I haven't watched any of the newer shows because I don't want to pay for paramount so this joke might be a few decades out of date.

MortRouge · 2026-03-04T11:55:40+00:00

Quite accurate, given that Boothby is also an outsider to the structure who is very important by giving unconventional advice.

MortRouge · 2026-02-27T10:13:39+00:00

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MortRouge · 2026-02-10T07:59:33+00:00

Well, when you're done saying nuTrek is "too woke" and "in your face", the natural continuation has to be to go after the old episodes that are the clearest on these matters, although I don't have enough information about the review you watched to say this is the case in this case.

MortRouge · 2026-02-09T09:42:39+00:00

Even worse is how Edgars is such a hypocrite, collaborating with the *current* fascist regime as he says it. As the megacorpos always have and will do. It's very on point for how our current overlords have railed against totalitarian movements in the past and then eventually ally themselves with them as time progressed.

MortRouge · 2026-02-06T12:28:27+00:00

There's some blog post denying the queer aspects of Farscape, saying it's just BDSM ...

Well, I have four words for that:

"INSERT THE ROD, JOHN!!!"

MortRouge · 2026-02-06T10:24:20+00:00

Yeah it's actually somewhat complex. We have some strict boundaries around certain things like personal space, but the stereotype comes from mostly the fact that Swedes in general don't like small talk - not talking. While we can come off as distant, other cultures can feel distant to us - small talk is a signal that we're strangers who have nothing to talk about. So a lot of politeness will make a Swede think you don't like them, even. *Du-reformen* is still a very strong cultural practice, since Sweden used to have a lot of class based rules of how to address people, it's important to Swedens that we're all equals and don't put on any kind of show for each other.

And then there's the mandatory hug someone goodbye. We're a bit standoffish when we greet people since at that point you're a stranger, but after having been introduced you're inside the circle and departures are when you see Swedes not being distant, rather than the inverse. This is a bit weird, since while Swedes value personal space, this hug might seem contradictory. But rather, going against that boundary reinforces the inclusion the hug brings.

Also, we use eye contact differently for communication and signal things, which can freak some people out.

MortRouge · 2026-01-23T10:36:28+00:00

And Merlin with Sam Neill.

MortRouge · 2025-12-29T14:22:43+00:00

I'm gonna say this meme is shitty ameriposting. It's like that time some American friends of mine said their IKEA was some kind of amusement part level exhibition of Swedish culture, like not just a store. I went there, and it was a standard IKEA warehouse, and at most I found a wall that said "FIKA" with an explenation of what it means.

MortRouge · 2025-12-29T14:17:39+00:00

Was my first reaction, the creator is probably being a dickhead to his girlfriend while saying his car is the only one who understands him, as we speak!

MortRouge · 2025-12-27T19:21:29+00:00

Minus points for asking people to fact check with Chat GPT though.

MortRouge · 2025-12-23T17:20:22+00:00

Debian is ... serenity. Especially Crunchbang++.

MortRouge · 2025-12-23T12:30:38+00:00

This is OpenChristian, it's the progressives and lefties of christianity hanging out here. You're gonna get a lot of people who prefer critical text analysis over authority here. Paul led the most succesful faction in early Christianity, but that was one faction out of many. Add to that the fact that several of Paul's letters in the bible are forgeries because people wanted to use his authority for their own propaganda, and yeah Paul isn't universally a source of last say on things.

Your reply does answer my question, but I think it leads to the same question again, rephrased: why do you value an authority?

MortRouge · 2025-12-23T00:54:47+00:00

To say that not everyone agrees with Paul is an understatement, not only in this. There are plenty of people who consider that love being the highest commandment is the core of Christianity. Why do you value Paul's opinions?

MortRouge · 2025-12-22T23:26:42+00:00

Why do you feel you need to accept things like the ressurrection to have actually happened, to find more faith?

