Here and Now...What's Happening?

[ulli]

Posted by DNA (here)

Posted by dan33 (here)
LOST HIGHWAY

I have just got to ask Dan, do you or does anyone understand this movie?
I used to like David Lynch but after trying to figure out what is going on in his movies I have come to the conclusian that I have no freaking idea.
I was scared to admit this for a while because of the artsy crowd telling me how deep he was and people who don't get him just don't understand symbolic movie making. To this I say so be it, I have no freaking idea what is going on in David Lynch movies

By the time David Lynch made this movie he was already known for making weird, strange, dark movies,
and had to live up (down) to that stereotype to make his weirdo fans happy.

Breaking away from mainstream stuff can at times mean getting lost in all sorts of alleyways,
and some would not even consider it as "getting lost",
but believe that they found exactly what they were looking for.
Personally, it's not my scene...but who is to judge another's path?

[Crystine]

It is not a requirement to be Christian to enjoy the effort in this video clip. Heartwarming.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=S6bCA1a302c

[RunningDeer]

Posted by araucaria (here)
whoever posted pictures of the pyramids under snow was the victim of a cruel hoax. The photo that was photoshopped originally looked like this:

That was my first thought. So heck, let's make this one Christmasy. Let's pretend that you don't notice there's no shadow for the stars. I could add them.

"But heck," she said again, "perfection is overrated."

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Playdo of Ataraxas (here)
Hello Violet. I really enjoyed the movie you posted. After watching it, I found an equally great movie to watch on Siberian trappers. It was really interesting to see the commonalities and differences between the Canadian and Russian trappers. The Film is called "Happy People: A Year in The Taiga" and it is a Werner Herzog film. Highly recommended for anyone who enjoyed "The Last Trapper".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683876/
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xw0...ria_shortfilms
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4QXa_...=TL3FyN9-3vp0I

Posted by Violet (here)
Samm, your post reminded me of this one

These are a couple of my favorites from that genre:

Jeremiah Johnson - Trailer & Full movie

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QFLwH-ZZ1MY

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DTLGEDTfK3s

Last of the Dogmen Trailer

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=znHjT9Av8Gw

I couldn't find the free full movie. I've got a copy that was worth it's price. It's often hard to find. Here are 7 Last of the Dogmen Clips.

[dianna]

Paula ... Jeremiah Johnson ... seriously ... one of my fav movies of all times ...

[RunningDeer]

Posted by dianna (here)
Paula ... Jeremiah Johnson ... seriously ... one of my fav movies of all times ...

Hi Dianna,

Mine, too!

[Carmody]

I miss Charles Bronson. (not the 'Death Wish' Charles Bronson, but the other roles) (the Jeremiah Johnson clip make me look around a bit)

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Carmody (here)
I miss Charles Bronson. (not the 'Death Wish' Charles Bronson, but the other roles) (the Jeremiah Johnson clip make me look around a bit)

Here's a Charles Bronson I hadn't watched, "Once Upon a Time in The West". I downloaded it couple of weeks back from iTunes. Well done. A different era of filming. Long movie, over two and half hours. Didn't find a freebie on YouTube.

Once Upon a Time in The West Trailer

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MNGQ1hUyx-k

Charles Bronson; You Brought Two Too Many

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8XkHsinz7oU

[Carmody]

"'you brought two too many", the most bad ass line in all of film history.

and then:

Frank: The future don't matter to us. Nothing matters now - not the land, not the money, not the woman. I came here to see you. 'Cause I know that now, you'll tell me what you're after.

Harmonica: ...Only at the point of dyin'.

[Carmody]

Woody Strode*, the guy in the scene at the train station with the messy hair, he jumped out a window, suicide it seems. The film was still being made and this was during filming. It was at his hotel room for the filming sessions.

The film set, the whole train station, was made for the film. They used an existing track, and that alone, IIRC. The rest was made for the film (or something close to that)

Sometimes, it seems, the best in anything, or something that brings change like that, some peak of sorts, it seems to get what appears to be, on the surface, like a blood sacrifice. Like Woody jumping out the window (4 or 7 stories up). IIRC, someone else said they saw him fly by their window.

The scene just before that 'showdown', with Jack playing with the fly and the gun, that was entirely ad-libbed. and they kept it for the film.

But back to the epic soundtrack. One of Morricone's finest, and that's saying a lot:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=i3Q8h-fDfEI

To illustrate what I mean, I'm going along in this other thread. Pressure builds. Things break, they shift, they crack and pop. Today, a full moon, and a (XXXX, removed... too much information) (I like my privacy) (let's just say about half a city block went away)

On the highway in front of me, a car spun out on the 3 lane wide freeway, at highway speed and bounced off the center cement barrier.

