Are you watching the Olympics?

[Stargrunt6]

23 hours ago, Murph said:

This:

 

Murph, you're a great guy, but you're already making TN a type of facebook with the meme posting. And this is going too far.  

[Stargrunt6]

If I can steer things in the positive, the equestrian events at Versaille are just stunning.

[Murph]

14 minutes ago, Stargrunt6 said:

Murph, you're a great guy, but you're already making TN a type of facebook with the meme posting. And this is going too far.  

Ok, understood.  But at the same time I am really, really sick of the Christianity bashing, while I am NOT a good church going type, enough is enough, they don't pick  on Islam since Islam would cut their heads off.  I spent too many years as well putting child molesters in prison to have any sort of enjoyment for the Alphabet soup people doing things which are both Christina bashing, and obviously child grooming.  It triggers me.  

[rmgill]

2 hours ago, Murph said:

Ok, understood.  But at the same time I am really, really sick of the Christianity bashing, while I am NOT a good church going type, enough is enough, they don't pick  on Islam since Islam would cut their heads off.  I spent too many years as well putting child molesters in prison to have any sort of enjoyment for the Alphabet soup people doing things which are both Christina bashing, and obviously child grooming.  It triggers me.  

I am an atheist, it irks me when the left is super duper defensive about Islam. 
 

I understand ridicule under the guise of movies like Life of Brian. But that’s not what the Olympics is. Inclusivity that was the goal? Singling out a major segment and making a mocker of one of their icons of belief? Why not a centaur Dalai Lama? Or any number of other icons made fun of? 
 

It was designed to be offensive. Thats the opposite of what it was claimed. The Opening Ceremonies are supposed to be inspiring. What about a celebration of French art, culture, historical achievement? 

Edited July 29, 2024 by rmgill

[urbanoid]

2 hours ago, Peasant said:

I've noticed an obvious trend with the Hollywood movies and pop-culture in general: can you even remember the last time a character in a triple A video game or big budget movie being portrayed as a genuine Christian and not as completely evil and hypocritical?

I can only think of Joshua Graham, from Fallout: New Vegas.

Doom? IIRC the Doomguy is canonically catholic and of course you're destroying literal demons from hell.
 

I wouldn't be surprised if there were some characters like that in RDR2, but I dropped the game early due to its too console-ish feel, might try again one day though. Kingdom Come Deliverance? It's set in medieval Czechia, so likely some good christians can be found there, the not so good as well. The latter game has an added bonus of woketards seething about everyone being white there.

[Murph]

2 minutes ago, rmgill said:

I am an atheist, it irks me when the left is super duper defensive about Islam. 
 

I understand ridicule under the guise of movies like Life of Brian. But that’s not what the Olympics is. Inclusivity that was the goal? Singling out a major segment and making a mocker of one of their icons of belief? Why not a centaur Dalai Lama? Or any humber if other icons made fun of? 
 

It was designed to be offensive. Thats the opposite of what it was claimed. The Opening Ceremonies are supposed to be inspiring. What about a celebration of French art, culture, historical achievement? 

Agreed, it was designed by some leftist alphabet soup person to "Stick it to the Man" who tells him he is a sinner, and so he will show them!  All it did was show France has fallen.

[Peasant]

@sunday good point about the Spaniards in that movie. Due to my atheistic and materialistic upbringing, I overlooked the fact that they are doing God's work by destroying the source of water of life and protecting humanity from the temptation it holds.

@urbanoid All good recommendations. Personally, I would also add "Diablo" (only the first game).

 

Perhaps we should make a separate thread on this topic and not deviate the discussion about Olympics 2024 any further. 

[sunday]

That "water of life" thing in the movie was only a way to save one person by means of killing another, if I recall correctly.

[Murph]

Well the Archbishop has weighed in on the Olympics.  Personally I used to like watching them, especially the track and field events.  

 

[R011]

7 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Its possible to find the ceremony over the top and in cases shambolic, and find  the attempt to inject culture war and perceive it along politically loaded lines as patently  absurd. That kind of reminds me of hippies trying to find reference to cannabis use and the counterculture in The Lord of the Rings (and yes, they did try).

The correct position to take is indifference. Its France, so of course they try to show off how different they are to anyone else. Why, im kind of surprised they didnt stage a riot of Gilet Jaunes, just to display contemporary France.

Sometimes a fat guy wearing a dress, is just a fat guy wearing a dress. There is no need to overthink it.

