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2007-10-02 Southeast Asia

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Posted by lotp 2007-10-02 06:02|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 This begs for another movie on a Joseph Conrad story - we had 'Heart of Darkness' in 'Apocalypse Now'; maybe somebody can do 'Lord Jim' right.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-10-02 07:16|| 2007-10-02 07:16|| Front Page Top

#2 "This is a hellhole beyond your wildest dreams,"

I see the first reviews of "Rambo 4" are in.

Posted by Steve 2007-10-02 07:18|| 2007-10-02 07:18|| Front Page Top

#3 The "Rambo" script, written long before the present Myanmar uprising, features boatman John Rambo - the Vietnam War-era Green Beret who specializes in violent rescues and revenge - taking a group of mercenaries up the Salween River in search of missing Christian aid workers in Myanmar. The character "realizes man is just a few paces away from savagery when pushed."

Hopefully, during the film, when the Christians inevitably spout off about violence not solving anything, and they're moaning and bitching about the loss of life of the bad guys, while saying nothing while the good guys rescuing them are offed, Rambo will give some pointed, and painfully obvious, commentary that will show them for the fools they are. And when it comes, this Christian will be quite impolite in the theatre and give a very loud and hearty "AMEN!"

I am goddamn sick and tired of Western politicans and Christian "leaders" self-inflating their egos and sense of "righteousness" when they horsetrade good and innocent people to "save" and please the wicked. I do not mind expending treasure and sweat to save the lost: it is expending good people's LIVES to achieve ephemeral political objectives, gain an ephemeral moral "high ground" (which nobody respects if SOMEONE ELSE occupies it), or to "feel good" without "doing good", that is starting to piss me off. Like Jimmy Carter, who DEMANDS that the Wall that has protected Israelis from terrorists be taken down, and gives not a damn about lost Israeli Lives so HE can posture as a "peacemaker".

I've been in a bible study that involves Genesis. While reading about Abraham bargaining with God for Sodom and Gomorrah, I was struck by how CHEAP God regarded the wicked when they are set against the righteous. Abraham started off with 50, and "jewed" God "down" to 10: during the negotiation, the value of the wicked declined to "20 cents on the dollar". In what followed, the angelic judges couldn't do a thing until righteous Lot left, which meant that Abraham could have gone down to 1, representing a decline to "2 cents on the dollar." In a sense, the wicked are not worth a plugged nickel: they're worth LESS than a plugged nickel.

Yes, yes, I am quite aware that the wicked are a big source of good people, but their value accrues AFTER repentance: Gold is currently over $700 an ounce, but only an idiot, or a charlatan, would demand that we buy Gold ORE at $700 an ounce.

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2007-10-02 07:25|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2007-10-02 07:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Rambo IV: Get Outta My Yard, You Goddam Kids!

Posted by tu3031 2007-10-02 09:22|| 2007-10-02 09:22|| Front Page Top

#5 The only way into Burma is up ~~the river~~ shit creek

All fixed.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-02 14:41|| 2007-10-02 14:41|| Front Page Top

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