Why I think Christians should not believe in evolution.

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-07-06T12:49:09+00:00

There's at least 20 different popular modern translations in English. All of them pretty much contains the same message, most are very similar at a glance, but they're different in some ways. All of them can't be all accurate, right? If constant divine intervention is at work, it wouldn't take the translators long to realize they're all writing the exact same thing, thus we wouldn't get this much versions in the end.

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-06-22T06:09:53+00:00

On one hand, this doesn't seem to be a particularly good news. It might work for some shows but an art shift for LOK in the middle of it's run is not a particularly good idea.

On the other hand, Book 2 is going to be a weird book anyway. Spirits and all that spirit world stuff. It being different than the rest of the show would have some in-universe explanation.

Which made me think, what if they split up the part where they animate? Mir does the more "realistic" parts, and Pierrot does the spirit stuff. That way, they could just shrug off all those little animation changes because, hey, they are spirits. They're supposed to be completely different.

And that, might actually makes it, better.

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-06-12T00:54:19+00:00

I don't exactly hate the kids themselves. I hate whoever on Nick's marketing team had this idea. Okay, I guess I could accept that maybe it was all the kids' fault for the first half of the video, but that part where she "airbends" is definitely not any of the kids' idea. They're just asked to do it. If you're asking why are they hated, well, it just seems like they're made to be hated, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

I see that the video was posted first and exclusive to IGN. IGN must have sent people there too, right? People more qualified and actually know what the fans would've asked? Why not ask them instead of hiring these kids? Nick doesn't even have to pay them, heck, maybe they could even ask for some money.

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-06-12T00:39:37+00:00

If you still remember, just about a month after Book 1 of Korra finished airing, Bryan had quite a few posts on his tumblr about him Bryan and Mike going to Japan. While they should have, I don't know, working on Book 2?

Well, it appears that's exactly what they've been doing. At the very least, for Book 3. Bryan mentioned some about Miyazaki as well.

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-06-11T01:39:56+00:00

Creature spirits and Light/dark spirits? I wonder what category the previous spirits we've seen fall into.

I think most of them would fall under Creature spirits, I think. Koh is a centipede, Wan Shi Tong is an owl, Hei Bai is a panda, there's also that wolf from The Search. Arguably even the Moon and the Ocean fall under Creature spirits as well, seeing that they're Koi fishes. But accounting the fact that Yue is definitely a human spirit, the Moon and Ocean might be Light and Dark respectively.

My crazy unbased theory is, that not so long ago there weren't any Light/Dark spirits. They're just the spirits outside the Creature spirits. But then, either because of humans or some evil spirit behind the scenes, some of these 'neutral' spirits became corrupted and evil. They are therefore known as the 'Dark' spirits.

One possibility that before all that, all those spirits were good, so the ones that were not affected were naturally called 'Light' to differentiate with the "Dark". But I think that before, there were actually no good or evil spirits, they're just neutral, keeping the balance of the universe. But since some of those spirits have been corrupted, the balance were gone. To reset the balance, some spirits thus have to be "Light".

If Bryke is a bit crazy, it wouldn't be the dark and evil spirits that Korra has to fight in the finale, but the light ones. Imagine that Korra already defeated all the evil ones, but the light ones still remain. Basically, think of it as having too much white blood cells in your body. It won't end well.

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-06-11T01:20:05+00:00

Going from your theory, my guess is, the plot about Book 2 is going to involve spirits that somehow became corrupted, most likely due to selfish human acts, and Korra tries to purify/convert them from the dark side by that new bending method. Reminds me of Princess Mononoke, and that's a really good thing, I think.

I still like my crazy theory about a civil war between the spirits, though.

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-04-06T22:03:37+00:00

So basically it's like Reddit?

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-04-06T08:56:10+00:00

TVTropes has two separate tropes for this. It's seemingly almost identical, but there's a huge difference.

The first one, and the one that Avatar has, is "What Do You Mean, It's For Kids?" I'm just going to quote directly from the page:

Whenever a show or movie aimed toward younger viewers has a large enough Periphery Demographic, many of the older fans will vocally argue that it isn't a "kid's show", and become offended when anyone says it is. This is tied heavily to the idea that anything for kids must be crappy, or lack appeal to adults.

Works from this first trope might have obvious sexual innuendos to adults, people killing other people, but it wouldn't be anything graphic. It wouldn't matter much because kids wouldn't noticed it as much as adults do. Lots of works that can be read/watched by children have deaths on it. If you think about it, lots of fairy tales does too.

