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Reply to IN THE CUT: A review in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

That's what was so hard to deal with in watching this movie. The story and Jane Campion don't let up. Even the love interest is manly in some of the worst possible ways. It pushes home the point that no matter how lonely a man can get, the loneliness of a women is that of someone who inhabits enemy territory...without the possibility of escape. (Women in war zones must experience this to the nth degree) When ever you get into trouble chances

Reply to When Murderers Own the Courts in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I didn't present a logic. Just a counter logic to a weak argument. The Israelis just need to give them a sovereign Palistine. At least then we will know if the Palistinians are carrying out their actions in the name of a genuine grievance or in the name of hatred. Once that is done at least the Israelis would have legitimacy in carrying out military operations against an enemy state, not a people that are seen as being oppressed in th

Reply to East Timorese Tea Leaves in Politics JoeUser Forums

I pride myself on my drop out rate. As a ratio of things i've been told i should do, it's quite impressive. As far as my comments go, i went as far as i did in making a complete ass of myself to let you know that it wouldn't be the same on here without you. I adore your writing and anything I write that inspires you to conjure up more of it is a virtuous investment. I wish i could do better, but i have my limits (and ohhh how limiting t

Reply to Bow Down Before Your New Masters in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

I think a point i was making further up in the thread is that big name movies are no longer all that profitable for studios. They spend too much on one aspect of the production and spend too much time just trying to break even. A lot of studios are in a lot of financial strife because of production cost blow outs that have more than a little to do with stars asking for big figures and not being able to guaruntee a profitable return (e.g. Gigli

Reply to When Murderers Own the Courts in Current Events JoeUser Forums

MakeMineRed, I have read the above mentioned article. Basically the argument is almost synonymous with the scenario i will present forthwith; The Italian nation has been wiped out by another European war. In a previous war Australians fought by the side of the British to expel an occupying force (you must remember it was the Arab tribes along with British help who expelled the Turks from Palestine) War has a

East Timorese Tea Leaves in Politics JoeUser Forums

The continuing drama that is taking place between Australia and East Timor over off shore gas and oil deposits could contain lessons that extend beyond the Timor Sea. Australians are so proud of the role we played in the realisation of East Timorese independence. We waved the flag around and called forth the always ready and always welling emotion of

Reply to Pain Hurts in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

consumption of alcohol. Sorry, forgot to add that in

Reply to Pain Hurts in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

Thanks Karma, That was interesting. I wonder if it's your brain just producing a hell of a lot of endorphins all the time to counteract a chronic condition or if its a cognitive accomodation. I pierced my own nose once, but the lack of pain (and generation of stupidity) came from the massive quantities i had consumed. Marco XX

Reply to the voices in my head are snoring in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

Mig, Everytime i visit you, i visit you and your entourage. At least you were on home turf. I felt like an alien that had been dumped out of the spacecraft by his companions and left to fend himself amongst the natives. Thankfully your family aren't a tribe of cannibals. Then there would have been trouble. Marco XX

IN THE CUT: A review in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

In The Cut stars Meg Ryan as Frannie, an English teacher who becomes involved with Malloy(Mark Ruffalo), a detective, when she witnesses the prelude to a murder. The murderer dismembers and decapitates his victims, leaving rooms awash in blood, leaving few clues and giving the two characters an environment of threat and violence to carry out their sexually

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I almost cried when i read the case i refered to in my post. So many think it would be a blessing to escape the suffering of pain, but quite obviously it's not. Imagine how her family felt not being able to do anything about it. Thanks for the comment. As always. Marco XX

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I'm so glad everything turned out alright for both you and your grandmother. Best wishes Marco XX

Reply to A threat to the human species: in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

By the way i do not object to the use of the word clever, but trousers on the other hand...i'm not that old! Off to watch In the Cut. Meg Ryan Yummy.

