http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fcpegej8sg&feature=related.
although not particularly impressed by the narrator.... i find that john gray, author of "straw dogs" and "black mass" reveals the abject failure of mankind both in the past and inexorably in the future to create a utopia.
it is especially interesting to me because this is most of what many cults are really all about.
I read "Straw Dogs" after leaving the JW's. It was a real eye-opener. As I still have strong tendencies towards idealism, it was a real blow to my sense of self. I'm still processing it all some four years later. It's hard to let go of the idea that mankind is progressing. It's a delusion, no doubt, but a hard one to shake.
tall penguin
are you single and looking for a soul mate?
or do you consider yourself to be available?
please, declare on this thread..
"Life is a constant effort to stifle chaos. The enormous struggle to entwine your chaos with mine makes about as much sense as squashing two cyclones into one with Mantovani playing."
Aye, there's the rub, Terry. It's what makes love both so infinitely fascinating and so profoundly frustrating...that we long to find someone else's crazy to match ours, that we're willing to step into that chaos again and again, that against all the odds we keep playing the game. Rational? Not so much. But oh how endlessly entertaining and so very human.
what's a really good movie you'd recommend that most people probably haven't seen?.
my personal recommendation: synecdoche, new york.
it's one of those movies that words fail utterly to capture--which really is the hallmark of a good movie, i suppose.
I loved Synecdoche, NY. It was so breathtaking in so many ways that I haven't been able to watch it a second time yet. I think it's still percolating in my psyche.
If you don't mind reading subtitles, the Mexican film "Like Water for Chocolate" is extraordinary. Sensual, beautiful, and simply profound.
lately, i've come to find out that a more than a few people in the area had killed themselves.
most of the people i know of were in their early twenties or forties.
for those loved ones surviving them, it was mostly a shock!
I knew one JW who killed himself. A beautiful man. It still pains me to think about it.
tall penguin
just finished watching a 'worlds apart' a danish movie portraying a young jw girl leaving the wt and dealing with the shunning of her family.
this was one of the last thoughts in the movie.
her final prayer to jehovah after being treated harshly by her family and elders.. "jehovah god, this is the last time we talk, because....i don't believe in you anymore".
I watched this movie last night. Cried the whole time. And yes, I found that closing line quite moving. I wish I had had that epiphanous moment but I didn't. I just stopped praying one day. And that was it.
I hope this film gets a wider audience. It really is well done. I'm looking forward to sharing it with a number of my never-JW friends. I think it will help them understand what I've been through. So much of what that girl in the movie went through, I went through. That's why it was so emotional to watch. It was like watching my life unfold on the screen. They even did an excellent job of portraying a judicial committee. It still strikes me as so invasive the sexual questions that elders get away with asking.
I wonder if my JW parents would watch it. I'll have to think about that.
tall penguin
as far as i know, the excellent danish film "to verdener" .
("worlds apart") is still not available for purchase on.
dvd in the us.. (anyone know otherwise?).
I just finished watching this film and all I can say is...wow. Watch it. It's accurate and incredibly well done. I cried the whole time.
tall penguin
(when we speak we use language.
if we talk about language we use meta-language.
the word meta, below, is used in that manner.).
Brilliant post, Terry.
i have come upon a situation in which i am a bit confused.
if someone drops a phone book on your front porch.
has the previous owner transferred ownership to you?.
Funny, I thought this was going to be a philosophical discussion about the unrecognized gifts that people bring to our lives. I was going to answer: usually long after they're gone.
i ve just read the blog asking what sort of man a woman wants!
i am fed up in this world that men don't stand up and start letting the sisters in the world know what we really need.
lets take the game to them!!.
Beautiful leec.
i ve just read the blog asking what sort of man a woman wants!
i am fed up in this world that men don't stand up and start letting the sisters in the world know what we really need.
lets take the game to them!!.
lol @ John Doe. I knew you were going to pick up on that. You're nothing if not predictable. ;)
"It seems a man wants a woman with breasts he likes, and then a woman he can converse with. Anything else?"
Exactly my point. Is there anything else? Cause I win on both counts. Please tell me there's more.
tall penguin
