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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
This is more my speed, if I’m going to watch a work of fiction. Astral City: Nosso Lar in its entirety on YouTube.
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@Jeroen said:
This is more my speed, if I’m going to watch a work of fiction. Astral City: Nosso Lar in its entirety on YouTube.
Although I knew this movie by reputation, it unexpectedly and powerfully affected me when I watched it this morning, it made me cry more than a few times. Watched it twice today.
Conclave (2024)
A he/she as Pope. How woke can it get lol.
Ralph Fiennes is a shoo in for Best Actor.
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
edited January 2025
This film spoke to me, about two Tibetan monks who travel with thirteen children through the Himalayas to get them to a school so that they can get an education. Journey from Zanskar it is called.
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personDon't believe everything you thinkThe liminal spaceVeteran
edited January 2025
I'm rewatching The Last of Us and just watched episode 3 again. I had forgotten about this episode, it is one of the best, most beautiful hours of television I've seen in forever. Its not just me, it has been nearly universally praised. Its a pretty stand alone episode, the first few minutes will be enough to get someone unfamiliar with the world all the context you'll need. I highly recommend the episode as a stand alone if you're not into the whole series.
Many thanks.
Explains a lot.
Seems 'He is not a life' but certainly a known methodology. Yuk!
I am off to the Sunset Zone for something better...
This is what Ziggy AI came up with:
"Breaking the cycle of negativity involves several strategies that can help foster a more positive outlook. One effective approach is to focus on the areas of your life that you can control and set realistic goals, breaking them down into manageable steps. Practicing mindfulness and self-compassion can also be beneficial, as they help you detach from negative thoughts and treat yourself with kindness. Additionally, distancing yourself from negative influences and engaging in positive activities, such as exercise or hobbies, can significantly improve your mood. When dealing with negative people, it’s important to respond positively and not react negatively, which can sometimes diffuse their negativity."
I enjoyed the first series. Set in Houston Texas...
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
edited February 2025
This was quite a nice docu that YouTube found for me, enjoyed it, very meditative. It is called The Subtle Art of Losing Yourself and it mixes philosophy, observation of nature, Taoism, mindfulness, a Tai Chi practice into one blended whole. Beautiful.
Jacob waits in the Mojave Desert every Saturday for extraterrestrials. One night, a limping guide with travelers seeking a new life appears. As the guide returns, Jacob must choose between his belief in aliens and the mysterious guide.
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personDon't believe everything you thinkThe liminal spaceVeteran
edited February 2025
Baby Reindeer. Not sure how I feel about recommending this here. On the one hand its certainly well made. It explores many darker aspects of humanity like mental illness, abuse and mainly the way unhealed trauma leads people to themselves abuse or self sabotage in really harmful ways. Its kind of heavy and uncomfortable, but deeply thought provoking.
I feel talking about it further in the way I want to explore would be heavily spoilery. Has anyone seen it and have
Yeah, I saw it. Watched it last year… I can go rewatch it, if you want to really get into it… but I remember thinking at the time that he was wrong for putting her out there like that for public consumption…. Yeah, he told on himself, kinda, bec he could have tried to stop it much earlier, his ego was fed, obviously ….but she really caught the slapping, not him in the public eye, I think. Not to mention the money. He got paid , but did she?? Didn’t she file a lawsuit against Nerflux, alleging it all wasn’t true… and I think she won, if I’m not mistaken
I have 2 friends that put me in the mind of her….. Luckily they haven’t stalked or gone too far… but the delusional thoughts are said out loud sometimes that they swear this guy or that guy wants them or likes them…. The friend group usually just tries to redirect them or say things in a joking way… like girl… u better stop talking like that or that man gonna get u on some stalking charges… don’t be creepy now, hahaha. That usually does the trick.
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personDon't believe everything you thinkThe liminal spaceVeteran
@Vastmind said:
Yeah, I saw it. Watched it last year… I can go rewatch it, if you want to really get into it… but I remember thinking at the time that he was wrong for putting her out there like that for public consumption…. Yeah, he told on himself, kinda, bec he could have tried to stop it much earlier, but she really caught the slapping, not him in the public eye, I think. Didn’t she file a lawsuit against Nerflux, alleging it all wasn’t true… and I think she won, if I’m not mistaken
I didn't get very far into the real life of it all. I heard that people were able to uncover her real identity and she went on Piers Morgan to deny all of it, but that people were also able to find many of her social media posts during the time in question. Hadn't heard anything about the lawsuit. Now that you bring it up, there's a ton of true crime media out there these days, I'm completely in the dark on the legality of any of it.
