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Post by Valvilis on Feb 27, 2004 3:24:48 GMT -5
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Post by Seany-D on Mar 1, 2004 11:19:34 GMT -5
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Post by ebonywnd on Mar 1, 2004 11:32:10 GMT -5
That's funny. As in a "people are stupid" kind of funny. And by the way, when are the freethinkers going to descend, en mass, on the theater to see this movie? I think we should..that way, when my mom tries for the 20th time (no exaggeration) to get me to see this movie, I can tell her I already saw it. Plus, no one would object to irreverant remarks made during the movie....as long as they were few and quietly spoken.  -Laura "No mom, I'm still an atheist" McIntosh |
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Post by Ravenlock on Mar 1, 2004 12:31:39 GMT -5
Ohhhhhhh kayyy. It's just a frellin number! It's as arbitrary as 667 or 665! What fools! ~Roger "I once got a tax refund for $666 and I never burst into flames" Smith |
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Post by profdunebastard on Mar 1, 2004 13:08:12 GMT -5
Some bible-ologists interpret 666 to be a form of numer to letter code commonly applied in olden tymes. I don't know the exact mechanisms of the code, but I know it interprets as Nero (some interpretations of an ancient print of Rev found in Egypt have a different number that can be decoded as Caligula). either way, it was John's way of condemning Rome, nothing more, and an even greater indication that it was written for people of the time, expecting Jesus and the apocalypse soon. The fact that people today so easily interpret symbolism as reality is staggeringly frightning.
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Post by the anti-myrmidon on Mar 1, 2004 13:30:34 GMT -5
I'd be game to go see it Tuesday night if anyone else is free, since I will be out of town from Thursday until Monday. I can even provide rides, as I am now with car for the next few days.
Wednesday would work too.
Oh yeah...it amuses me too when Revelation is consistently reinterpreted to *perfectly* match whatever current crisis is happening in the world. You'd imagine that the part where it talks of the Babylon harlot being on seven hills would be a pretty obvious giveaway. After all, it was the Babylonians who were involved in destroying the Temple the first time, and the Romans who destroyed it the second time. Of course John would equate the two.
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Post by Seany-D on Mar 1, 2004 13:50:07 GMT -5
It's just a frellin number! Dude, if you use the word "frell" one more friggin' time, I'm gonna kick your pasty-geek, sci-fi loving, tribble-collecting, H.L. Lovecraft worshipping, reality-avoiding buttocks clear across the Red Cedar!!! HUZZAH!! <whew> I feel better now! Sean " 'fuck' is just another word" Davis |
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Post by Valvilis on Mar 1, 2004 13:56:34 GMT -5
Most Trekkies probably don't like Lovecraft. But that's only a most, there are some of us.
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Post by the anti-myrmidon on Mar 1, 2004 15:27:05 GMT -5
Dude, if you use the word "frell" one more friggin' time, I'm gonna kick your pasty-geek, sci-fi loving, tribble-collecting, H.L. Lovecraft worshipping, reality-avoiding buttocks clear across the Red Cedar!!! HUZZAH!! If you really wanted to make that a threat, kick him INTO the Red Cedar, not across it. Not only is it colder and more unpleasant than the land on each side, but it is also more likely to cause growth of various unsightly and unnatural appendages. |
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Post by FishBait on Mar 1, 2004 16:14:33 GMT -5
silly, he'd die from all the e. coli long before he'd get to grow any new appendages
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Post by Rama on Mar 1, 2004 16:22:20 GMT -5
I've read that 666 represents the sun rising at six, reaching it's peak six hours later, and then setting at six.
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Post by Seany-D on Mar 1, 2004 16:40:22 GMT -5
I've read that 666 represents the sun rising at six, reaching it's peak six hours later, and then setting at six. Only if you live at the equator. And it's the vernal or autmnal equinox. And you live equidistant between two longitudinal meridians. And probably other things I am forgetting. Sean "would kill goats for more daylight these days" Davis |
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Post by ebonywnd on Mar 1, 2004 16:57:37 GMT -5
Susan, Tuesday is bad...and isn't there a meeting on Wednesday? I want to see it, but not so much as to spend money AND miss a meeting.
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Post by the anti-myrmidon on Mar 1, 2004 17:48:32 GMT -5
Well, Tuesday would be ideal (unless someone wants to go tonight?), since I think Celebration has half-off student night or something like that on Tuesdays. Wednesday I was thinking post-meeting. Play games until 9-9:30ish, then catch the late show. Since many of you stay until the wee hours of the morning anyway, it's not that unreasonable.
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Post by Seany-D on Mar 1, 2004 18:05:32 GMT -5
Celebration Cinema has $3.50 movies on Tuesday nights, but it's only for select movies, and as long as TPOTC is drawing well, it ain't gonna be one of them.
I'm still torn on supporting the movie. The dispassionate observer feels obligated to view it, while the economist wants to support this movie in no way, shape or form. It already has benefitted too much from media sensationalism. But, like I said, I'm torn, and I have sat through other forms of preaching for different religious sects which were far more controversial than this.
Still, I find the "nail jewlery" awfully tacky.
Sean "fence sitting yet again" Davis
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