Aspen (1991) Movie Script

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O God, come to my assistance
O Lord, make haste to help me
Glory to the father and to the Son
And to the Holy Spirit
As it was in the beginning
Is now and ever shall be
World without end, amen
- Okay, Sylvia take the ring.
- Place it on Joseph's finger.
Sorry about that, Burt.
You need to put that on.
It's hot in here.
Okay, now hold his hand
and repeat after me,
- I Sylvia Gibbons.
- I Sylvia Gibbons.
- With this ring.
- With this ring.
- Take thee.
- Take thee.
- Joseph Gibbons.
- Joseph Gibbons.
- To be my wedded husband.
- To be my wedded husband.
- To have and to hold.
- To have and to hold.
- From this day forth.
- From this day forth.
- For better, for worse.
- For better, for worse.
- For richer, for poorer.
- For richer, for poorer.
- In sickness and in health.
- In sickness and in health.
- To love and to cherish.
- To love and to cherish.
- 'Til death do us part.
- 'Til death do us part.
For as much as Joseph and Sylvia
have consented together in holy wedlock,
having witnessed the same before God
and these witnesses,
having declared their vows for each other,
once again having declared
their love for each other,
I do by virtue
of the authority vested in me
by the laws of the state of Colorado,
pronounce you Sylvia
and you Joseph,
to be husband and wife.
Folks, may your days
be filled with joy,
love for each other,
and be blessed
by the happiness of this moment.
Now you're married.
- Alright.
- Congratulations.
- Congratulations.
- Thank you.
Alright.
Dammit!
...from Steamboat Springs
Winter Sports Club.
Good job Hank!
Gregory Buchheister
coming around the corner
and to the finish line now,
Gregory Buchheister!
Gregory Buchheister's card is 1:35:20.
Chad Fleischer is coming through
the finishing line now.
- Chad Fleischer!
- 1:35:18.
Chad's time is 1:35:18,
1:35:18 for Chad Fleischer.
And here comes Reggie Crist.
Reggie Crist, through the finish line!
At a time of 1:34:86.
Here comes Stephon Chottinger,
With a time of 1:33:27
for Stephon Chottinger.
...is now heading down
our national champion
in the GS,
giving his best in the Super G here.
And he has taken second place
with a time of 1:31:37.
All by myself
I've got this
burning, burning, yearning
Feelin' inside me
Ooh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad
You came into my heart
So tenderly
With a burning love
That stings like a bee
Now that I surrender
So helplessly
You now wanna leave
Ooh, you wanna leave me
Ooh, baby, baby
Where did our love go?
The trend today
is toward more and more
- men having cosmetic surgery--
- Too late.
And it's not just cosmetic surgery,
it's uh,
you know men are engaging
in use of skin care products
and hair care products
and in fact cosmetics and so on.
So it's just a,
I think we're just...
scratching the surface here
when it comes to surgery of appearance.
And in fact when we started
to think about it,
this field really started
when Narcissus
saw his reflection in the water,
and ever since then
man has been hooked on appearance,
and has used methods
of either adornment
or physical alteration
to change appearance,
to gain self identity and self-esteem.
All of these procedures
that I'm talking about
are done in men just as well as in women.
It used to be that 10%
of our patient population were men
and now it's approaching 30%
and it continues to increase.
So we can take a long nose
and make it shorter,
or we can take a wide nose
and make it a little thinner,
or we can take a nose
that has excess projection,
it extends away
from the person's face a little too much,
and we can then
get it closer to the face,
or we can take a nose
that has a high bridge
and lower the bridge...
or we take a nose
that has a very subtle high bridge
and this is what we call
a subtle rhinoplasty,
or we can take a nose like this,
a little girl who--
What a honker!
Who has inherited--
Yeah.
So this girl inherited
her father's ethnic nose...
And, uh...
So, it's a very gratifying type
of you know, result.
We can take noses that have been injured
and are wide and crooked
and make them
more narrow and straightened.
Alright, or you see a person like this
who not only has a receding chin
but also has very little neckline
and so by building up the chin
you not only improve the chin line
but also the jaw line and the neck line.
Very common in non-Caucasians,
Blacks have extremely receding chins,
and so we're able to build up that chin
and you know just to get
a little better profile line.
Now, we see again
in non-Caucasians, Orientals.
We're able to build up
the chin from for better harmony
and facial balance,
and in this case
we also used what's called
a mid-facial implant,
where you see that as a result
of the mid facial implant
the center portion of the face
is advanced as well.
Commonly in Orientals
you see that significant
depression just below
the cheekbone on the left
and the filler
with a mid facial implant on the right.
Cheek bones,
cheek bones are extremely important
and we view,
you show me a beautiful woman,
I'll show you beautiful cheekbones.
HOW TO GROW OLD GRACEFULLY...
- I'm convinced that there is
an innate desire in man
to improve his appearance,
and the thing is that especially
like in our society
there are philosophical
and religious and social mores
that prevent people
from doing it, you know?
We're taught that it's bad to do,
to change God's will, you know,
and we hear things like that little girl
that inherited her father's nose,
the Jewish grandmother
has her guilt-tripped,
and she says,
you know, "Let the kid alone,
"she'll grow into her nose,"
and so on.
By the time that kid
grows into that nose
she'll grow out of her body.
Or we see--
How often have we heard, you know,
grow old gracefully?
Well I'm here to tell you
that the way to grow old gracefully is
to have cosmetic surgery.
I probably only have one more run anyway.
Well, how many runs have you taken?
Oh, roughly an hour.
She's sitting down.
- Oh, my God.
- You okay?
Yeah, he's got a little,
- Cut?
- Yeah, it's about an inch.
Have you called from the phone up there?
Well he may do that.
You're the first person I've seen.
Thought you might have
a radio or something.
- I can call them right here.
- Just tell him he's up there.
Does he want help?
- He's over by--
- He'll need it I think.
He'll at least need a butterfly
but probably a stitch.
- Okay.
- Thanks.
Sure.
with the Aspen Mountain Patrol.
Go ahead Rick.
Have a gentleman
who wants to be checked out at Bonnie's.
He got a pole poked in his eye,
and I'm a little bit below.
Is he in the restaurant?
He's in the restaurant,
his friend just skied down
to me and asked me to call you.
Okay, we've got someone on the way.
Thank you, clear.
Yeah, big round of applause.
These guys did it for nothing
and they're worth several hundred million.
It's amazing.
Well, shake it up baby now
Shake it up baby
Twist and shout
Twist and shout
Come on, come on,
come, come on baby now
Come on baby
Come on and work it on out
Work it on out
Well, work it on out, honey
- Work it on out
- You know you look so good
Look so good
You know you got me goin' now
Got me goin'
Just like I know you would
Like I knew you would
Well, shake it up baby now
Shake it up baby
Twist and shout
Brad, Brad! This way.
You open that dink up a little bit?
- Should we head up there yet?
- No.
- Yeah.
- You're getting closer though.
- Watch it.
- It must be in the try this valve.
Is that better?
Kinks, somewhere screwed up, Don?
Yeah?
That tank pipin', or...?
- Hey, Jackie?- Yeah?
Call 'em and tell 'em to turn on the air.
Yeah.
And turn off the water.
You got the WD-40?
- Hey, Don?
- Yeah?
When you're drilling,
apply the light pressure
so that your bit is
right in the middle of your hole.
You know, it's not bending up,
there's no weight on the machine,
and then also,
if it starts to slow down and jam,
back off a little on your pressure.
You'll just keep jerking it.
You wanna switch tracks?
Nope.
I just want to talk for a minute
about what you're looking at.
While this is a shape,
what's really important is this shape,
the negative area.
So, I want to see people
drawing negative areas
and filling them with color
because while this thing is brown,
or whatever it is,
this area right here consists of a lot
of stuff behind it okay?
And this birdcage is fabulous.
Matisse, if he were here, my God,
he couldn't afford one of these.
And you only cook a bird--
No, never mind, sorry, Gauguin,
no offense.
So what happens here...
is that I want you to draw
the negative area of the cage.
I want you to draw this stuff
because you can't see Gauguin
where the bars are,
you can only see him where they aren't.
So I want you to draw that part, you know,
that's where he exists
is in the negative area,
- you can hear me.
- Yeah.
He's worried about
the cooking instructions.
Paella, it's paella,
it doesn't include bird meat.
So back here is--
Back here
is a wonderful array of shadows,
I wanna see those.
Up here is a tree,
I don't want to see people
drawing leaves and trees,
it's bullshit.
I want to see you draw them
as Matisse would cut them out of paper
he doesn't have time to cut each leaf,
he would cut them
as a shape of green, okay, right?
And these shadows are a single shape.
If you want to noodle them that's fine.
If your personality makes you want
to draw them really fine, that's great.
But really basically,
they're an area this big
that's different color
than the background, okay?
So we got all this wonderful stuff.
I don't want anybody to paint for a while.
Somebody's starting to draw.
