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#164273
Topic
On Christianity
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/164273/action/topic#164273
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
Personally, I get a little tired of the whole, "If God is all-powerful and loves all of us, why do bad things happen to good people?" argument. Bad things happen to good people because:
(1) God gave us the ability to make our own choices. This life is an opportunity to learn how to be better, kinder beings than we currently are, which requires the ability to make our own choices. If we can't make our own choices, we are nothing more than one of 7 billion pawns on a giant chess board called earth, moving at the behest of an all-powerful being who wants us all to turn out the same way. People are going to make good choices and bad choices. The key is knowing that our choices, no matter how insignificant, affect others.

(2) As before, God wants to challenge us to improve. We are brought into this life with certain challenges, and will meet more challenges along the way. Some of these challenges will be man-made; some will be there from the beginning. Again, how we respond to these challenges determines what we make of our lives.

I provide you with the following analogy: you want to learn how to ride a bike, and your parents would like to help you learn. Will you learn if every day, your parents continue to hold the back of your seat so you don't fall down? No. Is it better for you to learn through the experience of a few scraped knees? Yes. Is there going to be pain as a result? Yes. Will the pain make you a better person? Yes. Will you understand that teaching your children in that same way is best? More than likely.

Me, I take responsibility for my own actions. That is why I can continue to believe in God when tragedy surrounds me in this world.


Great point, Gundark Hunter. Also remember Job and what happened to him. God does test us. Remember the saying "the only place where it never rains is the desert" Life will have problems. Sometimes the problems are a result of nothing we did, but someone else's actions that isn't our fault.
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#162397
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Info & Offer: Dear Santa...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/162397/action/topic#162397
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Originally posted by: casualimp
If anyone could hook me up with a Cowclops V 2.0 set of the OOT or the Dark Jedi Laser Disc copy of the OOT set (W/S), I can send MagnoliaFan's edits of The Phantom Menace (V 1.0 I think) and Attack of the Clones. Please PM if we can work something out. Happy Holidays everyone!

P.S. I live in Canada if case you're wondering about distance. Cheers!


Turn on your PMs. I have Cowclops V.2 and would like to trade.
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#160908
Topic
Back in Time
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/160908/action/topic#160908
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Originally posted by: Ingo Sucks
I agree with battlewars. Overall, the present is much nastier as the past.


I don't think it is. Its just that as time goes by, people think of the past as being better that it was. Its "the good ol' days" type thinking. Every decade has its problems, and I'm not sure one is better or worse than another.
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#160047
Topic
Women and Action Films
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/160047/action/topic#160047
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Women in action films is nothing new. If anyone here has ever seen a 30's-40's serial, they had the "serial queens". Women who were the stars in an action/adventure film. Some of them were 'damsels in distress', but many were also action stars too. Then you have Alien and such films as that. The only problem I have with women in action films is when they set up a "hot chick" to be the center of the film only because the plot is weak, such as Barb Wire and Tomb Raider 2. Basically a well-written film shouldn't matter if the star is female or male, it will still be good.
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#159852
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Scratched Laserdiscs
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159852/action/topic#159852
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I recently was given a Kenwood Laserdisc player. Having to have our favorite trilogy to go with it, I got the Definitive edition boxset. Unfortunately, a couple of the discs seem to be scratched and cause the picture to freeze or skip. How do I fix this problem? Anyone have any recommended scratch removers for laserdiscs?