An Actual Cult Made THE CRAZIEST ANIME!!! | Happy Science Vol. 2

[@DerangedDurain]

I love how the "hell of the bloody pond" specifies that only people obsessed with the opposite sex get sent there, which implies that only straight people go to hell for the sin of lust and gay people get a free pass on that one.

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

Alright, hope I don’t get shat on by “God” for being trans

[@occasionalart]

​@@Aaa-vp6ugThey never mentioned trans people iirc, so as far as we know as long as you're straight and not horny you should be fine

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

@@occasionalart but. I’m gay.

[@KeDe1606]

@@Aaa-vp6ugwell… they also didn’t mention gay people either. So, depending on how lucky you are, you‘ll either get away scot-free, or you‘ll get accused of like… 3 or 4 blasphemies, and get sent Super Ultra Hell Turbo Championship Edition

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

@@KeDe1606 My ribs hurt really hard when I read this.

[@thefisherking2268]

I’m absolutely reeling at the fact that nazi China’s evil imperialist atheist dictator is also a sad emo anime pretty boy with a tragic backstory

[@sobersplash6172]

I'm reeling at the Nazi China in general like I dunno guy, I don't think China has a high opinion of Nazis

[@bthsr7113]

@@sobersplash6172 Well they are rounding up the Uighurs in camps, so they can't actually be that against nazis.

[@garreonlefay6703]

@@bthsr7113 at least they are not gassing them and then burning the corpses....They are still pieces of shit in my book, but at least they are not doing a full 100% nazi

[@Chudpope]

@@garreonlefay6703 That we know of. We didn't actually know the extent of what was happening in nazi concentration camps until we had soldiers walking in through the gates, remember.

[@marocat4749]

@@garreonlefay6703 The nazis were so over the top cartoonish evil, the ccp do 100% nazi, they go just more reasonable not to instantly declar war on the entire world?! Also diffrent times politiccal now. And as said, nazi germany and ho they got tothat point was a gradual process, i would say working camps for critics is far in there. And they have death sentence, so probably a lot chance that eem yeah people can be rounded up against a wall. Just obscuring it with a corrupt justice system. We did only know about the stuff nazis did because ermany was bureaucratic, and they still got away with hiding they killed in gas chambrs while the red cross did an inspection.

[@letjck8623]

Fun observation I had: the 2 characters fall down to hell, Roberto and Patrick, are black and white while the 2 who can go to heaven are presumably Japanese… kinda sends a message to the audience

[@SleepyMatt-zzz]

Yeah, I caught that too. Japanese people must truly be the master race.

[@Treemike1000]

WTF

[@BrotherMag]

Roberto is Spanish. Get your racial cultures right lol

[@random_degen9129]

@@BrotherMag just wanna ask...spanish is white isnt it?

[@random_degen9129]

@@SleepyMatt-zzz you know what master race do?they must finish other race WW2 flashback*

[@caveirainvocada9438]

How Nietzsche tries to turn a young man into an atheist just after he personally experienced both heaven and hell is insane and hilarious

[@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225]

The definition of "wrong": saying to someone _"nothing happens when you die"_ when you're BOTH in the Afterlife!

[@JinStreams]

The commitment to the bit is more impressive than anything happy science believes their god can do

[@virginiafernandez6846]

He's giving me Edward "I'm an atheist" Elric vives

[@coffeewolfproductions9113]

@@virginiafernandez6846 I mean to be fair with what he went through I'm not surprised that he thinks God kinda sucks

[@shahsadsaadu5817]

And reading his stuff, it's probably something Nietzsche would definitely do

[@antli0ncs]

I swear its like the cult leader was still going through puberty and having dreams of himself as an anime character, so he just said "fuck it" and actually became one

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

Given where he came from, it might be an extreme case of trying to reclaim some lost childhood. Japanese salarymen aren't the happiest bunch out there...

[@reviewman]

In one of happy science’s new movies: The Laws of the Universe Part 0. There is a character that looks exactly like Maetel from, galaxy express 999. I guess Maetel Is Ryuho Okawa’s waifu/best girl.

[@CeltyOfficial]

Chuunibyo

[@ShyVioletIsShy]

yeah dude, he's a fuccen chuuni!

[@TheBonkleFox]

it's what happens when you play too much fate/grand order and don't become a gacha slave.

[@FSEThompson]

Wait did she literally just google the word "Buddha" and get surprised when she got a lot of results

[@typacsk]

Okawa seems to have been cribbing off of Jack Chick's homework, there. ("Jesus? Who are dat?" I swear, it happens every couple of pages.)

[@eideticex]

Like much of this, it's a huge display of all the logical fallacies religious people make when trying to convert others. The assumption being you don't believe because you don't know and all it would take to convert you is to just tell you, as if that's how people actually form beliefs.

[@mangomage33]

I mean maybe she was looking at the recent results

[@narcastic]

@@typacsk 9)5”75

[@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225]

@@mangomage33 Maybe she forgot to turn Safesearch on and was swamped with Buddha porn...

[@trombonemain]

I’m honestly shocked that the movie that features Zombie Hitler as a villain isn’t the one that features all the swastikas.

[@lobomiser5046]

Honestly fucking same.

[@sayaksen7545]

Hisler*

[@jaydef6497]

I’m reeling so much I had to take a break and look at the comments!!! I saw this and ascended to the 4th dimension, thx

[@JohnEusebioToronto]

It was Hitler's soul. Not Hitler as a zombie.

[@jayharkins5573]

@@JohnEusebioToronto Hisler 😂

[@hannahdawg6829]

I just realized how creepy that "Yuko, you and I have always been friends" line is. It's probably the most cult-like thing in these movies, how cult recruiters often prey upon lonely people or someone who has suffered some loss recently, acting like they've "always been there" and would "never hurt you".

[@gregjayonnaise8314]

Yeah, the movie’s tactics are so sinister

[@shanelbryant5638]

LITERALLY how I almost got recruited into a cult.

[@RadenWA]

Now add to that line “we have always been friend, precisely 3000 years ago when we were slaves in Ancient Egypt” to make it even better

[@Ellisepha]

Yeah, that line felt very gaslighty.

[@malaksafa4074]

@@shanelbryant5638 I hope your better now.

[@laurencebrown3822]

I still can't stop laughing over the line "I'm Helen Keller." Literally one of the most implausible lines of dialogue ever.

[@paulgibbon5991]

My first thought was the Fate series. You know they would.

[@Ramsey276one]

IN SO MANY WAYS, starter XD

[@bdpickett]

I just.. I had to stop the video. That was... I don't know what that was. I can't stop laughing at it. These people are so insane!

[@Bluelink13]

@@paulgibbon5991 Would it, yes, but it would be more respectful by making her a superhuman with a superweapon at her disposal who is powerful as fuck despite her disabilities. They would still make her very hot though, it is still FATE

[@____________838]

@@Bluelink13 Can you imagine Hellen Keller meeting Ann Frank in the Grail Wars?

[@GoodSirReginald]

I can’t believe that this video started with a battle between an angelic mecha powered entirely by an ad hominem attack versus a giant elephant piloted by Great Value-brand Hitler while Nietzsch screams “GOD IS DEAD” repeatedly in the background, and then proceeded to only get CRAZIER from there.

[@thanatoast]

Pretty sure that's how the last dnd game i played ended.

[@JayMorayEel]

The great movie ride

[@JohnEusebioToronto]

Not gonna lie: if your religion has giant mecha fights in Hell against Rudolph Hisler, I'm interested.

[@henriquefinger935]

@@thanatoast Is it even a good game if that doesn't happen?

[@ariesmry]

I’m 22 mins into the video and in disbelief that it’s going to get wilder.

[@phantombroker6856]

Legit cannot believe that one of these has an “I definitely have breast cancer” moment right from the Room, down to its exact lack of impact on the narrative

[@Vee_Sheep]

The Room is an everlasting masterpiece compared to these, and Tommy Wiseau is a very hinged and beloved auteur compared to Ryuho Okawa lmao at least Tommy seems to be happy with his film's "so bad it's good" meme status, and hasn't started a cult

[@MintyCoolness]

Hey, that's an insult! ...to Tommy Wiseau. lol

[@l30ng62]

The idea of your entire life being a movie for your whole family to see and rate you on that life including your private thoughts must be one of the scariest afterlives i have ever Heard off

[@slevinchannel7589]

Bad Shows deserve Criticism. And the Best Criticism is such that you dont even have to know the Franchise criticized for Hours on End. No kidding, Jay Exci did FIVE Hours with Doctor Who, and Madvocate and Hbomberguy each did other Fracnhises for Hours: And countless say 'I dont even know this Franchise but i enjoyed this so much'. I can only warmly recommend watching Good-Faith-Criticism, especially from the just-mentioned KZbinrs.

[@WorshipperOfKhone]

I also like to think that they also rate the movie it self, not your actual life. *I hear in the background from my grandma* "this movie sucks ass"

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@WorshipperOfKhone Know Hbomberguys videos about stuff? Very similar to MB, tbh.

[@Lxxaa1234]

People who got abandoned or abused by their parents are fucked if this is how the afterlife works

[@fabiomora6491]

@@Lxxaa1234 un pretty sure if they're parents abandoned then there's have to been a reason, probably didn't deserve heaven anyways

[@EstrogenPatchNotes]

Never before have I seen someone pour this much money into going "It's too late I've already drawn you as the soyjack and me as the chad"

[@idontwantmyrealnameonhere5955]

Best Comment

[@GreebusBleeb]

This is why I look at the comments

[@dreadogastusf3548]

Chad, I get. But what does soyjack mean?

