Relatable Comic #1

With all my term papers coming up and advisories closing... I feel you Calvin.

Is It Possible to Become Less Biased?

I often ask myself this question while I was watching the 2012 election, or just watching Fox News. I find it incredible how biased people are, not just on the Fox network, but in everything that we do, we are biased. But to answer the question, I believe that the answer is yes. I think it's really hard, especially if what you're biased against is something you strongly believe in. I know, for instance, that I (and many of us here in DC) are biased to the liberal/Democratic side. Recently, I've been trying to see why right-wingers believe what they do. Unfortunately, the only answer I can come up with is, because they're morons. Which sucks. I'm going to still work on it, but it's not going to be easy. So what do you think? Is it really possible to become less biased, or become extremely open-minded?

Take Care!

Sam

Comic Sunday! Theme: Movies

Inspired by Terminator 2, that I watched for the first time a few days ago.

Also, I wanna introduce something new. To get more inspiration for my comics, I wanna do a theme each week, and for the readers to decide on the next theme. So comment below the theme you want me to "comic" about next time!

Anyway, here's the comic;

5 Worst Movies of 2012

I've been watching lots of movies recently, (ya know, cuz of Oscars and stuff) and I thought it would be cool to make some blogpost inspired by movies. But before we get on into our list, let's talk about my best friend. The Oscars. Overall, I thought the Oscars were pretty good this year, I thought Seth McFarlane did okay, definitely better than James Franco. Argo definateley deserved that Oscar, and Jennifer Lawrence is too friggen hot. We all knew Daniel Day Lewis would win best actor, and Anne Hathaway supporting actress. Now that I think about it, the Oscars weren't even that great.

Okay, on with the list. In contrary to the Oscars, which praise excellent films, I will shame on the horrible ones. Well, at least on my opinion.

5. Wrath of the Titans- Jesus Christ, how bad is Wrath of the Titans, the sword-and-sorcery sequel to Clash of the Titans that nobody wanted, directed by the dude who made us go mad with last year's horrifically stupid Battle: Los Angeles? Three months after seeing it, we can't recall anything about its plot, and that's because there really isn't one in the first place.

4. Borat- Truthfully, the fact that Sacha Baron Cohen lazily rehashed his Borat/Bruno shtick to make the more traditional Hollywood comedy The Dictator isn't the worst thing about the film. What truly weighs The Dictator down so much that it sinks faster than a fat man floating without Swimmies is its total disregard for intelligent social satire.

3. Battleship- My friends and I made a game in which we all betted to see which Michael Bay movie would be worst. We had a Michael Bay marathon, and I put all of my money on Transformers 3. Sadly, we all agreed that Battleship had to be one of the shittiest movies ever. It was inspired by an 8-year old's board game, except with a twist: Explosions every 30 seconds and aliens taking over the planet, cuz why not?

2. Rock of Ages- This could have been No. 1. It really could have been. A few people strongly encouraged it as well. But I ignored them the same way I ignored how much I detest Russell Brand. In fact, Brand had nothing to do with my decision, at least not his acting. If I were going to sack this film just based on acting alone, well, that honor would go to Alec Baldwin, and it really pains me to say that.

1. DRUMROLL PLEASE FOR THE WORST MOVIE OF THE YEEARRR...

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE SLAYER

This movie was so bad that I almost wanted to walk out of it. I pirated it.  I’ve said too many times that bad movies can be good if we simply shut off parts of our brains and expect certain things from them when we walk into the theater. In the months leading up to the release of this film adaptation on the Great Emancipator as a malicious opponent of the blood-sucking undead, I championed the possibility that director Timur Bekmambetov could make a good movie. 

I was so wrong. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was an ambitious project that failed to capture the underlying silliness of the book, which was essentially the only thing this had going for it. If Abraham Lincoln had lived long enough to see this film, he would have let the vampires win.

Song of the Week

For some reason I have been listening to this song a lot this week. It makes me feel as if I were soaring like a bird through all my problems. Rufus is a genius :)

Will Religion End?

Yes, when you read the question it sounds ridiculous. How can a custom and ethnicity possibly go extinct? But it's very true. Indeed, religion is slowly going the way of the dodo birds.  Studies were released that indicate that religion is indeed going extinct in 9 different nations, among them, our friendly neighbor Canada, Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland. Those are some of the most successful and advanced countries in the world, and if you're willing to take those 9 nations as representatives and samples of all of planet Earth, then the short answer to the title above is YES.

It doesn't take a genius to guess why, I mean we live in the "information age", more people have a basic understandment of science and mathematics than ever before. You can now google (which is now being debated as to if it should be added to the dictionary or not) a solid answer to the most arduous question you can imagine in less than a second, no mythology required!

One concept though that is far too often left out of the whole "religion in decline" conversation is the difference between church and religion. I'm okay with a world without religion, in fact I'm for it. For me that is a world based on logic, a world less blindly guided by dogma, but the idea of a world without church gives me a little bit of pause. One positive thing that religions have been better than doing than any other "institution" in all of human history is bringing together communities of people, communities that provide an invaluable social structure for their members, and communities that do immeasurable goods for their neighborhood, or even city. Think about it. Food drives, rallies that provide furniture, clothes, appliances, and toys. 95 year old men who have outgrown their whole family have nothing, except church, and they're happy. Drug addicts that beat their addiction through the community of church and lean on the community. Technically, I am an atheist, but I just cannot stand so much of the militant atheism that I see on the internet. But I hope part of that is because there has never really been a "place" in society for atheism to express itself until the internet. But when I think of atheism on the internet, I think of The Amazing Atheist, (http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAmazingAtheist) ,  reddit.com/r/atheism, people who just browbeat a dead horse over and over again without even remotely acknowledging the positive social effects of many, many religions.

ANYWAY, I recognized that I moved a little far from the original question and now I'm just stating my stupid opinions, but I would like to address the readers a question. If religion is indeed dying; how do we make sure the positive societal role of church doesn't die with it?

Thank you for reading this, I hope you have a good day. Peace out!    
-Sam

oh! almost forgot the source; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12811197

Comic Sunday!

I think what makes this comic so funny is it's simplicity and obvious pun.

If you can't read it, it's basically a fire walking into a fire exit. Dumdum chssss