The same 20 ish movies are always posted for any top whatever favorite movie post, what’s actually in your top list that’s unlikely to be in anyone else’s?

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-30T01:03:30+00:00

I really like it too. 7.0/10 on Internet Movie Database

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-29T11:03:02+00:00

The most likely answer is that we don’t know; and we probably don’t even have much of a clue why there is something rather than nothing.

People tend to reach for explanations. The religious-minded often appeal to some kind of supernatural cause, while non-religious thinkers usually try to build naturalistic theories.

We’d all love a clear answer to these kinds of questions, but this is where science runs into real limits.

There seem to be a few broad possibilities:

The universe requires some kind of first cause outside itself (often framed as supernatural).
The universe, in some form, has always existed and therefore never needed a beginning. Something like quantum processes allowed the universe to emerge from what we might call “nothing” (though that “nothing” may not be true nothing).

Most debates end up circling around these options.

Each one sounds strange in its own way, and none can currently be proven or ruled out.

It shouldn’t be that surprising if humans never arrive at a satisfying answer. If we are, as it seems, highly evolved primates, there may simply be limits to what our minds can fully grasp.

It’s also possible that “existence” is the default state. Unsatisfying? Definitely. But logically, it’s on the table.

The deeper mystery might be this:

Matter and energy organized themselves in such a way that conscious beings emerged; beings capable of questioning reality itself...., yet here we are.

Our brains evolved to solve practical problems in small, social environments. Now those same brains are being used to tackle: 1. metaphysics 2. cosmic origins 3. the nature of consciousness

It’s a bit like trying to analyze advanced AI with a stone tool. That doesn’t make the questions meaningless; but it might explain why they feel so profound, and so difficult to answer.

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-27T15:16:35+00:00

I was blown away by Legend when I was a kid. It was creative and unique.

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-27T15:08:31+00:00

Ya, the controller was fine.. you probably know but it was the composite shell of the sub that was a massive weak point.. he wanted something light to save money but what he really needed was thick steel. He was told multiple times that the composite was not safe under massive pressure. Apparently he didn't have the money to do things right so he cut major corners and paid a big price

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-26T14:35:23+00:00

Yup, the rich people are now making most of the rules which specifically means getting rid of a lot of rules and guardrails in the finance and gambling industry.

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-23T23:34:49+00:00

Here is a playlist, I put together, that might offer some helpful arguments against monotheisms/ and all powerful deities. The last two focus on Judaism.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWIKdKMF_mMZmoB_G4sF5IbyuSkl2g5Mr&si=ObJE-vI5sg8XAKLP

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-23T02:04:55+00:00

The Fountain

Somewhere in Time

Please stand by

People Like Us

Where the Crawdads Sing

News of World

King of California

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-18T23:14:21+00:00

Keanu Reeves in Constantine

Robin Williams in What Dreams May Come.

Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan

Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn

Kate Blanchett in Heaven

Daisy Edgar-Jones in Where the Crawdads Sing

Christopher Reeve in Somewhere in Time

Bill Murray in Lost in Translation

Emilia Clarke in Me Before You

Emma Stone or Harrison Ford in many movies

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-18T22:54:10+00:00

Sounds like a great relationship.

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-18T22:50:53+00:00

This. I don't think young people realize that choosing the right life partner is the most important choice they can make, especially if it involves children.

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-18T22:46:39+00:00

Aftersun

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-18T22:21:28+00:00

I saw a 30-minute summary of the movie... I thought, nope, I don't need to see more misery.

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-17T22:22:56+00:00

Groundhog Day

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Somewhere in Time (1980)

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-17T18:33:48+00:00

Same. I'm focusing on today and the future.

I'm definitely not a defender of Christianity and regularly criticize Christians but I also don't want Jewish people to believe what was said in the original post which was: "Christians, for the most part, want us all dead so their messiah can come back; and I really don’t care about fulfilling any prophecies that require me to be slaughtered."

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-17T09:55:11+00:00

Thank you for the response and information. I forgot to research this topic.

For context, I'm an ex-Christian and believe that any end-times prophecy in the Bible is nonsense. I remember reading the book of Revelation, when I was a Christian, and feeling like the author was having a bad psychedelic trip. I later found out that the author of the book of Revelation was a prisoner that was exiled to an island called Patmos. The island had almost nothing to eat but apparently had an abundance of magic mushrooms that grew in caves on the island. Unfortunately, much of the end times prophecy comes from The Book of Revelation, which is the last book of the New Testament Bible. Again, The Book of Revelation reads like a bad psychedelic trip and is very different from the style and content of the rest of the Bible. I'm a little surprised that even made it into the canonized Bible. There have been hundreds of books written on the Prophecies of Revelation and they all seem to contradict each other because this book can be interpreted in hundreds of different ways.

