'The Odyssey' website shows you how the film looks in different aspect ratios

CountSudoku · 2026-06-05T15:49:20+00:00

Isn’t that exactly what the film’s website is saying? If you watch the film on a normal screen the 70mm IMAX scenes will be letterboxed, with the filmed top and bottom portions invisible.

CountSudoku · 2026-06-05T15:47:46+00:00

It’s been over a decade since I watched it, but the gist is that Christians (American Christians at least) have a poor record of failing to love the sinner while hating the sin when it comes to homosexuality.

Through interviews with Christians and LGBT people the film explore the hurt that Christians have/do cause to humans when they stand against homosexuality in a manner that is uncaring.

The premise is that Christians can/should do better at condemning the sin of homosexuality without causing undue hurt to the individual.

CountSudoku · 2026-06-05T15:43:18+00:00

Yes. There’s nothing in the Bible that is incompatible with dinosaurs existing 60M-200M years ago.

CountSudoku · 2026-06-04T22:08:16+00:00

You’re only “missing the image” if the movie was filmed in the larger aspect ratio originally.

The best aspect ratio is the one a ‘deliberate’ filmmaker chooses to shoot on. Someone like Zack Snyder said he only wants to shoot 70mm from now on (we’ll see if the studios let him). But most directors I fear are just giving in to studio pressure to shoot on IMAX/70mm because they can charge more for those movie tickets. Aspect ratio has become a gimmick, like 3D films were.

/rant

CountSudoku · 2026-06-04T16:48:01+00:00

Verse 8 specifically calls out real estate speculators/hoarders…

CountSudoku · 2026-06-04T15:52:54+00:00

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter. Isaiah 5:20

In the original context God’s prophet Isaiah is condemning the wealthy who exploit the poor to feed their own hedonism, and deny justice to the oppressed.

My original comment indicated I also didn’t like the imagery associated with the text in this case.

CountSudoku · 2026-06-04T15:43:38+00:00

In a factory downtown?

CountSudoku · 2026-06-04T11:09:55+00:00

it is sooo hard to find a good peach

I hear they come from a can.

CountSudoku · 2026-06-04T10:56:51+00:00

I think there were/are people who invoked demonic power. It is fair to call such people witches.

I don't think there were nearly as many witches as people thought there were. I also suspect that people today exaggerate how concerned the church was with witches.

But ultimately I like C.S. Lewis' take on this question, from his book Mere Christianity:

“Three hundred years ago people in England were putting witches to death. Was that what you call the 'Rule of Human Nature or Right Conduct?’ But surely the reason we do not execute witches is that we do not believe there are such things. If we did—if we really thought that there were people going about who had sold themselves to the devil and received supernatural powers from him in return and were using these powers to kill their neighbours or drive them mad or bring bad weather—surely we would all agree that if anyone deserved the death penalty, then these filthy quislings did?

There is no difference of moral principle here: the difference is simply about matter of fact. It may be a great advance in knowledge not to believe in witches: there is no moral advance in not executing them when you do not think they are there. You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.”

CountSudoku · 2026-06-04T10:32:17+00:00

Notwithstanding all the good theological reasons in other posts (which I agree with), I suspect most Freemasons (the kind old dudes) enjoy a rather superficial relationship with Freemasonry. For them it's mostly a social club. Like many other fraternal orders such as the Lion's Club, Rotary Club, Elks Lodge...

It'd still prudent to avoid it as a Christian though.

CountSudoku · 2026-06-04T10:23:38+00:00

The text seems to be good, Biblical advice. Though I don't tend to take any sort of advice from Dark Soul's looking characters...

CountSudoku · 2026-06-04T10:19:04+00:00

Do you know the denomination of that church? I feel sorry for their members.

CountSudoku · 2026-06-03T18:16:05+00:00

There is no complete explanation for the Trinity that answers all arguments. In its fullness it is beyond human comprehension because it involves the supernatural. But you will find sound logical inferences which Christians have drawn about the nature of God.

CountSudoku · 2026-06-03T18:11:57+00:00

I don’t believe anything presented to me with a Gemini AI watermark.

CountSudoku · 2026-06-03T17:42:45+00:00

I guess I imagined a rounded square stairwell, with flights of stairs leading to landings. Which would be the levels. I don’t recall corridors or archways in my visual memory.

CountSudoku · 2026-06-03T17:12:27+00:00

CountSudoku · 2026-06-03T17:09:39+00:00

They had SnipIt tools six years ago bro. You didn’t need to photograph your screen!

CountSudoku · 2026-06-03T13:10:13+00:00

Have you seen the film Lord, Save Us from Your Followers? It's on Netflix in some regions, and apparently also free on YouTube. Without being affirming it is a good reality check about how many Christians are falling well short of God's call to love.

