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Hans-Joachim Klein
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Mark Salzman
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Joe Loya
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Mark Pierpont
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Being a human with uncertainty
17 years, 5 months ago at Jan 19 5:35
Only God is God, that I am not. Uncertainty of life, a good source of humility. We are free if we do not strive.
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Filmmaker Jessica Yu explores human obsession and extremism in this riveting and provocative documentary. Yu interviews four men with seemingly disparate backgrounds, and then mirrors their experiences to what happens in a Greek tragedy by Euripides, THE BACCHAE. One of the men is Mark Pierpont, who tried to quash his homosexuality by becoming an evangelist and preaching about curing oneself of being gay. Pierpont travelled the world as a missionary and preached to audiences of thousands. Then there is Joe Loya, who as a child, was brutally abused by his father. When Loya came of age, he quickly funnelled his rage into robbing b
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