Events From The Old Testament…& Television
- Deuteronomy 13:15-18
- Joshua 6:21
- Joshua 10:28-37
- Joshua 11:11 & 14
- Judges 21:10
Maybe ditching the television isn’t so extreme compared to these commands and events from The Old Testament.
The AFI’s Top Ten (1998 & 2007)
April 20, 2026 by Blogging For 20 Years • Entertainment, Society, Television • 0 Comments
WINNING BEST PICTURE AFTER ROE v WADE
- Within months after January of 1973.
- Unlikely movie similarities between 1982 and 1993….extraordinary years for Spielberg.
AMERICA DRIVING OVER A CLIFF
“Let’s keep going.” –Geena Davis
An Offer Society Can’t Refuse
April 20, 2026 by Blogging For 20 Years • Biology 101, Books, Entertainment, History, Law, News & Media, Religion, Self-Improvement, Society, Success, Television • 0 Comments
THE LATE 1960’s / EARLY 1970’s
- Mario Puzo making a cultural impact with The Godfather.
- Og Mandino publishing The Ten Great Scrolls.
- Hollywood’s future king working in television.
WINNING BEST PICTURE AFTER ROE v WADE
- Within a few months following the Supreme Court decision in January 1973.
- The AFI’s top ten. (Both 1998 and 2007)
THE YEAR 2006
- Discovering Og Mandino and his technique of rereading.
- Meeting Christian author Donald Whitney.
- TIME’s Person Of The Year.
Mid-April Of 2026. The National Debt.
April 18, 2026 by Blogging For 20 Years • Financial, News, Politics, Society • 0 Comments
Mid-April of 2026.
THE NATIONAL DEBT: $39.1 trillion
Some believe that the only part of the solution to the $39.1 trillion national debt is eliminating government waste. For those people, I have a question…
So what exactly prompted the breakdown in the friendship between Elon Musk and President Trump after Elon Musk did so much to eliminate waste in federal spending?
THE WORLD ALMANAC. 2026
The Department Of Defense paid O-9’s and O-10’s $18,808 a month in 2025. So the most the U.S. Government paid any military personnel in 2025 in a single year was $225,696.
$225,696 a year for the highest ranking officers in the military.
The Federal Income Tax Rate for those making over $626,350 was 37% in 2025. ($626,350 is quite a bit more money than $225,696.)
- Are people who make more than $626,350 a year that much more valuable to society than anyone in the military?
- Is it possible some folks are overpaid and undertaxed in light of what the government pays military personnel and that the country faces a $39.1 trillion national debt?
- Did President Eisenhower know what he was doing back in the 1950’s when he taxed top income earners at 91% to keep national deficits under control?
DRIVING AMERICA OVER A CLIFF
“Let’s keep going.” –Geena Davis
Hollywood’s New King
April 16, 2026 by Blogging For 20 Years • Computers, Entertainment, Financial, History, News & Media, Society, Success, Television • 0 Comments
Three Prevalent Household Devices from 1982 used today for communication…
- Phone
- T.V.
- Computer
1982: Hollywood’s new king…& TIME’s Machine Of The Year
THE LATE 1960’s / EARLY 1970’s:
Hollywood’s future king working in television.
JERRY GOLDSMITH. 1982
Homecoming for Hollywood’s new king and for a Vietnam War veteran. All is not well.
Does Hollywood have a new king in 2026? Yes or no?
A.I. ….& Television
April 16, 2026 by Blogging For 20 Years • Computers, Entertainment, Society, Television • 0 Comments
A QUESTION I ASKED A.I. LAST DECEMBER…
Why doesn’t AI admit that the line about television from Quiz Show is “It’s the world’s biggest something”?
A.I.’s RESPONSE
The line you are referring to from the film Quiz Show is most likely delivered by Herb Stempel, who describes television as the “world’s most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine” in a recent quote related to the topic of AI and the movie.
However, the specific quote from the film that is most similar to your phrasing is:
“That box is the biggest thing since Gutenberg invented the printing press, and I’m the biggest thing on it”.
This line is said by Herb Stempel (played by John Turturro) to a reporter outside the congressional hearing room, highlighting his ego and the perceived power of the new medium.
It seems AI might not have initially confirmed your exact phrasing because:
- The quote “It’s the world’s biggest something” does not appear verbatim in the movie script. AI systems are trained on existing text data, and if a precise phrase isn’t in the source material it has access to, it cannot “admit” it is correct.
- AI tends to favor widely recognized or exact quotes and may “hallucinate” or provide close but inaccurate phrases if the exact wording is not confirmed in its training data.
- The quote about television being a “plagiarism machine” is a recent meta-commentary by Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad, who referenced the themes of Quiz Show to criticize AI, not a line from the original film itself.
