Category: Popular Culture
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Behold your mother!
The symbol announces a plane of consciousness distinct from that of rational evidence; it is the “cipher” of a mystery, the only means of saying something that cannot be apprehended in any other way.
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Pulp Fiction
There are few people who know the full force of the different movements of the heart. The vast majority of men are only sensitive to five or six passions, in the circle of which their lives are passed and which define the boundaries of their imaginations. Take away love and hate, pleasure and pain, hope…
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The Law of Success
Those who make plans will be born to carry them out. Those who make no plans need not be born. ~ Nisargadatta, I Am That You are the “master of your fate” and the “captain of your soul,” by reason of the fact that you control your own thoughts, and, with the aid of your…
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Spy vs Spy
Spies, more spies, supremacy vs degeneration, debates, with no happy ending.
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X Files and Bigoted Opinions
Love in essence reaches the consciousness of the exterior man in the form of a perception of existence. But he considers the beauty of the Universe and its life as mere information, instead of as a marvelous gift capable of constantly stimulating his sense of wonder and kindling his gratitude.
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Man in the High Castle
Ostensibly a review of some artifacts of popular culture including the Man in the High Castle, the Vikings and Valkyrie, but a few may notice something else …
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Ex Machina or the Esoteric Turing Test
In which, under the guise of a film review, we discuss Turing’s test, the nature of animal man, and the treachery of woman. We conclude with the revelation of the method if you make it that far.
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Liberalism: A Self-Evaluation
Truth is the conformity of the intellect with the thing. Thus, a truth-seeker needs to renounce any factitious constructions of his own mind.
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Theodicy and the Other Woman
The film then appeals to two conflicting drives in contemporary women: the desire for independence versus the age-old propensity for female hypergamy. Carly gets Kate’s brother along with his beach house in the Hamptons. Amber marries Carly’s wealthy and much older father, so they can travel without financial concerns.
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Might, Cunning, Justice
In The Wire there is no justice, only might and cunning.