Look, you're missing the point. That soap opera analogy doesn't work because soaps rely on these totally unrealistic, over-the-top caricatures. Plus, even when they try to go big, the acting is just banal and transparent—it feels like a bunch of unpaid interns working for student credits. Soap operas don't actually have a message or deep substance buried in the plot; the plots *are* the content. This movie, though? It’s got structure, it’s got a soul, and the issues it hits on are real. To me, it nails that specific kind of fragility you see in middle-class American life. Everything looks polished and comfortable on the surface, but one wrong move and the whole thing falls apart. A feature film doesn't need some crazy, heightened setup to be effective; it can be perfectly mediocre and still hit hard.
I mean, sure, you could go shoot something like 12 Angry Men if you wanted to.
Smuđ, why would some gritty realist flick go and contradict itself? What exactly are you picking up from a movie that lays things out plain and simple? If it didn't, it'd be something else entirely, and then the whole point just evaporates.
Anyone ever stumble across an actual expert—in any field—who doesn't just talk in complete, unhinged riddles? I'm talking about someone who actually explains things without using impossible jargon. Emphasis on "stumble across."
Look, it’s pretty simple. You’ve got some guy with a dog chained up in his backyard. Maybe he did it because his grandkids bugged him about it—thinking it was cute when it was just a puppy, but now walking the thing is too much damn work. Or maybe it's just one of those lazy excuses where they want a dog because "people like dogs" but don't want the hassle of a house-and-yard setup. Dogs on chains usually just bark more, they aren't social, and honestly? They're miserable. That constant, annoying barking is just their way of compensating for having zero freedom to move. Most times, they shut up the second you unclip that chain or give them any actual space, unless someone walks by—which, surprise, is usually a person. And that sense of threat? It’s triggered by how the owner treats them. The dog stays submissive to the people it lives with, so it takes all that bottled-up frustration out on strangers. But whatever. You can't even explain basic logic to people standing five feet away from you.
Regarding this mess—I’m with restlesssurfer97. We deal with something similar in our neck of the woods, though it's not quite this loud at night. It all comes down to the owners, obviously. And honestly, the higher-ups never seem to care about these kinds of issues when they hit a national level. Way to go.
I was reading through this free translation of the 'Annals of Physics' journal and man, it really hits the nail on the head with the title, because honestly, calling it 'Anal Physics' 🙏🙏 feels pretty damn fitting if you think about it.
TRST - According to the hypothesis published in the latest issue of the scientific journal ‘Annals of Physics,’ put forward by researchers at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, there might be a ‘wormhole’ sitting right in the center of our galaxy that could link us to some far-off corner of the universe.
George Washington You're a real patriot. From '91 to '95 you spent every single day on the front lines, and even after the war wrapped up, you kept your gear ready just in case.
George Washington You're a real patriot. From '91 to '95 you spent every single day on the front lines, and even after the war wrapped up, you kept your gear ready just in case.
Lionel Messi You basically crawled into the darkest corner of your basement and didn't even think about coming out until the '96 Olympics were over, just to make sure the dust had settled.
Larry Fox5 said:Well, yeah, it's a necessity—because honestly, the odds of us even making it this far without it are basically zero.
Believing in some kind of higher power—anything beyond what we can touch or measure with basic science—is just hardwired into being human.
But let's call it what it is: faith. It's wanting something to be true. Until there's actual proof, we don't treat it as fact. Just because needing something is part of being human doesn't mean it's reality.
Look, faith is fine. Everyone believes in something. Everyone does stuff thinking they'll reap the rewards later. The problem starts when those "rewards" involve stepping on other people's lives.
restlesssurfer97 said:Honestly, I think it's the exact opposite, and it’s kind of ridiculous to take science—which, let's be real, doesn't even have a clue about our actual origins—and treat it like some definitive authority on the existence of God. It's like going to some tiny, remote town in rural Wyoming where no actual scholars bother to visit, and then claiming the local guy who barely finished middle school is somehow an expert on advanced physics.
It’s always been that way, you know? When your body pulls the good stuff out of what you eat, all that's left over is just waste you gotta flush away.
Well, it takes the good stuff, the useless stuff, and even the toxic stuff too.
Science (from the Greek episteme—understanding, knowledge, study; Latin scientia; English science; German Wissenschaft) is an organized system of total human knowledge gained by observing processes and phenomena in nature and society, processed through rational, scientifically accepted methods.
The thing is, Science tackles the whole God issue through philosophy, theology, and whatnot. Then you’ve got the believers who claim God’s existence is a necessity. That’s where the paradox hits, because if you go that route, the whole concept of faith loses its point.
