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  1. I mean, I didn't know Trump was a strapping young man. He's kind of a unit there *pause* *no homo* and you would have no idea if only you saw his photos now.
  2. You have a short memory— curry was polarizing early on and had a ton of haters.
  3. Caught Dazed and Confused on cable last night. I know there are probably dozens of pages dedicated to the movie, at one point in time, and I myself watched it daily on VHS for one whole summer and my friends and I could smoke a joint of mexican dirt weed and say every line, but I hadn't seen it in at least 25 years. Still a pretty good little watch. Looking tough!
  4. Nailed it. 10/10, no notes.
  5. Fair. And I've seen more mental illness, homelessness and general sketch in downtown Houston (Fannin, Texas, Capitol) than SF this summer so far....
  6. nvidia hit $4t today based on the forecast of Derka & Slorch on this thread.
  7. There are 2 or 3 posters who will swear on a grave that I am that lunatic in the face of all reason and evidence. idk
  8. Funny because the bolded, from what I remember, is also the supposed to be the big emotional and spiritual climb in "The Conclave" with Ralph's character says that I think word for word.
  9. Weird, because I am in SF for one week a month, every month, usually on Market but sometimes on Mission near Union Square and Moscone and it definitely still feels gross and sketch (to me).
  10. You know how in Ottawa and Quebec you can buy a bag of milk? A bag of blood orange urine.
  11. Rationally and objectively with reason (via observational science and math), there is a limit to what we can know and even conjecture. At the leading edge of all sufficiently advanced science is a faith. A faith in something. I myself ascribe to the oft-misattributed quote, "the first drink from the glass of science will make you an atheist. But at the bottom of the glass, God is waiting." Regardless, we know (or at least we think we know, Cogito ergo sum) that we are here and alive and experiencing what we would call life. Something or someone had to create this as you cannot, to the best of our knowledge, create something from nothing. Who knows maybe it's all a simulation. Maybe it's Aliens. Maybe it's an octopus. The only thing I can know for sure is that I ain't God!
  12. Seriously. There was no winner there.
  13. Good question. To be very clear, I think prayer can ask God to intercede. Matthew 7:9-11 says, 9 “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! But I also think it goes to the heart of the ask. God isn't a genie.
  14. This is good advice for the Christian believer. If you aren't a Christian believer, as we are discussing today with friends on this page and the last, not sure this helps them in their way of thinking at all.
  15. The following is merely my opinion, so take it for what it is, but I think there is no objective basis to believe. I believe it is something, a spiritual experience that is bestowed upon you, that we actually had little-to-no part in creating or receiving. It's why I think Paul says, "8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast." It's a psychic experience. With respect to religion, it's difficult, because religions are man-made constructs and anything formed by and with and of man will be a frail imitation of God, and fraught with man's inner evil nature. Religion, as it was originally conceived in Exodus and through the wandering of the desert, was well-intentioned, but the spirit is willing and the flesh is weak. And then we have what I think you allude to, the evil of man who would use religion as a cudgel for social and hierarchal power-- the whole "opiate of the masses" aspect of religion in the hands of the drug dealers. To that end, is there any "right" religion? Probably not. There is, to my belief of things, a triunal God consisting of YAHWEH, Jesus the Christ and the Holy Spirit, and there is a living and breathing doctrine for how to be in right relationship with God, chock full of promises-- promises of hope and promises of consequences. But what does any of this mean for when God returns, when Jesus returns with his double-edge sword in a picture that is completely opposite of what most people would think, as the Western world has superficially condensed his nature to the hippiefication and one-sidedness of his time as Godman on earth (and failed to point to the scripture's description of when he returns to mete out justice), as it pertains to other religions? I actually think there is scripture that points to the possibility of those who are missing the mark on earth, being given a final chance to have eyes to see and ears to hear. I don't quite buy the pluralism argument put forth by the blindman and the elephant parable, but it's similiarly related, I think.
  16. An honest prayer I've heard is not "Please Lord take this from me" but rather, "Please Lord give me the strength to endure this". But then again, there are angles where prayer is shown as a miraculous intercession (hall pass out of hard times) as you suggest. Much like with predestination and free will (and actually, most everything in the scriptures), there is language that suggests multiple things exist at once which can seem to our human, temporal and small perspectives and way of thinking as "contradictory". I'm reminded of quantum mechanics in that way (a singular idea or precept is actually multiple things depending on when and how you "measure" it), which of course makes sense, as God is the author of quantum mechanics as the creator of all (if you believe in God).
  17. I was thinking a lot of this as well-- I don't know anyone who uses prayer for mindfulness or inner peace or meditation. I'm sure that exists, just is foreign to me. I think of prayer as the way we are in communication and relationship with our creator Lord God. Does he need us to pray to him? Of course not. But in a relational sense, he wants us to. Jesus teaches us how to pray in the NT-- and with it comes a request. The parable of the presistent widow was the first place my mind went. More than just "ask in my name you shall receive", prayer is both active and in motion, as well as quiet and in solitude. For even Jesus modeled what fervent prayer looked like in the Garden of Gethsemane. And the second place was Paul's "pray unceasingly", in that it isn't a rote mechanical behavior you just do before you eat. You remain abiding in Christ when you remain in prayer without ceasing. "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus" is another quote I think about when it comes to prayer. @Derka not sure if any of that helps if you aren't steeped in the word and abiding in Christ-- I think it would certainly be gibberish to me as well if I were not a believer, but there is an attempt at scratching just the surface of Christian prayer. As it relates to mourning, 1st Thessalonians 4:13-14 is a guide for Christian believers to help in mourning and with grief:
  18. New Haven, CT Pizza though.
  19. I get what point you are trying to make, but the 2005 Texas roster had like 11 of the 22 players make an impact in the NFL, you dolt.
  20. Sorry, I should have clarified this was in response to the specific prompt from Derka asking how to reconcile God/Jesus and knowing (allowing) death that is, to our way of thinking and being, all together tragic. This part below (quoted). Of course, you are completely right, just because what I’ve said can be true to someone doesn’t absolve them of responsibility and one shouldn’t allow for evil to prosper and woe to the Christians who do.
  21. Have you ever heard Christians say “To live is Christ, to die is gain”? I think a lot of the answers to questions non-Christians have reverts back to a fundamental precept: salvation that leads to eternal life, in the sense of the literal infinite is near-infinitely more important and real than the temporal life we think we are leading here on earth, for the 80 or so years we have the physical and material experience. For me, there is a lot of hope and peace in knowing that the suffering, no matter how gruesome or horrible the death, leads to the next, undying life. As the Good Book and like the old hymnal said, “O death, where is your sting?”
  22. I actually thought Dunkirk was rather boring. Prestige is his best movie and Batman Begins is the best of the Batman trilogy, by a wide margin. The Dark Knight was only iconic because of Heath Ledger's Joker.
  23. That's called humility. And humility is the only currency that spends in God's kingdom.
  24. And I think Disney might have thought she was dead too with the ole "ScarJo, we aren't paying you btw. thnx". I actually thought of that drama when I saw Jurassic Rebirth in a "well, looks like it worked out for her that she got paid and didn't get blackballed for standing up to big studio hollywood-- I'd bet a goodly number of women not her would have been donezo"
  25. Inception aged into kitsch around the edges (and is by no means as schlocky as bozo is trying to characterize it as) and even still, it's better than Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer is entirely overrated for my tastes. That said, I am looking forward to Nolan's treatment of The Odyssey which I saw a quick ad for this weekend, starring Spiderman and The Punisher.
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