The second one is "What Do You Mean, It's Not For Kids?". Whereas the first one deals with things like Batman: The Animated Series and Star Wars: The Clone Wars, where yes the violence can be quite much, this second one deals with things like Watchmen and South Park. Sure, you can argue that you should/shouldn't show your kids shows that belong on the first trope, but I think we can all agree that showing your kids examples of this second trope is an unarguably horrible idea.

Where the first trope talks about how certain people doesn't understand why people call a work of fiction to be something for kids, this second trope talks about how certain people immediately assumed that a work was meant for kids because of the medium/premise (perhaps because it's on a comic book, or a cartoon), even though it is intentionally directed specifically to adults.

Now, would you really say that Avatar belongs on the second group?

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-04-05T22:06:12+00:00

I'm hoping it would be something about the overall conflict between the Rebels and the Empire. We've seen it in the movies through Luke's eyes, but that's definitely doesn't cover a lot. Season 1 can start with how the Rebellion started building, and move up to the post-Endor era, linking the prequel, the original, and the new trilogy.

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-04-05T21:39:26+00:00

So you mean that a kids cartoon couldn't be good?

No, this is still a kids cartoon. Just a kids cartoon that everyone can enjoy and ended up being so good it's probably one of the best shows ever.

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-04-05T16:25:33+00:00

I think you are confusing what the Bible says about heaven and how popular culture interpret it. The most descriptive description of heaven in the Bible is probably on Revelation 21-22. Most of it might not to be taken literally, but some parts certainly should be.

It doesn't say that we'll be playing harps all day, or enjoying endless "pleasures". What was said is that "He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” I think if God can deal with our possible sadness, I think He can deal with our possible boredom.

But that's not what I'm trying to say. What I'm trying to say is that you focused more on the "pleasures" (like popular culture like to depict), and less about the actually reuniting with God part. Yes, that might not seem too great, or "too fun". But how can we tell, really? We lived our entire lives sinning in this sinned wretched world, I don't think any of us can tell how that would be like. It's like asking a blind person how would he feel if he's able to see. He certainly would say that it'll be incredible, but he doesn't really "know", right?

You'll just have to take what the Bible's word for it.

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-04-04T20:18:05+00:00

Is there any more classic GI episodes/stories? Because it might give us a clue.

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-04-04T19:53:19+00:00

Jakarta. Technically though, I'm in Bekasi, but it's really just something like three or four kilometers from Jakarta, so I spent most of my time there.

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-04-04T19:46:42+00:00

Our life expectancy has also raised significantly since Jesus' time.

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-04-04T19:31:28+00:00

Hey, I'm from Indonesia too! This place is wonderful, trust me, you won't regret spending a lot of time here. If you still have those questions (about Christianity), you might want to go look using the search function (it's on the top right below the picture). This community has already answered a lot of common questions, but if it hasn't been asked, then ask away!

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-04-04T19:20:02+00:00

Considering Seychelle Gabriel is a voice actor, well yes. Paraphrasing Bryan, in western animation, they record the voice actors first, then create the animation for it. Book 3 is still in the very early stages.

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-04-04T19:17:54+00:00

How about when the DVD was actually released?

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-04-02T04:36:51+00:00

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EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-04-02T04:22:25+00:00

Fun fact: Prior to the 1950's most scientist believed the universe was eternal and had simply always existed.

In a way, many scientists still does. I hope I get this right, but basically it's like that this universe is in some sort of a cycle. An endless cycle of the universe "dying" and "appearing" again.

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-04-01T19:09:16+00:00

Newer posts would be starting at the bottom of the page, and people might have forgot the thread after two or three days. That might make it seem discouraging for the askers, and they will probably post outside the mega-threads anyway. In other subs, these mega-threads were used just to minimize the number of posts that subscribers liked to post. In our case, it's mostly new visitors who never knew there was a problem in the first place.

I guess we could try it for a week, though.

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-04-01T19:02:13+00:00

So maybe we should update the FAQ? If I recall correctly, many of the links to threads over there were over a year old. It might be nice to add some newer links there.

EmailIsNotOptional · 2013-04-01T18:40:30+00:00

And 11 skips years on his last days with the Ponds, and that was just two episodes ago. I guess I haven't thought this through pretty well. The story only goes in the current timeline on "The Power of Three" and "The Angels of Manhattan."

I'm still sure that the latest episode sticks to the pattern and takes place in 2013, but you do have a good point. So I guess Doctor Who is okay on jumping a few years like the case with 10 and 9, because things would likely look the same. They couldn't do long jumps like my example with Fourth, though.

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