Professor Peedston

i can honestly say i've never kissed a dead or dying person.

Labradford - "David" a beautiful song. :D

(my post is from "West Side Story." not to be taken seriously :P )

I just found it odd that the makers of useless, expensive, status-symbol cars also make useless, expensive, status-symbol shoes too for some reason. :P

Here's an idea: have a devout Muslim director and a devout Jewish director make their own movies about Jesus's death, and then show them with Gibson's movie. It'd be a balanced way of viewing it anyway. :P

Just seeing if anybody else here is a fan. If not... you'll probably be bored by them. :P But if you want to hear atmospheric instrumental music in it's most stripped down form, check them out, I guess.

i'll let the website speak for itself. http://www.hummerfootwear.com

Well, as you say, most people who see it will likely know the story, so to them, it won't look like Jesus is all of a sudden condemned to death for no reason. I'm still going to wait until I've seen it before I judge it one way or the other, but I'm not really worried about it fueling anti-semitism, because I think most people are smarter than that nowadays. An interesting side note: the guy who plays Jesus was struck by lightning while filming the Sermon on the Mount. If that's not a bad omen... :lol:

I watched that too, and to me, he didn't look at all like a bigot or close-minded. He just looked like somebody who has strong beliefs (keep in mind that I am in no way a christian). He even said something along the lines of "It's possible for people who aren't Catholics to go to heaven," which is something many devout Catholics will never even consider. In fact, I almost felt bad for him that he had to sit there and answer stupid questions like "are you an anti-semite?" It looked to me like Diane Sawyer doesn't understand the concept of a religion, with some of the questions she was asking him. I think he handled it very well. And about God helping him make the movie, many artists throughout history have made similar claims. If you believe in a God, than Gibson receving His help making the movie shouldn't seem any more ridiculous than Him helping you making everyday decisions, and if you don't (which is the category I fall into), then you can at least admire somebody who has such strong convictions about things. As far as the movie itself is concerned, I'm kind of curious to see if he portrays things as close to the Bible as he claims he did, and I think everybody else should see it first before they start throwing accusations at him. I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt until I see it.

it's an understandable mistake, don't worry. :P

knees?

yeah, we have silent k's every now and then in english. knit, know, kneel, knife, etc. :D

you're talking about this sort of thing, right?

ohhhhh you mean knitting. (you also mean "lack of responses" :P ) no, i don't, but my mom does. she knit me a scarf.

yes, the term originally came from vinyl records and how they had two different sides. when a single was released, the A-sides would be the hit songs that were on the radio and everything, and the B-sides were usually songs that were previously unreleased, and then, as now, were mostly just filler. :P

um... well before i was seeing a guy ringing a bell, now when i open the page i see something that's rather disgusting, to say the least.

umm.... holy shit. that's DEFINITELY not the image that was there before.

I like to be in America Ok with me in America Everything free in America (For a small fee in America)

Curtis Mayfield - "Little Child Runnin' Wild"

the day i die many years from now (with any luck), joe paterno will probably still be coaching penn state, even if he's 150 years old. :lol:

right, and those are more holidays we can thank marketers for. but yeah, i agree wholeheartedly, every day should be for those things, but sometimes we take it for granted, so it's nice to have a reminder for them every now and then.

i think it's pretty obvious that the reason we need that one day to say it is so retail stores can play it up so that everybody runs out and spends money on clothes or flowers or diamonds or whatever else it is that people don't really need. yes, i'm a cynic. :P

i didn't know there was any connetion between them. :confused:

maybe things are looking up for the astros. you did steal both andy petitte and roger clemens from steinbrenner. :P although you don't have billy wagner anymore. OH YEAH!! GO PHILS! (good luck with brandon duckworth, by the way :rolleyes: )