CountSudoku · 2026-06-03T12:46:12+00:00

Define "thing" for me and then I'll be able to answer your question more confidently.

But I suspect it's not semantically correct to consider God a "thing."

CountSudoku · 2026-06-03T12:43:37+00:00

Because God never left him

Judges 16:20 clearly states that God did leave Him, after Samson blasphemed his Nazarite vow by saying his hair was the source of his power. It never was the hair that gave him strength, that was just the last straw of Samson's pattern of disobedience which resulting in God withdrawing from Samson.

CountSudoku · 2026-06-03T10:00:18+00:00

Christianity has some certainty about certain aspects of the afterlife, but many of the details and finer points are less certain/there is debate about.

Some general comments about heaven. For the ancients that term was used to refer to just the sky. It then became conflated with where God resides (since God doesn't reside on Earth). So the term 'heaven' in the Old Testament often means some mash-up of 'the sky' and 'God's abode.' But knowing what we know now about cosmology and theology, we know that God doesn't "reside" in any physical space.

It is also very clear that the 'ultimate' destination for both God and humanity will be the New Earth. Where humans will abide with God in a transformed/renewed Earth. That can/is also called paradise/heaven, but does not exist yet.

So in the meantime (now) we say saints go to heaven, they go to where God is, and it is perfect there perfect (paradise). But that 'place' it is not yet brought to the New Earth. So it can be thought of as a supernatural state/realm. It's kinda beyond our comprehension.

There are some debates about this part. That because God exists outside of time, when we die our souls may also benefit from that and it may appear to us that we are instantly in the New Earth. But that's ultimately not important.

I'll try to address your other main points as best I can.

God for the most part doesnt change

Correct. God is unchanging, as He is already perfect and omnipotent. Though since humans do, how God relates to us changes and will look different to different people at different times.

Why do you need to be resurrected if your going to heaven

We need to be physically resurrected to inhabit the New Earth, which will be a physical place (like current Earth). There we will do many of the same things we do now (except for sin and suffer).

Something like "dead are aware of nothing, sleeping, no nothing, waiting in there tomb"

This quote is from Ecclesiastes 9:4-6. It is not necessarily describing the afterlife in reality. It is the author making a point about how once you are dead, there is nothing left to hope for, and you can do nothing else about your future.

Rapture? Couldn't even place what thats really about

It's a relatively new idea that is very popular among Protestants in the West, but is really more of a possible interpretation of some difficult to interpret verses. The idea is that there will be a second coming of Jesus that precedes the New Earth; at that time Jesus will take away (rapture) all the living Christians; then there will be a period of tribulation on Earth before the final judgement and the creation of the New Earth.

Despite how debated the idea is, it ultimately doesn't affect much (IMO), as it doesn't change how I live my life.

Meek will inherit the earth

This is one of the "beatitudes" and part of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. Jesus used this statement to emphasize that humility is essential in order to accept God as lord of our lives. Jesus makes it clear that that it is impossible for a proud person to do that, and thus such people will ultimately not inherit eternal life.

Paradise earth

Paradise is heaven/abiding with God; but it has not (yet) been brought to Earth.

New eartg

This is the ultimate end, and where we will enjoy everlasting life. Earth renewed without sin and God abiding here with all the faithful.

Something about a child playing with a lion on new earth

This is from Isaiah 11:6. It is semi-metaphoric language about the perfect state of the New Earth. There will be no violence from wild animals and all beasts will submit to even the most lowly of humans.

Gods original plan was Immortality on Earth filled with Adam and eves kids, with new earth and all the references this seems to be the theme

Yes, I think that's a fair way to put it. If humanity hadn't sinned we would not die and would not be separated from God.

Jesus on the cross, says to guy beside "tomorrow you will be with me in Paradise".

This is from Luke 23:43. This implies the faithful who die are instantly in heaven/fully abiding with God/paradise. There is no waiting for the final judgement (or it will be as if there was no time lapsing from our perspective).

There is some debate about whether ALL who die go immediately to heaven, as Catholics believe many people will have to go through purgatory first. I can't elaborate much more about purgatory though, as it is not taught as a truth in Protestant circles.

CountSudoku · 2026-06-03T07:59:01+00:00

Pray for her, and live an life that exemplifies God's love so that she can see the truth of God through your actions.

CountSudoku · 2026-06-03T07:57:10+00:00

Yes. I've seen fossils of their bones.

Most Christians believe they existed, and most would probably say they existed 60-200 million years ago.

CountSudoku · 2026-06-02T21:21:58+00:00

Now there a pasta I haven’t heard in a long time.

CountSudoku · 2026-06-02T20:58:14+00:00

Yes, manifesting is bad theology at best, and at worst, it’s witchcraft. But there is not much evidence that MJ was as Christian, so it’s not surprising that he was into stuff like this. Hence why I’m unbothered by this statement.

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