There no such thing as The Devil It's just God when he's drunk
God downs a whole bottle of Jack Daniels then goes down to LA to have some fun
You want to find God then go down to The Boulevard and the corner of Vine Street on a Saturday night
You'll meet God when he's at the bar next to you,
he's on Jack straight
The third film has been planned for a long time
It involves BB and Nikki being grown up, Nikki looking for revenge on The Bride, Sophie and Elle also, and mentoring her
Elements like that
Whether it ever gets made or becomes another Vega Brothers we will see
It always relied on the timeline being right, the actors and characters being the right age
It obviously won't be called Kill Bill 3 though it would make them a trilogy
Quentin changes his concepts as he moves on and a lot of these never get made
Hateful Eight was originally going to be the direct sequel to Django but ended up as a new story
Lose The Arm has got to be the most horrific scene in the series
People have noted the parallel to Six Million Dollar Man
Steve wakes up and learns he has only his left arm remaining
Rudy explains it to him and we see the heart monitor
He tries to kill himself at night and the nurse saves him
He begs to die
Rude shows him the bionic arm and he rejects it, turns away
Alex is waking up to exact same situation
So we know what Steve went through, what the realty is for someone
In this case he cannot move or speak , he can just see and hear
Then the order to remove the arm
The boss gives the order and then walks away
The med team have to proceed
The instruction to put him back under, so the arm can be removed
Leaving him to wake up limbless
The silent scream that nobody hears
There is debate about how old the Matrix actually is
200 years like Morpheus states Several hundred years as some have surmised, given that this is the 6th version, which Morpheus didn't know Maybe it didn't matter The point is, with Neo injured, when they go above the clouds, Trinity sees the sun She sees the real sun, shining above the clouds The only human born in the Matrix, watching the artificial sin every day of their life, to see the real sun However the machines made the sun look in the matrix, would they be able to ever really capture it Then Trinity gets to see it for real, for one moment, with her real eyes Truly a glimpse of heaven that was waiting for her after she died The point is, we all FEEL whyand of course, Neo would never get to see it, even though he was there
Paradise Lost
Everyone knows who Helen Keller is, what she went through, the life she led
Not everyone has read her work, though it's well worth it as it's truly inspiring
She wrote a book about her religious faith, her belief in God called Light In My Darkness
One of the most profound things she wrote was on her concept of life after death, Heaven, reincarnation
She wrote that dying and leaving this place is like going into the next room "Only in the next room I will be able to see "
I like the idea that Helen is in the next room and she's can see
I also like to believe that Jenifer is in the next room, and there she is able to walk and run and dance again
His mother was a prostitute
John's father was a wealthy man who was married with a family
John's mother was a whore who died from a disease she caught
John never has the chance for a wife and family and envies that in David
It is a reminder what his father had and took for granted
His father was greed, greedy for money for sex
It is easier for a camel to pass though the eye of a needle that for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven,
Jesus tells us John's father is suffering in hell
Like David has, and like John's father had and took for granted
John was maybe always Envy and came to realise that fully through his Envy of David, a life he could never have
He takes David's life away and allows him to do the same to him with his Wrath
John probably believed he was going to Hell, having visited each sin upon the sinner and their murders as well as his suicide, as it was
He believes he is going down to whatever Circle of Hell he belongs in, those of you who have read Dante may have your interpretation of what John took from that, what he expected
Like the killer Jeremy in Hideaway, film based on the Dean Koontz book, who commits a murder suicide, asks Satan to take his soul, the goes on the journey ending up in the Lake Of Fire
John no doubt believes in the Hell he is going to
David now faces Hell on Earth, the optimistic future with his wife, and the child he just found out about, taken away by John, and the murder he committed means he faces a long jail term, possibly Life, and that as an ex cop
Though Apathy is not a Deadly Sin in the list of Seven, it is presented here as such
Apathy is what allows the other sins to happen
For evil men to do evil they just need good men to do nothing
The club owner has allowed the Lust crime to happen due to his Apathy
Somerset is aware of his own rising Apathy and plans to retire and move away
At the end he overcomes his Apathy, the only character to survive and find redemption
In Fight Club, Fincher's next film with Brad Pitt, the Father conversation between Tyler and Jack echoes this
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
It's hard to admit when we're wrong, but even though everything looks fine, there's a problem.
