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Guy Pearce The Count of Monte Cristo Jim Caveziel

I like that answer better than the one provided by Word Wolf (no offense, old friend). Thanks!

Pierce Brosnan The Thomas Crowne Affair Rene Russo

Wrong track. Wrong train. Wrong vehicle. The only thing "right" is that it's a drama. Other than this one line, homosexuality is not the subject matter of this movie.

"And you can forget about Pritchard. He's homosexual." "I'll be damned." "Ah, so will he, if you believe the Old Testament."

That would make it: The Professional if the actress is Natalie Portman.

Bronson Pinchot Risky Business Rebecca DeMornay

Ben Stiller Tropic Thunder Jack Black

Actually, Steve, a lot of what you're saying jibes with some other stuff I've been reading (and, as I noted earlier, makes a truckload of sense of the anachronisms we find in Genesis and Exodus). If you hold to the "without error or contradiction" interpretation of "God-breathed," you prevent yourself from even considering this information, even though it fits the facts better! It was interesting to realize that nothing in the Torah says that the Torah is written by Moses. The most you can justifiably infer is that the books incorporate what was "written" by Moses previously.

I love it!

Terms of Endearment Debra Winger An Officer and a Gentleman

A later writing of Genesis, at least parts of it, would make sense of the observation I made earlier (about Moses writing about "before there were kings in Israel" even though there still were no kings in Israel at the time of Moses' death). It would also make more sense of the ending of Deuteronomy than the traditional explanation (that Joshua wrote it -- the language makes no sense if it were written by someone even 20 years after Moses' death, but makes perfect sense if inserted by someone hundreds of years later). A later writing of at least parts of the Torah actually make sense of a lot of things, like the claim in Exodus that the Hebrews built the city of Rameses even though Rameses didn't reign until much, much later than the Exodus (Yul Brynner's performance notwithstanding). Would the most humble man on earth really write that he's the most humble man on earth? (Numbers 12:3) Why does Abraham come from Ur of the Chaldees when the Chaldeans weren't in Ur until much later than the time even of Moses? A lot of these things make sense if they're edited into the story during the Babylonian captivity. They also make sense if Moses didn't write these books at all.

Are you suggesting that Moses did not write Genesis?

I never said these were earth-shattering or deal-breaking questions. I don't even think any one of them necessarily deserves its own thread. Maybe the Moses stuff. That's deep.

We're quibbling over semantics. It was not "common knowledge" that there were literal giants in the earth, by Mayor's account. We could call it "common knowledge," but with the benefit of hindsight, it would be better to call it "widespread error based on a misinterpretation of the evidence." I did indeed ask Steve (indirectly) to document his claim, but I did so based on MY misunderstanding of what his claim was. It's not that there were "giant bones." It's that there were mammal bones that were incorrectly interpreted as human or human-like, and that incorrect interpretation gave birth to a legend that enjoyed widespread belief (which is to say, common knowledge). There is no need to argue the point, unless Steve now wants to say that the ancients had it right. But I do not perceive that as what he's saying.

Love that movie.

"What are you, a monk?" "I have a woman." "What do you tell her?" "I tell her I'm a salesman." "So then, if you spot me coming around that corner... you just gonna walk out on this woman? Not say good bye?" "That's the discipline." "That's pretty vacant, you know." "Yeah, it is what it is. It's that or we both better go do something else, pal." "I don't know how to do anything else." "Neither do I." "I don't much want to either." "Neither do I."

I wasn't trying to be cheeky.

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Has it occurred to anyone else that no one can do what Wierwille did while actually believing in the God he purported to worship?

Fine. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

So maybe Cain was just building different edifices where he and his family could accomplish different tasks, and the Biblical writer chose a word, "city," in a very, very loose manner. You and I would probably say he built a farm, and recognizing that he would need more than one or two people to work on it, built other houses to lure his nephews and nieces to help him out. Viola (sic)! A city!

In this futuristic dystopian action flick, the last son of Krypton is framed for a ghastly crime and forced to compete in a life-or-death game show pitting him against a series of colorfully attired gladiators.

Field of Dreams *** "Nine, ten, never sleep again."