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I have 2 teenage sons, so I definitely see all the superhero movies. We saw Amazing Spiderman 2. Watchable, but not likeable. Plot seemed sluggish, actions scenes used a dark, cutaway style that is hard to follow. Even watching him swing through the air seemed more raggedy. Amazing Spiderman 1, was okay to good, not as good as the first 2 Spiderman'szz. Also saw Godzilla at an Imax 3d. Not a hit with any of us. Modern 3d comes off darkening the whole film and often used gratuitously and they confused loud sounds with drama. Worse Godzilla didn't have a lot of personality. For goodness sake he spend days swimming in the ocean with 2 navy ships seemingly 25 feet away on both sides. What kind of self respecting monster allows himself to be followed that closely for so long? Its like he's a trained seal. Especially since the ships plan to nuke him when he's done swimming across the ocean. The monster villains seemed generic and uninspired. I enjoyed the Snicker candy bar commercials showing Godzilla more then the movie. A movie I wanted to see, but has left the area is Only Lovers Left Alive. A philosophical vampire flick. oh well. Any reviews?
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Yo yo yo, a nungali's gonna nun. Lois, what else you got in the Miracle department?
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then you'll love Ant-Man, its just like Charlie's World.. only more ants.
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Nungali Posted Today, 05:28 PM "Osho ... Michael Jackson ... its a pattern. Seems to come up when 'delay gratification' principle isnt operative. So ... anyone care to join me for cocktails in my back yard giraffe enclosure <checks watch> and there is the gymp parade in 1/2 an hour ... thats oh so amusing chaps! Dont forget the dress code !" sure.. as long as there's cocktails I'll bring my jo and be wearing my best hakama
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Don't mind Nungali, all video miracle workers must tolerate such deniers.
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Just saw Ant-Man. Pretty good, quite a bit more lighthearted then most of the superhero movies lately, except Guardians of the Galaxy, which had its share of good guys being blown to bits. Though this had a few questionably guys being turned to goo. My son thought it was the best of the Marvel flicks. I give it 4 Ants.
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how soon before the US in same state as Greece?
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how soon before the US in same state as Greece?
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Turn an economic idea into a near religious entity and you're going to start losing perspective. It becomes an -ism and that leads to fundamentalism, then we got trouble. It becomes all good, and while Capitalism has many strong points, its got faults too and instead of curing them they're brushed under the social rug. -
I'll tell you one thing, wise tends to lead a better life then foolish. Not necessarily materialistically; shit happens, but all in all the fruit of wisdom is a good life. Osho, ended hated by many, in pain, paranoid, a pariah in many countries, stripped of much of what he built. This sums it up well: "One sometimes wonders whether there are not two Oshos. One, the mystic and the other a quite ordinary all too human egoistic worldly person. As Calder has observed: โThis crazy old man, now called "Osho," was a far cry from the serene, dignified, and highly eloquent Acharya Rajneesh I had met years earlier. He became fooled into thinking that he was above arrogance and greed, but that was simply not the case.โ from- http://www.academia.edu/430920/Osho_A_Counterfeit_Guru
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the video doesn't translate well into English. I don't understand it. I just see a paint program being used.
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Kind of.. There is more power to a truth said by a good trustworthy person. There's a saying (Buddhist?), a truth said in anger is no longer the truth.
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Hmnn, I wonder in the end, if the greatest weapon of all is the camera? This is from the top of my head and sounds extreme right wing and fascist even to me, anyhoo... I just entered my kids high school and had to give them my drivers license and they took a picture of me and printed a sticker I had to wear. What if all housing required not just name, address but also picture to be sent to some database. Make it mandatory, immediate and easy, take a clear picture with a camera and email or text it to a number. A crime is committed take a picture, its linked to the database and most of the time the perp might be caught, less need for force, literally shoot first, A Picture, sent to a 911 kind of place that matches it as quickly as possible and pertinent information is relayed. <<edited to read goodlier
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Like bigu (not eating) it seems to be a siddhi best arrived at naturally, coming without over due strain. Reading an interview with one woman (forget her name from the book Masters of the Way) she'd go days without eating or sleeping, not on purpose, she just didn't feel like it, and was very intuned with her body. Very high practitioners seem to run multiple brain waves at the same time (see Anna Wise's work), which may alleviate some need for sleep. Which might be the phenomena of meditating once a day 'for 24 hours'. High level indeed, cause not sleeping causes psychosis after 2 or 3 days.
