I got a good dose of sermonhood yesterday about security in Salvation. I apologize to anyone I may have discouraged in my agonized whining and griping.
I still have to process all of the content and try to recall as much of it as I can because the guy made a lot of good points in a variety of ways, all of it backed by scripture. He really put it in to my head in a way that makes sense. Paul The Apostle wrote some great stuff, but his writings come across as a jumbled mess of words when I try reading them. My Mom insists that while reading The Bible on my own is a good thing, it's not the best way to fully understand what a lot of it says. It'd be nice, IMO, if it were, since I'm prone to act as an islander, living in this 2 bedroom apartment alone much of the time, rarely venturing outside except ocasionally to get groceries etc., but God did not intend people to be that way to begin with and he certainly does not intend for people to be that way in this day and age with 7 billion people to pick from in seeking friendship (many of which have internet access). With this in mind, I think I'm going to be reading more stuff written by English speaking intellectuals from modern times. Someday I might get into a good quality group of folk who are interested in studying The Bible, but for now, a good quality selection of books by fellow Christians is the closest I'm at in that regard. I recently downloaded a couple A.W. Tozer books, need to read those. I got a free DL Moody book a couple days ago. Haven't started it quite yet. And I actually already have a couple books, actual books, on my shelf that have just been sitting there. So I got a fairly decent start and a lot to chew. I am feeling optimistic about my future, although still cautious as The Bible says I should be, with Satan out on the prowal ready to exploit every unarmored crevice.
Monday, July 15, 2019
Out with Bruce Willis, in with Kristin Wiig
for the 8th DIE HARD movie.
I can imagine Melissa McCarthy in an action film. It's happened, albeit in comedic fashion, with 2015's SPY. I can even see Kristin Wiig in an action film, in the vaguest corner of my mind, playing in some tense thriller like TAKEN. Heck, if they remade TAKEN and recast Liam Neeson with some female of any demeanor, it'd be a smash. I have no problem imaginging women as scientists or buttkickers. But GHOSTBUSTERS was about male bonding. Men don't bond the same way women do. Not only was the male bonding genuine in the 1st Ghostbusters movie since all of the cast members were kind of woven into this little circle of sorts, but they had a different way of being than the cast of that film that was made in 2016 that "just so happens" to share the same name as a certain blockbuster film from 1984.
Sony Pictures marketed GHOSTBUSTERS: Answer The Call as a reboot of the franchise from 1984. I don't mind watching females bond in their own way. But if I had watched THE INTERN (w/ Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway), first of all --- as the film actually was it would have been pretty obvious it had nothing intellectual or otherwise to do with the GHOSTBUSTERS franchise, but there's a reason for that. Sexism is not the reason that most garbage truck jobs and police officer roles are filled by men. Maybe it used to be, back when the economy was in good enough condition for someone to stay home with the kids and another person to go earn money for the household, and it was generally understood that women - generally speaking - had the biological and emotional build needed to more adaquatly perform the duties of parenting. While there have always been mothers who hated being motherhood and men who have abused their physical strength to disregard the pleas of women with a "Well, I'm in charge and I don't care what you think" attitude, that does not mean that every women should be expected to go out and "find her passion". Yes, life should be enjoyed. It should not be miserable. If any misery is undertaken in life it is because of one or more act of injustice. The stationary mortal cannot always determine the full scope of the facts and we are all guilty of some form of injustice upon one another. Untangling the causes and effects of these billions of papercuts we've all been known to fling, it is only fitting that an omnipresent being, like God, written about in THE HOLY BIBLE, be left to determine who gets what and what the what is.
But back to my main point. While I do think there is some -- a rather dishearteningly large amount unfortunately -- comments posted on the internet that seem to come from a truly hateful place, I don't think it's fair to say that women "can't be ghostbusters". True, women can be Ghostbusters. Zelda Rubenstein was, in essence, a GHOSTBUSTER in the 1982 film POLTERGEIST. If 1984's GHOSTBUSTERS had been called POLTERGIEST II, I think people would have been a little confused to say the least.
I can imagine Melissa McCarthy in an action film. It's happened, albeit in comedic fashion, with 2015's SPY. I can even see Kristin Wiig in an action film, in the vaguest corner of my mind, playing in some tense thriller like TAKEN. Heck, if they remade TAKEN and recast Liam Neeson with some female of any demeanor, it'd be a smash. I have no problem imaginging women as scientists or buttkickers. But GHOSTBUSTERS was about male bonding. Men don't bond the same way women do. Not only was the male bonding genuine in the 1st Ghostbusters movie since all of the cast members were kind of woven into this little circle of sorts, but they had a different way of being than the cast of that film that was made in 2016 that "just so happens" to share the same name as a certain blockbuster film from 1984.
Sony Pictures marketed GHOSTBUSTERS: Answer The Call as a reboot of the franchise from 1984. I don't mind watching females bond in their own way. But if I had watched THE INTERN (w/ Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway), first of all --- as the film actually was it would have been pretty obvious it had nothing intellectual or otherwise to do with the GHOSTBUSTERS franchise, but there's a reason for that. Sexism is not the reason that most garbage truck jobs and police officer roles are filled by men. Maybe it used to be, back when the economy was in good enough condition for someone to stay home with the kids and another person to go earn money for the household, and it was generally understood that women - generally speaking - had the biological and emotional build needed to more adaquatly perform the duties of parenting. While there have always been mothers who hated being motherhood and men who have abused their physical strength to disregard the pleas of women with a "Well, I'm in charge and I don't care what you think" attitude, that does not mean that every women should be expected to go out and "find her passion". Yes, life should be enjoyed. It should not be miserable. If any misery is undertaken in life it is because of one or more act of injustice. The stationary mortal cannot always determine the full scope of the facts and we are all guilty of some form of injustice upon one another. Untangling the causes and effects of these billions of papercuts we've all been known to fling, it is only fitting that an omnipresent being, like God, written about in THE HOLY BIBLE, be left to determine who gets what and what the what is.
But back to my main point. While I do think there is some -- a rather dishearteningly large amount unfortunately -- comments posted on the internet that seem to come from a truly hateful place, I don't think it's fair to say that women "can't be ghostbusters". True, women can be Ghostbusters. Zelda Rubenstein was, in essence, a GHOSTBUSTER in the 1982 film POLTERGEIST. If 1984's GHOSTBUSTERS had been called POLTERGIEST II, I think people would have been a little confused to say the least.
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