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The enigma ... t determine what is true and what is joust ... reason for a satirist to study Semites ... understanding semantics?

Too much of a Job for a great portion of the populace ... may form paradigmatic diagram ...
 
Watched an interesting archaeology documentary last night about a tomb in Anyang China that might be the resting place of CaoCao, an important figure in the Three Kingdoms period after the fall of the last remnant of the Han dynasty. The evidence is pretty circumstantial, but the theory is pretty plausible. And it is part of an old series from A&E that is hosted by ... wow ... a Chinese historian, not the usual white talking heads. Agnes Hsu-Tang is from Taiwan, went to school in the US and teaches at Columbia. After the series ended, she married a weathly Chinese-American gentleman and is now as much a New York socialite as a professor.

Incidentally, if ancient history and archaeology of various cultures is your thing, check out the Odyssey channel on YouTube. It's owned by History Hit, the same company that produces my two favourite history podcasts (The Ancients and Gone Medieval) and features an array of documentaries they acquire from various sources.
 
Hmmm - on Friday night we watched "Barbie" - a re-run for me, and new to my mate who is a movie buff & also appreciated all the nods to the cinematic world, along with the social commentary.
Saturday afternoon we watched an excellent doc - "1948: Creation & Catastrophe" - on the formation of Israel. But quite different from others I have seen as it is primarily first person accounts by Israeli veterans & civilians as well as Palestinian veterans & refugees - the people who participated in or were subject to the various military actions. Very moving accounts, and a balanced presentation IMO. Also included a couple of academics who verify historic facts and offer questions to ponder. Highly recommend it - approx 90 minutes.
 
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Hmmm - on Friday night we watched "Barbie" - a re-run for me, and new to my mate who is a movie buff & also appreciated all the nods to the cinematic world, along with the social commentary.
Saturday afternoon we watched an excellent doc - "1948: Creation & Catastrophe" - on the formation of Israel. But quite different from others I have seen as it is primarily first person accounts by Israeli veterans & civilians as well as Palestinian veterans & refugees - the people who participated in or were subject to the various military actions. Very moving accounts, and a balanced presentation IMO. Also included a couple of academics who verify historic facts and offer questions to ponder. Highly recommend it - approx 90 minutes.
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Well done documentary.
 
So Tubi, the free with ads streaming service, has acquired the rights to all of the "classic" Dr. Who series, which ran from 1963 to 1989. Well, all that still exists. A bunch of them are lost to the mists of time thanks to some injudicious housecleaning of the BBC tape archives (Doctor Who was one of the first shows they shot directly on tape instead of film). And while I did watch it a lot as a kid, there's also a lot that I have not seen. I mostly saw the Third and Fourth Doctors, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker respectively.

So, I started tonight to finally watch the Fifth Doctor's run, which I kind of checked out of. Never quite grabbed me the way his two predecessors did. The Fifth is played by Peter Davison, who at the time he took the part, I already knew as Tristan Farnan from the 1970s series of All Creatures Great and Small. We open with the Doctor newly regenerated into Davison and not at all well, even as his arch-rival The Master launches a plan to get rid of him once and for all.

Of course, Peter Davison's influence on Dr. Who has gone beyond his own tenure. His daughter, Georgia Moffett (Davison is a stage name), appeared in an episode of the revived show and is married to Tenth/Fourteenth Doctor David Tennant. And now Ty Tennant, his grandson (Georgia's son and David's stepson), is an actor, too, though has not yet appeared in Dr. Who (give him time, it's a family tradition).
 
NT Wright and Francis Collins (yes, THAT Francis Collins)

Singing a Duet

Priceless :3


The channel name BioLogos is an organization that Francis Collins created.
From the About page "BioLogos was founded by one of the top biologists in the world, Francis Collins. He led the Human Genome Project and now directs the National Institutes of Health. In 2006, he wrote the best-selling book The Language of God in which he tells his journey from atheism to Christian belief, showing that science is not in conflict with the Bible, but actually enhances faith. The outpouring of response to the book showed the need for virtual and actual meeting places to ask questions, discuss issues, and learn from the top Christian minds in the sciences and theology."

I see they have an Online Forum...mua ha ha

discourse.biologos.org

The BioLogos Forum

A community seeking truth and engaging the tough questions on science and faith.
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The Devil's Hour looks VERY good

Crime Drama

Thriller

...and more
(one of those series where I would need to write things down lol)

With Peter Capaldi! :3
 
Nothing ... it is an effort devoid of volition ... I have no Umph AH ... may be genes or endogenous detraction ... slippage as in ectoplasm?

Organic slime ...
 
The Fire Within by Werner Herzog

Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft

Most of the film is footage by these two famous vulcanologists

Again, a transcendent beautiful film

 
I watch my tongue ... keep it mute by scratching a lot on the medium at present exposing itself ... an electrified item? Alien power given its evolution from bifurcated atoms ... it is a slippery concept like Grecian Enlightenment ... sacrosanct? Classic folly ... and there evolved the Roman Monstrous as found on the Vatican Altar ... un figure Able or without reason? Burr under the hypothetical saddle ... hyperbolic?

Top POV it is like a cup, bottom view is it turns up at the ends ... like ) flat oute ... if upset it expresses a tri umph ant frown over what went wrong ... especially with social support of what was laid out ... :-( .... dam nation! All a nasty experiment gone wrong ... encourages evolution in delicate areas! Softer heads???

Hard heads are good to install in gardens and edifices ... deficient spatial zones ...ineffable places? Cunningly out of sight ... makes for a gross turn of myth!
 
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Watched 2 movies on Netflix this weekend.
One of them was the Miracle Club with Maggie Smith and Kathy Bates. I found it to be quite good....brought happy tears to my eyes at the end.
Three elderly lady friends and a young woman that all live in a working class neighbourhood in England, venture to Lourdes,with the intention of receiving a miracle from bathing in the springs there.
An unexpected arrival from their past also arrives, from overseas, and ends up joining them on the journey.
I don't want to give too much away, but it reminds us that sometimes miracles happen but not the way we expect.
Good movie to cozy up with someone and enjoy.
 
The other movie was Leave the World with Julia Roberts.
I thought it was abit drawn out, longer than needed, but the storyline is okay. It reminded me of something you would see on the old Twilight Zone Series with the zinger at the end. Leaves you wondering and thinking....
 
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The other movie was Leave the World with Julia Roberts.
I thought it was abit drawn out, longer than needed, but the storyline is okay. It reminded me of something you would see on the old Twilight Zone Series with the zinger at the end. Leaves you wondering and thinking....
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Oh evil things ... that's thought and knowledge according to old texts ... stew PID ide is best? Passions only are allowed when causing ignition ...
 
We watched the Miracle Club last night. I really enjoyed it. But then with Maggie Smith and Kathy Bates, you know it will be good.

I've been watching The Sinner on Netflix. It is a police show essentially. There's a crime at the first episode and the season is the detective solving the crime or puzzle. I've only watched the first season. Jessica Biel was the murderer and the detective is trying to find out what really happened since she is not a classic murderer. It's very good and slightly dark. Of course the detective has issues, hence the title of the show.
 
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Apparently, you're not alone. Top grossing movie of 2023 at US$1.2 billion worldwide.
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I only watched it because it's on Crave. I was surprised by it. I knew it was a commentary, I just didn't realize how that filled the movie. I really liked how they added Rhea Perlman's character Ruth. Barbie was part of my childhood so the movie also had some nostalgia and related reflection.
 
I enjoyed it too, at the drive-in this fall. The big guy wanted to see it, drove, then fell asleep. It happens, fairly often.
 
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