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>> ^direpickle:
I did not see it, but a pack of my friends did. They pretty much uniformly hated it. They did have this to say for it, though: It accurately shows you what the loneliness of emptiness of space is like... because you are the only one in the theater.


Ok, that was pretty funny!

I'm usually very lenient with my opinions of movies, I'll watch anything that flickers and usually like it. But I carry a single caveat with that, if the movie is amazing yet then goes spinning off to orbit planet "WTF?", then it most certainly loses any and all points for the awesome part. My reasoning is that if I can see that they've gone right off the rails, then the professional "filmmakers" should have seen it too.

With "Sunshine" it has all the traits of a gripping psychological thriller about how confinement and loneliness can effect the passengers of a spacecraft. Yet just when it is building to a unbelievably tense climax, it turns left and races head long toward the Ron Paul Nebula and crashes into the heart of the bat-shit crazy red super giant star. The entire plot line of the religious lunacy of Capt. Pinpacker should have been excluded entirely.

I did not see it, but a pack of my friends did. They pretty much uniformly hated it. They did have this to say for it, though: It accurately shows you what the loneliness of emptiness of space is like... because you are the only one in the theater.

Just the other day I was watching a space shuttle launch and got this sickening feeling. As the shuttle got higher and higher, this loneliness and insignificance started creeping through me. Thinking about the people on the ship that were so small compared to the vastness of space they were entering, triggered something inside me. I can't really explain it, but the feeling lasted until I fell asleep that night. I have never felt that way before, nor do I want to again. Just for a little while, I started thinking how nice it would be to believe in a god right now. At minimum, it would at least give me some comfort in thinking somebody was there when I was feeling so lonely.

Now I look back and have been thinking about it. Would that actually make me feel better(believing in a god)? Short-term, I think it probably would have. But in the long run, I think being honest to myself by trying to understand why I felt that way, is much more healthy. Having a god would just give me comfort so I can feel better, without an understanding of why I was feeling that way. Making myself mentally lazy would not help me. In effect, I think God is a placebo, and doesn't do anything but make you think you are OK. He doesn't actually fix anything. It's just the idea of a warm cozy blanket on a cold winter night, not an actual blanket.

I hope that made sense, I am up way too late.

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Now here you go again
You say you want your freedom
Well who am I to keep you down
It`s only right that you should
Play the way you feel it
But listen carefully to the sound
Of your loneliness
Like a heartbeat...drives you mad
In the stillness of remembering what you had
And what you lost...
And what you had...
And what you lost

Thunder only happens when it`s raining
Players only love you when they`re playing
Say...Women...they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean...you`ll know

Now here I go again, I see the crystal visions
I keep my visions to myself
It`s only me
Who wants to wrap around your dreams and...
Have you any dreams you`d like to sell?
Dreams of loneliness...
Like a heartbeat...drives you mad...
In the stillness of remembering what you had...
And what you lost
What you had...
And what you lost

Thunder only happens when it`s raining
Players only love you when they`re playing
Say...Women...they will come and they will go
When the rain washes you clean...you`ll know

No prob, Bob. Lest you think I'm nuts, those are some Smashing Pumpkins lyrics; I wasn't just on a crazy rant or anything.

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Fixed now, thanks for the note.

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Emptiness is loneliness and loneliness is cleanliness and cleanliness is godliness and god is empty, just like... this embed.

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Fixed now, thanks for the note.

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Emptiness is loneliness and loneliness is cleanliness and cleanliness is godliness and god is empty, just like... this embed.

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Emptiness is loneliness and loneliness is cleanliness and cleanliness is godliness and god is empty, just like... this embed.

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http://lyricwiki.org/John_Prine:Speed_Of_The_Sound_Of_Loneliness

You come home late and you come home early
You come on big when you're feeling small
You come home straight and you come home curly
Sometimes you don't come home at all

Chorus:
So what in the world's come over you
And what in heaven's name have you done
You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness
You're out there running just to be on the run

Well I got a heart that burns with a fever
And I got a worried and a jealous mind
How can a love that'll last forever
Get left so far behind

Repeat Chorus:

It's a mighty mean and a dreadful sorrow
It's crossed the evil line today
Well, how can you ask about tomorrow
We ain't got one word to say

Repeat Chorus:

Ending:
You're out there running just to be on the run
You're out there running just to be on the run
You're out there running just to be on the run

This is a sad truth that reflects the disdain for women in the eastern culture. Women are merely assets, decoration, and playthings for the men. Despite cries for help, most women are forced to be silent for fear of losing what they have in a world where a lone woman has no rights. It is tragic how these women can be married and look forward to a prosperous life only to have it pulled out from under them. They have no way to defend their lives, they are simply cast out. Living in a world that can *promote this kind of cruelty towards any person, male of female has got to be a life filled with dread, loneliness and fear. I can't even imagine how it would be to live as a woman where they have less value than the cattle. The severity of the sadness this void of freedom leaves behind in deafening.

A week after leaving VideoSift, loneliness overcomes BillO

To emphasize the feeling of isolation and loneliness would be a safe bet.

Ok I found this very very interesting and a bit dubious. So I went on a little mini mission - what I was most interested in was the birth day of Horus, which I could not find.

What I did find was this rebuttal (and a few others closely modelled after it)
http://www.kingdavid8.com/Copycat/JesusHorus.html

So what I became interested in was this statement:
"Horus’ mother was not a virgin. She was married to Osiris, and there is no reason to suppose she was abstinent after marriage. Horus was, per the story, miraculously conceived. Seth had killed and dismembered Osiris, then Isis put her husband's dead body back together and had intercourse with it. In some versions, she used a hand-made phallus since she wasn't able to find that part of her husband. So while it was a miraculous conception, it was not a virgin birth."

I went to what is probably only one of MANY versions of the Horus story, the famed "Book of the dead"

And of Horus' conception it reads:
"[Isis] sought him untiringly, she wandered round and round about this earth in sorrow, and she alighted not without finding him. She made light with her feathers, she created air with her wings, and she uttered the death wail for her brother. She raised up the inactive members of whose heart was still, she drew from him his essence, she made an heir, she reared the child in loneliness, and the place where he was not known, and he grew in strength and stature, and his hand was mighty in the House of Keb."
http://www.touregypt.net/bod1.htm
http://www.aldokkan.com/religion/dead1.htm

Which sounds like an immaculate birth to me.

What I haven't done - is look through the rest of the document to find out if it mentions Isis having sex. And if it does, then I need to find out if the Book of the Dead is an amalgam of older fables (which I suspect it is). And if it is, does one of these fables, in its discrete form, portray Isis as a virgin? thereby proving there was a view/tale which pronounced the Sun-god of a virgins birth.

And if it does, the same treatment should be given to the rest of the claimed parrallels.


It seems to me that allot of the rebuttals (though im sure they dont claim to do this) find one, or even multiple accounts that do NOT gel with the tale of Jesus.

I'd like to go through the sources on by one, I wouldn't be surprised if some/most are not legitimate. But the fact that the book of the Dead can be INTERPRETED as correlating with one keystone aspect of the birth of Jesus makes me mildly interested. Im sure its way less water tight than portrayed, the entire religion debate would be totally moot if it was that easy.

I've got more important things to do, so Im hoping someone has already done this for me