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Expectations of Allied POWS in this WWII movie were that Japan should have honored the Geneva Convention. Actually, Japan wasn't a signatory to the treaty until 1953. (Interestingly, misdeeds by the Japanese prompted revision of the treaty in 1949.) The commandant of the prison was portrayed as being ruthless. According to many of his prisoners after the war, the actual Japanese officer on whom the role was based was one of the more humane and reasonable ones. To keep costs down, producer Sam Spiegel decided not to hire any extras, using crew members and Ceylon locals instead. This meant that some of the British prisoners were really natives of the region wearing make-up to appear Caucasian. For the scene when he emerges from "the oven" after several days confined there, Sir Alec Guinness based his faltering walk on that of his son Matthew when he was recovering from polio. Guinness regarded this one tiny scene as some of the finest work he did throughout his entire career. Sir Laurence Olivier was offered Guinness's part but turned it down in order to direct The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) instead. In retrospect, Olivier said that it was a sensible decision to go off and do love scenes with Marilyn Monroe rather than tough it out in the jungles of Ceylon with director Sir David Lean. George

I hated to do this, but I don't think Raf would mind. I googled. Psycho "I guess they're dead. I guess I've known that deep down for a long time." "I'm not giving up. Don't you give up." "I didn't want to be just another orphan. I wanted to believe I was special." "You are special! Never stop believing that!" "You spend your evenings in the shanties." "You had me followed." "Imbibing quarts of bathtub gin." "Bronchitism." "And here you're dancing in your scanties..." "Great gams." "With some old geezer called Little Caeser." "He's an uncle." George

Tom Jones Albert Finney Annie George

"Would you tell me please, Mr. Howard, why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away? An elected legislature can trample a man's rights as easily as a king can." George

You're up, Human. George

This was the most expensive television show to produce at the time, costing over a million dollars to make each episode, which was one of the reasons it was canceled after only 13 episodes. The actor playing the titular character based his performance on William Shatner as Captain Kirk in Star Trek (1966) of which he is a big fan. A video game based on this series produced by Bug-Byte Software was released for the Commodore 64 platform in 1985. The titular character was a hologram, but no CGI was used on the show, just traditional animation and editing techniques. The star of the show was far less famous than his father (whom the star portrayed in the movie "The Mambo Kings"). George

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We need a |spoon-feed| emoji.

That last post didn't format the way ai wanted. Sorry.

The problem with subjective morality can best be addressed AFTER one realizes objective moral values are not an option. Subjective moral values are subject to conflicting standards. If I use harm-benefit and you use "God's Word," there is no independent arbiter to decide which standard is right or wrong. The best each side can do is appeal to the standard. Now, I picked the hyperbolic examples to demonstrate you cannot presume the "God's Word" standard to be superior (slavery, death penalty, ordering genocide and baby killing). But those are hyperbole. But what about something like abortion? Harm-benefit doesn't give us a clear answer. (Some would argue it does). God's word does. (Some would argue it doesn't). In resolving disputes, subjective morality utterly fails. People simply disagree. And depending on the severity of those disagreements, we see different alliances, friendships, communities, denominations and even nations.

The modern concept of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise originated in Dante's Divine Comedy, in the 14th century. So, there's that.

"An eternity of torture" I think about the reality of this. Since God is all knowing, he would always be aware of their suffering. What would he be thinking? Would he even make his presence known to them? Would he talk to them? What would he say? Day 1 - "This hurts me more than it hurts you." Or the opposite, "It sucks to be you." Day 100 - "It's waaay too late to say you're sorry." Day 1000 - "Stop complaining, a millennia of torture isn't even a drop in the bucket when it comes to all eternity." Day 10000 - "If you can't handle the eternal time, you shouldn't have done the finite crime." Day 100000 - "No, for the hundred thousandth time, I cannot parole you. My righteous justice will not allow it." Any humour set aside, when you seriously consider the logistics of people actually being tortured for eternity, it is completely without reason or logic. It's a man made concept simply designed to put "the fear of God" in people like it has in you.