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Seems like your idea might end all War also
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Unfortunately not only is the answer no, but there's whole new problem of police forces getting military leftovers. So in times of trouble instead of foot cops who can possibly be sympathetic and talk people down, we have mini-tanks, armored carriers and full battle gear that looks like its out star wars except they're carrying M16's (which actually would have been way more effective the inaccurate blasters). John Olliver in his program Last Week had a great segment on the problem. Its sad when the best muck raking is from comediennes. <<later add just found this: new warships only $13 billion dollars each. Yay http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/06/18/uss-gerald-ford-orig.cnn
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I'm sure its been studied and dismissed but rubber bullets sound good to me. Yet as always unintended consequences will show up. Even tasers have known to kill, and who knows, maybe rubber bullets would make some people more shot happy? And ofcourse cops themselves may balk at having rubber bullets when the bad guys use lead.
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In about half (maybe a quarter) of his movies, you see Jet Li (who I believe is Chinese MA champion) do forms that combine slow and fast, smooth and jagged, always dynamic. I've wondered if some of these forms were show pieces of authentic old style forms? Sorry if I'm getting off track.
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Quote Yang Pan-hou taught the Kuang Ping form to Wong Jiao-yu. His followers claimed it was a secret of the Yang family's that was never taught to the hated Manchus. Wong supposedly taught Kuo Lien-ying, who was already a master of northern Shaolin kung fu. Kuo was also a famous master of pa-kua chang. Kuo later shortened the form and taught his condensed version to thousands of students. When Mao Tse-tung seized power in China, Kuo fled to Taiwan and later to San Francisco's Chinatown, where he taught the art. Its amazing that people in the U.S were learning more authentic tai chi in the mid and late 1900's then was done in many parts of China itself.
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The case mentioned in the OP is horrible, but there was call about a stolen bike and it said they may be armed. It was dark, the victim had his arms up, then brought them down, then walked towards the police.. He didn't deserve what happened, but for God's sake. When a guns is pointed at you from a cop or crook, keeps your hands up and mouth shut. Movement can be misinterpreted and its a dangerous mistake. I'm sorry this comes off so callous but within the calls for justice from police violence there has to be a message in how to react when arrested or pulled over. In too many of these shootings the victim would have been fine if they hadn't resisted arrest or literally charged at an armed officer. That's what lawyers are for.
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I understand that. There's a bitterness when you see people seemingly praising someone you consider evil. They may not be praising the man, only an aspect of there work, but even that creates anger and feelings of betrayal of the victims left in the wake. I've been there. You are totally right to bring up the evil done and lives ruined. and yet.. what ever I said above. Some do so much bad, their very name is cursed.
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If you read the article, then read the link to the police report, you get an idea of how complicated life must be for police and what a tangled hell it is to answer domestic violence/disturbance calls. It's not that the police officer was right, but there's ambiguous, questionable things going on. Some, a small minority of officers act criminally because they're bad people, others are making bad decisions because they're used to bad situations and in fear for there safety. Police here are more violent because the U.S society is more violent, stratified and gun ridden.
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I am mellow.. damnit. I'm just being truthful. Long time ago I got a book by a woman who was into Osho and wrote down some of his meditations. She didn't promote the man so much as write up some of the meditations he 'invented' that she liked, and some of them were good imo. By that time I knew about his craziness, and repeat for the 3rd time I think the man was a lunatic and evil. There's a group called IMU in Chicago that would do Full Moon Meditations; a bit of dharma talk, followed by 3 rounds of 45 minutes meditation, 15 minutes dance. Osho was never mentioned, it had nothing to do with him, yet in my mind it was an Osho-like event. Meditate then freestyle dance, repeat. It was/is good stuff. A break from orthodox meditation mindset. Apart from that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln; ..apart from his evil doings and lunacy that unique eccentric; dance, experience joy, no boxes, was an aspect of his teaching that I admire. Its too bad his brand of Crazy Wisdom, came with so much other crazy. Watching the video, it seemed like his commune could have been a heaven on earth kind of place. It had so much going for it, but alas he himself was the snake. And attracted a few others but the ideal, drive, most of the people held promise.
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nope.. djf;asfj <<me making aggressive pointless comment guys I called him a 'crazed hypocrite' (and almost added lunatic, probably should have) If you want a long deep discussion I can bring up some of his writings and meditations that I think were solid and we can judge each piece independently. He certainly did evil and was horrible role model. Yet like a certain type of manic person he produced a huge amount of work much bad, much contradictory and some good. You guys are the ones bringing him up, not me. I found the documentary tame, there have been nastier exposes. Out of curiosity, if you've studied his life, would you say he always dark and crazy, or got increasingly so with age, drug use and disciple worship?
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I know, I know, not a respected anything but I still like some of his stuff. We could add crazed hypocrite to the list, but there is also (imo) some genius there too, certainly of the manic kind. Highs, lows.. little inbetween. Possibly a brain imbalance that created both.