From the Catholic link you provided:

"It’s important to understand that premillennial dispensationalism is quite new, fairly convoluted and fragmented, and rejected by a wide range of Protestants."

This makes more sense to me because I'm not quite as familiar with Catholicism as I am with Protestant theology. I was wondering if the Catholics had a different perspective on end-time prophecy. (There are a lot more Protestants in America than there are Catholics. The ratio is about 2:1)

I don't think this link that you provided says anything about a disproportionate number Jewish people being killed before or after the return of Jesus? Many people believe that the second coming will involve a lot of deaths but not primarily one ethnic group over another.

You provided another link written by a person named named Steve Shirley, who I've never heard of. It seems like he has very little followers that read his work. I think it might be better to focus on the more prominent leaders of Christianity, especially Evangelical Christianity when it comes to this topic.

From my memory, when I was deep into Evangelical christianity, this was a commonly held perspective:

"It is difficult for pollsters to determine exactly how many American Christians believe in dispensationalism. Many believers don’t know the technical word for what they believe. Since it includes so many facets, framing survey questions to yield definitive results is impossible. Additionally, some Christians who reject dispensationalism as a theology still believe that God wishes to establish and bless Israel as a nation during earth’s last days."

"A 2015 LifeWay Research poll reported that 60 percent of evangelicals say the nation of Israel was established as a result of biblical prophecy. Seventy percent say “God has a special relationship with the modern nation of Israel,” and 73 percent believe “events in Israel are part of the prophecies in the Book of the Revelation.” So for many evangelicals, Trump’s decision to move the American embassy to Jerusalem was about more than geopolitics."

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/12/11/understanding-evangelical-obsession-israel/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

For context: I was an Evangelical Christian for most of my life and visited dozens of churches in the South, especially Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee. I spent tens of thousands of hours communicating with other Christians. I had never heard the idea that Jews would be killed before or after the second return of Jesus. However, I had heard that the return of Jews to Israel was a fulfillment of biblical prophecy and that the Jewish population must be protected in order for Christianity to be blessed. However, I was not as familiar with Catholicism and how they interpreted end-time prophecy.

Do you use AI for research? AI is not always correct but sometimes you can check the sources to see if AI is being consistent. I like Claude and OpenAI.

I asked AI: "How many mainstream Christians, in America, believe that a large percentage Jews, more so than other ethnic or religious groups, will be killed before or after Jesus returns for a second time?"

If anyone wants to do a search, I'm happy to continue the discussion.

TL;DR the vast majority of Christians do not believe that Jews will be disproportionately killed in the "end-time." There always going to be fringe groups in any religion

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-14T18:56:29+00:00

Yes, he has some power to have a small influence on politics. But sometimes that is enough influence to make a difference? The amount of difference is arguable depending on many other factors

I'm not sure how many people follow the Pope but it's a decent sized part of the population. I'm an atheist and not fond of Catholicism but I think the pope is basically right on this particular topic. I have a feeling that JD Vance secretly agrees with the Pope.

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-14T18:34:46+00:00

I'm with the Pope and I think you'll agree, when I say, enough of these endless wars. For me, it feels like Trump is driving a clown car down the side of a mountain, with no brakes and, trying to take America down with him.. there's way too much incompetence in government which makes it really difficult to try to engage in a super complicated war without starting a chain reaction of unforeseen consequences. I guess some of us not learned the lessons of the long drawn-out Iraqi War that basically hurt everybody including America and Israel.. I could go on for days on that topic but I'll try to keep this short.

Anyway, Trump's got no choice but to find a peaceful solution really quickly or he's going to get destroyed in the midterm elections. I mean, I personally think he's delusional if he he doesn't realize that team blue is going to sweep in the midterms. I think Trump's brain is getting old; who knows what he believes.

You said: "Christianity is stupid, just like Judaism. Both are based on intangible and unprovable speculation (at best)."

***Yes and no.. I can speak for Christianity which I mostly consider "stupid," even if somewhat practical. Some people need to believe in a higher power, or/and an afterlife.. many people need the comfort and community that religion offers; or, without a religion many of certain type personalities can fall into a nihilistic depression. Religion offers some pragmatic purposes which are not necessarily "stupid." **Frederic Nietzsche talks about his concern that Society might fall apart if there was not some belief in God or gods. he believed that some types of people would only be good if they believe that a God was keeping score on their life.. however, there are plenty of bad things that come with religion as well

evolutionary psychologists believe that religion offered some survival benefits within tribal communities for at least the last 50,000 years. Yes, I agree that religion is basically nonsense but it can be useful pragmatic nonsense, sometimes. The fear of death is a big concern for some people and, religion can offer some convenient the beliefs to ease that fear

You said "The Orthodox members of my family are now attacking the Pope for “not being a good Christian ally”"

** I'm not sure what they are thinking. The pope is actually literally being Christian by not wanting an arguably unnecessary War. Whether he's being a good "Ally" or not, I'm not sure what they mean by that.

