What's on your mind?

[Saucy]

I've never had eggnog :-O

Get thee behind me!

 

[alsughasoughaiuyfygh]

I've never had eggnog :-O

*Slams a glass down on the table and pours eggnog into it.*

Drink.

 

[MehGuy]

Man, it's amazing how bad special effects were in the 80s.. People knock CG all the time, yet it's helped us crawl out of an awkward stop motion hole.. lol.

 

[alsughasoughaiuyfygh]

Man, it's amazing how bad special effects were in the 80s.. People knock CG all the time, yet it's helped us crawl out of an awkward stop motion hole.. lol.

30 years from now, people will tell us our movie's special effects looked fake.

 

[TheGirlOnFire]

Ooooohhhh its St Andrews day.
Scotland's patron saint and on November 30 we celebrate St Andrew's Day with the rest of the world. St Andrew's philosophy was simple: share what you have with those less fortunate and be kind to each other.

 

[MehGuy]

30 years from now, people will tell us our movie's special effects looked fake.

A lot of it looks fake now, yet it seems to be a major improvement from before.

Also a lot of CG gets unnoticed because it's completely convincing. Which is sad, because for all the bad CG that gets a lot of attention plenty of good CG goes unnoticed.

 

[MehGuy]

Fun fact, Jurassic Park was almost made with stop animation dinosaurs.. lol. Although it was going to use a more smooth revolutionary stop motion technique. Which I don't understand why it wasn't used for other stop motion films.

During school when I was in video production I was able to create very smooth stop motion. Simply by stopping in milliseconds rather than seconds and speeding it up on a computer so it wouldn't turn out so slow. Despite my teacher not understanding the process and telling me I was making a huge mistake. It turned out pretty nice. Lol.

 

[MehGuy]

Here's some actual test footage of stop motion for Jurassic Park, lol..

Obviously not as smooth, but a little better than a lot of stop motion back in the day.

 

[CodyFaith]

I've never had eggnog :-O

Eggnog is so good... mm... you def gotta try it.

 

[CodyFaith]

Here's some actual test footage of stop motion for Jurassic Park, lol..

Obviously not as smooth, but a little better than a lot of stop motion back in the day.

That's pretty realistic looking.

 

[LoveDivine]

I was thinking about when Jesus walked through a city and couldn't perform even one miracle...think about that, God manifest in the flesh walked through a city and couldn't do anything and scripture says it was because of their faith...so, sometimes, we are the ones who get in the way of God. Jesus himself told the pharisees that they nullify the Word of God...just saying, we have to be careful that we don't reject and push away the very things that are good for us.

This is an excellent post. I also agree with you about the power of our words.

 

[TheGirlOnFire]

We do have Advocaat

 

[Travelers.Soul]

I don't think Senkaku was trying to be harsh, rude, cruel, unfeeling, flippant, or anything else. I think he was trying to encourage a brother in Christ. I know the topic under discussion can be a sensitive one but I think that perhaps there was a misunderstanding and offense was seen where none was intended.

 

[Paulie079]

I don't think Senkaku was trying to be harsh, rude, cruel, unfeeling, flippant, or anything else. I think he was trying to encourage a brother in Christ. I know the topic under discussion can be a sensitive one but I think that perhaps there was a misunderstanding and offense was seen where none was intended.

Oh for sure. I do think though that sometimes people can be well-meaning and still give advice that isn't entirely helpful, particularly when judgments are made upon the degree of someone else's faith and how that relates to their difficult circumstances.

There is something to be said for not wallowing in failure and feeling sorry for yourself. It's better to control only what you are able to, and that is our future choices and actions. But when people find themselves in circumstances that are beyond their control and they are in the midst of struggling to work their way through, telling them that they just don't have enough faith can be a very demoralizing thing to say and certainly doesn't draw anyone's gaze upward toward Christ. It just puts them down and makes them culpable for their circumstance when that isn't the case. If I had someone say that to me when I was at the height of my depression, which I couldn't control, let's just say I wouldn't be going back to that person for guidance ever again.

I think there is something to be said for the fact that typically the people who give and promote that type of advice are in a place where things are going pretty well for them.

 

[CodyFaith]

Yep, words are powerful.

Been through more of a hell than people could imagine in their wildest dreams, then have to come on a site where I look for encouraging words and warm fellowship only to find words that do more damage than you could even begin to understand, and than have people agree with them and you look like the bad guy.

All because I lack faith right?

Yeah. Right on.

 

[CodyFaith]

Cheers to Paulie who sees things clearly.

I'm off CF for a while.

 

[alsughasoughaiuyfygh]

Honestly, all I got from Senkaku's post was, "Try harder!" which hurts me because I've been trying hard my entire life to change myself and still am going nowhere in life. It's exactly what I originally posted that Right Winged Christians talk trash about people like me because we are not as successful as them because we "Didn't try hard enough" when it comes to work, faith, or what have you. These are people who shouldn't display this kind of pride the pharisees had because of their status in life.

I try, I try, and I try but never get anywhere because of my mental disability and unfortunate environment. Telling me that I lack faith only made me feel worse and I only deleted my original post because another user privately gave me crap for it, told me that I'm playing victim again, and that I shouldn't have posted it.

Whatever though. It's crap like this that makes me think that the closer you are to physical/mental/social/emotional perfection, the more in God's image you are made in. Unfortunately, I do not fit the worldly Christian's definition of perfection and it's something I have to live with every day.

 

[CodyFaith]

Honestly, all I got from Senkaku's post was, "Try harder!" which hurts me because I've been trying hard my entire life to change myself and still am going nowhere in life. It's exactly what I originally posted that Right Winged Christians talk trash about people like me because we are not as successful as them because we "Didn't try hard enough" when it comes to work, faith, or what have you. These are people who shouldn't display this kind of pride the pharisees had because of their status in life.

I try, I try, and I try but never get anywhere because of my mental disability and unfortunate environment. Telling me that I lack faith only made me feel worse and I only deleted my original post because another user privately gave me crap for it, told me that I'm playing victim again, and that I shouldn't have posted it.

Whatever though. It's crap like this that makes me feel that the closer you are to physical/mental/social/emotional perfection, the more in God's image you are made in. Unfortunately, I do not fit the worldly Christian's definition of perfection and it's something I have to live with every day.

They have no idea bud and probably never will.

Me and you only have to prove ourselves to God. God knows us, they don't.

 

[Travelers.Soul]

Oh for sure. I do think though that sometimes people can be well-meaning and still give advice that isn't entirely helpful, particularly when judgments are made upon the degree of someone else's faith and how that relates to their difficult circumstances.

I must have missed where Senkaku blatantly told anyone that they didn't have enough faith and that was their issue. It looked like most of his posts were about taking responsibility and doing what you can.

 

[LoveDivine]

Cheers to Paulie who sees things clearly.

I'm off CF for a while.

It is unfortunate if you leave. I don't think anyone was thinking badly of you. As for those of us who agreed with certain posts, I can speak for myself that I was agreeing with the point about the power of words. It wasn't aimed at you. I liked his point about not shortcircuiting what God would do in our lives. That is aoplicable to everyone and I know it is something I should focus on more in my own life.