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Tom Hanks sees US election warning in thriller 'Inferno'
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BY JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press 10/21/2016
© The Associated Press FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 file photo, actor Tom Hanks arrives to receive a lifetime achievement at the Rome Film Festival, in Rome. Within the manic action of "Inferno," the latest big-screen adaptation of a…
LONDON — Embedded within the manic action of "Inferno," the latest big-screen adaptation of a Dan Brown thriller, is a warning about the dangers of seeking simple solutions to complex problems. Star Tom Hanks says it's a theme with echoes in the current U.S. presidential race.
"Inferno" sets Hank's polymathic professor Robert Langdon on the trail of a deadly plague concocted by billionaire scientist Bertrand Zobrist (Ben Foster) out of a sort of warped humanitarianism: He plans to end war, poverty and famine by wiping out half the world's population.
Hanks says the belief that there's a "one-step answer to all problems" is alarmingly relevant.
"Down through history there's been an awful lot of people who say: Here's what the problem is, here's what it was caused by, and all you have to do is my suggestion, there's an easy way in order to make it go away," Hanks said...
http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...ing-in-thriller-inferno/ar-AAjenff?li=BBnb2gg
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BY JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press 10/21/2016
© The Associated Press FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 file photo, actor Tom Hanks arrives to receive a lifetime achievement at the Rome Film Festival, in Rome. Within the manic action of "Inferno," the latest big-screen adaptation of a…
LONDON — Embedded within the manic action of "Inferno," the latest big-screen adaptation of a Dan Brown thriller, is a warning about the dangers of seeking simple solutions to complex problems. Star Tom Hanks says it's a theme with echoes in the current U.S. presidential race.
"Inferno" sets Hank's polymathic professor Robert Langdon on the trail of a deadly plague concocted by billionaire scientist Bertrand Zobrist (Ben Foster) out of a sort of warped humanitarianism: He plans to end war, poverty and famine by wiping out half the world's population.
Hanks says the belief that there's a "one-step answer to all problems" is alarmingly relevant.
"Down through history there's been an awful lot of people who say: Here's what the problem is, here's what it was caused by, and all you have to do is my suggestion, there's an easy way in order to make it go away," Hanks said...
http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...ing-in-thriller-inferno/ar-AAjenff?li=BBnb2gg
SOUL SEARCHING
Researchers claim that humans have souls which can live on after death
The idea that human consciousness lives on after death has been put forward by a number of well-respected scientists
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BY GEORGE HARRISON
5th November 2016, 5:36 pm
https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/212...ans-have-souls-which-can-live-on-after-death/
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Researchers claim that humans have souls which can live on after death
The idea that human consciousness lives on after death has been put forward by a number of well-respected scientists
VIDEO
BY GEORGE HARRISON
5th November 2016, 5:36 pm
https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/212...ans-have-souls-which-can-live-on-after-death/
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As for the thread, why believe in something that you can't prove its existence? I've yet to see anyone logically prove God exists.
Axiom: God is omnipotent.
Conjeture: Does God exist?
No. Proof by contraction: Can God build a rock that even he can't lift? Will violate axiom no matter what.
Ok I'll straighten this whole thing out.
It depends on what you think the gift is, and you won't find out from Christians.
If you compare the gift to anything tangible/physical like a million dollars, it gets impossibly complex and will generate arguments that all fail because of inconsistency.
The gift is more psychological than that and has to do with the reality of existence.
Using a better example, take the idea 2 + 2 = 4. When kids start school they usually don't know that. But in theory, it's an absolute pre-existing reality. The teacher gives the knowledge as a gift, so-to-speak. But, the teacher did not give the students anything that did not already belong to them, so-to-speak. Still, the students have to accept it, or else thier lives might end up some kind of living hell. If they don't accept it, they may never be able to get a job, never be able to trade the market...they'd never have a "life".
What was given Jesus, and what he gave in turn, is/was much more valuable than 2 + 2 = 4. And if anyone can manage to accept it, by first believing in it, s/he would have much more of a life than the living hell we lurk without the knowledge given. Again, the knowledge given us is about pre-existing conditions...which already belong to us...having already been given properly, and long ago.
The "cost" of a gift of knowledge, such as 2 + 2 = 4 is the belief that 2 + 2 = 3 or anything else that is false. Likewise, the cost of what Jesus received and gave was "high" if you consider everything you believe about "the world" is false. One has to give up all the false beliefs in order to accept the knowledge of pre-existing conditions.
The pre-existing conditions are so astonishing, anyone hell bent on self sabotage destruction will find it hard to believe.
That's it in a nutshell.
It depends on what you think the gift is, and you won't find out from Christians.
If you compare the gift to anything tangible/physical like a million dollars, it gets impossibly complex and will generate arguments that all fail because of inconsistency.
The gift is more psychological than that and has to do with the reality of existence.
Using a better example, take the idea 2 + 2 = 4. When kids start school they usually don't know that. But in theory, it's an absolute pre-existing reality. The teacher gives the knowledge as a gift, so-to-speak. But, the teacher did not give the students anything that did not already belong to them, so-to-speak. Still, the students have to accept it, or else thier lives might end up some kind of living hell. If they don't accept it, they may never be able to get a job, never be able to trade the market...they'd never have a "life".
What was given Jesus, and what he gave in turn, is/was much more valuable than 2 + 2 = 4. And if anyone can manage to accept it, by first believing in it, s/he would have much more of a life than the living hell we lurk without the knowledge given. Again, the knowledge given us is about pre-existing conditions...which already belong to us...having already been given properly, and long ago.
The "cost" of a gift of knowledge, such as 2 + 2 = 4 is the belief that 2 + 2 = 3 or anything else that is false. Likewise, the cost of what Jesus received and gave was "high" if you consider everything you believe about "the world" is false. One has to give up all the false beliefs in order to accept the knowledge of pre-existing conditions.
The pre-existing conditions are so astonishing, anyone hell bent on self sabotage destruction will find it hard to believe.
That's it in a nutshell.
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Things that cost or "cost" even, are not gifts.
The tree of knowledge... thou shalt not eat of it....for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die...
Some gift.
Nothing can exist without existence, therefor God is never really great enough to be one.