. refugees to "Western" nations, has not gone smoothly, is "racism". No, attacking those people for simply being who they ARE, THAT is actual, literal racism. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="em1v0-0-0">But pointing out that you simply cannot take, especially in mass quantities (meaning by the thousands), people from one culture, and shove them into a nation with a VERY different, even opposite culture, and expect it to go smoothly? That's just shining a light on what's actually happening. It isn't (or shouldn't be) subjective opinion. It is objective FACT that for countries who have taken on mass refugee populations, in many cases FORCED without choice by the EU, etc., things are not going so great. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1klag-0-0">It is a statistical, objective FACT, that the rates of things like robberies, beatings, stabbings, shootings, people driving vehicles into crowds, public attacks, kidnappings, rapes, and outright murder, has increased in many of those nations, like the UK, like Germany, like France, like Sweden, etc., considerably, since taking on those refugee populations. Are ALL of those increased instances being perpetrated by the refugees? Are ALL refugees bad or dangerous? Of course not. But it they are still directly correlated realities. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="57h5p-0-0">It is sickeningly hypocritical, for example, for feminists to blather on about Western "rape culture" and all of this bullshit, and then be absolutely SILENT, or decry people pointing it out as "RACISM", when literally thousands of European girls and women have been raped (objective fact, not opinion, not conspiracy), in those nations since taking on refugee populations. And yes, MANY, if not a majority, of those rape cases have been carried out by immigrants. There are girls and women in Germany, and even in the UK, who now live in fear of so-called "rape gangs", and fear they can't even go out anywhere alone anymore. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="d4grc-0-0">Yet where are all the strong feminists, who shout from the rooftops about the "Western Rape Problem", when these things occur? Is it actually somehow justifiable to these people, to simply ignore ACTUAL rapes occurring, because the perpetrators belong to what they identify as a "protected minority victim group?" Are they actually saying that because these people are Muslim Refugees, that committing horrible acts of atrocity is forgivable? </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="rj7-0-0">Beyond that, there are the cultural and economic implications. People are branded "Racist" if they speak out on the very real fear, whether it is entirely well-founded or not, that their countries and their cultures are being "overrun" by immigrants. And yeah, looking at what some of them have to say, or at least the ways in which some of them choose to say it, YES, of course, there is some racism there. There was always going to be, and WOULD be in any similar scenario.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1c5i8-0-0">Imagine, if you will, for a moment, that the "Shoe was on the other foot", so to speak. Imagine if some massive war or atrocities broke out in Europe, and the United Nations sent "white" European refugees into Middle Eastern, Islamic countries. Or Asian countries, or African countries. What, exactly, do you think THOSE indigenous populations would have to say about that? How do you think a lot of THOSE people would react, to "white people" flooding their cities? How do you think they would react, to non-Muslim/Arab, or non-Asian, or non-African immigrants suddenly existing by the thousands in their homelands, and NOT integrating well, NOT really bothering to learn the languages or cultures, just spreading "White European" culture around, in the very streets of non-European lands. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ca4kr-0-0">Would that be okay? How would the "Social Justice" set react if that happened. How do they think the indigenous populations would react? Do you think everything would go over smoothly, or that there WOULDN'T be xenophobia and racism towards the European immigrants? Do you honestly think there would NOT be a movement in those countries to give those "whities" that were moving in, the boot? Tell them "Euros Go Home", etc? That there WOULDN'T be people in those countries who would claim, rightly or not, that the European immigrants were "threatening their stability, their culture and their way of life". Sentiments like "This is OUR land, not THEIRS", etc.?<br /><br />And where would so-called "liberal" whites in places like the US and Canada stand? Would they express that the indigenous populations of those countries had a right to feel that way? To "protect their culture and cultural identity"? Or would they say the same thing they say to European folks who share the exact same views, and label them "racists", even going so far as to claim they "deserve to be overrun and out-populated in their own lands" (yes, I've seen that exact sentiment online, by white Americans). </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ca4kr-0-0">Of course, the entire issue anything BUT simple, nor are the answers and solutions easy. In the example of JUST the Syrian refugee crisis, yes OF COURSE those people need someone to live, temporarily, so that they can be safe until shit calms down in their own country. No one should claim that they have no right to flee for their lives. Everyone has a right to self-preservation, on some basic primal level. But the thing is, circling back around to the concept of a "Culture Clash", it really wasn't, and isn't, a great idea to just push those people, who come from a HEAVILY Islamic culture, into "Western" countries that are decidedly almost the polar OPPOSITE of heavily Islamic culture. It is going to be difficult for those people to just on the fly adapt to European culture and views and ways of life, and it is most certainly absurd to expect that the European host countries should CHANGE their cultures or views or ways of life, to suit what is supposed to be a temporary immigrant population. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ca4kr-0-0">The bottom line is this: Those refugees are human beings, regardless of culture, religion, or any other man-made complexities. They deserve the chance to live peacefully, without fearing for their lives or safety, and it is obvious that they do not feel, or cannot be safe in their home countries right now. But firstly, they should have been sent to cultures far more similar to their own, where the "clash" would have been minimal at worst. And ideally, the END GOAL, should be for their home countries to IMPROVE, for conditions to IMPROVE, so they can all go HOME. Their home, their land, their nation. They should strive to go back to their home eventually, and change it for the better. THAT should be the end goal of this entire circumstance, not for these populations to simply take root in Europe, or Canada, or the US, or Australia, etc. There is nothing saying some of them CAN'T make a home and a life in those places. But fleeing their HOME, permanently, especially for the majority of the population, shouldn't be the goal. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ca4kr-0-0">The Culture Clash is real, whether people want to openly and intelligently acknowledge it, or not. And while fears are rarely fully rational, there is still something to be said for one people's fear of being "overrun" by another. Racism and xenophobia may well exist in that fear, for some people. But it is foolish and idiotic to assume that the exact same WOULDN'T be the case if "White Europeans" were flooding into "non-white" lands. And in both cases, the indigenous population has SOME right, at least, to want to preserve and protect their own culture and identity and way of life. That doesn't mean it's right, or OK, for anyone to be an asshole about it. But just as an extreme, but real and legitimate example, British people are not automatically "racist", if they are uncomfortable or even frightened by the sight of, say, thousands of Muslims immigrants praying in a London park. Imagine how Muslims would feel, if thousands of European Christians, who were forcibly moved to their country, were gathering and holding Christian prayers in public streets, or public parks. Would those Muslim peoples be merely "racist" for being disturbed or frightened by that? Or would they be well within their rights, rational or not, to be concerned that "these white people are taking over our country"?<br /><br />That isn't to say that people shouldn't be able to move where they want, and that every nation on earth should be this perfectly homogeneous, static, xenophobic monolith that never allows "outsiders" in. But it IS to say, that it isn't necessarily "bigotry", for people to have a legitimate concern, especially in the face of very real non-integration issues and rising refugee-related crimes, that "shit's getting out of hand". It isn't anymore "Racist", if let's say, Swedish people or British people or French people want Swedish to "Stay Swedish", or Britain to "Stay British", or France to "Stay French", in the sense that they want their culture and ways of life protected, than it would be for people from Iraq, or China, or Nigeria to feel the same exact way. </span></div>
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Nature"? Because being "Cis", a stupid term in the first place, IS
Nature. Nature exists in a Binary. The VAST majority species on earth,
but ESPECIALLY every single mammal on earth, IS "Gender Binary". Meaning
MOST life on Earth is split into Male and Female. So if you hate
Nature, and Science (the Study of Nature), then you....hate yourself?
And the very substance of reality?<br /><br />Saying "Down With Cis" is not
only anti-intellectual and anti-science...but it's also just absurd.
What do they want then? A world in which every single human being
(allowed to live, that is), on the planet, "Transitions" and physically
mutilates themselves, removing their natural reproductive organs (IE
what makes them Male or Female), and just becoming a bunch of A-sexual
creatures, incapable of reproducing? So they basically want one last
human generation of "Trans-Only" people, and then for the entire human
race to just die off, go extinct? Because THAT is what would happen, in
that insane, laughable, nightmare scenario.<br /><br />That is perfect snapshot of what the SJW
movement really is. It is nonsense, it is insanity, and it is actually
rather dangerous, because you have people actually TEACHING
impressionable young minds this kind of ANTI-science, made up dumbass
bullshit, in SCHOOLS? You actually have somehow accredited teachers at colleges, teaching kids things that fly in the face of actual facts and science, such as "There is no natural difference between genders", or that "white people are born racist". I know this because I've SEEN footage and read articles of it. And they're getting away with it. This kind of
insanity is shaping the narratives, not just in America, but in Canada,
in Australia, and in parts of Europe, at the very least. <br /><br />It's
dangerous, because you have an entire generation of young people growing
up right now, having this kind of completely NON-factual, ANTI-Fact,
ANTI-Science, ANTI-Common Fucking Sense BS shoved down their throats.
