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Secret_Agent_Man 02-27-2012 12:33 PM
Re: Chris Christie
 
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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 465844)
Indeed I must significantly misunderstand you as I'm quite surprised that you believe in a Satan that does evil in the world, or so this discussion would suggest.
Why would this surprise you, or not?

S_A_M

Secret_Agent_Man 02-27-2012 12:35 PM
Re: notes from the front
 
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 465880)
One would think romney ads would tell people that santorum is bat shit crazy and unelectable, point out he seems to be against contraception, quote some of the nuttier stuff.

but the commercials here accuse him of being too similar to hillary clinton in senate voting, as if he is too liberal.
Shows you what the Romney campaign thinks of the average GOP primary voter.

S_A_M

sebastian_dangerfield 02-27-2012 12:46 PM
Re: Chris Christie
 
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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 465852)
polytheist...
Say what you will about their rest of their wacky beliefs, but as far as tenets starting with "poly--" go, the religion (if you're a male) you want to join is Mormonism.

sebastian_dangerfield 02-27-2012 12:54 PM
Re: Chris Christie
 
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 465985)
Start with Job, where God and Satan play the roles of Randolph and Mortimer Duke.
I get the battle between good and evil storyline. That's compelling. Keeps you in the theatre. Where I get lost in the screenplay is sacrificing your kid to save the souls of your playthings. These seems odd.

Think about it. You're God. You're bored (I mean, really bored). You're thinking, "These people I created are annoying. They're not acting as I told them to. Perhaps I can tweak their free will a bit and get them in line. Or maybe I can just scrap the whole ant farm and start again---

No... No. I think I'll have a kid with one of them. And I'll have them kill him. And nothing will change in the way the people act afterward. Yeah, I'll do that."

Who would write that kind of treatment? You'd be thrown off the lot two minutes into the pitch. The "divine scarifice" side of the story simply makes no sense, and it wrecks the rest of the movie, which otherwise has great human drama.

Adder 02-27-2012 01:05 PM
Re: Chris Christie
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Secret_Agent_Man (Post 466001)
Why would this surprise you, or not?

S_A_M
Didn't think he was nuts.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy 02-27-2012 01:09 PM
Re: Chris Christie
 
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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 466008)
Didn't think he was nuts.
I'm a god, guns and gays Democrat. I fully support all three.

Adder 02-27-2012 01:21 PM
Re: Chris Christie
 
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 466009)
I'm a god, guns and gays Democrat. I fully support all three.
Yeah. Got that. It was the Satan part that was a surprise.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy 02-27-2012 01:33 PM
Re: Chris Christie
 
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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 466010)
Yeah. Got that. It was the Satan part that was a surprise.
Without Satan, no Faustus, and I love the Faustus story in all its iterations.

Adder 02-27-2012 01:37 PM
Re: Chris Christie
 
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 466011)
Without Satan, no Faustus, and I love the Faustus story in all its iterations.
There are many literary characters I enjoy without believing they are real.

Although I had a lovely twitter exchange with Brienne of Tarth the other day about swords and how dreamy Jaime Lannister is.

Sidd Finch 02-27-2012 01:47 PM
Re: Chris Christie
 
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Originally Posted by Adder (Post 466012)
There are many literary characters I enjoy without believing they are real.

Although I had a lovely twitter exchange with Brienne of Tarth the other day about swords and how dreamy Jaime Lannister is.
With all the hot slutty women in those books, you fantasize about Brienne and Jaime?

Tyrone Slothrop 02-27-2012 01:50 PM
Re: Chris Christie
 
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 465986)
the blogs you read haven't kept you up to speed on Scott Ritter?
I was never much of a Three's Company fan.

Adder 02-27-2012 01:52 PM
Re: Chris Christie
 
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 466014)
I was never much of a Three's Company fan.
Corner. Ho. Whatever.

Hank Chinaski 02-27-2012 02:01 PM
Re: Chris Christie
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 466006)
I get the battle between good and evil storyline. That's compelling. Keeps you in the theatre. Where I get lost in the screenplay is sacrificing your kid to save the souls of your playthings. These seems odd.

Think about it. You're God. You're bored (I mean, really bored). You're thinking, "These people I created are annoying. They're not acting as I told them to. Perhaps I can tweak their free will a bit and get them in line. Or maybe I can just scrap the whole ant farm and start again---

No... No. I think I'll have a kid with one of them. And I'll have them kill him. And nothing will change in the way the people act afterward. Yeah, I'll do that."

Who would write that kind of treatment? You'd be thrown off the lot two minutes into the pitch. The "divine scarifice" side of the story simply makes no sense, and it wrecks the rest of the movie, which otherwise has great human drama.
he only kills his son in the fantastic fake world he created. the kid was fine in Heaven once that whole plot line played. like I've shot my son in an Unreal tournament game, but wouldn't think of doing it in real life.

As to God selling a movie treatment, his last storyline was whispered to Mel Gibson and gathered 1 trillion dollars. I'm pretty sure he could his next greenlighted.

Adder 02-27-2012 02:05 PM
Re: Chris Christie
 
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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 466013)
With all the hot slutty women in those books, you fantasize about Brienne and Jaime?
Well, I'm not into maniacal practitioners of incest (that's Cersei out), children (Sansa, Magaery, Daenerys, Jeyn Westerling) or the undead (Catelyn), so I guess I could have gone with a minor character like Shea, Taena, Gilly or Ygritte, but they didn't leap immediately to mind.

futbol fan 02-27-2012 05:16 PM
Re: Chris Christie
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 465973)
That a fool like Santorum is even running should cause every modestly intelligent American extreme embarrassment.
I will never apologize for America, sir. Never!


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