#wintercyan

[andarthas-web]

Chag Pesach Sameach!

[andarthas-web]

Chag Sameach!

[andarthas-web]

Chag Purim Sameach!

[eatingcroutons]

So the question now comes is who taught you what code of conduct? What are you following? You learned yours in your schools. People learnt theirs in their schools... There is a rabbi, Jonathan Sax who has written a book Not In God's Name. And if you want to understand this dynamic, it’s a wonderful, wonderful book, because he talks about a thing called dualism, which is creating the 'us versus them' fight. And once you create the 'us versus them' fight, it is very, very easy to be destructive of other human beings. And then he says you move from there to a thing called altruistic evil. Because you’re not doing this bad thing for yourself, you are doing what [dogma] commands you to do, it’s now not evil. It’s altruistic. It’s following the teachings of [dogma]. Altruistic evil and dualism, us versus them, and we’ve got to be very careful.

I’ve replaced the word “God” with “dogma” in this quote from Andrew MacLeod on Q&A -- if you want to see full context, watch the video from 22:11.

The entire episode is well worth a watch, even if you’re not Australian or French. But what really struck me here is MacLeod’s explanation of how Sax really gets to the heart of logical, well-intentioned violence and evil.

[eatingcroutons]

GODDAMMIT TUMBLR STOP EATING MY HTML

In answer to writingcyan: The floorplan of the Bus comes from this book. Which I bought because, god help me, I am a completionist and have to have ALL the artbooks/slipcases.

[lauralot89]

wintercyan replied to your post: Sentences I never thought I’d say: “Is there no...

Ew, that sounds incredibly unhygienic! What is that movie?! o_O;;

It’s the 1971 film The Devils, starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, and based on Aldous Huxley’s 1952 novel The Devils of Loudon, which in turn was based on the true story of Father Urbain Grandier, who was burned at the stake for witchcraft in 1634.

Essentially, the plot is that corrupt church officials want Grandier removed from his position, and so threaten the nuns of a local convent into claiming that he possessed them and forced them into sacrilegious acts.  The nuns are forced to strip and do many a blasphemous thing, which got the film severely censored in just about every country, and banned in others.  Modern cuts of the movie have been able to restore one of the most infamous scenes, in which the nuns pull a giant crucifix from the wall and molest it, but not the other, even more notorious femur scene.

Here’s another of the scenes that made the film so controversial (it’s not safe for work and also bloody).

[lauralot89]

Before Tony explained to Bucky how teddy bear digestion works, Bucky Bear used to eat by having a straw in Bucky's smoothie held up to his nose.  Bucky took to taping the straw in place during meals because Bucky Bear eats so slowly, but then became concerned about the tape pulling off the bear's fur, so Tony taught him about osmosis.

The straw method came about because the Winter Soldier was fed through a nasogastric tube.

[lauralot89]

That moment when you realize Steve Rogers is basically a honey badger.