Your (dry) quote of the day

[phosfate]

"War of the Worlds" is rated PG-13. Much of the earth's population is wiped out, leaving very little time for sex or bad language.

--says The New York Times

Comments

[thistlethorn.livejournal.com]

LOL

I'm *so* not interested in seeing this. Just...not.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Not even an, "Oh, FUCK, we're all dead!"? Pity. (please bomb, please bomb, please stupid movie bomb)

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

But there's always time for $cientology! We have tents set up now!

[marlo.livejournal.com]

I love the H.G. Wells story. I am therefore NOT going to see Tom Cruise et al. butcher it.

[amilyn.livejournal.com]

Hee! Great comment.

[amilyn.livejournal.com]

You know, as a modern pagan, I really oughtn't to be tossing sharp crystals around...

But I do find the whole religion based on a bet of who could write a book that would get people to follow it as a real religion...odd. And, well, a bit off farther than just off-center.

[theodicy.livejournal.com]

Please, Jesus, please please please let it be a colossal failure. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease.

[robanybody.livejournal.com]

I think you're gonna get your wish, Vali. Critics are already savaging the movie as emotionally vacant and full of big, dumb explosions that look cool but don't do much else to advance the plot. Like a sci-fic XXX, but with more annoying children.

[robanybody.livejournal.com]

I think I'll just read the book and skip the movie.

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty accepting of sincere spiritual searching, but you know, there are things that are just plain bullshit. And that pretty much sums up Scientology. I'm absolutely boggled that anyone falls for that load of crap. Your first clue is that it was created by a hack science fiction writer.

The problems with Scientology go deeper than Hubbard's credentials though. I'm always suspect of a "religion" that's such a money making machine. There should always be something suspect in paying (especially big bucks) for enlightenment. Admitedly, many religions validly claim that enlightenment must be earned, but what other religion actually puts a price tag on it? Another big red light goes off when a religion discourages you from interpreting it's teaching which is exactly what Scientology does. They pretty much state that you aren't to intreprete anything. Nope, you're supposed to reread it and reread it toll you accept it exactly as it is. (Sort of like the Anne Rice of religions, huh?) Plus there's the fact that Scientology bullies, legal and sometime physically, it's opponents.

[amilyn.livejournal.com]

What you said. :-)

I have been horrified, as an adult, to learn that many religious groups are political and will talk politics from the pulpit. I grew up where religious leaders DID NOT give political opinions outside of casual conversations as equals.

The idea of a RELIGIOUS group being a POLITICAL FORCE just creeps me out.

But ... but ...

[comice.livejournal.com]

there's always time for bad language!! Especially during the Apocalypse!!!!

Although if Tom Cruise was my only choice for a sex partner ... well ... there'd be a LOT MORE bad language, and absolutely no sex. Because even if he was the literal last man on Earth?

Just say no, motherf*cker.

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

Sing it, sistah!

Here's another scary story about $cientology: The Shadowy Story Behind Scientology's Tax-Exempt Status. I haven't read it the whole article yet, but it does have some interesting speculation on how $cientology got a tax-exempt staus, which frankly has been a mystery. It's pretty scary the idea that Scientology can and did intimidate the IRS.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

Or psychiatrists.

Re: But ... but ...

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

You can say "motherfucker" here.