What new movies have you seen?

[Bageleth]

I think that might have been the first movie where the aliens had my sympathy and the humans didn't. I think that I covered my eyes a lot during the last third of the movie because of the violence. Still a good show though

[ePhilosopher9]

i finally saw "I Love You, Man".

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i also saw a triple play of Moulin Rouge, kubrick's 2001, and i love you man in the same setting. see, the daughter who recently graduated demanded her viva la france, and the absinthe love made a laugh of a movie an untiipated herald. Kubrick wasted our time, the elders, but it was the firtst time the daughter had seen it. Our pact was to suffer through each other's movie choices. When Zarathustra emerged, we found the iPad so fully depicted in the movie. The impatient grad fast forwarded thru HAL's worn memory chip. Then, in a stungrenade of grace, I Love You Man came upon our prementioned pact, and as the strapped down watchers of Clockwork came unto being, life agin, was sustained, belief dissuspended, and laughs chockolded thru the room. Voulez vouz couchez avec moi, ce soir? I Love You, Man. You put our family back!

[ePhilosopher9]

Kubrick

funny that you mention Kubrick, for a Clockwork

never mind...

[Datura]

I watched Alice In Wonderland by Tim Burton and I will say that I loved it! The one point of the movie that stands out the most was the fact that it wasn't supposed to be the book version but that it was her coming back that really did it for me. The visual effects were stunning and Helena Bonham Carter was fantastic!

[ePhilosopher9]

Happy Documentary Release Day!!!

Lately, I've been watching these short clips to follow up on a theory from the 1970's that seems to be prophetic in the here and now of 2010.

Participants came from around the world for this one time mind boggling event, which we agreed not to record.[i]

Timewave Zero - Novelty Theory

"It's like a navigational device for a Time Machine which has yet to be built."- Terence McKenna from the early 1970s until his death in the year 2000.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtnV25LWFQ8

Especially watch timecode 7:33 of 10:00

Novelty Theory attempts to calculate the ebb and flow of novelty in the universe as an inherent quality of time.

Novelty theory involves ontology, morphogenesis, and eschatology. Novelty, in this context, can be thought of as newness, density of complexification, and dynamic change as opposed to static habituation. According to McKenna, when "novelty" is graphed over time, a fractal waveform known as timewave zero or simply the timewave results. The graph shows at what times, but never at what locations, novelty is increasing or decreasing.

According to the timewave graph, great periods of novelty occurred about 4 billion years ago when Earth was formed, 65 million years ago when dinosaurs were extinct and mammals expanded, about 10,000 years ago after the end of the ice age, around late 18th century when social and scientific revolutions progressed, during the sixties, around the time of 9/11, and with coming novelty periods in November 2008, October 2010, with the novelty progressing towards the infinity on 21st December 2012.

"What do you think when you face the waterfall?"

“Our problems today are more complex and more threatening than at any time in history. Sadly, we cannot even begin to solve those problems, because our reality orientations are lower than a snowman’s blood pressure. We squint at existence through thick veils of personal and societal ignorance, overlaid with still more opaque sheets of disinformation, thoughtfully provided by the state, the church, and big business (often one and the same). The difference between us and Helen Keller is that she knew she was deaf and blind.

“To truly alter conditions, we must alter ourselves—philosophically, psychologically, and perhaps, biologically. The first step in those alterations will consist mainly of cutting away the veils in order that we see ourselves for that Transgalactic Other that we really are and always have been. Once the veils are severed, we, each of us, can finally start to attend to our self-directed mutagensis.

“The flying saucer is warming up its linguistic engines. The mushroom is shoving its broadcasting transmitter through the forest door. Time for the monkeys to move into hyperspace! It’s going to be a weird, wild trip, but, guided by the archaic, Gaia-given gyroscope, we can commence the journey in a state of excitement and hope. With his uniquely secular brand of eschatological euphoria..."

Considered by some to represent a model of history's most important events, the universal algorithm has also been extrapolated to be a model for future events. McKenna admitted to the expectation of a "singularity of novelty", and that he and his colleagues projected many hundreds of years into the future to find when this singularity (runaway "newness" or extropy) could occur. The graph of extropy had many enormous fluctuations over the last 25,000 years, but amazingly, it hit an asymptote at exactly December 22, 2012.

In other words, entropy (or habituation) no longer exists after that date. It is impossible to define that state. The technological singularity concept parallels this, only at a date roughly three decades later. According to leading expert Ray Kurzweil), another concept called cultural singularity (essentially cultural dissolution, or language dissolution), parallels this as well. Terrence claimed to have no knowledge of the Mayan calendar, which ends one day before the Timewave graph does: December 21, 2012, this is likely to be true as Mckennas timewave theory was published in The Invisible Landscape 12 years before the book which brought the Mayan calendar into public consciousness; José Argüelles's The Mayan Factor

because...

Nobody is smarter than you are !!! <click for video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMNAOk1bMDw


The theory proposes that the universe is an engine designed for the production and conservation of novelty. Novelty, in this context, can be thought of as newness, or extropy (a term coined by Max More meaning the opposite of entropy). According to McKenna, when novelty is graphed over time, a fractal waveform known as "timewave zero" or simply the "timewave" results. The graph shows at what time periods, but never at what locations, novelty increases or decreases. A widely-promulgated idea known as Novelty theory predicts the ebb and flow of novelty in the universe as an inherent quality of time.


So , here is a good idea to stop the oil spill...

"We each must be like fisherman...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua95T1Co-BY

... have you ever noticed that your little finger exactly fits your nostril."

Just a middle-sized idea

from ePhilosopher.

[Datura]

Watched The Road today. I liked it even though in some places it was quite slow. I really loved the ending, a little twist that was refreshing. Nice to see the Dad just wasn't paranoid.

Tomorrow, Revolutionary Road and The Informant.

[valhalla66]

This past Saturday I saw Toy Story 3 in 3D. Excellent. I got a little verklempt toward the end of the movie, Disney has a way of doing that to me. The baby doll looked identical to one I had growing up, right down to the pen scribbles on it that looked as if someone tried to wash them off. Good times.

[old honda rider]

Pontypool.

Picture this: You work in a small radio station that's essentially cut off from the outside world. No windows, nobody coming and going, the only contact you have is through the telephone.

During your morning show, you get a call that sounds like it's coming from a crank about some riot taking place.

A few minutes later, another call. Same thing.

A few minutes after that, yet another call.

Before you know it, the radio station is inundated with brief, somewhat garbled messages from outside about riots, an army moving in, shots fired... and you have no idea what is actually going on.

Great stuff. Not for kids.

[Bageleth]

(06-21-2010 02:52 PM)valhalla66 Wrote:  This past Saturday I saw Toy Story 3 in 3D. Excellent. I got a little verklempt toward the end of the movie, Disney has a way of doing that to me. The baby doll looked identical to one I had growing up, right down to the pen scribbles on it that looked as if someone tried to wash them off. Good times.

We sat TS3 last night and I wish that I had taken tissues with me! My 13 year old was sobbing too. I cry everytime I see "UP" too. Pixar sure knows where to tug on the emotions!

[Datura]

Surrogates - It was ok. Good to watch on a Sunday afternoon.

Planet 51 - Some really funny lines but the storyline was old. Best line " What an odd place to put your antenna" Cute movie but honestly it's for the little older set, maybe 8 or up.