Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The undiscovered country...

...the future."

~(Klingon Chancellor Gorkon)~

 

 

"If there is to be a brave new world,

our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it."

~(Klingon Chancellor Gorkon)~

"Jim.  Is it possible we've become old and inflexible
that
we've outlived our usefulness?"
~(Spock)~

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is a 1991 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the sixth feature film based on the Star Trek science fiction television series. It was directed by Nicholas Meyer and written by Meyer with Denny Martin Flinn. After the destruction of the moon Praxis leads the Klingon Empire to pursue peace with their long-time adversary the Federation, the crew of the USS Enterprise must race against unseen conspirators with a militaristic agenda.

The Undiscovered Country was initially planned as a prequel to the original series, with younger actors portraying the crew of the Enterprise while attending Starfleet Academy, but the idea was discarded because of negative reaction from the cast and the fans. Faced with producing a new film in time for Star Trek's 25th anniversary, Flinn and Meyer, the director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, wrote a script based on a suggestion from Leonard Nimoy about what would happen if "the wall came down in space", touching on the contemporary events of the Cold War.

Nimoy visited Meyer's house and suggested, "[What if] the wall comes down in outer space? You know, the Klingons have always been our stand-ins for the Russians..." Meyer recalled that he replied "'Oh, wait a minute! Okay, we start with an intergalactic Chernobyl! Big explosion! We got no more Klingon Empire...!' And I just spilled out the whole story!" The story deliberately included references to the contemporary political climate; the character of Gorkon was based on Mikhail Gorbachev, while the assassination storyline was Meyer's idea. He thought it was plausible that the Klingon leader who turned soft towards the enemy would be killed like similar peacemakers throughout history: Anwar El Sadat, Gandhi, and Abraham Lincoln.

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Now that I have an unlimited membership to Netflix, been watching a lot of movies I've already seen, even ones didn't care much for first time around such as this Star Trek sequel;
because...
 I watch them alone in closed caption.

 

Even my mother and sister admit to understanding movies better in closed caption when they visit, although still preferring to watch them without closed caption if I've already seen the movie in closed caption. 

If that didn't make sense,
maybe now is a good time to inform you I am hearing impaired.

 

 

 

Catching these three quotes turn watching this sequel again into a real gem find.

 

Sunday Classes

Inside Glenn...

Adult Sunday School

Sunday Classes: COVENANT CLASS

The Covenant Class, which meets in room 420, is composed of adult singles and couples and is led by Bob and Janet Gary. This is a group-centered experience in which members covenant to support each other’s journey toward mature faith as Christians. Confidentiality is maintained to facilitate personal sharing. All are welcome. For more information, contact Bob and Janet at ggary@emory.edu.

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If all are welcomed (?)...

then what's the point of maintaining "confidentiality?"

That would be an oxymoron!

If all are welcomed(?)...

how does one even begin to guarantee "confidentiality?"

That would be  a false promise!

If one only professes his faith under the pretense of confidentiality(?)...

how is that even "mature faith?"

That would not be a true test of one's faith!

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It would be fun to sit through one of Bob and Janet's convenant classes.

However...
as I would probably snicker all the way through them; 
even I know better than to attend one.

However...
some of the other classes sound right up my alley!

I would very much like to attend to observe something I've never observed before...
Methodist adults alone together in a Sunday class as an adult myself;
a recovering "Mature Methodist" crackhead.

~(6!9)~

Simply Jim
being
simply
Jim Ed

THEORIES OF A JUST WAR: THE NEW CLASS..?

"THE NEW CLASS"

Inside Glenn...Adult Sunday School

Now in its 11th year, the class was formed to explore issues of faith in professional life. During that time class members have read and discussed all kinds of books and articles on contemporary issues and on the Bible, ethics, Methodism, politics, ecclesiology, international affairs, other faiths (especially Islam),

and

theories of a just war.

The class this year will engage several topics and contemporary issues from biblical, ethical, theological, political, personal, pastoral, and international perspectives. Conducted in seminar style, the class relies on reading, reflection, discussion, and broad class participation in leadership and conversation.

