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Well, now Jedit is an 80 warlock and Thetiefling is my latest 'main'. Man, I still have too many alts. Anyway, I encourage people to check out the latest patch content: the Argent Tournament and other raids and group instances. The Test of Champions, normal difficulty, can be done with a fairly fresh group of five level 80's and rewards gear that equals or exceeds most heroic instance rare drops, with a loot table that should allow for 3-5 gear pieces for each class-talent spec, allowing for multiple runs. It also has a heroic difficulty level for players who are experienced heroic-runners.
Even if you can't find a group, the grounds outside the instance provide new dailies that give nice gold rewards and faction; you can work through some preliminary quests to represent your home race and later your faction's other races as well. This has the late-game benefit of building faction with those 5 races, just in case you want the reputation without the runecloth farming, etc.
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There's plenty to like, plenty to dislike. I'll focus on the latter in this thread.
I thought a lot of the juvenile humor could have been cut. Not all the humor, certainly. I'm talking about this stuff:
1. Dogs humping
2. robot leg-humping
3. wrecking balls hanging conspicuously
4. worst offender: Sam's mom
The action scenes were sometimes too busy, making it frustrating to keep up with what was happening. Lastly, with a new plot and new characters, the disproportion of attention and screentime for various characters was noticeable and a little jarring for me.
Other than these minor faults, I enjoyed the film.
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So many things to comment on...
I had a lot more to say on many things, but I decided to cut it down for the sake of brevity. For the moment, I'm going to touch on the scientific method and Christianity.
There are proofs and theories and apparently facts that, in ways both minor and dramatic, contradict passages of the Bible or Christian teachings. To a lot of people, this makes Christianity false, horrible, uncomfortable, or just unbelievable. There are two factors that I feel are overlooked when people take this stance; faith and the limits of knowledge.
1. Faith. As I understand it in very simple terms, this means true acceptance of something one cannot prove to exist, which is in large part why religion is not science.
2. The limits of knowledge. These are closer than many people realize. The scientific method, for example, only works if all outside factors are eliminated; otherwise there is no proof, only evidence of and support for a larger theory. Since I believe there is more in heaven and earth than humans currently understand or can even percieve, my acceptance of scientific evidence is rarely immutable.
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