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PartyIsOver221 · « **Reply #30 on:** April 12, 2011, 06:14:09 PM »

Quote from: Matthew

Learning elementary building principles, physics, etc. would seem to be quite a useful skill. You never know when those principles/experience would come in handy.

Kingdom of Heaven.. what a good movie. Yes physics is vital!!

Lybus · « **Reply #31 on:** April 12, 2011, 08:46:33 PM »

Quote from: PartyIsOver221

Quote from: Matthew
Learning elementary building principles, physics, etc. would seem to be quite a useful skill. You never know when those principles/experience would come in handy.

Kingdom of Heaven.. what a good movie. Yes physics is vital!!

I thought that movie gave a very bad outlook on Christianity? Doesn't it also promote religious freedom? There is one scene where the main character, or lord, gives a speech in Jerusalem about how the Muslims and the Christians each have a claim to the holy land and earlier in the movie, he talks about how the Muslim's prayers aren't much different from ours.

I just remembered another thing I wanted to try this summer: Make my own electricity efficiently for under 20 bucks (this will probably involve a bike and some serious pedaling). Can it be done!?

Catholic Samurai · « **Reply #32 on:** April 12, 2011, 09:13:13 PM »

Quote from: Lybus

I just remembered another thing I wanted to try this summer: Make my own electricity efficiently for under 20 bucks (this will probably involve a bike and some serious pedaling). Can it be done!?

Only one way to find out! :smile:

Catholic Samurai · « **Reply #33 on:** April 12, 2011, 09:16:16 PM »

Quote from: PartyIsOver221

Kingdom of Heaven.. what a good movie.

Kingdom of Heaven was $###. Besides a crappy anti-catholic story line it had lousy visual effects in it's battle scenes. I've seen MUCH better.

Even the old movie The Crusades with it's somewhat distorted history and bit of ecuмinical mush at the end and zero-blood fight scenes, was better than Kingdom of Heaven.

Matthew · « **Reply #34 on:** April 12, 2011, 09:38:45 PM »

Quote from: PartyIsOver221

Quote from: Matthew
Learning elementary building principles, physics, etc. would seem to be quite a useful skill. You never know when those principles/experience would come in handy.

Kingdom of Heaven.. what a good movie. Yes physics is vital!!

I don't get it -- you act as if I brought up "Kingdom of Heaven" in the post you quoted ... I didn't.

Lybus · « **Reply #35 on:** April 12, 2011, 09:53:19 PM »

Are there trebuchet's or catapults in that movie? i don't remember.

Catholic Samurai · « **Reply #36 on:** April 12, 2011, 10:53:22 PM »

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Are there trebuchet's or catapults in that movie? i don't remember.

Yeah there are. That's actually one of the only neat things about that movie.

Jitpring · « **Reply #37 on:** April 12, 2011, 11:14:46 PM »

My understanding is that Kingdom of Heaven is a rabidly anti-Catholic and hence disgusting movie.

Elizabeth · « **Reply #38 on:** April 12, 2011, 11:25:54 PM »

You may well be right Jitpring!

I mixed up the title of The Keys of the Kingdom with Gregory Peck (1944).

I looked up the other title and have not seen it, but wouldn't be surprised if it is bad.

Jitpring · « **Reply #39 on:** April 13, 2011, 12:43:10 AM »

See:

http://decentfilms.com/reviews/kingdomofheaven.html

PartyIsOver221 · « **Reply #40 on:** April 13, 2011, 03:59:57 AM »

BAH! Well I just thought about the trebuchet attack in that movie when they KILLED THE MUSLIMS ATTACKING JERUSALEM.

We all understand its not just the Jews to watch out for, its Muslims too, right?

PartyIsOver221 · « **Reply #41 on:** April 13, 2011, 04:09:15 AM »

Quote from: Jitpring

See:

http://decentfilms.com/reviews/kingdomofheaven.html

And good review. I never doubted there was anti-Catholic sentiment in there, just that the trebuchet scene was good. For some people in this world, that may be the only glimpse they have of anything religious. If they even start to look into the Crusades after following that movie, isnt there a possibility of conversion ? Don't want to sound like an ecuмenical modernist, but sometimes I see (very rarely!) that conversion can occur through means (books, movies, etc) that seem uncharitable to the Faith upon deep analysis by those already of the Faith.

For instance, someone sees some exorcist movie, they never knew of the word "exorcism". They look it up, and are just amazed by the Catholic Church and their battle against a supposed invisible army of evil out to get their soul. They pray one day, and convert after seeing the goodness of God and receiving grace to believe... AKA that was my conversion, in one way.

Kailyn · « **Reply #42 on:** April 14, 2011, 12:01:45 PM »

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"I am the conscientious man of the spirit," answered he who was asked, "and in matters of the spirit it is difficult for anyone to take it more sternly, more strictly, and more severely than I, except him from whom I learnt it, Zarathustra himself. Better to know nothing than half-know many things! Better be a fool on your own account, than a wise man on other people's account! I - go to the root of things: - What matter if it be great or small? If it be called swamp or sky? A handbreadth of ground is enough for me, if it be actually ground! - A handbreadth of ground: from it can one stand. In the truly conscientious knowledge there is nothing great and nothing small”. "Then you are perhaps an expert on the leech”? asked Zarathustra; "and you investigate the leech to its ultimate roots, you conscientious one”? "O Zarathustra," answered the trodden man, "that would be something immense; how could I presume to do so! That, however, of which I am master and knower, is the brain of the leech: - that is my world! And that too is also a world! Forgive it, however, that my pride here finds expression, for here I have not my equal. Therefore said I: 'here am I at home. ' How long have I investigated this one thing, the brain of the leech, so that here the slippery truth might no longer slip from me! Here is my domain! - For the sake of this did I cast everything else aside, for the sake of this did everything else become indifferent to me; and close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

Catholic Samurai · « **Reply #43 on:** April 14, 2011, 05:00:45 PM »

The only thing Kingdom of Heaven probably did was offend decent Catholics and rouse Neo-Con idiots to call for more war against cavemen in the East. There was absolutely nothing "inspiring" about it.