According to the Andaman Director of the General Police, the guy wasn’t even a missionary, but just “an adventurer.” Although, I wouldn’t doubt he would try to paint his intentions as being religiously inspired, and he may have fooled himself.

He was willing to kill a whole island of people of communicable diseases, whether in the name of adventure or his God. I just hope his body won’t be hazardous to the islanders.

The most I can say for FB2 is if you fixed everything wrong with it it wouldn’t be a completely different film. Then again JK Rowling has shown herself capable of writing good stories, unlike a certain avant-garde director hired to write a Star Wars film.

Rowling’s a better writer for sure, but the more she tries to stay in the public eye the more the flaws in her perception–and even the originals–stand out.

salkryn:

It’s called the foot-in-the-door method. First, you propose something that is slightly outside of allowable norms: denying gay people wedding cakes on grounds of “religious freedom”. Then, you slowly ramp up how extreme your demands are, coercing the other side to giving a tiny bit of ground each time, until you’ve shifted the entire fucking playing field. Conservatives are also very fond of the door-to-face method, which is demanding something completely outlandish that you know will be refused, and then asking for something less ridiculous by way of compromise, again resulting in a gradual shift in norms until views that were once considered moderate or reasonable become unthinkably liberal by destroying people’s sense of standards. The combination of these methods is called the “foot-in-the-face” method, which sums up where this whole thing is headed quite nicely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-in-the-door_technique

themandalorianwolf:

lj-writes:

elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:

she-ra is just the Star Wars sequels if Finn was the main character like….a former enemy soldier defecting and being unsure of themself….someone who was brainwashed from birth….Adora is the Jedi!Finn we wanted

“If” Finn was the main character?

Pretty sure OP meant that if Finn was THE protagonist instead of the co-protagonist, though IMO the sequels would have worked better if Lucasfilm A. didn’t hire Rian Johnson and B. gave Rey and Finn the Mulder and Scully treatment the entire way through.

Back on track, what is She-Ra? 

Never speak to me or my 9 Princess of Power daughters ever again