In Upload, Greg Daniel's most recent TV show, you can buy yourself a dope afterlife. Nathan Brown has a rich girlfriend, so he gets to go to Lakeview and enjoy, well, a sick lakeside view for the rest of his digital eternity. Your average human [...]
Ever since Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984 were released, people debate which author predicted the future. Will we move towards government control, censorship and so-called security (Orwell) or will we entertain ourselves to death so that we lose our identity and [...]
Allow this movie nerd an analogy. Any good ending is like a good end-credits scene. The right timing, the right music… just the right level of nostalgia. Think Transformers with What I’ve Done. The Matrix with Wake Up. Or the Fellowship of the Ring with [...]
Options + Entitlement = ...
“whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” (Luke 18:14) Everyone knows how sucky it feels to be humbled. It almost always begins with entitlement: You think you deserve something, but then it slips from your grasp, or someone else [...]
We lose something important when we write someone off simply based on behaviour.
In July of 2018 James Gunn, director of the Guardians of the Galaxy series, was fired by Disney after a blogger exposed tweets that Gunn made in the last 10 years. The resulting backlash from fans and cast has led to speculations of his (unlikely) [...]
Promise not to judge me? I used to have pretty strict views on dating. But give me a break: I was in leadership of a Christian student ministry and felt like I had to play the big bro. I wanted to protect the girls and [...]
Marriage and dating -- when you're trying to figure out whether to marry or not -- are different entities, and need to be approached differently. Marriage. Some love it, some hate it. I'm convinced it's incredibly underrated, and I think statistics would agree with me. [...]
As someone who likes to think critically (or at least likes to think that he thinks critically), I sometimes find myself in the middle of things politically. I have more conservative views, to be sure, but I also see some bad arguments or straw-men from [...]
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