GB3 lost at the BAFTA, life goes on

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I'm honestly rather surprised that this was even nominated.  The only thing I can figure is that many in the Hollywood elite like GHOSTBUSTERS almost as much as your everyday humdrum social media messenger does.
The 2nd sequel / 4th movie was a bit of a mess.  It started out rather slow.  It had some good jokes.  The characters were likeable.  It was a little engrossing.  It sped up a little, but by the end of the movie, the warnings of the apocalypse that the main characters' grandfather had posted on metal sheets along the entry to his barn property just seemed rather disconnected from the rest of the film.  When "the apocalypse" starts up, it's apparent that it's just a repeat of the first movie.  And why did Egon and Ray have a falling out?  Egon couldn't have simply told Ray "Gozer's coming back soon and I've pinpointed the location" instead of wailing on about "the end is near!  We're all going to die!"  And Gozer would have had to go pretty far beyond the confines of that tiny town it was in in order to fulfill ANY thing similar to an apocalypse.  And it hadn't even started.  There was a dinky little town of people to wake up and shake into worship, but it didn't seem to care...it seemed to be content to rest on its laurels (whatever those may have been...).
I haven't seen DUNE, but I've seen little pieces of it and it seems to be at least visually more impressive than GB3.  It just makes more sense that it would have won over GB3.  I would hope that DUNE is an overall better movie, just for the sake of common sense.  GB3 was aimed at a tween / family demographic and was billed as a comedy, so it's not really supposed to make a lot of sense anyway, although I really would have preferred it be more original than it was.  The structure of GB2's screenplay was very similar to GB1, but the story was completely different.  There was no river of slime in GHOSTBUSTERS.  There was no haunted painting in GHOSTBUSTERS.  That's half of GB2 is the river of slime and the haunted painting.  Even if the order of events, the story structure, made it feel very familiar, it's still a sequal so there's always going to be a level of familiarity no matter what.
But anyway.....DUNE is supposed to a more serious film, and it has no built in audience except for fans of the book, who are not numerous enough to make it financially successful and even if they alone spurred on the film's success, many of them would not recommend the film or go back to see it again if it wasn't simply a good movie.  That level of success -- it's grossed over $300 million -- does not come from a modest size group of die hard geeks with weird tastes.  A good # of the audience is made up of good ol' fashion film goers, who want something a little different but also want to be mentally and emotionally engaged.

Sunk, head up.

I spent several days diving into the oily gunK that swarms about my heart in various patterns.  Not even trying to set up any barriers.  I fear that God is not doing --as,much-- as He perhaps otherwise would because He knows on some level, at a higher rank than it ought to be, my prayer when I ask Him to help me is nothing more than "Please disregard my disobedience".  God intervend with a phone call from a guy from church.  I was obedience for all of 3 days.

I believe that -- God is able and willing to help.  He is NOT willing to do it for me.  I've literally asked Him to do that.  I need to take His word more plainly.  We are not called into sitting around waiting for an explanation that sounds suitable to each and every one of us.  Adam & Eve had no possible way to comprehend the consequences of eating the forbidden fruit and we as modern man still have differing opinions on what exactly transpired in the garden of Eden.  I don't need to understand why God set these barriers up and why they're so dangerous to cross.  I just need to continue to decrease the frequency with which I cross them and use the time after and before I fall again, if I do, to just try and marvel over the goodness and beauty of God.  I don't do that enough and I think that's partly what spurred me on to my slipup today.  Lord, please lift my face to You and infuse me with an appreciation of Your majesty.  Please.  I am far from worthy of this.  I am deserving of a pig's death.  Please rescue me, O God.  Lift me away from these things and lead me into a reverent awe of The Truth and Your Majesty 

Thank you, Father God and Lord Jesus, blessed be Your spirit, may I keep from continuing to desecrate Your temple. Please..... 

SEERRRRR

 PLEASE RID ME OF THIS SELF!!!, O GOD!!!!!

I've been trapped in this oozy puss mind.  I don't know how to get out of it.  I can't quite fathom the idea of throwing my computer in the trash..............................................

I could on the other hand get rid of my Roku.  But ISN'T SELF CONTROL A FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT???  Why can't I keep from giving into this crap?  I speak this way of course with the present realization that it is *****WRONG**** to behave this way.  I don't even think I **FULLY** realize the extent and manner in which this is wrong.  I have a greater acknowledgement in this moment than I did last night and five minutes ago.  

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Please, God!!!

PLEAAAASE????!!!!

It **MIGHT** cost you everything.......

 https://www.amazon.com/Will-Cost-You-Everything-Follow/dp/1527107035/ref=pd_bxgy_1/131-9003146-9954726?pd_rd_w=eqSr6&pf_rd_p=6b3eefea-7b16-43e9-bc45-2e332cbf99da&pf_rd_r=MBWM5ZJ4DXV8KSNZEN51&pd_rd_r=2381ae1c-4e1b-405f-8483-918da36a6847&pd_rd_wg=37Tky&pd_rd_i=1527107035&psc=1#customerReviews

Probably a sound book, but the title is complete BULLSHIT!  Simply dying, which everybody does, costs everything.  Of course, I mean "Every" thing, as in every thing a person has ever known apart from God Himself.  We will lose our lunch.  We will lose our houses.  We will lose our family.  Some of that we might gain back, who on Earth can say if we'll eat in Heaven or which family members we'll see in Heaven?  Our houses will be more splendid than anything a person might have on Earth.  Who would want to keep their house in Heaven?  The sub atomic particles that everything is made up of, including houses, are tainted with the presence of sin.  Who would want to take that with them when they go except people so ensnared with sin they can't realistically contemplate the idea of Jesus being their Lord?
Following Christ does not cost EVERY THING.  Sometimes it does.  Many missionaries have left everything for God.  The Apostles left everything behind for God.  They still get to eat food, presumably, although it may not be enjoyable simply because different cultures often have a very different idea of what tastes good.  Some cultures eat snails and different kinds of vegetables that are not regularly sold in supermarkets where x and y missionaries were/are originally from.
A guest preacher at my church did a sermon about this concept and primarily focused on an example in that sermon on some guy whose name I don't remember that lost his life trying to preach The Gospel to some lost civilization somewhere in the jungle.  An example of the fallacy of "It will cost you everything" --- the guy was married when he died at the hands of his beloved enemies.  What does that say?  Does that say that every married person is going to be divorced once they become a Christian?  Lose your paternal family, your nuclear family, lose your taste buds, lose your ability to listen to music, watch movies..........  Yeah, EVERY thing!  Because SIN is not EVERY THING!!!!   And that's the only thing that Jesus commands us to repent of.  Not our hobbies.  Not our fleeting bouts of happiness.  Not our love for other people.  He simply wants us to flee from sin and do so genuinely.  In practice, the authenticity of that fleeing is usually something that follows after you take that first step of submission and simply doing what Jesus has commanded.  "Take up your cross" means it's not going to be an easy victory.  It doesn't mean it's going to cost you everything.