Yet the SJW set are the ones screaming of "brainwashing", when it is
quite obvious to anyone who actually bothers to think for themselves,
and doesn't just exist in an "Echo Chamber", that it is the SJW culture that is actively trying to literally brainwash young minds. <br /><br />People
talk up being afraid of those on the Far-Right ignoring science and
making up stupid bullshit, such as the Earth only being 4,000 years old, or that Pollution and Climate Change are a hoax and don't matter, as being dangerous, or that the world is actually FLAT, which they ARE. But the
made up, stupid bullshit from the Far-LEFT is ALSO every bit as
dangerous to the future of human society. If you are unable to recognize
that fact, then I'm sorry, but you're blind. Extremism is extremism,
and it's ALL pretty fucking scary. It is ALL a major threat that humans, as usual through our own insanity and ignorance, are now facing in the 21st Century.<br /><br />There was this promise in the late 20th century, when I was growing into a young adult, that the 21st Century was going to be this bright land of potential and hope. That the future was bright, and that things were going to be BETTER going forward, than they had been in the 20th Century. The late 90s were a time of hope, because young people of THAT generation, like myself, had every reason to believe that the world WE were going to build, would be one that made all the difference. It would be a bright world, based on facts and empathy and reason. And yet, here we are, in 2018, with people on BOTH extremes of the spectrum, not just in America, but worldwide, whether because of religious, or social, or political reasons, regardless, acting like childish fools. Dangerous fools, all trying to shape the future of our world, into some dark, abysmal madness that, I shit you not, the human race will NOT survive, if we do the kind of things that either "side" wants.<br /><br />Make no mistake about it, ladies and gentlemen, the future, any hope for a RATIONAL, sustainable future for the human race, is going to have to be in the hands of the few of us, who ARE rational, who DO think for themselves, who DO question and DON'T just go along to get along. A younger me might never have thought I would say this, but it is going to have be people more to the "Center" of things, who have the brains and common fucking sense, to push humanity in a smarter direction. But the one thing I believed as a teenager in the late 90s, that I absolutely still believe now, is that our REAL hope, lies in future generations, and teaching them to be BETTER than us. And THAT, my friends, is going to be one tall task, to desperately try and steer WHAT they are taught, into a more reasonable and grounded direction, and NOT allow them to be poisoned with the sheer lunacy that so many people in the CURRENT era seem to be.<br /><br />"Down With Cis". Sorry folks, but if you find yourself spouting, or agreeing with, idiotic slogans such as this, then in all blunt honesty, you really should forfeit all claims to intelligence, let alone basic human empathy and decency. If you champion bullshit like that, you are NOT one of the "good guys", and you are in fact a HUGE part of our current problems. Food for thought.SilverBulletBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14701726167473974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611613017475834371.post-20464979000097141072018-01-11T14:09:00.000-08:002018-01-11T14:43:04.254-08:00Why The Stan Lee Accusation Matters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Pretty much everyone who knows anything about so-called "Pop Culture" over the last 50 years knows who Stan "The Man" Lee is. Born Stanley Martin Lieber, he got into writing for comic books at a fairly young age. From his very humble beginnings at Timely Comics (the precursor to what would by the early 60s be known as Marvel Comics), where he was basically a "go-fer", getting people's lunches, erasing excess pencil-work from daily art sheets, making sure ink wells were full for artists, etc, he eventually got a chance to realize his life-long ambition to be a writer, working on a story for Captain America #3, published in May 1941. He would go on to be a writer for several of the early proto-Marvel "Golden Age" heroes, including Captain America, Prince Namor the "Submariner", and the original android Human Torch. He also created such characters as The Destroyer and Jack Frost (essentially a proto-Iceman).<br />
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By late 1941, at the tender age of 19, due to industry giants (and co-creators of Captain America) Joe Simon and Jack Kirby leaving, Lee was made the editor of Timely Comics, a post he go on to more or less hold until 1972. He joined the Army in 1942, doing mostly repair work before eventually becoming one of a handful of individuals given the designation of "Playwright". After WWII, he returned to Timely, which would by the 1950s become known as Atlas Comics. Unfortunately, during the 50s "McCarthy Era", comic books came under serious attack due to being deemed "harmful" to children's minds (essentially what they said about rock music as well), most superhero comics fell by the wayside. While DC Comics somehow managed to "Soften" their biggest iconic heroes Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, which all continued to publish throughout the decade, Atlas Comics did away with all of their heroes, which meant Stan was left writing a wide variety of "non-harmful" types of stories, such as romance, science fiction, westerns, war stories, mysteries, etc.<br />
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By 1961, he had become depressed and disenchanted with comic work, finding it creatively stifling and unsatisfying. Lee has in the past credited his wife Joan, as the one who convinced him, before he quit, to write "one comic you'd be proud of". So no longer caring a bout the still-lingering ban on superhero comics, Lee created what would become known as "The Fantastic Four", the first official superhero comic of the newly named Marvel Comics. This was an instant hit, and Marvel encouraged him to make other new heroes, so over the course of the next few years, Lee (along with several artists), became a one-man creative powerhouse, giving birth to the likes of Spider-Man, Iron Man, Ant Man, The Hulk, The Mighty Thor, The X-Men, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Silver Surfer, and more. He created some of the industry's first and most popular female superheroes, like The Invisible Girl, The Wasp, Black Widow, The Scarlet Witch, Marvel Girl (Jean Grey), and Medusa and Crystal of the Inhumans. He also created the first two major black comic superheroes, in the form of African prince The Black Panther, and Harlem vigilante The Falcon. He continued writing comics regularly until near the mid-70s, by which point he became more involved in developing certain Marvel properties for television.<br />
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Now, why is all of that important to know? The easy answer is to give you proper background and understanding of the man. His dream was to be a novelist, which is why he chose the pseudonym "Stan Lee" when he started writing comic books, because he wanted to reserve his real name for "serious work". He never did get around to that "serious work", instead becoming one of the founding fathers of the comics industry. Where he was once slightly embarrassed due to the stigma associated with it, to admit to people that he wrote comics, as it was not seen as a "real job" and comics were seen as trash, he eventually embraced his place in the world, and even took the name "Stan Lee" legally. Today, he is one of the most well known and beloved "Pop Culture" icons in the world, and responsible for most of the top beloved characters people spend billions of dollars to see movies of every year.<br />
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And then, at the ripe age of 95 years old, having just lost his wife of SEVENTY years to a stroke in 2017, suddenly "allegations" surface that old, infirm Stan Lee, old and frail enough to apparently need at-home nurses, that Mr. Lee was allegedly "groping and otherwise harassing" said nurses. And, in the new "<a href="http://silverbulletbill.blogspot.com/2017/11/guilt-and-innocence.html">Guilty Until Proven Innocent</a>" climate we've created, suddenly social media dogpiles the man. Everyone is immediately CERTAIN that they "weren't surprised he'd do something like that". A man whom millions claim to love, suddenly becomes vilified online, with people just automatically believing that he MUST be guilty, that he's a sexual predator, a misogynist, basically a monster. You even have tons of people flat out stating they wished that when they saw his name "trending" on social media, that it was because he had DIED, rather than these "groping" allegations, which are of course "So Much Worse". You also had a sizable amount of folks proclaiming their worry, NOT for this man's honor and reputation, but that these allegations might somehow "hurt the box office" of the upcoming Black Panther film. Yes, there are people SO invested in the success of the "first big budget black superhero film" (It's Not), that they care more about THAT, than they do the good name of the very LEGEND WHO CREATED THE CHARACTER.<br />
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That is how far gone our society, Identity Politics, and this toxic "Believe Women" culture has gotten. The wildfire of accusations to prominent male celebrities and entertainers (almost entirely white and of course, heterosexual), spreads almost out of control. And in the midst of it all, MOST people seem to just blindly, unthinkingly, immediately believe that EVERY single accusation must be the 100% truth, and that EACH man who is accused, is Automatically Guilty. The fact that SOME accusations might be bullshit, that SOME of these men, many of whom loudly proclaim their own innocence, doesn't seem to phase, let alone occur to most Americans on social media. And that is both disturbing, and terrifying.<br />
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As the title of this article postulates, WHY this Stan Lee accusation matters, is complex. But the first and most important reason is this: While everyone seems to be automatically jumping to the conclusion that it MUST be true, the fact of the matter is, the so-called "Source" of this leaked accusation, comes from none other than <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.html">The Daily Mail</a>, a notorious smut rag, also known as a "Tabloid". A "news outlet" that deals in trashy stories, most of which are complete and utter garbage. An outlet that ALSO, amongst other things, offers its readers regular chances to "see female celebrities nude/topless", in what are either outright faked images, or non-consensual paparazzi photos. It matters, because the alleged "source" is anonymous, the alleged nursing company is anonymous, and not a SINGLE nurse that has supposedly levied these complaints and claims against Mr. Lee, has been named. Zero official or police reports have been filed, zero charges made. What we DO have to go on, however, as pointed out in this articulate and level-headed <a href="https://www.avclub.com/stan-lee-denies-report-claiming-he-sexually-harassed-nu-1821921296">AV Club article</a> (written by a woman), is that Mr. Lee, through his lawyers, have claimed that a former nursing firm which he employed, has been trying to get money out of him via threats of these "allegations", and since he refused to give them a dime, they "went public" with it. Not to the New York Times, or the Wall Street Journal, or hell, even FOX NEWS. Nope, they "went public", without naming themselves OR the supposed accusers, to the lowest rung on the "news" ladder, The Daily Fucking Mail.<br />
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And WHY this accusation, and ALL of this information, is important, is because regardless of the veracity of the "source", regardless of the extremely dubious nature of the "news outlet" that leaked the story, the fact is, SO many people, women AND men, were immediately ready to believe that Stan Lee is guilty. No details needed, no facts need be confirmed, no self-defense on his part necessary. Just, open and shut, he's a straight white (never mind that he's Jewish) male, he was SUPPOSEDLY accused of sexual deviancy, he MUST be Automatically Guilty. And THAT is the problem. Not that a 95 year old man MAY have grabbed a handful of some nurse's ass. If he DID, that ISN'T ok, and it WOULD be wrong, though there are far worse things in the world. But that isn't the issue here.<br />
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The ISSUE, is that regardless of the FACTS, which most people gleefully not merely choose to ignore, but do not even bother to PURSUE for themselves at all, you have literally millions of people sitting on social media, waiting like so many salivating vultures, for the NEXT man to be proclaimed guilty in what has become the "Court of Public Opinion". It isn't even necessary to have a trial anymore. It isn't necessary to PROVE that someone did something wrong, that they are ACTUALLY guilty. It doesn't matter if they're completely INNOCENT, and the mere existence of an allegation is going to completely destroy their career and their life. What matters is that the general, most especially social media prowling public, is SO ready to believe that ANY (straight) man could be a disgusting, harassing, assaulting, raping monster, that the very second even an allegation as utterly VAGUE and questionable as this issue with Stan Lee drops, they are ready to pounce on it like lions awaiting their next meal.<br />