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Edit: correction, it was not woody. woody played the other hired gun, the black man at the train station scene.

The guy who killed himself, did it in full film costume, when he jumped out the window.

That was the messy haired guy who's name I confused with Woody Strode. It was Al Mulock who jumped out his room window.

[skyflower]

Posted by Carmody (here)
Woody Strode, the guy in the scene at the train station with the messy hair, he jumped out a window, suicide it seems. The film was still being made and this was during filming. It was at his hotel room for the filming sessions.

The film set, the whole train station, was made for the film. They used an existing track, and that alone, IIRC. The rest was made for the film (or something close to that)

Sometimes, it seems, the best in anything, or something that brings change like that, some peak of sorts, it seems to get what appears to be, on the surface, like a blood sacrifice. Like Woody jumping out the window (4 or 7 stories up). IIRC, someone else said they saw him fly by their window.

The scene just before that 'showdown', with Jack playing with the fly and the gun, that was entirely ad-libbed. and they kept it for the film.

But back to the epic soundtrack. One of Morricone's finest, and that's saying a lot:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=i3Q8h-fDfEI

To illustrate what I mean, I'm going along in this other thread. Pressure builds. Things break, they shift, they crack and pop. Today, a full moon, and a (XXXX, removed... too much information) (I like my privacy) (let's just ay about half a city block went away)

On the highway in front of me, a car spun out on the 3 lane wide freeway, at highway speed and bounced off the center cement barrier.

I love love love this soundtrack!
I remember hearing a snippet of this music in a fashion show 10 years ago, and I went on a frantic search to find the title to this lovely melody. ( went around singing the short snippet I heard, and it wasn't completely accurate)

As I sit here recovering from one of the worst colds I have caught in the past ten years, listening to this soundtrack, I feel a strong knowing that it's all come to an end. The past ten days have been like passing through a minefield with quite a few explosions surrounding me. Everything that could go wrong went wrong at work, co workers getting into car collisions, my roommate damaging the side of my car while parking.....tomorrow things turn around.

I am reminded of how blessed I am for my health, as I am rarely sick.
I am also reminded to pat myself in the back, as I kept my cool through this "passage" and remembered to smile. I have come a long way. On to the next challenge.

The music tells me, job we'll done. Tomorrow you get a clean canvas. Go do your thing. :D

[grapevine]

My least complicated relationship is with my cat. I feed her, stroke her and in return she snuggles close to me and purrs loudly in my ear. OK there’s that irritating stropping she does on the carpet but I don’t love her any less for that . After that it gets more complicated . . .

There’s a great phrase – said a lot on the forum – “joining the dots”, which I take to mean making connections. But if you don’t join the dots in the right order then the Bigger Picture doesn’t emerge and you just get muddle. So the question is: What is the right order?

There’s another great phrase – also said a lot on the forum – “if it resonates with you” which I take to mean gut feeling. Does that mean gut feelings are right? Logically no. We can only resonate and join the dots from the information we have at that moment. So the question must be: How do we know we have all the information? But not all information is knowledge . . . .

Has anyone joined the dots in the right order and resonated with knowledge? If so, what is the answer?

[onawah]

What rings true for us in our gut can change; our gut instinct isn't infallible, but I think the best we can do is just go with what resonates for us at the time, because it will eventually lead us to a clearer, more accurate truth.
True, information isn't knowledge-- knowledge is information combined with wisdom.
But wisdom comes partly from intuition, and you cannot explain intuition with information.
Intuition can help you see around corners where logic and reason cannot go.
We can label it with as many words as we like, but Great Mystery is beyond words and intellect.

My kitty is my best friend. I love those chubby little cheeks in your avatar, Windmill.

[araucaria]

Posted by w1ndmill (here)
My least complicated relationship is with my cat. I feed her, stroke her and in return she snuggles close to me and purrs loudly in my ear. OK there’s that irritating stropping she does on the carpet but I don’t love her any less for that . After that it gets more complicated . . .

There’s a great phrase – said a lot on the forum – “joining the dots”, which I take to mean making connections. But if you don’t join the dots in the right order then the Bigger Picture doesn’t emerge and you just get muddle. So the question is: What is the right order?

There’s another great phrase – also said a lot on the forum – “if it resonates with you” which I take to mean gut feeling. Does that mean gut feelings are right? Logically no. We can only resonate and join the dots from the information we have at that moment. So the question must be: How do we know we have all the information? But not all information is knowledge . . . .