[@PhageScope]

@@dreadogastusf3548 google what the "soyboy" insult is and what it means, and you'll know. Put shortly, it's an insult directed at men who don't fulfill the general role of men.

[@pdthorn]

Man this Kingdom Hearts OVA is wild.

[@nikkimeh6211]

Its still relevant to the Plot though

[@SA-mo3hq]

HAPPY CHINA HAPPY HAPPY CHINA HAPPY LIIIIIGHT!!

[@boogerman908]

Idk I mean I can understand kingdom hearts

[@theroyalmouse]

🤣

[@bearerofbadnews1375]

I can comprehend Kingdom Hearts plot more than this. Edit: Hell even Clamps Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles manga has a more comprehensive plot and that also had crazy time travel where the original Syaoran created a clone of himself and the clone is his Dad!

[@victorunbea8451]

"You get to rewatch your entire life with your private thoughts as commentary with your entire dead family." I'd rather just go directly to hell.

[@goonerbear8659]

"Is there another option? Can I just...not let my grandmothers see that?"

[@shanelbryant5638]

“Wait before you see this next part, is there an express elevator to hell? Cause I can just go now”

[@vetreas366]

Not gonna lie, that is my exact definition of what hell could be: every single person you ever knew getting to watch every single thought you ever had. Then judging.

[@THKSkywalker]

Don't forget the implication that you're watching their lives as well. Personally I find the idea of having to watch all the details of my various relative's relationships worse than them watching mine. Could I just close my eyes out of respect for their privacy? (Also, if they're judging you then you're judging them as well. It takes a few seconds for everyone to realise there's no downside to just voting for your family members to go to heaven in a quid pro quo no matter what they've done.)

[@RadenWA]

@@vetreas366 when they say “judge not and you will not be judged” maybe they are preparing us for this exact scenario

[@comradet0m]

It's really hilariously ironic that a cult about thinking good thoughts and no negativity allowed would have Isaac Newton, famously vicious as a critic and who held grudges like nobody else, as one of its holiest figures.

[@johnturtle6649]

Someone who also personally stated he did not want the "theory" of gravity ascribed to himself. Really. Most people aren't aware of his personal writings.

[@SakuraKurosaki10]

Dude was the all time champ of holding grudges. Didn't even have to be over anything substantial either, man was petty.

[@johnturtle6649]

@@SakuraKurosaki10 I don't know, I think Edison might have given him a run for his money.

[@witecatj6007]

Hold on. Edison would never be that humble. He would declare he was the best, steal your ideas and sue you into onlivion.

[@Vee_Sheep]

Nikola Tesla is twisting in his grave Edison's best representation in pop culture was as a one-off Doctor Who villain lol

[@Chris-fh3db]

@@Vee_Sheep DUDE TESLA WAS SO GREAT WHAT AN ICON. idk why ppl refrence edison when talking ab the greats my boy nik is GOLDEN

[@christopherb501]

Kinda surprising THE IDIOT never listed him as an influence.

[@Pihsrosnec]

@@Chris-fh3db to be fair, Nikola was insane, even by genius scientist standards. I mean, he was leagues better than Thomas "kidnap and torture pets and invent the electric chair for a smear campaign" Edison

[@caradanellemcclintock8178]

@@Pihsrosnec he was a bit mad but from what we know it was caused by a combo of unchecked mental health issues that no one cared about back then and other scientists stealing his ideas and patenting them before he have a chance to finish his experiments. I believe he even had a few pattents stolen by Edison who essentially scratched out his name replaced it with his own and told everyone it was his idea all along

[@bubbasbigblast8563]

"Alright ancestors, time to vote on if your descendant goes to heaven!" "I'm distraught by the lack of slaughter on behalf of Odin." "Yeah, he really needed to carry on the tradition of fighting the Turks." "I'm actually an atheist, why the heck am I getting a vote?" "Heaven needs WAY more booze." I don't think they thought about what kind of ancestors people might actually have...

[@vysharra]

*me, depressed, unwashed, making a sad microwave pumpkin spice mug cake at 3am in order to feel like I have some control in my life* “Ooh, our daughter uses a magic box to eat precious, expensive delicacies in her own well-made home, clean and cooled by more magic, dressed in layers of fantastically colored clothes. She lives like a Princess yet she studies like a scholar, all without a husband nor patron... She fuckin MADE IT” *sweats* “huh, uh, yeah. For sure.”

[@AusSP]

How far back are we talking? "Ooh ooh aahhahaha!"

[@appelofdoom8211]

@@AusSP Primordial soup please vote on this random persons fate.

[@bepisthescienceman4202]

My ancestors:"boooo you stink change the channel"

[@bthsr7113]

@@vysharra Power of progress. What once would have seemed magic is now mundane. It's not a perfect world, but there are some pretty big improvements on what has come before.

[@wuschelfloke7690]

Can we talk about the "I'll give you Africa" line? Did they plan to eradicate the entire population of the African continent or are we "just" talking about colonialism 2.0? And how can she be cool with this and still be super space buddha's main love interest? I have so many questions?

[@theeccentrictripper3863]

They're the good guys and they have alien technology, I assume they'd just clear out the Congo or something and set up shop.

[@wuschelfloke7690]

@@theeccentrictripper3863 that doesn't make me feel better! I'm half Congolese!

[@theeccentrictripper3863]

@@wuschelfloke7690 That should make you feel way better, they develop a huge chunk of uninhabited jungle and provide the Congo with advanced alien technology, the Congo Empire will last a thousand years

[@jeweledmoon5567]

@@theeccentrictripper3863 so they'll eradicate a large swath of some of the most biodiverse land on the planet? That ain't good either.

[@braindavidgilbert3147]

I mean, they are incredibly racist so…

[@odolowa1]

Just sort of sitting here thinking that "Girl with actual supernatural powers is caught up in the power struggles between two cults" is actually a decent premise.

[@slevinchannel7589]

Bad Shows deserve Criticism. And the Best Criticism is such that you dont even have to know the Franchise criticized for Hours on End. No kidding, Jay Exci did FIVE Hours with Doctor Who, and Madvocate and Hbomberguy each did other Fracnhises for Hours: And countless say 'I dont even know this Franchise but i enjoyed this so much'. I can only warmly recommend watching Good-Faith-Criticism, especially from the just-mentioned KZbinrs.

[@bepisthescienceman4202]

I'd totally try to write that

[@AeonKnigh432]

@@slevinchannel7589 Hate to tell you but Hbomberguy is 100% not good-faith criticism. Definitely bad-faith, definitely watches shows just to complain and even actively complains about shows that are good just for clicks

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@AeonKnigh432 I assume from your comment youve only seen old, random Videogame-Video? Not any of his good works?

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@AeonKnigh432 So yeah, hate to break it to you but his Essays about Vaccines, Flat-eArth, Climate-Change and the War on Christmas are all highest-quality you find on YT.

[@tara5558]

"Edison you are the greatest scientist of humankind!" "No that's not true" Correct

[@flow185]

*Happy Sniper face

[@Gabriel-hy8be]

@KKK Revolution "Everyone steals in industry and commerce. I've stolen a lot myself. The thing is to know how to steal" - Thomas Edison

[@chbend]

i love edison and even im like Fu*k?

[@Zarastro54]

@KKK Revolution What kind of username is that?

[@ezachleewright2309]

@KKK Revolution you mean just like Elon Musk?

[@WillpmMightBeDaBoss]

The funniest thing about making Nietzsche and Hitler buds is that Wagner and Nietzsche had a massive falling out partly fuelled by Wagner’s anti-semitism so him and Hitler definitely would not have been buds.

[@rjmunguia1]

Niches* and Hisler*

[@DStecks]

Nietzsche also thought that all the stuff he wrote about God being dead was a bad thing. He was a harsh critic of the Enlightenment, that's why the fascists were drawn to his writings.

[@levongevorgyan6789]

Yeah, poor guy got his worked coopted. Same as Darwin.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

@@DStecks nietzsche was also a massive hack who deserved every thing he got for his blatant plagiarism of Schopenhauer, Stirner, and other religious texts citing them as his own

[@TheBonkleFox]

@@DStecks I don't remember the full of it but wasn't nietzsche *lamenting* the state of religion at the time?

[@HorsesArePeople2]

"if you're so smart why are you in hell?" That's actually a pretty good argument against someone who's lecturing you in hell

[@TheRiku57]

And here I thought the same argument in Squid Game was the peak.

[@skkadoot9533]

i mean, it's hard to make a good atheist argument if you are literally in the place you say doesn't exist

[@silversamurai0267]

Reminds me of the Hazbin Hotel pilot. "I have standards." "Oh yeah? How well is that working out for you..."

[@HorsesArePeople2]

@@silversamurai0267 Right? That's exactly what I thought of too!

[@psychonaut175]

@@skkadoot9533 yeah, it made no sense that he was claiming to be an atheist while he was in Hell. If anything, he just hated the show's god.

[@spereira3879]

If Edison could send messages from the spirit world he'd probably still be applying for patents to stuff he didn't invent

[@cameronjadewallace]

😂 savage

[@Never_heart]

So true

[@aradraugfea6755]

He owns the patents for patents, you know.

[@AwesomeAutismHC]

He’s possessed Elon Musk and is doing it that way

[@rodrigonoffs1369]

@@AwesomeAutismHC that's why Tesla is named Tesla, he finds it ironic

[@EnzoPietro10]

Ah, yes, the most cruel and evil power in the world, philosophy AND hitler!

[@AkasagiPhan]

*Hissler

[@azoth6641]

@@AkasagiPhan And Niches.

