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Your Top Ten Favourite Movies?

by LoveUniHateExams in

just thought i'd start a thread about favourite movies.

mine, in no particular order, are .... alien - a great visual film.

the chest-bursting scene is still great to watch, no matter how many times i've seen the movie.

LoveUniHateExams

Just thought I'd return to this thread.

I've seen a lot more films than when I started this thread, and it's nearly impossible to make a top 10. There are just so many good films.

Out of the films I've seen, here are all the films that I give my highest rating (10/10) ...

Rosemary's Baby

The Exorcist

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Jaws

Rocky

Alien

The Shining

The Elephant Man

The Empire Strikes Back

The Thing (1982)

The Fly (1986)

Aliens

The Silence of the Lambs

Pulp Fiction

^^^ There are in no real order, save for the year of theatrical release. And they're great films, masterpieces, IMO.

Of course, there are many critically-acclaimed films that I haven't seen - The Godfather, The Godfather Part 2, E.T., Schindler's List, Dawn of the Dead, etc. ...

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Big Meat Eaters?

by peacefulpete in

i was wondering how many of us have switched to a vegetarian or vegan diet and why.

i'm not doing it but have friends who do.

lovely people and seem very healthy.

LoveUniHateExams

I'm also a meat-lover who has no problem eating meat. I was brought up eating meat and will likely continue to do so.

However, I do admire vegetarians (although maybe not vegans) and would like to go vegetarian for a full month to see what it's like and see if I notice any improvement from that diet.

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Flash mobs

by zeb in

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friends

housebound by weather.

been watching flash mobs.

what a wonderful thing they are..

LoveUniHateExams

Hi Zeb.

It may be a stupid question, but what are flash mobs?

Can you translate this Aussie lingo into British English, please.

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A book on the pronunciation of God's Name

by Doug Mason in

i am neither recommending nor rejecting the following book.

i am simply saying that i stumbled across it.

i have neither read it nor studied it.. search with: the name of god y.eh.ow.ah which is pronounced as it is written i eh ou ah its story gérard gertoux .

LoveUniHateExams

There is a problem with the pronunciation of name of the God of the Israelites: the Hebrew alphabet is an abjad.

An abjad is an alphabet that's made of consonants only. Short vowels are not written.

So, we have 4 consonants - YHWH. We don't know what vowels were sounded between them. The Israelites living thousands of years ago had a way of pronouncing their God's name, but this has been lost over time.

Arabic is similar to Hebrew in this respect.

If I transliterated the 3 Arabic letters - waw, lam & dal - into English as 'wld' and left out the two short vowels ... how would you pronounce it? Because 'wld' (ولد) is a word in Arabic.

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I'm Watching The Exorcist Right Now...

by pale.emperor in

as an ex-jw recovering for cult indoctrination and paranoia there are a few things that make us realise how far we've come.. eating black pudding.

smoking a joint.

sleeping with someone on a first date.

LoveUniHateExams

The Exorcist (1973) is a great film. I thoroughly recommend it. I bought a second hand DVD for £1 and watched it alone, at night. It creeped me out a bit. It did what a good horror film is supposed to do.

Smoking joints and eating black pudding (fried, with a full English breakfast) are pretty good, too. I recommend those in moderation.

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What’s Your Favorite Breakfast??

by minimus in

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to me, breakfast can be served at any time of the day.

a local bar in my area serves breakfast all day long.

for 5 bucks you get 2 eggs any way you like, bacon sausage or ham with home fries and toast!!

LoveUniHateExams

I love the Full English but it's not very healthy.

Porridge is a healthier option - porridge with slices of fruit on top (NOT sugar), plus a glass of fresh orange juice.

Or toast, I love toast. A few rounds of marmite on toast plus a nice cuppa (coffee or tea).

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Cause of Mass Shootings Mental Health?

by blondie in

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i have been sad to see so many groups and individuals say that the cause of these events are the mental status of the shooters.

i have looked over the backgrounds of these shooters, and few had medically identified mental health issues.

it is too easy to think that people shoot or kill other people because they are mentally ill.. actually, many or most people with real mental illnesses are most likely to be the victims of others.. i have been a volunteer with the organization called nami (national alliance of mental lillness) for 25 years now.

LoveUniHateExams

So how many mass stabbing killings are there? - I don't know. But what I do know is that UK has a serious problem with knife crime but banning knives for everyone would be an outrageous, moronic assault on liberty.

Public safety overrules a stupid ass 200 year old law - I get what you're saying but you've not really addressed my question, which was ... why should at least some types of guns be banned for everybody, when it's only a tiny minority of gun users who go on shooting sprees? Surely there are better ways of dealing with this problem?

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Cause of Mass Shootings Mental Health?

by blondie in

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friends

i have been sad to see so many groups and individuals say that the cause of these events are the mental status of the shooters.

i have looked over the backgrounds of these shooters, and few had medically identified mental health issues.

it is too easy to think that people shoot or kill other people because they are mentally ill.. actually, many or most people with real mental illnesses are most likely to be the victims of others.. i have been a volunteer with the organization called nami (national alliance of mental lillness) for 25 years now.

LoveUniHateExams

Here's a point: why should any guns be banned for everyone when it's only a tiny minority who go on shooting sprees?

Why should the responsible people who own guns legally and use them responsibly be in any way affected by the minority criminal element?

Here in the UK we have a serious knife problem, with people getting stabbed in the street.

But the majority of people don't get involved in this sh!t and are still allowed to buy and own knives. It would be dumb to ban knives, right?

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Cause of Mass Shootings Mental Health?

by blondie in

jw
friends

i have been sad to see so many groups and individuals say that the cause of these events are the mental status of the shooters.

i have looked over the backgrounds of these shooters, and few had medically identified mental health issues.

it is too easy to think that people shoot or kill other people because they are mentally ill.. actually, many or most people with real mental illnesses are most likely to be the victims of others.. i have been a volunteer with the organization called nami (national alliance of mental lillness) for 25 years now.

LoveUniHateExams

assault weapons have no place in the hands of anyone - so how is law enforcement gonna deal with shooters, terrorists and other dangerous individuals?

They gonna tickle them to death, right?

N*gga, please ...

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Money! How much did you "Contribute" To The WTB@TS When You Were A Member

by The Bethelite in

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i was in full time service for six years including bethel.

once i got out of bethel, i figured i had already given them six of the best years of my life (ages 18-24) working as a slave/drone in their factory, so i rationalized that i had given them enough... so over the next 27 years i would say maybe $200 bucks is it.

i think their whole "voluntary contributions" idea is biting them in the ass, because over all jehovah's witnesses are a cheap group people with a few exceptions.

LoveUniHateExams

Money! How much did you "Contribute" To The WTB@TS When You Were A Member - NOTHING!!!

Not a f**king thing.

And I'm very proud of that.