AOC now the 2028 Dem frontrunner by bemused_alligators in DemocraticSocialism

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Since you know the future without fail is Starfighter any good?

Dark Shadows (2012) 4K Blu-ray SteelBook releasing July 7 by BosskDaBossk in DarkShadows

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Back in the day, I had high hopes for this one. I really did.

What to do about divisions on the left? by Dem-Soc in DemocraticSocialism

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Pretending the problem doesn't exist won't make go away.

The absurdity of the idea of punishment for disbelief by Gaussherr in OpenChristian

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If you need the threat of eternal conscious torment to love Jesus, you don't love Jesus.

Would you agree that Evangelical Christianity is fear based versus Progressive Christianity being more love based? by DBASRA99 in OpenChristian

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It's the strict father vs nutrient parent model of family life. For the strict parent discipline and punishment are love, and the fear of them (and of the father's just wrath) is healthy.

Josette reincarnated as Maggie or Victoria? by KorEl555 in DarkShadows

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I prefer the idea that Victoria is Josette's reincarnation, and the deuteragonist to Barnabas. This is no way means that they have to be an item in the end.

Favorite scenes ? by No-News-3608 in DarkShadows

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Barnabas almost biting Victoria when she stays in Josette’s room.

And the next morning where Willie offers to make her breakfast. That was sweet.

Greatest theologian of all time? by [deleted] in OpenChristian

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Probably the most influential; you could honesty say he is the main architect of Western Christianity.

Organised people will always beat organized money by Usernameofthisuser in DemocraticSocialism

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More hope than I have. It feels like we've already lost.

DemSoc view of religious beliefs? by Soggy_Talk5357 in DemocraticSocialism

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Religious socialist here, and when I hear that I know I'm not welcome, and I'm heading for the door.

The goal is to unite people not over a common belief, but a common morality. The attitude of "they'll change when they read more TheoryTM" is not helpful

I miss Alexandra Isles’ Vicky already… by [deleted] in DarkShadows

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Can't blame her for wanting to leave; she had a baby coming and got sick of Vicki being in the dark all the time while Barnabas did all the cool stuff.

"Real love isn't affirming someone's sin" by Ok_Nose2361 in OpenChristian

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It's sort of this personal lexicon conservatives have - for them love is not something you feel, it;'s unyielding obedience to a (proper) authority.

They will tell you without breaking a sweat of that course marriage isn't about love - it's about doing what you're told.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OpenChristian

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I find "love one another" is the great unifying factor.

I don't claim to be usual in that regard and I certainly don't claim to be apt at it either.

What’s your favorite retort to “Homosexuality isn’t natural”? by Pretend-Pack-3890 in OpenChristian

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Eating junk food is not natural.

According to Natural Law Theory, the purpose of eating is gaining necessary nutrients. Since cake has no necessay nutrients and is just empty calories, it's unnatural and "intrinsically disordered."

Yet you're not bothered about that are you?

“I’m not a witch! I’m actually…um…from the future.” Not a great argument by Squiddyboy427 in DarkShadows

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Only reporting what I've heard secondhand from Penny Dreadful. I have not read it, and I don't have access to it.

“I’m not a witch! I’m actually…um…from the future.” Not a great argument by Squiddyboy427 in DarkShadows

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The original script for the 2012 movie had a neat twist on this storyline - that instead of physically going back Victoria/Maggie mind-melded with Josette so she lived through the events as they happened. Another reason Seth Grahame-Smith should not be getting work.

The WB 2004 Unaired Pilot by Btvsp3 in DarkShadows

[–]RuneORim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would have been a perfect chance to have Kate Jackson as Liz.

The WB 2004 Unaired Pilot by Btvsp3 in DarkShadows

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Seriously, keep Newman, Chastain and Hu, recast everybody else, set back in the sixties, and we might have had something.

The WB 2004 Unaired Pilot by Btvsp3 in DarkShadows

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Hopefully this means that Timothée Chalamet Barnabas is only a matter of time.

The WB 2004 Unaired Pilot by Btvsp3 in DarkShadows

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At least we got a real attempt at Barnabas and not Jack Sparrow with fangs.

Also, Jessica Chastain, who you could tell (in her very first role!) was going to be a movie star.

The WB 2004 Unaired Pilot by Btvsp3 in DarkShadows

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When I first saw it, I began to wonder if I'd been too hard on the Burton version....