[@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225]

Akasagi and Cyrus make is sound like a sitcom. 🎶 _Hissler & Niches~~!_ 🎶

[@reillycurran8508]

It's especially funny if you actually read Nietzsche and realize he'd have had to have been held back from beating Hisler's ass for being such a confidently pathetic example of a human being.

[@WorshipperOfKhone]

@@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225 I ship them

[@danidm5820]

I can't stop imagining SAO Abridged Kirito going "FOR YOU SEE, LONG AGO..." every time exposition starts

[@Gaius453]

ᴮᵘᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ˡᵉᵍᵃᶜʸ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ᵖᵉᵇᵇˡᵉ ˡᶦᵛᵉˢ ᵒⁿ...

[@GamingwolfZJ]

Yes. That is the only thing I can say about this

[@UGNAvalon]

Still waiting for the day Geoff covers that beautiful resurrection of the story.

[@terrytheblackmage4799]

Thanks for the quick tutorial on rocks... And the NOT so quick tutorial on pig smiting

[@Mernom]

@@Gaius453 for some reason Google wants to translate your comment to English, and the only thing it does is remove the 'but'.

[@Rahhelthethird]

"Begone Thoth" has gained an entirely new meaning.

[@lobomiser5046]

I had to scroll way to low to find this, I had the exact same thought when Thot came up.

[@LolGurrl91]

Lol 🤣🤣😂

[@teogonzalez7957]

Thoth is actually the Egyptian god of knowledge.

[@fictthecreator7083]

...absolutely despise how the third movie has actually good art direction and a badass villain design. Layered imperial robes, mask, cool hat with gold designs, long hair, the *whip*... If this man were in (almost) any other film, especially like, some kinda cultural fusion high fantasy, I would simp 10/10 [edit] OK SO I JUST GOT TO THE PART WHERE HE'S POSSESSED AND THE EYES??? that's metal AF!! Someone really went all out bringing to life that one OC they've had laying around since high school, only they couldn't find a better project to give him to. RIP whoever did character design for this man, you deserved better, king

[@alicethemad1613]

It’s morally acceptable to steal characters from cult propaganda and put them in your own (better) work

[@heitorpedrodegodoi5646]

@@alicethemad1613 Yes

[@miserablepumpkin9453]

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY, his design is breathtaking and the overly edgy electric whip is just icing on the cake

[@pougetguillaume4632]

Actual nietzsche: laments how we have forsaken god and now we need to deal with it Happy science: atheist Actual nietszche: 100% not cool with anti semitism Happy science: nazi

[@anarchomando7707]

Ironically his sister would be completely okay with it

[@danieldishon688]

I am glad somebody commented this, so many people misquote that one phrase from Nietzche thinking he was boasting about athiesm winning or God being unnecessary, when in fact thats the opposite of the point he was trying to make

[@ForcedHandleName]

Once more, people cherrypick sayings and quotes without giving a f*ck about the context it's said in, spinning the words to make them fit their own narritive.

[@PanzerLord]

*Niches*

[@Ellisepha]

"God is dead and we killed him", wasn't it?

[@Sara-sn5gd]

So, the businessmen making the horrible, literally hell-like by this movie own admission, working conditions on Earth get to go to heaven. But for the people that actually ended up enduring those conditions in life are supposed be perpetually stuck in them because they might have thought badly of their bosses? Making hell is not a sin, but complaining about hell is according to this cult.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

The level of capitalist apologia is astounding

[@goodlookingcorpse]

If you made a joke about "what if a stockbroker made a religion" it would have this.

[@SystemBD]

As if "The Market" was not a religion already... But you are onto something here. If you want to create a successful cult, you have to do it in a way that strikes the ego of those you want to attract.

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

This makes the Protestant Work Ethic look borderline socialist by comparison.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

@@goodlookingcorpse that.... actually sums it up suprisingly well

[@professorcryogen6419]

I don't know what I was expecting, but Nazi China and Aryan-washing of historical figures was not any of them.

[@andrejg4136]

I was calling Godom "Shocker China" in the live chat because a lot of early Kamen Rider villains (and some Sentai ones too like the Black Cross Army) have Nazi-eqsue affectations. While it's not quite as blatant in the modern era remakes, the old school Kamen Rider villains still have stupidly on the nose fascist imagery.

[@erickamakeeaina1649]

@@andrejg4136 didn't one of them have a Nazi Crocodile?

[@elpretender1357]

I saw that movie "The rebirth of Buddha" before knowing it was from a cult. It appeared one day in my recomended youtube videos and I thought about giving it a watch since I know Japan treats god-like figures with all the creative license in the world, so I was expecting the movie to be some kind of supernatural action/drama where at the end the protagonists and us the audience learn some possitive buddhist teaching. Something simple but fun. When the orange haired guy said "That guy can't be the reincarnated Buddha, because I know the real buddha is..." I expected 100% it would be either himself or the protagonist girl. When it turned out some random stranger in a suit was the reincarnated Buddha I realized something was incredibly wrong

[@MIAM_MIAM_CUISINE]

Honestly if it hadn't already been established for me what kind of movie it was (and thus who the "true" Buddha would be) then I honestly would've assumed it was supposed to be girl just from the way that the camera cut straight to her directly after the dude says that.

[@coffeewolfproductions9113]

Honestly if this movie really was written in the style of a modernized Japanese Yokai tale where a plucky young high school reporter goes ghostbusting with her edgy loner ex boyfriend and learns about Buddhist philosophy to defeat them, I would honestly find that pretty fun.

[@SiRenfield]

Like it being the girl would’ve been cliched in its own right but it would at least make WAY more goddamn sense than some boring jackoff in a suit

[@infantiltinferno]

"It can't be...Because I AM the REAL SAMYAKSAMBUDDHA!!" cue seizure inducing transformation sequence. I'd watch that.

[@sarkazoufala6431]

😊😊😊😊😮

[@ObsessiveReaderLuv]

The third movie’s antagonist’s design is criminally good for such a trash fire. I’m genuinely offended

[@zillafire101]

Yeah, and the VA does a good job of at least hamming it up from the few lines he does get. Sucks to be in a cult anime and not a real good show.

[@bluejay43]

A lot of the character designs in the third movie are good, it's such a shame such cool and unique characters are associated with this cult

[@Iddun]

Ohhh I’m pumped for that review!!!

[@umu-san4414]

He could be a good Gundam villain.

[@AliciaAbismo]

I was thinking of exactly that.

[@Zillionman2010]

One big thing I've never understood about depictions of Hell like this, is why do the most evil people control Hell? Hell is supposed to be a punishment, the more evil you are the more you're punished. But, according to 90% of the depictions of Hell, if you're evil enough then you get to call the shots and do whatever you want. Doesn't that defeat the entire purpose of it?

[@MisterPudd]

Probably because they wantt to equate power=evil. That being said, it also doesnt help that when you base hell around the biblical version, god just gets thrown into a negative light since he essentially just sends ppl to hell for the fun of it.

[@erickamakeeaina1649]

Supernatural atleast did a fairly reasonable version of it, you get to be a powerful demon but the process involves being brutally tortured/painfully morphed into a Demon

[@treacherousjslither6920]

Well if a good guy is running hell, how can he torture people for eternity and still be a good guy? No one deserves to suffer forever no matter what they've done. Why is there no redemption in the afterlife? Why is there an afterlife at all? Why does anyone believe any of this nonsense?

[@MisterPudd]

@@treacherousjslither6920 weve only been told that hell is full off eternal suffering through the church. Plus us as humans naturally want to feel like those that sinned like murdered or raped should suffer for their actions yet the church also says if you ask to repent before you die, youll be able to go to heaven so... honestly nobody rlly knows what goes on after you die so meh

[@abdAlmajedSaleh]

NO human has any control in Islam

[@JAnne_Bonne]

"Why does the _one_ afterlife punishment Jeffrey Epstein's _not_ getting gotta be so harsh!?" That line, both reading and joke, made me lose my breath from laughter.

[@vysharra]

“Bleachigo’s super saiyan love” is what got me.

[@xuanluu4873]

@@vysharra which part was that in the video?

[@vysharra]

@@xuanluu4873 43:33

[@Ramsey276one]

@@vysharra Thanks

[@SuperStar-ss1pn]

Lol jeffteys family and the deceased Democrats vote for him to go to hell

[@kawaiijutsu]

The cancer subplot DOES come up again, it’s pretty fucked up (I had to go hate watch the actual movies): in the end credits montage, you see sayoko older waving bye to her family, and her dad is still there, implication being he survived cancer because he believes happy science now and “fixed his mind”. Moral of the story: if you or a loved one dies of cancer, it’s totally your own fault for not fixing your own mind.

[@Grim_Sister]

That’s so gross. Using people’s desperation for a cure to try and recruit them to a cult? I’m not surprised, but that’s pretty low

[@snowqueen549]

@@Grim_Sister I mean from my experience and many former cult member word, every single cult doing that.

[@aaronwright-we2ui]

⁠@@Grim_Sister unfortunately that’s actually a pretty common practice

[@Grim_Sister]

@@snowqueen549 I know. But it doesn’t make it any better

[@artemiswolf4508]

“A Yahtzi China trying to invade and conquer Japan” That premise is particularly ironic considering… literally everything about World War 2. Just saying, glass houses and all that.

[@jy3n2]

Remember, Happy Science believes none of that happened.

[@shmuel00]

The word is ‘inversion’.