Something is broken and you have to see where it's broken and set about fixing it or it's all gonna come apart.
In 1888, William Williams Keen became one of the first surgeons to successfully remove a brain tumor.
A big win. It's true. You can look it up.
What's harder to find, however, are stories of all the times old Double Billy K tried to pull a tumor out of a brain and lost.
The losses must have happened.
The key, though, win or lose, is to never fail.
And the only way to fail is not to fight.
So you fight until you can't fight anymore. Hold up your head and enter the arena and face the enemy. Fight until you can't fight anymore. Never let go. Never give up. Never run. Never surrender.
Fight the good fight.
You fight. Even when it seems inevitable that you're about to go down swinging.
Why do we even try when the barriers are so high and the odds are so low? Why don't we just pack it in and go home? It would be so, so much easier.
It's because in the end, there's no glory in easy. No one remembers easy. They remember the blood and the bones and the long, agonizing fight to the top.
And that is how you become legendary.
| It is said that there's one sure sign of a successful negotiation. It's that when the parties leave the table, they feel like they have been screwed. The goal is a compromise, a situation where everybody wins. It is said that negotiation is an art form. Yet, when we negotiate, we have a strategy. We use tactics. "Strategies" and "tactics" aren't words we use for seeking a compromise. These are words for going to war. |
So, there's this bird.
Some sort of swallow I think.
Every September, thousands of them ditch rainy Seattle to winter in Mexico.
These birds aren't dumb.
And every year, crowds of people gather around Seattle to drink beer and watch the flocks take off. They call it the Great Migration.
I don't know how those birds do it. Travel thousands of miles without getting lost. Banging into windows, being eaten by cats.
But every spring, they're always here.
I guess they come back to what they know.
People say it's pretty cool, watching them go. They say you can actually see the moment when, at some mysterious signal, all at once the birds decide to leave.
So maybe I've been missing out.
Whatever
... there's always next year.
There are times in our lives when love really does conquer all: exhaustion, sleep deprivation, anything.
And then there are those times when it seems like love brings us nothing but pain.
We're always looking for ways to ease the pain.
Sometimes we ease the pain by making the best of what we have. Sometimes it's by losing ourselves in the moment.
And sometimes all we need to do to ease the pain is call a simple truce
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We're all looking for answers, in life, in everything.
Sometimes the answers we're looking for have been hiding just below the surface.
Other times, we find answers when we didn't even realize we were asking the question.
Sometimes the answers can catch us completely by surprise.
And sometimes, even when we find the answer we've been looking for, we're still left with a whole hell of a lot of questions.
| The human life is made up of choices. Yes or no? In or out? Up or down? And then there are the choices that matter: to love or hate, to be a hero or to be a coward, to fight or to give in, to live or die... Live or die? That's the important choice, and it's not always in our hands. Yes or no? In or out? Up or down? Live or die? Hero or coward? Fight or give in? I'll say it again, to make sure you hear me: the human life is made up of choices. Live or die? That's the important choice … and it's not always in our hands. |
The skin is the largest organ in the body.
It protects us. Holds us together. Literally lets us know how we’re feeling.
The skin can be soft and vulnerable. Highly sensitive. Easy to break.
No matter how thick-skinned we try to be, there’s millions of electrifying nerve endings in there. Open and exposed and feeling way too much.
Try as we might to keep from feeling pain. Sometimes it’s just unavoidable.
Sometimes, that’s the only thing left: just feeling.
