I've just finished watching the short 6-parter of ricky Gervais' new series on Netflix.
Ricky Gervais - like him or hate him? I like him and the groundbreaking shows he's created and starred in. This latest doesn't disappoint:
This is smart stuff - humour and pathos combined without being sentimental and cloying.
In one episode when Tony (Gervais) contemplates death and the afterlife he muses that how stupid it is that some people live crap lives and cling to the idea of a life after death when in fact there is none. Death finishes life which is what makes the life we have so precious. This comes from a desperately sad man who contemplates suicide or an end to his existence every day.
This is well worth watching and leaves for dead the christian mumbo jumbo crap that clogs up the web like this bullshit here of a tosser who wants us to believe that he's met 'god':
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I believe we should all listen to a depressed suicidal man especially if he has the humour and insights of Ricky Gervais.
Who gives a fuck? why would it matter? Science doesn't have to support everything.
So Robert, what's your opinion of that idiot who's going around telling everyone that god spoke to him?
Who made you?
My mum and dad. They didn't know what they were doing but I believe that they did a good job.
My mum and dad started the process and put some nice finishing touches on it.
Fortunately the nuns, brothers and priests in the catholic schools I attended didn't manage to fuck up the model, I guess mainly because I didn't really believe in them and didn't let them get too close.
Life has had a go at bashing me around so there are a few scrapes, chips, dents and blemishes but, as Lynn was openminded about, I'm an 'As Is' proposition.
So, I've been made by a solid and loving family, very good friends and a productive and enjoyable working life. I don't need to cling to a belief of an afterlife especially a belief promulgated by dangerous and deluded people who hide their personal damage and hangups behind position and institution.
I'm content with that.
Did someone say something?
"As Richard says "Who made You?" which is in implicit agreement with my original statement and shows his understanding of what am really asking."
No, I was just taking the piss.
There's something wrong with you Robert.
Deduct it from what?
Sorry but I don't think you understand what irony is.
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