[@Peringon]

Fun fact: The whole point of Siddhartha Gautama being the Buddha is that he broke the cycle of reincarnation to which all living beings are subject to through his understanding of the four noble truths (according to Buddhism). Therefore, Buddha can't be reborn as that would contradict a pretty big and important part of Buddhism. Moreover, "Buddha" is a sort of title that means "awaken one" which has been shared by countless individuals through many years. Also, the ultimate goal of Buddhism is to be able to become an enlightened Buddha yourself. So, yeah... El Cantare is a stupid idiot 😅🤭

[@BoisegangGaming]

Why care about research when you can just word salad? So much easier.

[@LunDruid]

Yeah, but real Buddhism is hard to monetize.

[@easolinas1233]

I get the feeling that this guy doesn't know much about theology in general, except a passing surface awareness of "Christians believe this" and "Buddhists believe that" and so on and so forth. His incorporation of both spiritual and material matters into these anime feels like he skimmed wikipedia pages for an overall view with none of the nuance and depth.

[@nenmaster5218]

@@easolinas1233 Fun-Fact. Telltale and Genetically modified Sceptic, both famous for their good and funny Cult-Coverage.

[@GriffinPilgrim]

As the saying goes, if you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.

[@anenemystand5582]

Ngl I was kind of hoping it would be revealed that nietzsche was the one possessing fake Buddha and he was just going to become a recurring villian in the Happy Science cinematic universe. I'm very disappointed.

[@twinkiesmaster69]

And he always get discovered, because no matter what incarnation he just yells "GOD IS DEAD" when hes really happy and the protagonist hear him

[@fireboy312002]

Same

[@crazyluigi6664]

*Niches ;)

[@almond3066]

Ah yes, the happy science cinematic universe Or as I call it, the HSCU

[@fernandotrevinocastro1018]

Dude having nieche as a "team rocket" recurrent villan would have been the coolest

[@AuroraExhale]

It still cracks me up that the punishment in HS for people who like sex too much..is to have sex. Forever. All the time.

[@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225]

I suppose El Cantare is a _"smoke the entire pack"_ kind of heavenly father...

[@coffeewolfproductions9113]

I bet the souls there were just in absolute *torment* getting it on with every other soul there. Truly, how cruel could Ryuho Okawa be?

[@the_last_ballad]

Only the straight people though, weirdly enough

[@alicethemad1613]

@TheLastBallad I choose to believe it’s because queer people have to go through so much shit already, El Cantare just gave them all an automatic place in heaven, and not because Okawa doesn’t know gay people exist

[@coffeewolfproductions9113]

@@alicethemad1613 They managed to sneak past security and found a spot in there to party it up.

[@Annimations]

Anything Japanese accusing China of being nazis despite Japan literally being an axis power is peak irony.

[@FlorSilvestre12]

"No we promise we were a *good* Axis power who didn't do anything wrong, unlike *that* Axis power that basically everyone in the world recognizes as a symbol of Evil. (Don't think about what specifically about it was evil, just trust us that it definitely applies to the people we hate and has nothing to do with us.)"

[@incw.2601]

Especially considering what JP did to China. Look up Unit 731.

[@Oliviagarry69420]

@@incw.2601 and Korea and the Philippines

[@drixg555]

@@Oliviagarry69420 We haven't forgotten. The son of one of their collaborators became a dictator for 20 years.

[@KaedeSenou]

@@drixg555 and then the son of the son…

[@notoriouswhitemoth]

Funny thing - that quote "God is dead" (or rather "Gott ist tot") wasn't meant as an attack on religion as a concept, but as an acknowledgement that the Protestant Reformation had refuted the Catholic Church's fear-mongering rhetoric about morality coming from religion.

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

I thought that quote was more of an anguished epiphany that humanity's intellect and rationality has replaced religion and superstition, essentially "killing" God, and ponders about the implication of such a "death"...

[@Hinotori_joj]

I thought that quote was a reference to the scene from the bokuben meme

[@molybdaen11]

Philosophers are often drained out of context.

[@yuvalgabay1023]

@@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 its more of a cry of horror. We killed god. What's next? Whats now? What does it mean to us?

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

@@yuvalgabay1023 Exactly. That is what I understood from the whole paragraph...

[@logan5818]

"They don't want to kill people they already know." clearly the writers have never been to a family gathering.

[@Grim_Sister]

Or had a roommate they wanted to strangle 🤣

[@therussianprincess7036]

I reckon I would be *less* inclined to plot imaginary murders if I hadn’t known the intended victims.

[@Grim_Sister]

@@therussianprincess7036 there’s a reason the probability of you getting off’ed in the holiday season rises substantially

[@anjetto1]

Don't most people who get murdered get got by someone they already know? Very few murders are stranger danger. Though not none.

[@hannahyamauchi839]

OBVIOUSLY Ohkawa's never been to a family gathering he's divorced or suing all of his

[@LunDruid]

You know? An anime that's actually about two evil cults warring with each other for followers and status of Godonearth, but both are presented as evil, could actually make a pretty entertaining anime.

[@onenerd9573]

I would watch that.

[@DrakeKnight99]

But then the twist would be bad guy was controlling both and unites them only to lose

[@chu_Bo]

@@DrakeKnight99 isn't that just star wars

[@schizoreze]

WITH DIO AND JOTARO ON THE OPPOSING ENDS. I'd pay the crap out of that one.

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

@@chu_Bo But the Republic was good, so no.

[@fat6776]

Albert Einstein, a socialist atheist, being in one of the highest positions of heaven? Based.

[@jy3n2]

A socialist atheist *pacifist.* Keep that in mind when looking at the third movie.

[@marocat4749]

He is also jewish if only from cultural upbringing.

[@KhayJayArt]

He was Jewish

[@Videokirby]

Agnostic, and IIRC was not fond of Atheism (for various reasons). Not that it apparently matters to this cult. Edison (probably agnostic... and an asshole who killed an elephant and ruined many lives) and Helen Keller (a socialist and believer in Eugenics) go to Heaven too. Seems they're enamored by the "Titans of Progress" idea, or just name-dropping to try to get hollow clout.

[@draconite1018]

He wasn't atheist, though? Einstein's faith was maybe more laidback than most other Jews at the time, but he distinctly believed in a higher power.

[@OozeBear]

Well this has been a fucking trip. Fun story: I suffer from a chronic pain disorder and, after watching the first video in the middle of a flareup, I fell asleep and dreamed that alien smoke monsters were causing my pain. They even looked like bad CGI in my dream. So I guess the movies work a tiny bit?

[@jjaystar94]

I'm sorry, did I fall asleep and forget I wrote this post??? Note: I dreamt I was aphrodite in my dream but still. Flare and watching this and bam- happy science dream

[@questionablebackyardmeows]

"Aw, crap Earth's conscience is going to clean out the world" this dub LMAOOOOO

[@fatemehhajizadehsaffar6882]

That...that was from the actual thing? I thought it was part of the roast

[@questionablebackyardmeows]

If it indeed is the actual dub, it would fit the rule of religious media in general: trying to split the difference when a situation is so horrific to comprehend that *only* a full on cluster F bomb, unintelligible screaming panic, or absolute shocked, stunned silence would be believable, valid reactions by anything with emotion at all. That almost always gives you the Dull Surprise trope and/or some of the cheesiest lines ever.

[@DAsrada]

Going by the look of it and the presence of reptile-humanoids, I could almost see "Ahh shit, Lavos is waking up" instead.

[@anusaukko6792]

Gaia going hard

[@monitaroy7462]

Oh, about that part where the kids worked for a week in a hospital setting and two of them "failed" the test because they weren't 100% selfless: cults will often use their members as cheap or unpaid labour. They'll use arguments like "think of others/don't be selfish and evil" to get people to put in hours upon hours of "volunteer" work. Volunteering for an organization is one thing, feeling emotionally or even spiritually pressured into it because the cult leaders don't feel like hiring or paying people is another entirely, don't get exploited folks.

[@MrZer093]

It’s how they can squeeze money even out of the poors in their cult as the rich just “donate” a crapload to get out of that guilt

[@FlorSilvestre12]

That movie had an entire circle of hell for people who want unions.

[@58209]

slavery with extra steps, in which one of the extra steps is emotional abuse

[@sovietcanuckistanian]

"If everyone believed in reincarnation we'd have world peace" they say, casually ignoring the history of every Hindu, Buddhist, and Sikh society, including Japan.

[@jamesharding3459]

**Nanking-denialism intensifies**

[@Extinctanimals22]

Even when you leave the religions that originate in India you find lot's with rules about why being terrible is not okay. Hasn't stopped members of the other world's religions.

[@Mayurbhedru]

@@Extinctanimals22 other religion thinks prohibition works.

[@PineappleLiar]

It’s almost like a lot of people struggle to weigh short term benefits to their long terms costs, so that when a religion tries to make someone act morally at risk of a very bad result that’s a long time off, it fails to be effective.

[@philiphart4146]

"Most run on Windows ME" You missed a perfectly good TempleOS joke there, man!

[@mothersbasement]

DAMNIT!

[@jack-g3j8l]

@@500ccRabbit lol jokes aside. Terry Davis was actually talented.

[@anarchomando7707]

@@mothersbasement at least you acknowledge it now might as well add it into a special edition feature or the next video

[@ninjaboy1415]

“Hisler busts out a z-move and his heck pokemon starts breathing fire.” What a wonderful way to start my morning shift.

[@nenmaster5218]

Yoooou'd think... there was some kind of... law punishing this cult for misusing... like... everyone and everything... i mean, they literally name various dead-and-famous people, but even moe importantly: Dont they very-much-slander Buddha?? You would think people have a problem with that.

