Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kevin Smith, you had every right to be dissatisfied. His new film, Dogma, is the apotheosis of this Sunday School discontent and criticizes the stubborn doctrine of many churches. The film doesn't pretend to have all the answers to your Sunday School questions, but it does assert one thing: God is great, God is Good, God appreciates a good penis joke...
...best thing about God's anthropomorphism is that it adds to the poignancy of Bartelby's situation. Though it is Bethany's struggle with faith that is supposed to be the centerpiece for Dogma, it is Bartelby's that proves much more intriguing. Metaphysics aside, his story is about a rebellious, frustrated child. Throughout most of the movie, Bartelby is the voice of reason, constantly rolling his eyes at Loki's own version of divine justice ("You didn't say 'God bless you' when I sneezed" Loki chastises, pulling a gun on an innocent woman). But after a theological discussion...
...been pretty scientifically proven that there is no such thing as a 'race,' and most people, whether they know it or not, are a mixture of genes from all over the world," Sternin writes...
...really hard to fit into a specific ethnic group," Dunwell says. "Not being able to identify with one or the other is probably the hardest thing...
...When 2,700 people voted in last year's [presidential] election, they trusted me to make the right decision, and [the term bill increase] is the right thing to do," Seton says...