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With the missing hemmorhagic fever vial from the lab in Galveston yesterday, I was reading through some of the old sinkhole/assumption threads. Especially the ones with messages from East Texas. Lots of very bizarre coincidences began to surface.... I just wanted to share.

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Stephen King’s book, ‘The Stand’ was originally released in the late 70’s. Then he released an uncut/complete version in 1990 with all of the edits restored. King had modernized some of the story. He made changes and included some of current trends/fads from the pop culture to appeal to a younger audience.

The movie is an apocalyptic, end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it story about a virus with a mortality rate of over 99%. The military calls it ‘Project Blue’…… civilians reference it as ‘captain trips’ or just ‘the super-flu’……but whatever the name, it’s a global killer that presents itself with typical, flu-like symptoms.

King had wanted George Romero to direct the movie version because of the work he had done on his dawn/dead zombie films which King was (still is) a huge fan of. The two had collaborated on/off for 10+ years on a screen play, but there were issues almost from the beginning, mostly because of the length of the uncut version. Romero didn’t think it would hold an audience’s attention….and King didn’t want to make revisions to shorten the film because of how he had taken the time to really build the characters. He made them real by injecting real events and real life lessons that he wanted people to be able to identify with.

Eventually, they parted ways (remaining friends)…and the idea for Romero to direct was scrapped.

A few years later, ABC & King agreed on a screenplay for the movie, the cast was chosen, and ABC made the film. It was released in the mid 90’s as an 8 hr mini-series shown in 4 segments.

The movie has a theme of ‘Good’ v/s ‘Evil’. Most of the people who have natural immunity to the virus have lost everyone (book is slightly different than the movie) Entire families, gone. Friends, neighbors, co-workers…all gone. Most animals have died off as well.

The survivors begin to have precognitive dreams that lead them to one of the two groups that begin to form. The ‘good guys’ are represented by an old woman they call Mother Abigail……and the ‘bad guys’ are represented by a demon in human form. His name is Randall Flagg.

*****SPOILER ALERT*****

Part I – The Plague: Movie starts off at a high-level security army base in Baja, California. It’s a research facility where they’re doing top-secret testing on biological & chemical weapons. They’re in a bio-level 4 medical lab when there is a containment breach on one of the highly virulent strains they’re working with. Something so deadly, that it kills everyone inside the lab in a matter of minutes.

Because of a malfunction with the security gates, one of the MP’s on outside patrol, Charles Campion, manages to escape from his military guard shack. He quickly grabs his wife and baby, and makes it out of the army facility before the gates lock-down with them inside. Unfortunately, he & his family are already infected.

Campion, in a delusional & advanced state of illness, is able to get all the way to a small gas station in the north east corner of Texas. In a small little town called ‘Arnett’. Unbeknownst to him, his wife and baby have died along the way….. he dies a few minutes later.

The military moves in, and the residents of Arnett are put in a mandatory quarantine. They are told it’s necessary because of a new strain of anthrax. The virus is then purposely spread to other countries so that the contamination leak cannot be traced back to the military base in California.

The virus continues to spread, and within 19 days, over 99% of the world’s population is dead. The remaining survivors find each other through their dreams (or nightmares depending on what side they’re on), and together, as a group, they begin to assemble their new lives in new places with the people that will become their new families.

All of the survivors must choose their own destiny by choosing their own path. They make their own choices on which team to join based on who they are as individuals. Of what’s important to them in establishing their new lives.

Evil wants to control the world…..plus everything & everyone in it. Evil is materialistic, it craves power and it wants to rule over all. If Good wants to remain sovereign, they will have to fight. They will have to take a ‘STAND’ and battle evil one last time.
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Stephen King has been asked many times where his inspiration came from for the characters in this movie. When asked about Randal Flagg (the demon in human form), he’s always been very consistent about who & what Randall Flagg represents. Here’s one’s reporter’s summary from an interview with King:

