Jbarrax

May the Schwartz be with you!

Correct! :-)

Don't you think I realize what's going on here, miss? Who do you think I am, huh? Don't you think I know that if I was some hotshot from out of town that pulled inside here and you guys made a reservation mistake, I'd be the first one to get a room and I'd be upstairs relaxing right now. But I'm not some hotshot from out of town, I'm a small reporter from "Rolling Stone" magazine that's in town to do an exclusive interview with Michael Jackson that's gonna be picked up by every major magazine in the country. I was gonna call the article "Michael Jackson Is Sitting On Top of the World," but now I think I might as well just call it "Michael Jackson Can Sit On Top of the World Just As Long As He Doesn't Sit in the Beverly Palm Hotel 'Cause There's No N&**&&^^ Allowed in There!"

The Da Vinci Code?

It's one of the X-Men movies. The "Prove it..You're a dick" exchange was between Cyclops and Wolverine. I think it was the first one.

Yeah, I know what VP taught about them. I'm assuming Tom's take is slightly different. What sayest thou Heller? :-)

Hi Tom. What were the three heavens? I'd like to hear more about that.

Yep. You're up. :-)

You talk about things that nobody cares You're wearin out things that nobody wears

Wheel in the sky by Journey. Free Post!

I'll have what she's having!

Kid Charlemagne, another GREAT Steely Dan song. :-)

Okay, here's the next clue. It may be semi obscure. Not sure how big a hit it was, but it's been running through my head for about a week now, so... I'm a bookkeeper's son I don't want to shoot no one Well I crossed my old man back in Oregon

Tom Petty Free Falling. One of the best scenes from Jerry Maquire was when Jerry (Tom Cruise) found that song on the radio and sang it to celebrate the "signing" of his first client.

Sounds like Weird Science.

Personally, I think articles like this are only intended to try to "normalize" homosexuality by attaching the label to our most revered heroes. If one is gay, one of the biggest burdens for the gay community--or the GLBT community, to be politically correct-- is the "queer" stigma. If homosexuality is finally accepted as normal, non deviant behavior, then their lives will be easier. There are lots of ways to accomplish that. Placing gay characters in TV shows and other pop culture entertainment venues is one. (Soap, Will & Grace, Friends, etc). Teaching "Gay history" is another. Claiming that our most revered spiritual leaders were gay is just another such tactic. So what difference does it make if Paul were gay? Obviously, it would undercut the Fundamentalists' assertion that homosexuality is morally wrong, while at the same time raising the status of homosexuals in general and weakening the "queer" stigma. Would it make any difference to me to find out that Paul was gay? No, but it's a moot point because, as WW and Socks have pointed out, Sprong's article is intellectually dishonest and completely without merit.

Bravo, WW.

Personally, I don't put much stock in the literal idea of hell; of human beings being thrown into a lake of fire for not accepting Christ. I used to. Then I researched the New Testament scriptures relating to the hope and found that the NT writers all believed that the return of Christ, in power and glory, was imminent. Paul wrote in Romans 1:17 The wrath of God is revealed from heaven...". present tense. IS revealed. I think that's a figure of speech, hyperbole, indicating that it's right around the corner. Preachers keep saying they'll have this retreat or that convention "if the Lord tarries". Hebrews 10:37 says EXPLICITLY that the Lord will come in "...yet a little while..." and "WILL NOT TARRY" (emphasis added of course) Which means He shoulda done been here by now. Obviously that prophesy misses the mark, which is why I gave up on the idea of the Bible being the inerrant Word of God. What's this got to to with hell you say? The prophecies of the imminent wrath and judgment are all tied in to the fear of hell. They're even in the prophecies of John the Baptist. "The axe is laid to the root of the trees" he warned the Pharisees and their ilk; like Paul, in present tense indicating imminent fulfillment of prophecy. Judgment is upon you. Didn't happen. Those dudes were around to harass Jesus apostles after the Ascension and still around years later to influence James to reject Paul's gospel. But I digress. I believe the threats about the coming wrath of the Messiah were part of God's great ruse; The Mystery. The feint by which he duped Satan into having the Lamb of God crucified and thereby complete the redemption of mankind. Satan got fooled. In order to make it work, God had to engage in misdirection, just like General Shwartzkoff (sp?) did before the invasion of Iraq. Without all those prophecies about imminent wrath and the coming of the King from heaven, Beezlebub may not have had Jesus killed and we'd still be dead in sin, the property of the grave. To make a long post short--too late!-- I believe Jesus redeemed us all from hell, including those souls reference in Ecclesiastes and changed the rules. The prophetic warnings were so embedded in the Judaean culture and consciousness that the Apostles couldn't have unlearned it if they tried. Before you accuse me of being arrogant, I remind youns good folks that there is biblical evidence to support the notion that the Apostles didn't fully understand what Jesus had commissioned them to do. Anyway, I believe the reason He hasn't come back yet is because He doesn't have to. Of course, that makes me something of a Universalist, a label with which I'm not entirely comfortable. But that's how I see it.

Children of the Corn which I have never seen.

next stanza Sent a letter on a long summer day Made of silver not of clay O I can't take this very much longer, No ... The morning sun is risin' It's kissin the day

Correct. And thanks for the link to the video. I've never seen it before. :-)

Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles. I know that I must do what's right as Kilimanjaro rises like a leopress above the Serengeti

Uh....nope. :-)

I have a slightly different view of that passage. I've posted it in the Doctrinal forum before but I'll be darned if I can find it now. Too tired to rehash it now, maybe tomorrow.

I think you just hit the nail on the head. :-)