I just want you to look.
You're all getting excited
about drawing this.
Just stare and think about
what you're really looking at.
If you have questions,
we'll have some--
I don't understand--
Yeah, no, okay, here's the deal.
I want everybody
to include in their painting...
everything from here,
- to here.
- To the window?
- Yes.
- The big window, ever thing.
Everything that you see,
now look,
if you want to draw the upstairs bedroom,
and that makes a statement,
throw it in.
What I'm telling you are no rules.
But I'd like you to at least include
this field of vision okay?
And now, you're saying it's a lot of work,
"I got all these things to do," bullshit.
It's you could do this in a single line
or you could do it in 20 lines,
or you could do it in 50 colors.
I want everybody
to use every color in the box
- don't leave out a color.
- Where is your beginning point?
- Your focal point?
- Okay, think of your paper
as being a window, you're looking
through a window at this scene, okay?
Find something that you've decided,
if you wanna do this,
if you wanna draw diagonal lines
through the paper,
and here's the center, and you've decided
that her nose is gonna be the center,
or his nose, her nose,
then do that,
then build out from there.
Build, build shapes though, don't draw,
I don't want to see a lot of outlining,
I hate that.
So, let's just do this,
let's draw
this wonderful shape right here,
that describes this.
It's gonna be hard for you
to do that but try it,
it's really fun, it's really fun.
And then draw this shape
that goes up to here,
draw the windows.
If you wanna draw the Warhols,
draw the Warhols
'cause you all see them, don't you?
- Right?
- No, I don't.
It's wonderful,
you see outside on the mountain,
you see them,
you wanna draw that, draw that.
There are no limits,
it's where you place your focus, okay?
And I'm gonna come around
and be a little critical.
I'm gonna kinda make you
push yourselves a little bit,
none of you, there's only
a couple professional artists here
and I want to see you extend yourself.
I think it's wonderful what's happening,
and the moons are incredible.
What are you doing?
Are you just like
a bag woman or something?
Get on the thing, let's go,
- get to work.
- I just do the dishes here
when this is over.
Just don't be predictable,
I don't wanna see you outline stuff
'cause that's not what stuff is about.
There is no outline on stuff.
Stuff is what's inside the outline, okay?
These are the most wonderful crayons.
They'll do anything you want,
it's like driving a fast car.
Victoria is the only blonde I know
that acts like she has palsy
with her hand, I mean,
this thing is moving so fast,
she could have done the Sistine Chapel
in 24 hours, no problem.
- Oh, come on, now.
- Victoria, I know--
I'd like to see it, yeah.
- Darling, okay?
- That's great!
This is great, here's, may I, may I?
Just for a second, here's a man
who is drawing negative area.
- This is what I'm talking about.
- Oh!
This is great because this accentuates
something that he's not really seeing
this is really trying to decide what
what what's happening out there
in terms of the space.
It's not a literal translation,
we don't need a camera, okay?
I didn't mean all that shit,
it's a mediocre painting.
Yeah, it is, well.
The whole point is look at these people,
you can't drag some of them away
from these canvases,
and they've never done this, it's great,
- look at the intensity.
- I know.
Jesus Christ, try and go up there
and ask 'em what time it is, fuck.
You know, Matisse was
- in his 50s when he used to--
- Well, I know.
In the hospital, they brought him
oil paints and canvases.
I gotta show you guys--
- He had appendicitis--
- Oh, yeah!
No, he had, no, no,
Matisse died of a bad operation
on his gut,
he didn't have appendicitis.
No, but when he started painting.
- The Buddha ran off.
- Oh, yeah, oh yeah.
They brought him paintings
so he wouldn't be bored
- in the hospital--
- Oh, yeah, and he had a stick
- with a crayon--
- He had never painted
- in his whole life.
- He did all of his cutouts
- on the ceiling of his bedroom.
- Really?
- I know him well.
- My cat's name is--
- Ooh, look at this.
- Ooh, la la!
- But look at the Buddhist!
- Oh, God.
- The Buddhist!
- Oh, God, oh God, oh, God!
You put the bird in the tree,
you put the Buddhist over in the tree.
- Oh, God, there he is!
- That's what it's all about,
- that's exactly what it's all about.
- Oh, man,
- oh, man, oh, man.
- That's what it's all about.
It's taking it and doing it your way.
I mean, yeah, exactly, there are no rules.
- Once again, there are no rules.
- Wow.
So, you didn't break any boundaries here,
you're dressed in funny boots,
but that doesn't count.
Isn't it fun?
We got a stapler?
I need a stapler.
No one's got a stapler, buddy.
I'll find something--
Quiet, all of you people
are killing the mood.
Does anybody need paper, that's it?
- This is a passionate painting.
- Isn't it?
- This is a Spanish--
- Spanish.
Fucking painting, it really is.
- Fucking Spanish.
- There's so much emotion this painting,
- it's unbelievable.
- I love dirty things.
You are passionate, you are trouble, lady.
I know.
Yeah it's great,
it's very powerful, in fact you...
Are the exact opposite,
most people who were timid here,
you just jumped in with both feet.
It's like, I don't care
if I get mud on my boots,
what the hell?
So, this is nice, this is very nice.
I can't tell you if you were thinking
about the negative area
or the positive area.
It's like so goddamn--
It's like Guernica, right?
Right?
It's this guy.
- 1940, yeah.
- It's like a matador, almost.
- Yeah.
- Isn't it?
- I mean, the red, the black--
- Yeah, Guernica.
It's there's a passion here that, yeah.
Exactly, great.
That's fun, that's a fun painting.
Who was German, you or your father?
My father was.
I thought you said you were quite excited.
- Your father?
- We went there
- when Katherine was working--
- Right, I--
I thought you were there
and I might've met you.
Well, no, I was there,
but only on my summer holidays.
- His father--
- My father was--
You were just a school boy--
- Yes.
- And I was a grown-up woman?
Well, I was left school,
- I was 17.
- That's not the question.
- I was 17.
- Well, I was 23, so too bad.
- Exactly, so there--
- The question was--
It's barely enough to keep us apart.
Well, I stayed
with all these strange ladies
in Wehrenberg,
and we'd come in, chat, flatter,
I don't remember who they all were.
They took a poll the night,
I was the only virgin in the ETO.
I really was!
They took a poll, which of the defendants,
if they had to sleep with one,
- who they would sleep with.
- Who did they say?
The German was Goering.
He won everything, he did!
He was the hero of the trial.
- Yeah, I guess so.
- Total, totally they have--
He did in, who was our prosecutor?
- Jackson.
- Jackson, he did in Jackson
- until I was there, yes.
- Totally, did you see that?
- Mm-hm!
- Really, oh, you are lucky.
I was lucky.
'Cause I was only there
for Schacht's trial,
who was an economist,
he was very dull--
I was there for Goering.
But that was a dramatic moment.
My dad, I always rather wonder
whether my father was,
'cause he adjourned it,
in the middle,
I mean, Jackson was destroyed
- by Goering, wasn't he?
- Yes, he was,
- he was destroyed that day.
- Yeah.
But then,
Maxwell Fyfe destroyed jury.
I wasn't there, I guess, for that.
Oh you weren't, well, the next day--
- I was there for two days
- The next day, Maxwell Fyfe,
who was the head of our prosecution,
destroyed Goering
because Americans aren't very good
- at cross-examination.
- They're too nice.
Well, that's true,
and you don't do it here.
- Or too dumb, I don't know which.
- Well, they don't really do it.
I don't think
it comes into the legal process.
And he had stepped down
from the Supreme Court, didn't he?
- Yes, yeah.
- How fascinating.
Okay, we're back here.
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This is something that's quite unusual
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If you've ever flown
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LightHawk, as I said, has flown
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and we literally give the land a voice,
and if you can hear that land speak,
it's asking for protection.
If you actually see what's going on
with your own eyes,
you are moved to action,
and that's what LightHawk's all about.
You shake my nerves
and you rattle my brains
Too much love drives a girl insane
You broke my will,
oh ooh what a thrill
Goodness gracious great balls of fire
I had to laugh cause
I thought it was funny.
You came along and you moved me honey
Come on baby, you're driving me crazy
Goodness gracious great balls of fire
Kiss me, baby, ow
No one makes me feels so good
I need my baby
'Cause I love you like a lover should
You're fine, so kind
I'ma tell the world
that your mine mine mine mine
Chew my nails and I twiddle my thumbs
I'm real nervous but it sure is fun
Come on baby, you're drivin' me crazy
Goodness gracious great balls of fire
Kiss me baby, ow
It feels good, good
Hold me, baby
I want to love you like a lover should
You're fine, so kind
I can tell the world
that you're mine mine mine mine
Chew my nails and I twiddle my thumbs
I'm real nervous 'cause it sure is fun
Come on baby, you drive me crazy
Goodness gracious great balls of fire
Kiss me, baby, oh yeah
Come and make me feel so good
Hold me, baby
I gotta love you like a lover should
You're fine, so kind
I can tell the world
that you're mine mine mine mine
Chew my nails and I twiddle my thumbs
I'm real nervous but it sure is fun
Come on, baby, you're drivin' me crazy
Goodness gracious great balls of fire
Goodness gracious great balls of fire
Goodness gracious great balls of fire
We'll fast on Tuesdays, we go to...