<snip>

A common characteristic of Randall Flagg is his embodiment of evil. When Stephen King was first creating his vision of Flagg, he based him around what he believed evil to represent. To King, Flagg is “somebody who’s very charismatic, laughs a lot, [is] tremendously attractive to men and women both, and [is] somebody who just appeals to the worst in all of us.”[26] This idea is carried into The Stand, Flagg’s first appearance in literature. Here, Flagg is characterized as the personification of evil set against Mother Abigail, the personification of good. The character of Tom Cullen describes Flagg as having the ability to kill animals and give men cancer simply by looking at them.[1] Stephen King wanted Flagg to represent a "gigantic evil", though the character was supposed to taper off by the end of The Stand.[27] King stated, "I think the Devil is probably a pretty funny guy. Flagg is like the archetype of everything that I know about real evil, going back all the way to Charles Starkweather in the '50s — he is somebody who is empty and who has to be filled with other people's hates, fears, resentments, laughs. Flagg, Koresh, Jim Jones, Hitler — they're all basically the same guy."[28] Though Flagg was never intended to represent Satan, that did not detract from what King sees as his ultimate goal. King notes that it does not matter who sees him, or how they see him — Flagg can appear differently to each individual — but that his message is always the same: "I know all the things that you want and I can give them to you and all you have to do is give me your soul.’

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

The other parts of the movie:

Part II – The Dreams
Part III – The Betrayl
Part IV – The Stand

Misc:

---The General in charge of the military division working on ‘Project Blue’ is General Starkey (played by Ed Harris). When ‘captain trips’ begins to spread after Campion leaves the army facility with his family, he repeatedly lies to civilians & reporters that there is ‘nothing to be be concerned about……. Captain Trips does not exist.’

Later, the guilt of what he’s done & how he has covered up this pandemic is too much for him to bare. After pinning a note to himself with GUILTY written on it, he shoots himself in the head with his service revolver.

---In Part I – The Plague, there’s a radio broadcaster/talk show host named Ray Flowers (played by Kathy Bates) taking people’s phone calls during her radio call-in show. The callers are telling her what they’re witnessing in their towns. How the military is burning the dead bodies…..and shooting unarmed civilians. During the broadcast, a group of soldiers with respirators & protective clothing break into her studio telling her to disconnect from the broadcast. She refuses and they shoot & kill her. (to watch this scene, start at 1:11:00 on the video linked below. ***listen very closely to what Frannie is saying when she brings her father the lunch tray (frannie played by molly ringwald)

---One of the survivors from Arnett, Texas is a man named Stu Redman (played by gary sinise). Like most of the other survivors, he’s the only person left from his small town. Everyone else is dead from the flu. Later in the movie, some of the other survivors start calling him ‘East Texas’

---In reality, there are 2 towns in Texas with the name ‘Arnett’. One is located in Hockley County, and the other is in Coryell County. In the movie, Arnett is located in the upper north east corner almost directly where the small town of Linden is located.

map: [link to www.bing.com]


in the video below – at about 0:14:00 in, they show a large map with Arnett glowing in red
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"When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for."
- Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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I’m really not sure what to make of this next part, so I’ll just give you the facts and let you, the reader, form your own opinions.

At the very beginning of the movie (1st part)….. there is a black screen that appears with a quote by TS Eliot: **you can see this in the link provided….it’s right before the song ‘Don’t Fear The Reaper’ by Blue Oyster Cult begins….. without more cowbell thumbs

‘This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
Not with a bang but a whimper.’

That’s on the regular film version VHS & DVD. Even when it’s on television, that quote is always shown. It really sets the pace of the movie I think and I’ve never NOT seen it.

Earlier, and the main reason for me posting this, is because I had turned the tv on and started the 1st part of the movie through Netflix. Where the TS Eliot quote should have been was a different quote. One that I’ve never seen attached to this movie ever (can another Netflix subscriber verify this please?). The TS Eliot quote was gone and replaced with this:

REV 6 – 8

And I saw a pale horse
And a pale rider upon it
And the name of the horse
Was pestilence
And the name of the rider
Was death.


*if there’s interest, I can summarize the other 3 parts of the movie for those who don’t have time to watch it. Just let me know.


[link to en.wikipedia.org]
"the truth will stand up, when nothing else will"
- annie's mom

"When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for."
- Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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I'm re-reading the stand right now.