The resource person for the New Class is Dr. Theodore R. Weber, Professor Emeritus of Christian Social Ethics at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. The class also benefits from presentations by other members of the class and by guest speakers from the Glenn/Emory/Candler community and from other interests/organizations. Visitors and new members are most welcome. The class meets in room 422. For more information, contact Ted or Cindy Runyon at libcgr@emory.edu or 404-636-7881."

Sunday Classes:  The New Class

Sunday Classes:  Bible vs. Newspapers

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I don't understand why I can't be available to participate in Glenn's theological discussions.

I've already tried twice...

only to be slapped by a restraining order from Bob and Janet Gary shortly after the first attempt.

I'm just waiting for an invitation from Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church now.

Is it not wrong for Glenn Memorial to continue pretending and acting

as if believing

they are not already involved?

Although I do refer to myself as an adult being an atheist,

even going so far as referring to myself as an anti-Christ;

as the first eighteen years of my life was entrusted to the care

of

First United Methodist Church of Prescott, Arkansas...

as stuff put into our heads when a kid never really goes away...

have always been and will always be Methodist till the day I die...

no less then Jesus ever stopped being a Jew. 

So...

what are they so afraid of?

Being located on the campus of Emory University, a liberal arts and science institute...

they should be behaving more as intellectual than they currently are... 

? ? ?

TOO MUCH REALITY FOR A FRIDAY NIGHT?

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President Obama: High Quality Pre-K Is "Good Bang for your Educational Buck" | The White House

Study after study shows that the earlier a child begins learning, the better he or she does down the road. But here’s the thing: We are not doing enough to give all of our kids that chance. The kids we saw today that I had a chance to spend time with in Mary's classroom, they're some of the lucky ones -- because fewer than 3 in 10 four-year-olds are enrolled in a high-quality preschool program.

Most middle-class parents can’t afford a few hundred bucks a week for private preschool. And for the poor children who need it the most, the lack of access to a great preschool education can have an impact on their entire lives. And we all pay a price for that. And as I said, this is not speculation. Study after study shows the achievement gap starts off very young. Kids who, when they go into kindergarten, their first day, if they already have a lot fewer vocabulary words, they don’t know their numbers and their shapes and have the capacity for focus, they're going to be behind that first day. And it's very hard for them to catch up over time.

President Obama: High Quality Pre-K Is "Good Bang for your Educational Buck" | The White House: President Obama visited College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center in Decatur, where 200 children are spending full days in classrooms staffed by highly qualified teachers who focus on interactive learning, math, writing, and storytelling -- the kind of program the President said offers "good bang for your educational buck."

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GENESIS II: HOMOPOLAR, GOD DAMN IT! HOMOPOLAR!: Public School vs. Private School

Edward Gorey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Edward Gorey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Edward St. John Gorey (February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000) was an American writer and artist noted for his illustrated books.

Gorey was noted for his fondness for ballet (for many years, he religiously attended all performances of the New York City Ballet), fur coats, tennis shoes, and cats, of which he had many. All figure prominently in his work.

Although Gorey's books were popular with children, he did not associate with children much and had no particular fondness for them. Gorey never married, professed to have little interest in romance, and never discussed any specific romantic relationships in interviews. In the book The Strange Case of Edward Gorey, published after Gorey's death, his friend Alexander Theroux reported that when Gorey was pressed on the matter of his sexual orientation, he said that even he was not sure whether he was gay or straight. When asked what his sexual orientation was in an interview, he said,

I'm neither one thing nor the other particularly. I am fortunate in that I am apparently reasonably undersexed or something ... I've never said that I was gay and I've never said that I wasn't ... what I'm trying to say is that I am a person before I am anything else ...

Edward Gorey agreed in an interview that the "sexlessness" of his works was a product of his asexuality.

Gorey left the bulk of his estate to a charitable trust benefiting cats and dogs, as well as other species including bats and insects.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

"Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights,

 before

the dark hour of reason grows."

 

~(John Betjeman)~

 

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, released in the United States as The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, is a 2008 historical-drama film based on the novel of the same name by Irish writer John Boyne. Directed by Mark Herman and produced by David Heyman, it stars Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, Amber Beattie and Rupert Friend.

