Ready for Star Wars?

[Gerioke]

You all have to understand that sci-fi/fantasy fans are a totally different group of people!

Know how some people can be crazy about their sport team (i.e. painting their shirtless bodies in team colors even though it's 29 degrees F at the game?

People just get into their "hobbies" differently, and some go whole-hog with it.

These guys are like that.

We really should not judge them.

What do we expect people who don't know Jesus to be like, anyway?

This is their fun and their "escape from reality" and their fellowship and all that.

If I wasn't a Christian, I'd probably be right with them.  Well, for that matter, if I had a group to rotate turns with, I wouldn't mind getting tickets to the first showing either - for I'm sure seeing the movie packed full of fans would be more fun than watching it with a "regular" crowd.

(I got to see an earlier showing of LOTR III, so it had a bunch of fans in there - I'll just say at certain points it got absolutely hysterical!!)

They are just having fun.

And most of them don't know Jesus.

Laughing about it is one thing - as I'm sure they laugh, too!

But can we please cut the self-rightreous attitude about their behavior, OK?

Thanks!

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Lighten up

Notice the LOL on the thread title?

Taking fanatasism to ridiculous heights is the gist of the thread

[nebula]

Gerioke - I was provoked by some of the responses on this thread - not the OP.

[other one]

When I was in college we all enrolled the same day at the same time. Classes were first come first serve and if you needed something specific to graduate you had to be in the front of the line.... or college would take you another year (or maybe two) to finish.

Long story short, we did line up early for enrollment..... in some instances two days or so. My junior year I sat out in a 7 inch snow storm to get a second level calculus class I needed to take some physics classes the next semester. I think it iis just a matter of what's important in life and how much time you have to give to it. My wife says the time I spend here on WB is about as important as wanting to camp out for star wars movies....... maybe she's right. It's just what floats your boat.

One thing we learned during these sit in's is that there is sort of a group mentality that grows as more come in. In our case even with the seriousness of long periods of time lost in your life if you missed a class, I don't ever remember anyone getting angry with each other or any aggressiveness in line cutting or such. Even though we complained about having to be there, we did in actually enjoy the experience. I made some really good friends in those lines

When early enrollment came about most of us sort of missed the whole ordeal.

I just wish I had 7 weeks to be able to do something like that.....

[jmwhalen]

If the worldview about the future as expressed in "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Lost in Space", and the like, is true, then I am upset. There is no cure in the future for baldness!( Jean Luc Picard, for example, and other bald people portrayed in these series about the future). Please, "say it ain't so, Joe!"

John "as usual, his insightful commentary is brilliant, and also masterly and charmingly communicated, despite being quite irrelevant and having no bearing on the subject matter" Whalen

[Gerioke]

If the worldview about the future as expressed in "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Lost in Space", and the like,  is true, then I am upset.  There is no cure in the future for baldness!( Jean Luc Picard, for example, and other bald people portrayed in these series about the future).  Please, "say it ain't so, Joe!"

John "as usual, his insightful commentary is brilliant,  and also masterly and charmingly communicated, despite being quite irrelevant and having no bearing on the subject matter" Whalen

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Bad acting is also still running rampant in the future as captain kirk bares evidence

[other one]

All I'm saying is, why don't we have Christians waiting in line for the 4th of July Revival at their church? If unbelievers can be this in love with their idols, why aren't Christians so in love with Jesus?

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Who says we arn't, it may be that most of us don't have the opertunity to go sit on the mountain top until he comes...... Just like most of us can't take the time to just go sit and wait for an opening.

se

[Gerioke]

All I'm saying is, why don't we have Christians waiting in line for the 4th of July Revival at their church? If unbelievers can be this in love with their idols, why aren't Christians so in love with Jesus?

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I've been waiting for Jesus to come back for nearly 46 years. Star Wars ain't got nothin on Him

[jmwhalen]

If the worldview about the future as expressed in "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Lost in Space", and the like,

[nebula]

All I'm saying is, why don't we have Christians waiting in line for the 4th of July Revival at their church? If unbelievers can be this in love with their idols, why aren't Christians so in love with Jesus?

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#1 - You don't need to buy a ticket to get into that Revival meeting!

#2 - I waited in line to get into Brownsville Assembly of God during their "revival" days.