The uncut unedited version. About 400 more (but not new) pages with some edits (King took out all the references too the 80's so any reader can find the book relevant at any time)
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one of my families favorite all time movie mini series.

Amazing, frightening, thought provoking

what would i do if.....
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I've read and reread this book. It's good, but it's also disturbing in how possible it could be. When I heard about the missing vial, I thought about "12 Monkeys", where the scientist smuggles the virus out of a lab and deliberately spreads it around the world.
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Part I – The Plague




I’m really not sure what to make of this next part, so I’ll just give you the facts and let you, the reader, form your own opinions.

At the very beginning of the movie (1st part)….. there is a black screen that appears with a quote by TS Eliot: **you can see this in the link provided….it’s right before the song ‘Don’t Fear The Reaper’ by Blue Oyster Cult begins….. without more cowbell thumbs

‘This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
Not with a bang but a whimper.’

That’s on the regular film version VHS & DVD. Even when it’s on television, that quote is always shown. It really sets the pace of the movie I think and I’ve never NOT seen it.

Earlier, and the main reason for me posting this, is because I had turned the tv on and started the 1st part of the movie through Netflix. Where the TS Eliot quote should have been was a different quote. One that I’ve never seen attached to this movie ever (can another Netflix subscriber verify this please?). The TS Eliot quote was gone and replaced with this:

REV 6 – 8

And I saw a pale horse
And a pale rider upon it
And the name of the horse
Was pestilence
And the name of the rider
Was death.


*if there’s interest, I can summarize the other 3 parts of the movie for those who don’t have time to watch it. Just let me know.


[link to en.wikipedia.org]
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It sounds like somebody changed the quote because they thought the viewer would identify more with Revelation than TS Eliot. Just a guess.
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Part I – The Plague




I’m really not sure what to make of this next part, so I’ll just give you the facts and let you, the reader, form your own opinions.

At the very beginning of the movie (1st part)….. there is a black screen that appears with a quote by TS Eliot: **you can see this in the link provided….it’s right before the song ‘Don’t Fear The Reaper’ by Blue Oyster Cult begins….. without more cowbell thumbs

‘This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
Not with a bang but a whimper.’

That’s on the regular film version VHS & DVD. Even when it’s on television, that quote is always shown. It really sets the pace of the movie I think and I’ve never NOT seen it.

Earlier, and the main reason for me posting this, is because I had turned the tv on and started the 1st part of the movie through Netflix. Where the TS Eliot quote should have been was a different quote. One that I’ve never seen attached to this movie ever (can another Netflix subscriber verify this please?). The TS Eliot quote was gone and replaced with this:

REV 6 – 8

And I saw a pale horse
And a pale rider upon it
And the name of the horse
Was pestilence
And the name of the rider
Was death.


*if there’s interest, I can summarize the other 3 parts of the movie for those who don’t have time to watch it. Just let me know.


[link to en.wikipedia.org]
 Quoting: ladyannie2009

I first read the book in the 80's and it was a favorite for years.
I haven't read the book or seen the movie in at least 15 years but I too distinctly remember the t.s. eliot quote and not the Revelations quote. I would have remembered that.

Strange.
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I read the book back when it was first published. There was something really compelling about it for me. Something secretly attractive about the idea that all the assholes would finally be gone. But back then, I didn't grok the good vs evil theme very well. Now I do, all too well, and its scary in a new way. I had recently begun to watch the movie. I read your post in spite of the spoiler alert. Seems this story had a bigger impact on me than I thought. But I assume its just another myth made up by the Controllers to scare all the poor humans.

You could all be killed except for a few survivors, who will then still be in danger.

What a fun game. Not. This same story myth has been reworked countless times to thrill us. But will it ever really happen? I do think tptb have been trying to get a lethal disease to spread worldwide, but have so far been unsuccessful at making it happen on the scale of the Stand. I have stopped worrying about flu viruses because their saber rattling about those in the last few years has been so phony. Vaccines even proven to be ineffective. Most people now see through this and wont get vaccinated.
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King is a Christian Prophet.
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With the missing hemmorhagic fever vial from the lab in Galveston yesterday, I was reading through some of the old sinkhole/assumption threads. Especially the ones with messages from East Texas. Lots of very bizarre coincidences began to surface.... I just wanted to share.

