wasanelderonce: "Terry, wasn't it fantastic how they set the shepherd boy up as an unreliable narrator with his shepherding stories casting doubt on the big reveal at the end? You can't be sure if it is what it seems. Did you want to believe he did what they imply? That appears the gist of the whole show. I wish they left the subtitles on longer damn-it."
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My favorite gimmick in drama is the unreliable narrator. Mostly because people who speak "their own truth" always think reality belongs to their perception.
I had to freeze frame MOST of the subtitles!
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11NETFLIX: "Messiah" ... all I can say is "Wow!!"
by Terry innetflix : messiah.
remember how you felt watching close encounters of the 3rd kindfor the first time?that's what i'm feeling at the end of season 1 episode 2 ofmessiah.it's not what you think it's going to be.it's not jeffrey hunter in king of kings, or mel gibson's passion of the christ, or the left behind series, or temptation of the christ, or the greatest story ever told.. this isn't a hollywood version of anything.. folks, at the end of episode 2 i'm thinking i'm watching extraordinary storytelling fresh, original, superbly acted and -best of all: no bullshit.. don't read anything about it.
don't watch previews.
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What Do We Know for Certain?? Experts, Authorities, Scientists are often Dead WRONG
by Terry indo i know anything for certain?yes!when so-called "authority" predict the future - they are wrong.and yet - we always believe them.
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2912 mayan calendar apocalypse1910 : halley's cometa worldwide panic ensued, stoked by the media and such newspaper headlines as “comet may kill all earth life, says scientist.”1831 the great disappointmentwilliam miller began preaching in 1831 that the end of the world as we know it would occur with the second coming of jesus christ in 1843. he attracted as many as 100,000 followers who believed that they would be carried off to heaven when the date arrived.
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I think I've read every book Isaac Asimov ever wrote about Science. He 'man-splained' better than most.
I'll always remember his quote:[W]hen people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.—Isaac Asimov MODERN SCIENTISTS ARE WRONG FAR MORE THAN YOU THINK
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
_____Rewriting the textbooks: When science gets it wrong
https://www.newscientist.com/round-up/rewriting-the-textbooks/
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Do You Trump Should Have Exterminated That Poor Iranian Fellow?
by minimus ingood move or bad?
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Terry what do you mean “bogus gas attacks “? The Syrian military absolutely killed their own people using gas.
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16 December 2019
"...a series of internal OPCW files published by WikiLeaks, and reporting by columnist Peter Hitchens in the Daily Mail, show that serious concerns have been raised by members of the OPCW Fact Finding Mission (FFM) to Douma about evidence that was excluded from the final report in order to implicate Assad.
Documents published by WikiLeaks on Saturday confirm that there is significant dissent within the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the global chemical weapons watchdog, over the doctoring of a public report on the alleged April 7, 2018 chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria, which reportedly killed 49 people and wounded as many as 650.
The latest round of revelations makes clear that the US-led regime-change operation in Syria, which began in 2011, has been based on a pack of lies. The role of WikiLeaks in exposing these lies demonstrates why the US government has been pursuing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange so ferociously, along with Washington's partners in crime such as Britain and Australia.
Relying on video that showed alleged victims of the attack in a hospital gasping for air and foaming at the mouth, the Trump administration and its European allies launched missile strikes against Syria just one week later. The US-led attack was an act of war that threatened to spark a wider conflict with Russia and Iran, both of which have military forces deployed in the country to back the Assad government in the eight-year regime-change war fueled by the CIA.
While the Trump administration made no effort to seek independent confirmation of the allegations against Assad before taking military action, the OPCW report and the organization’s supposedly objective stance were used to justify the assault months after the fact."
Patrick Martin
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Apparently a repeat of an earlier bogus attribution...
8 April 2014Nearly two days after the London Review of Books published a lengthy exposé by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh detailing efforts by the Turkish government to stage a provocation to bring the US military directly into the civil war in Syria, the US media has blacked out the report.
Hersh, who has authored groundbreaking investigative reports uncovering US atrocities, including the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War and the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib during the Iraq war, titled his article on last August’s sarin gas attack outside of Damascus “The Red Line and the Rat Line.”
