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RE: Love Jesus?
June 14, 2014 at 8:53 am
As for the fictional character angle, Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar remind me so strongly of men I know, and then with their relationship so intensely shown in the movie, my feelings towards the characters, and their respective actors would be extremely complex. It is a testimony for the actors skill in their craft that happened. I approached the movie assuming 'Jack' would remind me of an old boyfriend, and 'Ennis' would be myself. I came out of the movie, despite my presupposition, with 'Ennis' strongly portraying a married man I know in Wisconsin (GASP!!) and 'Jack' stunningly reminded me of me. It was quite a jolt.
I'd say scripture has sufficient (if mutually inconsistent) detail about Jesus that someone might feel they know him well enough to develop a romantic love for the man. (as for the religious brotherhood love thing, I am not addressing that now) I'm thinking the romantic love for Jesus would probably be discouraged, in general, at most christian churches, but on a case by case basis, there might be some pastors or congregations willing to indulge a wealthy patron bitten by the love bug.
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RE: Love Jesus?
June 14, 2014 at 9:18 am
I love the Discworld character Rincewind, in the sense that I identify with him so closely I enjoy his literary company. Though to me he'll always look and sound like Eric Idle.
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Re: RE: Love Jesus?
June 14, 2014 at 9:48 am
(June 14, 2014 at 5:45 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote: Same way I love whateverist. Never met him, don't know what he looks like, but I have a relationship with him and I have feelings for him based on that.
You have a relationship with whateverist because you chat on the Internet. You can't have a relationship with Jesus because he doesn't talk or type back to you.
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RE: Love Jesus?
June 14, 2014 at 8:14 pm
(June 14, 2014 at 9:18 am)Stimbo Wrote: I love the Discworld character Rincewind, in the sense that I identify with him so closely I enjoy his literary company. Though to me he'll always look and sound like Eric Idle.
Really? I always pictured Rincewind as a somewhat less frantic Rick from 'The Young Ones'. Twoflower, on the other hand, puts me directly in mind of Eric Idle.
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RE: Love Jesus?
June 14, 2014 at 9:14 pm
Well it all started for me when I first encountered the Discworld PC game. I'd literally never heard of Discworld before and just thought it was something about a “world“ on the CD Rom “disc“. Eric Idle voiced the character so perfectly in it (alongside Tony Robinson and Jon Pertwee - a dream cast). When I later found the books, I still heard Eric Idle in my head. In fact I was rather disappointed he wasn't cast in the live action version of Colour of Magic; good as David Jason was, he wasn't Rincewind for me.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Love Jesus?
June 15, 2014 at 3:38 am
(June 14, 2014 at 1:40 am)KUSA Wrote: Christians,
How can you love Jesus when you have never met him? You have never heard his voice. You don't even know what he looks like.
How can you, and/or others hate Jesus when you have never met him? You have never heard his voice. You don't even know what he looks like?
Quis ut Deus?
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RE: Love Jesus?
June 15, 2014 at 3:48 am
(June 15, 2014 at 3:38 am)ronedee Wrote: How can you, and/or others hate Jesus when you have never met him? You have never heard his voice. You don't even know what he looks like?
Who says we hate Jesus?
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RE: Love Jesus?
June 15, 2014 at 4:14 am
(June 15, 2014 at 3:48 am)Esquilax Wrote: (June 15, 2014 at 3:38 am)ronedee Wrote: How can you, and/or others hate Jesus when you have never met him? You have never heard his voice. You don't even know what he looks like?
Who says we hate Jesus?
So, why persecute Christianity?
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RE: Love Jesus?
June 15, 2014 at 4:17 am
(June 15, 2014 at 4:14 am)ronedee Wrote: (June 15, 2014 at 3:48 am)Esquilax Wrote: Who says we hate Jesus?
So, why persecute Christianity?
Questioning the bullshit that your religion spews out is not the same as persecution
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RE: Love Jesus?
June 15, 2014 at 4:19 am
(June 15, 2014 at 4:14 am)ronedee Wrote: (June 15, 2014 at 3:48 am)Esquilax Wrote: Who says we hate Jesus?
So, why persecute Christianity?
Ah, I see: you're one of those christians who mistakes being called out on the unsubstantiated things you say, with persecution. Using your own logic, doesn't that mean you're persecuting me right now by questioning me?
Or is disbelief only persecution when it happens to you? 
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