Has anyone joined the dots in the right order and resonated with knowledge? If so, what is the answer?

Hi W1ndmill.

I like your frankness – no beating about the bush: What is the answer to the big question?

Here’s my million dollars.

I find the idea of joining dots a bit childish and simplistic – a dot has no dimensions or any features at all and the only way to join them correctly is when they are numbered, which in real life they never are.

On the other hand, the pieces of a puzzle have plenty of shape, and when you find one, you often find several others falling into place around it. So there is a notion of construction there and there is also the idea of verification: the piece either fits or it doesn’t. It may seem to fit for a while on one side, but not on the others.

The either of resonance corresponds to this process of verification. Think of the simplest form of muscle testing. This is a yes/no positive/negative response in the relaxed body. You tend to lean forward for yes and pull back for no. Try it: it works. If you say or think ‘my name is (real name)’ you will sway unambiguously forward. If you say or think ‘my name is (other name)’ you will sway unambiguously backward. You can use this to ask yourself personal questions as this is the body’s unconscious memory responding. I presume this method can be used to tap into other information as well.

I also like to see information as coming in layers. When you have a number of data points that do not seem to add up – unconnected dots if you will – there will generally be some overriding fact that you are missing. For example, a new family member will see people behaving and interacting in various ways that will seem strange until some event or aspect the family’s history is explained to them, and then everything will become clear. If your new partner’s parents are dead (I am thinking here of some young cousins of ours), there will be much about your partner that will seem inexplicable because you never saw them interacting together.

This idea we have been looking at here of us all being already dead with an extinction level event in our rear-view mirror is the sort of idea that goes a lot towards explaining a great many things that we are exploring separately on the forum. Multiple synchronicities, telepathy, switching timelines, the exponential growth of computing, AI and internet connectivity, encounters with extraterrestrial beings of all kinds, OBEs, supposed NDEs, CMEs, the link between extinction and speciation events, the possibility/need for free energy, disclosure of everything that is wrong with the world, notably including the high crimes and misdemeanours of our human and non-human controllers, nuclear and other pollution, wars, greater spirituality with less reliance on the material, all these things and many more fall into place in this bigger picture. These are things that the theory that we are already dead would in fact predict.

If we see the present as a collective life review, then it would appear that we are getting close to the end, when the catastrophic event or combination of events is almost upon us. Things like Armageddon in the Middle East or economic collapse, which have both been imminent for years, seem to be moving in slow motion as if approaching the event horizon of a black hole, and we are experiencing a kind of limbo as a result.

So the idea of our need to wake up the sleeping sheeple becomes literally true as we are about to relive the catastrophic event. Anthony Peake puts forward a brain-based explanation that this occurs in an endless loop. This is probably correct most of the time for most people. So what we are trying to do is to help as many as possible to reach this stage in the correct frame of mind to see this event not as a catastrophe, for the catastrophe is already behind us, but as a wonderful opportunity to move forward.

I hope this answers your question

[araucaria]

This subject came up last April, I don’t recall in what connection – invisibility? You can backtrack from here:

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by araucaria (here)
Greetings to all WMDs and other three-letter alphabet soupers

I read Paul Levy’s The Madness of George Bush back when that was a relevant subject. His analysis of collective psychosis based on Jung’s works I found very persuasive. No wonder old George couldn’t find any WMD’s under his desk, it was sitting on his chair. I later heard an interview on the wetiko thing, will have to follow up when I find time. Anyway, Levy’s definitely someone you can read without wondering whether it’s disinfo or whatever.

My thoughts to all the folks having a rough time right now. I have to include my nephew, who I reported was doing well, but it turns out not so well, and still in psychiatric care. For myself, I have just finished a big job I couldn’t get out of and which took all the longer because it wasn’t for me. So it’s a bigger than usual Friday night feeling that tells me it’s been a bit of a drain. Given that my work usually takes me where I need to be, I am still puzzling over this one: must have needed to lie low. Astrology 101 I imagine

I have often felt a bit like the invisible man with minimal effect on the real world. There is a scene in the film where the cops watch this driverless car. I once had a similar experience driving a right-hand drive in France with a 13-year-old passenger: they thought the kid was driving.

Or this old joke: ‘Doctor doctor, everyone treats me as if I wasn’t there! – Next please!’

Of course the invisible people are supposed to be the dead. Or maybe it’s the other way round, as in Philip K. Dick’s Ubik: we are the dead? To me this makes a great deal of sense. We are not so much sheeple as over-polite poltergeists. Time we made ourselves at home.

