- His Mothers House (1974)January 11, 2025
This movie had the worst quality ever. The sound was choppy, and there was constant background noise. It looked like someone had filmed the movie screen in a theater. And the subtitles made zero sense. Here are some highlights:
"Sorry to bounce, but I need your SIM card. You are scared of the dark." "Bitch, you got to eat now." "I hate you, and it into gasoline courthouse." "350 cubic meter penalty." "Visit without coffee cup. Do you wish to stay?"
But even if the quality weren’t so terrible, the movie itself is hot garbage, it doesn’t have a single reddeming quality. 2/10.
- VendettaJanuary 10, 2025
There is a old greek saying
‘vendetta is a dish served betta’ with cold feta’~ Delocated
- Rope (1948)January 9, 2025
It’s one scene where the tension builds and builds and builds until, in the final moment, catharsis is achieved—-the sweet release. 9/10.
- Murmur of the Heart (1971)January 8, 2025
When his brother saw him reading The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus, he said, “Drop Camus! He’s not worth it. If you’re into suicide, read Crevel.”
“Who’s that?”
“A surrealist who gassed himself.”Also, why are all the kids in this movie so unhinged? Loved the philosophy references. 6.5/10
- Euthyphro DilemmaJanuary 7, 2025
- Do the gods love good actions because they are good?
- Or, are good actions good because they are loved by the gods?
One could restate these questions as:
- Are actions good independent of God?
- Or, are actions good because God decided that they are good?
If the first statement is true, one would deny divine command theory—the theory that what is good, and what one should do, is determined by what God commands.
On the other hand, if the second statement is true, then God could have commanded that torture and killing are good, which doesn’t seem compatible with our strong intuition that these things are wrong.
Most theists argue for the second case but reconcile it with our moral intuitions by placing restrictions on God. They assert that God is infinitely good, and as such, he can only do good things. In other words, he couldn’t have commanded torture to be good because it would go against his own nature.
I have a problem with this assessment. By placing restrictions on God and claiming he couldn’t have chosen to command a particular action as good, this implies that his agency is compromised. First, this seems at odds with the common understanding of God as all-powerful. Second, if God, as Protestant theology teaches, is a god who desires a personal relationship with us, it feels strange to have a relationship with something that lacks true agency. Agency is fundamentally built into every meaningful relationship.