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TerryWalstrom
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James Horner dies
by Xanthippe ini'm shocked to hear that composer james horner has been killed in a plane crash aged 61. so many film scores, titanic, avatar, braveheart, field of dreams, aliens, cocoon, patriot games, bicentennial man, star trek iii: the search for spock, sneakers, batteries not included, the name of the rose and many, many more.
a genius who will be sadly missed.
he gave us so much beautiful music..
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James Horner dies
by Xanthippe ini'm shocked to hear that composer james horner has been killed in a plane crash aged 61. so many film scores, titanic, avatar, braveheart, field of dreams, aliens, cocoon, patriot games, bicentennial man, star trek iii: the search for spock, sneakers, batteries not included, the name of the rose and many, many more.
a genius who will be sadly missed.
he gave us so much beautiful music..
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James Horner dies
by Xanthippe ini'm shocked to hear that composer james horner has been killed in a plane crash aged 61. so many film scores, titanic, avatar, braveheart, field of dreams, aliens, cocoon, patriot games, bicentennial man, star trek iii: the search for spock, sneakers, batteries not included, the name of the rose and many, many more.
a genius who will be sadly missed.
he gave us so much beautiful music..
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TerryWalstrom
James Horner came along and broke into film scoring by delivering A-list music for bargain basement prices.
Roger Corman, the stingy, independent B-movie mogul, hired Horner to score Humanoids from the Deep and Battle Beyond the Stars for a laughably tiny budget. What Horner delivered made everybody in Hollywood sit up and take notice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mSgqMOKJho&list=PLH9C08qrQ7S4Vc1KhlqijNh137diNhJ42__________________________________
In a mere 2 year's time, Horner was given the opportunity to score big budget films such as STAR TREK II THE WRATH OF KHAN, KRULL, and BRAINSTORM, COCOON. He became a celebrated A-list composer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_xN0LOLG3I
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Teaming up with the legendary film Director James Cameron (a notorious slave-driver and perfectionist) James Horner produced a mammoth score to a ground-breaking Sci-Fi flick; ALIENS. Horner swore he'd never work with James Cameron again because it had almost killed him:)
A few years passed and Cameron came around to call, resulting in the international, runaway hit film
TITANIC which sold 27 million soundtrack albums and netted Horner 2 Academy Awards.
Again with Cameron, AVATAR joined the list of films ranked as the biggest box-office hits of all time.
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What James Horner could be counted on to deliver was emotionally moving, melodic film scores which could change gears and knock the audience over backwards. Wildly diverse subjects and styles soon followed.
WILLOW, FIELD OF DREAMS, HONEY--I SHRUNK THE KIDS, GLORY, THE ROCKETEER, PATRIOT GAMES, LEGENDS OF THE FALL, A BEAUTIFUL MIND
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For Mel Gibson's directorial debut, James Horner composed BRAVEHEART. Once again, the musical core of the emotion fully embodied a robust and unashamedly romantic film brilliantly illustrated by the orchestra.
And on. . . and on. . .
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My personal favorite among Horner's excellent film scores is THE ROCKETEER. In my opinion, it combines everything an exciting adventure should contain musically.
The orchestrations, arrangements, dynamics and performance of this music is brilliant in every way.
It begins with the wonderful theme expressed by piano and blossoms and develops from there by adding more and more instruments. About the 2:00 minute mark, Horner cranks it up and adds shimmering excitement with horns and violins. Soon, the entire ensemble begins exchanging melodic fragments and tossing them back and forth as each instrument group gets to have its say. The snare drums set the rhythm and the entire ensemble takes flight. The volume drops and a build up to the restatement of the countermelody in the French Horns is punctuated by rapid violin and xylophone scales until the safe landing.
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Most film music today avoids a strong melodic theme, instead relying on percussion and meandering chords.
I find it unimaginative and the sameness of one score compared with another is almost laughable--like a rubber stamp marked: action music.
I was deeply saddened by this 61-year-old composer's sudden death while flying his single-engine propeller airplane.
He had another two decades worth of genius to give all of us, as John Williams continues to provide. It is a tragic loss and I for one physically feel the loss.
I just wanted to chime in and publicly thank him for his work and bid him a fond farewell.
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Two creation stories in the bible, why have I never noticed this??
by purrpurr ini'm reading a very interesting book right now "your god is too small" by the atheist republic.
it makes the point that there are two creation accounts in the bible!.
in one humans are created after the animals in the second humans are created before the animals.
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TerryWalstrom
When the Jews were taken captive to Babylon, the population was split apart physically. The ones carried off were the 'important' and influential families into captivity. Those left behind continued as best they could.
