I agree about the whole "Lord of the Rings" saga, the movies were better, the books are, IMHO, kind of tedious. (flame-armour ON) : ) I alos liked "Solaris" better as a film than as a book. The ending of the book just kind of tapered off and left me wondering "ok, what now?" The film kind of resolved the conflicts in the story.
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Movies Better Than The Book
by littlerockguy inalthough it is sometimes hard to put so many elements of a novel into a 2 hour screenplay and motion picture and you end up reading the book and then watching the movie and wish they would have included stuff they left out.
however there are sometimes when you might watch the movie and end up more impressed with the movie and grown more attached to the movie than the book.
can you think of any movies you thought were better than the book it was based on?
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Classical music anyone?
by zagor inlately i've been listening more and more to classical music.
went to several concerts, opera and a ballet..
just wondering if anyone else loves classical music or maybe modern incarnations like styles of vanessa mae, maxim mrvica, bond, amici and alike.
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gaiagirl
Its impressive how many animated cartoons are set to classical music. I like Stravinskis' "Rites Of Spring" and "Firebird Suite", both featured in Disneys Fantasia and Fantasia 2000. Bugs Bunny cuts Elmer Fudds hair to the tune of "The Barber of Seville". Another Bugs Bunny cartoon is set to Wegners "Ride of the Valkyries". Still another old Warner Brothers cartoon features a feeble crow with a strange, hopping walk and an unidentified classical track. The punchline was that when other animals attack the crow, it beats them quite soundly. In an early Popeye cartoon, Sweet Pea is exploring a construction site, and in danger of being injured, while "modern classical" music plays. The two Warner Brothers gophers get into a canning factory and have an adventure, while similar "modern classical" plays. And don't forget the theme song for the Simpsons.
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Adam's Error and the Butterfly Effect
by jgnat inin 1962 meterologist lorenz simulated weather patterns with some simple mathematical formulas on his computer.
for a while the results were predictable.
but then, with very minor changes, the results went wildly erratic.
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gaiagirl
Did Jews in the 1st Century (or for that matter, in the 21st Century) expect the Messiah to grant eternal life, or merely to set them free from their Roman "oppressors"? Israel had been "subject to" other nations for many centuries by the time of Jesus, and I had always read that the Messiah was expected to lead them in revolt against whatever nation was over them at the time, and to reestablishment of an independent nation of Israel.
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Tennessee JW claims 9 baptized at assembly, 1960 attended.
by gaiagirl ini just received a report from an active jw who went to a circuit assembly in eastern tennessee, stating that attendance was 1960 for the sunday address.
he also stated that 9 were baptized, giving a "growth rate" of 0.46% (if one assumes that all 9 were bible studies, and not merely children of jw parents).
sounds as if "the love of the greater number is cooling off" in tennessee : ) well, i'm sure that's what jw's would say, anyway.
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gaiagirl
I just received a report from an active JW who went to a circuit assembly in Eastern Tennessee, stating that attendance was 1960 for the Sunday address. He also stated that 9 were baptized, giving a "growth rate" of 0.46% (if one assumes that all 9 were Bible Studies, and not merely children of JW parents). Sounds as if "the love of the greater number is cooling off" in Tennessee : ) Well, I'm sure that's what JW's would say, anyway.
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worst week in my life
by Hortensia inlast monday my husband, a nice guy, after ranting for a bit about terrorists, came over to me, to kiss me i thought.
he hit my head and then started to choke me, shouting "be healed.
" i managed to get away from him and he kept yelling "be healed" and saying that i was bewitched and had put a curse on him.
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gaiagirl
What a horrible week! How betrayed you must feel. Do you think you ever be able to be comfortable or relax around him again?
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Change the past (Short Story)
by free2beme inallen parker was a well known professor, looked up to by all those in his field of study, so when he spoke about something people tended to listen.
so when he stood in front of the group and began to lay out his plan, all of those in attendance listened attentively.. "what i am proposing to do, is to pin point a time in history in which we could make things better for the present time.
show life in the way you dream it to be.
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gaiagirl
Excellent!
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What movie or TV show would U recommend 2 break thru cognitive dissonance?
by Open mind intalk about "food at the proper time"!!
i was just perusing this forum and stumbled across a post by abandoned called "the joy of sect".
it's a simpson's episode where homer joins a cult.
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gaiagirl
1984 has been made into a film twice, once during the 1950's, and then once more, actually filmed in 1984, during the months and in the locations mentioned in the book. I own the newer film, it is horrifyingly grim and seems more like what life would be under the rule of the WTBTS than the cheerful images on tracts. In the film, the main character actually has a job in which he changes or deletes data in older publications to conform with present thinking, much like WTBTS does when printing bound volumes (there are many incidences where the bound volume doesn't match the original published magazine). Further, 1984 has "Thought Police" who monitor signs of wrong thinking, and its own language and catchphrases, intended to eventually make it impossible to even think of disobedience. Other films which might help someone see WTBTS "from the outside" include some already mentioned, and a couple of others: The Truman Show Brazil The Handmaidens Tale (society ruled by religious conservatives similar to WTBTS) Farenheit 451 Gattaca The Da Vinci Code
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gaiagirl
No worries about demons at all. Tarot doesn't "tell the future", because the future isn't cast in stone. They work through your subconscious and can indicate possible outcomes of a particular path which you may be currently on. If you don't like the outcome, you can always make adjustments to your path.
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Jehovah's Rocking the Nations?
by 5thGeneration inhow long can the society keep insisting that the preaching work is so successful when there is virtually zero (alright 1.5%) growth?.
interestingly, the society has excluded the percent gain/loss column online.
http://www.watchtower.org/e/statistics/worldwide_report.htm.
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gaiagirl
Is "Rock The Nations" anything like "Rock the Casbah"? Could have been a good Kingdom Melody, if the Clash had performed it.
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INTELLIGENT ANSWERS to STUPID QUESTIONS. Give yours!
by Terry in1.what color is four?.
2. can you be enraged and outraged at the same time?.
3. is life being "broadcast" by the universe and we are merely "tuned" to our own particular channel?.
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gaiagirl
#1: What color are four WHAT? Apples? Oreo Cookies? Dilithium Crystals? #4: "Objective" is supposed to mean that the observer is not involved in events being described, but is ONLY an observer. "Subjective" is supposed to mean that the observer is also involved as a participant or interested party in events described. At one time, it was believed that an observer could be "objective" and not affect the outcome of events. Modern research in quantum physics (consider the "Shrodingers Cat" paradox) suggest that there is no such thing as "objective", i.e. that any observers will affect the outcome of events, and thus become a participant, whether they want to, or not. In other words, all objects and events are interconnected, so that no event can take place without affecting all objects to a greater or lesser degree. So, the answer to the question is that all events are "subjective", and that "objective" events do not exist. (Do I get a prize or something?)