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JP Kloess
United States
Приєднався 14 гру 2011
Wow, I can see I'm dealing with a sophisticated viewer who knows how to read since you clicked on the "About" section of my channel. Anyway I have Original Sketches, Animations, LEGO videos, Parodies, and LEGO Parodies. It's cool, click subscribe.
Відео
Basically the 2024 Presidential Debate (in LEGO)
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I tried my hand at making a Blender recreation of the first 2024 presidential debate between Biden and Trump in LEGO. It would like a lot nicer if my PC were better; I had to stick to eevee instead of cycles. Also I'm bad at lighting.
Angels don't need bodies: Theology graduate watches Supernatural
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I watched CW's Supernatural, and as a Catholic I found the theology of the show very silly. So I spent a long time taking its theology too seriously. 00:00 Intro (Spoilers for this show up to s6) 00:47 The trouble with angels 04:07 Storytelling reasons for lore breaks 05:11 Angels and time 05:38 The Archangels 06:35 Sympathy for the Devil 08:04 The body problem 09:28 Terrible reference work 11:...
The Chronicles of Narnia in 17 Minutes: A Condensed History of C.S. Lewis' World
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In this new entry into my stick figure summary video series, I summarize the 20th century classic Christian allegorical fantasy book series - the Chronicles of Narnia. I've done like five Tolkien videos, so this felt like a good next step for a fantasy installment. If for some reason you're actually reading the description of a UA-cam video, go check out my Roman history stick figure animation,...
How I stopped hating Anime in one month.
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This summer I attempted to get over my longstanding childhood hatred of anime; I watched all of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and smaller bits of Bleach, Spy x Family, My Hero Academia, Death Note, Akira, and One Punch Man. 00:00 Childhood Anime hater 01:06 Trying to like Anime 01:49 FMA:Brotherhood - Avatar for adults? 03:14 Akira - Why I couldn't get into it 04:00 Spy x Family - Cute but ...
The Peter Parker redesign is awful. (Insomniac Spider-man)
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Insomniac's redone version of Peter Parker is just terrible. Based on how quick the modding community did it - they could pretty easily give us the classic face for Peter in the new game. Like as a toggle or something in the options.
The Roman Empire in 13 Minutes
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Enjoy this broad strokes account of the Roman Empire as told in stick figure form; speedrun the major Roman emperors and the setup on how Rome came to be what it was. For more stuff I've made, visit: www.jpkloess.com Chapters: 00:00 Mythical Origins 01:08 The 7 Kings of Rome 01:18 500's BC - Tarquin the Proud 01:27 Roles of Rome 02:26 How Rome Expanded 02:51 200's BC - Pyrrhic War 03:06 49-44 B...
The Silmarillion in More Than 3 Minutes: A Condensed Version of the History of Middle-earth
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Enjoy this seventeen minute summary of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Silmarillion", a despairingly complex history of Middle-earth compiled by Tolkien's son in 1977. A high-water mark for fantasy readers, this video will give you a crash course on all the obscure references made throughout the Lord of the Rings, explained with hastily animated stick figures. For more stuff I've made, visit: www.jpkloes...
What playing Mass Effect for the first time was like. (Spoilers)
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This year I played the Mass Effect trilogy for the first time. Great series, and 3 was honestly the best (although obviously that ending was pretty iffy).
Psych if Juliet had any self respect.
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Psych is a great show pretty much throughout its run, but Shawn's characterization is really weird after s3. We're told he's become more responsible, but he acts increasingly the opposite.
Basically the Uncharted games.
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They're actually really good. I've played all of them except for the spin-off. And yes I know Tomb Raider was also a factor not just Indiana Jones, but Indiana Jones is most obvious in terms of the genre and style if not gameplay.
What it’s like watching Once Upon a Time.
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Also why isn't Regina in prison?
The Legend of Korra should have been shorter.
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The existence of seasons 2-4 makes no sense.
Buffy & Angel if the writers weren’t sadists.
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I should add I do really like Spike, and he's got a great backstory. But Buffy clearly doesn't love him. Dan Harmon has a similar problem to Joss Whedon with storytelling; setting up really good relationships, but being too afraid the audience won't like them if they're actually together. Although long term relationships work better on sitcoms, they can work on dramas if the writers are willing...
Basically Assassin’s Creed II
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The first time I played this game I was actually in Italy, and I could look out my window and appreciate the accuracy of the architecture. That information doesn't help you at all, but mentioning I studied abroad is the only interesting anecdote I have at parties.
How it feels watching How I Met Your Mother.
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To be honest I really respect the creators of HIMYM in the same way I respect George Lucas: just because they screwed it up later doesn't mean what they made initially wasn't great.
lol
America cooked fr 😭😭😭
We’re doomed
Yeah, we're screwed.
