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Good. Because Richard Kimble, Indiana Jones and Han Solo were giveaways
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But if you DID, it would not demonstrate that such deities exist! That's the point. "There are no atheists in foxholes" fits the thesis that religion is not born of logic and understanding but of FEAR. Fear of the unknown. Fear of being powerless to change the (apparently) inevitable. Fear of death. It doesn't demonstrate that gods exist. It demonstrates that people in fear hope for rescue. Well, NO DUH! I'm sure the people on the four 9/11 planes hoped for rescue too. I'm certain nine church members in South Carolina hoped for rescue too. I'm certain the passengers and crew of the plane that a suicidal maniac smashed into the side of a mountain hoped for rescue too. Begged for it. Pleaded for it. Fear does that. But praying in a foxhole does not prove God exists, just like the fact that every person I cited in the previous paragraph is dead right now doesn't prove there is no God.
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That's good to hear. The problem is, a lot of Christians project: Because they believe we are serving the devil by not worshiping God, they presume (unreasonably) that we ARE in fact worshiping the devil, which is ludicrous. There is no devil. On what basis do you conclude that atheists (please check your spelling) are less moral than God fearing folk? I'm sure you have stats to back this up. As stated already, there ARE atheists in foxholes. But the fact that someone in a perceivably helpless situation looks to God, Allah, The Universe or whatever to intervene in defiance of that such a person actually believes to be true reveals nothing substantive except that they're going through something pretty heavy. On a plane ride recently we experienced turbulence, and I got nervous. I shut my eyes. But I fought off decades of conditioned behavior that would normally have had me praying in such a situation. I told myself to relax, that the pilots had been through this before, dozens of times, and that they knew what they were doing. The plane landed safely. Not because I prayed. Not because someone else did. But because every single day, most planes, the overwhelming majority, land safely. Sometimes they don't, despite prayers. Yes, there are atheists in foxholes. You know where there are no atheists? The Klan. ISIS. No atheists there. Can't speak for him, but I am. Thanks for asking. What would I say to Jesus at the bema? Probably the same thing you would say to Thor at Valhalla, I suppose. I work in court daily. I've never seen anyone swear on a Bible, and only about 5% of the time do I hear "so help me God" as part of the oath taken before testimony.
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Bernadette Peters Annie Albert Finney
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Linus Larabee James Marshall Allie Fox Searching for the actor
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Trying to think of a woman named Alex. And that led me to Fatal Attraction. Ok, coming up...
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Glenn Close ?
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Elizabeth Mitchell The Santa Clause 3 Martin Short
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Sissy Spacek Carrie John Travolta
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It's not really a spy movie. That's just incidental. That's like calling The Wizard of Oz a weather movie.
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A very serious movie "What's all this top secret business I've been hearing about over at the Pentagon?" "Here's what we do have. CID is running a phone check. They're looking for all calls placed to a Susan Atwell." "Who's she?" "Well, she's in the morgue at Fort Meade. She was murdered last night." "We know anything about it?" "Get ready for this. We think she's either David Brice's or Scott Pritchard's mistress. Well she was seen with both of them. It didn't seem a high priority matter, so my people have been a little lax in following it up." "Well, spilt milk. And you can forget about Pritchard. He's homosexual. "I'll be damned." "Ah, so will he, if you believe the Old Testament."
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WW: The subtitle of Prince of Persia was not really used here in the States
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Sorry. Thought I already put something up "Tom is the one who saw you at Susan's. He's known about you all along, isn't that right? We do know what that means. If Commander Farrell is the man who was with Miss Atwell, then Commander Farrell is the man who killed Miss Atwell. And we know that the man who killed Miss Atwell is Yuri. Therefore, Commander Farrell IS Yuri, quod erat demonstrandum."
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Characters to actor: Earl Long Henry Gondorff Eddie Felson
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Blazing Saddles You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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The lead actress on this show is the only one (on this show) whose character has yet to reveal her last name. One of the lead male actors wears glasses with no lenses in it. Eliminates glare from studio lights. In one episode, a passing reference is made to an actress in a moderately popular 1990s TV series. That actress later joined the cast full time.
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Dirty Harry tracked a serial killer named Scorpio. It was loosely based on San Francisco detective David Toschi, who investigated the Zodiac murders. In the movie Zodiac, the character Toschi sees Dirty Harry. Toschi, the real guy, attended a screening of Zodiac, and watched an actor playing him going to the movies to watch ANOTHER actor playing him. ... Sudden Impact is the movie that gave us the line "Go ahead. Make my day." Arguably as famous as (paraphrasing) "You feeling lucky, punk?"
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I haven't finished reading the initial post, but I wanted to make an observation that might be relevant. VPW, to the best of my memory, never said it was impossible to fake SIT. He said it was impossible to counterfeit. What's the difference, you might ask? Glad you asked. I want you to assume SIT is real. Just assume it's real. More difficult for me these days than for most of you, but I'll play along: Speaking in tongues is producing a language. THAT is the genuine. So my take on what VPW was saying is that if you speak in tongues, you produce a language. And THAT can't be counterfeited. Taking a more skeptical/logical approach and carrying it to the end: Wierwille was saying that IF you speak in tongues AND you produce a language, THAT is of God because the devil can't counterfeit it. In other words, if your SIT is of the devil, then it's not SIT, according to Wierwille. I think that's as far as I can take my opinion without going off topic.
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Four sequels. The last and least was released in 1988. The one before that gave us a movie line arguably more famous than the super famous line from the first film.
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This movie(A) is based on a true story. In the movie(A), one of the main characters goes to the movies. The movie(B) he sees is actually based on his life, a little loosely. The movie(B) (a real movie you've probably seen, with lots of quotable lines and four sequels) was loosely based on the same story as movie(A). Astrological signs figure prominently. The real life person portrayed in movie(A) attended a premiere screening. Which means, a man went to see a movie, where he saw a man playing himself going to see a movie where a man plays himself. The genre is crime. Name either movie(A) or movie(B)