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  1. I get what point you are trying to make, but the 2005 Texas roster had like 11 of the 22 players make an impact in the NFL, you dolt.
  2. Sorry, I should have clarified this was in response to the specific prompt from Derka asking how to reconcile God/Jesus and knowing (allowing) death that is, to our way of thinking and being, all together tragic. This part below (quoted). Of course, you are completely right, just because what I’ve said can be true to someone doesn’t absolve them of responsibility and one shouldn’t allow for evil to prosper and woe to the Christians who do.
  3. Have you ever heard Christians say “To live is Christ, to die is gain”? I think a lot of the answers to questions non-Christians have reverts back to a fundamental precept: salvation that leads to eternal life, in the sense of the literal infinite is near-infinitely more important and real than the temporal life we think we are leading here on earth, for the 80 or so years we have the physical and material experience. For me, there is a lot of hope and peace in knowing that the suffering, no matter how gruesome or horrible the death, leads to the next, undying life. As the Good Book and like the old hymnal said, “O death, where is your sting?”
  4. I actually thought Dunkirk was rather boring. Prestige is his best movie and Batman Begins is the best of the Batman trilogy, by a wide margin. The Dark Knight was only iconic because of Heath Ledger's Joker.
  5. That's called humility. And humility is the only currency that spends in God's kingdom.
  6. And I think Disney might have thought she was dead too with the ole "ScarJo, we aren't paying you btw. thnx". I actually thought of that drama when I saw Jurassic Rebirth in a "well, looks like it worked out for her that she got paid and didn't get blackballed for standing up to big studio hollywood-- I'd bet a goodly number of women not her would have been donezo"
  7. Inception aged into kitsch around the edges (and is by no means as schlocky as bozo is trying to characterize it as) and even still, it's better than Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer is entirely overrated for my tastes. That said, I am looking forward to Nolan's treatment of The Odyssey which I saw a quick ad for this weekend, starring Spiderman and The Punisher.
  8. I was jeered when I said I loved Black Widow, but I thought it was an A-tier MCU movie based on a lot of what you said above. I think Black Widow coming out during covid made it fly under the radar too maybe. I haven't seen Thunderbolts but it's the one MCU vehicle that's come out the past couple of years I am intending on seeing when I get some time.
  9. The thunderclap being sent from God reminded me of this joke:
  10. "You'd pay $8..." IYKYK.
  11. Is it the state, or the people? Chicken, or the egg?
  12. Extreme events like this are going to become more common and we must learn how to deal with them. This includes improving infrastructure to withstand more intense precipitation as well as upgrading our warning systems so people can evacuate at-risk areas safely. Both of those cost money, which people don’t want to pay for. From the NYTimes article: In an interview, Rob Kelly, the Kerr County judge and its most senior elected official, said the county did not have a warning system because such systems are expensive, and local residents are resistant to new spending. “Taxpayers won’t pay for it,” Mr. Kelly said. Asked if people might reconsider in light of the catastrophe, he said, “I don’t know.”
  13. tl;dr: here’s what you need to know: We have added a lot of carbon to the atmosphere, and that extra carbon traps energy in the climate system. Because of this extra energy, every weather event we see now carries some influence from climate change. The only question is how big that influence is. Measuring the exact size takes careful attribution studies, but basic physics already tells us the direction: climate change very likely made this event stronger.
  14. When it expands to vape in September, the TCUP program might actually be worth a dang!
  15. 100% this (in my belief).
  16. “Jurassic World Rebirth,” the seventh in the dinosaur-thriller series, topped the domestic box office with $147.3 million in ticket sales over the five-day holiday weekend. (Variety) https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/jurassic-world-rebirth-opening-weekend-box-office-july-4th-holiday-weekend-1236448064/
  17. I agree with this take. It's not great and it's formulaic as can be, but it's action-packed and dino-laden which is perfect for a popcorn summer movie. It's goofy with the George Lucas and Porg-esque baby dino who does nothing except is cute and probably a consultants idea for merch and revenue long tail (no pun intended) once the movie has completed it's run. Numbers out over the 4 day weekend are very good (critics have not been as kind, but it's a commercial smash).
  18. That's cheap for Dubai Chocolate. A good bar will set you back $25-30. Grandkids been on teh Dubai Chocolate bar trend since like Feb or March, so I've had to buy them I'd know. Wait until you learn about Labubu's...
  19. Right, but she has a “name” and is a somebody. Even if she was one of the taller midgets pre-CC.
  20. Crisis averted. Regulation is still in play for all 50 states.
  21. I get what you are saying, but I actually think you are making the opposite point by saying it. WNBA was a flailing league. If it wasn't outright dying, it sure wasn't growing with any alacrity that would anyone would confuse with health. If you cop to being a WNBA fan pre-CC, that is cool, but it's rare. And it stands to reason that the reason the league was failing (cue Bill Burr for the 11th time) is that it had no broad support from any sufficiently large demographic. So the fact that the (massive) growth drivers are new fans who don't really know a lot of the players who were drowning in a sinking league isn't the flex you think it is. That said, there are a few names that casual fans shold have heard of and I think Kelsie Plum is one of them. You should have a passing awareness that she is a person and a component of the league just as I know there is a fat rapper named LIzzo and Gorilla the red, even though I have never and will never listen to woman rap. Just by virtue of being alive.
  22. Not to get all semantic, but there is a distinction between the hebrew words "to kill" and "to murder". As Marlon Brando famously said, "I'm having a little trouble getting started, Father." Priest : You are in the House of God now, my son. Speak from your heart. "Well, I've done a lot of killin'. I've killed a lot of men and sinned a lot of women. But the men I killed needed killin' and the women wanted sinnin', and well, I never was one much to argue."
  23. 100% agree with you, with respect to me. But I can compartmentalize (aka, have empathy) with others who might not share my worldview and spiritual beliefs. Far be it for me to sit in judgment (for many reasons, a big one you hit upon with me).
  24. It's pretty arrogant to presuppose what and how someone should grieve and what or how should bring a sense of emotional comfort and closure to someone who is not yourself. Even if you vaguely agree on such broad concepts like "justice", the details can be widely different for different people (e.g. justice for one might be the death penalty in an eye-for-an-eye and for another it could mean a cosmic or spiritual justice like hell once life on earth ends, etc.)
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