@@Ski_mask_enjoya mhm good luck to your country
WOOOO MAGA!!!
@@cinderanmagnus si this is how liberty dies… with thunderous applause
😂
There is a relationship between the number 3 and the trinity. Father, son, Holy Spirit.
I really want a flowchart or family tree for these charcters
You're in luck, someone made one: lotrproject.com/
@JPKloess thank you! Is there a similar one for all the kinds of elves?
@@campfire_cat I'm not sure, there's a few other graphs on that same website
Guy Gavriel Kay is a phenomenal author in his own right.
In need to read Tolkien books on my main language because I tried to read in English I just can’t ( i now how to speak and write English well) but the way that Tolkien write is very formal bonded with fantasy and medieval speak.. and that is to complicated I don’t know who is going to read silmarillion book on my main language but I hope that I can understand I’m on the beginning of the video and I’m already confused
You are the best human on the planet. The best walkthrough I have seen to date.
Thanks 😅
My brains broken trying to understand this. Onenthing tht always didnt make up much since to me is how much man really shouldnt of had any effect on the world of middle earth. There life is so short compared to elves and dwarfs. Mans life spand compared to theres is literally like a day equivalent. Why build any relationship with a being with so short life. Its like having a relationship with a fly.
the Fleur de Les is next to my grandparent’s front door. (I’m only 9 and they are alive and well!!)
Love your graphics- your avatar giving a lecture to a room full of UA-cam symbols.... Like a slideshow. Thats hilarious.
Thanks, it's inspired in part by the style of some of CGP Grey's videos.
I cant handle the colonial butchery of the names and things written by Tolkien by this uncouth fellow.
My dude, I spent a lot of time verifying how to say the names correctly this time around vs in the three minute version.
To be fair, some of her supposed growth in Book 1 didn't actually happen, at least not in a way that's written well. I heard that the creators explicitly stated that to be why her flaws persist into the second season.
Really underrated channel
You never watched Cowboy BePop
I did watch Cowboy BePop actually. That was part of an earlier attempt to like anime. I think I tried six episodes and didn't like the show.
I cant binge anything. Also, as i got older i can't really get into anything unless its a book.
This is honestly why i stopped going to church. Everyone takes that book as 100% literal or 100% metaphor. How about...ITS A FANTASY SHOW NOT BEHOLDEN TO YOUR PERSONAL RELIGIOUS BELIEFS! They also claim as God has a sister, and then were originally one making him literally half the God he should be. They also claim that both the empty AND death are stronger than God and infact he is powerless when confronted by them. Also its very inappropriate and unprofessional to claim anything written in the book as fact when the truth is that the book has been written by man, rewritten, written against and "interpreted" do at best its a book of half truths and at worse its metaphoric lies. Don't get me wrong you can believe how you want, I myself still follow my catholic roots. However i would never use the word fact with anything from the book, and to sit there and claim that in this day and age as if you were there when it was foretold in its original state is the height of arrogance and pride
dint satan flip sides?
10:58 well if you view a monster as a former human then the vampire makes sense but i still dont know what they gotta do in the endless forest of the shows purgatory
I'm not sure I'd say they made Gabriel a antagonist, but rather they turned Loki a Antagonist into Gabriel. Once that happens he basically switches to the brother's side of things. There's a line that doesn't make a lot of sense in the show at one point that I recall. And it's that Angels don't need human bodies, they use them because its safer to go about the world for the world's sake. Castiel's true form burns the eyes out of folk, his true voice causes a small building to go boom. I recall someone in the show saying their true forms are giant in comparison to a human. This isn't really sensical given the Lucifer/Micheal plot requires them take Sam/Dean's bodies. As neither of them care about causing human causalities, but maybe I'm missing a line that the show uses to explain that. Could be that both are just that obsessed with the prophecy. Now, as a Catholic myself, you echo most of my own hangups about the show's depications of Angels. Though, to be clear, while Demons are supposed to be Lucifer's twisted creatures to mock God's humans in the lore, their actual function in the show's cosmology is as Anti-Angels in how they work. Which is obvious just from how they differ in terms of possessing folk. I do actually disagree with you on how it's okay to display pagan beliefs inaccurate over Chistian Beliefs. Mostly because unlike as you claim, they do still got worshippers in the current day. Thor is still worshipped, people even worship Loki(which is a complicated topic to explain in a comment section). I don't make this claim to defend Pagan beliefs as being as true as our own, just that I dislike the idea that only being a minority makes it fair to take such liberties with people's faith. Because in that case, just becoming a minority would make such things okay to do the same to us. We should instead work to respect people's beliefs in general, so in turn it becomes Culturally normal, regardless of religious origin of the writer, to respect Chistian beliefs too. I think the way I read works like Supernatural is much like I read Dante. WHich is "this is a fanfiction." with widely OOC takes on the established characters and the setting.
