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So Strong; yet so calm: Mary's Choice.

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Million Dollar Baby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Father, that was a great sermon. 
Made me weep."
~(Frankie)~
 
"What's confusing you this week?"
~(Priest)~
 
"Oh, it's the same old one-God-three-God thing."
~(Frankie)~
 
"Frankie, most people figure out by kindergarten it's about faith."
~(Priest)~
 
"Is it sort of like
Snap, Crackle, and Pop
all rolled up in one big box?"
~(Frankie)~
 
"You're standing outside my church comparing God to Rice Krispies? 
The only reason you come to Mass is to wind me up."
~(Priest)~
 
"I'm confused."
~(Frankie)~
 
"No, you aren't."
~(Priest)~
 
"Yes, I am."
~(Frankie)~
 
"Then here's your answer: 
There's one God. 
Anything else?  Because I'm busy."
~(Priest)~
 
"What about the Holy Ghost?"
~(Frankie)~
 
"He's an expression of God's love."
~(Priest)~
 
"And Jesus?"
~(Frankie)~
 
"Son of God.  Don't play stupid."
~(Priest)~
 
"What is he then?  Does that make him a demigod?"
~(Frankie)~
 
"There are no demigods, you fucking pagan!
You know what? 
Take a day off, don't come to Mass tomorrow."
~(Priest)~
 


Million Dollar Baby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 sports drama film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman. It is the story of an under-appreciated boxing trainer, his elusive past, and his quest for atonement by helping an underdog amateur boxer (the film's title character) achieve her dream of becoming a professional. The film won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Plot

Frankie is finally willing to arrange a title fight. He secures Maggie a $1 million match in Las Vegas, Nevada against the WBA women's welterweight champion, Billie "The Blue Bear", a German ex-prostitute who has a reputation as a dirty fighter. Overcoming a shaky start, Maggie begins to dominate the fight, but after a round has ended, Billie knocks her out with a sucker punch from behind. Before Frankie can pull the corner stool out of the way, Maggie lands hard on it, breaking her neck and leaving her a quadriplegic.

Frankie never leaves her side. He reads to her, urges her to go back to school and invites her to come live with him. As the days pass, however, Maggie develops bedsores and undergoes an amputation for an infected leg. She asks a favor of Frankie: to help her die while she can still remember the cheers she heard, saying she got what she most wanted out of life.

A horrified Frankie refuses, but seeks the advice of his priest, Father Horvak, whom he has tormented for 23 years. Horvak warns him that euthanasia is a grave sin, and that he will be lost forever if he goes through with it. Maggie bites her tongue repeatedly in an attempt to bleed to death, but the medical staff saves her life each time and takes measures to prevent further suicide attempts.

Frankie sneaks in one night. Just before administering a fatal injection of adrenaline, he finally tells Maggie the meaning of a nickname he gave her, Mo Chuisle (spelled incorrectly in the film as "mo cuishle"): Irish for "my darling, and my blood" (literally, "my pulse"). He then disappears for good.
 
***
 
Really did not much enjoy this movie overall.
However,
did find the relationship
between Frankie and his Priest
amusing
as their dialogue exchange fell right in line
with
thoughts already of mine as an amateur atheist philosopher.

***

My take on the trinity.



2 substantive and 1 unsubstantive
vs.
2 unsubstantive and 1 substantive

We are never the same person
from
the perspective of others
who's
 radars we happen to be on.




"Quality of a good leader
is
one able to disappoint his own people
at
a rate they can absorb."
~(Unknown)~


Had Jesus not been crucified and continued preaching his unsanctioned sermons,  over time, I'm sure he would have expanded on the interpretation of the trinity himself when believing his audience ready to be pushed into thinking in terms unconventional for their time when less worry of outright immediate  rejection.

Instead...
he overplayed his hand;
the trinity in his absence then becoming nothing more than your typical religious verbiage word game with centuries of one "thou artful dodger" academic after another piling it on trying to out do each other while still coming no closer in being clearer about it's meaning.

With the religious leaders of today
like
my former neighbor
nationally known pastoral consultant George Robert Gary, Sr. ThD,
and by no means am I limiting this accusation to leaders of  the Christian faith,
when learning this verbiage,
have nothing more than learned the manipulation of an illusion.

If you are to be a gentleman,
As I suppose you'll be,
You'll neither laugh nor smile,
For a tickling of the knee.

~(Unknown)~

I genuinely believe Jesus in his own "thou artful dodger" way was giving recognition to Joseph as his
father figure while representing the essence of his mother Mary through the Holy Ghost during a time when women had no voice in politics; not even much of a voice in determining their own fates from within their own families.

"Son's a son until he gets him a wife;
daughter's a daughter all her life."
~(Unknown)~

Once Joseph disappeared from the bible,
like the title to a car,
Jesus' mother Mary became Jesus' care and responsibility being firstborn son although Jesus himself still a child.