Spence, let's go over
and look out over the valley.
It's warm enough.
Hunter?
50 to the cabin for you--
Fact, it was 49,
wanna go to the cabin?
- Yeah, let's go back to the cabin.
- Okay.
- I could probably use a drink.
- Okay.
- Good time.
- A good morning.
Yeah, good.
- Yeah, a good morning.
- A great morning.
What's our time?
- You were 49.5.
- That's a good time.
- Come on.
- Yeah!
Come on, you dumb dog.
"Some Pharisees came to him
and tried to trap him.
"Tell us, they asked,
does our law allow a man
"to divorce his wife?
"Jesus answered with a question.
"What law did Moses give you?
"Their answer was Moses gave permission
"for a man to write a divorce notice
"and send his wife away.
"Jesus said to them,
Moses wrote this law for you
"because you are so hard to teach.
"But in the beginning,
at the time of creation,
"God made them male and female
as the scripture says
"and for this reason,
a man will leave his father and mother
"and unite with his wife.
"And the two will become one
"so they are no longer two, but one.
"Man must not separate them
what God has joined together.
"When they went back into the house,
"the disciples asked Jesus
about this matter.
"He said to them,
a man who divorces his wife
"and marries another woman
commits adultery
"against his wife,
"in the same way
a woman who divorces her husband
"and marries another man
commits adultery."
The first question is that
the Pharisees are asking,
asking Jesus in the temple,
obviously trying to trip him up
and to make a pronouncement
about divorce.
So, any thoughts?
Marriage is God ordained,
e made us two as one,
and it's up to us then
to work our relationship.
If we believe in God
and what he tells us,
then we try to work those things out.
It's a commitment that we make
when we get married,
and he's kind of telling us isn't it
that we have to continue that commitment,
and so much you see
in these days is just people
drifting off their different ways.
Maybe all marriages are not...
Are not ordained by God,
how do we work that out?
How do we figure that one out?
In other words do we make choices
that are necessarily
not have the laying on
of hands of the Almighty?
I think that too many of us
were to get married
for the wrong reasons.
And I think just what he said,
that if it is ordained by God,
becomes a serious thing,
and of course we do have a commitment
to uphold in that marriage,
and do something to keep it together.
But if we just get married because...
Though physically,
we are attracted to her, or him,
I think that that might be
the wrong reason to get married.
I'm not sure I know
how I feel about divorce.
I know how I feel about divorce,
but I don't know how
you should feel about divorce, yeah.
Frankly, as somebody
who has been divorced,
one of the problems is that law is--
now makes divorce easy.
So, one of the parties...
Can decide that they want a divorce,
and the other party
could do nothing about it,
that was my situation.
And if that happens,
what can you do?
You can say I struggled
I think divorce is a failure.
I've been willing to say that to anybody.
I think it's a failure in one's life.
But...
In my case,
apart from,
I was married for 34 years,
You'd think in that time,
one's partner would know something about--
You weren't difficult
to live with either.
Not at all.
I think at that point
that any good Christian
becomes a wife beater.
But it's easy for a partner to get out.
I question is whether
that's really wise for society.
We didn't just fall into a pit
when we got married.
We, I was believing God for a wife,
I was counseling with my pastor,
and I was living
with the Melvilles at the time,
and they knew my heart
and I believed this woman
who believed it was God's will.
We believed
that it was ordained in heaven
just like us talking about here,
and now we're in
the midst of something
that isn't honored
according to this chapter.
But then we have to look
at the overall perspective
of God's love, God's forgiveness,
life after death et cetera.
I don't have all the answers
but maybe I can share
some insights into it
because I'm in the midst of it right now.
I think that God has the ideal,
and that there is
the realistic to deal with,
the daily living and like Dick said,
with the way the laws are,
if one decides they want out,
there's nothing you can do,
even if you don't sign the papers.
They will get out
and if you don't get an attorney
to help you salvage part of the assets,
whether they be children or things,
you could lose everything,
and it ain't fun,
and for those of you guys
that are still married
if you have to work 24 hours a day
on your relationship,
change your job,
and go get the class, read books,
have tapes, go for counseling,
it is easier than going through a divorce.
And you guys that have been through it
know exactly
what I'm talking about.
Many times, and very serious,
and very dangerous relationships
to people,
I guess you could say
I counseled them to sin.
To divorce.
I don't want to do that,
I don't like to do that.
I think there,
and I think it is sin to divorce.
And I think we have
to be honest for that to say
that we've missed the goal.
But in some situations,
let's see how we force people
into really bad situations
that you must stay there no matter what
to be faithful to that.
When a man leaves his wife
and has an affair
with another woman
and decides to live with that woman,
that's a tough situation, that's hard.
And so, we're to say
you're just to hang in there
when this person says,
"I don't love you anymore
"and I don't intend to live with you,
"and I don't tend
to continue my life with you."
That's a tough situation
when you got two little kids in the family
and those two little kids are saying,
"Somebody's got to love me."
Amen.
And so it's not as not as black and white,
and I think I wouldn't say
that it's not a sin to divorce
but I think there are worse sins.
There's nothing more irrational
than two people who wanna get married.
I mean you could talk to him
about all the good sense in the world,
you might as well just forget it
because it doesn't does work.
Marriage preparation,
I often thought is a waste of time.
You have to make an attempt at it,
but it doesn't work.
Arranged marriages...
I'm going to go through one now
with a priest in our diocese
who is getting married in Uganda,
and he's going back and it's all arranged.
And so, we're going to Uganda for him.
Now, you talk about arranged marriages
if other people may know more about you
than you think you know about yourself
and each other.
- Interesting.
- You know?
And the yenta, you know,
of who could who is the matchmaker,
sometimes can have more insight
into bringing two people together.
But at the same time,
when people decide to get married,
then I say that they say suddenly,
"Oh maybe we ought
to ask God to bless this."
It's sort of an afterthought.
And then, God is sort of trotted in,
and then God's trotted out...
And so, the dimension
of this marriage and this life
often is on some other basis other than
what we're talking about here
in this in the scripture.
I was married for 20 years,
I think of it as a success.
It was a very successful marriage
in many, many ways.
But until I was married the second time,
I didn't realize
that you could be really happy
in the relationship.
And I've seen lots of marriages
where the two people
were trying to be such good Christians,
and make this marriage work
that they've destroyed both themselves
and products of their marriage.
I've seen that end in death of one
or both of the individuals,
I have seen it in...
Children that were scarred for life,
deeply scarred,
deeper than they would have been
by a divorce.
And so...
And I've seen people
that were deeply religious get
into this situation,
and you know
that those people are more tortured
than the casual person and...
By Jesus' word and in God's eyes,
maybe they're the greater sinners.
So, we have to be awful careful.
The other thing
is one thing that we've all heard,
if we worked with something like this is,
"That's not the person I married."
People do change.
What we're gonna do is
go out along the trail,
walk out through the sanctuary some,
maybe look at the snow
and do a few things like that.
You need to remember now
the trail is pretty narrow
so we can't all be first, okay?
Okie dokie.
So let's just get in the line and also,
it's really hard to push and shove
on snowshoes
'cause everybody's gonna fall over.
- I would this so.
- I would think so.
Which ones are the males
and which ones are the females?
The males are the ones
with all the colors on them,
and the females
are just brown and they're light.
Yeah.
And why do the males have all the color
when the females are sort of drab?
I don't know, to attract them, I guess.
- To look cute.
- No.
- You're not.
- But the males, the males are...
Think about it for a second.
What do the females do,
what do they do
- in the spring?
- That's what I said.
- They mate.
- Lay eggs.
They mate, and then they lay eggs,
and then what do they do with the eggs?
- Sit on 'em.
- They sit on 'em.
So, if you had a really brightly
colored head like a male,
what do you think
that would say to raccoons,
- and foxes, and stuff?
- Stay away.
- No.
- They would kill 'em.
Yeah, they'd probably attract 'em,
don't you think?
Yeah, exactly it's camouflage,
so those female ducks--
Is sleeping.
They are, they stick their heads
over their shoulder to sleep.
So those female ducks are camouflaged.
- I know.
- So that they can hide
their babies and hide their eggs.
Look over on the other side of the lake.
- Yeah, there's birds.
- Canadian geese.
That's right, those are Canada geese.
And can you tell the difference
between the males and the females
with the Canada geese?
- No.
- No.
- No.
- No, you can't,
no, you can't, they look almost,
they look exactly alike, actually.
Around the turn of the century,
say early 1900s, in 1910, 1920,
these birds were almost extinct.