[@kyrohowe3156]

@@nenmaster5218 I agree

[@nenmaster5218]

@@kyrohowe3156 I agree with your Agreement with me.

[@ninjaydes]

@@nenmaster5218 Happy Science has too much money to be punished for their name-plugging shenanigans. Even the angriest of big wigs soften up with sufficient bribery. .-. Sticking more closely to facts, the Japanese government protects rights to speech and religion. No law would be made to punish what Happy Science currently does, since cult members consent to having their money stolen. If Happy Science engages in criminal activity on the scale of 10+ murders, then the organization would fall similarly to Aum.

[@F1areon]

@@nenmaster5218 If they're anything like Scientology, chances are if anyone tries to punish them, they'll stalk/harass/threaten/assault anyone who tries. And hell, in the case of the former, they were ballsy enough to *infiltrate government facilities and scrub all their records of the group,* so... :S

[@DraptorRonin]

For a cult who's whole weird cosmology is based around "always being happy and full of love", Ryuho Okawa's OCs look so emotionless and dead inside. Hell, most harem protags have more personality than his self-inserts!

[@g5studio21]

Yeah never noticed how dead inside they were until someone pointed it out. Also, "most harem protags have more personality than his self inserts" Is a roast that deserves to be on r/murderedbywords

[@TheBonkleFox]

Ryuho's ocs could never make people horny for them by failing at the high jump

[@futtsunohi]

True story: TLDR: This group came to my country when I was a kid, tried to indoctrinate me (and friends) into their group, but fortunately failed. Years later, I came to Japan and was shocked to find out I am studying in the University their leader graduated from xD Part 1: When I was about 8-9 years old in India, this group came to my society (in India we call a group of apartment buildings a society), and showed us “Rebirth of Buddha”, and introduced us to Ryuho Okawa (leader of Happy Science group), a supposed reincarnation of Buddha. Being impressionable kids, we loved the movie about a reincarnated buddha shooting beams and stuff from his palms and destroying evil and what-not. After the movie they even dared to tell us that it’s based on real life events about Ryuho Okawa xD Anyway we were handed a bunch of sutras to recite daily in the morning, and admittedly I did for a few days lol. They also gave us some easy-to-follow books about recollections of real people having experienced near-death experiences and witnessing Buddha. I don’t remember the details anymore but the stories were quite captivating to me back then. The group told us they would shortly build a temple and looking for volunteers to help the poor (probably just a cover for their cult stuff), and some kids (myself included) were looking forward to it. Anyhow, their activities were discovered and the group was flagged and sent back to Japan, so I escaped whatever indoctrination into their cult they had planned xD Part 2: More than a decade later, I arrived in Japan for my master’s education. I didn’t recall much of this incident and the group’s name, yet somehow I remembered Okawa’s face immediately when I saw a pamphlet of his circulating around while I was cycling in Tokyo. Digging into it, I rediscovered Happy Science and was shocked to find out they had a number of offices all over Tokyo, and were a major presence. More shockingly, Ryuho Okawa is an alumnus of the University that I was studying in 😂 damn interesting turn of events xD Part 3: I graduated from Uni and started working recently, and moved into a sharehouse. Was just chilling with some sharemates in the common area, and a guy (as a joke) wanted to introduce me to Japanese religions and handed me a poster of Happy Science group, asking if I was interested. Needless to say he was shocked to learn about my experience, and we had a good laugh about the whole thing lol

[@JamesTheCelestial]

Absolutely incredible

[@chbend]

that is awesome!

[@avigailpekelman8239]

You lived on a society?

[@warpspeedscp]

@@avigailpekelman8239 yes, he lived in a soceity.

[@XSilver_WaterX]

Live strong and wise bro, here in the states I pulled a few strings and sent a few missionaries to an unknown island in the south Atlantic. They DID genuinely threaten me to break into my bank account and scam a local church to hate me. Never attack something you know won't work, especially to those who know the market. Even the Black and Criminal.

[@therisingtithes]

I just wanna say that naming the obvious allegory to the United States' only Black president 'Tom Bucks' is actually mighty fucked up.

[@somedragonbastard]

Wait, why? I mean, I don't doubt it at all, I just don't know the reason

[@almond3066]

@@somedragonbastard I think it might be a reference to the offensive term "uncle Tom"

[@somedragonbastard]

@@almond3066 true

[@typacsk]

@@almond3066 "Buck" has also been used historically as a general term for black men (and Indians), although I don't hear it much today, even from actual racists.

[@F1areon]

@@typacsk IIRC in slave auctions, male and female slaves were referred to as "bucks" and "does" to dehumanize them to potential buyers.

[@SnuSnuDungeon]

"I'm Helen Keller." WHAT!? NANI!? not even 30 seconds in and it's a gold mine 😆

[@persomiissleepy]

Best no context opening.

[@AimaCox-Zucker]

I was a little sad that she didn't have the accent

[@jabari080203]

I can’t breathe because of how hard that made me laugh as soon as I clicked on the video

[@juanmanuelpenaloza9264]

Sou ka...

[@casperchristiansen2458]

I don't know. Nothing tops Friedrich Neeches.

[@bugbrainzz]

Fauxchigo saying "I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with LIIIIGHT" made me wheeze and tear up

[@AegisXIII]

DUDE THE VOICE CRACK WAS PURE COMEDY

[@schizoreze]

It's him projecting his INNER HOLLOW inside Sayako (or whatever the hell her name was).

[@severalcakes3267]

For me, it was the strawman politician character saying, “Uh, as you know, Japan cannot do, uh… anything…”

[@quint_avi]

As a piece of fiction, all of this is hilariously bad. As a real-life belief system, however, is absolutely terrifying.

[@runeanonymous9760]

The terrifying things are really only the war crimes denial and the fact that the dude that they worship is alive, though? No other part of the cosmology is worse than, say, Evangelical Christianity. Kill the leader and the Imperial Japanese apologism is the only terrible thing

[@lordbuss]

@@runeanonymous9760 Evangelical Christianity is also terrifying, for the same reasons.

[@popcultureoverdosed]

@@runeanonymous9760 No. Christianity isn't even inherently bad. Everything about the happy science cult is abhorent

[@ziggymoondust2281]

@@popcultureoverdosed The Evangelicals are absolutely terrible, no questions asked. Don't really have a big opinion on the rest of the branches.

[@erickamakeeaina1649]

@@popcultureoverdosed Christianity isn't, but as a Christian myself evangelicals 1000% are.

[@swordhunter12]

"If everyone knew about reincarnation, we'd have world peace, because then we'd realise we all knew each other already, and we wouldn't want to kill people we know!" The people at Happy Science clearly haven't met my coworkers.

[@Videokirby]

Not to mention that, for an anime, they seem to have missed a lot of the anime plots where two people reincarnate to murder eachother repeatedly.

[@isapu1948]

Don't people find it easier to kill people they know and hate than perfect strangers?

[@hahano4281]

All I’m hearing is I could potentially kill Tim from HR an infinite number of times

[@bowenorcutt78]

Fun fact: some samurai that converted to Buddhism gave up on fighting because they didn't see a point in it. Anyone they killed would just reincarnate later. Clearly those ones didn't consider the potential benefits of the flip side.

[@lemeres2478]

As someone that deals with people in abusive relationships, I can tell you this- you are much, much more likely to be killed by someone you know. And all because you got into a shitty argument about that time 6 months ago when she slept with your friend, and how you smashed her car windshield (but that was totally justified because she threw out your 8 track tapes). Making everyone remember EVERYTHING seems like a guaranteed way to have people go for an eternal blood battle hell.

[@sakamotoverge3194]

The literal anime of the sentence “We can make a religion out of this”.

[@Halotaku]

You know you’re in trouble when the Fate franchise has more accurate interpretations of historical figures than your OVAs.

[@Drilling4mana]

I literally made stovetop popcorn for this. 10/10 did not disappoint.

[@mothersbasement]

Jokes aside, that's actually insanely flattering!

[@auraemerald8434]

@@mothersbasement I don’t have any popcorn rn, does Instant Noodles suffice?

[@nickfulson186]

@@mothersbasement I have chicken pot pie, is that ok?

[@statesminds]

@@nickfulson186 that sounds amazing especially when it's chilly outside

[@crimsonmask2648]

Screw it entire thanksgiving feast just for this video.

[@FSEThompson]

You know what? I think if someone tries to ASSASSINATE YOU I think it's fair game to design the bad guy in your cult anime after them. Like everything else Happy Science does feels insane and out of touch with reality, but that much at least just feels like a proportionate revenge.

[@anarchomando7707]

Fair counterpoint they're only slightly different in terms of dangerous

[@grahamcarpenter5135]

@@anarchomando7707 Yeah, I mean...the Happy Science guy didn't try to flood the Tokyo subways with sarin, but it's not like he deserves brownie points for that.

[@levongevorgyan6789]

Plus that's the guy that killed people in an orchestrated terrorist attack, he's an ultimate villain in real life.

[@ava_marie_v]

@JAMS Dream I wouldn't put it past them, though...

[@Kwatcher100]

@@ava_marie_v They just realized there’s more money to be made by not bombing or poisoning people.

[@riemaennchen]

Holy hell that was to perfect. Just after all the Buddha reincarnation crap I got an ad for Shin Megami Tensei 5. And that ad starts with the words "The god you worship is dead!". There couldn't have been a better ad for that moment.

[@TheBonkleFox]

I would die if there was an SMT villain who was a parody of ryuho okawa. it'd be so damn hilarious.