Regarding the show itself
I wasn't able to watch more than one or two at a time, I needed a break from the dysfunction. The ending was pretty painful watching him come through all that, get support from those around him, only to fall back into or really seek out the self destructive cycles.
The court granted Netflix’s requests to scrap Harvey’s negligence claims and plea for punitive damages. But it upheld the defamation claim, which it deemed “both legally sufficient and supported by evidence.”
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
It won Best Film at the Oscars and the Palm d’Or at Cannes, so I thought I would look.
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
About an Indian mathematician in the time of the Raj
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
About the transition of modern life from a natural environment to a technological environment
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
edited March 2025
I must admit, the last one I posted, which was titled Koyaanisqatsi I have been very much enjoying today. It is a kind of visual and audio tone poem, much of it running backwards so that your mind doesn’t get used to it, demonstrating the absurdity of modern technological life at the time it was made, which was 1982.
It is funny to see people walking backwards through New York, the rain coats that were popular at the time, the cars, the food, the assembly lines, the way food was processed, the way cars were made, the electronics back then, all running backwards. It kinda blew my mind as a piece of cinema.
The end title card lists translations of the Hopi word koyaanisqatsi: "crazy life", "life in turmoil", "life out of balance", "life disintegrating", "a state of life that calls for another way of living". It is amazing to me that some people recognised and publicised this in 1982 and people have gone on to live in much the same way for forty years (and counting).
The cinematography was done by Ron Fricke, who also did some of the writing, and who later went on to make Baraka and Samsara. Those two films were in a similar style to Koyaanisqatsi, but they run forward and have somewhat different themes.
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
Another piece on Hopi prophecy…
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
edited March 2025
By the way, the versions of Koyaanisqatsi on YouTube are not legit and run backwards, if you want to experience the film in it’s intended form you can buy a digital download from Apple’s iTunes, which is what I ended up doing. It greatly helps with the appreciation of the excellent soundtrack by Philip Glass.
Well that was strange, different, mesmerising, unique...
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
The whole movie of ‘Narcissus and Goldmund’ is on YouTube if you want to watch it, although it is in German and there are only (really bad) auto translate subtitles available. It’s just about enough to make the movie intelligible. I really enjoyed it, it was one of the best movies I have seen the last few years.
The plot is from Herman Hesse’s novel of the same name, about whether to live a cloistered monk’s life or whether to go out and enjoy loving and living outside. The movie tells Goldmund’s story in flashbacks, little vignettes which show his love life and life as an artist, alongside the present day of his time returning to Narcissus’ cloister.
A shame that it’s not available on blu-ray anywhere and has disappeared from the streaming services, I liked it very much.
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personDon't believe everything you thinkThe liminal spaceVeteran
The White Lotus has been a popular show, especially among the chattering classes, so its been getting a fair bit of talk. This just concluded 3rd season, which took place in Thailand, had heavy, overt Buddhist themes. I was interested in them, but kind of took it for granted. But now that the season is over a couple Buddhist talkers have talked about the themes, what is hitting me is how deeper Buddhist messages about the self and the futility of pleasure seeking, vs McMindfulness or Zen tea, have been able to reach an audience.
I just finished watching a Netflix series called Karma (I was attracted to the name of the show)
The show attempts to show the intricate and interconnected workings of karma ...It's somewhat over the top and gruesome in parts, but that's entertainment for ya.
personDon't believe everything you thinkThe liminal spaceVeteran
edited May 2025
The Star Wars series Andor was phenomenal. Its tone is like Star Wars for adults, it prequels the story of Cassian Andor from the movie Rogue One. It tells the story of the Rebel Alliance, its early formation as small bands of underground resistance fighters to the forming of the Rebel Army right up to the gathering of intel on the Death Star mentioned in the opening scroll of the first Star Wars movie.
Anyway, beyond the stand alone great story telling was an inversion of the whole Star Wars POV I've lived with my whole life. That of Luke and the Skywalker story as the focus and the rebellion being just a back drop for that. In reality the rebellion and these characters are the true story of the Star Wars universe and Luke was the great hope for that cause.
Its two seasons, 20 some episodes which ends right as Rogue One begins.
Rogue One
JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
@person said:
The Star Wars series Andor was phenomenal. Its tone is like Star Wars for adults, it prequels the story of Cassian Andor from the movie Rogue One.
