The Shrine

PostPosted:**Mon Nov 29, 2004 8:37 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/ame ... =587778</a>

Alexander the Gay?</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Nov 30, 2004 12:00 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Historically, probably accurate. It wasn't considered taboo to the Greeks before they hit manhood.</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Nov 30, 2004 1:42 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>This is the absolute height of idiocy. Yes, obviously the *real* Alexander knew that homosexuality was a sin. He also prayed to Jesus Christ before every battle - little known fact.</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:55 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Alexander wasn't Greek, keep in mind he was Macedonian, a completely different race, the Macedonians were Aryans.</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Nov 30, 2004 3:04 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Before Jesus was born, even! Truly a man before his time. Great, indeed.</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Nov 30, 2004 3:08 pm**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>In all of this silliness, I haven't read about a single historian denying the relationship with Hephaestion.</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Nov 30, 2004 6:45 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>It should be forgiven then, before Jesus people didn't know better.</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Nov 30, 2004 8:26 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>I don't really see how a slight difference in skin tone matters, but, yeah, they were separate cultures.</div>

PostPosted:**Tue Nov 30, 2004 8:55 pm**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>He was called "The Great" after all. Did you think divination was beyond him</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Dec 01, 2004 12:36 am**

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>That's because Jesus died for our sins, present, future, AND past!</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:08 am**

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Hmmm, I have to see The Last Temptation of Christ. lol.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:59 am**

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Wow,he's even managed to piss off Greek lawyers.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:01 am**

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>If I remember correctly, what made one "Greek" was the culture, not the race. But yeah, it's still fairly controversial whether Macedonians were in fact a Greek culture.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:02 am**

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>I thought that was obvious. ;)</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Dec 01, 2004 11:39 am**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>They 'borrowed' a hell of a lot from the Helene world.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:16 pm**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Excellent film, SOOOO much better than The Boredom, Dear Christ!</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:20 pm**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>The Greek lawyers had to drop the lawsuit 'cause they admitted they hadn't seen the film. I love it when the conservative get Sainted (ie. up the ass)</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Dec 01, 2004 1:24 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Still...the fact that they borrowed anything from the Greeks means that they were indeed different from them to begin with</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:20 pm**

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Alexander pretty much absorbed Hellenism *after* he took it over.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:53 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Actually, I think people are a little mixed up here; The "Hellens" were the Macedonians, the Hellensitic period began with Alexander the Great and ended with the Roman conquest.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:04 pm**

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>The Hellens were the Macedonians? This is my first time ever hearing that. Are you sure we're the ones confused? :)</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:09 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Nah, the Hellens were the Greeks. I think "Hellenistic Period" is just a misnomer is all.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Dec 01, 2004 5:01 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I misinterpred the term thinking that people were talking about people of the Hellenistic era, which was the era that the Macedonians ruled over Asia minor and the Balkans.</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Dec 01, 2004 5:02 pm**

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>The Passion of the Gibson?</div>

PostPosted:**Wed Dec 01, 2004 8:16 pm**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>That's the popular nickname for it, since he ponied up $25 mil of his own money to finish it (half of his fortune at the time). Mine is a far more descriptive name for the film :-)</div>

PostPosted:**Thu Dec 02, 2004 12:36 am**

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I take it his fortune is now in the $500 million range now? That's quite an investment.</div>

PostPosted:**Thu Dec 02, 2004 2:04 am**

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>I prefer "Christ: A 2-hour snuff film".</div>

PostPosted:**Thu Dec 02, 2004 9:41 am**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah, $450 was what I saw when they were talking about the release of the movie on DVD</div>

PostPosted:**Thu Dec 02, 2004 9:44 am**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>2:45. My wife took me to the theatre to see it. I think I looked at my watch about 20 times, often wonder how 2 minutes felt like 2 hours. It was one of the most painful theatrical experiences I ever had, up there with The Bored Bitch Project</div>

PostPosted:**Thu Dec 02, 2004 9:54 am**

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I'm so using that.</div>

PostPosted:**Thu Dec 02, 2004 7:35 pm**

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Heh, I personally loved South Park's take on it, it was hilarious. Especially when Kyle was in the movie and all you heard was screaming and whipping. lol.</div>

PostPosted:**Thu Dec 02, 2004 8:44 pm**

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Did you watch it? That was pretty much the whole movie.</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Dec 03, 2004 4:38 am**

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Partly ripped it off of South Park, since I thought it fit so perfectly. I'm surprised you didn't see that episode.</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Dec 03, 2004 6:54 am**

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah I watched it, last movie I went to with my "holy" girl before we broke up.</div>

PostPosted:**Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:33 am**

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>You see, everyone! This movie is nothing but pure evil!</div>

The Shrine

Alexander the Gay?

Alexander the Gay?

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