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Random Dude
@dudeuation
Just a dude making his way thru this crazy world.
انضم Ekim 2023
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This is 18-year-old Chinese basketball star Zhang Ziyu, who stands at 7'3" — the tallest female basketball player in the world.
She's already dominating in China's WCBA league and facing former WNBA players. Draft-eligible in 2027, with many scouts viewing her as a high-upside prospect.
Insane size and presence on the court. 👀
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@dudeuation @AntonioSabatoJr That’s their phone number: +86 177 5597 3593
Download WhatsApp and contact them using WhatsApp on this phone number
This is also their website:
huangshandental.com
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Jamie Lee Curtis recalls how the iconic str!ptease scene in James Cameron's "True Lies" (1994) was filmed & her experience watching this scene with her dad, Tony Curtis in the theater:
"The thing that nobody knows [about the scene]: There was no rehearsal, there is no choreographer. Jim [Cameron] said to me, 'What do you want to dance to?'
It was when John Hiatt's Bring the Family album was out and I said, 'There's a song called 'Alone in the Dark' that has this really funky rhythm, And I said, 'I really like that song.' And that's what they played.
I don't think Jim had seen me in my underwear. We were doing it over and over and over, and it got quieter and quieter.
At one point, Jim walked up and he whispered in my ear, 'If I get a pad, will you let go of the pole?' I said, 'Sure.' So they just wheeled in a little thin mat, on the ground, and we did it again, and I let go."
The scene of her character Helen falling during the steamy dance garnered her "the single biggest laugh [she] will ever get in [her] life."
"It's because Jim knew that the dance was too sexy; it was too real, It started to actually be good, and he knew he needed to break the spell of what the husband had put his wife through. I think we did two takes where I let go of the pole.
[My dad Tony Curtis] was sitting next to me, in Westwood, at the big Fox Theater there, Thousands of people — and you know, it gets really quiet during that sequence, because it's a little sexy.
Then when [Helen] falls and then gets back up, oh my God! The place, it was a huge … because you're anxious. Then the laugh, and it's all Jim. To his great credit, it's all him. He knew, it's a comedy. It's a comedy."
[Jamie Lee Curtis Reveals How Her Iconic Striptease in 'True Lies' Came to Be: 'No Rehearsal', Jen Juneau, People, 2021]
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@POSTER9001 @TheCinesthetic Wizard of oz and dark side of the moon synch up if you start the album as the mgm lion starts his third roar. Money starts playing as Dorthy opens the door to oz.
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@dudeuation @TheCinesthetic I guess you need to be high to appreciate how that song suits this scene.
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@911Revisionist I was thinking this theory had something to it until I heard the smoke detector chirp… that chirp ruined all credibility that women had.
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@LibertyCappy It forgot about her diagnosis… fetal alcohol syndrome.
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🚨#BREAKING: Vivek Ramaswamy had reportedly used campaign funds to finance a luxury trip to Puerto Rico.
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Lent marks Christ's 40 days in the Judaean Desert, where he's confronted by Satan.
Their clash is an epic philosophical showdown, and a masterclass in beating temptation.
After 40 days in the wilderness without food, Satan confronts Jesus and tempts him to transform stones into bread. The story is brief in the Gospels, but Milton's "Paradise Regained" expands it...
A conversation takes place in which Christ dismantles each of Satan's temptations through moral reasoning, and Milton's insight lies therein: temptation itself is not sin, but the opportunity for virtue.
In Milton's prequel, Paradise Lost, Satan corrupts Adam and Eve by appealing to Man's original sin: pride. Repeating this, thinks Satan, will be straightforward, for Jesus is merely human...
Christ responds first with the virtue of temperance, resisting bodily desires for the sake of higher principles:
"Man lives not by bread only, but each word
Proceeding from the mouth of God"
When it's clear that Jesus won't respond to bodily needs, Satan changes tactic, offering him worldly fame. How can the prophesied King go without fame and acclaim to rule his people by?
Christ's response is simple: become king of your own spirit and no external validation will tempt you:
"Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king."
Satan then offers Christ dominion over all the kingdoms of Earth, urging him to take action as did the great rulers of history. If Christ is meant to rule, then surely it is through action, not prophecy. Christ responds with pride's ultimate counter, humility:
"For what is glory but a blaze of fame"
His kingdom will not come about by assertion of will, but by waiting patiently on a higher plan.
Boiling with frustration, Satan brings Christ to the pinnacle of the temple in Jerusalem. Demanding to know what's special about him, he insists that he "Cast thyself down," and force angelic intervention to save him (as is written in Psalms). Christ's response:
"Also it is written, 'Tempt not the Lord thy God.'"
Notice, in all this, that Satan never calls Jesus to any obvious evils. He's called to use his intellect for worldly fame, or take dominion of Earth so he might rule it justly. Fundamental "goods," but twisted into prideful actions.
That's the main lesson on the subtlety of temptation. The most dangerous vices aren't invitations to outright evil, but little corruptions here and there that chip away at our higher calling.
Milton's showdown was intended to reveal that Christ was both fully God and fully man. He really did feel genuine human temptation, hunger, ambition, and the desire for recognition. He overcame them all without miracles, using only reason, faith, and virtue.
In other words, the victory in the desert was the perfection of human virtues that we can all put into practice.
Eve lost in paradise; Christ won in the wilderness. It's not the place or struggle that matters, but each and every choice we make.

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