[@F1areon]

@@TheBonkleFox I mean, haven't they parodied Scientology a few times? At this point something like this would be the next logical step :V ...assuming Happy Science doesn't get PO'd and sue Atlus into oblivion or harass/assault/stalk the devs over it. That'd get ugly.

[@luckystriker842]

@@F1areon Yeah, but Happy Science doesnt have "be a petty SLAPP-happy asshole to critics of your religion" as part of their foundational texts. So, I think that they might be pretty safe.

[@kurvonterichards9644]

I’m high as shit and the Albert Einstein reveal literally blew my mind

[@krishnasadhanaofficial4292]

Fun fact: The Japanese VA for God Eagle (1st movie), Sorano Taiyou (2nd movie), and Sho Shishimaru (3rd movie) is none other than Takehito Koyasu aka DIO himself. I shit you not, google the three movies and you'll mind will be blown. Also the Japanese VA for Sayako and discount Ichigo from the 2nd movie are the same VAs as Kill La Kill's Ryuko Matoi and Space Dandy's Meow respectively

[@avigailpekelman8239]

Too late Jonathan, i dio, have joined a cult!

[@azoth6641]

You thought it was Dio, but no! It was me, SHO!

[@noukan42]

Wasn't he also the voice actor for Hermes?

[@worldweaver2691]

fucking wow.

[@peterang78]

WOW! They do not deserve to lend their voice to this.

[@wardenm]

I **LOVE** the irony that hell has a giant elephant, considering Edison's whole "let's electrocute animals!" schtick. One of the most well known was Topsy the Elephant.

[@lemeres2478]

"Don't use that crummy electricity Tesla made. It will ~KIIILL~ ~YOU~. Just watch"

[@wardenm]

@@lemeres2478 That 'heaven elevator' was TOTALLY just an electric chair. XD

[@brettcostello5112]

Good incite

[@billyweed835]

OK, let us be fair: it was one time, and the elephant was getting executed regardless of what Edison did.

[@wardenm]

@@billyweed835 One elephant, yes. He did so routinely with dogs, calves, horses in front of audiences to try and scare people away from AC compared to his DC power.

[@noahshort984]

The "I'm Helen Keller" almost made me spit out my drink. I was caught completely off guard. That was gold

[@johnturtle6649]

If AMV Hell hasn't used this yet, I consider it an act of plot crime.

[@owlgirl1998]

I just can't get over the "if people knew about reincarnation there would be world peace cause no one wants to fight people they know" philosophy like I wouldn't fistfight my entire family for 1 stale corn chip.

[@F1areon]

The other ironic thing about it: in regards to a lot of crimes that happen to people, the culprit is MUCH more likely to be someone the person already knows/implicitly trusts rather than a random stranger or casual acquaintance.

[@kairi3177]

Happy Science needs to meet my family.

[@xandersthoughts]

These movies, in a nutshell: 1 - What if Time Squad also did a Hitler? 2 - “I got the results of the test back, I definitely have breast cancer.” 3 - Ben Garrison on SUPER nationalist steroids like holy shit

[@morganqorishchi8181]

So, remember how my mom, a psychologist, really loved your last video? I woke up this morning to an email from her letting me know this dropped. Apparently she and her friends still in the the field really like your work.

[@FearDatD]

The Catface covering the Swastika in all the scenes had me dying. These movies are insane. Learning one crazy cult leader tried to have another assassinated is wild.

[@christopherb501]

If their tactics weren't so dangerous to innocent bystanders and their flocks I almost wish they'd try more often.

[@PiratesRock]

So, I feel somewhat compelled to defend my boy Nietzsche or 'Niches' a bit here from this god awful cult. A large reason why I think this cult put Nietzsche in hell and working with the Nazis, besides his 'God is dead' quote, is because in the public mind, he inspired the Nazis and/or that his philosophy led to the rise of the Nazis and/or he would've supported the Nazis. This is wrong in all counts. While Nietzsche died long before Hitler's rise, many of his opinions would've put him at odds with the Nazis and in all likelihood, they would've tried to kill him had he been alive at the time. Nietzsche friendship with Wagner famously broke down and after Wagner's death, Nietzsche wrote a book (The Case of Wagner) criticizing the man, explicitly calling Wagner out on his anti-Semitism and citing the ideology anti-Semitism as a thing that Nietzsche especially hates and despises. "Since Wagner had returned to Germany, he had condescended step by step to everything that I despise-even anti-Semitism..." In one of his last brief missives to his friend Overbeck he even stated he wished to “shoot all anti-Semites”. Nietzsche heavily criticized his sister and her husband, Bernhard Förster, speaking harshly against the "anti-Semitic canaille:" "I've seen proof, black on white, that Herr Dr. has not yet severed his connection with the anti-Semitic movement...Since then I've had difficulty coming up with any of the tenderness and protectiveness I've so long felt toward you. The separation between us is thereby decided in really the most absurd way. Have you grasped nothing of the reason why I am in the world?...Now it has gone so far that I have to defend myself hand and foot against people who confuse me with these anti-Semitic; after my own sister, my former sister, and after Widemann more recently have given the impetus to this most dire of all confusions. After I read the name Zarathustra in the anti-Semitic Correspondence my forbearance came to an end. I am now in a position of emergency defense against your spouse's Party. These accursed anti-Semite deformities shall not sully my ideal! Even early Nazi supporters such as, Adolf Bartles, had to acknowledge “that Nietzsche is no anti-semite”. Besides, their hatred of Jews, the Nazis were famously also anti-Slavic. Here is what Nietzsche said about Slavic people. "The Poles I consider the most gifted and gallant among the Slavic peoples; and the giftedness of the Slavs seems greater to me than that of the Germans." The Nazis were also extremely nationalistic and racist, positions which Nietzsche himself heavily criticizes in his works ("We Who are without Fatherlands"): "No, we do not love humanity; but on the other hand we are not nearly "German" enough, in the sense in which the word "German" is constantly being used nowadays, to advocate nationalism and race hatred and to be able to take pleasure in the national scabies of the heart and blood poisoning that now leads the nations of Europe to delimit and barricade themselves against each other as if it were a matter of quarantine." So, why is Nietzsche so associated with Nazism and Hitler? Largely, because of the Nazis themselves and Nietzsches' own sister and her husband, both of whom were incredibly anti-Semitic, nationalistic and in the case of Nietzsche's sister, a Nazi supporter. They twisted and omitted his words to fit their hateful ideology and paint him a supporter. In one of the drafts to "The Will to Power" which Nietzsche's sister published after his death and heavily twisting his words, Nietzsche wrote: "That is is written in German is untimely, to say the least: I wish I had written it in French so that it might not appear to be a confirmation of the aspirations of the German Reich." Which his sister promptly cut out to publish her 'version' of his supposed works. I want to let that sink in for a bit. His sister exploited her infinitely more talented and infinitely more famous dead brother for her own ends and forever tied his good name to a hateful political ideology/movement. If anyone is interested in learning more, I recommend Walter Kaufmann's book on Nietzsche or literally any good Nietzsche historian because it's clear (like so many other things), this cult didn't do any research on.

[@PineappleLiar]

I figured the cult was just using the boogey man of Naziism to cover for the actual reason they don’t want their followers delving into Nietzschism. The actual reason being that existentialism is about finding value internally, as opposed to traditional forms of faith that focus on at least one external entity. Happy Science’s whole thing is kinda about having one guy you need to put all your trust in, and that is the opposite of what Nietzsche wants.

[@Grim_Sister]

Are you surprised? The cult couldn’t find their own ass with two hands and a flashlight. I’d be shocked if they would ever open one book about the Shoa or bothered to try and understand why Hitler was such a monster.

[@lynnclaywood4043]

Damn, thats thorough! Nice read, thanks for the Nietzsche facts!

[@PiratesRock]

@@lynnclaywood4043 Oh yeah, no problem mate. Glad to have spread the word.

[@saffron1996]

wow i found a good book in the comments for once lol

[@Seyiall]

The level of obtuse bonkersness in these Anime is off the Theta charts. And I extremely appreciate your message at the end: Almost everything surrounding us, is trying to influence us to buy or "buy" something. Being able to pick those messages apart and peek behind the curtain is vital, sometimes literally, because some snake oil is not only after our money, but wants control over our beliefs, health and relationships.

[@Grim_Sister]

And this is why we should learn and teach critical thinking Press B to doubt. Always.

[@nenmaster5218]

@@Grim_Sister Also, as your comment mentions thinking critically, i highly, highly, highly recommend Hbomberguy. Hes known to preach that stuff.

[@aquamarinerose5405]

Will say, the idea that Prayer is part of booting up a piece of Magitech designed to speak with Ghosts sounds like it makes some amount of sense.

[@sovietcanuckistanian]

you know if he was a little less self centered, this guy could have had a promising career writing Warhamer 40k lore.

[@xRAINxOFxBLOODx]

I agree. I kinda want to use it myself. I'm not sure how, when, or where, but I'll keep it in my back pocket...

[@dreye3215]

I love how they keep being anti-nazi, despite constantly defending Imperial Japan, and its involvement in WWII. They even equate China with nazism, and make Japan the enemy of the nazis, as if they've forgotten who's side each country was on during the war. I guess that the Tripartite Pact registers to Happy Science the same way as Nanjing, it never happened.

[@grahamcarpenter5135]

Yeah, what the fuck? "Nazism is bad, also forget about the time we were allied with the Nazis during WW2!"

[@TheOneGuy1111]

Not to mention the whole "Nazis are bad and oh by the way all the angels and the most virtuous of people are all blonde haired and blue eyed" thing.