Who can explain to whoever doesn't know
what extinct means?
Yeah?
Almost dead,
there's no more of them almost.
- That's right.
- Only a couple.
What were you,
is that what you were gonna say?
- Yeah.
- Yeah,
there were only a few left and now,
through conservation
through breeding them in captivity
and letting them go,
there's several thousand left.
So, it's sort of a lesson there
in conservation.
Once they come here,
they get all their needs together.
They start the new American life,
they forget the old Mexican way,
and they just, you know,
some of them will provide some help,
some help to their relatives, and family.
But if they don't know them,
they will not care for them.
And if they already have their job
and their security,
they will not care for anybody else,
unfortunately.
One thing I'd like to mention
as far as making it,
I don't think I can think of more
than about one Hispanic around this area
that owns a house around here.
I don't know if there is any,
but I know like one family in Carbondale
that owns a house,
all the rest of the people
that I know all live in trailers.
So, if they have it so made,
why don't they even have a house?
I mean, because like myself,
I've lived here for 13 years
and I still don't have a house.
I'd love to be able to have a house,
and you know,
I don't know if I'm going to be able to.
So you know,
if we have so many,
then why are we in this temporary housing?
I mean, it's really temporary
'cause at anytime,
the tenant could kick you out,
and close the trailer park,
and then you're on the street.
I think that's a problem
that is open for everybody,
Anglos as well as Hispanics.
You have to remember about
where these people's coming from.
Some of them, they didn't even have shoes
when they were born.
Some of them,
they don't have education.
You know better than anybody,
they come to ESL
and they don't know how to read or write.
I mean, if they get a truck,
they already got it made.
They got wheels
they can go back to Mexico
and sell the truck,
and they can come back here,
and they can make more.
Just coming up here,
they kind of have it made.
When people that has come up here
and then they go back down there,
everybody looks at them like, "Wow!"
You know, "Where you been?
Now, you're different," you know?
And it's not true, we know it's not true.
They're not different than anybody else.
But just the accomplishment
of reaching to primordial needs,
the individual becomes
like self confident of himself.
That like they are someone, you know?
Like they have something,
and like you say,
nobody owns a house
but they all live in trailers.
I would like to say that,
it doesn't matter we came
from a foreign country.
If we really want to success here,
we don't forget our nationality
or anything.
I don't, and I won't, ever.
I try to mix my...
Education with the Anglo education
because for us,
we need to make adjustments
to both and try to live
with theirs up and downs.
We cannot go so far to one
or the other one.
I think we can choose.
But I will never forget
where I come from and who I am.
- No matter what.
- We lose one or the other.
- You don't lose it.
- No, no, no,
we don't lose it for ourselves,
we lose it to the eyes
of the other people.
Either you become too gringo
or you're too Latino.
You can be in the middle.
That's the point.
Trying to be in the middle,
and it's really hard, really--
It is hard, it is really hard.
I are interact everyday,
five days a week with all Americans.
I do too.
I go to school, you know,
then I come home,
and I'm Chilean.
And then when I ever have the chance
to deal with Hispanics,
I am Chilean, you know?
And I try to show them
how I feel coming from Chile,
and when I'm in school,
I still do the same
but I do it in English.
Some people,
they'll resent the fact that I can do it.
They think I overwhelm them,
because that's my nature,
and that's our Latino nature.
Sometimes, what the interaction between,
let's say,
Anglos and Mexicans,
or Latinos, whatever, Hispanics,
I think you know skin color
and hair color makes a difference.
I mean that you look like
an Anglo, so people can--
I am an Anglo,
- of course.
- They relate to you--
They can relate to you more
'cause they see you
and they go,
"Wow, he's Chilean," or whatever,
but you look Anglo, basically.
And if there's a person
that's more like myself,
darker, darker hair and stuff,
somehow that kind of cuts it off
and then there's not quite
as much trust and interaction,
right there,
just because of the mustache,
you know, the stereotype.
One of the things
you mainly gain from this Anglo society,
this American society here, is conscience.
It's a conscience level
towards the individual
and towards your surroundings.
And how to care for things,
care for the neighbor,
care for the traffic laws,
and care for...
Care for the environment,
know all these things
that they're happening right now,
and it's a little bit wilder
down south of the border.
You don't have that many laws,
and everything's better paid off,
and you can't pay it off easier.
Here, there's no bribes,
and everything's a little bit more
let's make it a real thing.
Let's not make it...
Fun and business, you know?
South the border is fun and business,
here it's business or fun
one or the other.
But if you have fun and business together,
it will not work.
So, when...
You have to give up,
you have to give up something
if you want to to evolve
and become a better individual.
- Sorry.
- No problem.
Lift up.
The other slide
and right to the door, okay?
- Whoa, whoa.
- I'm so funny.
Nicely done, Kayla.
We are at the Eagles,
but it's Willard and Mary's 40th.
I don't know how in the world--
- Know her that well.
- She put up with him
for 40 years
but I've known Willard a long time
and I don't know
how in world she ever put up
with him for 40 years.
So it looks like
the kind of a togetherness deal,
doesn't it?
One of 'em better try it.
John Lorne, or Lorne John, or--
Patty ordered it from--
Okay, get ready,
they're passing down the happy juice.
Champagne comin' up.
This man down here in the red coat,
he don't get no champagne, though,
he just gets blown silly.
Yeah, a lot of us do.
Don't slow him down, in other words.
Alright, well, I'm gonna get started.
As the eldest,
I see it as my duty.
Besides, I had everybody
had an arm lock on me.
I want to propose a toast to these two
but before I do I have to,
there's something
that's always bothered me
about this whole thing.
This is their 40th anniversary,
I'm 42 years old.
I'm a teacher of math, and...
Matthew's up, ladies and gentlemen.
That's just a joke, just a joke,
trust me, I'm only 38.
Only?
And only, forever and ever, anyway,
I would like to thank you all for showing.
These two very, very special people
mean a lot
to not just myself,
my family, but to all of you
and to the whole town of Aspen
for many, many years.
They're not living in town right now,
but who cares?
The whole western slope
is going to become sort of
Klapper infiltrated anyway so,
it's just a matter of time.
That's a warning.
You can tell by looking
at all these babies everywhere.
I would like to congratulate
the both of you first
for making it through 40 years,
I don't have a clue how you did it.
We weren't the greatest group
of guys to raise,
- not the easiest by any means.
- Amen.
Except for me, I was always a gem.
But you have meant a lot
to all of us individually
and to the town of Aspen
and to each of us out there
whomever and for whatever reasons,
and I wanna thank you
and I want to offer up my sincere love
for both of you, of course,
and more importantly than that,
the love that we all share
with you and have for you.
And I hope you go
another 40 or so years, 'cause...
just 'cause you ought to, I don't know,
I guess that's a good reason.
Anyway, Happy Anniversary to Mom and Pop--
Happy Anniversary!
- Hooray!
- Thank you.
Dad, let's hear how you go.
Now, before they get a chance to talk,
I want to have
all the members of the family stand up
and say something if you so choose.
We'll start with the youngest and go up
to the more mature and respected.
You've been the best people
that I've ever known my--
- Young life?
- 20 some odd years.
And, um...
I'm not gonna say how long
because I'll tell ya.
26, 27, 28?
To you,
to my life, to our lives.
I love you, we all love you, thank you.
- Love you Mom and Dad.
- Yeah.
Cheers.
So, I guess
I was gonna relate a little story
to all of you, most of you,
this might fit into your lives too.
We're sitting around
the dinner table one night,
all 87 of us, plus,
probably three or four friends,
Mom always cooked for a big bunch
'cause you never know who's gonna show up.
- Right.
- And we were talking about our roots,
and Mom goes,
"Well, I think I'm a little Italian,
"and mostly Indian."
Dad looked across the table
and goes, "Indian?
"Indian alright, a whop-a-ho."
- So, I--
- Part Northern Italian.
Yeah, yeah.
So I thought I'd just share that with you,
that we are part Indian.
If anybody really wondered,
we're not just Italian,
and German, and a little Irish.
A little Indian, right, Mom?
Yeah, we are.
Happy Anniversary.
Happy Anniversary,
and I'd like to wish you guys all
a Happy Anniversary from my family,
Tracy, Trevor and Pattie,
say, "Happy Anniversary."
Here you go, Tracy.
Yeah, Tracey
almost has teeth now, so.
And from the far left corner of the room.
Growing up with this family,
my mother and I were very close,
we were best friends for a long time.
And it took my father and I a lot of years
to become best friends,
and I was very happy
when we finally became best friends.
And I hope that my daughter
and my wife become best friends
with this family too, sooner or later.
And thank you very much,
and I love you both
- I'll drink to that, Charlie.
- And now from our extended family.
John do you have anything
you'd like to say?
Okay, now this is our extended family.
Real impressed to see you down here.
One of the reasons why I'm here is
they had a really open house
and I think I'm one
of the really fortunate ones
to have come into their family
and I feel like I'm part of their family
and I think they are also
part of my family,
and its really special.