I didn't say no one worships pagan deities today - I said most normal people don't. Neopagans are a fringe cult, without a solid foothold as a world religion because there was a near complete rupture of the old ways as people turned towards Christianity. For most neopagans, it's a rejection of their Christian culture, and not preserving some existing practice (with obvious exceptions like India - where the paganism isn't "neo"). Furthermore, I am under no obligation to ask fiction to treat pagan deities seriously or fairly, since like St. Paul I consider them to be demons if they exist at all; these gods are not competing religious traditions who I must give equal treatment to, but enemies of my religious tradition that are crushed by the coming of Christ.
@@JPKloess The minority of their postition is more so my point than not. This makes them a weak link, the under dog as one can argue from. As Secular law requires fair treatment, so the general public opinion is much of the same. Asking for special treatment only ever angers large portion of folk that would've otherwise agreed with you. As much as you are under no obligation to ask fiction to treat pagaon deities seriously or fairly, that belugers out to the same of others. It's not the unfaithful's obligation to treat God, Jesus, Angels, Saints, etc fairly. It's not a Catholic Postion to ask for one treatment of you, but another for others. Much as Jesus asks us to treat others as we wish to be treated. You can't ask for something that you wouldn't be willing to give in return. And there lays a stronger position to defend the faith. On the nature of St Paul's words on Pagan Deities being Demons. I presume you are referring to Corinthians 10:20 where he speaks that sacrifices made to Pagan Deities are ones to demons instead. Which is a point he makes, but is out of context slightly given his words(from 32 to 33)after are; Never be a cause of offence, either to Jews or to Greeks or to the Church of God, just as I try to accommodate everybody in everything, not looking for my own advantage, but for the advantage of everybody else, so that they may be saved." We can in conscience eat with these people, live with these people. But not partake in their rituals. Being respectful to them is not that. And also Paul makes claim to the sacrifices in 10:20, where in 19 he was referring to the pagan deities themselves as "idols' in reference to idolality. They're nothing in his words. Not demons. Merely sacrifices to them, end up to demons. On the case of wishing their being crushed. One must realize that such a crushing is actually just a natural result of the Lord's words. No False God can stand in the presence of the Lord; but when one looks to the Christian Scribes that wrote the Book of Invasions or Snori(a Chistian Scribe and Poet of some reknown)'s Prose Edda. The defeation of those Enities lay not in ridicule and mispresentation of their tales, but a truth being written. The beings demythified in the eyes of their followers without demeantion of the tales. Where as the aggressive tactics taken against these fringe groups of today fall to save or to convert many.
"It's not a Catholic Postion to ask for one treatment of you, but another for others. Much as Jesus asks us to treat others as we wish to be treated. You can't ask for something that you wouldn't be willing to give in return. " The golden rule applies to the principles of justice and to how we treat others, but it is no way a Catholic position to hold that we must treat erroneous moral ideas or religious preferences with equal deference under the law - or in public society. Error has no rights in a Catholic view, and it tolerated only insofar as it would do more harm to suppress it. As Ci Riesce says, "Thus the two principles are clarified to which recourse must be had in concrete cases for the answer to the serious question concerning the attitude which the jurist, the statesman and the sovereign Catholic state is to adopt in consideration of the community of nations in regard to a formula of religious and moral toleration as described above. First: that which does not correspond to truth or to the norm of morality objectively has no right to exist, to be spread or to be activated. Secondly: failure to impede this with civil laws and coercive measures can nevertheless be justified in the interests of a higher and more general good." Again, I am not saying that we treat anyone with less than the fulness of Christian virtue. I am saying that there is nothing un-Catholic in preferring and advancing true ideas over false ideas - because false ideas do not have equal merit or equal rights.
I mean, as adapting fanfics goes, they where equal on how they treated norse mythology, indu mythology or biblical mythology, etc. Creatively. The Bible itself, like all mythologies, isnt very precise or consistent on many themes from gospel to gospel.
I think I adequately responded to this in the video itself, since the line I drew was between active religious traditions and fringe cults like neopaganism. The only active tradition the show adapted would be Hinduism and the character of Kali, with the other pagans like Odin from long dead cults - since neopagans are larpers who's tradition died out when their ancestors became Christians.
A show based on Christianity that doesn’t involve Christ.
Can you imagine how badly done it would be if they included him though?
@@JPKloess With competent writers and a deep understanding of Christianity, It would be possible. But it’s a CW show, so you’re right, it would have been awful and blasphemous.