[@lrose1310]

@@grahamcarpenter5135 more like "Nazism is bad, also forget about the time we were probably 1000 times worse than the Nazis during WW2"

[@ForcedHandleName]

Hey, remember the rape that happened that one time during a war that was spread world wide? Yeah, me either...and the victims DEFINITELY don't remember...and the rest of the world's historians don't remember...and the reptilians orbiting Earth don't remember.

[@benthomason3307]

To be fair, accurate info on WW2 is a bit hard to come by in Japan. Some of their textbooks on the history of Japan even intentionally skip past the 40s altogether, jumping straight from the 30s to the 50s without comment. A lot of Japanese people are probably genuinely unaware of which side they were on in that war.

[@GoddoDoggo]

At about 5 minutes in I was nearly ready to praise the diversity of the inclusion of two non-Japanese guys as being part of the apparently Japanese exchange student science trip, AND not making the black guy a horrible racist caricature... But then they turned a corner and stumbled on a horrible racist caricature of a magical indigenous woman. So, you know, hit and miss here, I guess.

[@vitaliykormov1266]

The diverse characters didn’t get to go to heaven lmao

[@RadenWA]

And then the “Australian guy” shows up

[@iwannaseehowlongyoucanmakethis]

and then making everyone "good" blond and blue eyed

[@BasilBeesLair]

They really did my boi roberto dirty here

[@ash5834]

I have my doubts. They still haven't answered the ancient religious paradox: "What does GOD need with a starship?"

[@librarianseth5572]

Gotta have a place to store all the wine that forms whenever he passes through a comet's ice trail

[@shadowfire023]

Damn, a Star Trek V reference. Never thought I'd see one of those around here

[@aidoll3692]

​@@librarianseth5572 this is the only answer I'm accepting

[@jackofdiamonds7303]

I was watching this past midnight and then I head the Thomas Edison “Mary had a little lamb”. I then couldn’t sleep for a few hours.

[@mothersbasement]

Sorry to do that to ya

[@controllerfreak78]

As an atheist myself I find it immensely entertaining to see all the ways I’m demonized by cult films like this. Pretty sure if most of us were literally whisked away to heaven Dante style or had kids with ghost mumps we’d convert. But real life isn’t as explicit as the movies make it out to be

[@librarianseth5572]

As a Christian.... yeah; faith isn't something you can just FORCE on somebody. That's part of the whole point of a confession of faith - only you yourself know what you really think, and so forcing someone to say they believe something is only going to make them hate your religion more

[@lord_ozymandias]

yeah as an atheist if literal god descended from the sky i would not hesitate in converting instantly. idk why people think atheists are SO stiff lmao

[@Vanastar]

@@lord_ozymandias As an atheist, if literal god decended from the heavens I'd ask him what the fuck he was doing making so much fucked up shit on earth, and how dare he appear before me like this.

[@tiannaroberts6153]

It seems like media like this confuses atheism with people who hate God, like Niches (or however they spelt his name). However, if you hate God, you would have to believe that they exist. Also, as an atheist myself, I have been accused of worshiping satan when I tell people I dont believe in God, which is another statement that doesnt make sense. If I worshipped satan, then I would again have to believe that god exists. Atheists dont believe that satan exists either.

[@sleepysera]

I generally have no preference either way, if there is no god, fine. If there is, fine. I don't see any evidence, so I assume there isn't one. Simple as that. Idk where this weird idea comes from that everyone who isn't a believer is intensely in denial and spends 100% of their energy on proving that god isn't real 24/7.

[@plushdragonteddy]

my god, the way that guy yelled "I DON'T WANT TO LOSE... ANY MORE FRIENDS" will never not be funny to me, like he's supposed to be mourning the loss of a soul but it sounds like he's just tired of being unpopular

[@Hailstormful]

F. Nietzche: "There is no God!" Roota: "My man, you DO realize we are literally on God's backyard..."

[@TheBloodypimp]

Neitzche "I'm not your man, buddy..... also i never said god didn't exist. I said he died.... meaning his creation can go on while the entity itself could have ceased to exist. "

[@technodude458]

@@TheBloodypimp So basically the logic is God is dead we may or may not have killed him but we still exist

[@TheBloodypimp]

@@technodude458 ofc. Honestly dead is a finite atate but also a state we don't understand so yeah.... but to further clear my point... If an experiment is done on flies.... and the scientist loses interest or whatever.... the flies continue to reproduce and soon you have flies who've never seen the person that was taking care of them. And after a while.... they will even forget there was someone taking care of them in the first place.

[@RomanBelisarius]

@@technodude458 @TheBloodypimp That's one interpretation to try to relate it science but not quite what (real life) Nietzsche himself probably intended. I would say most videos that go even a tad deep into Nietzsche's "God is dead and we have killed him" quote is that there is a likely despair in loss of theistic religion/morality due to the advancement of empiricism (and science), a 'spiritual/moral' void that need be filled with something else, rather than a mellow uncertainty or a cry of victory. What Nietzsche tried to fill in of a solution is the "Overman/Übermensch" concept, not as hard doctrine, but as a guiding principle.

[@TheBloodypimp]

@@RomanBelisarius tbh... i was mostly talking about the movie interpretation. I for one also am.... wary of quotes. I mean the amount of sheer stupid shit i say to fill a page or any other of a million reasons.... if someone took them and used them as (part of) my body of work.... well you know.

[@willofthewinds3222]

41:34 "Think of everyone's spiritual happiness, or else you will die spiritually. As opposed to physically, which this girl who I brainwashed into my cult would be willing to do to literally all of you to spare her own soul. Because faith to the one true god (i.e. me) is more valuable then literally all of your lives. Also give me money."

[@willofthewinds3222]

1:00:43 Ah yes, Yamato-no-Orochi, a well known and respected good figure in Shinto beliefs that would 100% fall in line when a maiden asks him for help. Yamato-no-Orochi, who got killed by Susano-o explicitly because a couple asked the storm god to kill him so that he can stop eating their daughters

[@thehermit8618]

-What Freidrich Nietzsche meant by "God is dead": The enlightenment stripped God of all his mysticism. way back when it rained because God said so, tragedies occured because God was displeased, diseases were a form of divine punishment, good fortune was a sign of being in God's favor and prayers were very real and powerful; but after the enlightenment we know how the world works in quatifiable and tangible ways: its rains because of the water cycle, diseases are caused by microbes and good luck is just an statistical probability and good attitude. We have stripped God of his power in our society, from something as real as you, me or whatever device you read this on and relegated him to a spiritual, metaphysical almost symbolical entity who seemingly does not interact with the world at all or so little he might as well do not exist and if he does no exist then how do we repent? Who do we pray to? How do we cleanse ourselves of shame and sin? How do we know we're doing the right thing? God is dead and we killed him in our quest for understanding. -What dum-dum smoothbrains think Nietzsche meant by "God is dead": Fuck god, he's a physical being i killed with my bare hands in cold-blood cuz fuck religion. Atheism is where its at babey im a Final Fantasy protagonist

[@agnuts2799]

Niches**

[@nebufabu]

Look, at least these guys know Hissler is bad, being on the same side as him is bad, and using the symbol associated with him marks you as an automatic baddie. Some much more mainstream ppl and things (including surprising number of animes) have trouble with that nowadays...

[@xela6349]

@@nebufabu meanwhile a religious community in India who had that symbol way before the Nazis did: bruh.

[@96ace96]

Normally its the Final Fantasy villain that becomes god and the hero that kills them.

[@s_c_u_m3172]

@@nebufabu Is this about jojo part 2? Cause i feel like this is at least partially abt jojo part2.

[@heyfell4301]

I love the fact that they associate the Chinese with THAT symbol specifically, while in actual history it was Japan who was actually allied to "Hisler". Talk about projecting, if the guys wanted China to look bad, even the sickle and hammer would work better as a symbol in that context.

[@loturzelrestaurant]

Crazies get roasted all the time by 'Some More News'. All the Weirdness you could ever wish for is covered.

[@MorganPowers-hi4uh]

Technically the swastika was originally a Chinese symbol for peace, which actually kinda fits with the message of ‘world peace by any means necessary’. Not sure I’d give Okawa that much credit, though. He probably just grabbed the most obviously evil symbol he could think of.

[@jessnalulila5552]

Also in the 1930's up until 1941 Germany offered military support to China. A man named John Rabe used his association with THAT political party to save chinese civilians in Nanking

[@marymccann3500]

THIS WAS A FUCKING RIDE! Although I appreciate the end. It's easy enough to mock people who believe this sort of thing, but in the end we need to remember that they are the first victims of their religion. It takes a lot of courage to escape an environment like that, and we should show compassion to those who take the steps to heal and grow.

[@paulgibbon5991]

And don't forget stuff like QAnon, which is a cult in all but name and uses identical techniques to recruit.

[@hicknopunk]

You find them funny...I am noping the heck outta here while you distract the Happy Science people.

[@luvslotsastuff]

The fact that this version of Thomas Edison managed to out-weird the one in Fate where he's a lion furry with the souls of every single US President inside of him whose Noble Phantasm is the 20th Century Fox logo says a lot.

[@mst3kharris]

I have to admit that my favorite thing about the Fate version is imagining Barack Obama’s soul making Jefferson’s and Washington’s _extremely_ uncomfortable.

