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    Small Talk: The Prayer Closet

    in Counting On

    15 hours ago, MarysWetBar said:

    Am I the only one who feels paranoid about sending my DNA to a lab?  I have done the Ancestry stuff on a free  weekend one time and found it very cool but I'm just not so sure about supplying my DNA all willy nilly. 

    Me. Totally paranoid about it.

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    The Lonely Js Club: Jana, Jason, James, Jackson & Johannah

    in Counting On

    1 minute ago, Gweilo said:

    He also has his own shiny new not-at-all-famewhorey webpage! http://www.jeremyvuolo.com/courting/

    This

    "I called Ben and Jess and began asking them more questions about [Jinger] —of course, everything they said only confirmed what I had already been seeing: a humble, meek, modest, intelligent young woman with a burning desire to sacrificially serve the Lord in any way she could."

    makes it sound like Jinger has thrush.

    I'm sorry but that's just creepy.

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    The Lonely Js Club: Jana, Jason, James, Jackson & Johannah

    in Counting On

    3 minutes ago, Sew Sumi said:

    He's already an ordained pastor at a fundie church in Laredo, TX. One of the church videos has someone being saved from the ebil ghey, so I really don't hold out any hope that Jinger will be freed. It's more of the same old shit. Kim Jong Boob wouldn't approve any other kind of guy. 

    And you can bet TLC won't be showing any of that on the show.

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    The Lonely Js Club: Jana, Jason, James, Jackson & Johannah

    in Counting On

    5 minutes ago, sometimesy said:

    That's really sad. She seems really put together for someone with so many little children. She's like a Disney princess (hair wise). She isn't a Dugg person, but she has that long hair and seems to know what to do with it. 

    What are the odds that Mr. Soccer player doesn't stay on the compound? 

     

    Slim to none. Mr. Soccer player has quit soccer to have a ministry.

    The Lonely Js Club: Jana, Jason, James, Jackson & Johannah

    in Counting On

    1 hour ago, Sew Sumi said:

    He's a fairly recent convert. He was a "heavy drinker" in high school and college. I'm sure he's had his way with more than one girl in his past. Probably one of those "born again virgins." At least we can look forward to a decent first kiss at the altar? 

    This is video from the Ordination Service of Jeremy Vuolo which took place on March 5, 2016 in Laredo, TX.

    http://www.beyondtheultimate.org/athlete/Jeremy-Vuolo

    It's going to be more of the same.

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    The Marvel Cinematic Universe: The Avengers, etc.

    in Movies

    17 minutes ago, OakGoblinFly said:

     

    I thought that this was part of Robert Downey Jr's  new contract with Marvel - no more solo films, but Ironman will appear in other MCU films.  I hear/read rumors that Marvel is trying to work on a similar deal with both Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth.

    CEvans said in an interview (Rolling Stone iirc) that he extended from 6 to 7 movies, thru Infinity War2. He's also said he's willing to do more for as long as they want him. I hope they keep him because Chris is Captain America.  RDJ seems to be contracting on a film by film basis now.

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    Captain America: Civil War (2016)

    in Movies

    4 minutes ago, Wynterwolf said:

    I'm actually hard pressed to think of any male-male examples... what am I missing? 

    The closest I can think of is a small indie film, All Over the Guy, and even that is a bit of a stretch.  I certainly can't think of any mainstream films where a same sex friendships evolves into a romance.

    Captain America: Civil War (2016)

    in Movies

    17 minutes ago, Swansong said:

    I don't see their love as particularly romantic, but I have to agree. I've been actually relieved that they didn't develop Clint and Natasha or Steve and Natasha into romantic relationships because 9/10 that level of commitment to one another would be a precursor for the inevitable romantic hook-up.

    I'd've preferred Nat/Clint to the Nat/Bruce we got in AoU. But really I just want Nat to be as kick-ass as she's always been.

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    Captain America: Civil War (2016)

    in Movies

    On 5/25/2016 at 7:57 PM, stealinghome said:

    Yeah, I was going to say, I see the "there is a stereotype that two people of the same gender can't be close friends without it being gay, therefore they should be straight!" justification a lot, but is that actually a stereotype? Or is it a stereotype that people have made up to argue against taking same-sex friendships romantic? Because I feel like you could probably count on one hand the number of major pop culture instances of close same-sex friendships evolving into romance.

    I can see where the text of CA:TWS and CA:CW would make people think Steve/Bucky, but while the text might be saying it, I personally have never seen it in the performances. I just don't see much romantic chemistry between Steve and Bucky (though that they love each other, absolutely). But to each their own!

    I would say you wouldn't use more than one maybe two fingers.

    Given the same text of all 3 Cap movies, if Bucky was Becky, there damn well would've been a romance.

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    Captain America: Civil War (2016)

    in Movies

    5 minutes ago, Jazzy24 said:

    Someone help me out but isn't Clint's family non existent like no one but the Avengers knows he has one? So Clint can go back to his family even if he's wanted because as far as the government knows he doesn't have one right? 

