The Dude
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Robert Pattinson seems to take being a douche to new levels. Bob, I'm sure Kate couldn't care less about your feeling sorry for her.
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Like At My chruch lately it is over talked soo much my youth pastor said the times not really near it just
we will be caught up in heaven and then the 7 year period starts.. then The battle of battle-of-armageddon
then they say the devil will be trapped in the bottom of a sea or somehting for 1,000 years and we would all be togetter for 1,000 years in peace
my church thinks it is all near with the signs.. with all the Tornadoes with like Libra and with everyting happening and soo I dot know why I feel soo CONFUSED
Sarah, hopefully I can allay your worry and anxiety somewhat.
As Christians we're not "supposed" to worry or fear death and/or the end time. But I feel this fear is natural and understandable. This life is all we've known. As wonderful as Heaven may be it is an uncertainty to us - we don't know what to expect and the thoughts of eternity vex our little finite minds. I believe that there are just some things that we aren't meant to understand. It's beyond our comprehension and to try and understand it may lead to madness.
I feel for you as you may feel like you're alone on an island. Your family doesn't support you. I don't know how comfortable you are with the other members of your church. If you are close to some of them and really feel a close connectedness and feel you can trust them then maybe they could be your support system. You must find someone that can understand you and you can trust just so that in these type circumstances you can spill your guts and they will be there for you. Reaffirm you. Maybe just hold you and give you a hug.
If all this talk of the end times gets to you, don't be afraid to excuse yourself from the church service or the bible lesson. Go for a walk around the church halls. Maybe you'll see a friend to visit etc. It doesn't make you less of a Christian or a bad Christian to duck out on certain things. Especially if it causes you anxiety.
You are not alone. I'm including here a passage from the novel Anne of the Island. It is one of the sequels to Anne of Green Gables. The author, Lucy Maude Montgomery, was married to a minister so these thoughts even cross the mind of a minister's wife. In the passage Anne has come back from college visiting her home town. She has learned that one of her old childhood friends is dying of consumption. They were friends from youth that had grown into young ladies together.
"How strange the graveyard looks by moonlight!" said Ruby suddenly. "How ghostly!" she shuddered. "Anne, it won't be long now before I'll be lying over there. You and Diana and all the rest will be going about, full of life -- and I'll be there -- in the old graveyard -- dead!"The surprise of it bewildered Anne. For a few moments she could not speak.
"You know it's so, don't you?" said Ruby insistently.
"Yes, I know," answered Anne in a low tone. "Dear Ruby, I know."
"Everybody knows it," said Ruby bitterly. "I know it -- I've known it all summer, though I wouldn't give in. And, oh, Anne" -- she reached out and caught Anne's hand pleadingly, impulsively -- "I don't want to die. I'm AFRAID to die."
"Why should you be afraid, Ruby?" asked Anne quietly.
"Because -- because -- oh, I'm not afraid but that I'll go to heaven, Anne. I'm a church member. But -- it'll be all so different. I think -- and think -- and I get so frightened -- and -- and -- homesick. Heaven must be very beautiful, of course, the Bible says so -- but, Anne, IT WON'T BE WHAT I'VE BEEN USED TO."
Through Anne's mind drifted an intrusive recollection of a funny story she had heard Philippa Gordon tell -- the story of some old man who had said very much the same thing about the world to come. It had sounded funny then -- she remembered how she and Priscilla had laughed over it. But it did not seem in the least humorous now, coming from Ruby's pale, trembling lips. It was sad, tragic -- and true! Heaven could not be what Ruby had been used to. There had been nothing in her gay, frivolous life, her shallow ideals and aspirations, to fit her for that great change, or make the life to come seem to her anything but alien and unreal and undesirable. Anne wondered helplessly what she could say that would help her. Could she say anything? "I think, Ruby," she began hesitatingly -- for it was difficult for Anne to speak to any one of the deepest thoughts of her heart, or the new ideas that had vaguely begun to shape themselves in her mind, concerning the great mysteries of life here and hereafter, superseding her old childish conceptions, and it was hardest of all to speak of them to such as Ruby Gillis -- "I think, perhaps, we have very mistaken ideas about heaven -- what it is and what it holds for us. I don't think it can be so very different from life here as most people seem to think. I believe we'll just go on living, a good deal as we live here -- and be OURSELVES just the same -- only it will be easier to be good and to -- follow the highest. All the hindrances and perplexities will be taken away, and we shall see clearly. Don't be afraid, Ruby."
