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Chronicles of Narnia Trailer
Ant writes "After United States' broadcast debut of the "Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" trailer on Saturday, May 7th during ABC's network premiere of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", Ain't It Cool News posted AOL's link to the QuickTime movie (direct link to download the 56 MB high quality trailer file)." Fix yourself some turkish delight and enjoy.
I guess I'll be firing up mplayer's "vf pp=lb" option.
I remembered being in grade school and watching the movie and craving to try Turkish Delight. Well we had a "party" one time in class and one of the teachers brought it in. It was disgusting! So much for childhood dreams... As you can see, it's mainly just water, sugar and corn starch (corn flour).
Anyways, here's a link to the recipe for those that are interested.
Ingredients:
1lt (1¾ Pints) Water
900g (2lb) Sugar
285g (10oz) Corn Flour
225g (8oz) Icing Sugar
1½ tbsp Rosewater
2 tsp Lemon Juice
Red Food Colouring (optional)
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You'd think they could figure out it's a linux box not a mac. I guess they just assume since it's not windows it must be a mac.
I'm also sick and tired of browsing through javascript trying to figure out exactly what the link to the actual file is that doesn't plugin correctly. Mplayer deals with the file fine, but the page won't tell me what the URL of the stream is.
Anyone have a torrent up?
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Fans of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia should also look for the work of the other authors that were in the same writing group at Oxford with those two. My favorite is G.K. Chesterton, but there is also Charles Williams and Dorothy Sayers.
I thought it was Arthur C. Clark who had the idea for geo-stationary satellites...hence the "Clark Belt."
It's "no one," not "noone." Who the hell is noone anyway?
EVERYTHING C.S. Lewis wrote was about his Christian beliefs. If you didn't realize that then I'd approach whatever school you went to and ask for my money/time back. Again, do a simple google search and you will find that both Lewis and Tolkien wanted to create stories to teach Christian principles to readers through fun stories. The mark of an educated mind is the ability to hold and idea without accepting it. So do you ALSO complain when you read the Illiad or the Odyssey because Homer was *GASP* really writing propaganda for greek religious beliefs!! SAY IT AIN'T SO! Why is that Christianity is the only religion it is still ok to hate?
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My favorite is G.K. Chesterton,
I agree. I may disagree with a lot of what he said (he was a staunch Catholic, I'm not even Christian), but he was one sharp writer. For people who don't want to spend money before having a chance to review his work, click here.
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Ori
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The possibility? He'd call it apologetics, not propaganda, but it's more than a possibility that nearly all of his fiction promotes Christianity; it's no secret at all.
Some of his most Christian books are so well written, though, that some serious doubters like myself can really enjoy them, particularly Narnia, but also Screwtape. I would really recommend Till We Have Faces, which unfortionately is often overlooked. Lewis thought it was his best novel, and I agree. Interestingly, it is set in a pre-Christian world.
It is well known that Lewis put obvious Christian allegories into the Narnia books. He didn't try to hide the fact.
I fail to see how this manipulates the reader.
"You spoony bard!" -Tellah
Quicktime 6.5.1 for Windows says: couldn't open the file, because the filename was bad. Well... appearently Apple programmer's just can't handle files as: chroniclesofnarniathelionthewitchandthewardrobethe _trlr_01_high_dl.mov
Yikes... bad sense at humor at AOL ! Of course changing the file name to a.mov does not the trick.
Nope, only four. Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. There are two other characters that join in later books, maybe thats what your thinking of.
Get the kind with pistachias in it. Yummy.
evil is as evil does
I actually discovered CS Lewis/Narnia through my pastor as a teenager. He made no bones about it being a very christian-based story.
Regardless of it's intentions, it's a great story. I'm sure I would have eventually discovered it later on, but I always thought it was kind of cool that a pastor would know of a novel that was christian, yet borrowed so heavily from pagan cultures for the basis of their characters.
Here are his works catergorized as "Christian" in a faq I found:
P.S. "Apologetic" does not mean making an apology for. In this context it means making a formal justification or defense.
Peter, Susan, Lucy, and Edmund are in LW&W, IIRC. Some additional children appear in later books in the series, but not in the first one.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
In the Narnian Chronicles there was Lucy (the first in the wardrobe), Edmund (the second-youngest, who betrayed them and resulted in the death of Aslan), Susan (the second-oldest, who once she left narnia ultimately turned away from believing in it), and Peter (the oldest).
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I agree about Till We Have Faces, which is an incredibly great book. I would recommend it to anyone who calls Lewis' work propoganda, or even overtly Christian, for that matter.
Are "Animal Farm" or "1984" any less valid because they are anti-communist propaganda (no my US friends, that isn't meant as flame bait!)?
Note that Orwell hated fascism as much as he did communism. Indeed, Orwell fought in the spanish Civil war on the side of the socialists and communists against Franco. He was a socialist, but one disillusioned with communism (socialism and communism in the twenties and thirties being seen as close to the same thing). "Animal Farm" obviously being a parody (not propaganda) of how the socialist/communist "utopia" can become as oppresive and dictatorial as the hated Bourgeois and (later) Fascist regimes it sought to replace and/or competed against.
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I was noticing that too. The book actually describes lucy as curiously looking into it, and then having to hide in it when she hears the person who is IT coming into the room.
Why is that Christianity is the only religion it is still ok to hate?
