The Town of Odyssey

Musical Shutterbug wrote:

Marvin D. wrote:and it's not my fault I don't like Star Wars either

Actually, it is...but whatever

I'm afraid Shutterbug has a point. It's not fair to judge a widely-loved story as "lame" when you only know a few small plot details.

Well, to be fair, Mr. Charles was the right-hand of a man who nearly took over the world, and I always saw Glossman as a genuinely deft politician. (I also thought he actually seemed genuinely respectful towards Dr. Blackgaard, but that's another story. For the record, I think he was last heard comp...

These were the first six episodes I ever listened to.

Yeah, I noticed. Makes sense to me.

Guess I thought in my mind, Glossman and some of the people of Novacom would be killed by the Anti-Christ villain with a gun. Like Nikolai did. ... Wait, so... if I'm following you, and my Left Behind knowledge is accurate, that would make the Chairman into Jonathan Stonagal, Philip Glossman into J...

I'm not sure that a Fantastic Four made up of Jay, Vance, Valerie and Bart would be more dangerous Blackgaard, Novacom, or Groat. I've no doubt that Bart could single-handedly begin the Tribulation, however. Heh heh heh. ...but seriously, uh... Well, as others said, involving an explicit "Anti...

They should have had Kiefer instead of Donald as the President, so he could stop a nuke from going off or something. Funny you should say that. Spoilers for Mockingjay : Well, he didn't arrange it, but it turns out that the Capitol is in kind of a cold war with District Thirteen and their nuclear w...

Is the solution then to say that as long as you live a good life you go to heaven? And is heaven simply a reward for living a good life? Offhand, one would make more sense than the other from where I'm sitting, but I'm not the one who suggested it. (I do object to the use of words like "accept...

But that's doesn't say whether the view is accurate or not. It says more to what Christians should be striving to overcome. Christians did recieve the command of go and teach the world. The problem with that is that Christians are as human as anybody else. It's impossible to reach everybody, and ev...

"So I've paid the price for you. All you have to do is accept the gift of it and everlasting joy is yours." And if someone actually, undeniably and clearly saw God appear to them and say that, I'm sure that they'd be more than happy to accept. The problem is that, again, many don't hear t...

Just so I'm clear before moving on, you believe that salvation is earned through good deeds? I think you have me confused with Kait. I haven't said anything on the subject. However, it sounds like he would still consider "All that matters is that you rejected it, it doesn't matter if you didn'...

It's a free gift, so anyone can accept it, but they have to choose to accept it. They can choose to reject it. Even if it's a "free gift", many do not actually hear about it, and of those that do, many hear the words but don't believe they're true. To them, it's not rejecting God, it's re...

I just thought the whole "Let us honor our noble heritage and victory by randomly selecting our dear citizens and make them fight to the death!" was really dumb, it was kind of hard to get past... They play it as a great event, but the Games are meant as a punishment. The Capitol's "...

As for teachers taking kids to see the movie, I can see some value in it because it teaches kids what possibly could happen when a Communistic government takes over. Communistic? :-k The Capitol was totalitarian, greedy, oppressive, and corrupt, but I actually wouldn't have thought to call it Commu...

<t>On a side note: I've read a few posts in here about atheists "wanting" to separate themselves from God, as if it were a rebellion. Honestly, most atheists that I've heard from simply believe that there isn't a God from whom to be separate.<br/> <br/> I'm not prepared to tackle the issue of heck i...

Sparrow wrote:What? Saruman was the Necromancer? I was always under the impression that Sauron was the Necromancer, not Saruman. Now I'm very confused.

Grrrrrrrrrah. You are correct. I have a reason for the elf thing, at least, but I'm not sure where that came from. ... Well, Saruman is in it, anyway.

Yeah I don't really care anyway, but three films seems dumb for one children's book. I mean the lengthier books in the LotR trilogy only got one movie per book... not sure why the shortest gets 3. Except that they want more monies. I totally agree. I think they like taking my money. I've heard that...

I think what 31899 is trying to say, is that 'literature' is the art of writtten work, regardless of publication, time period, or format. Yeah. "literature" includes everything written from the Epic of Gilgamesh up to the modern day. I usually hear it in the context of the written word, b...

Hmm... I don't have the book handy, but from what I can tell online, it sounds like the elves in The Hobbit simply aren't physically described in much detail. I must have been going off of my own mental image. Something that keeps getting passed around on Answers.com describes them as being "le...

Mike Lowery wrote:I honestly cannot see any valid points being made in those being critical of this movie

Offhand, can you tell me why everyone was on that plane at the beginning without looking it up?

Why didn't you like it Caswin? There were parts of it that did not have Catwoman. Ahem. It's hard for me to articulate why I didn't like it, because it's both such a complex movie, and there's just so little I really did like about it. It somehow manages to be overly long while at the same time ski...