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A question I'd like to ask, to all of those who were/are so very willing to believe that a man like Stan Lee would do this, and are so ready to think "of COURSE he's guilty", is, simply put: <b style="font-style: italic;">"What would you do?" </b>What would any of YOU do, male OR female, if you were suddenly blindsided by accusations that you KNEW to be false, you KNEW you were innocent, but the REST of the world is automatically ready to not only assume, but to PROCLAIM your Obvious Guilt? What if you were immediately assumed guilty of something, which cost you your job, your connections, your endorsements, any projects or prospects you may have had, or WILL have in the future, all on someone's word, and public opinion? No court, no trial, no "Delivery of Justice". Just You're Accused = You're Guilty. Period.<br />
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How would Stan Lee's wife of 70 years feel, he person who knew him best and his biggest supporter, to suddenly see her husband's name dragged through the mud? How is his daughter, or ANY of his surviving family and friends, supposed to feel? Do you expect that THEY should also all automatically assume he's guilty and a monster? Or do you expect that they should do what ANY good family and friends who actually CARE about someone, would do, and stand BY him, and believe when he says that he didn't do it, that he DIDN'T DO IT? The problem we're facing, is that in people's zealousness to root out the very real and longstanding issue of harassment and assault in the entertainment industry, people have adopted this ignorant mentality that EVERY man who is accused, even if that's ALL it is, is a vague and baseless accusation, IS guilty, regardless of whether he actually IS guilty or not. To many, it doesn't even MATTER if a man is guilty, because as I've seen it stated many times, <i>"I have no problem with innocent men suffering, if it means that more women are safe." </i><br />
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I hate to break it to feminists and so-called "Social Justice Warriors", but that statement does NOT represent Equality OR Justice, at all. The very fact that if a woman was met with accusations like this, that she would either immediately be assume to be innocent, or worse, that it would likely be hypocritically dismissed, is not lost in this situation. If, just as a hypothetical example, let's say actress Betty White was levied with the EXACT same accusations, that she groped and harassed nurses, even MALE nurses. Would you like to take a guess at what public opinion and reaction of that exact same scenario, with the genders reversed, would be? I can't of course state for a fact, but I DO feel pretty damn confident in guessing that she would NOT be vilified at all. If anything, people would probably laugh at it, saying something like "Oh yeah, I could see Betty White doing something like that, dirty old lady!" Or perhaps "C'mon man, she's old, let her have her fun before she goes!" And regardless of exact public reaction, I could almost guarantee that it would not be taken very seriously, and would NOT be faced with the same level of social media hostility and ugliness that Stan Lee's accusation has been. And that, dear readers, is complete and utter <i><b>hypocritical bullshit</b></i>.<br />
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Honestly, just putting myself out here, as I did a couple days ago when this "news" first leaked, to dare, to have the AUDACITY to defend Stan Lee's legacy, and his honor, could be damaging to me in a very real way. For instance, as a writer, a writer who is writing novels and looking to finally get published, hopefully sooner than later, I am fully aware that in today's climate, I could very realistically be endangering my ability to even GET a literary agent. Why do I say that? Because the reality today, is that I am a (straight) male, and by virtue of my even publicly speaking OUT in favor of Mr. Lee, let alone writing an entire thought-out article trying to DEFEND him, and to DECRY this mob mentality of "Automatic Guilt Based on Gender", I am risking what is tantamount to a form of "Guilt By Association". Many agents, or publishers, could see that I am someone publicly DEFENDING a man who has been accused of sexual misconduct, period, and say to themselves "I'm not going to work with THAT kind of person".<br />
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Because that is what this is all about. Stan Lee, by merely BEING accused, regardless of his very probable (in light of known facts) innocence, is automatically assumed by the greater public to now be a monster, and I, as one of the VERY few having the audacity (or if you'd prefer, "brass") to publicly defend him, am then guilt of at the VERY least being seen as somewhat "Monster-Adjacent". The problem with Mob Mentality and Group Think, is that if you dare to go AGAINST the Mob, if you dare to think for yourself and go AGAINST the Group, you're automatically a monster. People that once "liked" or "supported" you, can and will, on a dime, turn on you and act like your worst enemy, or block you from their lives.<br />
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And that is what Mr. Lee is in danger of, as well. Even if he is able to prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, publicly, that he absolutely DIDN'T grope or harass anyone, the damage, as they say, may well have already been done. Many of the people who were ready to rabidly pounce on the idea that he is a"Sexual Predator", even IF they just moments before considered him a great and beloved person, are liable to CONTINUE thinking ill of him, regardless of proven Innocence. And part of that, is due to this notion of "Believe All Women". The dual implications of which being, that first and foremost, ALL women are, at ALL times, honest and truthful and trustworthy, and they would NEVER be dishonest, or conniving, or have ANY sort of malicious or harmful intent behind levying accusations at anyone. Or as I have alternately had it explained to me by many, "These women have no reason to lie". Except that EVERYONE can, will, and DOES lie. The implication is also that all women are automatically innocent and helpless victims, who could only ever be RISKING themselves by accusing a man of mistreatment. The REVERSE implication, of course, is that ALL men are Automatically Guilty of any possible accusations, regardless of burden of proof, regardless of the alleged Rule of Law. Law doesn't even often enter into the situation in this new climate. It is, rather, Public Opinion, swayed heavily by Social Media, which proclaims a man Guilty. And by these public "rulings", men have lost their jobs, and their reputations and lives are essentially destroyed, even if they in reality did nothing wrong.<br />
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The very ASSUMPTION that, purely based on gender, women are Automatically Innocent and Honest, and men are Automatically Guilty and Lying...is not only disturbing and scary, it's also very frustrating and angering. I do not, and HAVE never, assumed that there aren't SOME men in the entertainment industry, in so-called "Positions of Power", who ARE in fact predators and monsters. Harvey Weinstein, after all, was fairly easy to believe being a piece of human garbage. And for the record, as if I need to continue stating it, I HATE the existence of sexual legitimate sexual harassment and assault. I HATE that any women are ever abused or victimized. To me, it not only violates the person, it violates what I believe is supposed to be the SACREDNESS of human intimacy and sexuality. The very existence of abuse, much less RAPE, makes me sick to my stomach. But that doesn't mean that I, not only as a MAN, but as a free and independent thinking HUMAN BEING, am going to blindly believe that EVERY man, or every PERSON, who gets accused of something, is Automatically Guilty. The very idea is <i><b>Intellectually Bankrupt</b></i>, and shows not only a dismissal of value for actual Equality and Justice, but quite frankly, an open disdain for it. Assuming a person is Automatically Guilty of ANYTHING, let alone based on the simple fact of something as arbitrary and uncontrollable as skin color, or gender, is in point of fact, a MOCKERY of so-called "Justice".<br />
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Now, if it weren't obvious, I would like to wrap this article up by stating that, yes, I personally consider Stan Lee to be Innocent, and these accusations against him to be <b><i>Complete Bullshit</i></b>. Does that somehow make me a "BAD PERSON", for standing up for one of my childhood heroes, and having the audacity to proclaim that until PROVEN otherwise, that he is, as far as I'm concerned, Innocent? <b><i>Fuck no, it doesn't</i></b>! Am I willing to put myself in the public crossfire, and as previously stated, possibly even do some damage to my OWN reputation and future prospects, to defend the man and his honor? Obviously, I am.<br />
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It bothers me QUITE a bit, that all it takes is one accusation, and to apparently a great many, that's all it takes. A man they once loved and admired, now automatically a piece of human garbage, regardless of proof. The fact that someone would actually say that they'd rather Stan Lee be DEAD, than to merely be ACCUSED of such a thing, because the obvious implication is that Accusation = Guilt. The fact that, even if he IS innocent, for many, this is all it takes to permanently tarnish his image and reputation, in the mind of someone who doesn't bother taking the time to consider actual facts and think for themselves. And the very idea, that in the public consciousness, to many at least, when Mr. Lee DOES die someday, they will no longer mourn his loss and honor a Legend. Instead, they'll make derogatory remarks about ALLEGED acts he committed, and only think of him as some kind of "letch", instead of the great man that he honestly probably is.<br />
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Does my proclaimed love of Mr. Lee, and statement that he IS in fact one of my heroes, make me biased in the matter? Of course it does. But I'm going to let you all in on a little known secret: EVERYONE is Biased, and EVERYONE'S opinion is Subjective. Life experience, and personal opinion, by their very NATURE, are purely subjective. And what's more, I would rather be biased due to my LOVE or ADMIRATION of a person, than due to the obvious "background static" bias that MOST people on social media seem to be operating on these days, to be biased due to HATE and ill intent. The fact is, I DO believe Stan Lee to be a good and honorable person, and I thus believe him to be Innocent in this fiasco. But I ALSO believe that based on what little facts are actually known, which is FAR more than most who were ready to burn him at the Twitter stake can say.<br />
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Frankly, if he turned out to be guilty, I would be disappointed. But I wouldn't regret putting my "neck on the line", so to speak, to defend him. Why? Because he's a hero of mine, a legend and an icon. If he really DID grope or harass some nurses, that is shitty of him, and he should apologize. But even if he WERE guilty, that doesn't mean he's a "monster", nor does it make him less of a legend. It would make him flawed, and human, and someone who had a moment of stupidity or weakness, as ALL humans do, in some form or other. Just as I was unafraid to publicly discuss, much less DEFEND the honor and character of <a href="http://silverbulletbill.blogspot.com/2017/06/reflections-of-society-looking-back-on.html">former NFL player Ray Rice</a>, who by the way ACTUALLY committed an act far worse than groping, I am unafraid of the possibility that Stan might have done it. These things DO come in degrees, after all, and while ALL acts of harassment or assault are bad, they are not ALL equal, not in the eyes of the law, and not in reality. Ray Rice got drunk and got in an idiotic scuffle with his drunk fiance. Yet THAT fact doesn't make him a monster, it doesn't mean he's a bad person, nor does it mean that he should have been (and continues to be) ostracized from the NFL, and from public life. And if THAT'S true, than Mr. Lee playing "Grabass" doesn't make him a monster either, nor does it mean HE should be demonized or vilified or ostracized.<br />
