Paulo Seabra

This is a classic movie to me. Not just because it's a classic movie for everyone else, but also because it's a movie that I first hated, then I didn't like but I saw its merits, and then that I loved and it easily became one of my all-time favorites. But that's just my style, initially hating something that I then come to love. What's funny about it is that there seems to be a similar thing happening with the movie itself, as in the initial perception of it isn't quite what the movie really is. You need to dig a little bit, and the more you dig the more the movie's inner nature is revealed. Or at least that's how I see things now, because The Exorcist is one of those movies that people sometimes find boring and funny, which is its own weird perception, or else they find it horrifying and brutal, which is the perception I have come to disagree with the most. Not just about the movie but about the book as well, which is a must-read for any fans of the m...

On the 30th of september, two thousand and twenty-one years after the birth of a fella went by the name of Jesus Christ, I wrote a comment on a YouTube video about Joshua Graham, a video simply titled after Joshua's famous quote – In the end, there is light in the darkness. The video clocks in at a brief but powerful one minute and thirty-eight seconds, and it consists of various aesthetically-pleasing images from various sources, such as Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, and a few others I don't exactly recognize, all shown along the tune of spliced dialogue lines from Joshua Graham, all in honor and remembrance of the filmmaker's sister sometime after her untimely death. It is my understanding that the filmmaker made the video for very personal purposes, expecting to reach a whopping ten views, five likes, and one comment, but somehow it instead reached, at the time of writing, over three million views. I suppose that's just the internet, and that's just the ga...

This will be one of those posts that kinda defies classification. Is it gonna be about video game storytelling? Or more about a bunch of religion and morality stuff? When the game in question is the insanely good Fallout: New Vegas it's often hard to tell the difference because it's a game that does so much so darn well... In a world filled with misery and uncertainty and deathclaws, we find multiple tribes trying to live life the best way they know how. Some of them have fallen into utter nihilism, others have given way to their violent desires, and others still believe in God's love... Though different tribes have very different ideas it is still true that all of them have to contend with the sheer brutality of the wasteland, but naturally this proves more complicated for the godly tribes. For how can you love and obey God, as well as love your fellow men and women, when the world around you is so brutal? How can you truly love and seek to preserve, or at least to refrai...

I don't know what to think about Ravi Zacharias. Back when I was a militant atheist I didn't really know him, and yet I vaguely recall a white-haired man with a soft voice, and I may have read one or two comments from christians telling us atheists to look up Ravi's videos, proudly boasting we would have no answer to his arguments. As for me, I probably would have had something of an answer to them, but I would have been equally proud and equally boastful, I would have argued with what I now consider to be an unfounded faith in the meaning of life and in the philosophical underpinnings of morality... What I'm trying to say is that, in recent years, I began to rethink my atheism, and when I somewhat recently found Ravi's speeches, I was rather moved, both rationally and otherwise, and I wondered if this kind indian man with a past sorrow not entirely unlike mine, this man whose love for John 14:19 resurrected him, I wondered if he might have been the one to understan...

This will be the third and last article written in response to secular humanism, at least the last one for a little while. I've been thinking a lot about this issue and I still consider those attempts to be laudable. However, I can't claim to be very convinced by the philosophy, and in many ways, I often express that, for all its faults, religion offers a better alternative in the sense that it maintains and almost asserts the problem of evil but still promises that evil will be overcome in the end. You might rightly consider such a thing to be wishful thinking and you have a strong case for it, but the reason why I'm a pessimist is because neither of these solutions to the problem of evil convince me. I'm not convinced by the truth claims of religion, neither am I convinced by the virtues of secular humanism. Ironically, I almost wanna say that it's atheists who refuse to acknowledge the problem of evil... And as far as christianity in particular goes, I have to s...