What do you mean? Plenty of Christians hate every other religion. And non-religions for that matter. In fact, they have a lock on that market. People don't hate wiccans (unless you're a christian or something), because they've never seen a wiccan going around trying to prostelitize, hypocritically lecturing them on morality or trying to push around legislation or school agendas to meet their religious points of view.
"Hating" smaller religions would be silly. The two biggest religions in the world happen to be the two most hypocritical, hateful, spiteful and violent. Christianity is one of those two.
He didn't believe in Biblical inerrancy; that is to say, although he believed that the 66 books contained in the Bible are in fact divinely inspired, he didn't believe that all of them were historically accurate. He didn't believe, for example, that Jonah actually got swallowed by the whale, or that the earth is only 8,000 years old. They are scriptures in the sense that they are divine teachings, but they are also myth (according to his line of thinking).
God works "in cognito" in other societies where the Christian gospel is not heard in order to promote his values. Lewis agreed that no one could make it to heaven without believing in Christ, but he also believed that many who never crossed paths with a Christian were given revelation about God through their own mythology. After death, according to Lewis, those who rejected Jesus during their lifetime would surely bring hell upon themselves because they really wouldn't want to spend eternity with a God they hated.
I personally wish more men like Lewis would lead the American church today, because in the absence of reason, superstition has become more and more powerful.
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What empire, Rome had fallen long before. The crusades were about money; you can make an amazing fortune sacking and razing cites. And don't forget the children's crusade, somehow I don't think a large influx of Christian slaves did much to help the long lost Roman empire.
Well that's pretty suspicious. Sounds like they stole code.
...on the chance that this is not a troll, but code analysis a la Laura DiDio (SCO shrill). MPC is a thin GUI layer calling system-wide codecs to decode video. One of the inputs is presumably the file name, which the .mov decoder doesn't handle correctly. So they fail because they call on the exact same code, code that it is fully legal for MPC to call on.
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British stereotype: Kidney pie (what it sounds like)
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British stereotype: Black pudding (I'm not typing it, I just ate and want to keep my food down.)
Have you eaten either of these things?
Kidneys are a prefectly eatable part of an animal, and a good Steak & Kidney pie is a great pleasure (although you should probably avoid cheap frozen/chilled supermarket pies on your first attempt).
A good black pudding is a joy. Try it.
I think British cooking went into decline after World War II, and people lost pride in the classics -- but there are classics, and if done well, they are delicious.
If you're actually interested in classic British cooking, look at the books of Gary Rhodes, a well respected chef who champions traditional English dishes.
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Wow! How did you do that? : )
You can't take the sky from me...
Tolkien and Lewis were good pals to my knowledge.
Wetta, the shop created by Peter Jackson for Lord Of The Rings, based in New Zealand, is the special effects and costume company Disney employed to do Narnia.
That's why is looks a lot like LOTR.
What empire, Rome had fallen long before.
The Byzantine Empire was what the part with historical claims to the region was called at the time. The Crusades came into being because the Byzantine Emperor called for help against the Seljuk Turks' depredations, and he had nothing to call with except an appeal to shared Christian heritage against the Muslim invasions.
Come on dude, this is _trivial_ to look up. If you seriously don't know what the Byzantine Empire is and how the invasion of it is what caused the Crusades, you really should go away and shut up until you have enough basic knowledge to form an opinion that isn't an utter waste of our time.
This is bullshit, period. Buddhism doesn't "require" anything, except taking a hands off approach to everything in the hopes that things will turn out just fine.
Wow, even more from some Christian speaking on a religion they know nothing about! What a surprise. Do you get all your comparative religion information from the back of cereal boxes?
Buddhism requires right action, it requires that you live every moment of your life aware that every action you commit, every choice you make, reflects on you and either brings you closer to or further from enlightenment. That is, in many ways, similar to Christianity (in that, if you TRULY believe in God, you would treat others as creations of God, and you would live each day to bring yourself closer to his will through right action).
The difference being, no matter how contrite he is, no matter how TRULY regretful and sorry he is for the evils he causes, a Buddhist will not reach enlightenment until such time as he has actually balanced out his bad acts.
I have no doubt that the genuine deathbed conversion of a Christian would be a painful experience -- TRULY understanding and comprehending the magnitude of how you have offended the Lord would be horrific. Accepting His mercy at still forgiving you, even after your offenses, would be an amazing experience, humbling and painful. But it wouldn't do a hell of a lot of good for all the poor souls you have harmed, and the world will still be left with plenty of pain from your acts.
A Buddhist understands that if he commits an evil against another -- be he man or beast, or even the world itself -- then he will have to atone for it. Not in regret, not in personal suffering, but in action. He will have to MAKE UP FOR the evil he causes, be it in this lifetime or the next.
What it sounds like you're saying is that you can never, not even on your death bed, change your mind. From your point of view, you can't reach "enlightenment" unless you're a perfect individual your whole life. Well, since no one is perfect, I guess you're screwed.
No, on your death bed you can't "change your mind". If you hurt people, changing your mind doesn't unhurt them. If you poison the water, changing your mind and being contrite doesn't purify it, no matter how much you mean it.
Enlightenment doesn't require perfection, it requires recognizing that your actions affect the world and the lives around you, and for the pains you cause you must cause an equal amount of healing. You can be as truly regretful and sorry as you want, but until you get off your ass and do some good in the world, you're going to be stuck.
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I think we Chronicle's fans can have some hope. Disney only is a co-funder of it. Walden Media is funding and distributing it. Also, Lewis's step-son is supposedly making sure that the movie stays true to the book. Check out this website and the FAQ.
I can't wait to see this movie!!!