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Atrocities · #21 February 28th, 2004, 02:46 AM

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I've read Sphere, but that was a few years ago and I don't remember all of the details. I'll take your word for it, because I think that was one of Crichton's worse books. I didn't really care for it enough to read it again.

So there is a movie about this book?
Is it in the theaters now?

The movie is not very good, but still ok for a friday night flick. The book goes much deeper into what the sphere is actually allowing them to do and how they manipulate each other.

Atrocities · #22 February 28th, 2004, 02:48 AM

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You would think with all the bad luck I have had in my life, God blames me personally for the death of his son. As if I was the guy who tacked him to that cross or something.

If I was, I AM SORRY!

Who says he have a son?
Oh wait, we are his sons!

I hope you aren't taking seriuously that crappy movie that started Last Wednesday.
That movie doesn't deserve your thoughts, not your time, least of all your money.

Go and watch Return of the King again instead.

I have absolutely no desire to see Mel's new movie. Just does not interest me in the slightest.

Puke · #23 March 1st, 2004, 09:09 AM

ugg, flatliners. i think there was a sequel, and if not, then there was atleast another terrible filem with an almost identical premise - came out Last year.

was called.. umm.. well, i cant remember what it was called. but it was about people dieing and coming back after cheating death, and death trying to catch up with them. they kept narrowly avoiding accidents and having near-misses with fatal situations. very silly. Not intentionally silly like Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, but unintentionally silly.

I enjoyed Jacob's Ladder. Very good movie about death.

Personally, I dont think theres anything afterwards. All the stories to the contrary are concocted to encourage certain modes of behavior, or to either deffer or instill a sense of responsibility for events in your life. But you dont care what i think, and thats why god invented the 'ignore' list.

narf poit chez BOOM · #24 March 1st, 2004, 11:04 PM

well, P, in one of the earlier threads, i logically proved that i cannot be the result of random electro-magnetic fluctuations in my brain, but only one person understood what i was saying. he didn't agree with me, but i still proved it.

Kamog · #25 March 2nd, 2004, 09:05 AM

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Seriously, if you think about it, it does seem logical to think that what we believe death to be is exactly what it could be.

I thought about it but I don't understand why that would be logical? I don't think it matters what I think what death is going to be like. It's going to be what it is regardless of what I believe, wouldn't it?

Sabin · #26 March 2nd, 2004, 09:18 AM

I heard one interesting idea about Heaven & Hell many months ago, and perhaps it may make for an interesting concept for some of you.

Basically, Heaven is a world with God(specific deity) and Hell is a world without God, and a human has the choice to pick between the two worlds, depending on his desires.

It is much like the typical Heaven & Hell explaination, but it seems different in how "bad" each possibility is, where they are instead equal choices that a human may choose.(Perhaps much like when a person likes or dislike specific condiments on a hamburger.)

Atrocities · #27 March 2nd, 2004, 10:47 AM

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Seriously, if you think about it, it does seem logical to think that what we believe death to be is exactly what it could be.

I thought about it but I don't understand why that would be logical? I don't think it matters what I think what death is going to be like. It's going to be what it is regardless of what I believe, wouldn't it?

What if your wrong and you have imagined death to be nothing more than unawared darkness?

I mean why can't death be what we want it to be? The theory is sound, and can not be disproven, or proven.

EvilGenius4ABetterTomorro · #28 March 2nd, 2004, 09:52 PM

I've been having serious thoughts lately about other dimensions. Just as a shadow is a 2 dimensional representation of lights effect on something in the 3 dimensional world, maybe we are representative of something in a higher dimension. Life is a shadow of our soul existing in a higher dimension. If you read about the description of "The Garden of Eden" with no hunger, no pain, no adverse environmental effects; it kinda sounds like "The Afterlife". I bet our punishment was to exist in the material world for the Apple/Tree of Knowledge snake thingy. You only go to hell if you hitch a ride on the Event Horizon spaceship

Siegebreaker · #29 March 2nd, 2004, 10:28 PM

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I bet our punishment was to exist in the material world for the Apple/Tree of Knowledge snake thingy.

It was the "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil", not just the tree of knowledge. It's suppose to be about knowing how to do "Good" or "Evil", not about having knowledge as in technological knowledge.
Or so my dad says.

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You only go to hell if you hitch a ride on the Event Horizon spaceship

Yeah, I had forgotten about this one. Nice B-movie.

[ March 02, 2004, 20:29: Message edited by: SB ]

narf poit chez BOOM · #30 March 2nd, 2004, 10:40 PM

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I bet our punishment was to exist in the material world for the Apple/Tree of Knowledge snake thingy.

Well, us mormons view the whole 'ate the fruit' thing as a nessasary act to further our progression, seeing as conflict is nessasary for a person to be tested.