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So, feeding of the thousands.

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......So there IS a free lunch if you are with Jesus?

(runs)

An Open Hand.

Except that if Jesus gives a free lunch to thousand of people, then the crowd will want another free lunch.

Well there were two feedings...

I thought it was a different group of people.

Yeah, that's what I meant. One day Jesus fed 2000, then He fed 5000 later.

Misplaced Trust.

Marking Time.

He Understands.

Tactical Distractions.

Human Race.

Hah, the writing one... reminds me of me and my guy in keeping each other on-task with editing each other's work. However, actually getting any initial idea done never works for me that way and cannot. I write when inspired to - at random moments. I do a lot of writing in my head while on walks and such before I ever put anything down and I find I have to be free-wheeling.

... I basically ride my manic phases...

And I think if God does anything through me at all, it's random like that, and rides the natural way that he's made me / allowed me to turn out. I'm a messed-up person, so everything I do is in an eccentric, messed-up way.

My entire life is a distraction. And it's okay.

Free from fear.

The Wrong Horseshoe.

(posted this in another thread, but wanted to know what you guys think).

So apparently, the moral of the upcoming R-rated animated film Sausage Party is that it "posits a world where the gods are horrors, creation is inherently unfair and s****y, and the fact that we suppress our own sensual instincts because of religion keeps us in endless misery."

Your thoughts as religious people?

not surprised, given the people behind it. wasn't planning on seeing the movie anyway.

Test Match.

Barg, I know that feeling. I tend to say things I don't actually mean if I'm angry enough, and it will usually come back to bite you, trust me.

To me it seems like that Hollywood Atheist sort of "God isn't real and if he is he's a monster" way of thinking.

Although the movie also begs me the question, what do they think happens when food expires on the shelf?

Raises the question.

edited 25th Jul '16 9:42:19 AM by flameboy21th

Ah, right. Sorry.

I looked it up on here when I saw the commercials. It's also supposed to be a deconstruction of Pixar's "heartwarming animate inanimate objects" theme and, if I'm not mistaken, just one of those "edgy" ideas that people came up with when they were stoned? It looks stupid to me, like one of those "R-rated for the sake of being R-rated" things, you know, faux-edgy. People can have whatever themes they want in their movies, but the f-word said every two minutes and "Ooh, the hot dog wants to slip into the hot dog bun!" stuff just kind of annoys me. It seems more like a Family Guy gag made into a feature film? In other words, religious/anti-religious message aside, it just looks dumb to me.

Don't know if you've seen the news, but thanks to the Slacktivist blog, I now know that Tim Le Haye, co-author of the popular Left Behind books series and End Times prophecy guy died today / yesterday at the age of 90. Seems to happen to a lot of people who thought they'd never die and would just get raptured.

my thoughts exactly.

God's Sandpaper.

For the record, I have no problem with R-rated films in general. There are many stories that actually need that kind of rating to tell what they need to tell - heavy themes and whatnot. (Here I'm thinking of Cloud Atlas, which I've seen recently and has scenes of brutal slavery and themes about standing up against a world that encourages us to eat each other - sometimes literally and, of course, the suicide that was a part of one of the film's connected stories...)

But some filmmakers betray their immaturity in trying to bring forth "mature" themes. I'm talking about I might call the "cheap poo-joke" movies. R for the sake of R.

edited 26th Jul '16 7:56:48 PM by Shadsie

Sausage Party will bomb. From what I've seen, it's plays like a rejected Dreamworks movie on coke.

On the note of movies attacking Christianity, I feel that retaliation is a necessity: namely start mocking the anti-religious.

Eh, I don't think that's really the Christian thing to do. If you act kind, they'll either stop, or they'll keep going and others will view them negatively for being mean. Turn the other cheek.