Posted on 09/19/2007 5:43:37 AM PDT by period end of story
Could be right.
Laugh all you want, but did you SEE “Clueless?” It was a thematically faithful and surprisingly intelligent updating of Jane Austin, among the most intelligent of a sizeable string of movies which tried to contemporize classics. Other such movies include “Ten Things I Hate About You” (based on Shakespear’s “the Taming of the Shrew”) and Baz Luhrman’s “Romeo + Juliet.”
Her mockers are falsely associating depth (profundity) with heaviness or darkness and lightness with silliness, or shallowness. She is saying true lightness (happiness) must have substance (depth) to be true. She is declaring an enigma by insiting that true lightness, as opposed to mere foolishness, comes from depth, and she’s actually 100% correct. Moreover, she expressed it in a way consistent with the movie: easy to dismiss as silly, but with a greater truth behind it.
For the record, the movie was about an intelligent, but shallow teenager seeking happiness, and discovering it comes from doing good. A huge chunk of the humor comes from her language, which sounds banal, but is actually strikingly effective.
Hence, her vapidity as of late is all the more sad.
I’ll confess to not having seen the movie, so you may very well be right.
I have.
Did she bare here sharp and pointy teeth designed for ripping and tearing flesh?
I'll go ahead and tell you what he's say. He'd say, "I'd hit it."
I’ve never met a fat vegetarian.....
Yeah, without sufficient protein in your diet, junk food tends to cause very unpleasant feelings; sugar can become an amazingly strong depressant, for instance. And if you can stick to a healthy vegetarian diet, you have to be in such tight control of your food intake that lapses in self-control are almost impossible. It’s like saying, “I’ve never heard someone who was chaste (including avoiding masturbation) who had a porn addiction,” and using that rationale to counsel against marriage!
That said, I’ve known a lot of very stupid vegetarians with a lot of unhealthy diets. Half the women at both colleges I went to (one state, one private) were vegetarians whose diets consisted primarily of beer and lettuce. A protein-deprived diet causes stupidity (the brain needs protein), and a dullness of sense, including appetite. With that diet, a candy bar would have the effect of tranquilizers and probably induce nausea as well.
OTOH, one of my best friends is a vegetarian Christian who runs about 6 miles a day, even up to 78 miles (yes, he’s completed TRIPLE marathons!) and is the smartest person I know. But he has to work hard at eating:
People falsely believe that since vegetarian animals can get protein from plant matter, plant matter must have protein for human diets. Most does not. Herbivores can inter-convert amino acids which humans can’t inter-convert. As such, any plant protein which doesn’t have all the amino acids essential to humans gets treated as carbohydrates by the human body. Only by carefully combining vegetarian foods can human beings derive any protein from them. (There are a handful of vegetarian foods which have protein useful to humans: Semolina wheat, nuts, certain beans, etc.)
I know I wouldn’t be able to follow it...I crave meat too much....but I know my one friend who is really strict eats her owns chickens eggs, eats peanuts,peanut butter and tofu for protein. She is always on the go and is very skinny.
Go see it. Of course, for some, the Valley-Girlishness is too difficult to look past, even though the movie is poking fun at it. Then, if you can enjoy that, you can really push your endurance of teenybop by watching another great movie by another youth who is wasting her visual beauty: Lindsay Lohan’s hysterically funny, “Mean Girls,” wherein the homsechooled, African-raised daughter of anthropologists sells her soul for social validation after moving back to American suburbua. (Has life imitated art?) Lohan was once a very gifted kid, as also demonstrated in the Disney remakes “the Parent Trap” and “Freaky Friday.”
Throughout history, totalitarian regimes have tried to prevent their citizenry from eating protein. A lack of protein has long been thought to cause docility. In Robin Hood, King John kept the peasants from hunting for meat, in the name of environmentalism (”conservationism”). The Chinese taught their peasants that meat consumption was contrary to the Tao, while they raised their warriors and aristocrats on meat diets. In Oliver Twist, the orphan’s riot was blamed on a Christian do-gooder who fed them meat. Contrarily, even Christian ascentics who lived solely on the Eucharist, never taught abstinence from meat, apart from fasting, on more than two days per week.
“I’m Alicia Silverstone, and I’m a vegetarian,” Silverstone says.
Hmmmm. I suppose we should be glad she found a new career, given her previous one floundered so badly.
I should care what this lightweight unemployed actress thinks about what I eat because....fo what, exactly?
Huh? I have never, ever in my line of business snubbed anyone I disagreed with. Period.
You are equating what she done to a visit to my house from Bill Clinton? Not even the same. Not even close.
Do you have a Crush on the her on something?
“Good for Alicia to bare all for a cause in which she believes....minimize animal suffering”
The sight of which....
Which may cause masculine stuttering,
jaw dropped spittle and sputtering
when it was discovered
it wasn’t the bread one was buttering!
Wha’chu talkin’ ‘bout Willis? Them tatters ain’t mashed!
Yeah, and ‘I’d lick her till she’s cross-eyed too’. LOL!!
I bet Alicia smokes like a chimney.
That could be but if it were my network I would know what was coming on. The Food Network doesn’t have to have this crap on. I’m so surprised. If it’s on though I know i am only one person but...I will never watch it again. If they can’t stay on top without nudity in their ads then they aren’t worth my time or effort.
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