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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 31, 2020 12:10:45 GMT -5
I always have said that I plan for my collection to be burned when I die. This guy did it while alive. Holy auto-da-fé, Batman!!! |
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Post by brutalis on Aug 31, 2020 13:04:07 GMT -5
I always have said that I plan for my collection to be burned when I die. This guy did it while alive. Extremists at it's dumbest. Like throwing out the baby with the bathwater. While I can understand the thought "these are childish things, therefore I must put childish things behind me", it still seems ludicrous to burn it all. There is NOTHING in all of his collection he might share with and be capable of having a personal connection with his children? There is nothing of value in that collection which other's might benefit from? There is no monetary reimbursement he might accrue from resale which may benefit his family? Almost feels like fanaticism. Comic books are bad. Burn that which is bad. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 31, 2020 13:46:39 GMT -5
I always have said that I plan for my collection to be burned when I die. This guy did it while alive. Dude is just screaming for attention. |
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Post by beccabear67 on Aug 31, 2020 14:42:10 GMT -5
I just see air pollution... at least recycle all that paper and cardboard!  I guess it's true, changes in weather effect arthritis... I don't/can't understand it, it seems beyond me, but others talk of air pressure and I know what I feel. Had it really bad for a few days with a big temperature drop plus rain. |
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Post by The Captain on Aug 31, 2020 15:01:15 GMT -5
I always have said that I plan for my collection to be burned when I die. This guy did it while alive. Dude is just screaming for attention. What a knob. I started writing something else about how this is his way of getting praise and glory for his actions, not God, but it really doesn't need to be expanded on. This is his "look at what a good Christian I am" moment, all about him and his works, his overwhelming self-righteousness captured on video for posterity. |
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Post by berkley on Aug 31, 2020 16:30:31 GMT -5
I think this might be the single greatest chapter title I have ever encountered: Boogie-Down Bronca and the Bathroom Stall of Doom(it's chapter 4 of The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin)-M You might be interested in checking out Ishmael Reed, if you haven't already. Sample novel titles: Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, 1969
Mumbo Jumbo, 1972
The Last Days of Louisiana Red, 1974 Reckless Eyeballing, 1986
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 31, 2020 16:49:18 GMT -5
This guy's spiritual ancestors...   |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 31, 2020 22:41:30 GMT -5
Dude is just screaming for attention. What a knob. I started writing something else about how this is his way of getting praise and glory for his actions, not God, but it really doesn't need to be expanded on. This is his "look at what a good Christian I am" moment, all about him and his works, his overwhelming self-righteousness captured on video for posterity. My thoughts as well. He might try a little of that humility that the Bible keeps talking about. Also any sort of book burning is just a little too reminiscent of Nazis and other fascists. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2020 6:35:13 GMT -5
If he really didn’t want to give them away, why not recycle them?
I could not give away some videotapes a few years ago. I’m not an eBay person so that wasn’t an option. No-one I knew appeared to have a video player. The charity shops had stopped taking them, DVDs and Blu-rays only. And I’d got dozens of videotapes taking up space from Coliseum Video WWF tapes to the likes of NYPD BLUE.
So I gave up! I threw the actual tapes away, but painstakingly removed the paper and card from various tapes - and put them in the paper recycling bin.
Could he not have recycled them? This is just ego.
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Post by Cei-U! on Sept 1, 2020 6:42:43 GMT -5
What a stupid, revolting, selfish thing to do. No thought for the people who might've loved to add those comics to their collections. If his conscience was bothering him so much, why not sell them and donate the money to a food bank, a homeless shelter, or some similar charity? People really disgust me sometimes.
Cei-U!
I summon the sorry waste (of paper *and* flesh)!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2020 6:47:09 GMT -5
What a stupid, revolting, selfish thing to do. No thought for the people who might've loved to add those comics to their collections. If his conscience was bothering him so much, why not sell them and donate the money to a food bank, a homeless shelter, or some similar charity? People really disgust me sometimes. Cei-U! I summon the sorry waste (of paper *and* flesh)! I have a feeling he’d have done that if we lived in a world without YouTube. It’s a different topic, but over the weekend, I was chatting to a friend about the sheer number of YouTube reviewers now, reviewing everything from STREET HAWK (yes, really) to DOCTOR WHO episodes. It seems there was a time when blogs were the thing, but now everyone seems to want to review things visually - and rant to the world, their face on show. I’m not saying that’s necessarily a bad thing. There’s nothing inherently wrong in doing a video review of a show or product. But there can be the negative side, too. It gets silly. I even saw a video where some guy claimed he’d seen a gorilla in a state park (US) - and filmed it. But after watching the video, I saw nothing whatsoever resembling a gorilla. My thought was that he simply wanted “Likes” for his YT video. In a pre-YouTube world, he’d have not bothered - or would have sent a letter to a local paper, which would have been thrown in the bin. The video shared a few posts back is an ego in action. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 1, 2020 8:07:06 GMT -5
It’s so easy. Everyone has a cell phone with a video camera. And nowadays everyone is a narc recording every crime and dumb event.
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Post by impulse on Sept 1, 2020 9:11:42 GMT -5
It's amazing looking back now in horror seeing people casually burn these old comics and first-print Beatles records that were disposably common at the time.
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 1, 2020 9:21:32 GMT -5
It's amazing looking back now in horror seeing people casually burn these old comics and first-print Beatles records that were disposably common at the time. But they had good reason. Don't forget that. And they had the last laugh, too. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 1, 2020 9:25:18 GMT -5
It’s so easy. Everyone has a cell phone with a video camera. And nowadays everyone is a narc recording every crime and dumb event. I'm fine with people recording crimes by state actors. |
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