After watching "The Wrestler" one of the "Critically acclaimed movies of the year". It reminded me of a few observations. I started noticing a few years ago that the buildings by Architects that were awarded notice by the "critics" were the shocking, the different, the edgy, etc. Same goes for movies, morals, etc. The rule of the day: "Show me something that I have not seen! If I have seen anything(story, lyric, image) like it before, then you are not original and therefore of lessor rating." Isn't that sort of the reason for pornography. One sees something as regular and seeks something more exotic and then more and then more. "The Wrestler" was certainly something that I had never seen. Done it. I want to do it again with the same regularity as a colonoscopy. Come to think of it, that's what most critics need!
This is not new of course. The Apostle Paul saw in in Athens when it was written
in Acts. he went to a meeting at the Areopagus where they said to him, " May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting. You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears and we want to know what they mean. (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas)"
Its still going on, isn't it Matt?
This is not new of course. The Apostle Paul saw in in Athens when it was written
in Acts. he went to a meeting at the Areopagus where they said to him, " May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting. You are bringing some strange ideas to our ears and we want to know what they mean. (All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing but talking about and listening to the latest ideas)"Its still going on, isn't it Matt?
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