My man.
I’ve been there too. I saw the singularity and touched god… and I’m a goddamn atheist. Coming back from that experience changed me. The memories were fleeting. I couldn’t remember the specifics after I returned to baseline. All the knowledge that I was given dissipated… but the overwhelming sense of calm persisted.
If I’m gonna die, it’d be a good way to go out.
Lol. I love how consumed you are with trying to argue about this, insisting that this is just atheists trying to be edgy…
They are trolling stupid assholes and you are absolutely taking the bait.
Congratulations, you’re a stupid asshole.
Did you know that Cub Scouts isn’t compromised of bear cubs?
Did you know that the only baseball teams that take part in The World Series are North American?
Did you know that Dr Pepper is neither a doctor nor a pepper?
So what’s really up your craw?
I miss Josta. That was my OG energy drink.
You serious?
Good point. I’ll try harder to raise my kids to be more bulletproof.
You’re not wrong, but anyone who leaves shit like this or the stupid church dollars as a tip is a special kind of asshole.
That was the point.
That’s actually a great movie, and it’s probably one of my most watched DVDs.
It’s some of the best early mo-cap cgi in cinema history. Photorealistic without diving into the uncanny valley.
And storyline is very engaging. It hits poignant notes about pacifism, environmentalism and reincarnation without coming off as preachy or condescending.
In the theater? Boogie Nights.
My friend and I didn’t know a goddamn thing about Paul Thomas Anderson when we went to the premiere. All we knew was that Heather Graham got naked in this movie about porn stars. We’d both had massive crushes on Heather ever since License to Drive… A crush which was only strengthened by her appearance in Swingers.
It turned out that the great nudity was only a bonus to what ended up being an amazing film with brilliant performances from everyone… INCLUDING Marky Mark. My friend and I ended up going to see Boogie Nights on the big screen close to 20 times. It helped that I had just gotten a job as an usher at a theater when the movie got it’s second run, so we could see it for free. It also became a point of local pride since PTA was North East Ohio television royalty, and my friend and I wanted to follow in his footsteps
I’ve done tons of ketamine. It’s an amazing molecule that can absolutely help you put your brain onto a better track.
But it’s not a magic bullet. It takes work.
If you have access to a reputable therapist, you might be able to get some good results.
It’s worth looking into, at the very least.
Why are you still a moderator for Reddit?
Back in the days of 35mm film, movies were delivered to theaters in individual reels. A typical movie would be five to seven reels long.
It was my Thursday job to tape all the reels together into one long piece of film for the Friday premier. I’d also have to build the trailer packs, add cues for lights down/up… just generally make sure that the movie would work as it’s supposed to.
For reference, you see that platter of film in the OP picture? That platter was delivered in chunks, and building the print is putting all those chunks together to make a complete movie.
I’d absolutely do an AMA if there were a mechanism to do so.
They’ll do their own research and make their own well informed, reasonable conclu…
Sorry, I can’t keep that bullshit up.
Most groups will move their goalposts as far as they need to in order to make the new reality fit their narrative. They won’t actually change their minds about anything here on earth.
Other groups will start attacking the sources of the new information. The weaker will simply question the facts, like they did during the pandemic. There will also probably be a more militant arm, physically attacking telescopes and sources of extraterrestrial information like Gary Busey’s son did in Contact.
A few will embrace the knowledge that there is intelligent life outside our planet… and immediately start preparing missionary trips to spread the word of their upcoming redemption like some kind of latter day Prior of the Ori.
A very small group will see this as the truth it is… that their accepted view of reality isn’t correct, that maybe they should rethink things.
In short, we can absolutely depend on the religious to ruin things for everyone else, just like always.
But seriously, we should also be hopeful that whatever intelligent life we may possibly discover doesn’t have their own problems with religion… because that will not end well for anyone.
Directors that film on Imax generally still have a hard on for physical film.
Not that I blame them. I ran movie theaters for 20 years and while I really did appreciate how much easier my job was after we went digital, I legitimately missed working projection booth shifts when it was all film. Threading and starting two dozen projectors all day long and building prints, it was some of the most fun I ever had at a job. It was really zen, just you and the machines.
You’re not wrong.
Good bot.
We really are just the universe experiencing itself subjectively.
K and nitrous… that’s mothers love.