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Indiana Jones Han Solo

Linus Larabee

I don't recall the others, but yes, Gladiator was one. Crash was another.

I think the writers of the Bible came up with the idea of a wise God who ultimately becomes an all-wise God, a smart God who ultimately becomes an all-knowing God, a powerful God who ultimately becomes an Almighty God. The implications of a God THAT wise, powerful, mighty, etc. were not considered. God knows everything. The utter impracticality of such a thing is never addressed because these men were mythmakers and storytellers, not philosophers. Nothing wrong with not being a philosopher. It's just, when you tread on a theme in which you are not an expert, the experts in that field get to weigh in. And it doesn't take an expert to realize that a God who knows everything everything everything also knows what WOULD have happened if contingencies had worked out differently. And every day, 6 billion people make 100 decisions a day, and God knows what would have happened if we had decided differently. That's 600 billion decisions and, bare minimum, 600 billion alternative decisions, a DAY. Next day, 600 billion more decisions. And each of those measured against the actuality of the 600 billion decisions made the day before AND the 600 billion decisions that could have been made but were not. Plus the 600 billion decisions that could have been made today. I'm not even going to dare do that math, but quite clearly, the number of contingencies that God would need to know to keep track of "this happened and that happened and this is going to happen and this is what would have happened if you had decided to do that instead..." It gets unwieldy. Granted, I don't have infinite knowledge, but for real. WHY? You don't have to give this infinite thought. Just think a little bit. A little.

My comment on this would be inappropriate in this forum. So I posted on Picking Up Threads in Questioning Faith.

Picking up from "What Does God Know?" I'll keep this brief: As someone who looked at this intently and came to the conclusion that the Bible depicts a God who absolutely knows the future as well as the past, a lot of this ends up making a LOT more sense when you consider that it was all made up, gradually, by people who had not really thought it all through.

Yes, sir. I was teasing.

I finished the book a couple of weeks ago, and I have to say, it really is very good. One of the questions I get asked most is, how did you get suckered into joining a cult? And I think Charlene answers that question by showing how incremental the process is. I found the story to be a deeply personal one (unlike The Cult That Snapped, which was "about the Way," Undertow is about the author). Beautifully done, Charlene. Congrats!

Shucks, you left out Friends and Party of Five.

Crispin Glover Charlie's Angels Drew Barrymore

Depends on what kind of box. If it's one of those boxes where a ballerina twirls around after you spin that little knob in the back, it's probably easy. Mike Post...?

Let's see... was it Silence of the Lambs? lol. Yes, Silence of the Lambs had the distinction of being released so early in the year that it was available on home video before it was nominated and, naturally, before it won. Now, AFTER Silence of the Lambs, there were at least three more Best Picture winners that were released ON DVD before their respective Oscar nights. Name any.

DVD? Not sure. If you mean home video, I can tell you the answer, but I would require a quid pro quo.

Name the actor. Branch Rickey Woodrow Dolarhyde Norman Spencer Alexei Vostrikov

Please don't list two movies on the same line. Let the next person jump to the second movie to another actor!

When you asked you out, did you say yes right away, or did you think about it? Did you pick you up, or did you meet you somewhere? How soon before you knew there was real chemistry between you and you? Sorry. You said Klute was a fairly famous movie, so I just wanted to let you know you were dating yourself.

I MIGHT have gotten Chelsea THAYER Wayne. Jane Fonda

Charlie Sheen, 2.5 men? And then after he left, it was 2 men?

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You know what? Uncle. The character is Silent Bob. Free post.

There is no Amy in the movie. And there are two characters who are in most of this director's movies (the character in question is played by the director).

Last clue: The name of the character seems rather inconsistent with the length of this quote.

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."

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It is. Now think about it. I don't expect anyone to know the names of the characters in that movie, save maybe two. And it's one of those two. And considering the length of the quote, there's a touch of irony involved.