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Banderas looks so darn delicious up there!
Don't know much about Griffith,except she's his wife.Saw them on Oprah together but had no idea who she was.
Milk was fantastic. Penn, don't ever die.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,well, it was good to see Depp and co again, but the movie didn't have half the charm and the magic of the book, and the oompa loompa guy was just irritating.
Saw Bedazzled again. Liz Hurley is a Devil who pays Fraser seven wishes for his socially dysfunctional, lonely, computer geek soul. Funny. And that Spanish song he wakes up to in his first wish is great.

You know senseless reality shows are all the rage now. This is one of the products of our Hollywood kleptomania. A thinly veiled 'Home Alone.' Why were you watching it sef? At least my excuse was someone yabbed the thing so much I had to eyeball it. Kids so irritating you want to issue them good swift kicks.

You know what the most intriguing scientific discovery is, for me? That every single inhabitant on planet earth shares the same mitochondrial DNA. You get mDNA from your mother, from your female ancestral line. The mDNA we all share, science found long ago, comes from 'a female hominid' in Africa living 100000-200000 years ago. Don't worry about the dates; they keep changing them. The discovery was controversial at first,but the evidence grew and grew,and is still growing. We all share a common female ancestor. Not the mDNAs of several females, but a single female.Interesting, no?
I just read yesterday that geneticists claim that there was a time the world's population entered a bottleneck, when our numbers were greatly diminished and there were ten thousand people at most on the earth.  And then human population exploded somewhere in Africa, people formed small bands and migrated.     

No Christian should ever have to apologise for what they believe, or feel they have to defend it against evolution. You'd be amazed at the language of evolutionary theory, at how much is assumed and how much guesswork and 'inferences' they draw. The fact remains they have no idea how we came to be here, and their langugage can hardly be anything else. Science isn't the enemy, you know. If you're a Christian, you know there's a God, and you know exactly who your real enemy is.

They kill a boy and keep mum, hoping no one will notice?
Do office-holders enjoy immunity from prosecution for manslaughter, and does it extend to theri wives and convoys?

I vaguely recall too much. Man that's an old movie! I think he was a twin or something,or he was dating twins?Something about twins. I forget. That's where he met Griffith? They've been together a loooong time then. Lucky woman. How's she psychotic?

KarmaMod:
are you still one, Max?

NO. I doubt I ever really was one. I was merely born into it, which is no reason to stick to a thing.

chukwudi44:
mad max
You still need deliverance .a deliverance that will bringb you back 2 the true faith.

Yes massa.

Nora Ephron's written some of my favourite romances,Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail. If you liked those two you'll LOVE her When Harry Met Sally.Odd. Meg Ryan's in all three.

@Bobbyaf
Well,I know nothing about prophecy. But I was baptised and raised Catholic. It took varying time spans but every member of my family voluntarily departed from Catholism, without being urged by a soul. God's been in the business of delivering people a long time. No doubt he is more than capable of leading individuals to Himself,including Catholics.

Gals gals you obviously don't know the slightest thing about football.
A red card means someone's hurt and there's lots of blood. Gay footballers pin a Pink Card to their shorts so everyone will know to treat them like a lady. A yellow card doesn't really do much except lie there and just[i] be[/i] yellow. The goal of football is to kick the ball over your opponent's net-fence. When you do that your fans scream 'Goal!', coz, you know, that's the goal of the game and you've succeeded. Sudden Death means all the players clutch their hearts and suddenly fall to the ground,dead. To attack means to beat your opponents to a pulp. To defend means you stop your opponents from braining you with the ball. Golden Goal is when the ball sails over the net-fence and into the crowd,breaking someone's jaw in ten places; the 'gold' is from all the money he's going to make suing the hell out of you and your club.

Great choices dargly and kx, but you have to say why you love them.
Matt Damon, hands and feet raised!!!!
Ohhh I had an enormous crush on Banderas in Assassins.I'd never seen anything so dangerous and so sexy in mah life. Long time ago though.

Great list. Most of my favourites are up there!
The English Patient and When Harry Met Sally would have made it the perfect list.
Don't you just love Baz Lurhmann's unconventional genius? I adore Moulin Rouge and loved that evil Count!

Sure I learnt a few things from the soccer demon. Box eighteen is the box that stands eighteen feet from the midfield. The Oxford Dictionary of Contemporary English also defines Box Eighteen as a club's eighteenth goal,or their eighteenth player,who must enter the football field wearing a box.
Thank the Football Sensei Max for that first lesson.

Harold and Kumar ke?
Going to watch Milk o jare.

must_a_far:
let nta conduct the organized fraud. knowing our politicians. even if dem give them pre school level questions and all the right answers their talent would still shine thru.

