flog

I literally laughed out loud (literally), when I read the Hindu outrage at this beer label. I take comfort that persons of any religion can be transformed into non-thinking poo-flingers by taking their symbols seriously, and that there isn't anything especially insidious about Christianity.

john kehoe	5 September 2004

	

So good, the first sip caused an explosion of my tastebuds. Complex, a variety of flavors to dazzle. Good finish.

Maybe I'm missing out on something but papillary explosions sound like a bad thing to me.

This is just weird.

  Jesus freaks' opinions are always suspect.  They say the sky is blue, 

  I'm looking to see if a meteor strike turned it maroon somehow.

http://mylifeisbeer.com/beer/bottles/bottledetail/671/

  Josh Walker        6 January 2005

  I dont like beer or fruity people.

woo
yay!

Jun 3, 2005 12:59 from Knightshade

Taint my theory... there's many web pages about it... here's my own list of

evidence though (and I'm sure I've missed plenty):





Evidence of R2-D2, Master and chosen of the Force.



When we first meet R2 in episode 4 he's already acting big for his britches...

He gets the message from Leia, then heads off to escape...

3PO questioning him all the way, telling him he's not authorized in there,

etc... but he's probably just a robot doing his job, right?



On the planet below he heads off one way, 3PO another... yet they both end up

in the same sandcrawler, where a certain pair of buyers will

come calling soon...



We get our first inkling there's something really different about him When the

droids are being purchased from the Jawas, Owen Lars initially selects

C-3PO and R5-D4, a red droid.  R2 goes apeshit and wobbles

and beeps wildly until the jawas fire off his restraining bolt.  At this

point he looks at R5-D4, and the red droids motivator burns itself out.

Owen buys R2 instead.

 

In nearly every film we see R2 calmly walking across fields of fire from

blasters on every side, seemingly aware his force abilities will

insure he remains unshot.  The only time R2 ever appears in danger of being

hit is when he's otherwise focused on things like hacking

computers and locks.



Need further evidence of his precog force powers? He seems to notice when real

dangers are about (like the sand people in Episode 4, or his scream

-right before- a shot that nearly hits him in Episode 1 is even fired),

yet doesn't bother mentioning relatively harmless ambushes

like the Ewoks or the dagobah swamp creature that swallows then spits him out.



How about the opinion of Darth Vader himself?



In 4, Darth, known to be an excellent pilot and shot, comes up behind Luke in

his X-wing... he sense the force powerfully up ahead.  What

is the first thing he does? SHOOT R2-D2.



In 5, Luke senses his friends are in danger in cloud city and he must go help

them.  What's the first thing Vader does when he gets there?



Cuts him off from R2-D2 by shutting a blast door between them.

 

You'll further note Lukes actions end up doing -nothing- to actually help his

friends.  R2 on the other hand saves all their asses.  How?



Vader had disabled the hyperdrive on the falcon... Chewie is clueless in fixing

it.  R2 knows all about the problem though, and fixes it in

just a few moments, allowing our heros to escape.



Now, do the prequels support this theory?  Absolutely!



In episode 1, who saves Amidalas ship when escaping from Naboo? R2-D2.



Oh, and by coincindence, the saved ship can't quite make it to Corusant

anymore...  But they CAN make it to this backwater desert world...



exactly where R2 needs them to go to 'discover' Anakin... perhaps his 'fix' of

the shield generator also caused the leaking hyperdrive that

sent them there?



In the hanger bay late in episode 1, R2 calls to Anakin to come hide in the

fighter he's in.  Then R2 powers it up for him (without being

ordered to BTW). Listen to the dialog in the sequence that follows.  Anakin

doesn't know what he's doing.  He explcitly tells R2 he didn't

do anything.  Yet the ship takes off, heading for the droid control ship.  R2

 

beeps in amusement.  He's flying.  After a while Anakin asks

R2 if he can override the "autopilot" heh.  R2 finally turns contol back over,

but continues to give him dogfighting advice.  When their

ship is being questioned by droids, R2 tells them he's the pilot.  Oh, and how

does Anakin, master pilot and gunner, destroy the control

ship?  He misses a point blank shot with 2 torpedos.  Gee, I wonder if R2

altered that shot any to hit the -right- thing?



In episode 2 in Padmes bedroom... R2 knows the probe droid is there.  He wakes

up when he notices. He does NOT sound the alarm yet though.



He waits.  When she's NEARLY in deadly danger, then he sounds the alarm.  So

the jedi in the next room can get the chance to realize the

danger and follow the probe droid.



Later in that film when Anakin tells Padme he's kinda scared she reassures him

there's nothing to worry about... after all, they have R2 with them.  She

IS Luke and Leias mom after all, kinda sensitive to the force

ya think?





Episode 3 provides us the biggest array of evidence of all the prequels.  R2

takes out the little attack droid on the wing of anakins ship

 

(that had killed Obi Wans droid without a fight), kicks the ass of a pair of

much bigger droids in the hanger bay... then after being



buried in a pile of debris... watch closely... he FORCE JUMPS 10 feet into the

air.  He didn't use his thrusters there.  Even better, at

the end of the episode... Bail Organa tells Captain Antilles to "have the

protocol droids memory wiped.".  JUST 3PO.  Why? Because 2

minutes earlier, offscreen, R2 told Organa "you don't need to have my memory

wiped".  R2 jedi mind tricked Leias adpoted father!  (arguably he mind

tricked Ben not to remember the droids either)







At every turn, in all six films, R2 is always in the right place, at the right

time, doing the right thing, to insure the story unfolds



exactly the way it must to bring balance to the force.



Still think Anakin or Luke is the chosen one?

This is the first front page I've seen in about 2 weeks that has actually been funny.

   i broke myself

   laughing...