the media is very powerful.
many news people just want to get a scoop even if their breaking story isn’t checked out for accuracy.
some journalists are precise and double check whatever they are reporting.
What we see today is flecks of truth in all types of media - right-wing, left-wing, social, etc.
Then it's up to us to compare different media outlets' take on stuff and work out what happened.
Media do not usually make claims they know are false.
Instead, they often lie through omission - i.e. they leave out certain news stories that don't fit their narrative. The Guardian is notorious for this.
recently reflecting on some of the great songs that came out of that decade.
any favorites post them up .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuza6qijvfu.
recently reflecting on some of the great songs that came out of that decade.
any favorites post them up .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuza6qijvfu.
recently reflecting on some of the great songs that came out of that decade.
any favorites post them up .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuza6qijvfu.
recently reflecting on some of the great songs that came out of that decade.
any favorites post them up .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuza6qijvfu.
as a witness, when you thought about jesus christ, what was the first thing that came to your mind?.
Even as a JW, the thought came into my mind that JC was pretty far-removed from the GB.
I remember talking with my mate and his fiancée.
(We were all baptized at this point. His fiancée had already been baptized, kinda left for a bit, then worked her way back and got with my buddy.)
His fiancée asked us: 'why do we have to follow the GB specifically - we can't we just follow Jesus Christ?'
And I remember me and my buddy scrabbling around, trying to find a good answer! XD
this stupid kid is 20 something going on 5yo.
she has to put her finger or tongue in everything.
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'Miley Cyrus is a stupid skank'
Change my mind ...
horror is easily my favourite genre of movie so i just thought i'd start a thread on it.. horror can be done badly and there are plenty of crap horror movies, no doubt about that.
but horror can also be done very well, too - often on a low budget.. plus, there are quite a lot of subgenres - slasher, supernatural, monster movies, body horror, psychological horror, zombie, vampire, etc.. so, do you like horror?.
what's your favourite subgenre?.
Er, yeah, so here's a bit more from this book I've been reading. It is a critical look at Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
The author claims that homosexuality is an important theme in the movie.
Er, yeah, 'cos no two things go together like the story of Frankenstein and homosexuality. The author points to the fact that a fair amount of the film's cast were gay (so?), and even goes so far as to say that the only meaningful relationship in the movie is between two males (Frankenstein's monster and a blind man who befriends him). This is stretching it a bit. No, it's stretching it a lot. The relationship between Frankenstein's monster and the hermit is platonic, and therefore nothing to do with homosexuality or gay sexual relationships.
And then there's this doozy, quote : [Dr] Pretorius tells Henry [Frankenstein] with an arched eyebrow that 'I grow my creatures ... as nature does, from seed', possibly a reference to masturbation ... - er no, just no.
Y'know, there's interesting movie analysis, and there's talking bollocks. We must not let ourselves stray into the latter when we're engaging in the former.
To be fair to the author, he does resist the temptation to scrabble around for metaphor during his analysis of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), which is spot on incidentally. TCM is just a pure horror film, plain and simple, designed to scare the bejesus out of 70s cinema-goers.
horror is easily my favourite genre of movie so i just thought i'd start a thread on it.. horror can be done badly and there are plenty of crap horror movies, no doubt about that.
but horror can also be done very well, too - often on a low budget.. plus, there are quite a lot of subgenres - slasher, supernatural, monster movies, body horror, psychological horror, zombie, vampire, etc.. so, do you like horror?.
what's your favourite subgenre?.
What I love about the Alien films were the false frights where a light fitting or piece of electronic equipment would look at first glance like the alien - yes, this was great. The alien blended perfectly with the spaceship's electrical fittings and wires. It must have been a great shock to cinema audiences back in 1979 when the alien's hand suddenly reached out and tried to grab Ripley ...
horror is easily my favourite genre of movie so i just thought i'd start a thread on it.. horror can be done badly and there are plenty of crap horror movies, no doubt about that.
but horror can also be done very well, too - often on a low budget.. plus, there are quite a lot of subgenres - slasher, supernatural, monster movies, body horror, psychological horror, zombie, vampire, etc.. so, do you like horror?.
what's your favourite subgenre?.
Hammer horror for me - I haven't seen many Hammer horror films.
The one that I do remember is Dracula (1958), titled Horror of Dracula in the US. It's the first time Christopher Lee starred as Dracula. I saw it on TV when I was quite young.
I must have been about 5 so it was around 1984 ... and the film scared the crap out of me! XD
