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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?

Exactly, and it is my own personal preference.

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.

Warbler said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Warbler said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Warbler said:

hate to tell you NASB’s way of rendering the verse may be more accurate to the original.

To be quite honest, I don’t particularly care about the direct-translation accuracy. The impact of the verse is watered down by the newer versions.

if the newer versions are accurate, then what you are saying is that the original is also watered down.

The wording is weaker than in the King James.

well, here is some commentaries on Isaiah 14:12. There seems some conflict on whether or not Lucifer should be used.

I’ve heard about that. I still think it (amongst other things) is much less impactful in non-KJVs.

DuracellEnergizer said:

“True Colors” by Cyndi Lauper.

And that’s why I love you.

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.

If Ghostbusters turns out to be good, I’ll probably check it out. The trailer didn’t look promising though.

Warbler said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Warbler said:

hate to tell you NASB’s way of rendering the verse may be more accurate to the original.

To be quite honest, I don’t particularly care about the direct-translation accuracy. The impact of the verse is watered down by the newer versions.

if the newer versions are accurate, then what you are saying is that the original is also watered down.

The wording is weaker than in the King James.

Also, regardless of what they say behind the scenes, there’s no reason to think that the pilot actually was Nien Nunb based on the film itself.

Then again, imperial’scum is not in the new forum, it’s worth it.

TV’s Frink said:

He’s amazingly delusional.

Hey! He’s a brilliant scientist in Japan! What are you?

imperialscum said:

Ryan-SWI said:

I can’t be sure if ImperialScum is trolling, or if he really does think he’s an amazing individual.

Neither. He simply is an amazing individual.

Apparently he’s delusional too.

Invite only has advantages and disadvantages, but this is extreme.

Those are all really bad changes, and are pretty perfect examples of how appalling the SEs are.

Warbler said:

hate to tell you NASB’s way of rendering the verse may be more accurate to the original.

To be quite honest, I don’t particularly care about the direct-translation accuracy. The impact of the verse is watered down by the newer versions.

another thing to remember that the originals didn’t have chapter and verse separations. Those came much later.

I know they didn’t, but it’s easier for me to read when they are indented.

Do you remember when the PT came out? I don’t say that in a rude way, but were you at least a young adult or teenager during the TPM hype? It was insane, and there was Star Wars stuff everywhere, and not just in the toy aisle. I remember ROTS characters showing up on pizza boxes and soda bottles, and AOTC stuff showing up on Chef Boyardey (or however the hell you spell that asshole’s name) cans. The hype was pretty crazy for TFA also, but I don’t think anything could quite replicate the climate of the PT.

Warbler said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Warbler said:

btw, I am making a project of reading through the entire King James Version and New International Version of the Bible. I have read through Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Job, and am party through Deuteronomy in both Bibles.

I’ve read the KJV at least five times total, with many other books a lot more than that. The poetic language really makes each book sound much more incredible.

I agree. The KJV is the Bible I grew up with. It just sound right to me. However there are areas where it is rather difficult to understand and it uses many words that have are no longer used and some that have changed meaning since the KJV was translated.

I’ve read NKJV, NIV, and NASB once each. NKJV is the best of those three in both accuracy and translation.

I have heard that the NASB is the most accurate. But I have no idea if that is true.

It’s OK. My complaints with it revolve around corruption of poetic verses. They altered the “How art thou fallen from Heaven, oh Lucifer,” into something really nonsensical, and deleted the name Lucifer also. I also just prefer the KJV and NKJV’s way of separately indenting each verse.

Lord Haseo said:

Or if he get’s the scientists in his nation to invent the metabolism pill. If he did that then at least he positively impacted the world in some way.

Any medical-related product from North Korea would cause nothing but a massive heart attack.

Dek Rollins said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Dek Rollins said:

Life’s Been Good - Joe Walsh

Awesome song.

Got that right. 😄

I saw him play it live.

I envy you, sir.

He still tours solo, but seems to only hit the big American cities.

I’ve been pretty rude to the non-regular posters since the negative1 business, which I should avoid from now on, unless they ask for it, like Wario64.

Possessed said:

I’ll bet that was the songwriting premise for led Zeppelin.

Exactly. But their work post-Led Zeppelin II revealed that they had some tricks up their sleeves, and had some lovely, original material. I don’t buy that Stairway was heavily influenced by Spirit, by the way. Even if it was, there is no plagiarism involved.

RicOlie_2 said:

Warbler said:

btw, I am making a project of reading through the entire King James Version and New International Version of the Bible. I have read through Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Job, and am party through Deuteronomy in both Bibles.

Why Job? It’s not in the middle of the Pentateuch in the KJV, is it?

Bibles don’t rearrange by translation. Unless you count the inclusion of Apocryphal books in Catholic or Orthodox compilations.

Warbler said:

btw, I am making a project of reading through the entire King James Version and New International Version of the Bible. I have read through Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Job, and am party through Deuteronomy in both Bibles.

I’ve read the KJV at least five times total, with many other books a lot more than that. The poetic language really makes each book sound much more incredible. I’ve read NKJV, NIV, and NASB once each. NKJV is the best of those three in both accuracy and translation.

I’d rather have fun but unoriginal material than terrible yet (arguably) somewhat original material.

flametitan said:

Interesting trivia, not sure if anyone knew this already: I’m sure you saw the creature that looks like Nien Nunb in The Force Awakens as an X-Wing pilot.

I noticed that in the theatres. It was neat to see him in the background.

When they escape Hoth, find a way to incorporate “There’s the Blockade.”

Lord Haseo said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Lord Haseo said:

TV’s Frink said:

What if God was one of us?

Hopefully it’s me so I can smite Trump and every pedophile on the planet at once.

Trump? Not Kim Jong Un?

I would just give him a spontaneous case of Syphilis and leave him be.

Kim Jong lil-Penis is only 30 and is already a decade late on a massive heart-attack.

I would like to make a public apology to RyanSWI, as well as to the originaltrilogy.com community, for my general sourness in pretty much all of the Star Wars related threads and sometimes (although I hope to a lesser degree) in Off Topic.