My sides o Which talent be dat one?

You know, the early reformers were Catholics. Even before Luther, Huldreich Zwingli,John Calvin,etc, members of Catholic clergy had condemned image worship,the ritual of mass, clerical greed and immorality,veneration of saints and Mary, the doctrine of purgatory,monasticism,hierachial priesthood,the validity of sacraments as channels of grace, simony (buying of ecclesiastical offices)etc. There were council meetings to curb clerical abuses and help the poor, and the best Bishops implemented this in their diocese. Even the Reformers,Luther and co, saw themselves as Catholics in pursuit of truth, and urged other Catholics to follow. The Council of Trent met and deliberated for eighteen years,but held that both the Bible and tradition were sources of Catholic belief.   The Roman Inquisition was a response to the 'heresy' of the reformers and slowed it down. 'Bloody Mary' Tudor, a fanatical Catholic, restored England to Roman Catholism by a great many reformist and protestand burnings at the stake.Most of her fellow English Catholics were reconciled to the reformation and hated her.

And the St Bartholomew's Day massacre in France in 1572. 3000 Reformers, called Huguenots there, were killed by Catholics in Paris alone. Twenty thousand more were killed throughout France. Inquisitions,burnings at the stake: hardly the Christian response to doctrinal dissention, is it?Dissention against extrabiblical Catholic practices wholly absent in the New Testament,upon which Christianity is based. Doctrines and practices instituted by men at councils. The Council at Trent,though sincere and well intentioned,held that the Catholic faith is inclusive of tradition. One would take that to mean the traditional practices of their times, the middles ages.

The Reformers themselves were Catholics who read the Bible for themselves and argued against these unChristian,extrabiblical practices and doctrines. It takes a special courage to be able to examine your own beliefs, be willing to temporarily lose the crutches men have used to prop you up in the name of religion, to seek out the truth of the Bible. These Catholics had that courage in spades. And that was five,six hundred years ago. Yet, in these times, hundreds of years later, you still find Catholics who would justify these same extrabiblical practices and council-promulgated doctrines at all costs.

It's odd, how Catholism rotated on its foundations,until it bore a striking similarity the Levitical priesthood order of the Old Testament: men consecrated to God on behalf of the masses, priests who intercede for their fellow men, and take their sins away by sacrifices (penance). What is a Pope,God's representative on earth?Where is all that to be found in the teachings of Christ?

We came up with the monikers 'Catholism' and 'Protestatism' and 'Anabaptist' and 'Pentecostal'. God did not. A follower of Christ,by definition, follows Christ,irrespective of denomination,and not men. And all Christ taught and what he stands for and practised, and what he and his apostles did not teach, is to be found in the New Testament. It is His words we will all have to reckon with in the end, not the doctrines of councils. One thousand solemn councils may decree a thing,and their faithfuls may defend those doctrines because they feel they must,but neither God nor Christ has decreed them.
Which was more than enough for those ancient Catholics who insisted that the Bible is enough.

KunleOshob:
Did paul or any of the apostles ever preach being born again when they went about spreading the gospel (good news)? The concept of being born again as is explained by the pentecostal movement today is a poor understanding of what Jesus was saying in John 3:16. Go and read the whole passage again from verse 1 to the end. Howcome this all important concept appears only once in the bible? Only John recorded it out of all the four gospels and none of the apostles ever used the concept in spreading christianity.

I just finished reading John 3. Do you have any idea how interesting what you said is? I haven't come across it before. You have to explain it some more. Born again means baptism by water and the Spirit of God? And that's the Gospel according to Pentecostals?What's the Gospel according to the apostles?

I was teasing Vesc there, but if you insist,
Like she watches football. Spiked, what is 'Box Eighteen'? And don't go and google it!
Seen anything good lately?

Isn't the prize $250,000?Good luck to him.

Damn right it's a disease. Enters your bloodstream by some weird osmosis. Next thing you know you're spouting their mad foreign language:red card, yellow card, foul, defender,midfielder, Chevchenko, Theirry, pass, Ronaldinho,Brazil, Raul,world Cup, score you idiot score!
Naw, Vesc, I'm never catching that frenzy.
So what football club are you sick over? I know there are things called Manchester and AC Milan and Chelsea and Arsenal and FC Gboko.

1 Corinthians 12:13a

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face,

KunleOshob:
The truth is that true christians who live a christ like life and keep his commandments (Love your neighbour as your self) are now almost extinct. Most people just assume they are christians becos they profess the faith or they are church goers. Worse still is the pentecostal ill informed definition of christianity which mistranslates the concept of being born again in the bible.

How do Pentecostals ill-define 'born again'?

