i just watched the fountain the other day, and i wanted to recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it and likes seeing different/unusual films.
i thought it made a very nice point about wanting to live forever and the narcisism this can imbue in people.
the movie is very dense with many paralells and metaphors, spread over three time spaces: past, present, and future.
Is it on DVD? Sounds very intriguing.
Makes me think of a character in one of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series called "Men Of Good Fortune." In this episode, Death gives Hob Gadling a reprieve so he can not die.
It makes you think about the consequences of never having to let go of life - not as bright an idea as one might imagine, after all, at least not in the real world.
this week i watched two movies based on books i've read in the last few years.. the first was the night listener by armistad maupin - a very good book - a thriller, with lots of twists and turns and enticingly written about a gay broadcaster who becomes friends by telephone with a fan, a boy who was horribly abused by both mother and father.
when i heard they were making a movie i thought fantastic.
so i finally got the movie in the post.
I haven't been reading much for entertainment lately - just science - but I do love fiction and used to read it quite a bit. Any recommendations are appreciated.
Cold Mountain - the book was very, very good and I was surprised by the movie's ability to inspire images that seemed nostalgic because they captured the imagery of the story, at least in a few captivating scenes. Still, the book was much, much better. You just cannot capture in a two hour film what depth a book can impart.
I liked the movie Beloved much better than the book, probably because I have such trouble with reading dialect (and have a mental block too about Ebonics. I find it so distracting). I was greatly moved by the acting in Beloved, much more so than by the writing. Sometimes books and the stories they tell get so much hype that it's hard not to be let down when you finally get to see it or read it.
I was also disappointed with the t.v. series based on the mystery-writer (whose name I can't recall); Finding Joseph was a great story and even done for t.v., it was good, but important details were left out and it seemed the motivations and detours of the t.v. show were lacking, although the filmwork was lovely.
Any other recommendations? I'm falling asleep to Richard Dawkins lately.
and how do/did you imagine it would start.. i say, it would start a big cloud in the sky .
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It would be just like all those idiotic Craptower magazine pictures of death and destruction, immediately followed up by Paradiz on Earth, with no interuption in between. Just snap, crackle, pop, and just as quick as you could eat a bowl of rice crispies, Armageddon would be over, all the bad people would be gone, and earth would be transformed into a jw pedohile paradise. STupid! Very, very stoopid.
and how do/did you imagine it would start.. i say, it would start a big cloud in the sky .
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I always pictured it from the sky, too, only firey lightning striking all the bad people, buildings and mountains collapsing, earthquakes and tidal waves and JWs just in Paradiz with no aftermath of Armageddon.
alright my techie friends..here is a new puzzle for you....i knew i had heard there were 27,000 known pedophiles..i thought it was from jr brown ..it still might be..alot of my buds on the board could`nt find the info that would support what i thought i had heard..i found some...go to google search engine..type in "number of jehovah`s witness pedophiles"..the number 27,000 comes up a few times in the list of subjects..you guys are much better at getting into the information than me.....sic-em!!.....lol!
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Hope you reported that to the proper authorities, still.
children in the jehovah's witness religion really have it hard.
to compare, look at other churches.
most of them have sunday school, and this is geared to children that are not able to really comprehend the deeper things.
I don't agree that it is WORSE than physical or sexual abuse. It is completely different.
unique 1, spanking is physical abuse.
hey guys, i went to the party this afternoon, and mouthy wanted me to post about it and let you know that she is really busy with company right now, but will post again sometime soon.. anyway, mouthy's party was lots of fun--almost everyone there were ex-jws.
i really enjoyed meeting them and talking about their experiences.
they all had their eyes opened in different ways--for some it was a gradual awakening, for others it was a sudden unexpected scripture verse and bingo, the blinders were off!
Wow! Happy birthday, Grace!
i went to the lab last week for standard tests i have every three months before my scheduled doctor's visit.
my appointment was this past tuesday and my doc said there were "some concerns" with my test results.
needless to say, it didn't sound good, and it has not even been a year (june) since i had that throat operation (cancerous parathyroid) where i was on a respirator for a week....(i started to bleed under the closed incision and stopped breathing in the recovery room)... but he had the office receptionist make an appointment for me and when they said "for may 30th" he said no, he wanted me in asap to "nip any more problems in the bud".
(((Annie))) Please come back and tell us you're okay! I am so sorry you went through that before with the throat surgery! How awful for you to have so much worry! Be well, sweety, and you are a sweety!
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with me and when we met, he would bring along two of his friends and i .
sometimes, i would knock their block off and sometimes, it was the other.
And does this god that you personally try to bring people to reside in the Pleiades cluster?
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with me and when we met, he would bring along two of his friends and i .
sometimes, i would knock their block off and sometimes, it was the other.
I try to bring people TO God
By whose d@mned authority do you do that?