And, I want to say
I love you, and yuvam.
What do you say?
I love you two, and I love you.
- You're beautiful.
- And you're, you're so...
- Alright, good boy!
- Oh, that as beautiful!
I love everybody,
especially Mary, and Willard,
and the kids are just like my own
and I'm gonna drink to it.
But anyway, like I said,
they speak to my family and friends do,
- and it did come to my house for--
- I see it'll be okay.
Quite often and enjoyed us, I hope.
But I also have a family
that we've enjoyed
over the number of years
that we've been with here
and that's the fire department.
And needless to say I have a number
of them here with me today,
and it's very, very gratifying
to see them come around
and say thanks again.
And it's very, very appreciated
from not only myself,
but my family, it's been really great.
- Thank you very much.
- I'll drink to that.
More champagne down here.
"Here's to all good people,
"in this world and the next,
"I drink to you, as told,
tonight good fellows that protect.
"It isn't the man
who takes your hand
"in the idle hour, you know,
"or it isn't the man who slaps your back
as long as the high ball flow,
"but the man that speaks a kindly word
when the world is running wrong,
"a man that gripped your hand like hell
and tells you life goes on.
"What if he knows a sucker lies
Supposin' he knows it too
"there's plenty of time
when the man that lies
"is the only friend that's true.
"So rabble and rant you prudes who will
on the evils of wine and gin
"but somehow the real true thing
we feel leaks out
"as the wine seeps in.
"Now, a fool's a fool, or a cad's a cad,
whatever God meant him to be
"but a man who's a man
won't forget he's a man
"when he's out on a helluva spree
"So drink to your health
and your heart, my friends,
"from heart to heart they run
"Here's to good people
all over the world and their health,
"may God bless everyone."
I'll drink to that.
- Alright you ready?
- You ready?
Everybody, one, two, three.
Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary
Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary
Happy, happy, happy, Happy Anniversary
Oh my God!
JOANNE LYON GALLERY INC.
Most of them,
Joanne said most of them sold
before I even arrived.
- That's wild.
- And she said she could've sold
a dozen Coke machines,
And my phone booth over there,
she said someone
just called her a week ago,
and wanted to buy that,
and she had sent them photographs,
and she said, "You're too late."
- I just can't believe it.
- Well, that's great.
It's amazing.
It's the type of thing
that would go very well here.
I think people like to do something
in their homes or their second homes
that are conversation grabbers, or--
And well, they're comfortable,
they're fun.
If Monet can paint haystacks
and water lilies,
and Andy Warhol
can paint tomato soup cans--
- Sure.
- Then what's wrong
- with a fire hose telephone booth?
- Nothing at all, I think it's great.
And people now are beginning
to read all my labels,
I have messages on
and so they're not so sterile.
- Right.
- They're all personalized.
So, it's just been phenomenal,
I can't believe it.
Great, you'll have to send more out.
Well, they told me
they expect the show to sell out.
I'm very grateful for that.
- Well, congratulations.
- Thank you.
- It's been a pleasure meeting you.
- Nice to meet you.
The curve of the Machine
elongated them.
But if you walked up to it,
that's what you would see
and that's what I'm after.
I'll make sure that you see--
- Realism.
- Right,
- right, right.
- As much as you possibly can.
Even the reflections.
Yeah, everything has to be legitimate,
- I mean authentic.
- Right.
Or you're not gonna believe it.
If I just did a white front
with the red and white and blue lettering
- you would not believe.
- Right.
I'm gonna take a couple shots.
You want me over here
or over there?
- Scoot up just a little bit there.
- Aren't you little sister?
Big sister, yep.
You realize
I'm not really accustomed to this.
This is a little embarrassing.
It's totally painless.
I did like everybody else, you know,
when you get into fine arts,
you do the abstracts and you do the,
splashing paint around
and you think it's art.
And then I found out it wasn't very good.
And so, I went back to do what I do best
and that's realism.
- And I started to--
- You had almost started with--
- What I had started with.
- Good.
And I could see a changing
into the field of art.
I could see people getting away
from this Abstract Expressionism,
and like with the coming of when
Reagan was elected
and the family became important again
and politics got conservative,
and the art got conservative,
art mirrors the times.
And so...
I just began to do
what I always had done best
and I painted a series of paintings
of my little community where I live,
I have 26 paintings of my community.
Want some whiskey in your water
Sugar in your tea
What's all these crazy questions
you're askin' me
This is the craziest party
that could ever be
Don't turn on the lights
'cause I don't wanna see
Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
That ain't the way to have fun, no
Open up your window,
let some air into this room
I think I'm almost chokin'
from the smell of stale perfume
And that cigarette you're smokin'
'Bout to scare me half to death
Open up the window, sucker,
let me catch my breath
Mama told me not to come
Mama told me not to come
That ain't the way to have fun, son
That ain't the way
to have fun, son, she said
The radio is blastin',
someone's knockin' at the door
I'm lookin' at my girlfriend
She's passed out on the floor
I seen so many things
I ain't never seen before
Basically, the course is saying
that we're surrounded by love,
and we're surrounded by...
by, uh...
By God, and then we have blocks
to our experiencing that
and the course,
the whole course is reason
and what it wants to do is
it wants to get rid of these blocks
to our experiencing
love's presence in our life.
And the blocks are basically our ego.
So, what the course
is doing is it's teaching us
about our ego
and how to transcend our ego,
and how to somehow see past it.
There are only two emotions in the world
which is love and fear.
And whatever emotions you may see,
if it's not love
it boils down to fear ultimately.
So, if you can recognize that
and let go of fear,
and know that ultimately
there's nothing to fear,
then all that's remaining is love.
And if you feel love
strongly enough in you,
then you express it
and it comes from within you.
There's another place in the course
where they talk about the ego projects
so we tend to project anything
we don't like about ourselves
onto the people around us,
and the spirit extends.
So, if you're aware of that,
of the spirit within you,
and you can let go of fear,
then that love extends outwards.
I think that by accepting differences,
you're making them real
and there's a point in at least...
My spiritual path
and what the course is trying
to get me to do is to realize
that there are no differences,
Then, it, uh...
and that somehow
there's a oneness that surrounds us,
and the differences are something
that we've created somehow.
It's kind of like a bad dream.
Well, there's physical differences
but they're in spiritual differences
and I think what the course is trying
to get us to do is see the spiritual,
not the physical.
So, all our spirits are all the same?
- What?
- All our spirits are all the same?
We're joined in spirit, we're joined--
Yeah, that I can understand,
but they're all the same, it's all one?
We're all parts of great spirit.
- Right, we're all different parts.
- We're like holograms.
We're all the same parts,
or we're all different parts?
Like holograms,
we're all fragments,
but we're also part of the whole.
We all fit together
but we're all separate things.
- Like the ocean, I just read that--
- No, I don't quite--
- Don't say separate.
- Think that's the way I feel.
Okay, no, I'm just kidding.
I didn't mean to sound like that.
The understanding I have
of the course is that
there's a Father,
which is God, who created us
and there's a Son
who we all are, we all are the Son.
So within each one of us,
we contain the whole,
the Son, the Christ,
is in me totally,
and also within you totally
because it's exactly the same thing.
So, we're not all part of one great big,
we all share a oneness
that makes us one somehow,
at a level of spirit.
Like the ocean, there are waves.
I just read this, that there are waves
and that's part of the ocean.
But a wave can't be
if it's not connected to the ocean.
The ocean is made
- of time.
- Water, oh time.
I'm sorry.
It's like meditation,
do you feel that kind of oneness?
When you're meditating,
it doesn't matter to you
the differences of people around you.
- Right.
- That's irrelevant.
You experience this oneness of being.
I think it's a very pessimistic story,
Felicite,
she had a boyfriend in the beginning
and he double-dealt her
and then he ran off.
He wanted to save his skin,
not have to go in the army
and left her in the lurch,
and then she was taken up by this,
by the man.
Then she she fell in love with a man
and so their two children follow,
and Virginie, Virginie died,
and that was a great loss to her.
And then her nephew,
she became very fond of her nephew,
and she lost him,
and I think it's very pessimistic.
She really didn't have much of life
other than going to mass every morning,
and doing the laundry,
and taking care of everybody,
and I thought it's very pessimistic.
Jim?
I think it's an optimistic story.
Jean?
I agree that it was an optimistic story.
If you just consider the things
that happen to this person,
they were very sad things.
But she took it all in stride,
and when one bad thing happened to her,
she looked in another direction
and found a good thing.
When love was denied her
because of the death
of her nephew and Virginie,
she even eventually loved a parrot.
When the parrot died,
she loved the stuffed parrot.
She had a simple heart,
and she also had a simple mind,
but she did find satisfactions in her life
and in that sense,
it was an optimistic story.
Lola, then Chris.