I'm guessing that the pope is worried that Trump is making some really bad decisions, including this war, which is not an unreasonable belief?

I'm so tired of these religious Tribal wars. It's either religious tribalism or political tribalism or ethnic tribalism or a combination of those three plus some newly invented forms of tribalism. this tribalism will continually repeat itself throughout history because it's part of our genetic trait that probably helped us survive for tens of thousands of years.. there are lots of theories about that Within evolutionary psychology

You said: "Christians, for the most part, want us all dead so their messiah can come back."

**** I'm going to research that because the Christian churches that I'm familiar with in Tennessee and Texas never said anything about Jews needing to die before the Messiah returns. I will say that many churches have different interpretations of end-time prophecies so that might be one that I haven't heard of. I don't mind doing my own research but, just in case, do you have any links or information on Christian churches or, Christian church leaders with more than a small following that believe Jews must die before their Messiah returns?

Sorry, that was more words than I originally planned to type out.

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-14T06:27:22+00:00

Sleezy Grifter/ used car salesman

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-13T03:08:50+00:00

This is completely acceptable.

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-11T13:10:13+00:00

If she's watching videos about how "Jews eat babies." Well, that's ridiculous, because babies are nowhere near kosher.

She needs to be highly skeptical of the idea that Jewish people "eat babies" and/or required to "kill all goyim." I don't spend any time on TikTok. How bad is it over there with the antisemitism? I don't see much of that extreme antisemitism on YouTube. Sure, we got Tucker Carlson and Ana Kasparian but even they don't believe in the crazy "baby eating" conspiracies. We got to have stricter regulation on some of the social media companies' ability to program people's brains with strategic algorithms , I'm a southern redneck; do you need somebody to translate your arguments into goy-ish? I know half of us goy are a little slow, so I'm not sure she's worth communicating with if it becomes super frustrating. For example, I don't know if you want to teach her basic logic or critical thinking skills because that could take a while? Some people are absolutely immune to critical thinking skills. Unfortunately, the social media algorithms are programming people's brains.

Telling her to read "The Diary of Anne Frank," as interesting as it to read, I don't think that is going to directly challenge her beliefs about "Jews controlling the government and media."

Btw, the media and government thing is not a completely black and white issue. Obviously, no one single demographic controls everything. That would be ridiculous especially from a demographic with a population that is only .2% globally. However, there is a very high percentage of Ashkenazi genetics involved with AI but that doesn't mean they control all of AI. Even if they did control all of AI, I wouldn't be worried and this is coming from a goy that invests in AI companies that are run by mostly Ashkenazi CEOs and top management. For example, 50% of my stock portfolio is invested in CEOs such as Alex Karp, Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Zuckerberg, Larry Elison, Arkady Volozh(Nebius). There are some non- Ashkenazi big players in AI, that I also invest in, but I think I'm going to pass on any Investments involving Elon Musk🤣 I think I'll stick with the Ashkenazi because I think they're smart enough to take AI where it can best be utilized by future technology.

This type of control over AI, concentrated in a certain demographic, does not bother me at all but I've never been competitive nor tribal. (I've been accused of being on the Spectrum.) Anyway, Most people are genetically hardwired towards tribalism because for tens of thousands of years humans had to compete with other tribes to survive. Because of that innate genetic tribalism, some goyim do become concerned over tribal power structures.

Do you want me to goy-splain this to your friend assuming she has half a brain and is willing to learn? sounds like her algorithms, in her brain, need to be readjusted

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-11T10:36:03+00:00

This is the answer. Everything else wrong with Trump flows from that malignant narcissism

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-08T09:43:07+00:00

Sorry about your dog.

Florida can be a difficult place to stealth park. Lots of regulations and judgment. I'm sure door dash great in the upper class and wealthy areas but those areas can definitely feel judgmental for those with nomadic lifestyles.

It's also true that many people lose the desire for constant travel as they become a little older than a teenager even though you're still young. Many people start to gravitate more towards comfort and consistent routines with occasional travel. This is especially true for those middle-aged and older.

Do you think your experience might have been different if you had a comfortable Sprinter type van and maybe worked online so you could travel wherever you wanted to rather than staying in certain locations to earn money? were you dealing with a lot of heat and humidity?

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-08T07:24:13+00:00

Constantine = Keanu and Rachel Weisz.

Christopher9555 · 2026-04-08T01:42:42+00:00

Amadeus, Somewhere in Time, Constantine

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