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The more I study and think about the Bible, the more I see that it's interpretation may actually be one way that the damned are separated from the rewarded. Just not in the way some think.Those who take the Bible as some kind of absolute science textbook would be the same people who would, under other circumstances, take Mao's little red book, or Khaddafi's little green book, as gospel. It is simply a function of those who desire to return to the preschool state of ignorance and dependence.The blind following of the unquestionable leader is the cause of most of life's miseries and history's bloodshed. Why would a God desire the eternal company of nothing but boring sycophants who need their diapers changed? As a parent, I know I wouldn't.Therefore, those who read into religion such "virtues" as unthinking obedience to temporal translators, which results in religious warfare, persecution of the innocent, rampant curable diseases, starvation, and a host of other ills would be judged lacking compared to those who actively, rather than passively, seek God through the works of God, which is also known in some circles as the study of nature or science.The really telling part of "not getting it" is the irony of unexamined obiedience coupled with assertions of absolute judgment of others, a role in the second part being one which in the more mature is reserved for the deity.For the fundamentalist, heaven is a place where everyone dresses alike, thinks alike, and worships the deity with unthinking slogans, songs and recitation of dogma. Hell is reserved for those "outside the fold" AKA anyone different. This version of heaven has already appeared on Earth. It was during the late 1960's in China and it was called the Cultural Revolution. Most survivors disagreed with the heaven description, preferring the term "hell on Earth."So I believe the heaven that fundamentalists seek is actually hell. One's reaction to the Bible is one way of determining the cut, but it goes in a different direction than expected.

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Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Sir Francis Bacon

Akira Kurosawa is the best director who ever lived.Kubrick is second.

Kurosawa was fired from Tora, Tora, Tora early on for going overbudget and acting like a primadonna, so his contribution was minimal. See the new movie thread Message 1 for more details on Kurosawa.

After all this time, I thought out of everyone I knew, only my wife and I shared this opinion.I even think it was one of the reasons we got married.