Well, I think what makes it
such a wonderful story
is that it was both pessimistic
and optimistic
because on the one hand,
what a lot of people
would think was very narrow-minded,
and I don't really think,
as Lola does,
that it's simplistic.
I think faith can be,
even faith in symbols, can be...
had by people of extreme brilliance
and intelligence.
There are other people
who don't have that faith.
On the one hand,
you can look at it as a very narrow life.
But on the other hand,
you can think how wonderful,
how wonderful that this woman had this
and when I finished that story
I wanted to cry.
- Oh.
- I really wanted to cry.
I mean I was choked up
by the wonderment
of the way he told that story
and the way he could move you
by somebody
who doesn't have that kind of faith,
and I think that was what was so brilliant
about Flaubert.
Martin?
Well, when I got through reading it,
I felt very depressed
that there are probably
a lot of people in the world
that live at this thoughtless level.
She went from day to day,
she observed religious ceremony,
but she didn't have
a philosophical concept in her head
as to what it meant.
And she has no thought
of the meaning of life,
she just...
the fact that there are
probably many people
like this in the world
left me very depressed
that there they are
to be taken advantage of,
and this is what government
after government has done,
is take advantage--
Of these stupid people.
- I feel like you're done.
- Yeah, I'm done.
Now, Ruth had something.
Yeah, Flaubert's art
is that he is showing
in this very distilled
short story the human comedy,
and it's all there.
Felicite, uh...
Felicite is the character
that's most described
in this set of stories
about The Simple Heart,
but I mean,
who else in this story had a happy life?
I mean, who would, Madame Aubain?
The so-called accountant
who's responsible...
Whoring and thieving,
I mean, you know,
and then committed suicide,
I mean who is an exemplary
or admirable character in this story,
or who could you say who...
Is there such a thing
as a pessimistic or an optimistic?
I think you wind up
saying what is a good life?
And I guess you have to agree with Chris,
at the end of the life,
she had a good life.
A lowly worm...
lives a very happy life
if he's in a lot of leaf mold.
But which is much more
satisfactory?
I mean human beings
with their aspirations
and with their sensitivities,
and their...
Thinking of things,
it seems to me
that that is a more worthwhile life
than merely living like a worm
that gets stepped on, stepped on,
stepped on, and stepped on,
and dies lonely in bed.
And this, I don't know how really
to put it in words,
but that's the best I can do.
Martin, I would say,
that you have imposed
your value judgment
and what you think
is a very valuable life,
the life of a single individual
that it's...
There are other measures other than
a sophisticated kind of 21st,
almost 21st century
kind of person that you are,
on the life of
what this woman was,
she was a simple woman,
and her life was miraculous
in a certain sense,
- it really was, and--
- Though, I'm being asked to,
in a sense, evaluate her life,
and I have to evaluate it
from my point of view.
And as far as I'm concerned,
she was more or less of a waste.
And to me, the world is filled
with cruel people like that,
and the mere fact
that you love people,
my dog loved me,
my cat loved me, all very beautiful.
But to me, maybe I'm a utilitarian,
but she went right through this thing,
left nothing behind,
took nothing with her--
Even though I think
this woman may or not realized
that she was a happy person,
but I think in reviewing her life,
she had a much more fulfilling life
than many people have.
This woman lives in a world full
of humanity that isn't worthy
and even if they did say,
"Oh, you're great, we really like you,"
or they gave her
a pat on the back,
it's meaningless because
these are empty, selfish people
who missed the whole point of living
and she's the only one who's found it.
Do you think this woman
could have been tempted by Faust?
Really?
See, I think that
it would be impossible
for her to have been--
- Tempted?
- Tempted, yeah.
What person wouldn't be tempted
by Mephistopheles?
The people who can be tempted
by the devil are people
who are unsatisfied, unhappy.
It's to the degree that we are unhappy
that we can be tempted
by somebody like Mephistopheles
and I think if you recognize the fact
that she couldn't be,
it's almost a statement saying
that she had,
she was too happy to be tempted.
In the opinion
of you ladies in the audience,
did he do a good job of that,
of showing her character?
Now, that's not very easy
for a man to write
about the inner workings of a woman.
- Good question.
- Was he faithful to that?
Was she in essence depicted
as a real honest-to-goodness,
flesh-and-blood woman
with all a woman's...
psychology at work and so on?
You can't lump 'em all in one little pack.
He didn't...
Well, I mean,
let's put it this way.
A generic woman.
Oh, oh!
Let me put it to you this way,
all the wonderful--
You're getting it in your--
All the wonderful, marvelous--
All the wonderful,
marvelous attributes that she had,
we will claim.
In the name of womanhood,
I claim them.
- Did he do it properly?
- What?
Did he show her faithfully?
- When I said, when I said--
- He show Felicite faithfully.
- That's all you can say.
- When I said a generic woman,
I didn't mean that to be funny,
I didn't mean that to be comical.
- I meant--
- Generic.
I meant woman as woman,
did he hit the psychology?
You mean her sexuality?
No, every portion of her,
her sexuality, her psychology,
- her mental processes and so on.
- No, no.
Because most of us men
do not really know women,
- and probably vice versa.
- Yeah, well, of course.
I'm sorry,
Venus de Milo was somebody's,
was a great painter-- sculptor's
ideal of the idealized woman.
Flaubert happened to write about
a wonderful woman,
that's all, I mean you can't,
you really can't do that.
I mean, I really don't think you can.
Lola?
He chose women to...
Put his ideas through,
he chose that.
How well did he do it?
Very well, excellently.
Very well.
Coming from a lady.
I kind of disagree that very well.
I think he could've written
the same story,
except for the very beginning
of the story,
from the point that he was employed
by Madam, what's her name?
- Aubain.
- Aubain, it could've been a man.
It could have been a simple man
who tended the animals
and cleaned the barn.
It wasn't a real woman,
it wasn't a real person.
It was an idealized good person
that could have been male or female.
He was showing a kind, simple woman,
but he did not go into a woman's
deep emotions,
her psychological viewing of things.
He just didn't touch on that,
her sexuality.
Her feeling for...
If she would have a deep love
for another person, for a male.
He didn't display
that side of a woman.
It's a part that's not a woman,
could have been male or female.
- Yeah.
- He did not get into the soul,
or character or emotions
of a woman.
Next week is...
Right turn pushing down.
Raise up slowly,
left turn,
pushing down hard
on the bottom of the foot.
Raise up slowly,
right turn pushing down.
Raise up slowly,
left turn pushing.
Raise up, straight ahead
and here now.
So, we want to go further,
let 'em run.
Let the gravity take us.
Let the gravity keep us going.
Good, keep the knees bent,
put the hands on the knees,
see how that feels,
doesn't that feel good?
Now slowly bring the hands
back up your leg,
push the hands
down to your knees,
up,
hands to the knees, please.
Raise up,
straight ahead.
You're doing it, wahoo!
Go, go, go, go, go!
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go!
Ow-ow-ow-ow-ow!
Okay, coming in right now
is number five.
And see if this stuff helps out.
- No, that doesn't help.
- How about the neutrophils?
That hormone, the neutrophil?
It does help out on that point,
it is white blood cells.
You know why I'm telling you that?
Because this is designed
to clean cancer in the blood.
And this is from a scientist in Canada.
Interestingly,
it does affect the hormone point,
the FSH hormone, and mostly,
It affects your insulin.
It helps out there.
So, it affects these things
at a metabolic level and not
at much of a overall organ level,
I guess that was the design
of this, alright?
- Yeah.
- This is a product called 714-X
that's used in Canada
for cleansing the blood
to release,
what this scientist says, a K factor,
which is a stop on the immune system.
And it then allows the immune system
to attack the cancer cells.
Well, let's leave that
a moment here.
- A timeline.
- Yeah, this is our hormone function
that's affected by
the chronic infection in the prostate.
So, let's look back at our graph.
Alright.
It's not up there,
and we're getting closer
to a remedy that will be helpful.
The homeopathic cannabis sativa.
- Cannabis.
- That's marijuana,
- it's the common name.
- You're kidding?
So marijuana diluted,
would help this?
It'd helped to clear out
the congestion in the prostate
and that's a remedy
that goes back many years.
And so, in the dilute form
doesn't have any of the effect.
It does go back--
This is an old time homeopathic remedy.
Nice.
Go, up here
and look at this whole group here,
including the prostate complex,
the lymphangitis,
to see if these all...
Look well together,
that would be a good
harmonic prescription
to help out for the prostate.
Now, we need some
more accompanying remedies
to also help a little bit more
with the rejuvenation,
which we'll look in next
for helping the detox
'cause the nosodes themselves
are gonna be...
be very...
Very strong and powerful.
So, you gotta get rid of the residue.
Yeah, and so we put the--
- To kill it.
- Yeah, once the cannabis,
those the specific nosodes,
we use some other tissue nosodes
involved here
and we wanna get
some richer complexes.
We wanna get some complex...
Drainage, these are from the BHI Company.