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Having SAID that, I do believe him to be Innocent. But as the title of this article postulates, it's honestly BIGGER than whether or not Stan Lee groped or harassed anyone. The issue here, the only thing that is truly "Problematic" (though I loathe that moronic term), is the very FACT that so many millions of people would readily believe, without any proof, without any actual THOUGHT process on their own part, that he's Automatically Guilty. THAT, to the intellectual and thinking mind, to a mind that ACTUALLY valued Equality and Justice, should be EVERY bit as important and meaningful as ACTUAL acts of harassment and abuse are. The greater public should care JUST as much about a person's possible INNOCENCE, as they so very obviously do a person's possible VICTIMHOOD. Women (and people in general) should NOT have to live in fear of mistreatment. But by that same token, men (and people in general), ALSO should NOT have to live in what is becoming a very real fear, a very real reality, of their own possible accusation, and IMMEDIATE Automatic Guilt in the eyes of the public. Crucified by the faceless masses, strangers AND people they actually know, on no stronger a basis than "He's male, he MUST be Guilty".<br />
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BOTH are Equally Wrong, and if you don't honestly see things that way, I'm sorry, but that makes <b><i>YOU part of the Greater Problem, NOT part of the Solution.</i></b>SilverBulletBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14701726167473974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611613017475834371.post-88459247709078527882017-11-23T00:55:00.001-08:002017-11-23T00:55:14.542-08:00Excuse Me<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span data-offset-key="emsia-0-0">You know, I find myself interrupting people, not because I'm "manterrupting", but because I just seem to do it. I actually dislike interrupting people, in part because I myself hate being interrupted. But the fact is, my mind often goes a million miles a minute, with all sorts of thoughts popping into my head, and when talking to someone else, I often find myself impulsively wanting to say what happens to have popped into my mind RIGHT then. Otherwise it might well be lost to the wind in the next few moments. It has nothing to do with my gender, or their gender, and I don't love when it happens. But the fact is, people interrupt. And talk over each other, especially people who are more familiar and comfortable with each other. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8qife-0-0">On the same token, I also often find myself explaining (NOT "mansplaining") things to people. Not because I think they're idiots, or know less than me, and certainly never because of their gender. I am a lover and seeker of knowledge myself, and thus I love to share knowledge with people. If I knew that they already knew what I'm explaining, I wouldn't WANT to be explaining it, and have felt that way after the fact when LEARNING they already knew. But I'm not psychic, if you are having a conversation with someone and have no idea if they know about ____ subject, and you enthusiastically want to tell them about it, you just start talking. Unmaliciously. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="a7fas-0-0">I am not saying that these things don't occur in society, though I DO and WILL constantly proclaim that those terms are ignorant, counter-productive and unnecessary. But I AM saying, that just because a man interrupts or talks over you, or explains something to you, doesn't automatically mean he's some entitled, misogynist, "privileged" monster. I've known (and experienced) MANY women who have interrupted, talked over, or explained things already known, to me OR to others. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="dp54n-0-0">And as I've stated in the past, if you actually bother looking at the psychology and sociology of little boys (AND many girls), they grow up interrupting and talking over and explaining to each other, all the time. That is simply how they learn to communicate. I could certainly see and understand how this happening, in a professional environment, and certainly done in a blatantly rude way, could be angering or frustrating. But tackling this with anger and bitterness and rudeness, is counterproductive, and isn't going to help fix or improve anything. Some people, granted, are just assholes. But I'm willing to bet that MANY people in your life who interrupt you, talk over you, or explain things to you you already know about, AREN'T doing so maliciously, and AREN'T trying to belittle you or "assert dominance" over you. They're just doing it, impulsively. And confronting them about it, with empathy, understanding, and patience, might very well be a far more effective communicating tool, to help yourself be better heard, and to help THEM to better understand you and better communicate with you, than being rude and shitty to someone because they do these things.</span></div>
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SilverBulletBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14701726167473974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611613017475834371.post-1845678116672182382017-11-17T21:24:00.002-08:002017-11-17T21:24:32.695-08:00Guilt and Innocence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span data-offset-key="9edmf-0-0">It ALSO insinuates that ALL men are predators, and should be presumed guilty until proven otherwise (which is apparently never, if women NEVER lie or falsely accuse). This creates a culture we are seeing in action, where EVERY accused is immediately presumed to be guilty, and presumed to be a monster, and their life should be utterly ruined and their public image trampled, before anything at all can actually be proven or settled in a court of law. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6jfpa-0-0">Victims SHOULD be believed. But SO should the falsely accused. Victims should NOT be shamed or silenced, scared to come forward. But people who are falsely accused, and yes it DOES happen and DOES exist (I've known at least three people it's happened to), ALSO have a right to be believed, and presumed "Innocent Until Proven Guilty". It IS a horrible world out there for victims, in a society that has often ignored or silenced them. But it's ALSO pretty terrifying, that we are coming into an age where all someone has to do is ACCUSE you, and the public at large will automatically believe it to be true, and your life is basically over, even if you are 100% innocent. That isn't Justice, or Equality, or Freedom, or any of the other pretty words people like to parade about. </span></div>
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SilverBulletBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14701726167473974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611613017475834371.post-13352567873240530382017-11-04T19:37:00.001-07:002017-11-04T19:37:28.280-07:00The Endless Chess Match<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span class=" UFICommentActorAndBody"> <span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody">This
country is never going to truly evolve or get better, until we move
beyond the tired, rotting "chess match" between the Big Two parties. Our
founding fathers never intended for their to ONLY be two viable
parties, and to be completely honest with you, looking at our history
since the Big Two essentially took hold, it isn't as if we've done so
great. The Republicans are not the villains, nor are the Democrats
heroes. Nor vice versa. They're all (mostly) just wealthy, overpaid,
overrated assholes, who don't (SPOILERS) actually care all that much
about their constituent voters, OR the nation at large. What DO they
care about? Staying power, and continuing to con the general voting
public into KEEPING them in power, so they can continue living a life of
luxury and ease, while helping out their rich corporate buddies at the
same time. <br /><br />How long as are we seriously going to
continue with this every four years idiocy? Every four years, DEMS claim
they're going to "Save the Country from those evil Republicans", and
then four years later, the GOP claim they're going to "Save the Country
from those evil Democrats", wash rinse and repeat, till the end of time?
Meanwhile, our world and environment are literally falling apart, 100%
our fault, while little to nothing actually gets done to FIX or SAVE
anything at all. We get caught up in what naughty, mean thing Senator X
and President Y said today, and caught up in the latest mundane issue,
or inane yelling match of moral superiority and virtue signaling. And
that just keeps going on and on and on, while people die, entire species
disappear from the planet, and Nature itself gets poisoned and rots.
How much longer?<br /><br />Surely, it's SUPER important that
we make sure to get those dirty, rotten, no good Republicans out of
power, and KEEP them out, even though the Democrats sit around in power
and do next to nothing when they have it. They pay token gestures, yes.
But it's not nearly enough, never enough. Things in this nation, and in
our world, are outright DIRE, and only getting worse. But people would
rather sit around on their cell phones, arguing over what the dumb
asshole the whole NATURE, our very CULTURE put into office, said on
Twitter today. We argue about fake "Nazis", and worthless scandals, and
LGBT rallies and abortion. We fight amongst ourselves, as we're 100%
intended and expected to, while the real world around us literally
crumbles. How much longer? <br /><br />Even from certain
specific Sanders supporters last year, after he "lost" the primaries, I
heard how it was IMPERATIVE that we vote for Clinton, to keep Trump and
the GOP out of the White House. Because we HAVE to maintain the status
quo, HAVE to maintain this holding pattern, and "hope that maybe someday
things will get better". How much time do people really think that we
have, to keep maintaining the "Same Old Shit", and naively hope that
maybe someday, gradually, slowly, magically, things will get better? The
answer is, we have less time than you probably think. <br /><br />Our
planet will survive....but WE, and a whole lot of other innocent,
blameless lifeforms, will NOT, if we keep going the way we're going. Yet
people sit with their cell phones, on Facebook, on Twitter, watching
Netflix, etc. etc., throwing out token <a class="_58cn" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/hashtags?hc_location=ufi" target="_blank"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl">#</span><span class="_58cm">Hashtags</span></a>
and putting flags on their profile pic when something awful happens.
Sending out token "thoughts and prayers", while people literally die in
the street and our beautiful planet is run into the proverbial ground.
We post funny memes and complain about our work day, all the while
telling ourselves "Oh, well VOTING is still the answer, we'll just get
rid of them rotten Republicans in 2020, and THEN things'll get better".
But will they actually get better? Or will GOP just come along in 2024
and undo everything the spineless DEMs kinda/sorta did for 4 years? Only
so 4-8 years later, the DEMs can maybe come back and undo some of what
the GOP did, and the turns go round and round and round, like a
sickening tennis match, that every hardcore voter out there is convinced
to just mindlessly cheer, hoping their "Side", the "Right Side" wins. <br /><br />A
humanity fixated with "sides", and with winning petty, ultimately
meaningless things like elections, is not going to evolve, nor is it
going to survive it's own mess and self-destructive ways. The only way
we evolve, the only way we survive, is to move BEYOND the stupid,
pointless shit that we're told to care about, and start actually, as
Ghandi once said, "BEING the change we want to see in the world". The
very idea that we can go about our destructive, wasteful, poisonous
daily lifestyles, but vote every few years and blindly trust that the
rich people we voted into office will take care of everything and make
everything alright...was ALWAYS foolhardy and absurd. "We The People"
need to be the change, WE need to be the heroes that we've been waiting
for. You cannot sit and wait and trust that others are going to do the
right thing, and make some kind of difference. And I say that as someone
who campaigned for Obama in 2008, as someone who used to buy into the
"We NEED to Vote and Support the Democrats because THEY'RE the Good
Guys" line, once upon a time. The DEMS have never been the "Good Guys".
They're just the lesser of two evils. <br /><br />Yes, you get
your small handful of politicians once in awhile who really do care. But
they are nothing in the greater sea of corruption and stagnation that
is Washington DC. Politics and voting are not ever going to be what
saves us. Never was going to be, never will be. That's just what the
people who want to stay in power, because they benefit the most from the
system and the ways things are, want us to believe. But I have come to
believe, unquestionably, that the only people who TRULY care about
politics, are the politicians, those who benefit from them. We do not
benefit. And they do not care about the actual realities we face. They
care about staying in office, so that behind closed doors, DEMS and GOP
alike can sit and laugh and have tea together, talking about how great
things are, for THEM. How great the country is, FOR THEM. <br /><br />Meanwhile,
the good, loyal voters suffer, and starve, and get sick, and die, or
live long enough to have wasted their life working to help keep others
wealthy and living the easy life. This modern life we live, the
shopping, the hording, the cars, the factories, the smartphones and the
mass pollution and waste production...it was NEVER sustainable. From the
beginning. And no amount of recycling, and "healthy eating", and
volunteering, and voting, are going to actually help the big picture.
