Vengeance

My personal favorite was the explanation for Excalibur & the lady in the lake.

Yeah Aurthur's character did kind of suck.

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kael03

Merlin was by far the best part of that series. Gwain holds second, and Kay is right behind him. I'll admit, the actress playing Igrain has a hell of a body for 40 >_>

Vengeance

^She turned "39" on July 1st.

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kael03

You know what I mean. I rounded up, gimme a break.

Vengeance

LMAO just saying women sometimes get sensitive about their age.

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ACt

I also hear they hate being called fat. Got any other tidbits?

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Miburo

Haha.

And yeah, I'm probably just overly-critical because I really disliked Arthur. Merlin was pretty cool most of the time. So I dunno.

kael03

Arthur was a pain in the ass for most of the season. His actions in the finale redeemed him, though. Especially when he walked into Morgan's courtroom and called her out for her premature crowning.

Skullbat01

wow I just scrolled back through the conversations how the fuck did we get on the finer points of Merlin??????

it was such a radical shift !

Edit:never mind I figured it out

Miburo the beheading was my favorite moment too shit had me rotfl

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kael03

Mib linked a clip from Camelot where the nun sees Merlin right before she's beheaded by Gwain and Merlin tells her there is no god. That's how the convo shifted to Merlin.

The Special One

How is it understandable (if god exists) that there are some people who have everything going for them or are better off than those unfortunate (yourself, for example), state that God has blessed them, yet, there are people suffering in this world, just praying to find enough food and water to survive? Is God just more loving and helpful to those more fortunate than others? Your God dishes out preferential treatment then. You can't have it both ways. You can't say god's this and god's that, then reference victims of circumstance (since that's more of a logical approach to things).

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Skullbat01

you guys forget how insulting it is to say that god does everything good as well
does your hard work mean nothing
do you not want to earn any thing for yourself

I don't know but for me
work my ass off --> get ahead is waaaaay better then

beg and plead and kiss the ass of some invisible overlord ---> get ahead

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Final Fantasy XII

Gakure

Getting personal, aren't we? Shorthand is now a crime. Pettiness.

@Mibs. Understood. As already explained He is limited. Laws are not laws until they have no exceptions. That's what makes them laws in the first place. It is not His choice to make. Man is suppose to make Him [God] his choice. You [God] can't protect people from rape while at the same time allow people to choose to rape [that will be a case of double standard].

OK. Let's look at this picture, shall we? There is the small part and the big one [This is an individual case in point].

Here goes: A child is taken to the clinic by the parents to be immunized [lets say HBV vaccine]. When the needle is pierced into that child, he considers it painful, suffering and with his little innocent eyes, looks at the parents for what he calls deliverance. But the parents know better. Stop the immunization [child gets HB later in life and dies from it] or continue [child is protected from the HBV].

Looking at the big picture, the parents need to continue the immunization cos that painful ordeal [to the child] is to protect him later in life[from death]. The parents have to chose between "the needle" and "death" cos they know the end from the beginning.

The same applies to God. To us, the suffering shd seize if He does really exists [small picture] but we shd look at the big picture, without it [not saying it is good], pride, overconfidence, consequence-less actions etc will be the order of the day. So to some extent, suffering is good [teaches us our limitations and helps us survive, be responsible etc].

This world is imperfect at every angle u look at it. Our suffering [caused by the god of this world] saddens Him. That is why He wants us to turn to Him for comfort, not turn to the world. If the world was such a perfect place, then there'd be no reason to turn to God for comfort.

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ACt

The big and the small picture does not matter to god. If he is what you say, all powerful and all knowing, he can do anything, altering every level of the story and COULD give the world utopia and nothing but goodness. He doesn't. Your final statement says he wants us to suffer so we'll need him - your god is an asshole.

I should starve my dog just so he knows that he'll get nowhere without me.

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Skullbat01

Gakure it doesnt matter how you rationalize it god cannot be omnipowerful,omniscient, and omnipresent

to many things go on in this world to directly contradict that so either gods not real
or judeochristian belief falsely portrays him/her/it as an all powerfull being

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