And these are homeopathic mixtures.
Okay.
Okay, it's not up there.
And now let's go back up here
to our page,
you see the effect
allows this kind of balance.
It's probably combining too remedies
and it becomes disharmonic.
And to make a symphony orchestra
of harmonic therapy,
we have to have everything in...
the harmonious form here,
that all your organs can respond to.
We'll see what that does on your liver.
That'll be a key organ
that we detoxify, that's one good.
The kidney's another one.
We're gonna try to get the toxins
in your blood stream
so the kidney can throw them out,
kidney balances well.
And your stomach
was a bit weak to begin with,
and balances out to stomach.
Do you think this is the reason
for the stomach weakness?
- Can we tell?
- We'd have to take a look,
we need to filter
through there,
and I don't recall right now
which was cause and effect.
I don't know if it's directly
behind the stomach,
but the remedies we found
are helpful.
Look a little bit
at how your stomach was involved.
Small and large intestine.
Yeah, let's look at the intestines,
that balances those out,
how 'bout your heart?
Balances out your heart,
how 'bout your endocrine system?
And the important one there
was the hormone functions.
Here's our summation hormone,
look at that,
comes right into 50.
How 'bout your specific hormones?
Your insulin hormone function?
50, it didn't come in quite as slow,
but at least it's in the grades.
One that we relate to FSH hormone,
and this brand new hormone
we don't know about.
We just know it measures,
but that one's balanced.
Okay, how 'bout
your large intestine?
Balances that out.
- Now, teeth--
- That one went awful fast,
- didn't it?
- Yeah.
That went pretty well,
that was a...
And that looks like
that's correcting teeth, you know, so...
Which had their problems
originating in the prostate.
I wanna have you test
and make contact
on your hypothalamus point,
that's the--
- Of the regulating system--
- Where is that?
That's gonna be located right up here
behind your ear, in this little hollow--
I have to hold it or can I take this?
Yeah, take the finger
that's holding this last bar,
and then point your finger
right up there.
- The hypothalamus?
- The hypothalamus.
And while we're contacting it,
I'm gonna re-measure the energy point.
Our most sensitive indicator
and this gives us
a level of effectiveness.
So, that still comes into balance
quite well.
So, that would...
Leave it pretty satisfied
that we have a very effective therapy,
and it covers things we allow.
Let's quickly look at the prostate
on the other side
next to everything over here.
Should I change hands?
Keep the same hand for right now.
Okay, doesn't balance out
the prostate adequately
on the other side.
And bladder,
how 'bout kidney on this side?
How 'bout liver on this side?
Okay, we need to find a remedy
that the right side of your prostate
needs to strengthen it.
So, you're saying that the prostate
is responsible for the stomach, and the--
The stomach disturbance actually was
not the stomach organ.
The stomach meridian
which forms the mammary glands.
Nobody else,
I've been check so many times.
It's always my small intestine
or large intestine.
And you're telling me
it's not that at all,
it's the mammary glands.
No, the aggression's
always something...
We can look a little bit
at which part of those is involved.
But by far,
the greatest disturbance
is stemming from the prostate
being the focal problem.
So, I would get that, if they say stomach,
that's when you don't know
the branch off...
of that stomach measurement point,
I found that it
was not the stomach itself.
In the case that happens,
your stomach meridian is disturbed
by another part,
another member of this whole--
- The problem's the meridian.
- No, the meridian,
which includes the branch,
includes the thyroid,
parathyroid thymus glands
all belong to the stomach,
certain teeth
belong to the stomach system.
Up, beginning from the head,
you have a number of structures
in there,
the whole pharynx
and the throat belongs to stomach.
So, it's quite involved
with other structures.
And so, the stomach,
in full point,
could show a problem
but it's not the organ itself.
And that's why these other points
are so useful
to track it down.
It's a great pleasure
to be here for the third
and you'll be glad to know
the last session
of this series on...
God and the global economy or
whatever else you want to call it
but we're trying to relate our faith
to the more mundane,
sometimes esoteric,
aspects of the material part of life.
Then we started to ask ourselves
some questions
as to what if anything
does the Bible have to say
about the the kind of lens through
which we as Christians
should look at economic issues.
How do you get the economy going?
How do you make it efficient,
and that's this.
Once you've got the economy
going and growing
how do you distribute
the benefits of the economy?
Who gets what goods,
who gets how much wages,
who gets how much dividends and interests,
and who can spend?
So the question
is distribution and we showed
that the Bible has two principles
that sort of parallel
those two economic principles
and the biblical principles are that
of stewardship on the one hand
and justice, economic justice
in particular, on the other.
And we showed that the goal of this side
of the equation is overall growth,
the goal of this side of the equation
is equity or fairness.
The focus here is on the production
of the whole economy,
the focus here
is particularly on the poor.
We then looked at the issue of work
which is a very important aspect
to the economy,
employment, if you like,
and we identified
six Christian views of work
which have permeated the church
at different times
in the last two thousand years.
And those were the six,
the Thessalonian,
the Traditional Roman Catholic view,
and the Reformation view
which we like very much indeed,
and that's the one we sort of endorsed,
and we wondered why we'd lost it.
We wondered in particular why it was
that just two hundred years
after the Reformation
when they had such a high view
of work and employment
that the Industrial Revolution came along
which is a very good thing,
but what they did
to their workers was a very bad thing
and we asked ourselves the question,
why could that possibly have happened
in just the space of two centuries?
And we identified some mistakes
that the Reformers had made
and we also identified
the convenient forgetting
of some fundamental principles
that the good Christian businessmen
in Lancashire, and Yorkshire,
and elsewhere,
what they forgot in order to allow them
to put poor small children
down the mines and exploit them.
We then looked
at three further Christian views,
the Protestant liberal view,
the traditional evangelical view,
as we call it,
and the yuppie evangelical view,
which a lot of us here
subscribed to,
although we wish that we didn't.
We then looked at
the strict capitalist view
and we thought we'd even learn something
from the Buddhists.
Tonight, thought we would
change tack again
and try and sort of pull it together
the whole question.
How does a Christian approach
economic life in general?
What are the principles?
We've seen some here,
we've seen these two equations.
But if one turns to the Book of Romans
in the New Testament
and looks at chapter 12 and verse two,
it says a very remarkable thing.
It says,
"Don't be conformed anymore
"to the image or the pattern
of this world
"but rather be transformed,"
and how should it be transformed?
By the renewing of your mind
and what I'd like to do this evening
is to ask the question
what does it mean
to have a renewed mind
and how do we apply
that renewed mind to the economy?
Which imagine is still over here
in some kind of graphical form
because I'll be referring to it
even though it doesn't exist.
What are the hallmarks
of the Christian mind?
A lot of us like to think
we're developing a Christian mind
and not many of us take the trouble
to think, well,
what would that Christian mind
look like when we get it?
Now this issue
troubled C. S. Lewis a lot.
C. S. Lewis went around
having a lot of discussions
with a lot of people,
including Christians
and he was struck by the fact
that if you talk to a Christian
about issues like education, or politics,
or economics, or anything like that,
the kind of conversation you had
was no different
from someone
who wasn't a Christian.
In other words,
there was no difference in their mind
and he got to thinking shouldn't there be
some distinctive Christian mind to bring
to some of these interesting issues?
There's a chap called Harry Blamires
who was a student of C.S. Lewis,
and he was troubled by this too,
and he wrote a book in 1963 entitled,The Christian Mind,
which I found very helpful indeed.
In that he said,
"The Christian mind has succumbed
"to the secular drift
with a degree of weakness
"unmatched in Christian history."
Presumably, as we as Christians
look at the economy,
we should look at it through
such supernatural eyes if you like.
Clearly, we're living
and working in the world
in here and now,
no question about that,
but presumably,
our emphasis should be above
and beyond the here and now,
should focus in addition
on the eternal.
Presumably, the Christian mind
should see human life
and human history
held in the hands of God
and should see the whole universe
sustained by his power.
And when we sing the little jingle chorus,
you know, "The world is not my home,
"I'm just passing through,"
it's not just a trite saying.
There's a profound truth in that,
but what is it mean as we take that truth
and we apply it to our work
and to our economic life?
An understanding
of the eternal significance of things
frees us up to do a really good job.
Without an eternal perspective,
everything is meaningless.
Fright, fright,
- frightened, frightened, yeah.
- Frightened.
Assuming it's--
Fly away in space.
What the hell's that
for Christ's sake?
Right, right, a bird.
It's a bird, a frightened bird.
It's a military figure.
- Yeah.
- Okay, is it a military figure?
- Mm-hm.
- March, a sergeant--
Albert Gring.
No, John, you can't do that
- Marshal, marshal.
- Two, salute.
- Second word.
- Is he German?
- Second word, second word.
- Is he German?
He's doing the second word
for half an hour!
- He's very terrified of flight.
- It's part of fly, something fly.
- Something fly, isn't it, something--
- Okay, the whole concept.