"I can't help it," said Ruby pitifully. "Even if what you say about heaven is true -- and you can't be sure -- it may be only that imagination of yours -- it won't be JUST the same. It CAN'T be. I want to go on living HERE. I'm so young, Anne. I haven't had my life. I've fought so hard to live -- and it isn't any use -- I have to die -- and leave EVERYTHING I care for." Anne sat in a pain that was almost intolerable. She could not tell comforting falsehoods; and all that Ruby said was so horribly true. She WAS leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only; she had lived solely for the little things of life -- the things that pass -- forgetting the great things that go onward into eternity, bridging the gulf between the two lives and making of death a mere passing from one dwelling to the other -- from twilight to unclouded day. God would take care of her there -- Anne believed -- she would learn -- but now it was no wonder her soul clung, in blind helplessness, to the only things she knew and loved.
Ruby raised herself on her arm and lifted up her bright, beautiful blue eyes to the moonlit skies.
"I want to live," she said, in a trembling voice. "I want to live like other girls. I -- I want to be married, Anne -- and -- and -- have little children. You know I always loved babies, Anne. I couldn't say this to any one but you. I know you understand. And then poor Herb -- he -- he loves me and I love him, Anne. The others meant nothing to me, but HE does -- and if I could live I would be his wife and be so happy. Oh, Anne, it's hard."
Ruby sank back on her pillows and sobbed convulsively. Anne pressed her hand in an agony of sympathy -- silent sympathy, which perhaps helped Ruby more than broken, imperfect words could have done; for presently she grew calmer and her sobs ceased.
"I'm glad I've told you this, Anne," she whispered. "It has helped me just to say it all out. I've wanted to all summer -- every time you came. I wanted to talk it over with you -- but I COULDN'T. It seemed as if it would make death so SURE if I SAID I was going to die, or if any one else said it or hinted it. I wouldn't say it, or even think it. In the daytime, when people were around me and everything was cheerful, it wasn't so hard to keep from thinking of it. But in the night, when I couldn't sleep -- it was so dreadful, Anne. I couldn't get away from it then. Death just came and stared me in the face, until I got so frightened I could have screamed...
...That good night in the garden was for all time. Anne never saw Ruby in life again. The next night the A.V.I.S. gave a farewell party to Jane Andrews before her departure for the West. And, while light feet danced and bright eyes laughed and merry tongues chattered, there came a summons to a soul in Avonlea that might not be disregarded or evaded. The next morning the word went from house to house that Ruby Gillis was dead. She had died in her sleep, painlessly and calmly, and on her face was a smile -- as if, after all, death had come as a kindly friend to lead her over the threshold, instead of the grisly phantom she had dreaded.
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Hard to believe this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItBVev9qD0k&feature=related
and this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mObK5XD8udk
are from the same series. So much has changed.
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I think some preachers, churches, congregations etc. get too hung up on the whole end times thing. I think as Christians we should know about it and understand it but I don't think God ever meant for us to dedicate so much time and effort to it. The Bible says that not even the Son will know when the time is. We need to be aware and pay attention but to try and guess or figure out or pin down something that not even the angels in Heaven or the Son will know is futile. People have tried to predict the end times since Jesus ascended into Heaven. But we should always be ready because you could die in a car crash just as easily as the end times could come.
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Drinking a caucasian, back and forth between the Thunder and the Spurs - two good games. Good sport night.
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Jenkies! The Spurs and Grizzlies. What a game. Goin to OT.
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If I end up going to school in Washington I can't wait to drive across the country and see stuff!
