This is one of the very, very, very few times where the dub ing script fit the scene better than the original. In the sub script(disclosure I may be misremembering it’s been more than 20 years) she just calls out to her dad and then Edward to let them know she’s hurting and in pain. And it’s more heart wrenching because you know that it doesn’t understand why.

Here here.

Huh?

Yes, I did. Autocorrect thinks I didn’t know what I was talking about.

I can’t speak to Europe’s rail system but in the US it’s horrifically underdeveloped. There are a few passenger lines still in operation, but for the most part it’s all freight.

As someone who loves aviation and space ships and the like: I sincerely have no idea why the rail isn’t more commonly used for intercontinental intracontinental travel. Yes all the hippie reasons it’s great, but also when you take into account all the costs that go into car travel from destination A to destination B on a trip that goes across states; it’s cheaper, faster, and more reliable. And arguably less stressful and more comfortable.

Agreed.

Only thing that’s made some of these mornings tolerable: God is dead; embrace the suck.

Oh yeah? Look up how many people a year are killed by hippos.

Maybe they’re a Red Vines house?

Prototype 1 was so much better

The mythos surrounding Jesus just feels like more of the same. Here we have an unknowable being sending us an envoy who is a part of them that we can have interactions with it. As a concept, it would be comforting and most likely sooth people who would be grappling with existentialistic dread, but it still doesn’t make logical sense to me.

Like I said this being would be so beyond us essentially that would be like you creating a small cell to go talk to the cells in your liver for you. But even then that’s not a degree of magnitude of separation that would actually be an existence between us and any sort of central creation figure. That Central Creation figure would be so vast that there’s no way their attention would even be able to comprehend the smallness of us.

What I’m trying to argue is not that this God being chooses not to acknowledge us or chooses not to intervene in our lives but that they’re so far beyond and removed from us that they COULDN’T do those things.

And I know this is a very clunky analogy but do you care about the individual molecule on the tip of the nail of your toenail?

It’s always struck me personally that if there is some form of a central creating figure to the entirety of existence, the net central figure would not only have to be able to create everything that currently exists and that comes into existence but to be able to understand and plan those things. Everything from like, cosmic tidal forces down to the individual molecules that make up the molecules that make up the molecules that make up the cells of our bodies.

And as such our attempts to try to keen any sort of understandable knowledge and measure of this sort of being would be like a flea trying to comprehend the entirety of the lunar landing.

And if you’re dealing with a being that is just that beyond even our capacity to understand the width and breadth of, do you really think of being like that would care if you touch yourself? I think it would be laughably small-minded and narcissistic to think of being of that capacity would even be ABLE to care about you individually.

Well that kids fucked, their dad’s an idiot. Clearly that kid is painting.

I wish more people were forced like that.