Ultimately, the model provides information based on the statistical likelihood of word sequences in its data, rather than a human understanding of implicit “somethings”.
IN TRUTH…
The line from Quiz Show “It’s the world’s biggest something” is a line delivered by Charles Van Doren, portrayed in the movie by Ralph Fiennes.
RALPH FIENNES. 1993-1994.
- “…those six centuries are a rumor. They never happened.” –from Schindler’s List
- “It’s the world’s biggest something.” –from Quiz Show
Do you see the irony?
Christians & The Entertainment Industry
April 8, 2026 by Blogging For 20 Years • Education, Entertainment, Financial, History, Relationships, Religion, Society, Television • 0 Comments
EARLY FALL OF 1994
“We’ve got a situation here.” –words from a Christian who didn’t exactly have the best intentions
- Christians & “the world’s biggest something.”
- Baptists funding a Hollywood movie.
“It’s the world’s biggest something.” –an insult directed at television…a line that A.I. says doesn’t exist in the movie
RALPH FIENNES. 1993-1994
- “By this evening, those six centuries are a rumor. They never happened.”
- “Don’t forget who you are working for now.”
- “It’s the world’s biggest something.”
Nightmares For Republicans & Geena Davis
April 8, 2026 by Blogging For 20 Years • Biology 101, Financial, History, Law, Politics, Society • 0 Comments
DO ANNIVERSARIES MATTER?
After 2026, the 100th anniversary of the late 1920’s
- The late 1920’s: DEBT
- Followed by five consecutive victories for the Democrats during the presidential elections…until 1952.
Can you imagine five consecutive presidential victories for the Democrats in the near future…five consecutive terms of Democrats in the White House? Can you imagine the horror for our country?
MY TOP COINCIDENCE INVOLVING ANNIVERSARIES FROM TWO YEARS AGO…
Hugh Hefner’s 25 year-old fiancee second-guessing their wedding in 2011…25 years after the nightmare birthing scene from the 1986 remake of a movie based on a short story published in Hefner’s magazine.
Five consecutive terms of Democrats in the White House in the near future. Something to think about for Republican lawmakers intent on unending tax cuts for the super-rich while the national debt is climbing towards $40 trillion. Sweet dreams, people. Sweet dreams.
Proverbs 29:14
“Let’s keep going.” –Geena Davis
The Late 1960’s / Early 1970’s…And Current Events
April 7, 2026 by Blogging For 20 Years • History, News, Sports • 0 Comments
TWO EXTRAORDINARY COINCIDENCES OF THE LATE 1960’S / EARLY 1970’S
- Americans walking on the moon
- Devout Christian John Wooden winning seven consecutive NCAA Mens’ Basketball Tournament Championships
CURRENT EVENTS
- Artemis II
- The difficulty of winning three NCAA Championships in four years. (Winning three in a row coaching mens’ basketball has never happened outside of the late 1960’s / early 1970’s.)
Seems like there are other current news events connected to some of the other 19 coincidences of the late 1960’s /early 1970’s.
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A Star Wars Star’s Words
April 20, 2026 by Blogging For 20 Years • Entertainment, Religion, Self-Improvement, Society • 0 Comments
“May the Force be with you is charming but it’s not important. What’s important is that you become the Force for yourself and perhaps for other people.”
–Harrison Ford.
Clever words from the Star Wars star. But did he hit the nail on the head?
Considering the religious themes of the first Star Wars movie in 1977 and what George Lucas said about God and his trilogy of films back in 1983, it would seem that the Force is a fictional metaphor for the LORD. So to say that the quote “May the Force be with you” is not important implies that it’s not important that the LORD be with you.
But at least one must give him a bit of credit for the 2nd sentence, as to me it seems to parallel with something Jesus said in Luke 13:24 & 33…make every effort to enter through the narrow door…and I must press on today and tomorrow and the next day. Do you agree? Or am I reaching a bit to remind Christians (and myself) of those two verses?
Harrison Ford, the main star of Raiders Of The Lost Ark, …who portrayed Indiana Jones, a character who had to choose wisely in the last 15 minutes of the 1989 sequel The Last Crusade. And in the climactic scene of Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the movie’s leading lady (Marion) were tied up by the bad guys as the bad guys proceeded to open the Ark Of The Covenant. Indiana Jones tells Marion to shut her eyes. Chaos explodes around them. The bad guys are destroyed and swept away. The chaos ends…Indiana Jones and Marion are freed, standing alone with the Ark Of The Covenant in the background. The bad guys completely gone.
If that scene isn’t an act of God with Harrison Ford in it, then I don’t know what is.
“You must choose, but choose wisely.”