----------

Stephen King’s book, ‘The Stand’ was originally released in the late 70’s. Then he released an uncut/complete version in 1990 with all of the edits restored. King had modernized some of the story. He made changes and included some of current trends/fads from the pop culture to appeal to a younger audience.

The movie is an apocalyptic, end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it story about a virus with a mortality rate of over 99%. The military calls it ‘Project Blue’…… civilians reference it as ‘captain trips’ or just ‘the super-flu’……but whatever the name, it’s a global killer that presents itself with typical, flu-like symptoms.

King had wanted George Romero to direct the movie version because of the work he had done on his dawn/dead zombie films which King was (still is) a huge fan of. The two had collaborated on/off for 10+ years on a screen play, but there were issues almost from the beginning, mostly because of the length of the uncut version. Romero didn’t think it would hold an audience’s attention….and King didn’t want to make revisions to shorten the film because of how he had taken the time to really build the characters. He made them real by injecting real events and real life lessons that he wanted people to be able to identify with.

Eventually, they parted ways (remaining friends)…and the idea for Romero to direct was scrapped.

A few years later, ABC & King agreed on a screenplay for the movie, the cast was chosen, and ABC made the film. It was released in the mid 90’s as an 8 hr mini-series shown in 4 segments.

The movie has a theme of ‘Good’ v/s ‘Evil’. Most of the people who have natural immunity to the virus have lost everyone (book is slightly different than the movie) Entire families, gone. Friends, neighbors, co-workers…all gone. Most animals have died off as well.

The survivors begin to have precognitive dreams that lead them to one of the two groups that begin to form. The ‘good guys’ are represented by an old woman they call Mother Abigail……and the ‘bad guys’ are represented by a demon in human form. His name is Randall Flagg.

*****SPOILER ALERT*****

Part I – The Plague: Movie starts off at a high-level security army base in Baja, California. It’s a research facility where they’re doing top-secret testing on biological & chemical weapons. They’re in a bio-level 4 medical lab when there is a containment breach on one of the highly virulent strains they’re working with. Something so deadly, that it kills everyone inside the lab in a matter of minutes.

Because of a malfunction with the security gates, one of the MP’s on outside patrol, Charles Campion, manages to escape from his military guard shack. He quickly grabs his wife and baby, and makes it out of the army facility before the gates lock-down with them inside. Unfortunately, he & his family are already infected.

Campion, in a delusional & advanced state of illness, is able to get all the way to a small gas station in the north east corner of Texas. In a small little town called ‘Arnett’. Unbeknownst to him, his wife and baby have died along the way….. he dies a few minutes later.

The military moves in, and the residents of Arnett are put in a mandatory quarantine. They are told it’s necessary because of a new strain of anthrax. The virus is then purposely spread to other countries so that the contamination leak cannot be traced back to the military base in California.

The virus continues to spread, and within 19 days, over 99% of the world’s population is dead. The remaining survivors find each other through their dreams (or nightmares depending on what side they’re on), and together, as a group, they begin to assemble their new lives in new places with the people that will become their new families.

All of the survivors must choose their own destiny by choosing their own path. They make their own choices on which team to join based on who they are as individuals. Of what’s important to them in establishing their new lives.

Evil wants to control the world…..plus everything & everyone in it. Evil is materialistic, it craves power and it wants to rule over all. If Good wants to remain sovereign, they will have to fight. They will have to take a ‘STAND’ and battle evil one last time.
 Quoting: ladyannie2009


I read the book back when it was first published. There was something really compelling about it for me. Something secretly attractive about the idea that all the assholes would finally be gone. But back then, I didn't grok the good vs evil theme very well. Now I do, all too well, and its scary in a new way. I had recently begun to watch the movie. I read your post in spite of the spoiler alert. Seems this story had a bigger impact on me than I thought. But I assume its just another myth made up by the Controllers to scare all the poor humans.

You could all be killed except for a few survivors, who will then still be in danger.