The “red line” refers to President Obama’s threat to attack Syria if the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons. The “rat line” was a CIA-organized supply chain running from Benghazi, Libya through southern Turkey and into Syria, which was used to smuggle weapons to the Syrian “rebels.”
The article describes efforts by the Turkish government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to assist Syrian “rebels” of the al-Nusra Front, an Islamist force linked to Al Qaeda, in staging the poison gas attack on Ghouta on August 21, 2013.
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Do You Trump Should Have Exterminated That Poor Iranian Fellow?
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Our fear or annoyance is largely manufactured by our news outlets and opinions are shaped
by thinly-disguised propaganda.
In fact, the editorial mindset has subsumed "actual factual" reporting by neutral parties.
We watched news media cheer Trump when he launched rockets against Syria because of (now revealed to be bogus) gas attacks.
Now we are watching the crocodile tears and outrage of commentators and "analysts" who cluck cluck
imperious recitations of disapproval of Trump's hubris.
It is phony because government and politics is practiced by phonies.
You and me, we only know what we are told.
Our opinion is manufactured one way or the other EXACTLY the same way our Jehovah's Witness belief system was manufactured. We trusted. We believed. We recited our "Truth."
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NETFLIX: "Messiah" ... all I can say is "Wow!!"
by Terry innetflix : messiah.
remember how you felt watching close encounters of the 3rd kindfor the first time?that's what i'm feeling at the end of season 1 episode 2 ofmessiah.it's not what you think it's going to be.it's not jeffrey hunter in king of kings, or mel gibson's passion of the christ, or the left behind series, or temptation of the christ, or the greatest story ever told.. this isn't a hollywood version of anything.. folks, at the end of episode 2 i'm thinking i'm watching extraordinary storytelling fresh, original, superbly acted and -best of all: no bullshit.. don't read anything about it.
don't watch previews.
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It's a slow building character study for sure.
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NETFLIX: "Messiah" ... all I can say is "Wow!!"
by Terry innetflix : messiah.
remember how you felt watching close encounters of the 3rd kindfor the first time?that's what i'm feeling at the end of season 1 episode 2 ofmessiah.it's not what you think it's going to be.it's not jeffrey hunter in king of kings, or mel gibson's passion of the christ, or the left behind series, or temptation of the christ, or the greatest story ever told.. this isn't a hollywood version of anything.. folks, at the end of episode 2 i'm thinking i'm watching extraordinary storytelling fresh, original, superbly acted and -best of all: no bullshit.. don't read anything about it.
don't watch previews.
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This is the only instance I know of or remember where the creators of a religious-themed story
have no obvious bias one way or other.
The fact that it is so neutral and yet has come in for heavy criticism anyway is mind boggling.
The political aspects of migration, Israel v Palestine, Muslim v Christianity, Liberal v Conservative,
C.I.A. v F.B.I, etc, were presented in such a practical and pragmatic fashion, it is practically a miracle in itself.
I like how the rug is pulled from under my expectations time and again. That's hard to do.
I thought I saw things coming a mile off that were inevitable only to discover I was soooo wrong.
Nothing tickles me more than being wrong. I love it. -
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NETFLIX: "Messiah" ... all I can say is "Wow!!"
by Terry innetflix : messiah.
remember how you felt watching close encounters of the 3rd kindfor the first time?that's what i'm feeling at the end of season 1 episode 2 ofmessiah.it's not what you think it's going to be.it's not jeffrey hunter in king of kings, or mel gibson's passion of the christ, or the left behind series, or temptation of the christ, or the greatest story ever told.. this isn't a hollywood version of anything.. folks, at the end of episode 2 i'm thinking i'm watching extraordinary storytelling fresh, original, superbly acted and -best of all: no bullshit.. don't read anything about it.
don't watch previews.
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Finished watching the ten episode Netflix MESSIAH.
Oh man - magnificent!
No matter what you disbelieve or believe you are depicted and represented by a character in this series.
Skeptic, True-believer, on the fence, on both sides of the fence, angry at the idea of blasphemy or open-minded : it's ALL there and it's for you.