I apologize for my feeble attempt at humor. See, if you look at it one way, it looks like God and if you look at it *another*way, it looks like Dog. Soooo..it all depends on how you look at it. (I knew I shouldn't have quit my day-job.)

Definitely a dog person…my pooch has never let me down and can always be counted on for her loyalty.

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How's about some Saturday Night Blues?

Or a Dogly person. It all depends on how you look at it.

I was thinking about what it takes to live a Godly life and realized one of God’s demands is for him to be worshipped by his subjects. People also love to be worshipped by the fact of owning pets. Not only are they good company, but my dog loves to please me, which also makes me feel good. If I say “down,” she jumps off the chair. When I say “out,” she heads for the outside door. And just like when God punishes me for not obeying him, when the dog does not jump down, I punish her for disobeying me. Apparently I really am a Godly person.

Apparently the RC church still needs cleaning up. After decades of promises to fix abuse, Pope Leo XIV says abuse needs to be uprooted. https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/pope-leo-xiv-says-there-should-be-no-tolerance-20387519.php Go Chicago Whitesox

For sure living this side of death to it fullest means not having to be concerned about a life after death. Just think how freeing it is, when you make a mistake in life and not have to worry about confessing it to an unseen god, and then also wonder what effect it will have when you finally see this unseen god face to face?

LA is fine, sunshine most the time and the feeling is laid back LA's fine, but it ain't home New York's home but it ain't mine no more

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I get your point about JS conflating his two reasons for beginning the study for his paper. The first reason occurred during JS’s last year of residency (which being in the 6th corps would have been in 1976/77.) His words regarding this initial study were, “I began studying the Word of God, and I got as far as the Mosaic Law which proscribes the death penalty for adultery.” It was around 5 years later, in 1982 or 1983, when RD and VF came to him. He then specifically says, “This paper is the result of those years of study." (In it, he includes his study of adultery in all the administrations [Patriarchal, Law, Christ and Grace]). If he was conflating these two reasons, “those years” would have included going back to 1976/77. In his Forward, he gives his reason for the paper as being, “I have discovered that not everybody believes that adultery is wrong.” Everybody seems to mean Christians in general as he immediately writes after the Forward, "Many Christians are confused about adultery and fornication." _________________________ Now, comparing the above with what JS wrote six or seven years later in his Additional Comments on WayDale's Forums in May 2000, new information is given. He exposes adultery within twi’s leadership, including weirwille, which he most likely was not aware of before 1986 when he wrote the paper. - I wrote in (sic) through the summer of 1986 and handed it in to the research department in September of 1986. - As it is here in WayDale it is missing the preface and the footnotes. The preface gives some of the history of the paper and how it came to be. - Unfortunately, and history bears this out, some pretty high-powered churchmen throught (sic) the years have not really gotten the impact of what the Bible plainly says, and in this case the research seemed necessary. - My story (short version): In the spring of 1986 a girl came to me and said she had had sexual intercourse with Dr. Wierwille. (This appears to be a third impetus to investigate adultery happening specifically in twi which finally motivated JS to actually write the paper months later (while leaving out the new information about said leadership being involved.) - I started asking around to girls...Lo and behold, I talked to many women that were very candid about their sexual relations with leadership. - Perhaps the most disturbing thing about those months was the developing picture was that this was not just practical sin based on lust but rather was sin based on wrong doctrine (started by whom was not mentioned)--many of the people involved thought it was okay with God. In fact, all of the "reasons" that I wrote about in my appendix came out of the mouths of women I talked to. - On the other hand, the facts are as true as I remember after 14 years (since 1986), and I am not ashamed of them. I do not try to hide them, So, in conclusion, JS either did not know about the drugging and raping by vp as of 2000, or he deliberately decided not to mention it in his update since according to him, “The thesis is pretty simple: adultery is a sin.” Overall, WordWolf, I think we seem to agree on most points.

Nathan, So, do you want to bring back your previous question? George