I jumped out of my seat at that scene. Raw awesomeness. Though in retrospect Tobi/Madara/[Insert character's real identity here] was quite stupid. The second Minato threw that kunai I knew exactly what was going to happen.
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They are kids! If Mako had defeated Unalaq THAT would have been bad, not the other way around. I agree that crowning Katara master at the end of Season 1 was bad; she obviously wasn't good enough. I think it was more that she was good enough to teach Aang, but that's me coming up with justifications. And Zuko sucked…
I'm sorry, did you expect a 12 year-old boy that had been training for less than a year and had only mastered 1 element (Air) to single handedly defeat a Fire Lord that has had years to master his art and his graced by the awesomeness that was Sozin's Comet? Really? Coz that would have been far more unrealistic and…
Just want to point out that while I agree with your basic point that religion and theology have a role to play in society, your equivalence of moral and physical laws is false. Physical laws cannot be broken. They are the way the universe IS. Moral laws (if they can even be called such) are conventions that may or may…
Ahem
As a member of the general movie going audience (in that I had no idea there was a thing called Guardians of the Galaxy before I heard Marvel was making a movie) I must agree. My reaction to the trailer was a hearty "meh".
They botched Amon so bad it made my head hurt. That season was amazing up until the end, when Korra magically airbended in the worst possible way, they just destroyed all the potential they had built up for Amon and the Equalists, and they just handed her all her elements back because she cried. I was so livid after…
The story, especially the second season lacked coherence in a BIG way. It was inferior to The Last Airbender in almost every aspect, save for animation quality. After being pissed at the absolute lack of character development (for Korra especially, who I just found abrasive and irritating) in Season 1, I was expecting…
Woulda been cool if you said "Archer is a sterling example of competence without discretion." HOW DID YOU NOT SEE THAT?!
Ha! Exactly!
This was one of the most confusing things I read as a child. So God hardens Pharoah's heart, and then kills all the first bon sons in Egypt when Pharoah does exactly what God made him do. But it was justice, because GOD!
I don't think you're getting it. God can do anything! He doesn't have to kill these people. No one is forcing his hand. The reason we kill or hurt people that break our laws is because we want to stop them from breaking laws, and because we want to prevent other people from breaking laws. We try our very best to…
I'm sorry there is no free will with an omniscient omnipotent God. God is not like your dad who wants you to succeed even though he didn't make the harsh rules of the world. God made the universe knowing exactly what was going to happen from the very beginning. There was nothing, and then he made stuff in full…
God is all-powerful and all-knowing. Hence he knows whether or not you're going to disobey him before he even gives you a command. He also probably knows how to get you to do what he wants so he doesn't have to punish you. And yet somehow, this guy that knows everything and can do anything, gets angry when you don't…
Right there with you. My most recent confusions come from the really vindictive concept of justice God seems to have (like you seem to have discovered) and how the concepts of good and evil just seem to fall apart when contemplating the being that supposedly defined and abides by these concepts himself (http://letterst…
I've written about this at length so I'll just leave goakes reply here, and a link to my analysis on the absurdity of God's justice and love:
See the problem with this kind of thinking is twofold: One a truly omnipotent being would not have to cut corners for the greater good. He could simply will the greater good into being and it will be. The fact that he causes suffering for the "greater good" means that he is choosing to use suffering as a tool because…
I usually find that seeding songs to your station works much better than liking them. I use the like button to ensure that Pandora plays a specific song later on, but if I really like the style of the song I just use the add variety button and I add the song to the station. Honestly I think Pandora is much better than…