Let's put it this way. A great novel makes you want to keep reading it and never end. A great mystery novel makes your race along to the end and hope for a surprise.
This series is a combination of both.
If you are simply curious and want to get it over with - let me save you the trouble. The real identity of this possible Messiah is way more complicated than a yes or no.
It's a series closely examining what it is that drives people toward and away from the very idea of God.
How demanding, how gullible, how beautiful, how ugly the entire idea of "faith" is and mostly...how contagious and explosive.
This is SEASON ONE (there's plenty of room for more if Netflix has the guts.) -
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Draft: Transmission of the text
by Doug Mason ini am in the process of preparing a study that will include the impact of second temple judaism.
it will take me a few more months to complete.. early draft material on part of my study, dealing with aspects of the transmission of the text, is available at:.
https://jwstudies.com/transmission_of_the_text.pdf.
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Hey Doug - way to go, my friend!
If all your writings were put between covers and published, the final tome would be too heavy to lift. :)
Your work is never less than scrupulous, intelligently and thoughtfully wrought. I look forward to
poring over this.
Thank you! -
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NETFLIX: "Messiah" ... all I can say is "Wow!!"
by Terry innetflix : messiah.
remember how you felt watching close encounters of the 3rd kindfor the first time?that's what i'm feeling at the end of season 1 episode 2 ofmessiah.it's not what you think it's going to be.it's not jeffrey hunter in king of kings, or mel gibson's passion of the christ, or the left behind series, or temptation of the christ, or the greatest story ever told.. this isn't a hollywood version of anything.. folks, at the end of episode 2 i'm thinking i'm watching extraordinary storytelling fresh, original, superbly acted and -best of all: no bullshit.. don't read anything about it.
don't watch previews.
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Netflix : MESSIAH
Remember how you felt watching Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
for the first time?
That's what I'm feeling at the end of Season 1 Episode 2 of
MESSIAH.
It's not what you think it's going to be.
It's not Jeffrey Hunter in King of Kings, or Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ, or the Left Behind series, or Temptation of the Christ, or The Greatest Story Ever Told.This isn't a Hollywood version of anything.
Folks, at the end of Episode 2 I'm thinking I'm watching extraordinary storytelling fresh, original, superbly acted and -
best of all: no bullshit.Don't read anything about it. Don't watch previews. Go into it cold.
I don't know what's up ahead but for now - this is the best thing I've seen of its kind.Give a couple of episodes a try.
"Who are you?"
"I am the Word."
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Time passes
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I'm on Episode 9 with 1 to go.
Each character is a living, breathing, flesh and blood person given time to develop. How rare this is!
I love how the slow unfolding of plot always leaves the viewer revising an opinion as to WHO this man is. Just when you think you know - there is more information.
That's why my Close Encounters of the Third Kind analogy is apt.
Exactly how would we react - each of us?
We all bring our point of view and expectations and doubts.
Is seeing the same as believing?
The Sunni Muslims see Messiah as either an Anti-Christ demonic persona - OR - the arrival of the actual promised figure bringing about the end.
Christians, Buddhists and Jews - how do they see and react?
What about the sick and dying?
Atheists, Agnostics?
One by one these human beings are confronted with a true test of their humanity, spirituality, and suspicious intelligence.
This is a GREAT MYSTERY to be solved.
Here I am with two episodes to go and I cannot guess what comes next. I have been wrong again and again.
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What Do We Know for Certain?? Experts, Authorities, Scientists are often Dead WRONG
by Terry indo i know anything for certain?yes!when so-called "authority" predict the future - they are wrong.and yet - we always believe them.
examples:________.
2912 mayan calendar apocalypse1910 : halley's cometa worldwide panic ensued, stoked by the media and such newspaper headlines as “comet may kill all earth life, says scientist.”1831 the great disappointmentwilliam miller began preaching in 1831 that the end of the world as we know it would occur with the second coming of jesus christ in 1843. he attracted as many as 100,000 followers who believed that they would be carried off to heaven when the date arrived.
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NYTimes
HILLARY 91% chance of winningTuesday, October 18, 2016
TRUMP 9%