Ok, so it was a well-told story — a piece of fiction. But for me the question is how does that really inform the lives we live in this world. The great stories of prehistory have to do with mythology, with Mother Earth and Father Sky, the female and the male principles, the wise man, the elders, the trickster. These stories were valued, had meaning and often told over and over.
I can see how today’s entertainment grows out of the mythological stories of then, but I wonder what purpose it serves. I don’t feel drawn to watch it anymore, I don’t think the movies actually bear any relation to real people, ordinary people.
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personDon't believe everything you thinkThe liminal spaceVeteran
@person said:
The Star Wars series Andor was phenomenal. Its tone is like Star Wars for adults, it prequels the story of Cassian Andor from the movie Rogue One.
Ok, so it was a well-told story — a piece of fiction. But for me the question is how does that really inform the lives we live in this world. The great stories of prehistory have to do with mythology, with Mother Earth and Father Sky, the female and the male principles, the wise man, the elders, the trickster. These stories were valued, had meaning and often told over and over.
I can see how today’s entertainment grows out of the mythological stories of then, but I wonder what purpose it serves. I don’t feel drawn to watch it anymore, I don’t think the movies actually bear any relation to real people, ordinary people.
Admittedly I'm not following a good spiritual path with my pursuit of entertainment.
Myths are entertaining fictions too. I do think some modern entertainment stories do a better job of telling the human story and I include Andor in that. I juxtapose it with the original Star Wars and Luke's hero's journey. Andor tell's a story I feel is relevant to struggle and oppression and it does it with nuance rather than black and white morality.
Andor tell's a story I feel is relevant to struggle and oppression and it does it with nuance rather than black and white morality.
If you no longer watch fiction, fair enough. If you do then it can infom engaged Buddhism. Sometimes. Maybe.
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JeroenNot all those who wander are lostNetherlandsVeteran
@person said:
Myths are entertaining fictions too.
I don’t think that is true; myths are an attempt to make sense of the world, and carry hidden meanings of the invisible world within them. They are not just fiction meant for entertainment.
The old wisdom was that there was a visible world and an invisible world, and that by partaking of various plant medicines one could get glimpses of the invisible world. Shamans would help you with this process, since they had a fulltime connection with the invisible world.
The invisible world lends meaning and purpose to the visible, it is the place where we go after we die, where the ancestors stay, where the creative energy originates. Even Buddhism acknowledges the invisible world when it talks about “first mountains and rivers are just mountains and rivers; then they are no longer mountains and rivers; and in the end they become mountains and rivers again,” or when it talks about Gods or heavens and the Six Realms.
Myths are infused with this old wisdom. Modern science has focussed on the visible world and refuses to acknowledge the invisible as real, because of the way in recent history that religion has supplanted the old shamanic view of the world.
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personDon't believe everything you thinkThe liminal spaceVeteran
@person said:
Myths are entertaining fictions too.
I don’t think that is true; myths are an attempt to make sense of the world, and carry hidden meanings of the invisible world within them. They are not just fiction meant for entertainment.
I never said just. And plenty of modern fiction attempts to make sense of the world. It isn't so black and white.
The old wisdom was that there was a visible world and an invisible world, and that by partaking of various plant medicines one could get glimpses of the invisible world. Shamans would help you with this process, since they had a fulltime connection with the invisible world.
The invisible world lends meaning and purpose to the visible, it is the place where we go after we die, where the ancestors stay, where the creative energy originates. Even Buddhism acknowledges the invisible world when it talks about “first mountains and rivers are just mountains and rivers; then they are no longer mountains and rivers; and in the end they become mountains and rivers again,” or when it talks about Gods or heavens and the Six Realms.
Myths are infused with this old wisdom. Modern science has focussed on the visible world and refuses to acknowledge the invisible as real, because of the way in recent history that religion has supplanted the old shamanic view of the world.
The problem as I see it is that there are thousands of beliefs about the invisible world, some of them beneficial and some of them harmful. When we open the door to believing whatever we want without good evidence that its actually true, we open the door to all the demon possessions and witch persecutions too.
There are ways to tell meaningful stories that are verifiably true.
The one called "LIFE" . It's in 3D, a real up close and personal movie, so many twists and turns, ups and downs, joys and disappointments. It has you laughing out loud, crying buckets full of tears...never a dull moment. I highly recommend it, but be warned...It's not for the fainthearted.