Totally off subject but this made me think of the Frasier where they went on a road trip and crossed into Canada while Daphne was asleep and when she awoke informed them that she wasn't able to leave the U.S. When asked if she could fake being an American the only thing she could say with a somewhat American accent was "sure". Funny stuff.
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Hmm I'm surprised that you girls don't like skinny jeans. I thought it was the new thing for guys to wear and such.
Skinny jeans are for guys who like guys. If you're dressing to attract girls, then forget the skinny jeans. Girls don't wanna date someone who looks and dresses like them.
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CP3 is quite a player. Don't know if I could even name anybody else on the Hornets. I'm very surprised at the Spurs. I thought they'd take care of business in the first round. Never thought it'd be this kind of struggle. The Mavs have had a nice team since Cuban has owned them but they suffer from the "always a bridesmaid, never a bride" syndrome.
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I thought the Spurs would be the team to beat but the Grizzlies are looking pretty tough against them.
L.A. is looking like they've lost their fight or just don't care.
Mavs are looking better but seems to have a tough time putting it all together.
Thunder look pretty darn good. Could go deep.
I think it'll be the Celts against the Bulls in the East. Everyone else looks like pretenders.
Atlanta is playing above their heads.
The Heat is full of prima donnas - can't play as a team.
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How long ago did all this happen?
I'd say about October.
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Apocalypse Now
The other films I've mentioned uplift the human spirit. But this is quite the opposite. It's based on the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness. It truly is about the darkness that can lie within the human mind, heart and spirit. What are we capable of? Why do we do these things? Do we know why we do these things? We try to be God, but do we truly want this responsibility laid at our feet? The deep, dark recesses inside ourselves is explored at length.
Quotes:
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like...victory."
"The horror...the horror..."
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Did anyone else see the one that said she died...?
Yeah, I believe it was mentioned on the first page or so.
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So are you stoked about Stoke?
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I'm sorry you're scared but I'm glad you're seeking help. I can understand you're used to and comfortable with your depression and self injury. Getting help and making a change is scary.
I'm glad you gave us a heads up on what's going on and where you'll be. We'll be praying for you and thinking about you.
Come back when you can but no hurry - get better.
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I'm not buying it.
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I have ESPN.
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Paul Rudd. I can't thing of him as anyone else other than Brian Fantana.
"No, she gets a special cologne... It's called Sex Panther by Odeon. It's illegal in nine countries... Yep, it's made with bits of real panther, so you know it's good."
"60% of the time, it works ever time."
"I have a nick name for my penis. Its called the Octagon, but I also nick named my testes - my left one is James Westfall and my right one is Doctor Kenneth Noisewater."
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Stand By Me
Like Shawshank, it is another movie based on a Stephen King short story. In fact the story that it's based on , The Body, is found in the same book as The Shawshank Redemption.
In the movie four friends have a last hurrah before going into Junior High School. They spend the last few days of Summer Vacation trekking to see the dead body of a boy their age who has been missing. But the story is about everything but that. It's about life, friends, family, who you can really count on, the bittersweetness of life and what kids lose of themselves as they grow into adults.
Some lines from the film:
"It happens sometimes. Friends come in and out of your life like busboys in a restaurant."
"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"
The ending of the movie is all the more poignant now in light of River Phoenix dying just a few years later.
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Also let me add one more quote:
"Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And nothing good ever dies."
Absolutely. That is a great quote from the movie. Love this.
Okay, I'm gonna mention another movie. I'm starting with movies that I enjoy watching because there are some movies that you should see but are a chore to watch but you should see them anyway.
Blade Runner - Based on the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. It is the first and I feel the best movie based on a Dick work. It's a noir film based in the (now not-too-distant) future. It's a beautiful looking film with an ethereal soundtrack. The special effects still look amazing after 30 years. In fact the effects way outdo a lot of the cartoony digital effects of today. It touches on your typical Dick themes - what's real, how long do we have, do we control our destiny, what's human etc.
A couple of the quotes from Blade Runner:
"More human than human is our motto."
"Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave. "
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I thought that was caused by Nikola Tesla's Death Ray.