I would. The concept is alright. There may be a moral. Italian food is better for some women than prayer or love. Indian prayer is better than food. I would pray before eating although. Millions in the world are begging for food. The food is there, yet millions starve. America discards 40 per cent of the food it makes, while a billion are hungry. Food is based on the same taboo as sex. There is no natural relating in either anymore. Indirectly we eat our own people. In that way New Guinea would have been a better decorum for the finale than Bali. Indeed cannibalism exists.
(Mann ist was man isst.)
It isn't controversial enough, I guess. There is an autobiographical element in the film, Julia Roberts was converted to Hinduism, I don't know how, but she said she is considering her next life, where she wants to be something quiet and supporting. Spiritual and romantic. I see few people who today can relate the two, in the current religious divide which is all about the sex divide this is welcome. Without a sense of eternity romance is limited. This awareness is often a bit late.
Criticism is the fertilizer on which the artist grows. Great art is heart. He-art.
Sharing is the most scientific active application of non-violence, and if we will be, both the threat of terrorism and the need for war will disappear. The atom is interrelated and interactive with all, as is our soul, atma.
Peace Prize, a spiral light coincided with Obama's peace prize reception. Congratulations. Bizarre is that after this unusual light was spotted above Norway, the Russian Defense Ministry acknowledged a failed test of its Bulava intercontinental missile from a nuclear submarine nearby in the White Sea, and the failure is seen as a shame, very noble. Indeed, On 12 December 2008 Share International announced that a bright star would soon be seen in the sky, and that this would be a sign of the alleged world teacher Maitreya, of his imminent television interview in the U.S.A., predicted since a long time. This star was later written to be a spacecraft. Since December 2008 sightings of the star have been reported from around the world, also in the media, and archived by Share, which has received hundreds of photographs of it; the spiral over Norway is said to be the same kind of manifestation as reported about one year ago. No blame on the Russians, but in outer space the game with nuclear weapons is seen as an even bigger embarrassment than admitted.
October 21, 2009 6:00 am
I don't even like small dinosaurs. It is believed they co-existed with man.
More mysterious still is that it is believed that the same people still exist.
September 28, 2009 9:38 am
Polanski's guilty plea to unlawful sex with a minor in 1977 is a juridical construction, but may not be the whole truth. Most people in this forum are outraged, and they express themselves well, it doesn't look like revenge, and in the circumstances their comments sound even slightly humorous, until after the third row, thinking what would happen if they were a tribunal, an idea on which essentially the law is based, and if they were wrong.
I think the sentence on Polanski couldn't be that terrible. He will not get the death penalty whose ghost is yet everywhere in the law as a shadow. But why did he flee? Perhaps he disagreed. Did he flee his sentence, or did he flee a system?
In the Middle Ages people were executed before the jubilating crowd that always felt cheated. By symbolic punishments the state came forward to their dissatisfaction, in a time of war. Today there is the media and there are not dozens but millions of people taking their places in the arena. They don't have to even walk, it is brought to them.
High penalties have come to Europe from the U.S. for quite minor offences meanwhile. And guards are everywhere to protect the shop.
Foreigners with a sense of justice who love the ideals of America even don't dare to go here.
Crime and punishment can become a vicious spiral of mediocrity on the one hand and the excess of war on the other hand; not only but especially in their combination they are the banality in which we are involved.
That is why Maitreya returned to the world in 1977, and his advice is awaited on television.
Crime and punishment can become a vicious spiral of mediocrity on the one hand and the excess of war on the other hand; not only but especially in their combination they are the banality in which we are involved.
October 1, 2009 7:29 am
There is a bravado among the mountain police that 'we always get our man'. Hearing this case come up after so many years still makes the outsider wonder what is its underlying (under lying) logic. In any case we are convinced that the prosecutor, and not only he, has been parading Polanski, and that whatever the lies, objectivity is tainted, and Polanski may have been kidnapped by a film, but has lived in exile for nothing. And now in giving asylum to the refugee, the U.S. wants him straight in its prison. Instead of acting on behalf of the law, one has assumed the role of actor in a Polanski movie, in his likeness. 1977 was a legendary year, just as 1988.
September 29, 2009 11:59 pm
Columnist Steve Lopez reads through old grand jury transcripts in which a girl who was 13 in 1977 describes her encounter with Roman Polanski.
You must never forget that Pythagoras married a thirteen-year-old girl when he was about ninety.
They knew each other.
This is not confirmed by Benjamin Creme.
(That doesn't make him a rapist.)
