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well but suppose you are talking about reading Psalm 23 at someone’s funeral or Luke 2 at Christmas or some other passage at a wedding or other special occasion. Poetic might be good there, right?

Warbler said:

well but suppose you are talking about reading Psalm 23 at someone’s funeral or Luke 2 at Christmas or some other passage at a wedding or other special occasion. Poetic might be good there, right?

Yeah, it would probably be appropriate then. I think we Catholics use the Jerusalem Bible for all readings in Canada, though, regardless of the occasion.

That would make for an interesting Mass.

RicOlie_2 said:

Warbler said:

well but suppose you are talking about reading Psalm 23 at someone’s funeral or Luke 2 at Christmas or some other passage at a wedding or other special occasion. Poetic might be good there, right?

Yeah, it would probably be appropriate then. I think we Catholics use the Jerusalem Bible for all readings in Canada, though, regardless of the occasion.

yeah, I wasn’t really talking about Catholic occasions.

Now I wanna own a Catholic Bible. My parents would probably blow a fuse if they spotted that on my shelf, though.

moviefreakedmind said:

I agree with you too Ric. Keep in mind that some of the new translations, not the NKJV or NASB, but things like NLT or ESV (and a lot of other weird ones) are not particularly accurate. There are hundreds of different translations, many of which are intended for ease of reading rather than accuracy. I think there’s something to be said about how the KJV has stood the test of time.

Oh I agree. There is just something about the KJV. I just disagree with people claiming that is the only inerrant pure Word of God in the English language, and that the rest are corrupt. I think that view is just totally ridiculous.

If only we had a religion thread.

TV’s Frink said:

If only we had a religion thread.

Another repeated argument I’m not wasting four more pages on.

Are you denying the existence of the religion thread? Or merely saying it no longer applies to our lives.

moviefreakedmind said:

DominicCobb said:

Don’t know if disagreeing about remaking Ghostbusters with women is misogynistic or just close-minded. Nothing about the initial premise of the film necessitated a group of guys. I don’t think making it a group of women is so much a gimmick as it is the director just preferred to work with Wiig and McCarthy and then naturally felt that the whole team could be female. The cast is talented enough. I think the more people can think outside of the go-to male action hero/comedy protagonist standard the better. Ghostbusters was going to be remade anyway, in my mind an all female team actually makes me a bit more interesting (I personally feel remakes are pointless if you aren’t going to do a new take on the material - this definitely qualifies).

I agree with what you’re saying about the cast and premise. I didn’t like the trailer specifically because it fell completely flat and appears to be wasting its talent.

Also, I didn’t say that remaking it with women is a problem, but rather the fact that they seem to be remaking it with women purely for a girl-power statement is a subject that I can understand people finding irritating. I also am generally opposed to recasting characters for such statements, much like I am opposed to making existing heterosexuals into homosexuals. Just create new material instead of rewriting the old.

Are they recasting though? Aren’t they new characters? Isn’t that new material?

Do you know the muffin man?

The muffin man is dead.

Possessed said:

Do you know the muffin man?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3RCP4jHGHY

Possessed said:

Are you denying the existence of the religion thread? Or merely saying it no longer applies to our lives.

Look, if you just believe in the existence of the religion thread without any actual proof, and it brings you comfort, that’s fine for you, but I need to see it with my own eyes first.

Possessed said:

Are you denying the existence of the religion thread? Or merely saying it no longer applies to our lives.

Nope, It is just that instead of either admitting that Frink is right or coming up with a good reason why he is wrong, I am refusing to address his point.

SICK BURN

(Because I’m bit odd) I’ve been keeping an eye out for the 50000th Motion Picture of America number at the end of a movie this year. But I’ve missed it! Batman V Superman was #50064. Does anybody know which movie had the honour?

Oh good grief. I was kind of hoping it’d be a decent movie, Sinister 2 was awful!

I’m hungry