If you’re a climber there’s always another mountain.
They take pictures of mountain climbers at the top of a mountain.
They’re smiling, ecstatic, triumphant.
They don’t take pictures along the way cause who wants to remember the rest of it.
We push ourselves because we have to, not because we like it. The relentless climb, the pain and anguish of taking it to the next level. Nobody takes pictures of that. Nobody wants to remember.
We just wanna remember the view from the top. The breathtaking moment at the edge of the world. That’s what keeps us climbing. And it’s worth the pain.
That’s the crazy part.
It’s worth anything.
Just like we need food and water, humans need each other.
A brain study revealed that when placed in an MRI, a patient's reward center lit up when another person sat in the room.
Neurons fire when talk to someone, think about someone, and they go haywire when we hold someone's hand.
Our brains and bodies are actually programmed to seek each other out and connect.
So then why do so many people prefer being alone?
Why do we often run for the hills when we feel the slightest connection?
Why we do we feel compelled to fight what we're hardwired to do?
Maybe it's because when we find someone or something to hold on to, that feeling becomes like air.
And we're terrified we're going to lose it.
, you can get pretty good at the alone thing.
But most things are better when they're shared with someone else
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.
Each minute thousands of animals are being eaten alive,
many others are running for their lives,
whimpering with fear,
others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites,
thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease.
It must be so.
If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored.
In a universe of electrons and selfish genes,
blind physical forces and genetic replication,
some people are going to get hurt,
other people are going to get lucky,
and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice.
The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is,
at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but pitiless indifference
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded,
“This is better than we thought!
The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?”
Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.”
A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations.
What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe.
Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this:
when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability.
Faiths… all faiths… are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable.
With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth.
Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.
The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control
And NO, Control can't be M or Q as they are MI6 where Control is American.
And McCall is NOT Solo as Solo is American. Solo retired, moved to London and became Albert Stroller (think about it)
As someone will bring it up - this is set after the Connery Bond retires. Moore was still Bond in London when Equalizer was setting up in New York. In this version, "James Bond 007" is the alias used by that agent at that time. When "Connery" retires and moves to New York, "Moore" becomes Bond. (Forgetting about Lazenby of course). So maybe Robert McCall (a Scottish name) was Connery-Bonds REAL name all along.
Those who have seen The Rock may have heard the theory that John Mason is Connery-Bond, captured and disavowed, replaced by the Moore-Bond and left in US prison.
McCall was a retired Intelligence Officer, deliberately British, so people have enjoyed speculating who he may have really been during his career - Bond, Steed, or even Callan, same actor playing what is really the same character.
But yes, if McCall is the retired CONNERY Bond (think about it) then Control is Felix, still in the Service and now very senior. Even if it isn't literally them, that's kind of who they are based on
If you look at his next several books, Christine and Firestarter which are standalone. Cujo, in which its speculated that the killer dog is the killer deputy from Dead Zone. The stories in Nightfall, which include the ones that appear in Cats Eye, Children Of The Corn, and a short story set at the start of the flu outbreak from Stand. IT, his next magnum length book, set it Derry, another Maine town, nothing to do with Roland's world. Yet at the same time the DT series are being released, Drawing Of The Three, Waste Lands. Back in this world, we start to see The Shop appearing and being referenced more in the books.
It is massively unfair that Stu goes home to see his baby grow up and Larry doesn't. They died for no reason.
Flagg is the Man In Black from Dark Tower.
In Roland's world, the World Moved On, there are "thinnies" to alternate versions of our world, or what version of it Mr King is working in at that time. The Stand was a very early book, as was The Gunslinger, and Eyes Of The Dragon, the other book in which Flagg appears.
If you look at his other early works, Carrie, Salem's Lot, Shining, Dead Zone, the four stories in Different Seasons which include Shawshank and The Body (Stand By Me), he hadn't really started making a lot of those connections that you see in his later works. Roland's world really was a different story set in a different world at that time. The only connections at that time were that a lot of stories were set in Maine, and more of them were being set in, or connected to, Castle Rock.
