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#546538
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My SW Locations Book is coming Dec 1 - Please check it out!
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ARParr said:


As it turns out, the Endor Bunker location was NOT destroyed.  This discovery was just made about a year ago.   The location is included in the book in detail, along with all the other Endor shooting locations, which are well north of Muir Woods. 

And that's why Muir Woods is included.  It's not an actual shooting location, but it's convenient as hell, and really pretty.  We don't claim it to be anything more than it is, but it's certainly worth a visit, and makes for some damn fine pictures, and one heck of a beautiful hike.
Could one get access to the original Bunker location? Say, with a film crew and people dressed up as soldiers? ;-)

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#546235
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Ask the member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints AKA Interrogate the Mormon
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darth_ender said:

As for succession, I am assuming you are Roman Catholic or something related (such as Orthodox), given your belief that Christ would not have allowed such a fall of his Church shortly after his death.  It should not be terribly surprising, however, given that previously people were quick to reject God's message.  Paul's letters themselves speak of the consistent intrusion of false doctrine among those who had only recently proselyted.  See here for a nice start on our understanding of a Great Apostasy following Christ's and his apostles' deaths, with scriptures to back it up.  It's not of great depth, but as is most of this stuff, it's a starting point for understanding our perspective.
Protestant/non-denominational, actually. I just find it hard to believe that God would let the church wander aimlessly for 1800 years when it had only been around for 40 or so before the end of the New Testament.

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#546205
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Last movie seen
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Tobar said:


Ghostbusters (1984)

For the month of October certain theaters across the country are screening Ghostbusters every Thursday. I attended the first one last night and it was a BLAST! Seeing classic films in a theater with an appreciative audience is the best. It just elevates the experience of the film. The best part of the night definitely had to be right as Peck has molten marshmallow dumped on him a small group of people discreetly tossed giant marshmallows into the crowd. Now that's a 4D experience! =P
I'm hoping to take one of my younger friends who's never seen Ghostbusters all the way through next week. Can't wait.

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#546165
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Star Wars Blu Ray Impressions
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WhatsMyName said:


A lot of things i've never noticed. I guess he did improve the movies somewhat. There are still issues with the Lightsabers. i wonder if he got the blinking from Ady. Anyone else notice the Tuan Taun blinking, (once), also?
Taun Taun always blinked, actually. And most of the "improvements" done to the Blus are things that were fine before the DVDs came out.

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#546063
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Ask the member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints AKA Interrogate the Mormon
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Tyrphanax said:


It just seems odd to me for someone who is intelligent and critical to stop their line of critical questioning at, "Well, because that's what the book says." How would, say, a by-the-book Christian scientist reconcile their latent desire to know things about the Earth with the proven fact that the Earth is much older then the Bible says? And why would they even want or try to reconcile the two opposite lines of thought when one is obviously wrong? Why would someone deny the proven deliciousness of pork products when, in general, they have caused no spiritual harm to anyone over the centuries just because a book says so for really no reason? Doesn't God have better things to do than worry about who ate pork when he supposedly put it here in the first place? Isn't it kind of an un-God-like dick move (yes, I realize he is famous for dick moves) to do that?
I don't have a problem with an old earth. A literal reading of Genesis causes all sorts of problems. Days could be eons, so on and so forth.

I believe the Jewish dietary laws were more for the Israelites of the time. Uncooked pork can have all kinds of bad things in them, and the locals were using them for sacrifices and stuff. Instead of giving the Israelites a cook book, God said to just avoid it completely.

One of my big things with Mormonism is that a lot of the events of the Old and New Testament and most of the places have other historical sources and archaeological evidence to support that they existed at one time. You literally can't throw a rock in the Middle East without breaking a clay pot with some historical document or hit an ancient city in the sands.

But the Book of Mormon seems to be the only record of an entire Jewish civilization that lived in America for thousands(?) of years. How do the leadership explain that no one has ever found their currency, old city walls, etc.?

Speaking of the leadership, one of my other big things is that I find it really hard to believe that Jesus would let the entire salvation of the world fall apart so soon after the Resurrection and would let it continue that way for 1800 years, until He remembered that He made this newer testament and needed to establish a succession of prophets He never mentioned needing. To me, letting the church wander about for 1800 years when they couldn't rebel against things they were never told sounds like one of those moves Tyr was talking about.

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#545801
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Complete Comparison of Special Edition Visual Changes
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Awesome. You know, if you crop the Wookieegroomer for all of those to the size that I have, I can just take them and throw them up there. Save some time.

EDIT1: Actually, I trust you guys enough, if you want to PM me your email address, I can add you as a contributor and you can rearrange and add whatever you feel that we need.

EDIT2:

Contributors can upload photos and videos to your album. They can also perform edits - such as captions, rotations, and deletion - on the content they've contributed. As the owner of the album, you have the ability to edit this content as if it were your own. All contributions will count towards your Picasa Web Albums quota.


I'm not sure if you could rearrange existing images, but it looks possible.