A drag show isn't necessarily a sociopolitical statement.  A parody of the Last Supper, a rather important part of Christ's story, is.  That people find it a gratuitous insult to faith that doesn't belong to a non-political celebration shouldn't be surprising.

[rmgill]

If this is the extent of the issues at the Olympics for the Israeli team, then that'll be ok. Considering the background of Munich....

[Stargrunt6]

18 minutes ago, rmgill said:

If this is the extent of the issues at the Olympics for the Israeli team, then that'll be ok. Considering the background of Munich....

They should have suspended the match. 

[Stuart Galbraith]

57 minutes ago, R011 said:

A drag show isn't necessarily a sociopolitical statement.  A parody of the Last Supper, a rather important part of Christ's story, is.  That people find it a gratuitous insult to faith that doesn't belong to a non-political celebration shouldn't be surprising.

No, but that people around here that do not seem to be particularly  religious on other occasions expressing outrage, certainly is surprising.

I mean, let's unpack this. People are outraged at the parodying the masterpiece of a gay atheist artist. Seriously?

[seahawk]

Why does a sports event have to parody any religion?

We all know the answer, because they want to paint Christianity as evil and their pedo-lifestlye as normal.

[R011]

10 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

No, but that people around here that do not seem to be particularly  religious on other occasions expressing outrage, certainly is surprising.

I mean, let's unpack this. People are outraged at the parodying the masterpiece of a gay atheist artist. Seriously?

You don't need to be religious to find religious hate offensive, just as you don't need to be Jewish to denounce anti Semitism.

[rmgill]

I have a desire to figure out where Stuart lives and give large donations for folks to cut down the local trees and put up palm trees festooned with pink flamingos. And paint all the local houses teal, pink and turquoise. 

Edited July 29, 2024 by rmgill

[sunday]

9 minutes ago, rmgill said:

I have a desire to figure out where Stuart lives and give large donations for folks to cut down the local trees and put up palm trees festooned with pink flamingos. And paint all the local houses teal, pink and turquoise. 

Put Jezza Clarkson to the search!

[sunday]

46 minutes ago, Stargrunt6 said:

They should have suspended the match. 

I foresee some kind of apology in case someone got offended:

Quote

If people have taken any offence we are really sorry.

 

[seahawk]

12 minutes ago, rmgill said:

I have a desire to figure out where Stuart lives and give large donations for folks to cut down the local trees and put up palm trees festooned with pink flamingos. And paint all the local houses teal, pink and turquoise. 

So kind of Miami Beach?

[rmgill]

8 minutes ago, seahawk said:

So kind of Miami Beach?

Exactomundo! But with more fabulousness to it! And a dose of Izzy Moreno. Maybe hire some Cuban Expats to help with the decoration. 

Edited July 29, 2024 by rmgill

[Roman Alymov]

6 hours ago, Murph said:

Agreed, it was designed by some leftist alphabet soup person to "Stick it to the Man" who tells him he is a sinner, and so he will show them!  All it did was show France has fallen.

Pro-Russian take is it got nothing to do with "leftist" or "rightist" but just logical result of creating isolated "atrists community" funded by state, not by people

"A moment of aesthetics.

While working on today's thoughtful text for the main project (the text about beauty), I, alas. friends, at the same time decided to check out how the director of all this Parisian action is doing on the personal front.

No surprises. An ordinary gay man, born and raised in a pack of advanced artistic idiots, eats government, municipal and European grants from a young age.

Attention, the question is: could such a wretched creature arrange anything other than a shitshow? 

Everything is very, offensively simple: if you turn art into a state-owned feeder, access to which is regulated by "self-opting professional workshops", then after three or four generations you will receive a homomafia that considers it its duty to urinate in the eyes of the public from under a reliable government roof.

There are no exceptions - neither there, among the enemies, nor here, in the God-saved motherland. The only question is whether they will show the public a fig out of all their pockets and codpieces, like late-decent figures of Soviet culture (oh, how they despised the Soviet public!), or they will start raging and arranging increasingly sick spectacles in the open, as in today's belle France." ( https://t.me/vmarahovsky/3087 )

[Roman Alymov]

4 hours ago, Stargrunt6 said:

They should have suspended the match. 

Some people are creating trouble out of nothing

 

[Roman Alymov]

Another take from RuNet

[Roman Alymov]

And more about "Russian elite" and how they use Russian money - quite connected to the topic of this thread

 

[Mr King]