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[Thom Brannan]

The slasher is most maligned because it has a simple, winning formula that barely requires effort to execute. And dozens of filmmakers use it every year. Still, every so often a slasher tries harder, and it stands out for that intent.

if you haven't yet, check out Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. it starts out all, "hah, mockumentary," and ends all, "jesus christ!"

Would one regular cat make nine zombie cats?

quantum geeks have Schrödinger's cat. we have Dunwoody's. nice!

[Dave Dunwoody]

Haha, YES! I think I've found my legacy.

I liked Behind the Mask a lot.

[Bobbie]

Dave you would have had to kill each of the zombie cats nine times to make them zombies.

My but you've been busy!   

[Dave Dunwoody]

Interesting theory. Would you then have to shoot the zombie cat in the brain nine times?

How many bullets is this gonna take??!

There's definitely a story in this.

[Thom Brannan]

i think you have one cat, but you have to kill it nine times to end up with one zombie cat.

but it's a TOUGH zombie cat. like, Special Agent Jack Bauer from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia tough. (s03e13 -  Bums: Making a Mess All Over the City)

"Wait a minute. Wait a minute, believe me, that's a tough cat. He was born in a pool of gasoline, on a piece of rusty scrap metal. I've seen that cat jump through barbed wire into a vat of hot tar. That cat, uh-huh, is indestructable."

[Doug (Ancient) Wojtowicz]

I loved Behind the Mask.  I wish they'd do a sequel.

[Dave Dunwoody]

"You know the rules," the Devil said to Death. "If he gets one, I get one."

Death smiled blithely. "You get one hand. I can't guarantee anything beyond that."

He dealt the cards.

[Kody Boye]

"You know the rules," the Devil said to Death. "If he gets one, I get one."

Death smiled blithely. "You get one hand. I can't guarantee anything beyond that."

He dealt the cards.

I hope nothing happened to you today, Dave.

[Dave Dunwoody]

Everything's roses over here

Day's young, though...

[Zombie Zak]

Dude, do you read Terry Practhet?  If you don't, you should.  Especially the Discworld Series - just saying is all ...

[Dave Dunwoody]

Pratchett's been recommended to me a number of times, but I haven't read him yet...I've avoided doing so for a while, because I was afraid his Death might rub off on mine. But with Empire 2 done, I plan to quit being a weiner.

[frank]

I'm just going on intuition here.

This isn't one of my own deep thoughts.  Deep being a relative term, in any case.  I've found myself on the verge of drowning in just a few inches of metaphorical water more than once. 

Whatever.  You had to be there.  (Be glad you weren't!)

What I want to examine is the impression of light that some of us may sense around some people.  People who always turn out to know something more than the average about darkness.

The implication being that the light and the dark in an individual is held in a kind of balance.   The brighter the light, the deeper the darkness.

There is a particular kind of dichotomy here.  Light/dark is like life/death, but not like love/hate or peace/violence.  The former need each other.  Are the two sides of a conceptual whole.  The latter are opposites that can and do exist in the absence of the other.

I think there are religious implications.  The God of the Old Testament was understood to be a whole.  Life was understood to be a whole.  Good and bad bound together, as life and death are.  Meaningless without the other.  This is why we see the All Powerful and Knowing Creator as also limited, even petty.  The mercy of a flawless being is not really meaningful, if he has no choice, but to be merciful.  (The perfect don't make choices).  Choice implies the ability to be mistaken.  But the mercy of a being who might casually toy with you, as God allowed Satin to toy with Job... Now that is something to be desired, and wrestled with.

Anyway.  I toss this out to perplex those who comfort themselves with the thought that those who seek reconciliation with God are necessarily cowards, fools, or weaklings.  As though any quest for meaning could be a safe undertaking.  I could just as well say that those who expect the lights to turn off at the end of their time have identified a convenient escape from the intractable problems of living as free moral agents.  What we see in others, we secretly feed within ourselves.  (And yes, I do see the courage and nobility of those who live full lives while accepting the end of all things.)

Be not mistaken, God favors those "non-believers" more highly by far than any who turn to him out of mere self-interest.

[Stephen Blundell]

Frank pretty interesting topic ...

I grew up in a seventh day adventist environment, while at one point in my mid teens that I considered the option to study Theology and the Churches Fundamental Beliefs.  Basically considering becoming a pastor or a minister.  I am now agnostic.  So here goes ... and I could be wrong on the context (my religious knowledge is a little rusty), Matthew or someone with a more active knowledge can clarify any of my wrongs.

In the old testament life was just that, life; it wasn't until the temptation of Adam and Eve that the introduction of pain perhaps even death (Genesis).  God/Creator allowed for Adam and Eve to make a choice, it was their free will.
God's integraty ... “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips”.  I don't think a line like that shows weakness or without choices.  If you're a Christian you would say that unwavering strength.

Some sectors of Christianity believe that Satan does not have a superior power or authority. He is absolutely dependent upon the cooperation of a human being who will empower him with the authority God gave them.  That he is indeed weak and preys on the sin and weakness within man and not the other way.  Lucifier/Satan was told to protect the Adam and Eve, yet he corrupted it due to his own desires and jealous of Man (Who was the image of God and were the authority over Earth).  Its after Genesis and before Eve had children that most Christians believe Lucifier turned against God.

As for the light and darkness (non religion but light theory), what about this messy theory ... that dark is the by-product of having absorbed all light, so if there is no light there is no darkness.  To have black it has to absorb light (or all shades of the primary colours). So if you've got no light then black can't absorb anything and hence it does not and can not exist.  As for the Yin Yang theory ... black or darkness have no control over light, that light in itself controls everything, including the existence of darkness. 

But then you get into the messy area ... that the human eye only sees certain elements (or wave lengths) of light, the spectrum of light that the human eye can not see is called "Ultraviolent" or Black light. Eek

If we applied that theory to good and evil, than to experience evil (Dark) you must first have good (Light), but no matter how much you see there is always the invisible part that is truely and utterly evil (Black Light).

In Japanese culture, white represents symbolizes serfdom, youth, and naiveté. While black represents a symbol of nobility, age, and experience. 

I don't believe in the existience of someone being one way or the other, to be purely good or evil. 

[frank]

Thanks Stephen.

I don't presume to any sort of mastery of this mystery.

I think a defining quality of persons is the making of choices.  (= freedom)

So, those who understand God to be a person expect him/her to make choices, as opposed to being limited by some conception of perfection.
  But that at least seems to imply that God cannot be expected to be perfect.

Which is highly ironic, given that so many who want to believe in a God-person are troubled by his apparent imperfection, instead of forgiving the past and embracing a practice of self-and-God-improvement.

There are those who do not believe that God is a person.  That conception of God allows for the perfection of his non-existence,  or some other kind of perfection, as in changeless and untouched by anything that is not also perfect.  It gets confusing.

Which is exactly why it is worth taking a clear position and seeing if it helps with the living of one's life.

Without going into it, because I'm really overwhelmed by the Big Picture, I'm not able to claim membership in any faith community I can name.  I'd like to belong, somewhere, with like minds, but maybe I'm just too crazed to stay put.

Best to cultivate a sense of humor!

[Stephen Blundell]

I hear ya, Frank!  I'm in the same club as you ... however, I think I'm still trying to find my funny bone. 

It was a cool post though, Frank!  Its these kind of thoughts that I love, gets my old mental gears going.