GB3 lost at the BAFTA, life goes on

 https://twitter.com/GBNewsdotcom/status/1503141354976821253

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.  

:/

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.  

AFter Life

 Seriously.

All those years Harold Ramis was alive, virtually nobody knew who he was.  Nobody visited him in the hospital.  Nobody sent him "get well soon" cards.  Nobody called him up on the phone to say they wish him well.  Facebook wasn't holding any vigils for him.  And now every opportunity that comes up to mention that he's dead, everybody uses it.  Sick.

Enjoy life.
If you miss Harold Ramis, maybe re-direct your attn to the whole lot of people (that are actually IN your life) that you don't cherish enough, before they're dead as well.

Cents and sensibility

 I'm finally in fight mode.  I can only pray that God will keep me in it.  My pastor / counselor has been trying to get it through my thick skull that I need to cut it out!!!  We discussed that it's due time for me to get with it and determine what my "right hand" is and cut it off accordingly.  I don't want to have to give up music and movies.  So I'm trying as hard as I can to be GOOD (relatively speaking..."less vile" I guess) I concidentally have been spending money like crazy.  I don't even know why except boredom.  If that were a solution you'd think it'd be accomplished.  Yeesh.  I need to figure out what I want to do and just do it!!!  I don't need to buy music or movies.  I have a TON of stuff to watch just on Hulu.  And then I have a bunch of DVDs I haven't watched.  I keep thinking that I need to support the music & film industry by buying stuff from it but I've DONE that!!!!!  At least twice over.  I don't even like the new music that comes out.  I mean, sometimes good stuff comes out but usually I'm AT LEAST a year late figuring out what new band is any good.  Most of the time I'm more like 5++ years late.  So obviously the music industry does not depend on me.  I should still support it IF/WHEN I find something new that I do truly like, but I don't need to buy some movie I watched 10 years ago to show my appreciation for it or whatever.  This whole cycle is just crazy.  I need to get down to business.  Time to start chipping away at this mountain of credit card debt I've accumulated with this insanity.

Many a book worthless is atomed

 This is the first sentence of WE WERE NEVER HERE by Andrea Bartz, a bestselling book on Amazon.  

"Kristen trotted to the patio’s edge and crouched, long arm outstretched."

What the hell is a "long arm"?

What's up with "easter eggs"?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)

 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters:_Afterlife#Critical_response

There is nothing hidden in GB3 (Ghostbusters: Afterlife). The plot is not that complicated. Everything on the screen is plainly visible. I really don't know why that headgear thingy that Louis Tully was wearing when he was being tested for whatever was sitting on a work bench in a farmhouse.  I doubt that thing had the same sentimental value to Egon that it did to a lot of kids who watched the movie back in 1984-1990 who saw that and were like "woah...that is some tricked out s&it!"  And why was a 40 year old candy bar stuck in Egon's jumpsuit?  Did it really mean that much to him that Venkman took back "some of things" he'd said about him?  Maybe it did, but the candy bar would have been beyond edible by that point and probably would have ruined the jump suit by the time Phoebe and co. made it over to the farmhouse....that's assuming that the candy bar wasn't just sitting in the jumpsuit for 40 years.....I mean, is that what people are referring to as an "easter egg"?  I don't know how someone could be so vapid as to not connect the dots there.  If you're not a real fan of the first two movies (or at least the first movie), then, yeah, the significance is going to be lost and you won't even care.  To those who do care -- why?  Just because you recognize something doesn't make it significant.  Like "OH, I found the easter egg!"  Okay?  So you have one or two more badges that confirm your geekhood.  Good for you, I guess?

 

The movie was OK.  I really think it was a mistake to be sequeling the movie.  They did an acceptable job with GB2.  If they were going to continue the legacy, they should go more in the direction of Dan Aykroyd's original script, which was more edgy and horror-like.  I don't know if there's enough demand to warrant financing the cost of making such a movie.  I wouldn't expect them to just do a total adaptation, but even a scaled down version of that movie would be risky.  But then again, isn't it always?

Whooah

 I started posting this on Facb but they cut me off ...

My sister wrote me a scripture note on an Index card which she'd mailed out to me. It's of Philippians chapter 4, vss 4 through 7. The last part is transcribed a little ambiguously... I think it rightly says "And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus". But the word "the" looks like "He"... But isn't THE Holy Spirit a "He"? (I was actually just thinking the other day about why He is The Holy Spirit rather than Mr. Holy Spirit or ... something... The word "the" implied an inanimate object. Or, in certain contexts it can describe a facet of a person...like "The leg we had to cut off is not going to be able to be re attached, but he will be fine" -- the "he" there not referring to the leg but rather the person who had been endowed with a leg and subsequently charged with the task of figuring out how to make do without it; the "heart" of "him", you could say... The Holy Spirit being referred a The backs up my suspicion that The Holy Spirit is not an eternal presence. I don't have any reason to think The Holy Spirit is going to be gone ever, but I don't think The Holy Spirit is as distinct a presence as God The Father or Jesus The Son. I should probably emphasize I'm not declaring some kind of doctrine. I don't believe The Bible is very clear on this but it seems quite possible that The Holy Spirit might be basically a manifestation of God The Father and Jesus, given to each of His people... When His people are fully saved and in paradise without temptation and evils, what will The Holy Spirit be? It's almost impossible to answer that with any guarantee of accuracy. It's like trying to describe a sound you've never heard. Or trying to hear a sound you literally cannot hear. I had a glimmer of an idea for a scifi story along that thought several years ago, on the notion that if the laws if physics on another planet were entirely different than that of Earth, not just gravity, but all of it,

if we survived the trip, somehow it another, if there were other life forms there, but we couldn't see or hear them... because we're basically looking with eyes that are designed to examine and interpret THIS set of physics.

a total side note from the original notion...but anyway....

Poem of nothingness

 You think I want to know you

You think I want to know what you think

It was a mistake to even consider that a possibility

It was downright stupid to act on it as if were anything less than incredible

I could watch you crying

gasping for air

and feel nothing

You are worth nothing to me

And you think I'm going to give you my money?  You should be grateful I'm even spending the time needed to write this.  

I take what I said earlier back;  You don't quite mean nothing to me

Your meaning to me is that of a fly circling around my ear

I could smash your brain and my life would be better for it 

Nobody needs you.

Nobody wants you.

Nobody should need you

Nobody should want you