Not in the long run. Certainly not by themselves. We need MORE than
that, not just from SOME people, but from MOST people. That is how we
improve, and survive. That's how we give our children ANY kind of future
worth actually having. A world actually worth inheriting. Less people
need to say the world needs saving. And more people need to get off of
their asses, put down their smartphones, and actually go save it.</span></span></span>SilverBulletBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14701726167473974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611613017475834371.post-92128525352481069622017-11-01T15:19:00.001-07:002017-11-01T15:19:30.154-07:00Save Files and Life's Trials<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span data-offset-key="5l5e0-0-0">And yet, here you are. Even with Breath of the Wild, the sheer irony that ZELDA on NES started the tradition of having game saves on console games. And then for the first time EVER, the newest Zelda has ONE save file (unless of course you want to play the DLC Hard Mode, then you get one extra for that). And it is, without any cause for actual argument, complete bullshit. But you STILL had (and have) clowns that say "Oh but you can just create a new console PROFILE, and technically make a new save THAT way". Except that too is BULLSHIT. You should not have to find some kind of "clever" workaround just to have something that should already be there. But I've run across far more people that parrot to me the dumbfuck "make a new profile" BS, than people like ME who are smart enough to be mad about it. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1ohgf-0-0">And why is that? Because, just like with medical prices, or gas prices, or pointless laws, or people "learning to live with terrorism", people are complacent, cowardly, and lazy. They will, given the chance, always take the path of least resistance, and will always, unless forced otherwise, just passively accept whatever bullshit they are subjected to, because standing up and saying something, much less fighting back, is hard. Which is doubly ironic, in a world so rife is myraid protests for endless causes. Even most of those protestors, in other areas are their life that are, typically, MORE immediate and thus "more real" to them, also cowardly and passive. Accepting. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9ibpq-0-0">And yes, there is the axiom of "having the grace to accept the things you cannot change". But how far should that go, really? A lack of save slots in a video game is small potatoes, but it IS endemic of OTHER, far more serious and grave issues that people ALSO just accept. They just take it, because "what can they do about it?" And that is exactly why the world is in the state it is in today, because you have literally billions of people who simply "take it", because "that's just how it is". It is the mindset of cattle, of the herd. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6g3qj-0-0">Well listen up folks. Video games should have more than ONE fucking save slot. Medical and gas and other costs of living should be lower, because they CAN be lower. We are only charged the prices we are, because we have proven we'll pay whatever they charge, without resistance. We as a people, will continue to be subjected to silly, dumb, and even horrific bullshit on a daily basis, from all quarters, because we just bend over and "take it". That's just "how things are". Except they don't have to be, and shouldn't be. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1vlnh-0-0">People shouldn't accept one save file, any more than they should accept terrorism. Or cost of living so high that you cannot afford to live. As individuals, choose to be the person who stands up and says something. Who refuses to just bend over and "take it". Be the person who IS the change that they want to see in the world. Don't be the person just accepting whatever is, is, simply because it's "too hard" to fight for change. Be the person who fights for change, even dies fighting, because if more people did that, we might just have a more honest, more fair, and less cowardly, less horrible world.</span></div>
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And that SHOULDN'T happen, none of it. When a woman is harassed or assaulted, and she comes forward about it, if it legit happened, there isn't a reason on this Earth that she SHOULDN'T be believed, and supported. But the OTHER side of that coin, is False Accusation. And it isn't just a male problem, it happens to women too. But it's still a reality, and it's still a serious problem, when you as a person are accused of something you absolutely DIDN'T do, and YOU are not believed. Sometimes even by friends or family, people who are supposed to "know" you and trust you. Having people close to you doubt you, because of someone else's word, is both terrifying, and heartbreaking. There are few lonelier feelings in the world than that, just as I'm sure it is an incredibly lonely feeling trying to report something that DID happen, and people ignoring or disbelieving you. <br /><br />It may be a minority experience, but false accusation also DOES happen, and it shouldn't be attacked or dismissed as if it doesn't, or as if it isn't an issue. I've known guys it has happened to, from minor stuff such as my ex claiming that my friend grabbed her ass when he didn't (and believe me, I grilled him about it, angrily, assuming she was right). To major stuff, like a former acquaintance being accused of straight up attempting to rape a girl, which could have ruined his life, even though it didn't happen. Or the time that a friend's demented ex, when he was once downtown with her drunk off her ass, got pissed at him for something, and literally starting yelling at told some random dude to call the police, that the friend was "assaulting" her. My friend just walked away and left her ass after that, and came to my house (naturally) to vent about it. And worse yet, when she later showed up passed out drunk on MY porch, I practically begged him to just let me do the right thing, and call the cops on HER drunk, abusive ass, and he refused to let me do so.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="dgpb8-0-0">Or even myself, one of my best friends had a former fiance, who claimed that while he was out of the room, I was flirting with her (absolutely not). Or another time, that another friend's former GF, literally physically pulled me off balance so that I would fall into her against a wall, and then she "jokingly" accused me of grabbing her boob, even though I 100% didn't. And that situation immediately got the result I think she wanted: he got pissed at me, instantly, without even stopping to think that he knew me better than he knew her, and KNEW I wasn't the kind of guy who would do that to ANY random woman, let alone someone's GF (whom I had zero attraction to and frankly couldn't stand). </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fuj32-0-0">The friend instantly got angry, and threw something at me without taking stock of the situation, and I (rightly) told him to get the fuck out of my house. And I don't think she was one bit bothered by the fact that her deliberate "joking" false accusation, right in front of my face, right in front of HIS face, temporarily ruined our friendship (I didn't hear from him for months, until he had broken up with her, and then finally apologized and admitted he knew I wouldn't have done that). In fact, I think she did it because she would have found it "amusing" if we had started fighting like cavemen over nothing. A healthy clue was the fact that she was smirking and laughing, until the point that I told them to get the fuck out of my house.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7q0s9-0-0">Make no mistake, bringing this up is NOT in any way shape or form, detracting from or changing the subject from the sad and sickening reality of women (and men) dealing with harassment and assault. HOWEVER, false accusations shouldn't happen any more than harassment or assault should. One is far more prevalent, and that IS NOT an argument, obviously. But false accusations DO still happen sometimes, by people who assume they will be believed and the other will obviously be assumed to be guilty, with little defense or "proof" that you DIDN'T do it. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8vqb5-0-0">It all depends on context, situation, and the individuals involved, obviously. But it DOES happen, and as a guy myself, that is a scary reality and concern that I have to be aware of, and afraid of. I do not make a practice of sexually harassing or assaulting anyone. But I HAVE been accused of the former, at the very least, and know those who have been accused of the latter. And one of the common bits of advice to men on the receiving end of such treatment is often "well don't be dumb enough to put yourself in situations where you could BE accused of anything". The problem with that, quite frankly, is that it is JUST as bad advice, and JUST as shitty a thing to say to someone, as is victim shaming, telling the victim of harassment or assault to "not put yourself in that situation" or "don't go asking for it". There is NO such thing as "asking for it", in either case, whether it be harassment/assault, or being falsely accused of such. In either case, the perpetrator is the one who makes the CHOICE to be a human shitbag, and try to hurt the other person.<br /><br />That is the reality, the other side of the coin. And people need to be just as aware, and just as sensitive to it, because it can, in many ways, be just as awful and terrifying to be on the receiving end of accusations of abuse, as it is to be on the receiving end of abuse itself.</span></div>
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SilverBulletBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14701726167473974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611613017475834371.post-78541088497188507502017-10-12T14:42:00.000-07:002017-10-13T09:08:19.253-07:00Aging Gracefully: An Argument For The Timelessness of the NES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Something of an internet debate (or brushfire, depending on your experience and point of view), has cropped up recently, due mainly to the poor choice of wording (or outright inflammatory opinion) of this original <a href="https://kotaku.com/snes-classic-the-kotaku-review-1818822519/amp">Kotaku article</a>. In the article, which is reviewing (and mostly praising) the recently released SNES Classic retro console, the writer makes the claim that "most NES games are not worth playing" these days, as, in his words, they have "aged poorly". Thus the debate was sparked, with some people siding with the opinion, claiming that "he's not wrong", and others arguing <i>against</i> the notion, or even outright offended by it. You might even be thoroughly unsurprised to learn that a majority of the folks along these so-called "battle lines", seem to take a side according to when they likely "grew up" in the history of gaming. Meaning that those arguing in favor of "NES games not aging well", are largely people who either played it later in life, after having "grown up" with later consoles (such as the Playstation, N64, Xbox, etc.), or have never played it at all. And those defending the console, on the same token, are largely those that grew up playing it, and were directly impacted by its games.<br />
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Now anyone that knows me through <a href="http://retrorevelations.blogspot.com/">Retro Revelations</a>, or through the related Youtube channel, knows that I'm a huge fan of retro gaming, most especially, the NES. As related through <a href="http://retrorevelations.blogspot.com/2012/10/happy-birthday-celebration-of-nes.html">this original piece</a>, written the year I started the blog back in 2012, I grew up with the Nintendo Entertainment System, even though I got it late (1990). I had, of course, played video games, and even previously owned a console (Atari 2600) in my 80s childhood, but it wasn't until, at the age of almost 9 years old, when I finally got my own NES, that I legitimately fell IN LOVE with gaming, and became fairly obsessed with it. So from that perspective, you can rightly say that when it comes to this issue, I am of course biased. However, that's also fairly moot to point out, because quite frankly, especially when it comes to something like entertainment, EVERYONE is biased. Opinions are biased and subjective, that is the nature of opinions, and anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is, to put it nicely, completely full of shit.<br />
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But, that having been said, I am here today to offer a defense for the NES and its game library. Not that it should NEED a defense. But considering there is a strong enough sentiment among online gamers, that this sentiment "isn't wrong", I think that some well-articulated, well-informed defenses SHOULD be made, and I intend to be among them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The original masterpiece.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The birth of an icon.</td></tr>
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Above, are pictures of the three games that most gamers would point to as being the "Holy Trinity" of not only the NES as a console, but in the grand picture of things, Nintendo's game franchises on the whole. These three games, not only had the largest hand in making the Nintendo Entertainment System THE console to own in the 1980s, but they also deserve every bit of praise and credit they receive, for "shaping the face of modern gaming". Granted, there were games with similar elements that preceded these classics, but it is undeniable that Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, and Metroid, both refined what had already come before, as well as innovated what had yet to be seen in gaming.<br />
