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Bounce (2000)
IMDB rating: 5.50
Plot: Buddy (Affleck) has just signed an airline in Chicago as a big client, but is ironically delayed at the airport waiting for a flight to LA on that same airline. He meets fellow passenger Greg, who opts to be bumped, even though it means missing an activity with his older son. When the flight gets resumed, Buddy thinks he’s doing a good deed by swapping tickets with Greg so he can get home to his son. Sadly, the flight crashes. Buddy conspires with his friend, the ticket agent that night, to take his name off the passenger list and put Greg’s on. Once he’s back in LA, his new client dictates that the company run a series of feel-good ads about the crash. Buddy feels very hypocritical, and completely loses it when the commercials win a Cleo. After going through re-hab, he decides he needs to check on Greg’s widow. But he doesn’t plan on falling in love with her.
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Directors: Roos Don
Actors: Affleck Ben,Edwards Edward,Goldwyn Tony,Saxton Richard,Dorfman David,Linz Alex D.,Garcia Juan,Morton Joe,Drama,Romance,
Fellow atheists, do you ever wonder what the point is?
I know that we all like to think and act like we have everything all figured out, but I’m going to stop the facade for a moment.
I just spent 20 minutes answering a post that got deleted. The post was by an atheist who is struggling with depression and with a lot of big issues about life and the universe and such. I wanted to help that person, but now I have no way of knowing who it is now.
Depression is an illness that has touched my life in many ways, none of them good. Since we have chosen the intellectually honest path, we have no religious teaching to hide under when things really start to suck. I don’t have many people that I can talk to honestly about what I think in my life, and posting a question on here isn’t exactly the best way to get help.
Having doubts and fears is completely normal. Just because we have questions about how all this came to be and how it will be in the future doesn’t mean that we are being weak or intellectually dishonest. I know that you will be loathe to admit, just as I am now, but sometimes I want SO badly for it all to be real so that I don’t have to feel so lost.
I don’t know if you will accept my opinion or if I will be scorned, but I feel like it is extremely important for us to be able to have someone to talk to about these types of questions without judgement.
I am going to put my email up here, and if any of you, atheist or not, need to talk about anything at all, whether it has to do with religion or if you are sad about the Colts getting their butts kicked, please email me. There is no shame in acknowledging that you are vulnerable. At the worst, I can be just another faceless person on the internet, but at the best I could friend, or even just a wall to bounce ideas off of. Or someone to laugh at and make fun of.
the_perkinator626@yahoo.com
P.S. please send me spam, because I don’t have enough already.
Actually Skully, clinical depression is sometimes caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. That is what anti-depressants aim to fix.
As far as spam mail goes, I was trying to go for the reverse psychology effect at the end there. And yeah, that is my actual email address.
454. That is how many new emails I have. Damnit.
Now its about 1000
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Shai Hulud | Feb 08, 2010
I have a coworker who is a huge Colts fan. I’ll pass your message on to him.
Terry | Feb 08, 2010
I do sometimes wonder what the point is, however never so desperate as to need superstition.
Oh! and thank you ‘ I believe in God ‘ for demonstrating the love of Christians and thus reinforcing why I hate superstition and the blindness is brings.
Yes – I had produced an answer to the poor guys question just to find it deleted. So here is the answer I was going to post:
On depression and religion
As I type this, I am looking out of my window at the birds on our bird table. They are beautiful and fascinating. Every now and then a squirrel will come bounding over the lawn to the table, they are so beautiful and fun. In the living room my wife is watching TV. She is a beautiful and remarkable woman, a truly loving person. Now and then she walks past the door and smiles.
I live because life is fun and interesting. It is an adventure, an exploration. There is so much.
I do not need superstition to make it any more than it is. Yes I do get depressed, after all, I am human and 80% of all will get depression at sometime. As it is such a high number, there must be a large number of superstitious (Christians and the like) who also get depressed, it is not an atheists dis ease. So why might being superstitious stop depression? I do not know. As a therapist, I get a very lot of those who follow religions or other superstitions, it does not proof against reality.
What does help is positivity. The focus on what is good and real in your life.
Terry W | Feb 08, 2010
The best cure for depression, i have found, is the finding out you have a "safety net" or something that you can fall back on in times of need.
Obviously for you (and myself to a certain extent), this would be Faith.
Depression isn’t an illness, it’s just about feeling isolated.
Skully | Feb 08, 2010
Certainly can’t laugh at that!
RC | Feb 08, 2010
I completely agree…. but… is that even your own email address? It seems like you’re trying to get it spammed..
The Irish South African | Feb 08, 2010
I sign you up for my fabulous hourly newsletter, yes? Okay tank you. Tank you rich American you will buy my products, very low prices, yes, yes.
I think your too deep of thinker. My product: Brainwash will help you with that.
Ouroboro | Feb 08, 2010
I don’t pretend to know everything…you’d have to be an idiot to think that.
Sometimes depression is a medical condition that religion won’t help with, other times, you just got to wait it out, and use family, friends, or a therapist to help you get through them.
Chekt | Feb 08, 2010
I never claim to know everything. I know being on this earth means i have a lot to experience and learn, even as an adult.
I’ve gone through depression as well, many people on the planet have. It’s nice of you to offer an ear to this person. Being an atheist doesn’t make you invincible.
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All those guys are handsome as hell and their bodies I absolutely lust after lol.
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