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personDon't believe everything you thinkThe liminal spaceVeteran
The Plot Against America. Its a what if history of the US just as Hitler begins his war. It pictures America if Charles Lindberg defeated FDR for president, kept the US out of the war and began to install a more facist regime. It follows a Jewish family and views happening from their perspective.
I liked that it has many similarities to what we are going through at the moment, though the parallels aren't perfect. I think the US is currently at about episode 3 of 6, so it could slip further or the show goes where we don't end up. What I like most about it was the nuanced writing, aside from the obvious sinister minor characters like Henry Ford or the actual Nazis the "good" characters at times act poorly and unskillfully and the "bad" characters act out of mostly good intentions.
"Inspired by Hindu scriptures, the film serves as the first instalment in the planned Kalki Cinematic Universe. Set in a dystopian future in the year 2898 AD, the story follows a group on a mission to protect lab subject SUM-80's unborn child, believed to be Kalki."
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This is more my speed, if I’m going to watch a work of fiction. Astral City: Nosso Lar in its entirety on YouTube.
Although I knew this movie by reputation, it unexpectedly and powerfully affected me when I watched it this morning, it made me cry more than a few times. Watched it twice today.
Conclave (2024)
A he/she as Pope. How woke can it get lol.
Ralph Fiennes is a shoo in for Best Actor.
This film spoke to me, about two Tibetan monks who travel with thirteen children through the Himalayas to get them to a school so that they can get an education. Journey from Zanskar it is called.
I'm rewatching The Last of Us and just watched episode 3 again. I had forgotten about this episode, it is one of the best, most beautiful hours of television I've seen in forever. Its not just me, it has been nearly universally praised. Its a pretty stand alone episode, the first few minutes will be enough to get someone unfamiliar with the world all the context you'll need. I highly recommend the episode as a stand alone if you're not into the whole series.
This is a heavy spoiler review of the episode.
Dark Comedy set in Ukraine
Will stoner movies make a comeback after Jan 20?
I enjoyed this one, its a new release on Hulu if you have it. A heart warming dramady, of two close cousins exploring their Jewish roots in Poland.
I thought 'A real pain' was excellent. Very nuanced. Better than the usual childish pap from Hellywood [sic]
This Croatian short film (13 minutes) has been shortlisted for an Oscar in the short film category. Below, a free YT link with subtitles.
We have entered the twilight zone "He's Alive"
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7y3z51
@Shoshin1
Many thanks.
Explains a lot.
Seems 'He is not a life' but certainly a known methodology. Yuk!
I am off to the Sunset Zone for something better...
This is what Ziggy AI came up with:
"Breaking the cycle of negativity involves several strategies that can help foster a more positive outlook. One effective approach is to focus on the areas of your life that you can control and set realistic goals, breaking them down into manageable steps. Practicing mindfulness and self-compassion can also be beneficial, as they help you detach from negative thoughts and treat yourself with kindness. Additionally, distancing yourself from negative influences and engaging in positive activities, such as exercise or hobbies, can significantly improve your mood. When dealing with negative people, it’s important to respond positively and not react negatively, which can sometimes diffuse their negativity."
and now back to the movies...
Just finally watched Wild Robot. All of us in the room cried. It was good.
Watching Beverly Hillbillies
JD Vance Clampett
Was one of the funniest shows on TV
Need to watch a bit of reversed OM?
try 'Mo'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mo_(TV_series)
I enjoyed the first series. Set in Houston Texas...
This was quite a nice docu that YouTube found for me, enjoyed it, very meditative. It is called The Subtle Art of Losing Yourself and it mixes philosophy, observation of nature, Taoism, mindfulness, a Tai Chi practice into one blended whole. Beautiful.
The Aliens...Interesting movie ...
Baby Reindeer. Not sure how I feel about recommending this here. On the one hand its certainly well made. It explores many darker aspects of humanity like mental illness, abuse and mainly the way unhealed trauma leads people to themselves abuse or self sabotage in really harmful ways. Its kind of heavy and uncomfortable, but deeply thought provoking.