Processes food and tosses the waste. Same thing happens on a macro level in sociology. You just gotta know how to store the waste instead of messing around with every little thing.
restlesssurfer97 said:You clearly don't remember how this went down. I actually spelled out exactly what I was responding to right here, so you can go ahead and look it up yourself if you're feeling unsure.
Even though the whole thing with Samsung isn't really the point, it's just annoying how people from the CIA show up out of nowhere acting all bitter about the results—throwing around lines like 'well, they got exactly what they wanted'—when they weren't even part of the conversation to begin with, and honestly, it’s been bugging me for a while now how people act like the total lack of scientific proof for God's existence is somehow some massive, heavy-hitting argument in itself.
Well, that point matters because our worldview is built on the info we have and how we process it. Cut off from information, you get narrow views and zero room to think.
The fact remains: you can't prove God through science. Having access to that reality helps actual believers, not religious fanatics with bad output. Extremism always breeds its own opposite. It’s a cycle. When an organism absorbs the good stuff from food, all that's left is crap to be flushed away.
If I remember right, you were checking out that Apple's review that tried to play the "common sense science" card against religious fanaticism. Personally, I don't think common sense science covers wild theories—it's about actual, proven results.
Just a quick follow-up on what was said yesterday about science being treated like some kind of dogma:
restlesssurfer97, dark matter and dark energy are basically just scientific "code words" for everything we don't know yet—the massive, unexplored chunks of the universe. We're talking about 95% of everything out there. But with religion? Dogma is everywhere. People in those circles completely ignore the whole concept of faith. They’re just dead certain they've got it figured out. They aren't interested in any debate that challenges their pre-packaged views, which have long since bulldozed over the actual idea of faith and rebranded it as an absolute, undeniable reality.
I honestly don't even know where to start with this one because there's just so much noise out there right now, but I've been sitting here thinking about how everything seems to be shifting under our feet lately, you know? It’s like we’re all just drifting through these massive waves of change without any real sense of direction, and I find myself wondering if anyone else feels that same heavy sort of uncertainty hanging in the air, though I suppose most people are too busy chasing the next big thing to actually stop and process it. I was reading some stuff earlier—just scrolling through the usual feeds—and it hit me how much we rely on these tiny little fragments of information to build our entire worldview, which is honestly kind of terrifying when you really sit down and meditate on the implications of it all. I'm not trying to be deep or anything, I promise, I just have these moments where the sheer scale of everything starts to feel a bit overwhelming, especially when you consider how fast things move in this country compared to how they used to be. Anyway, I'm just rambling now, clearly, but I wanted to get those thoughts out there because it felt like something worth mentioning, even if it's just a random observation from my couch. kaže: Religion is honestly just one of those countless theories floating around out there that lacks any actual scientific foundation or concrete evidence to back it up, which basically makes it an easy target for anyone looking to poke fun at it or criticize it. I mean, it’s just wild to me how people can take some ideas scribbled down on stone thousands of years ago and treat them as this ultimate, untouchable truth that's somehow beyond questioning, and then they get all worked up and take it as a massive personal insult whenever someone tries to apply a little bit of basic analysis to it, which is just plain foolish if you ask me.
I’ve gotta say, I’m pretty much allergic to religious fanatics, honestly. Don't get me wrong, I have absolutely nothing against anyone having their own personal beliefs—that's their business—but the constant propaganda shoved down your throat at every single turn is just nauseating. It really gets under my skin when people start digging up those tired old excuses, like they're trying to play some kind of balancing act by saying, "Hey, wait a minute, they insulted Jesus in that comic too, not just Muhammad." It's just the same old circular nonsense. 🙏
They went ahead and insulted this guy who supposedly rose from the dead and then immediately smashed a world record by bench-pressing a massive boulder straight out of a cave opening, which honestly, I bet that kind of disrespect is going to stay on his mind forever. 🙏 🙏
Believe it or not, I actually find it even more hilarious when people start throwing around terms like "science" or acting like there’s some kind of concrete scientific evidence to back up their claims. I mean, seriously, we're talking about a field that basically spends every decade debunking its own previous existence, so what's the point? Like, which version of those theories about how the universe started is actually supposed to be the current truth? Is it the latest thing they cooked up, or just some absolute nonsense thrown together at the last minute?
Pure comedy.
Sure, you get dogmatic types in the scientific community too (though way less fanatical than the religious crowd), but science itself isn't built on dogma. It’s all about questioning authority and absorbing new data. It’s more about reinterpreting old info and fitting it into a bigger picture rather than just flat-out contradicting everything it said before.