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Super Mario Bros. was not only THE game most deserving of credit for "saving the home console industry" in North America in the mid-80s, after the infamous market crash of 1983, but it also happened to be the first TRUE "side-scrolling" game, and the first TRUE "platformer" to boot. It was one of the first games to have a more concrete structure of "levels" and "worlds", with each world having a "final boss" that was more than just a regular enemy. It also helped to innovate the notion of "power ups", permanent items that made you stronger until you got hit. But what's more, it presented the idea of adding permanent power-ups that layer on top of one another, with the Super Mushroom and Fire Flower. It helped evolve the concept of "Extra Lives", and rewarded the player for gathering coins, not just with a high score, but with extra lives every 100 coins gathered, giving you a reason to be greedy about those coins. It presented a refinement of in-game control mechanics and physics, in everything from the direction a mushroom would fall depending on where you hit the block, to mid-air direction changes during a jump, or swimming physics in water levels. It represented a fairly massive and robust step forward in video gaming, from the simpler arcade and PC and Atari style titles of the early 80s, and helped to basically establish the cornerstones and foundation for what the vast majority of video games would come to be, even today.<br />
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Then of course there's The Legend of Zelda, a game many credit with being the first "open world adventure" game. Again, there were games before Zelda, that attempted to give you a similar experience. But Zelda was THE first game of its era, to give you such a rich, large and varied world, and such an open-ended quest, where, a few limitations not withstanding, you could truly approach the game however you wished, and go wherever the hell you wanted, even places you shouldn't. Zelda also contributed to the evolution of power-ups, by giving you permanent items you could equip, similar to a role playing game, and switch out as needed to tackle different obstacles. The land of Hyrule was rife with hidden secrets to be found, and the game by its very nature both encouraged and rewarded exploration of its world.<br />
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The one that often gets lost in the conversation, of course, is the original Metroid. Not as big a hit as Mario or Zelda, and spawning a franchise that, while popular, continues to this day to not be AS popular or AS successful as Mario and Zelda. But that bears nothing on the game's own innovations, and its own impact on the evolution of gaming. Metroid deserves just as much credit, in a lot of ways, as Zelda, for pushing the envelope of what a game world could be, and innovating the notion of "open world" exploration. Metroid was more rigid than the free-flowing Zelda, in that it presented you with more of a maze to navigate, and memorize, and backtracking to previous areas once you had obtained new items was a must. But it also allowed you, in a "side scrolling" dimension, to travel not only horizontally, but vertically, in a game world that for its time was just as massive as Zelda's Hyrule. And when it comes to power-ups, Metroid brought its own innovations, as it took the concept of "layering" even further, giving you upgrades to Samus' weapons that you could stack up and switch out. But perhaps the one thing Metroid brought to the table more so than its compatriots, was atmosphere and aesthetics. Not only were the graphics, in their own way, "more detailed" than Mario or Zelda, but in Metroid, the game combined graphics and sound, and level design, to create a very claustrophobic and lonely, even frightening sense of isolation. You were Samus, alone on this hostile, dangerous alien world, with death around every corner. And the player could really FEEL that, in a way that perhaps no previous game had ever quite accomplished.<br />
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Of course, we're not here just to talk up the innovations and merits of old classics. We're here to offer a rebuttal to the accusation that <i>"These games haven't aged well."</i> To that end, I would say that the first thing one needs to keep in mind with something like this, is that a little thing called <i>perspective</i>. One of the arguments in favor of NES games not aging well, is that while games like Mario 1, Zelda, and Metroid, ARE classics, that they have iterations on future consoles that "do it better". So when keeping things in perspective, from one point of view, YES, naturally, Super Mario World, A Link to the Past, and Super Metroid, for example, "do it better" from the standpoint that they do what any good sequel SHOULD do, which is build upon and add to the previous experience. If they didn't do that, they wouldn't be terribly good sequels, especially on newer, more powerful hardware. Super Metroid, most especially, I myself am fully willing to state takes everything the original (and the often forgotten Game Boy sequel) did, and does it BETTER, for sure. BUT, also keeping things in perspective, you simply CANNOT look at a game and judge it by what LATER games on more POWERFUL hardware did. That is absolutely pointless. When looking at older games, the only sober way to approach them, is to judge them on their OWN merits, keeping firmly in mind the TIME these games originally released, and what they brought to the table back THEN.<br />
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From THAT perspective, I find it almost impossible to understand how anyone could look at Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, or Metroid, and claim they "haven't aged well." Does Super Mario Bros. have less level, enemy and power-up variety than its sequels? Does it have "worse" controls or physics than its sequels or other later games that were inspired by it? Of course! Why? Because it came out in 1985, and in a lot of ways, was the very FIRST game to ever truly attempt a lot of the things it does. So naturally, OF COURSE its sequels and other later games would build upon that and IMPROVE upon that. If they didn't, they wouldn't be worth much, would they? But that's not the point. The POINT is, that Super Mario Bros., taken on its own merits, judged for what it is, with a mindfulness of WHEN it came out, is in fact still a very good game, a "timeless" classic that is fun, functional and addictive to play. By THOSE standards, the only standards that should matter when judging a game, regardless of how old it is, then yes, I would in fact say that Super Mario Bros. "has aged well". VERY well, in fact.<br />
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I would take that even further, however, by bringing up my next, possibly more controversial point. Looking at the pictures above, of Super Mario Bros. 3, and Super Mario 64, both great games, very innovative and even amazing for their respective times, one thing stands out to me like the proverbial "sore thumb": one of those games looks like it has "aged well", while the other hasn't. Purely on graphical terms, I will state that quite frankly, sprites 100% DO age better over time than 3D polygons. Old 8-bit and 16-bit console games, as well as 2D PC and arcade games from that 80s/90s era, absolutely look better NOW, than early 3D games did. Granted, Playstation and Sega Saturn and Nintendo 64 games, for their time, were amazing, because of their newness and spectacle. But it needs to be pointed out that the same thing could be said for Atari 2600 and Intellivision games, for their OWN time. And they both, if we're being fully honest, share something else in common: looking at them TODAY, pardon my language, but old Atari games and early 3D games are, simply put, fucking ugly.<br />
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By comparison? The best looking games of the NES, or Master System, or SNES, or Sega Genesis, etc., graphically hold up today, because they STILL look good! Have BETTER looking 2D sprite-based games come along? Of course, such is the nature of hardware evolution. But the fact is, there are games from those 8-bit and 16-bit eras, that absolutely have "aged well", even just graphically. There are games from those consoles that are still, in 2017, beautiful to look at. It's a hell of a lot harder to look at, say, Pilotwings 64, or Panzer Dragoon, or Virtua Fighter, or Final Fantasy VII, or Ocarina of Time, and say with a perfectly straight face, that yes, those blocky-as-hell, lacking-in-detail polygon models STILL look good. Frankly, if I'm being honest, they NEVER really looked GOOD. It's just that we didn't have BETTER 3D graphics to turn to at the time, so FOR their time, they had great graphics.<br />
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But it isn't just about graphics. Super Mario 64 is an amazing game, a masterpiece, and a landmark achievement of game design. It is, in its own way, the only game really deserving of the kind of credit that Super Mario Bros. gets, as far as laying foundations and innovating an entire genre and generation of games. SMB1 set the table for every side-scrolling game that would follow it, and in the same way, SM64 created the blueprint for 3D gaming, and set a standard that, honestly, most other 3D games of its generation, or even several following generations, failed to ever truly live up to. Having SAID all that, again, the discussion is "has it aged well". And while I would say that Super Mario 64, AS a 3D game, compared to most other 3D games, it HAS aged well for sure. I would also still argue, that Super Mario Bros. 1, and certainly Super Mario Bros. 3, as games judged purely on their own merits, have aged "better" than Mario 64. Part of that is personal bias, as while I love many 3D games, I simply have never liked 3D polygonal games as much as I do 2D sprite-based ones.<br />
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But part of that bias is also rooted in fact, that fact being that to this day, the BEST 2D sprite games, tend to play better, tighter, smoother, more functional, than the BEST 3D games. Something about polygons, and the physics and mechanics of 3D game engines, always feel very "floaty", which leads to looser, less precise controls, more "bouncy" mechanics, poorer hit detection, etc. etc. Just by the nature of 2D pixel art games, they can be, as the saying goes, "pixel perfect" in their mechanics and execution. That doesn't mean they always are, that's entirely up to the developer. But the BEST ones give you a very tight, precise level of control. 3D polygons simply cannot duplicate that. A perfect example of this, would be the New Super Mario Bros. series, which are fun and great games, but compared to their fully 2D predecessors, they simply do not function or play quite as well. There is a learning curve there, getting used to "floaty" Mario, versus say Super Mario Bros. 3, which by and large allows you to "turn on a dime", so to speak.<br />
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But even in the realm of 2D sprite-based gaming, circling back around to the very root of this argument, the Kotaku reviewer was making the claim that while NES, in his estimation, DOES have some good games, "most of them aren't worth playing", because in his estimation, you can get better games on the Super Nintendo. For one thing, that is an absurd point to make, essentially stating that "Super Mario World exists, so there's no reason to go back and play Super Mario Bros. 3". That's apples and oranges, because they're two different games. And even considering that Super Mario All-Stars exists, outside of (somewhat) more complex and colorful sprites, honestly, I always preferred the NES originals to the remade SNES versions of those Super Mario Bros. games. Mario 3 especially, on NES, flat out PLAYS better, as the controls feel tighter, whereas the All-Stars version always, to me at least, felt like it was "slippery", similar to how Super Mario World itself feels a bit looser in it's run-and-jump mechanics than SMB3 did. Plus to me, I just prefer the graphics and sounds of the NES original. Kind of like I prefer Mega Man on NES, versus the remade versions from the Wily Wars on Sega Genesis. But that is somewhat besides the point.<br />
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The POINT is, that while the Super Nintendo, obviously, has more powerful hardware, and more buttons, and can produce bigger games with higher capacity cartridges, higher fidelity graphics and sound, etc., YEAH, the 16-bit games are going to, at least on paper, be able to have more to them. But still, "better" is a very loaded, highly subjective word. I know people personally that would claim that SNES games are objectively "better" than NES games, but I think there is far too much subjectivity at play to really back that up. I suppose, from a certain perspective, it all depends on what you want out of a game, or what you're looking for in your gaming experience. If more complex and more colorful sprites, or more channels of audio are your thing, if a "richer" presentation is what you consider "better" gaming, then yes, I'd say the SNES is for you. But personally, I think it boils down to what kinds of games you like the most. If you like quality ports of classic arcade games, or if you like side-scrollers, platformer and action games, NES is your ticket. Hell, if you like puzzle games, sports games, and shooters, NES is also right up your alley.<br />
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The SNES also has those types of games, for sure, and depending on your tastes (especially with shooters) you might prefer what SNES has to offer. But I would personally state that those genres are NES' strong point. If, on the other hand, you love RPGs, or fighting games, or beat em ups, or perhaps even racing games, SNES might be more to your taste. I personally cite the Super Nintendo as being THE console for RPGs, as most of my favorite RPG games of all time are on it, such as Final Fantasy IV-VI, Breath of Fire, Chrono Trigger, Illusion of Gaia, etc. The NES has its share of RPGs, more than most probably realize, such as Final Fantasy 1, Dragon Quest/Warrior 1-4, Crystalis, Faxanadu, Zelda II, Legacy of the Wizard, and some solid ports of PC classics like Ultima, Bard's Tale, Times of Lore, Wizardry, D&D, etc. Again with keeping things in perspective, role playing games, especially console ones, didn't really hit a boom and come into their own UNTIL the Super NES and Sega Genesis. But as stated, unless your biggest issues are graphics and sound complexity, NES vs. SNES really boils down to what types of games you like best.<br />
