darth sidious, star wars.feature: mutilated.
cobra commander, g.i. joe. feature: faceless.
red skull, captain america.feature: er. skullish. reddish. plain gross.
saruman, lord of the rings.keith: who do you think this is?
benjamin: moses?
someone: this one only went to sunday school, never watch tv wan.
the joker, batman: dark knight.feature: mutilated+crazed.
yzma, emperor's new school/groove.feature: conniving (keith)
no comment (me)
sam: gaston's good-looking. keith: that's an exception. (lols)
gaston, beauty & the beast.feature: er. hairy chest?
Many of these people were themselves victims of evil. E.g. Darth Vader, Doctor Octavius.
darth vader, star wars.feature: faceless.
These characters might well be reflections of the writers themselves.
Genesis 3:1-4 - The Fall and the Garden of Eden: Where It All Began
And the serpent said unto the woman:
"You will not surely die:
For God knows that in the day you eat of the fruit,
then your eyes shall be opened,
and you will be like God,
knowing good and evil."
Genesis 3:4
We're always fooled into thinking that we don't know evil, that we need to be shown what evil is like.
The truth is that we know these characters, and we know them well, because we lost our innocence in Eden.
Is any of the three kinds of evil personally familiar to you?
Keith: Are we really that different from these people?
Keith: ... No, seriously.
mojojojo, powerpuff girls.
feature: no comment.
Sam: Maybe Gaston la.
ROFL.
anyway.
when i wrote stories, i never included God in them. it felt ridiculous to even consider the idea. similiarly, one seldom finds man's dependence on God or any god in comic books, cartoons, tv shows, or movies. even with the good guys, God is never there. it's all about them doing the work, beating the bad guys, saving the day.
i realized this a long time ago - that stories like these stem from man's desire to be in a world without God. a world free from God's watchful eyes, where you, in your characters, can do whatever you want because you determine the standards of morality.
one scene in the spiderman comics left a distinct impression on me of this fact. it was during the massacre carried out by carnage, shriek, doppeldanger, and demogoblin.
demogoblin, spiderman.
feature: fire.
demogoblin was obsessed with his 'holy mission' of killing 'sinners', and a scene in the comic book showed him attacking a priest who was praying and clutching the cross around his neck. the priest was not spared, and demogoblin insulted God as he reached out to strike the man. i think in the end, some superhero came and saved him la. but anyhow, it showed me that there is no place for God in man's imagination.
i agreed with keith on the fact that we're not so different from those characters after all. those characters are magnified reflections of ourselves, but reflections, nonetheless. the evil that they do are examples of what we can do if we were to magnify our own little wrongdoings by say, 20x. darth maoul's anger, darth sidious's greed, darth vader's fear, mojojojo's jealousy, the joker's desire for something larger than mundane life, yzma's longing for revenge - these are all in us, if we scale deeper into our souls.
it is difficult to live with God. because we have lived so long with the sin that is in us, with the nature that tells us to do whatever we want, whenever we feel like it.
and again,
"You will not surely die:
For God knows that in the day you eat of the fruit,
then your eyes shall be opened,
and you will be like God,
knowing good and evil."
Genesis 3:4
We're always fooled into thinking that we don't know evil, that we need to be shown what evil is like.
The truth is that we know these characters, and we know them well, because we lost our innocence in Eden.
- 1. Violation of God's commandments.
- 2. Knowing what is right, yet doing the opposite of what is right.
- 3. Active rebellion against God.
Is any of the three kinds of evil personally familiar to you?
Keith: Are we really that different from these people?
-everyone looks at the picture of the joker on the screen and stares at keith blankly-
me (thinks): er... physically... yeah...
me (thinks): er... physically... yeah...Keith: ... No, seriously.
mojojojo, powerpuff girls.feature: no comment.
-pin-drop silence-
Sam: Maybe Gaston la.
ROFL.
anyway.
when i wrote stories, i never included God in them. it felt ridiculous to even consider the idea. similiarly, one seldom finds man's dependence on God or any god in comic books, cartoons, tv shows, or movies. even with the good guys, God is never there. it's all about them doing the work, beating the bad guys, saving the day.
i realized this a long time ago - that stories like these stem from man's desire to be in a world without God. a world free from God's watchful eyes, where you, in your characters, can do whatever you want because you determine the standards of morality.
one scene in the spiderman comics left a distinct impression on me of this fact. it was during the massacre carried out by carnage, shriek, doppeldanger, and demogoblin.
demogoblin, spiderman.feature: fire.
i agreed with keith on the fact that we're not so different from those characters after all. those characters are magnified reflections of ourselves, but reflections, nonetheless. the evil that they do are examples of what we can do if we were to magnify our own little wrongdoings by say, 20x. darth maoul's anger, darth sidious's greed, darth vader's fear, mojojojo's jealousy, the joker's desire for something larger than mundane life, yzma's longing for revenge - these are all in us, if we scale deeper into our souls.
it is difficult to live with God. because we have lived so long with the sin that is in us, with the nature that tells us to do whatever we want, whenever we feel like it.
but i see a different law in the members of my body
waging war against the law of my mind
and making me a prisoner of the law of sin
which is in my members.
wretched man that i am!
who will set me free from the body of death?
romans 7:23-24
waging war against the law of my mind
and making me a prisoner of the law of sin
which is in my members.
wretched man that i am!
who will set me free from the body of death?
romans 7:23-24
and again,
the sinful mind is hostile to God.
It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.
romans 8:7
it was a well-cherished time in cg yesterday. (not just on account of the kaya puffs)It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.
romans 8:7
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