This film is a Holocaust drama, and it explores the horror of a World War II Nazi extermination camp through the eyes of two 8-year-old boys; one the son of the camp's Nazi commandant, the other a Jewish inmate.

Rabbi Benjamin Blech described the book as "not just a lie and not just a fairytale, but a profanation". Despite the book's intentions, he argues, the plot is highly improbable and gives credence to the defence that people did not, and could not, know what was happening within the death camps. Students who read it, he warns, may believe the camps "weren't that bad" if a boy could conduct a clandestine friendship with a Jewish captive of the same age, unaware of "the constant presence of death".

However, Kathryn Hughes, whilst agreeing that about the implausibility of the plot, argues that "Bruno's innocence comes to stand for the willful refusal of all adult Germans to see what was going on under their noses".

 

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John Betjeman

 

Sir John Betjeman, CBE (pron.: /ˈbɛtʃəmən/; 28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack".

 

Betjeman was a practising Anglican and his religious beliefs come through in some of his poems. He combined piety with a nagging uncertainty about the truth of Christianity. Unlike Thomas Hardy, who disbelieved in the truth of the Christmas story, while hoping it might be so, Betjeman affirms his belief even while fearing it might be false. In the poem "Christmas", one of his most openly religious pieces, the last three stanzas that proclaim the wonder of Christ's birth do so in the form of a question "And is it true...?" His views on Christianity were expressed in his poem "The Conversion of St. Paul", a response to a radio broadcast by humanist Margaret Knight:

But most of us turn slow to see
The figure hanging on a tree
And stumble on and blindly grope
Upheld by intermittent hope,
God grant before we die we all
May see the light as did St. Paul.

Tim Tebow CANCELS Speech at Controversial Church | TMZ.com

Tim Tebow CANCELS Speech at Controversial Church | TMZ.com: Tim Tebow has officially yanked himself from a speaking engagement at a church in Dallas ... after reports surfaced that he'd be sharing the pulpit with a preacher who has denounced Jews and gays.

"While I was looking forward to sharing a message of hope and Christ's unconditional love with the faithful members of the historic First Baptist Church of Dallas in April, due to new information that has been brought to my attention, I have decided to cancel my upcoming appearance."

Tebow made no specific references to the preacher who made the homophobic and anti-Semitic statements -- Dr. Robert Jeffress -- but it's pretty obvious Tebow realized the negative PR implications of being photographed next to the guy.

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Tebow didn't mind doing a Super Bowl commercial sponsored

by

FOCUS ON FAMILY,

a group very well known for it's anti-gay civil rights campaigns.

 

Maybe the negative PR implications weren't enough.

Wouldn't surprise me one bit...
Tebow coming out of the closet after his mother dies.

Would be a terrible burden living with...
the worry of a mother's reaction to one being gay after their much publicized story of his miraculous birth.

If he were raised Catholic instead of Baptist,
probably would have pursued becoming a priest instead of a football player.

LOL

 

 

Nicolaus Copernicus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nicolaus Copernicus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Polish Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a comprehensive heliocentric model which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center of the universe.

The publication of Copernicus' epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, is considered a major event in the history of science. It began the Copernican Revolution and contributed importantly to the rise of the ensuing Scientific Revolution. Copernicus' heliocentric theory placed the Sun at the center of the solar system and described that system's mechanics in mathematical rather than Aristotelian terms.

One of the great polymaths of the Renaissance, Copernicus was a mathematician, astronomer, jurist with a doctorate in law, physician, quadrilingual polyglot, classics scholar, translator, artist, governor, diplomat and economist.

"FUCK THE LORAX," Said Judge Nelly Withers The Baptist (?) !

"Beware the intruder and their violent ways.

Shame on them.  

For Shame."

~(Simply Jim)~

 

"FUCK THE LORAX," 

said Judge Nelly F. Withers in response to my trying to explain how I was trying to tie my rights posting signs to my trees to Charles Bliss's rights cutting down and clearing off just about every tree on his newly purchased lot adjacent to mine;  how angry it made me seeing what I saw as DeKalb County refusing to enforce it's GREEN LAWS...

 in spite of all the complaints called in to the county by current residences of my neighborhood at that time.

I seriously question this woman's ability to be impartial.