What a fun game. Not. This same story myth has been reworked countless times to thrill us. But will it ever really happen? I do think tptb have been trying to get a lethal disease to spread worldwide, but have so far been unsuccessful at making it happen on the scale of the Stand. I have stopped worrying about flu viruses because their saber rattling about those in the last few years has been so phony. Vaccines even proven to be ineffective. Most people now see through this and wont get vaccinated.
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oh shit
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M-O-O-N, that spells "Ebola." Everyone knows that, laws yes.
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M-O-O-N, that spells "Ebola." Everyone knows that, laws yes.
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He who Is — the dark man, the hardcase. He waited for Trashcan Man in Cibola, and his were the armies of the night, his were the white-faced riders of the dead who would sweep out of the west and into the very face of the rising sun. They would come raving and grinning and stinking of sweat and gunpowder. There would be shrieks, and Trashcan cared very little for shrieks, there would be rape and subjugation, things about which he cared even less, there would be murder, which was immaterial—

–and there would be a Great Burning.

About that he cared very much. In the dreams the dark man came to him and spread out his arms from a high place and showed Trashcan a country in flames. Cities going up like bombs. Cultivated fields drawn in lines of fire. The very rivers of Chicago and Pittsburgh and Detroit and Birmingham ablaze with floating oil. And the dark man had told him a very simple thing in his dreams, a thing which had brought him running: I will set you high in my artillery. You are the man I want.


-Stephen King, The Stand
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He who Is — the dark man, the hardcase. He waited for Trashcan Man in Cibola, and his were the armies of the night, his were the white-faced riders of the dead who would sweep out of the west and into the very face of the rising sun. They would come raving and grinning and stinking of sweat and gunpowder. There would be shrieks, and Trashcan cared very little for shrieks, there would be rape and subjugation, things about which he cared even less, there would be murder, which was immaterial—

–and there would be a Great Burning.

About that he cared very much. In the dreams the dark man came to him and spread out his arms from a high place and showed Trashcan a country in flames. Cities going up like bombs. Cultivated fields drawn in lines of fire. The very rivers of Chicago and Pittsburgh and Detroit and Birmingham ablaze with floating oil. And the dark man had told him a very simple thing in his dreams, a thing which had brought him running: I will set you high in my artillery. You are the man I want.


-Stephen King, The Stand
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oh shit

CIBOLA = EBOLA

wtf
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He who Is — the dark man, the hardcase. He waited for Trashcan Man in Cibola, and his were the armies of the night, his were the white-faced riders of the dead who would sweep out of the west and into the very face of the rising sun. They would come raving and grinning and stinking of sweat and gunpowder. There would be shrieks, and Trashcan cared very little for shrieks, there would be rape and subjugation, things about which he cared even less, there would be murder, which was immaterial—

–and there would be a Great Burning.

About that he cared very much. In the dreams the dark man came to him and spread out his arms from a high place and showed Trashcan a country in flames. Cities going up like bombs. Cultivated fields drawn in lines of fire. The very rivers of Chicago and Pittsburgh and Detroit and Birmingham ablaze with floating oil. And the dark man had told him a very simple thing in his dreams, a thing which had brought him running: I will set you high in my artillery. You are the man I want.


-Stephen King, The Stand
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oh shit

CIBOLA = EBOLA

wtf
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With the missing hemmorhagic fever vial from the lab in Galveston yesterday, I was reading through some of the old sinkhole/assumption threads. Especially the ones with messages from East Texas. Lots of very bizarre coincidences began to surface.... I just wanted to share.

----------

Stephen King’s book, ‘The Stand’ was originally released in the late 70’s. Then he released an uncut/complete version in 1990 with all of the edits restored. King had modernized some of the story. He made changes and included some of current trends/fads from the pop culture to appeal to a younger audience.

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When The Stand first aired, it really freaked out a lot of people.
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He who Is — the dark man, the hardcase. He waited for Trashcan Man in Cibola, and his were the armies of the night, his were the white-faced riders of the dead who would sweep out of the west and into the very face of the rising sun. They would come raving and grinning and stinking of sweat and gunpowder. There would be shrieks, and Trashcan cared very little for shrieks, there would be rape and subjugation, things about which he cared even less, there would be murder, which was immaterial—

–and there would be a Great Burning.