Reply to A threat to the human species: in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

Let it be known that a female rat not in estrus will rip a male rat apart limb from limb. Ohhh, Hold on. Human females do that as well. I was a bit fuzzy on trans-species biology for a sec. Maybe the differences aren't so great I do wish that human females would learn the wiggling of the ears as a come on. It would be of great help at night clubs and othe

Pain Hurts in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

In pondering the following story it is very easy to discern the benefits for physiological survival given by the perception of pain. There was a girl who was born clinically insensitive to pain. As a child she bit the tip of her tongue of while eating her food, dislocated her hip and vertebrae while sleeping because she could not shift her weight according to

Reply to A threat to the human species: in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

Sally - I was amazed as well. The difference seems to be so miniscule though. I'm wondering - does this make me a traitor to my gender? If a crime, what's the punishment? Marco XX

Reply to Bow Down Before Your New Masters in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

Hey Super Baby - If I have a unique talent for masturbation (i'm sure that can't be replaced by a machine) does that mean i can get to the top? Does the system work? There are many different types of talent out there and all come with a different dollar figure. Because these figures read one thing today, it doesn't mean we should stop questioning what they should read tommorrow.

Reply to Argument and the Limitations Of Knowledge in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Sherye and Gerry - I don't particularly have anything against the utilisation of emotion in the service of argument. Emotion is the prime motivational factor when it comes to us getting off our lazy asses and doing anything. But I agree, to personally attack the person you are debating with someone is the mark of weak character and should never be done. I just haven't encountered all that much of it on JU. IF it starts getting infantile walk a

A threat to the human species: in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

I have just learned a very interesting tidbit about the reproductive biology of rats. The male rat, unlike the human rat, sorry, the human male, serves two purposes when copulating with those fabulously sexy females the rat species has going on. The act of copulation both makes a present of his sperm and stimulates the necessary "bits" within the fem

Reply to Bow Down Before Your New Masters in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

There is no crime in striving for an ideal. There is a crime in denying the vast majority of humanity what is possible. As for the proportional contribution of stars in films, that's a point that can be argued. No cameraman - no film No sound technicians - no film No editors - no film No writers - definitely no film (unless you classify porn as cinema) Continue ad infinitum

Reply to Argument and the Limitations Of Knowledge in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Dyl - Rest assured, New York is safe with me. I want to visit sooooo badly. The films of Woody Allen have given it a soul and the books of Tom Wolfe have given it a voice, I want the city itself to give me a part of my life, a confrontation of my expectations. Have studied philosophy, but i'm officially studying Media and Psychology. I study a great many things, understand so little of them and am dissappointed to sparingly that i have

Reply to Bow Down Before Your New Masters in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

Living in societies where the ability to generate wealth is increasingly dependent on education and the ability to generate, store and process information - many are lacking even the ability or opportunity to find work that will give them above subsistence wages. In Australia the minimum wage is around $490 a week. There is a startingly large proportion of Australians on this wage. This is not enough to give a quality of life that would allow

Reply to When Murderers Own the Courts in Current Events JoeUser Forums

We will never know the answer to these questions until the Palestinian people have a land they can call their own. Like the Jewish people, all people need a homeland before questions of their actions as being either right or wrong can be justly judged. Do not expect a frightened dog to act in a friendly manner. Leave it on the streets cold and hungry, if it has a home tear it doen with a bulldozer, without an owner, without love. Reig

Reply to Bow Down Before Your New Masters in Entertainment JoeUser Forums

No i don't. I am not one of those people who believes that the free market and capitalism exclude fairness and even-handedness. I believe that people do that. Just because someone gets paid a certain amount, it does not mean that they are compelled to spend it all on themselves. Redistribution of wealth does not have to come through the blood shed of revolution, but it has been proven through history that the tight-fisted actio

Argument and the Limitations Of Knowledge in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Arguments and the limits of our knowledge: I have found in many discussions here at JU recently, that my knowledge of a great many subjects is let’s say…deficient or wanting. I never used to believe that argument is good for its own sake, or for the benefit of logic and its exercise. I never used to believe that argument is necessary to cal