Before the Law
A man from the country seeks the law and wishes to gain entry to the law through a doorway. The doorkeeper tells the man that he cannot go through at the present time. The man asks if he can ever go through, and the doorkeeper says that is possible. The man waits by the door for years, bribing the doorkeeper with everything he has. The doorkeeper accepts the bribes, but tells the man that he accepts them "so you won't think you've neglected something." The man waits at the door until he is about to die. Right before his death, he asks the doorkeeper why even though everyone seeks the law, no one else has come in all the years. The doorkeeper answers "No one else could gain admittance here, because this entrance was meant solely for you. I am now going to shut it."
Franz Kafka, The Trial
The Law can be interpreted as the Self.
The parable can be interpreted in a Freudian way as well.
But that I leave up to the Court.
September 29, 2009 1:55 pm
Kafka is back.
Mahatma KH
I know nothing and everything.
With love.
The rule of law of California is in a crisis. That Polanski still would have to pay for what has been - as suggested - selected from among his many crimes, is a bit absurd, and is a flaw. It is also traumatising to the victim, whose reason transcends her indignation more diligent than the law. Polanski calls forth sinister images, and also intensifies prejudice, which is part of his work, and his life, his life's work, a mission which has more often gone over his head. Guilt is a philosophical question here.
I don't know much about Polanski and his films, so I cannot be a supporter, and I never brought them up in a talk, but they were brought up several times to me by girls, I now understand better why - a thirteen-year old girl had involuntary sex with the director who was known as an adult - but I always knew that his personal life and films have something in common. Crime is intertwined everywhere, especially in our feelings and thoughts, and nobody is innocent.
I once spoke with a woman, and I had an impression of something strange, which I asked her could relate to anything from her experience. I cannot assure you it is true, but from the detail I mentioned, she remembered that she visited a house for sale in Los Angeles, with her family who wanted to buy it at the time, which was next door to the one where among others Polanski's wife Sharon Tate was murdered afterwards, and that she had had a very strange feeling there. She was only a child then. Her parents haven't bought the house. Shortly afterwards it seems the killers went through the garden of that house to enter.
Murderers often have a desire to go through my backyard, by the way, I don't know why.
(A possibility is:
1. They try to be something they are not.
2. They try to borrow from my innocence
....This may apply,
also in this case.)
Nobody has ever been the same since.
I also have to think here about Sai Baba who has been accused of pedophilia.
But let's admit it: Polanski didn't play football.
September 16, 2009 4:46 pm
Art is not about certainty like science. Art you may not know anything about, but may sense. That doesn't mean it has to be left to chance.
September 16, 2009 6:15 am
Racism is a completely overrated and rationalized issue since a long time, the term is completely inflated. It has been used again and again in many countries to cause controversy, because most people are ashamed of it. So whether something or somebody is racist depends solely on the degree of shame that is speculated upon. In such a way a kind of melting pot has been developed of cowardice and shame. However, I don't think that Jimmy Carter means it this bad. He has been underrated because he is too modest to exploit such popular frustrations. The latter can be said about Obama too.
September 7, 2009 12:51 pm
What I see looks authentic, and it is symbolic. The frog symbolizes a number of things. It was always used by witches as a familiar. And in this way Kahlo identified with it. In general the frog stands for transformation, healing and metamorphosis, but it has also been associated with fertility and rebirth in ancient cultures. The frog is said to understand what it is like to undergo growing pains, and the Celts believed it represented curative or healing powers which in fact have been recently studied and confirmed by science. In this connection, the frog was intuitively perceived by Frida Kahlo who suffered significant physical trouble, injury and pain in her life.
August 27, 2009 story
The frog hops, and is a symbol of a leap of faith and of a quantum leap. The toad is a frog, but one that doesn't hop, and doesn't write in Spanish. As a familiar of the witch, a frog was seen as a symbol of the devil, like the snake, which is not a familiar of the witch although. A whole Secret Doctrine was written by Blavatsky to disprove the demonic quality of the snake, it says the snake is a symbol of wisdom in the East, and that Jesus spoke about snakes of wisdom. The pharaohs wore a uraeus, a symbol of the snake, on their forehead. And two snakes around a dagger are a medical emblem. By the way, the term pharaoh was first used in relation to Akhenaten, and means something like house.
Only those who make no step at all, can make no missteps. Under inspiration one does things that can't be reasoned, less so by the audience, that often wakes up by these, and has caused them. I hope this will be our understanding. If this is part of the heritage of Edward, he will be pleased.