Ethnic blouses and denim. Saw a great combo on a friend and stole it. Can't get enough of them blouses now;accessorizing them is great fun.

Some of those writers offer arguments that are speculative at best. The Grand Cayon deposits were byproducts of the Flood?How does he know that?How'd they arrive at the 6000-year-old earth? Unlikely age.
Transitional fossils, which[i] should[/i] have a higher incidence than complete fossils if evolution is the case, are completely absent? Wow.Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works furnishes answer to some of the questions your writers posed. Theorically. But that's all what evolution is anyway. A theory.
According to Sumerian records,non-Semitic peoples who existed in antiquity, the world was created,all peoples on the earth spoke one language and lived together in harmony, there was a deluge and a king fled with people and animals in a large boat. Their records also detail a history of their own cities and kings. Interesting.

Oh that soccer-brained creature's long wandered off into some Astro Turf sunset. Your fists sound great though. Women who like football deserve close laboratory scrutiny. Hurl them into steel cages with mice and scientists with prods and thick foggy glasses. Though I recall catching a glimpse of the most amazing thighs on some giant screen a while ago. I asked people what what going on and they screeched 'It's the African Cup of Nations!!!' and glared at me like I'd committed some capital crime. I pointed and they said, Oh that's Rigobert Song, captain of the Cameroonian team. See Nigerians rolling their eyes and wringing their hands and groaning, 'Oh I pray they don't beat us again!'.
Like I cared? My country or those divinely sculpted thighs?
No contest.   
Gamine what the blue blazes?
Atonement is good. Catch where and how that horrid little girl 'atones' for her unforgivable lie.

Someone is boring me to death talking 'sports', which, of course means football. Ooooh Chelsea.
I'm nodding and smiling and itching to put my fist through her League-ladden brain.
Atonement is good. Really good.

There was actually a time you could stand the Arrow? In this century? Where have you been anyways; busy busy busy?

3-corner head! Damon Wyan! That fine-lookin brotha!
Look, your Shawn is wearing mascara. Dat one pass gay. He's a freakin festival!

I have to thank you for your time,you know? You've been terribly patient.
I have a few more questions, mostly about the cosmos and stuff,but for now I think I'll give you a breather. Have a pleasant weekend.

See Knightley and her Star Wars, Me So Alien fashion sense. Did you see Atonement? Good, shey?
I swear to Babaji, you're beyond weird,Spikie.
You get Spader's his Boston Legal cerebral appeal, dontcha?

tpia,where art thine eyes?Shawn who?
Damon is the best-lookin' Wayan!

No surprise, I enjoyed your answer to the thought-action manifestation thingie.Thank you.
Oh. I just found there is a relationship between sin,blood,death and sacrifice. The book of Leviticus is full of it. As is Hebrews.

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone

12He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption. 13The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. 14How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death,[c] so that we may serve the living God!
15For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.

16In the case of a will,[d] it is necessary to prove the death of the one who made it, 17because a will is in force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the one who made it is living. 18This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood. 19When Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves, together with water, scarlet wool and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people. 20He said, "This is the blood of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep."[e] 21In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies. 22In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

23It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24For Christ did not enter a man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God's presence. 25Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. 26Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people,

Christ was sacrificed, his death was on purpose, and it was a sacrifice for the sins of mankind. It did purchase mankind's redemption.

Atheism is almost too easy. We have the benefit of an education. We know some science.Those ancients did not. So their simple accounts,bereft of sophisticated scientific terminology,seem silly. With the 'man made from dust' story wedged firmly in our minds from childhood, the more we study the theory of evolution, the smarter and more superior we feel as 'understand' what happened at last. Evolution reads more rational, and is chock full of exciting scientific minutiae. We're sorry for those who believe, in the face of such a compelling theory. Those ancients described something else in Judges 3:22-23

And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:
And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.

We have some idea of what 'dirt' is describing here. But we don't know what 'made men in his image' or 'dust of the ground' is describing, in biological terms. Those ancients described creation as best as they could. Their inability to furnish scientific data in case someone invents science ages later,does not invalidate the existence of God. Evolution does not either. He made the originals and they replicatd themselves. Science seeks answers, and that is to its credit. It's amazing how many times its sure it has it right until its sure it has it wrong. But that is the way of science, and it's progress.

Ehen.
So Del Toro is what, a little thing on the side?
Never heard of the Abbots thing. Haven't seen much drama series type things lately. I occasionally catch The Tudors,but that's mostly it. That Meyers guy sure has come a long way from Bend it Like Beckam.

What about all the award nominated ones; Slumdog, TCCOBB,Frost/Nixon,Milk,yadayadayada; seen em all?They're supposed to be good.
What Wyan family series thingie?