timmybauer

I hate SUV's and mini-vans with the passion of a thousand white-hot suns. American's are greedy, fat consumer-pigs.

$1.99 for basic unleaded last I checked here in Loo-EE-Ville. For anyone driving an Ess-Yoo-Vee...Ha Ha.

As this board's seemingly lone conservative, I find it interesting that Dark Observer declared himself a liberal, then declared that humanity is basically evil (as I believe) and then Josh reacts by trying to give some liberal examples of the worthiness of mankind, only to declare at the end that he to recognizes the reality of human evil. Funny die welt innit?

Finished King's Salem's Lot for the first time. Not to shabby. My tastes in vampires lean more toward Rice than Stoker but I did enjoy the growing sense of dread, Straker and Barlow were great villians, and King's early style is just so smooth and easy to read. I have only read this and the Stand in King's offerings and still liked The Stand a bit more because of it's complexity. Plus I'm a sucker for apocalyptic stories. Except crappy Mammonite money makers based on poor theology.

Actually Rogan, according to John 19:30-37 Jesus was already dead when the soldier pierced His side. This is important because it demonstrates that Jesus voluntarily gave his life , it wasn't taken.

 

Sorry if this messes up any pseudo-Catholic extra-canonical myth like one finds in The Da Vinci Code for anyone.

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Ummm... wouldn't it be just as much of a "sacrifice" if he died from a spear wound as from crucifiction? I fail to see the great distinction. In both cases (assuming you buy the whole myth, that is ;) ) Jesus voluntarily chose to allow himself to be crucified. THAT was the sacrifice. The technicality of the death wouldn't change that.

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Perhaps you are right Red. I may have been doing a bit of theologizing. I just see that today, with the ilk of the Jesus Seminar and the Neo-Gnostics attempting to thwart orthodoxy (not Eastern Rogan) it is important to know that Jesus was in control of even the timing of His own death so that there is no room for error.

Actually Rogan, according to John 19:30-37 Jesus was already dead when the soldier pierced His side. This is important because it demonstrates that Jesus voluntarily gave his life , it wasn't taken.

Sorry if this messes up any pseudo-Catholic extra-canonical myth like one finds in The Da Vinci Code for anyone.

I guess I can only relate to the actor Leary while you seem to focus on the comedian Leary. I'm not big into comedy so I don't know a whole lot about it. But from what I have seen of him as an actor, I still think he would be great in the role.

The reason I whi....erm...bitc...erm... complain about the "Holy Shotgun" and the "Holy Brass Knuckles" is because they are STUPID FREAKING GIMMICKS! PERIOD! I don't care if John was a pistol toting, butt-kicking, tough guy. The idea of stupid holy relics needed to deal with demons is...well...STUPID!

This movie needed more Exorcist and less Van Helsing.

*affects little boy face and quiet little simpering voice of John Stewart* "Well...I...like...heem.... :icon_frown: "

Have any of you caught Leary's show on FX? I can't think of the name right now but I have seen several episodes and Leary is great. Even nominated for an Emmy I believe. He could have easily pulled off JC's smarmy humor, deep likability under a veneer of hardness, the whole shebang. Certainly would have been better than Keanu. Plus Boston has a much better connection to the occult than LA. At least they could have given the Irish Catholic Leary a much better back story and then placed him in LA. There are just more possibilities. And it would have kept down production cost. The FX shows have just as good if not better production values as Hollywood most of the time.

Not necessarily. The Spear of Longinus was needed for spiritual reasons to open the gate not to pierce Mammon. It certainly would have done some damage to Angela however. Just because the film portrayed Mammon "physically" stretching Angela's belly all out of whack doesn't means it was "physical". See other great gate crossing flicks like Ghostbusters to get the gist of what I am saying. I am thinking specifically about the one with the "real bad dude" coming through the painting.

Gate and Portals have more to do with dimensional motion from one state of being into another. Sometimes film psuedo-metaphysics portray this as a moment of vulnerabliity, sometimes this state is portrayed as ethereal and therefore physically untouchable. I believe the latter is the case in the film.

But it doesn't really matter. Why argue about it. It was just a film, and a KA-RAPPY one at that.

This thread is hilarious.

Bibleman.

John, stay away! Not theologically safe, not mentally safe, poor writing....stay away. Mammon holds sway here ladies and gentlemen. (Not the movie Mammon)

The films were awful. Actually I only saw one but I see that the others are all in the $5 bin at Wal-Mart so I am assuming.

