it will run for as long theaters exist. when nobody is showing movies in theaters anymore, someone will bring a projector and some paper to some old abandoned cinema and play the movie. and people will show up.

decimating republican voter base? musta been a dem president.

Drugs have side effects and putting children on amphetamines is serious business. If it's necessary to get them the start they need in life, that's one thing. But you don't do it just to make the faculty's life easier.

It's the audience participation. Just before Frank says -pation the audience says "consta-".

Do movie actors usually get royalties on top of their initial fee?

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Crazy to me that the Time Warp was a massive crowd pleasing dance-along song at school discos and family events in the 80s and 90s and I had no idea where it came from.

Creature of the night!

Anticiconsta?

*June. I went to Maine last June and it was miserably cold.

By pro-Christian, I mean sources that have a vested interest in the Christian churches being right. For instance, if you wanted to use a theologian as a source, if that person was or is also an active participant in the religion, then they really need to able to demonstrate evidence of objectivity or detachment. Otherwise, it’s just priests, pastors, etc. talking about how Christianity is right, when they’re already explicitly on the side of Christianity being right. That’s a lotlike someone employed by, and/or a big fan of, a sporting organization can and will give us an unbiased opinion about the history/significant events that directly affected said sporting organization. It can definitely be true, but it’s very unlikely that it is true, because the person providing the info is very likely biased towards thinking the organization that they’re an active part of is right and good. So yeah, if it’s coming from a professional Christian, their info about historical Christianity becomes suspect, because they have a vested interest in things related to Christian faith being right and correct.

Eh, there's literally no law of nature that says that an organism has to be ideally suited to a given environment. If 90% of the population was going on insane murder sprees, and putting a fairly-innocuous chemical in the water supply would stop that, would you want people reevaluating their diagnostic criteria, or just conceding that the species is fucked up and needs some chemical intervention?

Laughing in Canadian.

He has already publically said he would not. Their writing styles are too different.

I usually just take the 5 and go around.

LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAAAAINN!!

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They also chuck coins at children to start the game

6 months doesnt sound like impossible deadline tbh.

> You stated that there was no such deity, I provided evidence that there likely was, and your argument changed

You provided "evidence" for the fact that at a single Germano-Roman settlement there were dedications made to a "Matronae Austriahenae", dedications that fit into a pattern that is most likely to do with local patron spirits and not some "Goddess of Spring", evidence that isn't actually linked to the supposed deity of Eostre when modern phiological methods and historical knowledge is used to evaluate it.

> but that doesn’t speak to your original statement that there wasn’t a goddess associated with Easter.

Where did I say there wasn't? All I said was Eostre was invented by Bede and that Easter is Christian, which isn't diminished by your "evidence".

> You appear to be responding to my “here’s some archeological evidence” with the counter “It’s not enough evidence”, so what would be enough for you? You can take some time to think about it if you’d like, but I won’t be responding to anything else you say or do until you answer this question.

You said it yourself - you are reading all this off Wikipedia, if you want evidence that'll convince me I suggest you look beyond it and read deeper about whatever you want to present as evidence.

> Side note: I won’t accept “scholarship”from overtly pro-Christian sources, I’m asking you for evidence the same way you’re asking me, which means actual objective evidence.

And what is "pro-christian sources" supposed to mean in the contex of material and philiological evidence?

1- Okay then, if I’m wrong, I’ll be cool with it, but your statements haven’t led me to any such conclusion. 2- Please provide some sort of explanation for you statement that Mithras wasn’t a human, I’m not accepting “No he wasn’t” as a valid answer. 3- You left off the part where I talked about old stories and myths informing new ones, so if you need everything to line up perfectly before you’ll consider it as possible, we’ll that’s not going to happen for anything that happened prior to about 1300 CE in Europe, and can’t happen for most of European history until the 1600s. 4- Christianity was also a mystery cult at that time, one of the theories on its rise in popularity was that the Christians didn’t charge an admission fee or the like, unlike most other mystery cults at the time. 5- As for your statements that the seven sacraments were just a coincidence, you’re stating that two religions being practiced in the same place at the same time (place meaning not just Rome but also the Roman underground caves and public works, time meaning the 1st century CE) independently had similarities going on but that there was no crossover or common source for any of the commonalities, so that’s a claim that needs some backup. TL;DR, I won’t mind being wrong, but I won’t accept that I’m wrong just because you say “that’s not true” or “you’re wrong”, you need to convince the same way I’m trying to convince you, by demonstrating reasons and facts that the other would or could find compelling.

If anyone could finish GoT its Joe Abercrombie in my opinion. Although, I'd rather it just stay unfinished.

Looks like they shut down in March 2020 because of Covid. So, Clinton Street may now be the longest running streak unless someone else knows of another theater somewhere else that can beat them.

There's a theater by me that used to screen it back when I was in high school ~20 years ago, but the owner got busted for diddling the young high school girls that went to see it.

He somehow was able to start screening the movie again... But guess what happened again.

The theater was closed for a while after that, but now it has live shows by former stars like Lisa Lisa and Al B Sure.

Interesting tidbit from the link:

>In 1975, Congress approved the protocol and President Gerald Ford ratified it. The U.S. would no longer use chemical weapons—lethal or nonlethal—in warfare. Ironically, tear gas has continued to be used as a weapon of pacification domestically; law enforcement from local police officers to the National Guard have continued to use tear gas to quell riots and prevent property damage.