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Maybe you should consider publishing.No, not published. Haven't even tried to submit anything, even though people who read my stories keep telling me I should submit.
I take that back. I did submit one thing online a few years ago, a short story titled Love and Other Unicorns. When I got my rejection letter, I was so thrilled because I felt like a real live writer with my very own rejection letter to prove it.
I won a short story contest once. Also online. But that is the extent of my renown.
Almost like minimalist poetry, I guess... I'm actually a great believer in saying more with less. (Politicians, of course, are adept at saying less with lots more...)
Unless you get the issue of heaven and hell resolved, you cannot really focus on other peripheral issues.
But Jesus did not miss it, not at all, although many bearing the label of Christian seem deny the truth of that verse at least indirectly, and some perhaps quite directly. I readily admit that too often I have been one of the guilty ones... perhaps more guilty because I have long been aware of the verse and its meaning.
Don't be to hard on yourself, you're only human in the end.
Yes, only human when standing alone, but when I really am standing with God how much more should I be? God knows and when I seem to think I know, the pride of the "old man" gets me into trouble every time:
Sorry I am unfamiliar with many or most newer movies. Consider with that that my birth occurred in 1943. The Dead End Kids or Bowery Boys were often at the peak of my entertainment interest and experience.
They were not cartoons but full length movies starring a group of boys belonging to a gang in New York City [on the Bowery]. Their movies [all black & white to my recollection] were produced from the early 1940's into the 1950's. The Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies were usually along with them during the same time periods shown in between the double feature at the movie theaters. There was no movie theater in our small town but the bus service was good and cheap. I would frequently ride the bus on Saturday mornings to the next town 8 miles away to watch the Bowery Boys and the color cartoons and then return home by bus in the evening. Usually there was enough time to watch each feature and the cartoons not less than twice each. The drinks and snacks in the theater did not cost and arm and a leg although they soon started to push up higher..."The Dead End Kids or Bowery Boys were often at the peak of my entertainment interest and experience."
You are 15 yrs older than myself. I recall the titles of The Dead End Kids and Bowery Boys...only through reading stuff...I am more of a Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies cartoons kind of gal
God? I guess if that's how you want to see the designer of all thing's, then I see why you think the way you do.
You know what I really find odd about you amadeus, is that your ideas are so ingrained with the Bible theology. I can't help think that this is evidence of indoctrination & brainwashing.
Some will say that, but consider the alternative of going the way that so many [most] men choose to go. How does a man move away from the pain and destruction that is all around us? I know my answer, but I readily admit that others will not see or understand my answer. God really does have a plan and when we are able to see it, we can be content with where we are in spite of it all.
Without regard to the very cost of everything these days, it is a rare new movie shown in a theater that I could or would sit through even once. But to be fair now sometimes when I watch old movies that I had naively enjoyed when I was young I now recognize some underlying messages which do not sit well with my current beliefs and understandings. For example one oldie and goodie is the original Wizard of Oz produced in 1939 several years before I was born. As we watched it perhaps we all were on the side of the good witch who was on the side of the young heroine. Where do we find any witch described as "'good" in the scripture? What is to be the result for any witch in scripture?Yes, I knew they were not cartoons, but that is about all I remember...we used to watch very old stuff when I was still living at home as a young teenager, for all I know...we (my family) could have seen these movies...such a simple, way of life...take the bus to the Show, and get reasonably priced treats and drinks...It is a rare day if I go to the movies...and if I do...I bring my OWN treats