Hence...
-bastard man-son 12 y.o. through his crucifixion
-sum of his parents in his father's absence
-or put even another way fittingly appropriate with today's blog entry...
his
"mo chuisle."

Again, my take on the trinity.

That's why I loved this dialogue confrontation between the character played by Clint Eastwood and the Priest. It started chains of events in my brain I now understand to be what is called "mind racing." 
Supposedly a psychosis...?

Now,
back to the movie
"Million Dollar Baby."

Considering Clint's a God Damn Republican...
I'm surprised he directed this movie as well as acted in the role of a leading character who, at least toward the end of the movie,  came across looking more like

LIBERAL
on issue certainly to be offending primarily those of his own party.

Maybe he's really
a
R.I.N.O.?

Will have to look into him more.
Pretty much all I know about Clint Eastwood politically
is
that he made an ass of himself with his speech at the Republican Convention
nominating
McCain and Palin.

Maybe not as bad a Republican as Charlson Heston,

although shown here kissing
a
LIBERAL,
definitely not a R.I.N.O..

You would think,
if these two actors had any integrity,
they wouldn't accept roles that send conflicting messages.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Doodle 4 Google

 

Doodle 4 Google 2013 Winner!

Sabrina Brady, Wisconsin

Theme: My Best Day Ever…


Doodle 4 Google: Doodle 4 Google is an annual program that invites K-12 students in the United States to use their artistic talents to think big and redesign our homepage logo for millions to see.

Doodle 4 Google is an annual program that invites K-12 students in the United States to use their artistic talents to think big and redesign our homepage logo for millions to see.

This year, we asked students to exercise their creative imaginations around the theme, “My Best Day Ever…” One talented student artist will see their artwork appear on the Google homepage, receive a $30,000 college scholarship, and a $50,000 technology grant for their school!

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Oops! The 5 greatest scientific blunders | Fox News


Oops! The 5 greatest scientific blunders | Fox News: Even geniuses make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes turn out to be genius in their own right, helping to illuminate some underlying mystery or impacting the way an entire field thinks.

In celebration of happy accidents and enlightening errors, astrophysicist Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., tells the stories of five great scientific mistakes in his new book "Brilliant Blunders" (Simon & Schuster, May 14, 2013). These stories serve to show how even the smartest among us can err, and that in fact to achieve a big breakthrough, big risks are necessary, which sometimes also involve big failures.

Friday, May 17, 2013

Better Georgia: Visit # 2

 
Surprised to learn from these two 
that
the two girls from first visit had posted my handout
regarding
"Balanced vs. Tragic Vision of Humankind"
on the walls back at headquarters.
 
 
 
Of course...
I'm also certainly aware these young kids
have
goals of their own in mind
and...
have been well versed
in
marketing strategies.
 
Like Democratic Pary of Georgia...
they also liked pushing
-HARD-
for $200.00 instead.
 
Bit of a turn-off actually;
but...
they all knew the issues better than I ever did at their age.
 
Democratic Pary of Georgia only gets
$50.00
each visit;
but...
 they've been coming around longer.

Thursday, May 2, 2013

ZEITGEIST: Dictionary.com Slideshow Demo


Dictionary.com Slideshow Demo: Every era has a spirit. Be it the pervasive "cool" that stemmed from jazz and beat poetry in the 1940s, the revolutionary character of the 1960s with the civil rights and antiwar movements, or even the technological boom of the twenty-first century. Thanks to German we have the perfect word for these emblematic "spirits of the times": Zeitgeist. Literally translated as "time spirit" or "time ghost" zeitgeist refers to the "general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time."

Coroner: 5-year-old boy shoots 2-year-old sister in Kentucky with rifle he got as a gift - The Washington Post

In this case,
the rifle was made by a company that sells guns specifically for children
 — “My first rifle” is the slogan —
in colors ranging
from
plain brown to hot pink to orange to royal blue to multi-color swirls.
 

Coroner: 5-year-old boy shoots 2-year-old sister in Kentucky with rifle he got as a gift - The Washington Post: BURKESVILLE, Ky. — In southern Kentucky, where some children get their first guns even before they start first grade, Stephanie Sparks was cleaning the kitchen as her 5-year-old son played with the small rifle he was given last year. Then, as she stepped onto the front porch, “she heard the gun go off,” a coroner said.

In a horrific accident Tuesday that shocked a rural area far removed from the national debate over gun control, her son, Kristian, had fatally shot his 2-year-old sister, Caroline, in the chest, authorities said.

***
 
My mother,
who lives in Arkansas,
informed me my redneck brother has just purchased himself
a
bushmaster gun.
 
I went ballistic.
 
What surprised me even more,
my mother acted like she was
clueless
this
would set off a trigger of mine.
 
"MOTHER!
When men jack off...
they fantasize!"
 
"When men hold a gun...
they fantasize!" 
 
His fascination with guns started off at a young age as well. 
 
Jesus Fucking  Christ on a Corndog!
 
Aren't 5-year-olds
with
B-B guns
dangerous enough?