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The suggestion that "NES games haven't aged well", is a very simplistic statement for a complex issue. Because there are so many different parameters to consider, not simply "they're old". If your entire basis for judging games is "new games are better than old ones because they're newer", then I'm afraid you're making a very poor argument. If you're going to insult the NES because "it's old", then you're also insulting the Sega Master System, or old arcade games, or old PC games. Not only is it a poor argument, but I would also suggest that in a lot of cases, it is flat out incorrect. This is the part of the article where I really dig in deep, and make a controversial statement that some will inevitably disagree with. But here it goes.<br />
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I think, personally, that the NES library, overall, holds up better today, than the N64, or Gamecube, or Wii, or Wii U libraries. And by saying that, I don't mean to imply that those consoles DON'T have good or even great games. Of course they do. My statement, my opinion, is that the sheer number of good-to-great titles on NES, not only outweighs, but has outlasted, the best games on those later Nintendo systems. Me personally, I would even put the NES library up against the SNES (even though SNES is my second favorite console of all time), or Sega Genesis, or Sony Playstation, but those are more complex arguments to make, and again, it really comes down to what kind of games you like best, and what gaming experiences you're looking for. I AM, however, fairly confident in stating that NES' library holds up, in my opinion, better than Nintendo's own later 3D consoles.<br /><br />The NES definitely has its share of stinkers, and I know this from experience. I rented them as a kid. I played Action 52, and Defenders of Dynatron City, and Empire Strikes Back (not horrible but I didn't enjoy it), and in my adult years I've played many more besides, thanks to the internet. The thing is though, if you look at the history of game consoles, EVERY system since the Atari 2600, that was the top seller of its generation, had the highest amount of crap on it. Why? It's simple really: everyone wants a piece of that pie. There is a bigger risk involved in trying to put your crappy shovelware game onto a console with so-so sales. But a TOP seller? The chances are much more likely that someone will be fooled into buying your game, the more consoles owners that are out there.<br />
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That doesn't change the fact that the NES also had an overwhelming number of anywhere from decent to outright incredible titles as well. So many iconic franchises made either their first appearance, or first FAMOUS appearance, on the NES, including but not limited to:<br />
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<b>Super Mario Bros.</b><br />
<b>The Legend of Zelda<br />Metroid</b><br />
<b>Contra</b><br />
<b>Mega Man<br />Castlevania</b><br />
<b>Ninja Gaiden</b><br />
<b>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles</b><br />
<b>Double Dragon</b><br />
<b>Dr. Mario</b><br />
<b>Battletoads</b><br />
<b>Final Fantasy</b><br />
<b>Dragon Quest</b><br />
<b>Adventure Island</b><br />
<b>Bomberman</b><br />
<b>Kirby</b><br />
<b>Star Tropics</b><br />
<b>Punch Out</b><br />
<b>Tecmo Bowl</b><br />
<b>Kid Icarus</b><br />
<b>Gradius</b><br />
<b>Bionic Commando</b><br />
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The NES was also, along with the Colecovision before it, one of the first consoles to have ports of arcade games that actually provided you with SOMETHING close to the original arcade experience. There were a lot of really good ports on NES, so for fans of classic arcade games, the NES was more than just the "Mario Machine", it also allowed them to play their favorites at home. Games like <b>Pac-Man, Pac-Mania, Galaga, Elevator Action, BurgerTime, Gauntlet, Ghosts n Goblins, Rampage, Heavy Barrel, Legendary Wings, Marble Madness, Prisoners of War, 1942/3</b>, etc. And in some cases, such as <b>Bump n Jump and Double Dragon</b>, the NES ports, in certain ways, were actually superior to the arcade originals!<br />
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The NES is ALSO seemingly known, thanks mostly to internet videos like The Angry Video Game Nerd (of which I'm a fan), for its lesser licensed games, such as the aforementioned The Empire Strikes Back, or Back to the Future, or Jaws, or Friday the 13th. But for every licensed clunker out there, NES also had a good or even GREAT licensed game, such as <b>Batman, Tiny Toons, Bugs Bunny, Duck Tales, Rescue Rangers, Bucky O'Hare, Little Nemo and Monster in My Pocke</b>t. The system also has a ton of more obscure, but pretty great "hidden gems", such as <b>Totally Rad, Monster Party, Shatterhand, Kickmaster, RC Pro Am, Snake Rattle n Roll, Big Nose the Caveman, Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy, Adventures of Lolo, Arkista's Ring, Conquest of Crystal Palace, Xexyz, Rygar, and Little Samson</b>.<br />
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The question of course remains, "Okay, you've pointed out all of these games, but DO they still hold up? HAVE they aged well?" And my PERSONAL answer to that question is, "YES, they have." It again comes back to subjectivity, and what you personally want out of a gaming experience. But judged solely on their merits, not on games of other eras or more powerful consoles, I think the Nintendo Entertainment System has plenty of games that really do still stand the test of time. Part of my feeling that way absolutely IS nostalgia, because this console was one of the most crucial parts of my young (and shitty) life as a kid. But if I ever have children, I'm going to sit down with them, and have them play NES with me, before they get into more modern games, and I'm willing to bet, that they will get just as much out of these games, and have just as fun playing them, as I did.<br />
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And ultimately, I think that's the true test of whether games "hold up" or not, is "Are they fun to play?" For some gamers, especially ones who grew up with modern games that are much more "forgiving" (or straight up hold your hand), they may not like the challenge a lot of NES games provide. But overall, I think that the very BEST NES classics, and there are many on that list, are still fun to play, and they're something you can go back and play and enjoy, at any time. Which, quite frankly, is more than I think you can say for a awful lot of modern games.<br />
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SilverBulletBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14701726167473974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611613017475834371.post-36863752548637566352017-09-29T16:14:00.001-07:002017-09-29T16:14:26.920-07:00Methods of Communication<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span data-offset-key="7pojn-0-0">It's funny (but not surprising), that one key thing that gets lost in the ridiculous and sexist "Mansplaining" conversation, is the stereotypical fact that men supposedly learn to communicate the most via sharing ideas and information. In other words, explaining things. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3hpbi-0-0">Ever hear a little boy excitedly tell you all about something he just learned or something he really likes? Ever hear a conversation between boys, or even men, where they tell each other all about something, or share many "Did You Know?" facts with each other? Is that also "Mansplaining"? Or is that just how they learn to communicate.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="dv0be-0-0">Nevermind the fact that it is a very pointed, bigoted, nasty, and offensive word. Also nevermind the fact that many women "Womansplain" a lot of the time also, yes even to men. The point is that, perhaps, just perhaps, not everyone born with a dick is BEING a dick, and "Showing Their Privilege", when they try to share ideas or information with you. If they are telling you about something, or explaining something, it's entirely possible that they aren't AWARE you might already know about it, and they're simply sharing from what is to THEM a good place. It's how they learned to communicate. Perhaps there's actually zero gender-based malice attached to the act at all, and you're the one being a bigot for assuming that they MUST be "Mansplaining" to you.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ccrsv-0-0">That's about the same, and about as ignorant, as assuming that a woman is "on the rag" or "overly emotional", just because, again stereotypically, women learn to communicate more through, and about, their feelings. It's also just as offensive. Truth is, men communicate their feelings too, and women communicate ideas and information. But society tends to raise us to express ourselves and communicate with others one way or the other, based on gender norms. That does not mean that a man is "Mansplaining" to you because he tells you about something. And guess what? If he's doing it in a way that actually IS rude and actually IS him being a dick about it? Anyone can be an asshole. That is not gender specific. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1qapb-0-0">Maybe more millennials would know that, if they took more actual Psych and Sociology courses in college, instead of (often contrived and biased) Women's/Gender Studies courses. They might also know that if they *GASP* bothered regarding each person as a person, and not simply part of their "Gender Group". Either way, the word "Mainsplain", and it's use, are at the core, both bigoted and offensive, and if you're actually serious about treating people as people, with Equality, then you'd understand that, and wouldn't use it. </span></div>
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SilverBulletBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14701726167473974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611613017475834371.post-37606781026513811432017-09-25T15:25:00.001-07:002017-09-25T15:26:18.684-07:00Taking A Knee<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span data-offset-key="cutur-0-0">I am not the biggest fan of how some (or even many) BLM "activists" act. Some of them are outright bigots, and are using their cause to their advantage as excuses to act childish and entitled and destructive. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9tclo-0-0">However, that doesn't invalidate the point of the entire movement, just because some within it are worthless assholes. I have never liked Colin Kaepernick, and don't want him on the Baltimore Ravens. But that has nothing to do with him kneeling. Never has been. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1vilc-0-0">It was not even about race or politics anymore. It was an act of Solidarity, which is why a lot of NON-black players and coaches, etc., joined in protest. Yes, they're a bunch of overpaid millionaires (well, the stars at least). But that doesn't mean they aren't still people. And when the PRESIDENT of the United States calls some of them "Sons of Bitches", they stood TOGETHER in defiance of that, and in SUPPORT of each other. There's nothing embarrassing about that at all. If anything, fans SHOULD be proud of it. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fa2ik-0-0">If you don't support the proud American tradition of protest, well then I don't know what to tell you. Except that you really don't understand what it's supposed to mean to be an American. And you most certainly are not "defending" or "honoring" the flag by shitting on other's right to peacefully protest, which is all they're doing. And quite frankly, as a sports fan myself, I have to say, if you're THIS upset and THIS quick to turn on players and a team and a sport that you claim to love, then I really have to question how much you ever truly loved the sport or the team or the players in the first place. </span></div>
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SilverBulletBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14701726167473974334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7611613017475834371.post-38139286345584234302017-09-23T13:15:00.003-07:002017-09-25T15:23:40.594-07:00Love and Life<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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know...I'm not going to "judge" people like Chris Cornell and Chester
Bennington for taking their own lives. And this isn't about "judgement",
so for anyone who might read this, don't even bother going there.<br />
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However, I will say that I simply do not understand how they could do
it. You can say whatever you want about "chemical imbalances" and
whatever meds they were on "affecting their minds" etc. etc. etc. But at
the end of the day, IGNORING the fact that they were rich and
successful and "had it all". The most important thing to me, the reason I
find it unbelievable that they could just kill themselves, is because
they both had wives and children and families who truly loved them. <br />
I have never had a wife and children. I have never truly felt like I
had "Family". I have relatives, but I've never had that "Family"
closeness, in my entire life. And even many of the "friends" I've had
over my life, have been rather dubious, and more than a few have turned
out to false and self-interested, self-serving, etc. But one of the key
factors in the depression that I have suffered and struggled with most
of my life, has stemmed from loneliness and being alone. Not having even
that "One" person in your life, who is always there, who will always
love you and lift you up, no matter what. <br />
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Chris and Chester had
that, and more. I can only imagine what it would feel like to NOT feel
alone, and to actually HAVE love in my life, a wife, children, family.