I feel talking about it further in the way I want to explore would be heavily spoilery. Has anyone seen it and have
thoughts
Yeah, I saw it. Watched it last year… I can go rewatch it, if you want to really get into it… but I remember thinking at the time that he was wrong for putting her out there like that for public consumption…. Yeah, he told on himself, kinda, bec he could have tried to stop it much earlier, his ego was fed, obviously ….but she really caught the slapping, not him in the public eye, I think. Not to mention the money. He got paid , but did she?? Didn’t she file a lawsuit against Nerflux, alleging it all wasn’t true… and I think she won, if I’m not mistaken
I have 2 friends that put me in the mind of her….. Luckily they haven’t stalked or gone too far… but the delusional thoughts are said out loud sometimes that they swear this guy or that guy wants them or likes them…. The friend group usually just tries to redirect them or say things in a joking way… like girl… u better stop talking like that or that man gonna get u on some stalking charges… don’t be creepy now, hahaha. That usually does the trick.
I didn't get very far into the real life of it all. I heard that people were able to uncover her real identity and she went on Piers Morgan to deny all of it, but that people were also able to find many of her social media posts during the time in question. Hadn't heard anything about the lawsuit. Now that you bring it up, there's a ton of true crime media out there these days, I'm completely in the dark on the legality of any of it.
Regarding the show itself
I wasn't able to watch more than one or two at a time, I needed a break from the dysfunction. The ending was pretty painful watching him come through all that, get support from those around him, only to fall back into or really seek out the self destructive cycles.
I agree with your spoiler box ☝🏻
The court granted Netflix’s requests to scrap Harvey’s negligence claims and plea for punitive damages. But it upheld the defamation claim, which it deemed “both legally sufficient and supported by evidence.”
It won Best Film at the Oscars and the Palm d’Or at Cannes, so I thought I would look.
About an Indian mathematician in the time of the Raj
About the transition of modern life from a natural environment to a technological environment
I must admit, the last one I posted, which was titled Koyaanisqatsi I have been very much enjoying today. It is a kind of visual and audio tone poem, much of it running backwards so that your mind doesn’t get used to it, demonstrating the absurdity of modern technological life at the time it was made, which was 1982.
It is funny to see people walking backwards through New York, the rain coats that were popular at the time, the cars, the food, the assembly lines, the way food was processed, the way cars were made, the electronics back then, all running backwards. It kinda blew my mind as a piece of cinema.
The end title card lists translations of the Hopi word koyaanisqatsi: "crazy life", "life in turmoil", "life out of balance", "life disintegrating", "a state of life that calls for another way of living". It is amazing to me that some people recognised and publicised this in 1982 and people have gone on to live in much the same way for forty years (and counting).
The cinematography was done by Ron Fricke, who also did some of the writing, and who later went on to make Baraka and Samsara. Those two films were in a similar style to Koyaanisqatsi, but they run forward and have somewhat different themes.
Another piece on Hopi prophecy…
By the way, the versions of Koyaanisqatsi on YouTube are not legit and run backwards, if you want to experience the film in it’s intended form you can buy a digital download from Apple’s iTunes, which is what I ended up doing. It greatly helps with the appreciation of the excellent soundtrack by Philip Glass.
Very relevant to me and my family...
Well that was strange, different, mesmerising, unique...
The whole movie of ‘Narcissus and Goldmund’ is on YouTube if you want to watch it, although it is in German and there are only (really bad) auto translate subtitles available. It’s just about enough to make the movie intelligible. I really enjoyed it, it was one of the best movies I have seen the last few years.
The plot is from Herman Hesse’s novel of the same name, about whether to live a cloistered monk’s life or whether to go out and enjoy loving and living outside. The movie tells Goldmund’s story in flashbacks, little vignettes which show his love life and life as an artist, alongside the present day of his time returning to Narcissus’ cloister.
A shame that it’s not available on blu-ray anywhere and has disappeared from the streaming services, I liked it very much.
The White Lotus has been a popular show, especially among the chattering classes, so its been getting a fair bit of talk. This just concluded 3rd season, which took place in Thailand, had heavy, overt Buddhist themes. I was interested in them, but kind of took it for granted. But now that the season is over a couple Buddhist talkers have talked about the themes, what is hitting me is how deeper Buddhist messages about the self and the futility of pleasure seeking, vs McMindfulness or Zen tea, have been able to reach an audience.
The podcast Dan Harris just did is moderately spoilery if you intend to watch the show, but no major spoilers.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/buddhist-themes-in-the-white-lotus-explained-josh-bearman/id1087147821?i=1000702976816
Anyway, it was one of the more authentically Buddhist things in popular media in a while.
