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Nihilism of everyday life

 * Ultimate fate of the Universe
 * Christianity
 * Calvinism
 * Deathbed conversion
 * Double predestination
 * Sola fide
 * "It won't matter. I'll be dead by then."
 * Climate change

IP

 * Clarence Thomas replacement of Thurgood Marshall (1991)
 * Amy Coney Barrett replacement of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2020
 * Herschel Walker vs. Raphael Warnock (2022)
 * George Santos who is 'Jew-ish' in fantasy vs. Robert Zimmerman who is Jewish in reality (2022)
 * Nikki Haley vs. Kamala Harris (2024)

Films
A list of films that that are both missional and have sufficient cinematic artistry to be worth watching at least once

Comedies

 * Blazing Saddles, directed by Mel Brooks — deals with racism in a subtly complex way, a take-down and homage of the Western film, worth rewatching
 * Dogma
 * Dr. Strangelove, directed by Stanley Kubrick — a very dark comedy on nuclear war
 * The King of Hearts — an anti-war film set during World War I
 * Idiocracy — the decline and fall of America, suppressed by Fox
 * Life of Brian by Monty Python — a very naughty film
 * Watermelon Man, directed by Melvin Van Peebles

Dramas

 * A Clockwork Orange, directed by Stanley Kubrick
 * Paths of Glory, directed by Stanley Kubrick — an anti-war film

Akira Kurosawa films

 * Rashomon — deals with different perspectives of same brutal event (ripped off by Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring )
 * The Lower Depths — a very dark comedy (rescripting of Maxim Gorky's play)

Kurosawa's samurai films, often bleak, can be viewed through the lens of Japan's defeat in World War II
 * Seven Samurai
 * The Hidden Fortress (ripped off by Steven Spielberg's Star Wars)
 * Yojimbo (ripped off by Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars)

Documentaries

 * Eyes on the Prize — TV series on the Civil Rights movement
 * An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore — climate change
 * I Am Not Your Negro, a documentary on writer James Baldwin