I'm incredibly selective. A MySpace gourmand, if you will.
Unfortunately, I'm also so bored I'm there looking up people I went to high school with. These meds are really fucking with my brain. Cause I'd never do that sober.
One of the pluses of MySpace is that you can generally get a small taste of what person has evolved into (or hasn't evolved, in some cases) before I decide I want to be in touch with them again. Actually, so far I've found someone I've been meaning to look up for a long time, which was nice. I also ran into my senior prom date. So far, those are the only two I've dared approach.
I went to high school in Wheaton. Home of Wheaton College, that has a building named after Billy Graham, and the C.S. Lewis library collection, who is ironically a theologian they'd never allow to teach at that school. Its also the district of Henry Hyde, who is one of the most conservative members of congress ever. It was once in the Guiness Book of World Records for having the most churches per square mile. I hated it there.
I often wonder about fundamentalist Christians and C.S. Lewis. Because while I think that much of his theology is bollocks, he'd be a flaming liberal by U.S. standards. Yet fundies like Narnia, mostly.
I think fundies like Narnia because they can call it a battle between good and evil, which is actually really isn't. The movie version that came out last year, while fairly good, showed exactly how they feel- the battle scene in the book lasts about a page and a half, while it was a good twenty minutes, and much gorier than it should have been, on the screen.
I also don't think most fundies know a lot about Lewis' theology outside of the Narnia books. I don't subscribe to his theology, but I think its thought-provoking. Its certainly a product of the times in which it was written.
The battle scene didn't match the book, that's mostly what I'm complaining about. I've definitely seen gorier films, that's true :-) I guess I just hate that the moviemakers turned the battle into a major point of the story line, when it wasn't. Yes, it was a plot development, but the way it was portrayed in the movie totally shifted from the mai messages of the book.
Pardon my drugs, they seem to be working overtime today. I can't seem to articulate what I want to say.
Oh no, that totally makes sense. It's more that I get annoyed when violence is glossed over. "Oh, we had a massive battle, but there's no actual blood to be seen except for when it suits dramatic purposes."
In regards to thinking clearly and trying to articulate, it occurs to me that what bothers me is that the movie turned into a Holy War. Which is a huge fundie agenda, as far as I can tell.
That reminds me a of a commercial that ran a couple of years ago where a guy was surfing the interent and suddenly he hit a pop-up winddow that said "Attention: You have arrived at the end of the internet, you cannot continue on any longer. Please back up through your browser to get back to the beginning" The guy just sat there amazed. I don't know why, but it was very funny.
I want to make a graphic now with some business-themed stock photo and the text: "Please wait! We are busy making content for you!" It could replace those tired "Under Construction" graphics.
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Date: 2006-09-06 05:33 pm (UTC)I even went on MySpace. That's how bored I am.
Scary, no?
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Date: 2006-09-06 05:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-06 05:39 pm (UTC)Unfortunately, I'm also so bored I'm there looking up people I went to high school with. These meds are really fucking with my brain. Cause I'd never do that sober.
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Date: 2006-09-06 06:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-06 06:40 pm (UTC)I went to a particularly scary high school.
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Date: 2006-09-06 06:47 pm (UTC)Who wasn't scary. But still.
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Date: 2006-09-06 06:50 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-09-06 07:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-06 07:34 pm (UTC)I also don't think most fundies know a lot about Lewis' theology outside of the Narnia books. I don't subscribe to his theology, but I think its thought-provoking. Its certainly a product of the times in which it was written.
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Date: 2006-09-06 07:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-06 07:46 pm (UTC)The battle scene didn't match the book, that's mostly what I'm complaining about. I've definitely seen gorier films, that's true :-) I guess I just hate that the moviemakers turned the battle into a major point of the story line, when it wasn't. Yes, it was a plot development, but the way it was portrayed in the movie totally shifted from the mai messages of the book.
Pardon my drugs, they seem to be working overtime today. I can't seem to articulate what I want to say.
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Date: 2006-09-06 08:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-06 08:14 pm (UTC)In regards to thinking clearly and trying to articulate, it occurs to me that what bothers me is that the movie turned into a Holy War. Which is a huge fundie agenda, as far as I can tell.
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Date: 2006-09-06 06:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-06 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-09-06 07:22 pm (UTC)The last guy is really hard.
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Date: 2006-09-06 06:32 pm (UTC)I want to make a graphic now with some business-themed stock photo and the text: "Please wait! We are busy making content for you!" It could replace those tired "Under Construction" graphics.
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Date: 2006-09-06 06:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-06 06:40 pm (UTC)And I am most certainly not at home. :(
Nobody wuvs me. :'(
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Date: 2006-09-06 06:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-07 12:22 am (UTC)G'Night.
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Date: 2006-09-07 01:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-07 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-07 08:51 pm (UTC)Be careful what you wish for.