The Rocky 4 movie trailer features Rocky punching a man's head off!

Golly.

William Shatner is super-cool.

William Shatner - Common People

William Shatner parody of 7even

Shatner Woo Remix

D'oh! Not Rocky, Rambo.

Shatner>Rambo/Rocky

Oh, very much so. I just watched his Rocketman performance as well as those.

Nina Simone on BBC
- She is utterly mad, utterly arrogant, and utterly brilliant.

Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday.
- One of those pieces of footage that everyone should watch.

Fun coverage of an old Destiny Church march.
- How on Earth did cheaper-than-usual religious 'thought' get to somewhere as isolated as New Zealand? Couldn't the States have kept televangelists to themselves?

Ka Mate
- Because their new Haka just isn't the same.

Matty,
I love your accent! And the horse is beautiful! A friend and I took an extremely long walk the other day, and apparently there are farms bordering my school campus. One of em had a group of horses and we got to stand within a few feet of them and watch them run around, nuzzle each other, things like that. They were breath-taking--I wish we could've been as close to them as you were to that horse. Oh, and the piglets are adorable

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"The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence--to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor our differences" ~ Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry

My current favorite commercial:

Puppets and Mountain Dew

"You're in violation of your face!" Hehe.

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"The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence--to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor our differences" ~ Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry

A friend clued me in to this project; hope y'all enjoy the trailers as much as I did. My only gripe is one apparently cannot order the DVDs direct (have to take some kind of 'course' 1st). Bleh. In any event, there's a plethora of representation in the interviews, everything from an articulate transhumanist/atheist to a tattoo artist to a pantheist unitarian to a 13yo biblical theist. Bottom line: Judeo-Christian apologetes honing their critical thinking skills.

The Truth Project - Extended Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ8ikrDisDU

What is the Meaning of Life?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3SajbRpVRc

Philosophy and Ethics: Says Who?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8wk5OSuDaM

What is Truth?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRuOK80Gv8Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0WlhTWm5Uo
What is Church?

What is Work?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQAw2IM4J9c

Who is God?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a9915PV8es

What is Right and Wrong?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CpLhOYFMoU

What is Family?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBdkq02CZ58

What is Law?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU0gBI2Ofvk

What is Evil?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liiD1XaRvqM

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The opposite of joy is not sorrow. It is unbelief. ~ Leslie Weatherhead
Picture me with my ground teeth stalking joy--fully armed too, as it's a highly dangerous quest. ~ Flannery O'Connor

Irn Bru
This was a commercial my son was in about 6 years ago.

He's 'Jef in a box'!

One of the nation's favourites was this one!

And this one!
And this one!

Forgot this one!

[This message was edited by Asa on 06-07-07 at 06:28 PM.]

I can't believe I'm posting this.

A true Scotsman?

Get Curious!

Asa!
I love a true a Scotman.
Is that a jock itch?
hahaha!!

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Brevity is the soul of wit.
~William Shakespeare

quote:

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Bottom line: Judeo-Christian apologetes honing their critical thinking skills.

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What? Not to spark a debate, but I just watched these... ...'critical thinking' implies just that, not subservience to a pack of immoral, irrationally restrictive rules that, if all evidence is tallied, contradict most of what we know about the world. I mean, these videos could just as easily be Islamic, and it would be no less disturbing at all!

My only comfort is that the premise certifiably insane, and that we can therefore assume science and love will win the day. I hope the wonderful people who are interviewed in the videos lead good, healthy lives, but I also desperately hope they don't hurt too many people as a collective.

Things like this always bring this song into my head: Jesus He Knows Me - Genesis

Actually, forget all this morose talk. Let's forget crackpot schemes and just watch some more badly dubbed Genesis music videos:

That's All - Genesis

No Son Of Mine - Genesis

I Can't Dance - Genesis

[This message was edited by Fuzzies on 06-08-07 at 02:00 AM.]

Matt, loved the march. Those are some very clever questions they asked. Very amusing.