About that he cared very much. In the dreams the dark man came to him and spread out his arms from a high place and showed Trashcan a country in flames. Cities going up like bombs. Cultivated fields drawn in lines of fire. The very rivers of Chicago and Pittsburgh and Detroit and Birmingham ablaze with floating oil. And the dark man had told him a very simple thing in his dreams, a thing which had brought him running: I will set you high in my artillery. You are the man I want.


-Stephen King, The Stand
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oh shit

CIBOLA = EBOLA

wtf
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“Ci-a-bola, Ci-a-bola, bump-ty, bump-ty, bump! Ci-a-bola, Ci-a-bola, bump-ty, bump-ty, bump! ” Each final “bump! ” was followed by a little skipping leap until the heat made everything swim and the harsh bright sky went twilight gray and he collapsed on the road, half fainting, his taxed heart thundering crazily in his arid chest. With the last of his strength, blubbering and grinning, he pulled himself over the overturned pickup truck and lay in its diminishing shade, shivering in the heat and panting.

“Cibola!” He croaked. “Bumpty-bumpty-bump! ”

“Cibola!” He muttered. “Cibola! I’m coming! I’m coming! I’ll do whatever you want! My life for you! Bumpty-bumpty-bump! ”

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Re: Stephen King's 'The Stand' Part I - The Plague' very bizarre coincidences w/ current events
BTW...a little more info...
Randall Flagg didn't first appear in the stand,...he first appeared as simply 'flagg' in 'the eyes of the dragon'.

it was also hinted that he, 'the man in black', was the evil dude in 'storm of the century'.

but mainly, flagg was who roland pursued on the way to the dark tower.
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bump
Definitely going to re-read this now. book
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I just wanted to share that while reading this thread, I turned on the tv and the first thing I heard was a congressman named Steve King saying "This is a man-made problem" The timing was very interesting, you know?
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I just wanted to share that while reading this thread, I turned on the tv and the first thing I heard was a congressman named Steve King saying "This is a man-made problem" The timing was very interesting, you know?
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He was speaking about the influx of illegal immigrants btw...
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i've always nodded at that movie.. not such much the religious motives... but the rest always seemed plausible to me.... i used to cop a rap about my take on it when commenting in front of friends....
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I just wanted to share that while reading this thread, I turned on the tv and the first thing I heard was a congressman named Steve King saying "This is a man-made problem" The timing was very interesting, you know?
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He was speaking about the influx of illegal immigrants btw...
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Or was he damned
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Bookmarked for later.
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This is perhaps my all time favorite book.

I remember the first time I read it I literally could not put it down. I think I read the entire book in ten hours or something... then I immediately read it again at a slower pace to fully absorb it.

The television mini-series was a bit of a letdown for me. It was entirely too tame.

This needs to be made in a big 3.5 hour blockbuster type movie.

Now I just finished watching a series on Netflix called 'Revolution'. Another post-apocalyptic tale based on the electrical grid going down...and no one knows why.

It was really a great story-line, 15 years after the collapse, and how the United States had broken up into 6 years who were all fighting for control.

The acting and the dialogue on the other hand was why, I'm sure the series was cancelled. That and the leftist militia confiscated all the firearms and made possession of a simple cartridge a capital offence.

If you get a chance, watch it. You'll enjoy it. And there are many, many references to the Stand...

See how many you can catch.
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BTW...a little more info...
Randall Flagg didn't first appear in the stand,...he first appeared as simply 'flagg' in 'the eyes of the dragon'.

it was also hinted that he, 'the man in black', was the evil dude in 'storm of the century'.

but mainly, flagg was who roland pursued on the way to the dark tower.
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Yep, old Walter o'Dim wreaks havoc on many worlds.
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Re: Stephen King's 'The Stand' Part I - The Plague' very bizarre coincidences w/ current events
BTW...a little more info...
Randall Flagg didn't first appear in the stand,...he first appeared as simply 'flagg' in 'the eyes of the dragon'.

it was also hinted that he, 'the man in black', was the evil dude in 'storm of the century'.

but mainly, flagg was who roland pursued on the way to the dark tower.
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Yep, old Walter o'Dim wreaks havoc on many worlds.
 Quoting: PhotinoBird


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