I just finished watching a Netflix series called Karma (I was attracted to the name of the show)
The show attempts to show the intricate and interconnected workings of karma ...It's somewhat over the top and gruesome in parts, but that's entertainment for ya.
The Star Wars series Andor was phenomenal. Its tone is like Star Wars for adults, it prequels the story of Cassian Andor from the movie Rogue One. It tells the story of the Rebel Alliance, its early formation as small bands of underground resistance fighters to the forming of the Rebel Army right up to the gathering of intel on the Death Star mentioned in the opening scroll of the first Star Wars movie.
Anyway, beyond the stand alone great story telling was an inversion of the whole Star Wars POV I've lived with my whole life. That of Luke and the Skywalker story as the focus and the rebellion being just a back drop for that. In reality the rebellion and these characters are the true story of the Star Wars universe and Luke was the great hope for that cause.
Its two seasons, 20 some episodes which ends right as Rogue One begins.
Rogue One
The two series are MUCH better and more nuanced and relevant than the film, which is just Bhollywooded space pap.
Ok, so it was a well-told story — a piece of fiction. But for me the question is how does that really inform the lives we live in this world. The great stories of prehistory have to do with mythology, with Mother Earth and Father Sky, the female and the male principles, the wise man, the elders, the trickster. These stories were valued, had meaning and often told over and over.
I can see how today’s entertainment grows out of the mythological stories of then, but I wonder what purpose it serves. I don’t feel drawn to watch it anymore, I don’t think the movies actually bear any relation to real people, ordinary people.
Admittedly I'm not following a good spiritual path with my pursuit of entertainment.
Myths are entertaining fictions too. I do think some modern entertainment stories do a better job of telling the human story and I include Andor in that. I juxtapose it with the original Star Wars and Luke's hero's journey. Andor tell's a story I feel is relevant to struggle and oppression and it does it with nuance rather than black and white morality.
If you no longer watch fiction, fair enough. If you do then it can infom engaged Buddhism. Sometimes. Maybe.
I don’t think that is true; myths are an attempt to make sense of the world, and carry hidden meanings of the invisible world within them. They are not just fiction meant for entertainment.
The old wisdom was that there was a visible world and an invisible world, and that by partaking of various plant medicines one could get glimpses of the invisible world. Shamans would help you with this process, since they had a fulltime connection with the invisible world.
The invisible world lends meaning and purpose to the visible, it is the place where we go after we die, where the ancestors stay, where the creative energy originates. Even Buddhism acknowledges the invisible world when it talks about “first mountains and rivers are just mountains and rivers; then they are no longer mountains and rivers; and in the end they become mountains and rivers again,” or when it talks about Gods or heavens and the Six Realms.
Myths are infused with this old wisdom. Modern science has focussed on the visible world and refuses to acknowledge the invisible as real, because of the way in recent history that religion has supplanted the old shamanic view of the world.
I never said just. And plenty of modern fiction attempts to make sense of the world. It isn't so black and white.
The problem as I see it is that there are thousands of beliefs about the invisible world, some of them beneficial and some of them harmful. When we open the door to believing whatever we want without good evidence that its actually true, we open the door to all the demon possessions and witch persecutions too.
There are ways to tell meaningful stories that are verifiably true.
Do tell.
The one called "LIFE" . It's in 3D, a real up close and personal movie, so many twists and turns, ups and downs, joys and disappointments. It has you laughing out loud, crying buckets full of tears...never a dull moment. I highly recommend it, but be warned...It's not for the fainthearted.
The Plot Against America. Its a what if history of the US just as Hitler begins his war. It pictures America if Charles Lindberg defeated FDR for president, kept the US out of the war and began to install a more facist regime. It follows a Jewish family and views happening from their perspective.
I liked that it has many similarities to what we are going through at the moment, though the parallels aren't perfect. I think the US is currently at about episode 3 of 6, so it could slip further or the show goes where we don't end up. What I like most about it was the nuanced writing, aside from the obvious sinister minor characters like Henry Ford or the actual Nazis the "good" characters at times act poorly and unskillfully and the "bad" characters act out of mostly good intentions.
Mesmerised by three hour film
'Kalki 2898-AD'
It had English subtitles but still have very little idea of what it was. There is a sequel coming too...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalki_2898_AD
"Inspired by Hindu scriptures, the film serves as the first instalment in the planned Kalki Cinematic Universe. Set in a dystopian future in the year 2898 AD, the story follows a group on a mission to protect lab subject SUM-80's unborn child, believed to be Kalki."