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The Matrix First, you have to do the truffle shuffle
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That was my guess too
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Took you long ng enough!
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Dial it back one notch
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Thor is speaking in three of those exchanges. Thor is not in the name of the movie. I believe that narrows it down to five possibilities
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Ok let me try again: Right track. Right station. Wrong train and departure time. It is not a "Thor" movie.
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Right track. Right train. Wrong departure time.
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Right track, wrong train. Huge hint in my last post.
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Guaranteed you've seen it, almost guarantee multiple times. A limited number of times, for sure, but multiple. "All my life I dreamed of a day, a moment, when you got what you deserved. And I was always so disappointed."
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Obscurish lines from a not at all obscure movie. "That's a made-up word!" "All words are made up." *** "Well, he's never fought me." "Yeah, he has." "Well, he's never fought me twice." *** "It'll kill you." "Only if I die." "Yes. That's what 'kill you' means."
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Sorry, I thought this was answered by now. These are from Die Hard With A Vengeance.
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Welcome, Edgar. Hope you stick around. My son is PDD-NOS. You're safe here.
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The problem with "scrip[ture build up" as a hermeneutical approach is that it assumes the reader will have the multiple scriptures to build on each other. The writers of the gospels assume no such thing. Without reverting to my presupposition, I need to challenge the believers' (assumed) presupposition that the authors of the Bible are aware that they are writing scripture, or that God is behind it all. The writer of Mark had no idea others would come after him. The writers of Matthew and Luke thought they were improving Mark, once and for all. No origin story? Let's fix that with two utterly incompatible accounts. No resurrection appearances? Let's fix THAT with more utterly incompatible accounts. None of the gospel writers assume the existence of the others or access to the others. Each seemed to think their gospel was the only one you needed to get the point. That makes the argument for scripture build-up almost entirely supernatural. That is, the writers didn't know this tactic would be used later, even if the Author did. I mean, FINE if you want to believe that. But it strains credulity, even assuming divine inspiration. Why not have all four gospel writers make it clear there were four others crucified? Why not have AT LEAST ONE do so? Why not have Matthew make it clear Judas was still alive through the resurrection? Why force us to read angst into a passage that's clearly about suicide by hanging? Why have one writer clearly say Jesus appeared to The Eleven (not 11 of the 12) and then have ANOTHER one imply Thomas, not Judas, was the missing disciple? John never says Jesus appeared to 10 of the 11, with Thomas missing. Luke (or was it Matthew?) never says Jesus appeared to "the 11" but one was missing, but I'm going to leave it to someone else to tell you who it was. It's true that different blind men can have wildly different descriptions of an elephant. But that's hardly an argument for omnisciently divine authorship of the documents we're reading. Assuming any historical value to the narrative, the story is abundantly clear there were three crosses on that hill. For what my heathen opinion is worth.
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Nifty bunch of cards you got there, Matthew.
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My guess was Wednesday as well, which streams on Netflix here and, as such, is not considered "broadcast."
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I think I figured it out. But I'm up on too many other threads. If I'm right, the current show is not being broadcast.
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Veneration of Mary: Are Catholics right after all?
Raf replied to oldiesman's topic in Doctrinal: Exploring the Bible
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Veneration of Mary: Are Catholics right after all?
Raf replied to oldiesman's topic in Doctrinal: Exploring the Bible
And THIS is why this post had to be removed from ATHEISM/Questioning Faith. Because as an unbeliever I would have torn this to shreds. But believers should feel comfortable discussing it without worrying about what unbelievers think, which, let's be honest, if kinda predictable. -
Veneration of Mary: Are Catholics right after all?
Raf replied to oldiesman's topic in Doctrinal: Exploring the Bible
Out of respect: You posted this in atheism. You do NOT want to know what I think of Charlie Kirk. So I will move it and I will ask that we refrain from referring to the killer's motive as "demonic," which (under the umbrella of the atheism forum) is a lazy scapegoating that robs a homicidal a-hole of responsibility for his despicable act. And I will ask that we refrain from politics, which is impossible in a conversation about Charlie Kirk (which is why I feel compelled to change the name of the thread). So henceforth, this thread is narrowed to the following: Do we agree? [moving to doctrinal). -
I can put some of these pieces together but not all of them. Clark Gable inspired the Bugs Bunny habit of talking with your mouth full of carrot, but to the best of my knowledge he never said "What's Up Doc," the name of a 1970s comedy. 1972? I don't know. So I'm going to go minimalist and say It Happened One Night inspired a major character trait of Bugs Bunny, speaking with his mouth full of carrot. Final answer.