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Miromabby in a nutshell

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I had a very interesting conversation with my Catholic father last night regarding morality. I believe that you can be a morally good person without religion. I was raised Catholic but left the faith and started associating with nondenominational groups or calling myself agnostic at different points in time. I studied morality in my Catholic high school and determined my own morality to come from Jesus’s teachings of love, but also from other philosophies such as Daoism. And my morality as a whole is to try my best to be good. Whether or not I was perfect enough to achieve eternal life, if there is one, was out of my control.

In talking with my dad, I said that it wouldn’t matter (in terms of my moral compass) if Jesus was real, Messiah, or Prophet. He stated it did matter because Jesus being the messiah “backed it up”.

It brought me to a question: if you try to be a good person because it is the rules of your religion/legal system, are you a good person?

A while ago I heard a metaphor, saying that God’s rules were like a parent telling a child “love me or I’ll set you on fire” or “do good or I’ll set you on fire” or “don’t sin or ill set you on fire”, where fire quite literally translates to hell.

We make the excuse of duress for people doing evil acts when being threatened. But why don’t we make the excuse in the opposite sense? Is it because we’re so desperate for people to be good that we can excuse them being good because of cosmic consequences?

Rather, I prefer the idea of altruism. Being good for no reason other than helping others. It comes from empathy. I do not care how I benefit from helping others. Because I don’t matter when I’m helping others. It’s not about me. But how do we rank empathy-driven morality compared to consequence-driven morality?

If a person’s morality is because they are told to do so, are they being moral?

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This is how I’m gonna respond to internet trolls/people being mean online from now on:

gonna be thinking about the ragebaiting monkey bot trolls for the rest of time now. what an amazing joke

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So.

I do have a lot of thoughts after seeing the Superman movie as a comic fan and I must say it really did deliver. I feel like this movie really had its heart in many of the comics, but adapted in a way that was digestible for the general public.

It has been the only recent DC film put out that didn't make me immediately want to rip my hair out.

A lot of what has already been said I would just be parroting at this point, but my worst fears (Guy just being the ASS and the JOKE of the movie) was incorrect. That was a GUY and every scene made my smile.

Until my thoughts are completely in order I'm just going to list off the things about this movie I genuinely loved.

⏬ Spoilers below ⏬

1.) EVERYONES performances. Everyone was so well in character and perfectly cast.

2.) The special effects, makeup, design, color, perfect.

3.) The story itself was relevant to today in a poignant way and it is very obvious why MAGA losers hate this film.

4.) Krypto was perfect - because he is just a dog. He's a super dog, not a super-smart dog! He's literally just. a. dog. I was worried this film was going to turn into a weird dog-training montage and I am glad it didn't.

5.) Krypto was literally perfect and I am glad I got to see a billionaire get mauled nearly to death by an animal.

6.) Lois really was perfection, she hit every single point I expected to see from Lois as her comic hero self. This wasn't Lois the love interest, this was Lois the super hero.

7.) I am so glad the movie cut in after Clark was already established as Superman and I didn't have to go through 40 minutes of origin story AGAIN. We know it, we don't need to see it again. He is already Superman with a connection to the other hero community. Done. We get him and love him immediately.

8.) Lex was really evil and I am glad for that because I feel like fandom in general generally always seems to forget that he is evil. Yeah I know Smallville season 1-4, yeah I know elseworlds, yeah know Clex baby clone bullshit forget that, yeah I know current comics he's in this weird space but listen forget that. He. Is. Evil. He is an evil, petty, envious, deeply insecure fearful billionaire. Full stop. The amount of people he cares about genuinely in terms of love can be counted on a couple fingers, and no, none of those people are Kon.

9.) Mr. Terrific's autism 💛💛💛💛

10.) Shayera's hawk screech 💛💛💛💛 HER EVERYTHING

11.) Guy Gardner's constructs.

12.) Jimmy Olsen being literally the catch of the day and absolutely irresistible. As he should be.

13.) The Daily Planet team in general was absolutely perfect and I love how they were also all superheroes and deeply instrumental in solving the real problem through journalism and THE TRUTH.

14.) The Kara reveal at the end was unexpected but a full on delight.

15.) I am glad that this movie really did say Hope Punk really is punk.

and finally but not lastly because there is more....

16.) I love, love, love Eve and how it was through her femininity and perceived stupidity/inferiority that allowed her to save the day - while Lex thought she was just being a silly self-absorbed trophy taking selfies, she had gathered everything they needed to win and tell the truth.

Anyway, go watch Superman 2025. It is signed off by me, a Superman comic fan who reads, and enjoys, the comics.

Oh and one more thing I liked.... No fucking Batman or any mention of him thank fuck.

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Absolutely LOVE the fact that unlike most superhero movies, Superman didn’t do everything.

It was set up as “oh no Metropolis and Jarhanpur are in trouble! He needs to quickly finish one and then help the other!” But no. Instead he just called his friends and they stepped in where he couldn’t. Even at Metro, he had Mr. Terrific’s help.

This is not a one-god-army kinda Superman. This is a I-could-try-to-do-it-all-or-I-can-ask-others-to-step-in-when-needed and isn’t that the crux of humanity right now? All of us may not be able to go where the problems are happening but we can help those who are there. We can also face the problems happening in our neighbourhood with people who can’t be close but can help in whatever way they can.

Because, sure, Superman could do it all himself. But that inevitably leads to a Superman who is stretched too thin and getting increasingly weary. But having people he knows he can rely on? Well isn’t that the best power anyone can have…

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Happy 10 years in the ball pit

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inspired by this tweet

god bless sebastian for being unable to not bring sam/anthony up at any given point in time

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It was a rahck lahbstah!!

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I forgot I had a crush on Professor Sycamore when I first watched pokemon XY and I fear I just remembered it.

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Found this on pinterest and it got a laugh out of me. I feel like this will only make sense to a specific group of people

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(Mod can you please make this a poll with the answers yes and no)

Were ask blogs your first exposure to danger days tumblr?

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I think it’s morally acceptable to cyberbully Holocaust deniers.

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Is he… you know… *mimes throwing Captain America’s shield* gay?

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Has anyone done this yet? Cuz its perfect for them