The Ten Commandments

[Fadingtoblack]

So I don't know how many of you heard, but about two weeks ago I had some surgery on my leg, an ongoing problem with some veins and stuff in there, so it ends up I normally get some surgery about once a year around this time to fit in with uni.

Anyway, one year I was in hospital over Easter, and they played this movie on TV. Now at almost 4 hours on DVD, on TV with ads I found this a great way to waste a day and take my mind off the pain and boredom.

So it's become a bit of a tradition, once a year, I break out the 2-disc Collectors edition, and waste a day

But it's a damn good movie, as Metallica fans you guys should at least know it as the film that inspired Creeping Death with the lines "So let it be written, so let it be done"


So any other fans of this movie, anyone else seen it!? Discuss...

[Leighton]

My grand-dad is a minister, so I grew up on all those movies. Good stories and lessons I guess, but the influence of biblical stories on some people really sucks any goodness they might have had on me.

What leg problems do you have? I have on-going probs with my leg after an accident.

[Fadingtoblack]

My grand-dad is a minister, so I grew up on all those movies. Good stories and lessons I guess, but the influence of biblical stories on some people really sucks any goodness they might have had on me.

What leg problems do you have? I have on-going probs with my leg after an accident.

Well, I watch the film from a more entertainment than religious based perspective, though I'm of course familiar with all the religious apects as my family, well Dad's side anyway, are Church goin Christian's

The good thing about this is it's Old Testament stuff, so you have your Vengeful God, your God that actually became involved in the lives of those he supposedly watched over! Definetly makes for better entertainment I think! (no offense to anyone )


As for my leg, well I was born without a deep vein system in one of my legs, so my body sort of tried to compensate, but didn't do a very good job. Basically screwed up veins if you like, so I have surgery every now and again sort of as a maitenance kind of thing, there's no 100% fix as yet unfortunately.

And you had an accident? What happened and what are your leg troubles? Like nerve damage, or physio related type things?

[Doin]

Like you, Fadingtoblack, I have one tradition that is related to the Metallica connection to the Ten Commandments film.

Once a year we have the Jewish Passover Seder (meal) in which the story of the exodus from Egypt is retold. I am not religious in any way and view this as just a nice family dinner. While there are many religious traditions related to the passover festival, there is only one that I uphold religiously. Prior to leaving for the Seder, wherever it is being held that year, the studio version of Creeping Death MUST be played AT LEAST once in its entirety, either while getting ready to go or in the car. It's a silly tradition but I have been doing it for 15+ years and haven't stopped.

So let it be written, so let it be done...

[Leighton]

I basically had my right leg crushed in an accident when I was 13. It was a pretty bad incident. It happened in front of my school so kids fainted and everything. The whole inside of the leg was basically hollowed out from an inch above my knee to my ankle cause it was grinded against the road under the vehicle. Three ambulances came to treat me on the site and it was pretty clear I was either going to die from blood loss or lose the leg later on. You could see bone and muscle inside my leg, but amazingly nothing was broken.

At the hospital I soaked the bed and floor in blood, had some transfusions and settled in for a 12 hour operation. My parents later told me that they were told it was an amputation operation, but thankfully, they held off on that for a few days. By my second operation the plan was still for amputation, but they again held off. 2 weeks later, I got multiple skin grafts, staples and roughly 200 stitches inserted, but kept the leg.

4 weeks later I was out of hospital on crutches which was another feat since I also did ligaments in my left knee. I was out of it for 12 months, but I got back into basketball and still kicked arse, but I had to give up on the football dreams. So it was tough, but I got some massive scars out of it.

Anyway, I do love biblical stories. I just hate it when they're taken so seriously. I'm open to the idea of afterlife and God and all, but I don't believe anything in the bible at all.

[metallifreak27]

what is it with us aussies and our leg problems !!!!

[Fadingtoblack]

I basically had my right leg crushed in an accident when I was 13. It was a pretty bad incident. It happened in front of my school so kids fainted and everything. The whole inside of the leg was basically hollowed out from an inch above my knee to my ankle cause it was grinded against the road under the vehicle. Three ambulances came to treat me on the site and it was pretty clear I was either going to die from blood loss or lose the leg later on. You could see bone and muscle inside my leg, but amazingly nothing was broken.

At the hospital I soaked the bed and floor in blood, had some transfusions and settled in for a 12 hour operation. My parents later told me that they were told it was an amputation operation, but thankfully, they held off on that for a few days. By my second operation the plan was still for amputation, but they again held off. 2 weeks later, I got multiple skin grafts, staples and roughly 200 stitches inserted, but kept the leg.

4 weeks later I was out of hospital on crutches which was another feat since I also did ligaments in my left knee. I was out of it for 12 months, but I got back into basketball and still kicked arse, but I had to give up on the football dreams. So it was tough, but I got some massive scars out of it.

Anyway, I do love biblical stories. I just hate it when they're taken so seriously. I'm open to the idea of afterlife and God and all, but I don't believe anything in the bible at all.

Jeez!

That is very, very nasty, but it's good to hear that you've mostly recovered!

I agree with what you say about Biblical stories. It irritates me when the highly religious take them as fact, when really, though some things may have been based on real life events (such as the Egyptian plagues, around the world cultures have a story of Permanent day, until halfway around the world the story becomes about permanent night), I feel the Bible should really just be taken by those who follow it as GUIDELINES or examples of how you could live - and also some damn good stories, again mostly Old Testament.


@Doin - That is a cool tradition man! It was funny the first time this tradition of watching the movie started for me, every time it went to an ad I'd grab my cd player and play that song!

@metallifreak27 Ok spill, what's wrong with you?

[metallifreak27]

AFL injury mate

ripped my anterior cruciate in AUgust 04, had it fixed end of august 05, and it is still fucked, annd looks like i might be travelling to Adelaide at the end of this year for another full knee recon

exciting!!!!!

i hate leg injuries so much!!!!!!!

[Fadingtoblack]

AFL injury mate

ripped my anterior cruciate in AUgust 04, had it fixed end of august 05, and it is still fucked, annd looks like i might be travelling to Adelaide at the end of this year for another full knee recon

exciting!!!!!

i hate leg injuries so much!!!!!!!

Ah that sucks, but really that's all AFL is good for, destroying peoples bodies!

Used to shit me hard when kids would rock up to training with wrecked knees shoulder etc, it's like you're not even a teenager yet and you're already falling apart!

[MetDream]

I have never ever watched the Ten Commandments. However I have watched Ben Hur many times throughout my life. I love the chariot scenes in that movie.