Raf

Love that movie.

"What are you, a monk?" "I have a woman." "What do you tell her?" "I tell her I'm a salesman." "So then, if you spot me coming around that corner... you just gonna walk out on this woman? Not say good bye?" "That's the discipline." "That's pretty vacant, you know." "Yeah, it is what it is. It's that or we both better go do something else, pal." "I don't know how to do anything else." "Neither do I." "I don't much want to either." "Neither do I."

I wasn't trying to be cheeky.

Yup

yes

Has it occurred to anyone else that no one can do what Wierwille did while actually believing in the God he purported to worship?

Fine. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

So maybe Cain was just building different edifices where he and his family could accomplish different tasks, and the Biblical writer chose a word, "city," in a very, very loose manner. You and I would probably say he built a farm, and recognizing that he would need more than one or two people to work on it, built other houses to lure his nephews and nieces to help him out. Viola (sic)! A city!

In this futuristic dystopian action flick, the last son of Krypton is framed for a ghastly crime and forced to compete in a life-or-death game show pitting him against a series of colorfully attired gladiators.

Field of Dreams *** "Nine, ten, never sleep again."

Re-he-he-he-he-heally?

Yes, I apologize both to you and to Steve for misunderstanding the point you were making.

Ok, it took me a few readings to understand both what Steve is saying and what the author he cited is saying. No one is saying that the bones of nephilim were found either recently or in antiquity. Mayor posits that the ancients found fossilized bones and interpreted them incorrectly, assuming because of some superficial similarity to human bones that these were the bones of giants. Look carefully at what Steve says: Emphases mine. I dispute the word choice Steve's next comment: It was not "common knowledge." It was widespread myth, based on the misinterpretations of the excavated bones.

Uhh, YEAH that's an unwarranted assumption!

Umm. What giant bones?

Soylent Green Mile

Sounds like TIP, the Movie.

"You wanna see something really scary?"

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Nice!

I actually agree with the statement that you can't go beyond what you're taught, but the belief comes with a very liberal understanding of the word "taught." If you are not taught (either by a person or by the necessity of circumstance/experience) to ask questions, question assumptions, and look at a bigger picture, then you're going to be stuck. The notion that you can't go beyond what you're taught carries within it the means to do exactly that. I would revise the statement to say the following: Unless you learn how to do it, you can't go beyond what others teach you. Science goes beyond what scientists have been taught all the time, because scientists have been taught HOW to do it.

So lusting after another man's wife may not meet the threshold of coveting, in other words. Yeah, that would work. Cain building a city makes no sense on any level, unless we're going to severely dilute the definition of city. Just seems odd to build something that implies a growing society when the number of people on earth is, at most, in the double digits -- and none of the other people want anything to do with you. But okay.

Ah, yes. That seemed to be a perfectly valid explanation. But I had failed to consider that coveting your neighbor's wife is itself a sin (the only sin in the Ten Commandments 1.0 that didn't actually involve DOING anything, just wanting. Thous shalt not WANNA). So Jesus' statement on adultery, by itself, may have made more sense as an example of hyperbole, but you have to ignore an actual (non-obscure, right there in the Big 10) commandment to posit that Jesus was employing a figure of speech here. If you can break one of the 10 Commandments without sinning, it's not much of a commandment, is it? And they all have a LOT of people (and by a lot, I'm being relative... A Lot, as opposed to, say, three. Or one growing family). I guess extrapolating is okay, but the point needs to be made: you do realize that nothing in the Bible even hints at such a motive?

The Patriot *** "Couldn't keep quiet, could we? Just had to invite him to stay, didn't we? 'Serve him tea. Sit in the master's chair. Pet the pooch!'" "I was trying to be hospitable."

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