Passion of The Christ🇻🇦🩸
“Mel Gibson warned actor Jim Caviezel that playing the character of Christ was going to be very difficult and that if he accepted, he most likely would be marginalized by Hollywood.
Caviezel asked for a day to think about it and his response to Mel who was funding and directing the movie was: "I think we have to make it, even if it is difficult." And something else, my initials are J.C., and I am 33 years old. "I didn't realize that until now."
Mel responded with “You're really scaring me you know.”
During filming, Jim Caviezel who plays the part of Jesus lost 45 pounds, he was struck by lightning, he was accidentally struck twice during the scourging scene leaving a deep 14-inch scar, he dislocated his shoulder when the cross was dropped into the hole with him on the cross. He then suffered pneumonia and hypothermia from being nearly naked with only a loin cloth on the cross for endless hours. The crucifixion scene alone took 5 weeks of the 2 months of shooting.
His body was so stressed and exhausted from playing the role that he had to undergo two open heart surgeries after the filming production.
Jim explained, “I didn’t want people to see me. I just want them to see Jesus. Conversions will happen through that.”
Almost like a clairvoyant prediction many amazing things happened.
Pedro Sarubbi, who played Barabbas, felt that it was not Caviezel who was looking at him, but Jesus Christ himself, as he played that role he said of Caviezel, “His eyes had no hatred or resentment towards me, only mercy and love."
Luca Lionello, the artist who played Judas, was an avowed atheist before shooting began. He eventually converted, and baptized his children.
One of the main technicians working on the film was a Muslim converted to Christianity.
Some producers said they saw actors dressed in white they didn’t recognize during one of the filming sessions, and when they reviewed the recordings they realized they couldn’t see them in that footage.
The Passion of the Christ is the highest grossing US religious as well as the highest R-rated film of all time, with $370.8 million! Worldwide, it grossed $611 million.
More importantly, it has reached 100’s of millions of people around the world.
Mel Gibson paid $30 million out of his own pocket for the production of the film because no studio would take on the project.
Today Jim Caviezel simply and boldly proclaims his faith in Christ, and the miracle it was for him to represent Christ as an actor and a greater believer of Christ because of this experience.
This wasn’t about golf. This was a character test, and they still cheated.
Not a world event. Not big money. Just a club tournament and an honor system. A simple scorecard. And still nandaya. That tells us the problem isn’t pressure. It’s personality. It’s habit.
These are political families, people who live off public trust. If they can’t be honest in a low-stakes game, what happens when real power and real money are involved?
Golf is self-policing. You call penalties on yourself. No referee. Just conscience. So when cheating still happens, the message is clear: winning matters more than truth.
This is how corruption survives, not only through giant scandals but through small dishonest acts people excuse as “laro lang.”
If they cheat when nothing matters, imagine what they do when everything does.
I’ve always disliked Marcoleta (dislike is an understatement) since the ABSCBN hearings: the naked sycophancy to the Dutertes, the corrosive corruption etched on the furrows of his very face, his treatment of us as fools (that “surprise” withess!). What’d we do to deserve him?!
Back in 2016 when I filed a plunder case against Duterte, his Peace and Order fund in Davao was around 700M plus. We found out that he was using 11,000 ghost employees to liquidate those funds. Ngayon pala 1.8 billion pesos na! Tsk tsk. Di talaga makakalusot sa COA special audit yan. Just randomly checking those names will surely yield fictitious persons. Lalo na at may National ID database na that COA can use.
Finally found the full footage from the Estrada impeachment proceeding when Senator Raul Roco reminding Senator Miriam Santiago of the quote by Dean George Malcolm himself about the business of law, which resulted in a fit from Sen. Santiago.
(c) GMA News
War does not solve problems; on the contrary, it amplifies them and inflicts deep wounds on the history of peoples, which take generations to heal. No armed victory can compensate for the pain of mothers, the fear of children, or stolen futures. May diplomacy silence the weapons! May nations chart their futures with works of peace, not with violence and bloodstained conflicts!
Sara Zimmerman Duterte: One useless Vice President
I still do not understand what her supporters see in her as she doesn’t have any tangible accomplishment — actually, her incompetence is very evident in how she handled the Department of Education and the Office of the Vice President.
Aside from the questionable expenditures of her offices, well… let us be frank, the programs of well led barangays are far more impressive than the programs of the Office of the Vice President. Not only are those redundant replications of existing government programs, she also has a problem implementing it.
In 2023, the Office of the Vice President only utilized 0.4% of Mag-negosyo ka ‘day program funds but did not have any problem utilizing the confidential funds in 11 days. Lols.
In direct comparison to her predecessor, VP Sara looks like an amateur running around the office with no other goal but self-preservation.
SARA ALL! In a span of a month, Sara Duterte went on four international trips and the main goal? Not for the country. Not for the economy. For their family’s world tour to get support.
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Mga DDS, paulit ulit nyong sinasabe ang "Political will" ni digong... alam nyo ba ang ibig sabihin talaga ng salitang yun ha? POLITICAL WILL ba yung nangako ka ng 3-6 months tatanggalin mo ang DROGA, tapos ano ang ending? Sige iisa isahin ko yan sa inyo... sino G?