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Would you prefer to be given a bar of your favorite brand of chocolate, or a piece of homemade peanut brittle?

What word best describes your usual style of dress?

Large sections are lifted directly from Judith by A Perfect Circle. Whether the changes are sufficient to qualify as fair use would be debatable. Citing the original as inspiration for an homage or as basis for a parody would make the matter less debatable. It would also make it less plagiaristic.

If it's meant to be parody or homage, you really should cite the original. Virgin Records aggressively litigates anything it considers to be an infringement of it's copyrights.

Sort of. More to the point, if an omnipotent God is involved, there would be possibilities that we can't even conceive of. All the rules can be changed, you know?

I seem to remember Jesus being quoted as saying that ALL who believe in him can have eternal life. Why couldn't separate falls use the same salvation?

Why is it not possible? Once there are omnipotent deities involved, there isn't a lot of room for "not possible".

How do you know the aliens won't come bearing Watchtowers? If Christianity is what it says it is, it would make perfect sense for there to be Christian aliens out there somewhere.... Another Another Testament of Jesus Christ?

You know, it's funny, but the act of replying makes your actual reply seem dishonest. A man who thinks things honestly aren't worth the effort, honestly makes no effort. It's nice to see that you still care what we think, Phil.

Perception isn't everything. Perception is predicated by perspective, and perspective is predicated by attitude. Change your attitude, and your perception changes. If it had no meaning for you, you wouldn't have asked her to prove it: You'd have asked her what she was talking about. It has meaning for you. You are simply denying that meaning. As you said, "My boys are the only things that are really holding me here". There are two ways to read that. One, is the way that you wanted it read: "Look how little I care about everything." The other way is "Look at these things I care about so much that they make life worth it." Things would be much easier for you if you honestly didn't care- if you honestly didn't think that life was worth it. I can see that. But that simply isn't the case, is it?

There's an old Taoist saying that goes something like "Everything smells like **, when your head is up your ass." Ok, maybe I'm paraphrasing just a bit, but the core message remains untouched. Life is worth it because I decided that life is worth it. If you decide that life is not worth it, life will not be worth it. And that will be entirely your doing.

A remake is fundamentally different than a sequal. I wouldn't mind a remake. The problem is that in order to do the sequels and the serialization, they had to change the plot around, making the central themes in the movie meaningless. Oh, look. Romeo didn't really die, and Juliette's ghost lives in his shoes, so they get to be together a while longer. It's not a tragedy about star-crossed lovers, it's a detective story about a tights-wearing sleuth and his spectral side-kick! Hooray!

Ew. Did you like Renegade, too? Movies? There was only one, because there can be only one. Highlander needed sequels and a tv show the way Romeo and Juliet needs sequels and a tv show.

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