    And is it common knowledge that Scott has a daughter? 

    Except Tony mentioned Clint's family when he was talking to him in the raft prison so now Thunderbolt Ross knows too.

    I have no idea about Scott though.

    Captain America: Civil War (2016)

    in Movies

    2 minutes ago, Wynterwolf said:

    ... unless it was Hydra/SHIELD agents that were 'in charge' of the investigation.  And especially since Howard, himself, was transporting the serum in his car, I think it's likely you could have counted the number of people that knew about what he was doing on one hand, and possibly all of those were Hydra too.  (caveat: didn't read the tumblr thread... I've spent too much time on tumblr already).  

    It's an interesting read but I know what you mean about Tumblr.

    IIRC, I think Howard was supposed to be going to the Pentagon? Maybe? Anyway someone/somewhere should've had an inkling it wasn't a simple accident.  But...handwave...

    I'll go back to "I wish we got a true follow-up to Cap2 instead of this mess."

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    Captain America: Civil War (2016)

    in Movies

    · Edited by scriggle
    correct link

    29 minutes ago, Bruinsfan said:

    That does bring up the question of how exactly Zemo knew there would be something from that particular date incriminating enough to drive a wedge between the Avengers. He had to know or at least suspect that (1) Stark's parents were murdered by HYDRA, (2) The Winter Soldier was the operative who did it, and (3) The Winter Soldier just happened to be Captain America's best friend in order to go looking for confirmation. That's a LOT of privileged info to start out with for someone who wasn't a HYDRA higher-up with decades of history with them.

    Personally, I handwave that he found the date in the files and knew from researching the Avengers that it matched the date of the Starks' deaths and he went from there. 

    It's the fault of the writing that so many details have to be handwaved.  From Zemo & the files, The Accords being drawn up without any of the Avengers knowing about them, no-one questioning why Ross was seeming put in charge, the fucking video of the Starks' murders (really? on a deserted road) and on and on.

    There's a great series of posts on Tumblr (yeah, I know) Can we talk about what was in the trunk in the 1991 incident in Civil War?

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    previous movies left the impression that Howard and Maria’s death was thought to be a car accident at the time, but if a bunch of super-soldier serum was missing from Howard’s car (and Bucky was sent to retrieve it, so the intel was widespread enough in the military/intelligence community that the Soviets knew about the project) it should have been very obvious that he was murdered. Not to the general public, maybe, but it would have been a really big deal for SHIELD, at least, to get it back and figure out who killed him.

    Captain America: Civil War (2016)

    in Movies

    3 minutes ago, Wynterwolf said:

    Right, but he kept asking because he didn't have the details, so that implied that the details weren't in the encrypted file.  But this is one place where I wish the MCU had more tie-in media, this would be a good item for them to hash out more than they could during the movie.  

    Yeah, I agree.  But at least Tony would've known HYDRA was up to something hinky on the date his parents died.  There was apparently enough info in the files to lead to the Russian.  If  he had decrypted the files, maybe the Avengers would've have found the Russian first.  Of course, then we'd have no movie.....

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    Captain America: Civil War (2016)

    in Movies

    · Edited by scriggle
    because i think faster than I can type

    39 minutes ago, Dandesun said:

    <snip>

    Steve's issues with the Accords are one thing but it's been shown repeatedly that he loses all rationality when it comes to Bucky. 'Bucky's unit got captured behind enemy lines? I'm going to take this motorcycle and I am going to go get him! Oh, you have a plane? Sure, that works... thanks for the ride.' 'This mystical, mysterious ghost assassin is Bucky?! Okay, after I save a million people from dying in one blast... I'm dropping my shield and I'm letting him kick the shit out of me because that's my Bucky and I won't fight him!' 'Bucky bombed a UN meeting? I gotta go and find out for myself because I'm not buying that the guy who saved my life after almost killing me would just do that. And also... BUCKY!!'

    </snip>

    That is true if Cap1.  And as you say in Cap2, Steve completes his mission before dropping his shield.

    In Cap3, after the bombing he want to go after Bucky to bring him in as he's is the only one likely to survive the encounter.  Then he finds out from Sharon that the authorities aren't planning on bringing capturing him, the orders are shoot to kill. Then, when Bucky is captured, Steve gets laughed at when he asks about Bucky getting a lawyer. I think Steve would go to bat for anybody under those circumstances.  It becomes about the powerful picking on the powerless, about justice. 

    11 minutes ago, Wynterwolf said:

    Based on what we saw though, it looked like most of the Winter Soldier stuff was on non-electronic, or very old-school media, so it might not have been in the mammoth mountain of data that Nat released.  

    Zemo explicitly states he got his lead to the Russian handler by decrypting those files.  He keeps asking the Russian specifically about the operation that took place on that date. 

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