[@hermitcrabguy29]

I'm not gonna ask because fate lore is incomprehensible to mere mortals, but I will say that that is some fucking wild shit right there

[@duncanlutz3698]

@@hermitcrabguy29 Having played the game where this happened, I still can't fully explain to you what the fuck happened with Edison. He's even called the "presi-king" as well because of the "I am ALL the presidents" bs. To be honest, most of Fate lore is based on moon logic or falls apart very quickly if you try to think it through. It's dominated by "rule of cool//don't think about it" moments. The author will get super serious with these convoluted explanations for why this is totally 100% coherent with existing lore! But it rarely is. Because it's all based on "rule of cool" with working backyards from there. Like how George Washington doesn't count as a heroic spirit, and thus, had to fuse with Edison alongside all the other mythologized presidents like Lincoln and JFK. It would make far more sense for all the future presidents to collapse in on Washington, who was alive in this time period (and seriously should qualify as a servant in his own right), and not Edison... who wasn't born yet. Or why Queen Mebd of Irish folkore was invading America with a warped version of Cu Chulainn just after the Revolutionary War ended (as I said, Washington's time) and it fell upon Edison to take command of America's armies to fight off the Celtic menace... with robots... nearly 100 years before Edison was even born. With the power of Hollywood that wouldn't exist for another 150 years. Or how most locations featured in the Singularity didn't exist in Revolutionary times. It's all because they thought it would be cool. STOP ASKING QUESTIONS! Welcome to Fate!

[@larsnyman2455]

Everything I learn about the Fate series after the visual novel feels like I’ve learned too much

[@DolusVulpes]

@@duncanlutz3698 at least Fate lore being based on moon logic becomes kind of excusable once you realize that in-universe it genuinely is based on the logic of the actual moon.

[@neksnek2032]

I actually really like Roberto's design. Good job for not making a terribly racist caricature happy science. You get 1 point

[@allisterhale8229]

I'd like to think that was an act of protest on the part of the animation studios. Like all the bad guys having something objectively right to say

[@Vee_Sheep]

the Shaman Lady, however, immediately cancels out that exact same 1 point lol

[@andrewollmann304]

@@Vee_Sheep Also, I feel like God Eagle should cancel out a point too.

[@nicholasschmidt2864]

Can I just say that the forces good featuring Helen Keller, Thomas Edison, and literal angels fighting the forces of evil lead by Hitler, Nietzsche, and a giant war elephant is some of the hardest shit ever.

[@onenerd9573]

Would make a good metal album cover.

[@TheBonkleFox]

I can play Fate/Grand Order and get the same experience without the cult shit.

[@TheFoolishSamurai]

Wait, how does the cult consider Star Wars real when it doesn't even have a consistent canon?

[@librarianseth5572]

The cult or Star Wars? Because between all the stuff about Jesus being a catboy but also showing up at Nazareth, the aliens showing up to eat people even though life supposedly started on Venus, and the fact that dragons apparently got a pass on living until ancient Greece but the dinosaurs had to die I doubt either of these have a consistent canon.

[@typacsk]

That does track pretty well with several real religions...

[@TheGuardingDark_]

And how does all their bullshit jive with the force?

[@bthsr7113]

@@TheGuardingDark_ Now THAT is a good question. I don't think they have an answer though, because they are full of it and worse.

[@wadespencer3623]

More importantly, are the sequels canon? I want to know what Happy Science thinks of The Last Jedi.

[@writerserenyty]

I appreciate the call for media literacy at the end! I think it’s really important to be able to look at things critically, especially as like you said everything is trying to sell something. Two of the classes that have made the most impact on me are were the Statistics class I took in high school (because it’s so easy to see just how far statistics can be manipulated) and my college class On Television, where for a unit we analyzed news broadcasts to see just how far US news networks being ad supported can affect what news is shown. It’s something I’m really passionate about and wish was taught in schools, to view the world that way.

[@PoliceTelephoneBox]

Good reminder that the people who swear they aren't selling you something are exactly the people who are trying sell you something.

[@FFKonoko]

We aren't trying to sell you anything, we are just protecting good American values. Unrelated, check out our cool mugs and shirts and also brain pills.

[@endymallorn]

Yes, but I’ll admit that I prefer a privately-funded media landscape, if regulations would actually be used (or reinstated), over a monolithically government-funded one. I prefer to be able to read through certain gaps, rather than have to try to seek out whatever it is that a single ruling body doesn’t want me to know, if they have any access whatsoever (and they always will) to the editorial choices.

[@TheLumberjack1987]

when you said "Two of the classes that have made the most impact on me are..." I almost thought you'd do a segway into selling me a subscription for skillshare :D

[@writerserenyty]

@@TheLumberjack1987 listen if I could turn commenting on anituber videos into a lucrative career I would, I was a film studies student so it’s not like I have the money

[@spacescribs5838]

The fact that heaven is a gated community sounds like something an ex stockbroker would create

[@bepisthescienceman4202]

The light at the end has been privatised

[@falloutghoul1]

@@bepisthescienceman4202 Heaven's zoning laws prohibit the creation of multi-family living arrangements.

[@kiricappuchin]

NFTbro heaven

[@NeostormXLMAX]

so karl marx?

[@jackmakila3776]

@@NeostormXLMAX ?

[@Spacialvekter]

14:10 "It's not clear why they made him blonde and blue-eyed here..." Oh, I think it is, Geoff.

[@jackofdiamonds7303]

This is my most anticipated video from Mother’s Basement yet.

[@infiniteplanes5775]

Same

[@KarolOfGutovo]

Same. Just rewatched the first one yesterday, wondering when this one would come out

[@Ajehy]

I hadn’t anticipated it, because I foolishly believed there were only 3 films in this madness.

[@thelovelybunny9012]

34:49 This plot twist is on par with the part in "The Room" where that one lady's mother just casually drops "I've definitely got breast cancer" and it never is relevant in the plot ever.

[@devlinburgess2463]

I've been reading Saint Young Men lately, and it kinda astounds me how a joke manga about Jesus and Budda going on vacation in Japan manages to be more theologically comprehensible than this actual religion. All these anime are like the first draft for an SMT game written while high on bath salts. They even have Hit- I mean, Hisler, just like Persona 2 did!

[@enigmaj1494]

Um, his name was “Der Furher,” get it right… (/sarcasm)

[@anonymous71207]

and the evil alien spaceships! though I guess there was only one in persona 2

[@thanatoast]

Kind of a tangent, but i'm always going to be weirded out by the fact that Gabriel the angel is female in SMT games, where in most Judeo-Christian sources he's said to be male.

[@enigmaj1494]

@@thanatoast Well, angels (and by extension, demons) can change their physical form to either sex.

[@DolusVulpes]

@@thanatoast actually in all abrahamic canon angels are completely genderless and also able to completely change their form at will, which they do to not alarm mortals. The exceptions to this rule are fallen angels, who are instead hermaphroditic.

[@HiddenDragon555]

The fact that the fascist emperor wearing a mask before he became an emperor is so funny to me. How did he get away with that?

[@MysteryMii]

My brother completely lost it when “Nazi China” was brought up.

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

Japan’s Greatest Adversary: The Axis Powers.

[@Sara-sn5gd]

Real life Buddhist teachings about reincarnations: Deep philosophy that strives to promote people doing good things in their lives in order to ascend and break the cycle. Reincarnation in this Okawa's cult: an excuse for Okawa to be the most over powered super duper extra special over-the-top sugoku kawaii sugoi desu ne uber-Gray stu of an OC that has done everything ever.

[@yuvalgabay1023]

Tbh Buddhism kinda doasnt work whit his cult..whit Buddhism suffering is part of life and you need to be ok whit it

[@TheAssirra]

@@yuvalgabay1023 It's why he got his own religion loosely based of Buddhism. Man made a goddam spinoff.

[@ojrmk1]

Original Buddha Do Not Steal

[@azoth6641]

So basically, Okawa makes all those self-insert power fantasy isekai Protag-kuns look far less power-fantasy-ish (and maybe even well-written).

[@marocat4749]

Mainstream religions always were political, and abused. Not saying all is bad but everything was abused . Including budhism. There are good videos of budhism, and their differences and it includes interpretation that fit politics and that. And even of anything can be twisted. And even there, i dont think the buddhist warrior guns that were also mercwndaries somehow being the archenemy from oda nobunaga were saints and pure. I cant give a specificexample but pretty sure budhism was abused as well. Like take alone china nominated a dalai lama which is still .

[@TheBraedon2]

"I will give you...Africa." lmao goddamn, that fucked me up good, I wasn't ready for that.

[@erickamakeeaina1649]

Killer could be a really good villain if it weren't for being in a cult flick

[@grahamcarpenter5135]

And she was apparently ok with it, too!

[@tetramorpheus]

As an English / Language Arts teacher and special educator, I really appreciated your direct appeal for media literacy at the end. Many of the students I work with unfortunately prove susceptible to conspiracy theories and disinformation, and I consider these kinds of skills to be just as -- if not more -- important to my students being meaningfully engaged with the world. Will they need to know how to write a resume and get a job? Yes, occasionally. But they will also be immersed in media EVERY DAY OF THEIR LIVES. And we've seen what toxic disinformation can do with especial clarity in the last few years. So thanks, Geoff.

[@maca76]

also a Language teacher, and i hate people wanting us to teach only "useful" stuff, when literature and media are constantly used against people, i think its more useful to teach that a fun movie can be propaganda than to learn stuff they can learn on the internet, because also learn how to use the internet to their advantage and not be easily manipulated should be taught

[@freewilly1193]

​@@maca76your comment doesn't come across as a language teacher, but I will let it slide because this video is as mind altering as I can imagine.

[@maca76]

@@freewilly1193 idk what gives you that impression, if its grammar english is my third language so that may be

[@catsandcavies1759]

because English is the only language? LOL@@freewilly1193