• LurkingLuddite@piefed.social
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      30 days ago

      Heath Ledger is and always will be a legend. Not an idol or icon, but a legend.

      For many, exactly because he successfully portrayed the pictured Joker as such a, “hideous creature”.

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        29 days ago

        i get it, people like the joker. what i dont get is why hes still the face of countless memes years later. i wish i could install an extension that would block photos of him to be honest.

        • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social
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          29 days ago

          When logic and concern are distinctly missing from most of the world, do you really question why so many give in to chaos and want to tear down those same systems that are resisting all efforts to improve them?

          It’s obvious that politely asking charlatans and greedy fools to change gets you nothing. That leaves only few avenues left.

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                27 days ago

                this bozo doesnt deserve to have a monopoly on conveying whatever it is you see in him

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                  26 days ago

                  First of all, I already explained what some others see in the Joker, and it’s often not direct admiration.

                  Second of all, Heath Ledger proved his ability by portraying such a character.

                  Third of all, he doesn’t have a monopoly on portraying even the chaos sort of ‘anarchism’ that he uses in the movie.

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    1 month ago

    I’m pretty sure Paul claimed to have a personal relationship with Jesus. But what is this odd and specific talking point? Why does it matter what is in the bible, it is all made up nonsense anyway.

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    1 month ago

    This is a concept as old as the Gnostics and expressed most vividly within the concept of the Holy Spirit.

    If anything was invented, it was the Catholic Clergy as spiritual interlocutor. The entire Catholic/Protestant schism is predicated on reformers in the early Protestant sects denying Papal Infallibility, the sacrament of Confession, and the need for a singular Apostolic Church to officiate over the blessing of Communion.

    And the Thirty Years War that followed was an attempt by the church to reassert control through military force, when dogmatic religious assertions failed to sway the public any longer.

    • Sarah Valentine (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      Seems to me like their willingness to employ military force to assert their position should have disqualified them immediately from any association with Jesus or Jesus-related religious practices.