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...incident helped spark, I would say, or created an opening for me to start questioning or start experimenting. There was a male in my group who I used to hang out with as a kid. And for the first time I looked at him, and I thought, oh my God, he's very attractive. He and I experimented and I was, like, OK. It made me just want more and more of it and I thought well maybe this is something I am supposed to be doing...
...free" is the single word that sums up what's most appealing about Milton's politics - his resistance to tyranny, his commitment to liberty. But of course the whole sentence is a threat to beat up someone who disagrees with him - in particular, someone who refuses to acknowledge his God-guaranteed superiority over everyone else. And this religious fanatic will express his freedom by committing suicide in order to kill thousands of his enemies. Machiavelli, whom Milton admired, reasoned that a prince who was feared would survive longer than one who was loved. Literature does not work that...
...God make one movie franchise a hit and another a flop? That was the question hovering over the first film adaptations of two best-selling fantasy series for children, C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. Lewis' series of seven books, published in the 1950s, was widely seen as a Christian allegory, presided over by the God-lion Aslan, who dies and rises again. Pullman's trilogy, written in the 1990s, described a battle between a dictatorial deity and the rebel angels determined to defeat him. As the author told the Sydney Morning Herald...
What irked me about Gibbs' article on death was the lack of reference to God and an afterlife. It's a lot harder to confront death and celebrate our "Deathday" if we choose to ignore God. David Scallon, BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND...
...would like to buy this pair of Diesel jeans.”They were the perfect jeans. Dark wash, slightly worn at the thigh. Slim, but not too slim, with creases at the pockets and behind the knee. They were button fly, like all Diesel jeans. And, my God, when I tried them on, I just knew I had to have them. The Viker cut is all I buy nowadays. They’re a bit more expensive. But when it comes to designer denim, it’s just worth it.It wasn’t until I got home...