Recent content by BurnoutPriest

Jocoserious and Philodox are both fun words. For phrases... "Alea iacta est." - The die has been cast "What I seek is a truth for which I can live and die." -Søren Kierkegaard

A Scanner Darkly (Shows how far criminals will go to evade the law and how far police will go to catch them) Waking Life (Heavy philosophical dialog through most of the movie)

Best one I've heard in real life: Waitress: Here's your meal. Guy: I want to put my dick in it. *intense stare* Later... Waitress: Here is your bill. Hope you enjoyed your meal! *Her phone number is written on the bill*

Wait, I read the Wheel of Time =/ What's the problem with the series? Are you talking about the societies she portrays or the solutions she gives to the societies?

Recently in the 1984 discussion thread the topic of "vegan, hippy, teenage girls" screwing up great books by warping their meaning beyond belief. This generally includes trying to look more intelligent, bringing up an idea within a book constantly without a firm grasp of it, and attempting to...

Didn't that "trailer" have random scenes from different movies? Hoax? Am I just confusing myself? What the hell is going on?!

I don't believe I called Catholics Christians despite the fact it would be perfectly reasonable to do; they are a subsection of Christianity after all. Christianity is a term used to reference many more subsections than just Catholic and Protestant; it also applies equally to all denominations.

I'm actually atheist but I'd like to chime in. My understanding is gnosticism was declared a heresy quite a while ago. (At least by the Catholic church. I can't remember if that was before or after the Schism) Anyway, my personal view on it is that it is an extreme devaluing of nature and...

I grant you the consent of the king to enjoy this merry winter solstice.

That I exist.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/27/823924.aspx

There is going to be a single man in Hawaii who here's of this news and begins a crusade against PS3's because their computing of black hole data, in his mind, will create quantum black holes that will devour the Earth. Several lawsuits later the PS3 will be banned. Society will then come to the...

You are correct when you say overrated =/= bad. Obviously people have chosen to challenge your examples but that's not really the point. However, I believe people want to hate something overrated, not because it's inherently horrible, but because the rabid fans bring up these emotions. Let me...

Want to know how I got these scars? Well, there was this guy, see. He was having a bad day. So he decided to jump off a building! But it seemed his friends weren't too happy about that. They screamed their quaint little pleas and then he jumped. He fell through a glass case and landed right on a...

I'm going to guess House. It's already quite popular in Germany.