Especially considering a ruling in my favor would not have been in DeKalb County's best interest property tax wise; a hit to the budget that pays her salary and that of her staff.

With green laws in general losing out to property value...

where does that leave us in the long run?

Was not allowed to explain any of this...

even to point out same code violations within visible distance of my violations as well as others scattered around neighborhood.

(one of many)

Not relevant they kept saying,

repeatedly...

cutting me off every attempt they saw me trying to go down that road.

"I'M DONE!"

Seriously questioning this judge's ability to be impartial, finally decided to just give up.

Was able seeing absolutely no reason even trying to continue.

Form the very beginning and right up to the end, 

definitely felt like this judge came into my court hearing with an intention of delivering a ruling 

DeKalb County and other (?) 

were already expecting.

 

$2100.00

FINE

TOTAL

Amusing how Bob Gary, Janet Gary, Bobby Rasulnia, and the President of Mason Mill Civic Association (three senior citizens and their token fag) shook hands with each other at the end of MY court hearing; as if their testimonials made any difference in the outcome.  

I never denied that the signs were "nailed to my trees", "larger than six square feet each", or "more than four feet above grade." 

Never once did Judge Withers fault me for the

"verbiage"

of my signs. 

As the neighborhood I envision living in extends halfway around the globe in all four directions to some point in the Indian Ocean to the west off the coast of Australia,  I really must call into question all fours' sense of integrity/ morals.

The obsession with property value; their property value. The obsession with quality of life; their quality of life.

Calling my signs "verbiage" when their testimonials were nothing more than an

"aerobic waste of air."

Well not completely. 

Did open windows to their brains, giving me more to write about in my blog.

Amusing how it was Bobby Rasulnia proudly admitting himself calling in the complaints regarding my signs,

 making it sound as if

he was the reason we were having this court hearing in the first place. 

As if wanting to believe 

himself 

deflecting harm away from three senior citizens,

like a soldier throwing his body on top of a live grenade saving comrades almost dead anyway.

Jesus Fucking Christ!

And the Mason Mill Civic Association will probably give Bobby Rasulnia

a

PURPLE HEART

for it too!

 

Bobby Rasulnia also even stated that my signs were the cause of an auto accident almost damaging their fence as well. 

Now that was an outright lie! 

Have a habit of bringing my signs and sock monkeys in at night to prevent thief; the accident happening early enough the following morning before even being returned to yard.  Took pictures myself of the accident and tow truck as well as making sure the cop already there directing traffic to the other side of the center island,

one of the several "traffic calming" devices recently added to our neighborhood, 

made aware of the differences.

 

The female driver herself even told me she was blaming the center island.

This being on top of Bobby Rasulnia lying to my Arkansan mother that himself and his partner Charles Bliss entered my home, feeding my two cats that 4th of July Weekend of 2011 committed involuntarily to DeKalb Crisis Center for my crystal meths addiction. 

Bobby Rasulnia is just a pissant "useless faggot" desperately trying to prove himself more than

just an

old man's

 "Iranian Uranium Enrichment Concubine."

Like a barking dog,

it is his handler,

Charles Bliss,

whether in court along side his partner or not, 

I'm holding responsible for any and all of Bobby Rasulnia's irritations.

As for the President of the Mason Mill Civic Association...

 had nothing important to say.

 

Fairly content with how Judge Nelly Withers handled him.

Had no reasons being there either.  Only gave my court hearing the appearance of violating codes other than DeKalb County's codes, when Mason Mill Civic Association had no authority even speaking for our neighborhood.

Bob and Janet Gary on the other hand, found what they had to say very interesting.  

But, 

will deal with them at our court hearing 

regarding 

an email's violation of their restraining order scheduled for the 12th of March.

ROF

LMAO!

The signs will continue.

Just not:

 "nailed to my trees,"

"larger than six square feet,"

or

"more than four feet above grade."

One last note:

Officer Lorena, also,

 has stated in court before Judge Nelly Withers that my yard currently is in compliance

with

DeKalb County Code Ordinances.

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ver·bi·age

/ˈvɜrbiɪdʒ/ Show Spelled [vur-bee-ij] 

noun

1.

overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.

2.

manner or style of expressing something in words; wording: a manual of official verbiage.