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Ursula Andress Clash of the Titans Lawrence Olivier

Desperately Seeking Susan Madonna A League of Their Own

Yes! And I'm sending you a doctor's bill for the emergency room visit from the wounds I suffered biting my tongue. That flipping hurts, man. No, Pharaoh does not rape Moses' wife. He marries the woman Moses loves. So Moses goes off and loves another woman, the blond-haired, blue-eyed desert dweller Zipporah (spelled differently, but whatever).

"What have you found?" "The answer to my prayers!" "You prayed for a basket?" "No. I prayed for a son."

Lawrence of Arabia Alec Guiness Star Wars Feel free to use any of the original trilogy as a jumping off point.

In Genesis 36:31 we read: "These were the kings who reigned in Edom before any Israelite king reigned." Pay close attention to those last five words. Do they not presume that this is being written at a time AFTER there were kings in Israel? How could Moses have written that? Moses died centuries before Israel had a king. Why would he write "before any Israelite king reigned" when no Israelite king reigned until he was long dead?

Jesus was tempted in all points like as we. We are tempted to commit illicit sex, including adultery (in a man's case, sex with a married woman). Jesus must have been tempted to commit adultery. But Jesus said looking on a woman lustfully in one's heart (which is to say, being tempted to commit adultery) IS adultery. So ... Jesus committed adultery (in his heart)? Or he wasn't tempted with adultery (which invalidates the premise that he was tempted IN ALL POINTS like as we)?

These are just questions/thoughts that don't necessarily lend themselves to threads of their own. Please feel free to chime in. Why don't we know the name of Noah's wife? She's got as much claim to being the mother of all living as Eve. In Genesis 4:17, Cain gets to work building a city. Umm. A CITY. Umm. WHY?!?!?! Why does a family of three need a city? Noah was 600 years old when the Flood came. How old were his sons? His daughters-in-law had to be young enough to still bear children, right? So... were these... really, really, really, REALLY old men knocking boots with teenagers and chicks in their 20s and 30s? Because ewww. Add your own.

Too lazy to read three measly pages of posts... Did anyone see Cloverfield? Thoughts? Did anyone see Pacific Rim? Thoughts? And Godzilla's coming back!

Conan is incorrect.

"The city that he builds shall bear my name. The woman that he loves shall bear my child. So it shall be written. So it shall be done."

Gary Busey Predator 2 Maria Conchita Alonso

The Last Action Hero

That is it

Independence Day Mary McDonnell Dances With Wolves

Rocky, I would love for you to be right and for me to be wrong on this one, but if history has taught us anything, it's that a fringe religious group or idea can indeed flourish beyond reason. Look at the Mormons. On paper, there's no way the LDS church succeeds. But it did. Likewise with the Watchtower Society, which shattered into more splinters than a woodchipping factory yet grew by leaps and bounds decades after it was thoroughly discredited. Yeah, technology is better today. But technology works both ways -- it gives crackpots a new method to spread their word.

After learning that fairy tale characters are real and that he holds the key to breaking them out of a curse, a member of a temporal integrity security agency goes back to the past to set things right.

Sigh. Fine. Some Like It Hot Dog: The Movie Not to be confused with the novel.

Daredevil Michael Clarke Duncan The Green Mile

There were three critical threads. The first was a PFAL review that tried to explore all the issues raised by the class. Jerry Barrax gets full credit for starting that one. I came up with the other two: The Blue Book Review was a walk through The Bible Tells Me So, from my perspective. I don't even agree (today) with everything I wrote in that thread (14 or so years ago). But the central idea -- looking at everything and deciding thoughtfully what is right and what is wrong -- is still a good one. The last one was Actual Errors in PFAL, the ultimate exercise in nitpicking that only existed to prove one single point, namely, that PFAL and other writings of VPW do not live up to their own requirements for what it means for something to be God-breathed. Today, I would probably not participate in any of those threads, much less start two of them.

Al Pacino The Godfather James Caan

You really like that movie, don't you?

Steve Martin Father of the Bride Martin Short

Just got to thinking the other day about the guy who faked sign language next to Obama and all those other speakers at the Mandela memorial celebration this week. All sorts of hand movements pretending to be interpreting what the speaker was saying. But the reality was he was "speaking" nonsense. It wasn't a language. I'm not aware of how many forms of sign language there are, but it's pretty clear he wasn't "speaking" any. Hey, maybe he was free gesticulating -- you know, making hand movements in some long-forgotten form of sign language no longer in use today. That doesn't negate it as a language. Prove he wasn't signing a real language! Go on, prove it! Just... on my mind.