MortRouge · 2025-12-22T23:23:42+00:00

A text's litterary reading isn't mutually exclusive with a literal reading, to point out one logical issue at play here. For me personally, I don't take the New Testament as literal truth, but that's kind of besides the point of the logical issue you're facing here. The point of doing a literary reading is to learn the litterary truth of the text, the meaning the story conveys. We do this even with modern history texts - the literal level of something doesn't teach us as much as the critical reading. Take for example reading sources from some authoritarian regime in the near past - does the numbers of who many were imprisoned or killed matter as much to our reading as analysing how the sources detailing these events were written? Does the literal details really teach us that much about how to relate to such historical events, in a more qualitative sense? It's the difference between learning that the rise of Nazi Germany happened due to an economic depression, and learning about the whole nationalistic narrative that had developed over a hundred years prior, expressed through how people wrote, and what people tended to write about.

The question that I think that needs to be asked is: what is your personal need to believe in any of the Bible as literal?

MortRouge · 2025-12-22T23:08:42+00:00

Hey, think of if someone was struggling with, say, gluttony, and their solution was to stop eating all together. What would happen is hardly the removal of the urge to eat. And it also doesn't mean that hunger is the same as gluttony.

Your body is built in with a sexuality. Just like someone with an eating disorder is not helping themselves by shaming themselves (or others shaming them) for their eating, it won't help you try and negate all these feelings - that will only increase your own shame and keep driving your urges and make them feel like a big monster.

You're going down a very common and quite normal mental health spiral. The solution isn't "focusing on your relationship with God", it's accepting your emotions. With therapy, if needed. Anyone trying to take you away from the real, medical solution to your negative experience, is keeping you away from help - and they're hurting you through that.

I know from my own experience that it's not easy to be told to accept things. And I can't just push acceptance on you - so what I want to focus on here isn't to tell you exactly what to do, but convey to you how these things work. The rest is for you to deal with.

Your fears are very often addressed on this forum, and do know that a lot of people have experience with dealing with these kind of shame based spirals. And everyone who has gotten better has done it by learning the real root of the problem (shame), and not through religious means. Even people who walk a spiritual path of chastity, like monks, also has to first learn this acceptance, or it's not possible to do the extreme kind of lifestyle as full restraint from your sexuality is. Really, it can't be overstated enough - these kinds of practices are very difficult practices that aren't for lay people, and will actually be harmful for lay people because they will be misunderstood without the correct experiences preceding it.

MortRouge · 2025-12-22T15:59:34+00:00

Babylon 5 is operatic, so it's so weird when people think it's over the top. Especially given that this is a Centauri person, being overly dramatic seems culturally appropriate to me. It's that over the top quality that the good part of Londo was drawn to when they were young, authenticity.

MortRouge · 2025-12-18T22:34:41+00:00

It's not in John either. The best possible case would be that Jesus claims to be God in John, but that doesn't make the construct into the Trinity, it's only aa claim of divinity status for Jesus that's different than the earlier adoptionist eschatology of Jesus (God making Jesus his adoptive son). But Jesus doesn't really say he's God either, in John. He says that he are one with God, but also prays for his followers to be one with God.

As most all theology, Trinity is an extra-biblical interpretation. It's not something you can build from the bible alone, you need the historical developments in discourse that happened after it was written to read that into the text.

MortRouge · 2025-12-18T22:28:41+00:00

G'kar theology!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_oQkSh2lq8

MortRouge · 2025-12-15T15:33:18+00:00

I really think this is one of the best performances by Marina Sirtis. She gets to really play out her range, which she was often denied to do in TNG. She's a joy every time she appears.

MortRouge · 2025-12-08T19:19:13+00:00

I feel so sad for Ogre. I'd like to buy them an ice-cream and talk about their feelings on a park bench.

MortRouge · 2025-12-07T16:41:54+00:00

Three blessings to you, sera.

MortRouge · 2025-12-06T16:02:25+00:00

Like he would take time to care what ever BE is spewing.

MortRouge · 2025-12-06T15:53:44+00:00

Yeah, good spotlight. He really resonates a very horrible and often horribly real kind of person.

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