Now here is where a very interesting phenomenon occurred. The Jews carried off to Babylon ended up living among the Babylonians and starting their life anew. They likely clung as best they could to their traditional ways, customs, traditions, stories and worldview as long as possible. But, new generations were born under Babylonian culture, folklore, social institutions, literature, and general understanding of the Universe.
For all practical purposes, over a period of 70 years, lots of children were born into and absorbed by Babylonian culture much as Latino babies become Americanized when born into American culture.
Now notice!
When the Jews were released to go back and rebuild, they met up with the old Jews left behind and their children. A CLASH of cultures was inevitable!
The Bible stories were told DIFFERENTLY by the former captives because they had taken on Babylonian 'flavor'. So, who was going to be regarded as having the CORRECT story?
NOTE: In order to offend as few people as possible, the Old Testament included BOTH VERSIONS of several key stories into the text. There are two versions of creation, two versions of Noah's saga, etc.
These actually are two completely DIFFERENT tellings of legends and hand-me-down tales.
In one version, Noah took 7 of the clean animals, and 2 of the unclean.
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Two creation stories in the bible, why have I never noticed this??
by purrpurr ini'm reading a very interesting book right now "your god is too small" by the atheist republic.
it makes the point that there are two creation accounts in the bible!.
in one humans are created after the animals in the second humans are created before the animals.
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TerryWalstrom
https://culturalstudies101.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/friedman_who-wrote-the-bible.pdf
This is a fine book with specific, scholarly information which will answer your question precisely.
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RULES FOR (APOSTATE) RADICALS---ARE YOU LISTENING, WATCHTOWER?
by TerryWalstrom in.......................are you listening, watchtower?this is a time for revolution and not revelation!you claim revelation, but we claim revolution.
it shall be a quiet, methodical, and--above all--effective revolution against your revelation.. 1. know the difference between being realistic rather than being rhetorical.. _______________________.
to be effective, you must give full respect to your audience's values or else you shut down their ability to hear and listen.
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TerryWalstrom
The biggest obstacle to an effective insurgency is JW's have no say in their system. So, you can't very well create a voting block to change policy. You can only pick them off one by one. And even those who are vulnerable to 'waking up' are usually showing signs of 'spiritual sickness' which makes them targets for intimidation by Elders.
The disaffected group meeting at Bethel (in the Ray Franz era) triggered an Inquisition and purge. Even after all subsequent fallout, the only consequence was a ratcheting down. The Org became paranoid and oppressive.
But, it's good to have a checklist of strategies if you encounter a JW (as I did) who has been beaten down to the point they can smell that something is wrong and have become curios to what is behind the curtain.
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The incredibly white NAACP leader
by Simon inthis is a bizarre story.. there is a woman who is the local leader of the naacp who is obviously trying to mislead people into believing she is black who is actually white.
very white.. she obviously gets a tan regularly but looks more orange.
yes, orange really is the new black!.
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TerryWalstrom
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Apparently WHITE isn't really a color!
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RULES FOR (APOSTATE) RADICALS---ARE YOU LISTENING, WATCHTOWER?
by TerryWalstrom in.......................are you listening, watchtower?this is a time for revolution and not revelation!you claim revelation, but we claim revolution.
it shall be a quiet, methodical, and--above all--effective revolution against your revelation.. 1. know the difference between being realistic rather than being rhetorical.. _______________________.
to be effective, you must give full respect to your audience's values or else you shut down their ability to hear and listen.
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WATCHTOWER AND BULLSHIT VIEWS ON SCIENCE (THE WATCHTOWER JUNE 2015)
by TerryWalstrom inthe watchtower june 2015 (bullshit).
the latest watchtower (online at j-dub dot argh!
) features a hilarious article.
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No no No No NO! Jehovah's Witnesses are NOT COOL NOW!
by TerryWalstrom inthey obviously know it.. in the last few years, a more modern, hip, and cool image for their brand has been foisted on the public at large.. jw.org.
(sidebar: a group of us witnesses, when i was a teen, were sternly lectured by a circuit servant about how wrong it was to refer to ourselves as jw's.want to know why?
he said, "reducing jehovah's name to mere letters of an alphabet is blasphemy!
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TerryWalstrom
I regularly meet with a young man who is still currently a JW. He is my direct contact with what the current
mindset is inside the Org. I am amazed. The GB are viewed as celebrity status. There is definite elitism connected with the entire idea of a spooky hotline between Jehovah and the gang of idiots who run the show.
Nobody dares to question anything they say.
It's very sick and definitely cultish.