The biggest issue for me is that they kept changing the lore as the show went on and swapped creative hands. Demons not being fallen angels and being created by Lucifer was a bad creative decision as well imo.
Hey man this implemented more in a fanfic I read. Where, the main character is a seraph, I think. Also in supernatural, not all angles steal bodies but some cooperate with them
The point I was making was that angels have to inhabit human bodies at all - particular humans who can't go about their lives because an angel inhabits them. That's weird. The traditional idea is that an angel assumes a body - a spontaneous body for their particular earthly mission.
Oversimplification of Túrin’s story made it sound so weird. And I thought his sister/wife killed herself because she thought Túrin was dead and not unconscious, and after which Túrin killed himself over grief. (Correct me if I’m wrong)
That's correct I believe, but also the story was just weird.
@@JPKloess the story is weird but even weirder when oversimplied lmao
I really like demon slayer. Full metal alchemist is pretty top tier so it's a tough act to follow
Couldn't make it pass 6 seasons lol. They should have ended after killing the yellow eyed demon.
Yeah, the show should have ended once the original reason for the brothers' crusade was over.
The story arch of seasons 6-10 is my favorite part of the show. Try it on rewatch when you’re not burned out. It really grew on me.
Depicted the cognitive dissonance of a liberal 😅
Angels arent real so they arent going to get offended by their portrayal in a tv show.
Lol
It would depend on what you mean by "offended". An angel not only exists - but is perfect, and is only concerned for their own honor or well being to the degree that God wills that they do.
@@JPKloess a lot of people are convinced big foot exists too. Its not like youve ever seen an angel
@YOSSARIAN313 Nobody sees angels. That's the point. They're incorporeal.
@@JPKloess then why are you so certain they exist. Being that certain is arrogant and typical of the illegitimate academic field of theology. I hate how certain you types are of everything
also the channel paxtube is a catholic does anime, but be warned he does have very spicy takes and is blunt
also check out “Benedict, Aquinas, and Ghibli Discuss: Creation & Wonder” it’s by a fellow catholic
Naruto is a pretty solid read in manga it has good ethics in terms of forgiving your enemies and the perpetual nature if evil repeating itself if forgiveness isn’t there. How it does have a handful amount of lewd shots but no where near anything popular nowadays.
I've since finished My Hero Academia (or what's animated so far) and enjoyed that. Naruto would be a maybe, but I'm not all that into Ninjas conceptually. I've never been a huge Japanophile.
You have grasped the matter completely. Thorough work. Irrefutable. Rock solid. Sewn up. Remy boyz.
Well done!
Thanks!
When I was younger and on LSD I hallucinated the Fleur De Lis everywhere. It was all over the walls and floors.
A rather ponderous read…
I've read the Silmarillion thrice and still found this video helpful. Thanks!
Im not a nerd.... But also "um actually" The Valar and Maiar arent annointed qith those ranks until they descend to Arda. Before that they are all Ainur, but the would be Valar wereblike section leaders in a band. Its not the moat important distinction, but its interesting because there could be more Ainur whod rank as Valaf if the descended. And we know that because was the last to descend, years into the age of the lamps, and was a Valar.
Lilies are my favorite flowers. I didn't know they represented the VIRGIN MARY! I've always loved this symbol because it represents my favorite flower and the TRINITY! 😍😍
Ow! My brain! I'm not smart enough to understand The Silmarilion. Damn.
"Now news came to Hithlum that Dorthonion was lost and the sons of Finarfin overthrown, and that the sons of Feanor were driven from their lands. Then Fingolfin beheld (as it seemed to him) the utter ruin of the Noldor, and the defeat beyond redress of all their houses; and filled with wrath and despair he mounted upon Rochallor his great horse and rode forth alone, and none might restrain him. He passed over Dor-nu-Fauglith like a wind amid the dust, and all that beheld his onset fled in amaze, thinking that Orome himself was come: for a great madness of rage was upon him, so that his eyes shone like the eyes of the Valar. Thus he came alone to Angband's gates, and he sounded his horn, and smote once more upon the brazen doors, and challenged Morgoth to come forth to single combat. And Morgoth came." Chills. The Silmarillion is sometimes (often?) a tricky read, but there's some incredible stuff in there.
*not the entire history*
Still confused. 😂
Anal-indulae?
Boring. How Tolkien considered this his greatest work I'll never know. Not that Lord of the Rings was that great either. Tolkien started epic fantasy, but Jordan absolutely dominates it in my opinion
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I never could get into the show to begin with.
More of this please
youtube is stupid, i already watched this and youtube recommend me to watch it again... ffs, if sauron had won we wouldnt be stuck with this shit tech!