The Stand was the first early book where the character leave the East Coast and march west, and it is a post apocalyptic brave new world. The next tie he tried this post apocalypse approach was in Cell, the first post-Roland book, written after completing the last DT.
What makes no sense, and I thought this since I first read the abridged book in 1980, is why did Glen, Larry and Ralph have to die?
They are "sent West", Stu gets a pass by breaking his leg so Tom can find him and escort him safely back to Fran, the other 3 end up in Vegas. It was never clear what they are expected to do, so you are waiting for some divine deus ex purpose and something they actually DO that resolves things a purpose. But no, they get captured and banged up. Glen gets shot in his cell. Larry and Ralph get taken out for execution. Then Trash turns up with the missile and blows the town up killing Flagg and all the "evil" people. Which would have happened anyway.
So why did they have to go West just to die in the bomb blast with the baddies? Them being there did nothing to make Trash turn up with the bomb. They died for nothing. Same with the 3 "scouts"- the judge and her who just went there and got killed, they didn't learn anything or bring anything back. Tom got out alive, finds Stu, then the bomb goes off. The whole point of the exercise was what? Five got sent there to die for nothing. All they had to do was to stay in the Frees one, and Trash turns up with he bomb and blows up Vegas. Problem takes care of itself.
This is the one thing that always bugged me about this great book and it's film.
"Now, I think it was a Brit named Sir Robert Walpole who coined the phrase, "All men have their price."
Now, I happen to agree.
Although my point of view on the matter's changed.
See, I used to think my price would be money or diamonds or gold. You know?
Well, imaging my surprise when I realized that my price has become a needle in the arm."
In life only one thing is certain, apart from death and taxes:
No matter how hard you try, no matter how good your intentions, you are going to make mistakes. You are going to hurt people. You are going to get hurt.
And if you ever want to recover, there's really only one thing you can say. Forgive and forget That's what they say.
It's good advice, but it's not very practical.
When someone hurts us, we want to hurt them back. When someone wrongs us, we want to be right.
Without forgiveness old scores are never settled.
Old wounds never heal, and the most we can hope for is that one day we'll be lucky enough to forget.
we see addiction every day.
It's shocking how many kinds of addiction exist. It would be too easy if it were just drugs and booze and cigarettes.
the hardest part of kicking a habit is wanting to kick it. I mean, we get addicted for a reason, right?
Often, too often, things that start out as just a normal part of your life at some point cross the line to obsessive, compulsive, out of control. It's the high we're chasing, the high that makes everything else fade away.
The thing about addiction is it never ends well, because eventually, whatever it is that was getting us high stops feeling good and starts to hurt.
Still, they say you don’t kick the habit until you hit rock bottom, but how do you know when you’re there?
Because no matter how badly a thing is hurting us, sometimes letting it go hurts even worse.
People have scars.
In all sorts of unexpected places.
Like secret road maps of their personal histories. Diagrams of all their old wounds.
Most of our wounds heal, leaving nothing behind but a scar.
But some of them don't.
Some wounds we carry with us everywhere and though the cut's long gone, the pain still lingers.
What's worse, new wounds which are so horribly painful or old wounds that should've healed years ago and never did?
Maybe our old wounds teach us something. They remind us where we've been and what we've overcome. They teach us lessons about what to avoid in the future.
That's what we like to think.
But that's not the way it is, is it?
Some things we just have to learn over and over and over again.
Disappearances happen in science.
Disease can suddenly fade away, tumors go missing,
open someone up to discover the cancer is gone.
It's unexplained, it's rare, but it happens.
Call it mis-diagnosis, say we never saw it in the first place, any explanation but the truth.
That life is full of vanishing acts.
If something that we didn’t know we had disappears, do we miss it?
