YappyMonotheist

I don’t think I’ve ever done that but I do hate seeing deep cuts and bleeding in movies (and IRL as well) and the longer it goes the woozier I feel. I start getting pale and uncomfortable, lol.

I’ll remain hopeful. 🤞

“Europeans hate other Europeans, the rest of the world pays the price” could be used to describe many catastrophes in the recent to not so recent past, lol.

How else could you rationalize your/your loved ones’ murderous past and/or present as an IDF soldier? God won’t look at these vile transgressors kindly… but they aren’t the first European colonizers to find themselves in this position, ofc.

No, it was certainly deliberate (and a little cheeky), but without any generalized hatred. Zendaya’s Chani just happens to exhibit it and, as such, she cannot realistically be the idealised extremely mature, softly feminine (but realistic and pragmatic because she’s a Fremen still) and self-sacrificial teenager both Muad’dib (another teenager but a princeling infused with excess, inhuman knowledge) and the story need for it to make sense. Paul needs someone of his caliber, but a yin to his yang, and OG Chani is exactly that. The sexes are different and our shortcomings come in different shades: needlessly argumentative and difficult “lippy” is to women what arrogant “mansplaining” or physical and erratical “brutish” is to men, for example. 🤷

No, more like “City F.C.” v “City United”, lol.

Defeat it? That’s not for us, nor is it necessary. Just avoid temptation (as in, if you’re a man with a healthy libido and poor self control, don’t get drunk and go to clubs with the lads/don’t get too friendly with your flirty co-workers, for instance [don’t just put yourself in times and places you know will be dangerous]), repent in earnest when you fuck up, ask God for help and make amends and you should be alright when the Day comes. 👍

Self restraint is a ‘muscle’ (and it gets easier once your prefrontal cortex is fully formed, lol), but you need to have the right mindset (the proper ideological system) to make it easier for you. Just going on vibes and good instincts can get you far, but if your culture is rotten/misguided you might fall more easily.

Football (soccer) teams? I guess that’s a common one, but people can get really violent about it over here, lol. We’re all here enjoying football, something we all love (well, not me, but I’m getting in the mindset of those who do), there’s barely any disagreement between us! 🙄🙃

Like yappy, but with a disrespectful attitude for no reason. 😅

It’s not an improvement, not at all. Chani in the books is someone I can picture becoming the muse and pillar of a complex man burdened with knowledge and duty (which is narratively necessary in both Dune and Messiah!). Lippy, immature, irrationally rebellious and feisty Zendaya’s Chani is not that. Again, many books, including Herbert’s own later in the series, have female protagonists who are not “1 dimensional” (although none as shallow and silly as the girl boss Chani of Denis, who certainly isn’t 1 dimensional, lol 🙄) and are fantastic. And upset is a big word, more like “disappointed and dissatisfied”, but money follows audiences so I understand. 🤷

Unless Lemmings suddenly became majority Pakistani/Maori/Persian/Nigerian/Dagestani/Indonesian/Algerian/etc., ofc! 😅

You don’t understand he always did and he benefits from it, but needs to lie about it for his “very confused” constituents to follow him? Why do you assume incompetence when the man has more than earned Hell!?

Why do you assume incompetence when evil has seemed more appropriate since pretty much forever?

That’s a fair reaction, lol. I used to think I thought about death, then I started seeing greys… 😭

She’s Paul’s everything (and trying to keep her alive for as long as possible is the main reason he does anything in Messiah, basically) and mostly a supporting character in the books, and there’s nothing wrong with that… but Zendaya is a star and the West would’ve crucified Denis if he just let Chani be Chani. We both know it, that’s the core of the disagreement in this comment section, lol. Heretics and Chapterhouse have fantastic female protagonists, but I doubt we’ll get there, sadly.

That time is passing and we will all die. Are you living in earnest?

Rocky’s OST makes me feel many feelings!

Why would accepting our natural desires necessarily mean just giving in to them, if that’s what you’re expressing in OP? Virtue and eudaimonia lies somewhere in the middle and requires discernment.

Mostly due to necessity but my wife told me I should consider psychology so I’m now in training to work in the field. I think I’m a natural at talk-therapy, at least compared to most other things I’ve tried, lol, so I can only thank her for the recommendation and support. It was either that or philosophy, but I couldn’t properly think on how to monetize it. 🤷