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  Your Top Ten Favourite Movies?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  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.

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  Netflix used to have a challenge to create a prediction algorithm for movies people would like. The challenge was that you could never get better than 80-90% because people's choices change all the time - this is interesting and likely true.

  If you compare the 14 films I gave my highest rating to with my 'top ten fav movies' in the OP, you'll see that 5 films are in both categories. Those five are: Alien, The Empire Strikes Back, The Thing, The Fly and Silence of the Lambs.

  I still like the other 5 films in my OP from 2 years ago - Star Wars A New Hope, Halloween, The Terminator, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Shaun of the Dead - but I don't rate them as highly.

  Subjectively speaking, A Nightmare on Elm Street is my fav horror film but objectively speaking - it has a couple of flaws and therefore doesn't get my highest grade and isn't a masterpiece ... but I still love it. I'd give it 9/10.

  I expect my list of my highest-rated films to grow in time as I see more and more movies and as I learn more about how stories are/should be told and how films are/should be made.
  
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  Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Alive and Well

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was on facebook and a person i have known for a long time posted how trump is mentally ill and is truly a psychopath.

  a couple of her friends chimed in when i suggested that perhaps the fb friend was really the psychopath.

  a couple of her friends began to defend her but i was surprised by how many people defended the president!

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  Can you be an idiot and run a multi-billion dollar organization? See GB of JWs - you can't really compare the GB and Trump.

  Trump won a democratic election - millions of people voted for him.

  The GB is a cosy club that leads a cult, and the masses don't vote for them. Big difference, really.
  
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  Your Top Ten Favourite Movies?

  by LoveUniHateExams in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  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.

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  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.

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  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

  1. jw
  2. friends

  housebound by weather.

  been watching flash mobs.

  what a wonderful thing they are..

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  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

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  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 .

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  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

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  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.

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  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

  1. jw
  2. friends

  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!!

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  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

  1. jw
  2. 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.

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  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

  1. jw
  2. 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.

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  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?