Posts by deeskis

as many of you will know i am having serious doubts regarding many of the jw teachings and doing some research myself, very enlightening.. my point - .

the bible clearly mentions armageddon, a destructive event, gods war.. jws believe this will happen soon and destroy all the wicked but let the righteous remain.

deeskis

Hi The Scotsman.....not to be confused with "Scotsman"!

What is armagedon?.......

Armageddon
Armageddon is a taut fast-paced thriller which starts off great but gets tiresome toward the end. The plot is simple: an asteroid is headed on a collision course toward Earth. To stop it, the US government sends a bunch of roughneck oil drillers into space to drill a hole in the asteroid so they can drop and detonate a nuclear weapon inside, before it is too late.
The problem with disaster movies is that it is very hard to find an antagonist, i.e., someone you hate by the end of the movie. After all, an asteroid or a volcano or a twister doesn't give a rat's arse about what humans think (it can't). Some movies try to cast natural disasters as either a force out to teach us a lesson or as an evil entity. Wisely enough, the primary focus in Armageddon is the motley crew and not the rock floating through space.
I thought the visual effects were cheesy and the dialogue was corny. The character (we're introduced to one too many) development is non-existent. The acting is mixed: Bruce Willis is a great actor and he gets a lot of the spot light. Most of the other actors are just there for the entertainment value. Christopher Walken, er, William Fichtner, does a good job as captain of the space shuttle, but he appears to be the only one taking the movie seriously. Liv Tyler and Ben Affleck, as lovers, have the chemistry of oil and water. The sound track is dated (music by Trevor Rabin, who, although a great musician, could've done better here).
The one saving grace is that the action and suspense sequences are great. The attempts at humour work for the most part and make this movie enjoyable. Worth the matinee fare.
http://www.ram.org/ramblings/movies/armageddon.html

Oh, did you mean something different??

BTW, google "what is armageddon" and you're on the first page :)

You said it's hard sitting at a meeting thinking that you don't believe what you're being fed,.........there's many here that can relate to that.

Best wishes

D

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I just completely lost it with my father!!!

by Es in

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friends

my mums mum is very sick, she has been in hospital the last month with really bad infection, they have tried every time of antibiotics to get rid of it.

this last week she has refused to eat and drink, she told my mum she was tired of all of this, and basically said her goodbyes the other night.. we went in on saturday to see her, my mum was there, and even tho it was a little strained we managed to talk for a few hours it was nice to see her.. i got a phone call off my dad's mum today saying that my nan was deteriorating, so i msg my mum to see if this was true, it wasnt, my nan likes to dramatise things, my mum promised me she would keep me updated.

i received a phone call about an hour ago from my nan (dads mum) saying that the infection has cleared up and that she is improving and eating and drinking.

deeskis

((((Es))))

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LED ZEP REUNION

by tijkmo in

not overly bothered myself...but i'm sure many will be.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article2406549.ece.

deeskis

I went to the Page/Plant tour in 1995 at Indianapolis. It was awesome!

I went in Sydney, ditto! was it really 1995.............seems like yesterday!

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LED ZEP REUNION

by tijkmo in

not overly bothered myself...but i'm sure many will be.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article2406549.ece.

deeskis

I went to the Page/Plant tour in 1995 at Indianapolis. It was awesome!

JK

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Madeline's parents formally named suspects...Something smells "fishy" here

by Dragonlady76 in

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friends

i felt that the parents were genuine in their pleas for madelines return, however this mornings news has left me stunned.. .

deeskis

It reminds me of Lindy Chamberlain "a dingo took my baby", she was convicted of murdering her baby, many people thought she was guilty because she was stony faced and didn't grieve the way they felt she should. In that case there was also traces of blood found in the car, underneath the carpet, which years later proved to be a rust protectant.

The report I read on madelines mother is that it was thought she gave madeline an accidental overdose of a sedative which killed her and she panicked and invented the abduction. That doesn't add up either, why invent that, it would be easier to say that the child got into the tablets herself...........

anyway the whole mess is just tragic.