They had that. Yet they both chose to take their own lives, and LEAVE
their loves and their families. Selfishly. I won't sit here and tell you
I've never contemplated suicide in my own life. I have, a great many
times. Possibly too many times to count. I don't talk about this with
the vast majority of people I know openly, because quite frankly, it's
my own private business, and most people do not need to know, much less
do they truly care. But I can tell you with authority, that my ever
wanting to kill myself, has stemmed DIRECTLY from being alone and
miserable in this life. <br />
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If I had even just a woman/wife in my
life, that one person who TRULY loved me and to whom I meant the world
to, I would never EVER kill myself. Much less if we had children
together, a beautiful family that WE had made together. I couldn't even
conceive of wanting to die in that scenario. Why? Because I believe,
have ALWAYS believed, that were I to HAVE that in my life, love, family,
I would want to LIVE. A desire for death only comes from feeling like
you have nothing and that nothing will ever get better. I'm sure many
people who have suffered with depression and suicidal thoughts could
tell you that. But if I had that love in my life, while everything, and
my own problems, might not just magically disappear, I CAN tell you that
all of the miseries and tediousness and frustrations of life would be a
hell of a lot more tolerable. I could bare it all, because I had "Her",
because I had "them" in my life. I would want to live as long as I
possibly could, just to BE with them, and enjoy whatever time I could
possibly get with them. I that with authority now more than ever, being
almost 36 years old and still alone in life. <br />
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But the POINT is,
that is why I cannot conceive why they would want to die, or how they
could bring themselves to do it. Having loving wives, having loving
children and families in their lives. I'm not saying that if I had a
wife and kids that I wouldn't still be broken inside. That may be
unfixable at this point, for all I know. But I WOULD love them as much
as I possibly could, and would savor every moment with them that I could
get. Doing what they did, to me, was selfish, and you could argue even
an act of betrayal to the people who held them most dear. People who
loved them and depended on them. Basically what I have wanted for myself
my entire life, dating even back to childhood. <br />
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And I'm just saying, I don't get it. If I had what they had, personally, I would never, COULD never, do what they did.</div>
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By now, everyone in America, and many around the world, are familiar with what went down in Charlottesville, Virginia. A group of "White Supremacists" decided to hold a rally, chanting such charming things as "Black Lives Don't Matter" and "We're Taking Our Country Back". So-called "Anti-Protesters", people who stand against their rhetoric, also showed up, to try and shout them down, or at the very least, one would suppose, show that people won't sit at home while these kinds of fools march around. But then, as things often do, especially in today's tense and troubled times, shit got real. Violence erupted, and in the escalation, some asshole decided to take a page out of ISIS' notebook, and drove his car into a crowd of "Anti-Protesters". Many people were injured, and one woman died. This
act was ignorant, and evil, as are these words. The fact that an
American emulated the Islamic Terrorist tactics of driving cars into
crowds, is pretty terrifying, and I doubt it'll be the last instance.<br />
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while I have no love whatsoever for so-called "Nazis" (although let's
be honest, no matter what they call themselves, these Home Depot clowns
aren't Nazis), there is something worth musing, that I have posited
myself elsewhere, that few seem to actually want to step up and answer.
That being: If the driver had been one of the "ANTIFA" (aka Liberal)
protesters, driving into a crowd of the "White Supremacists", how many
of the people (rightly) decrying this act, would be the exact same
people cheering it? If it had been an
"SJW" killing a "Nazi" with their car, how many of these same people
would be applauding them and calling them a "Hero"? <br /><br />My
guess, is quite a few. A lot more than most people would likely want to
admit. As a "Person of Color" (though I dislike the term) myself, of
mixed-ancestry, I have experienced bigotry and "racism" from all
quarters. I've been attacked for looking non-white. I've been attacked
for being white. I've been attacked for my Middle-Eastern heritage. I've
been attacked for "still being too white to have a voice in PoC
issues", etc. etc. etc. <br /><br />But my thing is this. Are
these "White Supremacist" idiots and ignorant assholes? Absolutely.
100%. Few are going to actually try to make a solid argument against
that. But are every single one of them "EVIL"? Probably not. A lot of
them, outside of this retarded group, outside of the fervor and the
paranoia and the hate, are probably decent people, with jobs, and
friends, and family, some even children. Should they be beaten, or
threatened, or doxed? Should their families be threatened by
association? Should they and their families lives be ruined? No, they
shouldn't. 1. Because that isn't going to fix or solve anything. And 2.
Because that is exact the disgusting, ignorant kinds of actions that
many on the "Left" accuse many of the "Right" of already doing. It is endemic of the reality of this entire situation: that it's an endless Feedback Loop, with people on one side getting more aggressive and vile, which spurs the other side to escalate, etc. etc. But that is a topic for another day.<br /><br />The
biggest question is: Should hate speech be tolerated? Should bigoted,
racist rhetoric, even in the form of "Free Speech Demonstrations", be
allowed in public forums? I will admit, because they are either
indirectly or sometimes directly advocating violence and harm to others,
there is an argument to be made that NO, it shouldn't be allowed. But,
on that same token, if we're going to shut down this kind of thing, then
we should also shut down "Black Lives Matter" protests that go far
beyond their original purpose, and devolve into straight up racism and
bigotry themselves, carrying signs and yelling out things like "FUCK ALL
WHITE PEOPLE", and "THE WORLD NEEDS LESS WHITES". And those are just
some of the nicer things I've seen.<br /><br />The problem with
Freedom, is that everyone ELSE around you has it too. I have long said
that <b><i><u>"The True Price of Freedom, is Having to Tolerate The Freedom of
Others"</u></i></b>. It isn't sending people to foreign wars to kill people, because
rich folks who run shit say so. The true Price of Freedom, is that I
have the freedom to say whatever the fuck I want, and so does some
redneck piece of trash who wants to wave a Nazi flag. That is America.
You're allowed to be a Nazi if you want to be a Nazi, unfortunately.
Just as much as you are allowed to be a white-hating "Black Supremacist"
who preaches a mythological doctrine which states that ALL white people
are biologically evil, animals less than human, and need to be wiped
out. Yes, those people exist, because I've run into them FAR too many
times online. Two sides of the same, hideous coin, if you ask me. <br /><br />Me
personally? I don't WANT to live in a world where "White Supremacists",
or "Black Supremacists" or "Muslim Supremacists" or "Christian
Supremacists", or ANY of those kinds of hateful assholes, exist.
However, this is the world we live in. And I happen to value my Freedom
of Expression. For my Freedom of Expression to have ANY real value and
worth, I have to believe that it applies to EVERYONE, not just me, and not
just people who say things I like or approve of. But <b><i>everyone</i></b>. Even the
hateful, ignorant, mouth-breathing assholes. I say, <b><i>let people hang
themselves with their own words</i></b>. LET them be racists, LET them hold
rallies and look like the fucking idiots they are. And then let people
publicly CONDEMN them for it, and point OUT what racist troglodytes they
really are. <br /><br />But to shut down Free Speech? To shut
down rallies and protests? That is a slippery slope. Where does it end?
Shutting down their Youtube channels and blogs and websites? Making it
"illegal" to publicly even SAY racist things at all? In some sense, that
ALMOST seems justified. But then what's next? Coming after OTHER
"harmful" or "radical" ideologies? Coming after people like me, who like
to express myself, with colorful language and sometimes, yes, "Radical"
ideas of my own? If we start becoming a Society of Censorship, instead
of a Society of Free Expression, I'm sorry, but that is not the society I
want to live in. <br /><br />As an artist, a writer, a person,
I value my ability to say whatever the hell I feel like, and as a grown
ass adult, I'll deal with the consequences. And if we start shutting
down protests, and then shutting down dialogue and discussion, shutting
down people's ability to speak and express themselves, REGARDLESS of
what they have to say... where does that end? Because if it ends with me
ALSO getting censored, told "You can't say that" or "You can't talk
about that", "You can't write about that". You know what? Fuck that, and
fuck anyone who would want to do that to me. I don't WANT racist
assholes to spread their idiocy. But I DO want to be able to express
MYSELF without restraint. So unfortunately, for that to mean anything
real, THOSE clowns have to have the same right that I have. I don't even
remotely value WHAT they have to say. But I do feel obligated to value
their RIGHT to say it.</span><br />
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