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rcurl
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response 225 of 306:
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Mar 2 16:25 UTC 2004 |
Safire expressed more eloquently than I have my sense that this movie is a
piece of the same anti-semitic "tradition" of the classic passion plays.
It is also an example of "religious excess" - carrying aspects of
religious mythology way too far as a means of emphasis. But here these
seeming "traditionalists" go too far. They are the ones that complain that
violence depicted in movies creates a society more tolerant of violence.
How can they applaud this extreme excess of violence?
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albaugh
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response 226 of 306:
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Mar 2 18:37 UTC 2004 |
> Once that button ["Jesus"] is pushed a whole bunch of people go
> into mental lock-step like zombies.
Really, rcurl, such caustic generalizations don't become you.
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rcurl
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response 227 of 306:
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Mar 2 20:04 UTC 2004 |
Well, I did feel that I had perhaps gone too far with that one. But
there is a variety of religious fanaticism that obscures peoples'
senses of proportion (is that a kinder way of saying the same thing?).
I think Passion dips into that kind of fanaticism.
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twenex
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response 228 of 306:
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Mar 2 23:58 UTC 2004 |
"the pope [is] full of hooey". Well, someone once said that 95% of everthing
is crap, which I suppose means that (a) most of us are capable of a lot hooey;
(b) moany of us are full of hooey; (c) a small proportion of us are
responsible for a disporportionate amount of hooey. I wonder which bru agrees
with?
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tod
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response 229 of 306:
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Mar 3 00:02 UTC 2004 |
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twenex
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response 230 of 306:
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Mar 3 00:12 UTC 2004 |
If it could, the GOP would be the party *least* interested in lessening
America's dependence on foreign oil and ruining Alaska.
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jmsaul
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response 231 of 306:
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Mar 3 02:29 UTC 2004 |
Re #224: Safire is talking about Catholic doctrine before Vatican II. He
lives on the same planet you do, but he's better read, apparently.
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richard
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response 232 of 306:
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Mar 3 02:35 UTC 2004 |
this is the MOVIE REVIEW item...can we move the religious discussion drift
to a new item? what movies have you seen lately?
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jmsaul
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response 233 of 306:
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Mar 3 02:38 UTC 2004 |
Unfortunately, none. The current crop of movies doesn't look interesting to
me.
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bru
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response 234 of 306:
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Mar 3 03:08 UTC 2004 |
I kniow what he was talking about Joe. But I spent 8 years in a Christian
SChool during that period. While not catholic, I did grow up in a catholic
neighborhood. I always found the catholics reatehr demented in their
attitude, what with being able to commit sins and then go to confession and
be absolved.
But I never heard any schools or churches in our area that blamed Jews for
the death of Jesus during that period, either before or after.
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aruba
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response 235 of 306:
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Mar 3 03:55 UTC 2004 |
We saw "The Triplets of Belleville" at the Michigan Theater tonight. It was
weird.
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albaugh
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response 236 of 306:
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Mar 3 18:06 UTC 2004 |
I didn't know that Belleville had anything interesting enough going on to make
a movie about. Well, maybe the Strawberry Festival... ;-)
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remmers
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response 237 of 306:
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Mar 3 18:09 UTC 2004 |
Right, the Belleville I know is *so* dull that only Michelangelo Antonioni
would consider making a movie about it.
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tod
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response 238 of 306:
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Mar 3 19:58 UTC 2004 |
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aruba
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response 239 of 306:
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Mar 3 20:20 UTC 2004 |
A passion play is a re-encatment of the Christ story. There is a village in
southern Germany called Oberamergau, which, through some twist of fate, was
spared being hit by the plague in the 1300s. Ever since, in thanks to God,
they enact a big huge passion play every year. It's a big tourist
attraction, I gather.
The movie "Triplets of Belleville" doesn't specify where Belleville is, but
it's certainly on the seacoast, and it has a statue that looks like a short,
fat version of the Statue of Liberty in the harbor. So draw your own
conclusions.
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salad
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response 240 of 306:
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Mar 3 20:40 UTC 2004 |
The airport in belleville sucks compared to the one in Trenton
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twenex
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response 241 of 306:
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Mar 3 21:03 UTC 2004 |
Passion plays originated in mediaeval times, not in the 1930s.
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tpryan
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response 242 of 306:
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Mar 3 21:04 UTC 2004 |
Sorry have to skip over 55 responses in 3 days.
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tod
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response 243 of 306:
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Mar 3 21:04 UTC 2004 |
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jmsaul
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response 244 of 306:
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Mar 3 22:19 UTC 2004 |
(They're an older tradition than that, but Tod's right about how they were
used.)
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tod
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response 245 of 306:
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Mar 4 00:37 UTC 2004 |
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jmsaul
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response 246 of 306:
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Mar 4 23:51 UTC 2004 |
>Jews kidnapped and murdered Christian children
> in ritual sacrifice; the blood of pure Christians was needed by Jews to
> make matzoh.
This seems like a ridiculous and archaic rumor, but it's been published in
the Arab press within the past few years. So this crap isn't dead.
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twenex
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response 247 of 306:
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Mar 4 23:52 UTC 2004 |
if there's anywhere this crap ain't dead, it's in what the (comedic ) Prince
Regent (in Blackadder) called "Jolly Arab Land".
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tod
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response 248 of 306:
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Mar 4 23:53 UTC 2004 |
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richard
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response 249 of 306:
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Mar 5 03:20 UTC 2004 |
Hey Starsky and Hutch is opening tomorrow, with Ben Stiller as Starsky and
Owen Wilson as Hutch-- TV Land is even having a Starsky and Hutch marathon
tonight. That was one of the campier tv shows of the mid/late seventies. The
movie is getting good revies, and yes, Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul--
the REAL Starsky and Hutch-- get cameos
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