- No.
- The world, something about the world.
- The whole concept is--
- Is he English?
- My country.
- Is he English?
- My country.
- Patriot, patriotic, loyal.
Kitchen, kitchenette.
Montgomery.
Oh, subservient to, okay,
subservient to some higher power.
- Is he Christian?
- He's something, he is...
- To God, to--
- High, higher--
Oh, I know!
- Oh, fly.
- Fly, fly, fly?
- Underpants.
- Dick.
Penis.
Oh, God,
don't make me do this.
Get back, everybody.
- What's he doing there?
- I don't know what he's doing.
- Penis.
- Has to do with the back--
Cock, cocked robin, prick.
- Erection.
- Come on, Zeke!
I see them.
Oh, I know,
what do you call it in English?
- Come on.
- Bang.
- With the big bang?
- Hair.
No.
- Yeah, he knows!
- Pubic hair.
- Pubic.
- Pubic hair.
What is pubic hair
for Christ's sake?
- Bush.
- God, yes!
- George Bush!
- Are we finished now?
George Bush?
Was it, was it George Bush?
It was Dan bloody Quayle!
Dan Quayle!
He was married
to George Bush for a while.
- That's right, I see.
- Did he get mixed up?
No, I didn't get mixed up!
What do you think
all that quailing was about?
- And then the flying--
- Oh, is that what you were doing?
- Quails don't fly.
- What do you mean quail don't fly?
No, they just stretch.
The fly like--
They certainly don't jump
on all the furniture.
Or unzip their flies.
Couple one, you go uptown
And you bring that other couple down
Take that couple right on by
Walk 'em along the railroad track
Swing that couple then go between
Everybody elbow swing
The lady goes right, gent goes left
Get back on and swing like the rest
Couple two, you go uptown
And you bring that other couple down
Take that couple right on by
Walk 'em along the railroad track
Swing the couple then go between
And everybody elbow swing
Lady goes right, gent goes left
Get back on and swing like the rest
We have gathered here today
that God might have the privilege
of dwelling among us,
that he might express himself among us.
Jesus made a great promise, he said,
"Where two or three
are gathered in my name,
"I will be there,"
we don't have to ask him to come.
We don't have to wonder
if God is among us,
he is here with us.
Now, the truth is God is everywhere
and the trick for us as human beings is
to learn to experience his presence.
Now, you have to be a real saint
to experience God's presence
in some situations.
For instance, if you go to Denver
and get caught in the Mousetrap,
sitting in a terrible traffic jam
on a hot summer day,
you really have to be a saint
to be aware
of the presence of God
in that situation.
On the other hand,
if you cross-country ski up past Ashcroft
and spend a little time up there,
you don't have to be a real great Saint
to be aware of God's presence up there.
It's a whole lot easier
to be sensitive to
and aware of the presence of God
in some places than others.
Our hope is that when we gather together
as a church,
God's presence
will really be made known among us.
Did you realize that in the inner city
of Denver this morning,
Jim Cessna
will be preaching the gospel
to a group of people
st Neighborhood Church?
There won't there won't be
many white faces there.
They're in a whole different world
than we are,
they have a couple of men
who stand at the door
to make sure no one
brings a weapon into church.
They also stand at the door
to keep an eye on the parking lot
and keep the cars
from being bashed in and destroyed.
They'd never think of doing
what I did this morning
which is parking a vehicle
with a pair of skis,
sitting in the boot,
they'd never think of that
because anything left loose
would be stolen.
Do you realize that's part of your family
in the inner city of Denver today?
Do you recognize this morning that
throughout this town
and all different kinds of churches,
our family is meeting to worship God?
Do you realize that you're a part
of a vast and marvelous community?
The household of God
and you're part of that.
There's a wonderful thing
that happens
when people gather
around the scriptures.
The Bible becomes the glue
that builds the Christian community
and takes it from being a group
of isolated individuals
into a group of people
who can legitimately be called family.
The presence of God in the church
is built precisely around the process
of our allowing him
to build us into a community,
to join us to each other.
In 1977...
on December the 4th,
a small group of people
gathered in a small club house,
sitting on metal chairs.
They gathered together
because they decided
they were supposed
to become a church
in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
If you'd been there that morning
you would have been struck
probably first of all
by the beauty of the lady
who was going to lead the singing.
She was a professional model,
played the guitar and had a radiant face.
Her husband was a young bodybuilder.
They were in the forefront of the building
of health clubs.
Twenty eight years of age,
they were already on their way
to becoming millionaires.
They parked their beautiful
light blue Cadillac
in the parking lot,
come in dressed
in the finest of fashions.
You would also see a couple
that was rather diminutive in size,
coming in with their teenage daughter.
You would notice
that their daughter's face
was set in a scowl
that she was not
the least bit happy to be there
and wanted everyone to know
that was how she felt.
However, you would also notice that Glenn,
a quiet kind of man,
had a little mischievous grin
that kept playing around his lips,
and his wife
was the most vivacious person,
we would later
nickname her, Sunshine.
You would see the two of them greeting
as many people as they could
and one of the families they would greet
would be a local dentist,
arriving with his two teenage daughters
and his wife.
What you wouldn't know by looking is
that he was secretly addicted to the gas
that he provided for his patients
to relieve them from pain.
What you wouldn't see
behind the lovely clothes
and the fine smiles
was tremendous heartache
that God would miraculously
heal in the coming months.
Another couple would arrive
with their teenage son,
Meade and Meade,
his and her lawyers.
You would see them walking in
with the fine-looking young man
but what you wouldn't know
is that in their hearts,
three were missing.
Because only a year before,
their other three teenage children
had been killed
in a car wreck
on their way to school.
And the only reason they still had one was
because he had developed a cold
and been unable to go to school
on that fateful day.
As they walked into the room,
they might have sat down
by another couple,
Charlie and Della.
This couple was not dressed
quite so nicely.
Their faces showed that they had been
through some rough times.
If you could have talked to them,
they would have told you
that Della had had an affair,
that Charlie had caught her
and her lover together
and murdered him.
And after he went to prison,
Della had found Jesus Christ
as her Savior,
her pastor had gone
and led Charlie to the Lord,
and their marriage had been healed
when he returned from prison.
They're a miracle,
just an ordinary-looking miracle,
but they're a miracle.
Another couple would be there,
a man who was a door hanger
in construction
with his wife who's over six feet tall,
a former semi-professional basketball
and softball player.
Her loud joyful smile
and laugh hid the fact
that she had been raped
over 100 times
by her father
when she was a little girl.
The lady at the piano
would be sitting there,
getting ready
to play magnificent music
and sing with a marvelous voice...
and her smile and the sound
of her music would hide the pain
of two previous divorces.
Darrell and Pat were there
with their small children.
He ran a steamboat, a riverboat,
would often be gone for days
and weeks at a time.
Dave and Sherry would be coming in
with their small children,
Dave a Vietnam vet,
who was given
to violent, violent moments
when he would flashback to something
that happened to him
in those bitter moments in Vietnam.
Addicted to drugs,
but a man who had become set free
and become our church custodian,
Charlie would be there with his family,
a recovering drug addict,
a man trying to deal
with all the guilt feelings
that he had from the ways
he had abused his family.
And on and on it goes.
I can tell you about others.
Duane and Norah Lee Allen walked in,
lead singer of The Oak Ridge Boys
and the lady who sang
on the Grand Ole Opry.
And that incredible collection
of varied people
gathered on that Sunday morning
to open their hearts
to the God of the universe
and say,
"If you can build us together
"if you can join us together,
we will become a church."
And scarcely five years later,
all of those same people were still there
but there were another thousand
gathered with them.
Because great things happen
when the church produces the miracle
of a new and different fellowship.
What happens?
Jehovah-shammah becomes a reality
and the Lord is present, let's pray.
Oh God as we open
our hearts to you today,
we open our hearts to you
in a fresh new way to say
please make us...
an imperfect and varied people
coming from such
a wide variety of backgrounds,
coming from different places
throughout the US
and even other parts of the world,
please build us together.
Please join us together.
When we gather here on Sundays,
may the world know
that you are here
as surely as liquor
is present in a tavern.
May the world know that you are here
as surely as the Denver Broncos
are present
at a football game in their Stadium,
and may we somehow
allow you to have a vehicle
to express yourself,
week after week,
so that you might do
incredible things with our lives.
So that you might heal the loneliness
that so many of us carry
by letting us truly be your family,
your household,
in Jesus' name, amen.
O sacred Head, now wounded
With grief and shame weighed down
Now scornfully surrounded
With thorns, Thine only crown
How pale thou art with anguish
With sore abuse and scorn
How doth Thy visage languish
Which once was bright as morn
What Thou, my Lord, hast suffered
Was all for sinners' gain
Mine, mine was the transgression
But Thine the deadly pain
Lo, here I fall, my Savior
'Tis I deserve Thy place
Look on me
With Thy favor
Assist me with Thy grace