If you want to read the books (I highly recommend that you don't bother) they are a dime a dozen in used book stores...stacks and stacks of them. Make good kindling.

I saw it last weekend and so far Johnny Cali's comments are closest to how I feel about the film. It did look nice in many places but that is about all the credit I can give it. Keanu was wooden as usual and just doesn't have ANY gravitas that this role needed. The mythology is lame and gimmickyand JC comes across as on Heaven's team which we all know he isn't. Since Gabriel was fairly true to the comic and reflected the Ennisean mythology, John should have recoiled at the Nazi-like mind set of Heaven, but the writers instead chose to make Gabriel's perspective the exception not the Heavenly norm and therefore made Gabriel out to be the real bad guy in the film.

All in all this movie falls in line with:

End of Days

Stigmata

Bless the Child

etc.

just as I thought it would.

Plus...the Holy Freakin' Brass-Knuckles? Give me a break.

British Con-Job

American Con-Job set in Boston

Chas

With Guy "Lock-Stock" Ritchie directing

I cant believe I am going to wade into a discussion of this film but here goes. So far it seems the posters in this thread are thinking in terms of a human birth, thus we assume the womb would have to be merely cut open to release the baby Mammy. But in reality Angela was a gate which once pierced, no matter how forcefully, would have permitted Mammy entrance to our world. So if Angela died in the process it would be no matter and of course little Mammy wouldn't be harmed by any material weapon just as bullets were only minor distracions to the various demons/devils in the film. Now if Gabe had a pair of "Holy Brass-Knuckles" or the *GASP* Holy Shotgun...it would have been a different story.

Yeah I had forgotten about "Hold Me". I may have to rethink my list order.

A few things I have noticed...

There is something connected between backgammon, black and white pieces, black and white stones found on the dead bodies, Locke and Walt playing backgammon, Locke and Walt being black and white, Locke and Walt having "abilities", Locke and Walt not wanting to leave the island, Locke's eyes being one black and one white in Claire's nightmare. I can't put it all together but there seems to be a pattern. There is also the "black stone" that is in the French woman's writings where her ship went down and her crew lost it's mind or "got sick" in her words.

I also like how in one way or another these people have knowingly or unknowingly encountered each other in Australia before the filght.

Great show, maybe the best on free TV right now.

I don't think we have any right to discount contemporary opinions from Germany just because of the events of WWII. Quite the contrary, in fact.

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Since Germany has crawled into the same bed with France and Russia on these issues I think Mark's perspective here is correct.

Of course this is the perspective of a politically conservative American. Europe has no more to fear from the modern German state than they would from France or Little Bo Peep.

 

 

 

 

here's Highwater and Frusin...

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That stuff is awsome. Simply the best interiors on Hellblazer EVER...with the possible exception of TB's "The Crib". Danke herr Rogan.

There are Catholics who are Christians and there are Catholics who are not Christians.

On another note, one of the differences between Catholics and Protestants is the doctrine of the papacy. Protestants do not believe that each Pope is in a direct line from Saint Peter. Protestants therefore do not believe that the Pope has any authority over the universal Church which is under the authority of Christ alone. The Papacy is a human creation.

Chunky Lung bro.

Simpson art is ok but what about the pink? What's up with that?

Just don't make the generalization that because a person is a Christian they are following another person or organization. It takes more personal resolve to live one's life flying in the face of the status quo that to knuckle under....and today the roles have reversed. Believers are the outcasts, the disrespected, the unwanted, the misunderstood.

Rue Morgue has a regular comics column but it focuses on horror oriented comics.

Wizard has a huge circulation here in Louisville. It is in the supermarkets and all the major book dealers.

The example she kept using as an example of a novelist who wrote complex characters that could never be matched by a mere comic book was <cough> Tolkien, whom I often refer to as "He-Who-Couldn't-Write-A-Female-Character-If-His-Life-Had-Depended-On-It."

I don't know, I thought Shelob was a very realistic depiction of females in general. :p

Feh! The Pope... we have a Patriarch who's a mix between Gandalf and Gimli!

 

 

 

 

He wields a staff with two intertwined snakes and writes in emerald-green ink, as a sign of faith in eternal life. He is one of the few religious leaders i have no problems with (kinda like charlie K) ;)

 

 

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Now we know what Milosevic was REALLY up to! Be afraid, be very afraid! :p