Jaap den Haan @ 3:56 AM PDT, Aug 27, 2009
August 25, 2009 10:51 pm
There are many who don't see their opportunity beyond having a job. Ted Kennedy didn't take his that way, the man had a mission. There are those who can build with his building stones. The time is near.
August 19, 2009 8:57 am
I now have to think of "Do you remember the time", with Nefertiti, and Eddie Murphy as Akhenaten. Akhenaten is supposedly the guy behind the curse of the pharaohs. If am right he was addressed here as Ramses, more risky.
Kandinsky was greatly influenced by Theosophy, and believed in the coming of a New Age. In a way he created a precedent for Benjamin Creme, a contemporary painter who says the Time of Revelation is now, a hundred years after Blue Mountain was painted. One of the themes of Kandinsky was the Apocalypse. In this way he helped to unveil, not only reveal but relieve, the work of the apostle John (a mahatma, KH, now back in the common world with the teacher Maitreya) in an undogmatic way. Kandinsky interpreted various tales in the Bible as archetypes.
This kind of thing worried me already when the war on terror started, this apart from the expected loss of human lives, just looking from the interest of the U.S., which still hasn't been rediscovered. Relations in Asia have also changed. China has discovered its own minorities. The ease now to speak without a blush doesn't disappear so easily.
A portrait is a historical document. That it was made in '1984', makes me think.
Posted by: Jaap den Haan August 13, 2009 at 02:15 AM
Posted by: Jaap den Haan August 13, 2009 at 02:15 AM
Must science declare a holy war on religion? The so-called New Atheistsare attacking the mantra of science and faith being compatible. By Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum August 11th, 2009
109. Evolutionism is right that man owes his physique to the animal. But we also evolve in consciousness, which unites. A star appeared to lead three wise men from the East to the birthplace of Jesus. This may seem unscientific. A similar object is seen in the sky today by many, heralding the imminent appearance of Maitreya in His first interview on a major US television programme. How will we look at the evidence tomorrow ignored today by those who look back or down, or who don't have television?
Submitted by: Jaap den Haan
9:54 AM PDT, August 11, 2009
Submitted by: Jaap den Haan
9:54 AM PDT, August 11, 2009
If the planet is to be saved from the effects of global warming, more must be done than is yet planned to limit carbon emissions, and in a shorter period of time. People have been far too slow to recognize the dangers, and still many refuse to take them seriously. Such evasions put in jeopardy the future of planet earth. At most, we have ten to fifteen years to establish a balance before the damage is irreparable.
That the Dalai Lama is a man of peace is nice. That he opposes Communist China in Tibet is either nonsense or the reason he fails at peace. Next to this there is no inevitable relationship between opposing communism and being a man of peace. I met someone with a Tibetan Mastiff who had been there to investigate the dog's background although who said the people there are too afraid and damaged.
In combination with 'On the Origin of Species' of Charles Darwin zoos only make plausible that they are good enough for people. Haven't you noticed?
There is this story that Jamshetji Tata, who was refused entrance into an English hotel in the 19th century because he was a native, built the Taj Mahal hotel, and after it was completed, there was a sign at the entrance, a curse, like ''Mad dogs and Englishmen not allowed", in the same style the English hotel forbade "Dogs and Indians". The story further says that the sign was taken away after inquiry from Lord Curzon, the British Viceroy, who ordered the other sign to be taken away as well, from the English hotel. Still, guests have not always behaved.
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Writing to Vermeer is the option.
I only disagree with more nuclear reactors, proposed by Obama, as an alternative source of energy. Before a technology of light is developed, nuclear energy is not the best argument. Einstein, one stone, ironically is still seen as synonymous to splitting the building stone of matter, but he is no dogma and doesn't have the final say either. Thus spoke Koot Hoomi.
Mahatma KH is concerned about the following: the environment is an (even) more urgent issue than the economy; not very many people realize the damage to our natural habitat. One should ask if the earth can even be still saved and by what means, immediately. We must take care that nature is the essence of all future development, and we will recover to our own.
Long-sought war crimes suspect caught in Serbia: Radovan Karadzic is accused of genocide against Bosnia's Muslim population.
If I have a look at him, let us hope at least that this captured man is the real Karadzic and not, as was the case with the captured Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, a tragic double who was allegedly brainwashed by drugs to such an extent in the 'war on drugs (terror)' that he lost sense of his own identity and really believed that he was Saddam. He was executed anyway. The process involving systematic hypnosis was perfected during the Second World War by the intelligence agencies of all the major nations, especially by the CIA, FBI, the Russian KGB and the German Gestapo.
