I honestly wasn't going to upvote until he told the kid to shut up.

Keep in mind, Rembar, that she was an employee of the treasury, not MI6. Bond might be able to write off another's life like that, but I don't think her character would have had nearly the formative effect on Bond if she'd already been as cold as he was.

That is the most frightening sift I've ever seen. Bar none.

I love that it's Nino from Amelie under that ridiculous hat.

Good save.

Well....

My sexual desire is certainly quelled.

Bloody hell. I am wretched at finding dupes. Ah well.

No flips in Parkour!

A couple of things I would contribute that I don't see having been raised in prior comments (I was involved in a similar discussion on reddit the other day, so I'm just going to plagiarize myself):

Most suffering in the world is by our own causing: wars, famine, greed, etc.. If God is to be said to respect free will, then he must allow this to occur.

The suffering that isn't caused by man becomes something else entirely if you look at it in the looooong view. As in, the eternal life promised to Christians in the Bible. Taking that view, death is not final and all suffering is fleeting. Looking at it in that way, one could see the human perspective as being almost infinitely shortsighted, and see the suffering on this mortal plane as serving some kind of greater goal; perhaps a species-wide learning experience.

I would also point out that without suffering, there is no fulfillment in life, and I don't just mean in the touchy-feely sense. Without hunger we do not feed, without the need for air we do not breathe, without death we do not procreate. Suffering puts bounds on our existence, and gives our existence meaning by giving us something to struggle against.

According to BoingBoing, the gentleman in the video is the director's brother.

Speaking as a haphazard Christian, I don't see much in this that would offend a Christian, once you get past the idea that this guy doesn't believe in God. Yea, he's a little snarky, and he appears to have a problem with staying on task (kind of a random beef with circumcision, and an odd plug for the humane society), but he makes good points that jive pretty well with the beatitudes.

Of course, that prohibition on blind faith wouldn't work, but hey, we've been pros at selectively reading commandments for years anyway.

Murfreesboro is not pronounced like that. The emphASSis is on the wrong syLLABle. That was like nails on a chalkboard.

This has taught me that I really want to see "The Thing"

For what it's worth, Karaidl, most of the American Catholics I know are looking at this Pope and going, "Huh??"

Dude is pretty weird, even for a Pope, and we've had some doozies over the past couple millenia.

That's awesome, good save Zifnab.