Category: thought piece

• [video game][opinion] Why I Think “The Last of Us: Part II” Will Be Forgotten

  

  Why will The Last of Us: Part II most likely be forgotten? Why should it be forgotten? I think TLOU:P2 lacks the necessary elements to appeal to a universal audience. I haven’t played the first part or the second part, and I don’t intend to because the genre is generally unappealing to me. However, after reading the…

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  July 5, 2020

  culture, gaming, literary critique, literature, thought piece

  devouring mother, jung, psychology, the last of us, the last of us part 2, tyrannical mother, video games

• [writing] LitLectures – Mythology 101

  

  It’s 2020. As we grapple with changes to popular franchises and stories, we might wonder what is going on. Some may recognize ongoing negotiation surrounding concepts of myth and canon. What is myth and mythology? What role does have in modern society, if any? Base Definition According to the Oxford Lexicon, myth is described as:…

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  May 6, 2020

  culture, literary critique, literature, nonfiction, thought piece

  ancient myth, archetypes, carl jung, comparative mythology, david leeming, harry potter, joseph campbell, joseph henderson, kenneth davis, lord of the rings, metaphysics, mythology, myths, philosophy

• [random thoughts] Where Do You Hide Your Heart?

  

  Where do you hide your heart? The question always reminds me of Amy Grant’s 1984 track on her hit album Straight Ahead. Her song encouraged us to turn to God during times of distress. It got me thinking about why people do what they do, particularly during times of conflict or stress. Passion and drive,…

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  April 15, 2020

  culture, nonfiction, personal, quote, random writing, thought piece

  charism of virginity, desiring the kingdom, dubay, heart, james ka smith, jung, love, man and his symbols, passion, romantic theology, song of songs, spiritual love, unconscious

• [YT Response] What is a Leader? My response to Activision Blizzard Mass Layoffs (YongYea, Schreier, Palmeri)

  

  As YongYea rightly points out, this is all rumour at this point, but the situation is still kinda yucky because it is most likely true: Activision is going to lay off a lot of developers while maintaining high salaries and bonuses for the upper level workers. [EDIT: Layoffs have commenced. Around 800 staff laid off.]…

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  February 9, 2019

  culture, gaming, literature, nonfiction, random writing, thought piece, video

  activision, bible, culture studies, culture ware, featured, gothic literature, henry v, Jesus, naruto, naruto shippuuden, oliver twist, shakespeare, social justice, spiderman, yongyea

• [thoughts] Late Term Abortion is a Fancy Word for Infanticide

  

  I am not a mother. I am a teacher. Still, abortion makes me sick on a visceral level. So a few years ago, when my mom sent me a link to an academic ethics paper on abortion, I was horrified and intrigued by what was proposed. Both my mom and I knew that it was…

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  February 1, 2019

  culture, interesting stuff, thought piece

  abortion, infanticide, late term abortion, pro-choice, pro-life, third trimester, tim pool

• [opinion] The Activist Spectrum

  Activism is all well and good, but, as with criticism, there is constructive and not constructive (what I will call destructive). I would argue that constructive and destructive activism are, perhaps, part and parcel of human activity and protest. Is any faction free from destructive activities or association with destructive activities? And if there is…

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  December 5, 2018

  culture, original fiction, thought piece

  activism, community, culture, groups, politics, responsibility, spectrum, tribalism

• [response] Lord of the Rings and Racism

  

  I want to write about this in more detail at a later date – but I have to say that the recent Wired interview with Andy Duncan once again highlights how the Academic Academic regressive left have no idea how to (and therefore have no right to) talk about mythology. Just Google search this terrible…

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  November 27, 2018

  culture, interesting stuff, literary critique, literature, nonfiction, original fiction, thought piece

  elves, fantasy, j r r tolkien, jrr tolkien, lord of the rings, metanarratives, modernity, mythology, orcs, postmodernity, racism, science fantasy, star wars, universalism

• [thought piece] No Man’s Sky, Puddleglum, and Our Existential Need for Narrative

  

  Vox, believe it or not, made a pretty good point about No Man’s Sky in its article, No Man’s Sky is an existential crisis simulator disguised as a space exploration game: Okay, so the universe in No Man’s Sky is really, really big. But what, exactly, do you do in it? […] Even when the…

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  November 24, 2018

  culture, gaming, original fiction, thought piece

  alex tsakiris, comics, cosmos, darwin, dc, exisistentialism, joseph campbell, life, lord of the rings, marvel, materialism, meaning, mythology, narrative, no man’s sky, puddleglum, simpsons, spiritualism, spirituality, star wars, superhero films, the silver chair, the x-files, video gaming

• [repost] “He Asked Permission to Touch, but Not to Ghost” (Sender)

  The sad, true story of a young woman who has not grown up to understand the boundaries of free sex through websites like Tinder. I found this article to be both sad and horrific… Dear Ms. Sender: Unfortunately, sexual consent doesn’t have anything to do with care because “free” sex has nothing to do with…

  dappled-things

  November 4, 2018

  interesting stuff, link, random writing, thought piece

  care, commitment, consensual, consent, culture, dating, expectations, free sex, ghosting, intimacy, long-term love, marriage, modern dating, relationships, sex, sex culture, tinder

• [FB Video Response] Are we natural meat eaters? (Life Changing Videos)

  LINK “Try to kill a pig without tools cuz animals don’t use tools”. UM. Animals DO use tools to get food – any of the primates, sea otters, raccoons, and birds among others. [1][2][3] This comment about only eating food you can gain with your hands bothered me so much because it is evidently untrue. I…

  dappled-things

  October 5, 2018

  culture, thought piece

  animals, carnivore, carnivore apologetics, meat, nature, vegan, vegetables