Category: spirituality
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I Have Forgiven Aslan For Being Jesus, But I Still Hate Fairytales
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Caprica Six & The Rainmaker of Kiau Tchou
Mailbag time. …Your comment, both here and on Facebook, that it’s all about Caprica Six. I’m intrigued, and interested in hearing more, if you have time. I’m finding that my mental hierarchy of all of the characters’ arcs and their significance has been shifting as I re-watch, but I still haven’t quite decided where to…
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Stopping At The Revelation
I think it says something that most of these posts have begun with some variation on, “Here’s where I fucked up” or “What people don’t seem to get is…” What I think it says is that I am still learning how to have an opinion without being convinced that the world would work a lot…
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No Futures: Before & After
– Charlie Wilson’s War, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Mike Nichols– The Golden Compass, written by a committee of idiots, director: Chris Weitz– Southland Tales, written and directed by Richard Kelly I think about the French Revolution constantly. There’s something I can’t resist about any situation that can’t be easily pinned down, that…
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When Sex Is Not Sex: Bug, Lars, and Comics
– Bug, starring Ashley Judd– Lars & The Real Girl, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Mortimer– “Three Septembers & A January,” by Neil Gaiman I saw Lars a while back and I was really touched by it. That was surprising, because normally I hate stories where a French Lady/Magic Retard/Reincarnated Loved One In The Form…
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The Only Story We Ever Really Tell
Wind in the Willows Originally uploaded by R E D H E A D In January, I think about this story constantly. It’s always seemed like the most complete, brief, wise thing I’ve ever read, since before I could even read it to myself. When I was a kid I was really into fantasy and…
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STARDUST: Putting The Fairy Back In Fairytale
Michelle Pfeiffer Originally uploaded by aeu1961 So after the third person asked me why I was so wound up last week about Stardust, I decided I would explain it. Spoilers, of course, follow. 1: Your Gender Workbook Fairytales, like all myth, are deceptively simple. Any story that means anything can be resolved down to a…
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When You Search For Gacy
john-wayne-gacy-clown Originally uploaded by triciatown …You get a lot of people’s cats, on Flickr. Why? The Reclamation of the Demonic is the other side of restoration of the divine. It’s the part we don’t talk about. I think primarily because the Western tradition is essentially modernist: the idea that you clean out the cobwebs in…