Airedale, I'm sorry, but those were terrible. It was all very surface-layer stuff. The philosophy and ethics one was just plain stupid. There's such a thing as a loaded question, and that guy had a barrage of them. Certainly he'd be at a loss against good ol' Wittgenstein.

For those of you who feel the same way as me about David Blaine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYxu_MQSTTY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrTvNzGCZE

If you know anything about the domestication of the banana fruit, then this is the funniest video you'll ever watch this year. It's pretty famous, I own it on DVD (I like comedy, so I buy a lot of Intelligent Design 'science'). Anyway:

Bananas - The Atheist's Nightmare

And for good measure:

The Flying Spaghetti Monster versus the Invisble Pink Unicorn.

May my noodly lord prevail over his "holy" hooves.

Yuri Bezmenov on demoralization
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE8MCSu_K-A
The Great Brainwashing of America
Step 1 is Demoralization

Bezmenov continues on demoralization in America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqd-x0omd_o
Step 2: Destabilization of a nation [defense, economy]
Step 3: Crisis
Step 4: Period of Normalization (cynically, propagandization; promise people all sorts of goodies, establish Big Brother gov't in DC)

"Unlike myself, you [Americans] will have nowhere to defect to." -Yuri Bezmenov

Bezmenov on Marxists, useful idiots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5vD3wuFMrE

Yuri Bezmenov on KGB interest in yoga, brainwashing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpZsNGAz6jc

Bezmenov on American mass media
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCDFmaJyB0Q

Bezmenov on the Soviet system
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHk5zUf96c0
Note he teaches party-elite are far more dangerous than professional military. "Actually, there are no grass roots revolutions period. Any revolution is a byproduct of a highly organized group, of conscientious and professional organizers, but it has nothing to do with grassroots." -Yuri Bezmenov

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The opposite of joy is not sorrow. It is unbelief. ~ Leslie Weatherhead
Picture me with my ground teeth stalking joy--fully armed too, as it's a highly dangerous quest. ~ Flannery O'Connor

The Enemies of Reason - Richard Dawkins' new series. I've gotten over the fact that he's an insufferable snob, and forgiven him for his delusion that the much bigger delusions of religion will ever go away.

What he seems to miss is that religion makes the world, and life, much, much simpler than it actually is. That's a bit of a boon for those adhering to it, they're not even capable of comprehending plurism (unless they're Universalists like the founding fathers of the USA seem to have been). I think he's missed the fact that religion is The Selfish Meme, it will do anything - love or hate, kiss or bomb. Secularism is just too... ...good... ...too moral, in most forms, to ever trump a hijacked aeroplane or an Inquisition if its done in the name of The Great Moon Fairy or Invisible King Cobra.

Bah, enjoy the programme and ignore my needless editorialising.

The Enemies of Reason, part two, on alternative medicines. Funnier and scarier than part one. I know he was under time constraints, but I wish he would elaborate further on the importance of rigorous testing and scientific methodology, because there are still people who will scoff and say "It works, I seens it, I knows it!" as if a series of peer-reviewed trials showing nothing more than placebo effect does not discredit their appeals to anecdote, experience, and blinkered faith.

I do agree far too much faith is put into alternative medicine, but don't dismiss it completely. There are some benefits to certain alternative practices, but often with use of regular medicine as well. I'll stop before beginning a debate though.

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Franklin

Hey, not even Dawkins would dismiss working medicine immediately. These things need testing. It's the things like acupuncture, reiki, crystal healing, and homeopathy that keep being shown to have no effect beyond placebo and are still clung to like the billy-o that are really concerning.

Even worse are things like the Rife machine. I don't think people would exploit such seriously ill people on purpose, they must really believe the machine works, but the tragedy is that you don't even need a very deep understanding of science to see through the pretend "science" that seems to fool far too many! People die due to things like this, and "Oxygen Therapy", etc, etc, and just because they are stupid enough to fall for quackery does not mean they deserve such horrors.

"Big Pharma" may be bad, but it doesn't often present the insidious, everyday danger that many alternative "medicines" do.