Recommended reading: Murther and Walking Spirits, a novel by the Canadian writer Robertson Davies.

I could have done a prank here and PMmed everyone to ignore your post.
But then I decided against it...
that given this is a forum of 5000+ members,
we are all already pretty invisible to all except for the ten or so that thank our posts.

[araucaria]

This should raise a laugh: prosthetic leg mistaken for a paedophile
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...e-9010525.html

[1inMany]

I am asking for help this morning. My prayers are for Little One and K, for M, for Mike. I was reminded last week that monsters like the dark, they thrive in the dark. And bringing as many details to light as possible will effect, and has profoundly effected, every member of this family.

I have not seen Little One in a couple of months, he was scheduled to come for a visit Friday. Which will likely not occur. So he is in an unhealthy situation, and most of you know that is an understatement. And now he is cut off from our entire family. Left alone to whatshisname and his family. No eyes are watching any longer. And I make it through each day with Trust that I have done everything I can, both in the physical and in the non-physical, and Trust that his Highest Good will play out. The only thing that can be done for Little One at this point is to see if we can afford to file a plea in a court for visits with him. And I will need to make a trip to the Village Barn for that. Not kidding. Otherwise, I can say in all honesty, I do not know when I will see him again.

I pray for Mike to think, think and not act from hurt feelings or anger. Acting from anger helps no one. I pray for K to have clarity and strength. She will need it, as there will be absolutely no help any longer, financial or in any other way. I pray for M to have strength, as she is privy to many things that need to come out into the open and that is a scary thing.

I am asking from my heart, please send anything you have. A thought, good intent, a prayer, light a candle.

This will be difficult.

Thank you all. Much Love,

[araucaria]

Hang in there 1inMany, the days are getting darker, but that is about to change. Friday is the solstice. There is still time for Little One's visit to happen - maybe it is a kind of Christmas truce that you can build on. Maybe his presence and his light is proving more of a burden than was bargained for and some more convenient arrangement might be possible. I am sending you whatever I have that may help.
Much love to you

[grapevine]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
I am asking for help this morning. My prayers are for Little One and K, for M, for Mike. I was reminded last week that monsters like the dark, they thrive in the dark. And bringing as many details to light as possible will effect, and has profoundly effected, every member of this family.

I have not seen Little One in a couple of months, he was scheduled to come for a visit Friday. Which will likely not occur. So he is in an unhealthy situation, and most of you know that is an understatement. And now he is cut off from our entire family. Left alone to whatshisname and his family. No eyes are watching any longer. And I make it through each day with Trust that I have done everything I can, both in the physical and in the non-physical, and Trust that his Highest Good will play out. The only thing that can be done for Little One at this point is to see if we can afford to file a plea in a court for visits with him. And I will need to make a trip to the Village Barn for that. Not kidding. Otherwise, I can say in all honesty, I do not know when I will see him again.

I pray for Mike to think, think and not act from hurt feelings or anger. Acting from anger helps no one. I pray for K to have clarity and strength. She will need it, as there will be absolutely no help any longer, financial or in any other way. I pray for M to have strength, as she is privy to many things that need to come out into the open and that is a scary thing.

I am asking from my heart, please send anything you have. A thought, good intent, a prayer, light a candle.

This will be difficult.

Thank you all. Much Love,

My hand is on your shoulder and I pray with you that all will be well . . .

[ulli]

Posted by 1inMany (here)
I am asking for help this morning. My prayers are for Little One and K, for M, for Mike. I was reminded last week that monsters like the dark, they thrive in the dark. And bringing as many details to light as possible will effect, and has profoundly effected, every member of this family.

I have not seen Little One in a couple of months, he was scheduled to come for a visit Friday. Which will likely not occur. So he is in an unhealthy situation, and most of you know that is an understatement. And now he is cut off from our entire family. Left alone to whatshisname and his family. No eyes are watching any longer. And I make it through each day with Trust that I have done everything I can, both in the physical and in the non-physical, and Trust that his Highest Good will play out. The only thing that can be done for Little One at this point is to see if we can afford to file a plea in a court for visits with him. And I will need to make a trip to the Village Barn for that. Not kidding. Otherwise, I can say in all honesty, I do not know when I will see him again.

I pray for Mike to think, think and not act from hurt feelings or anger. Acting from anger helps no one. I pray for K to have clarity and strength. She will need it, as there will be absolutely no help any longer, financial or in any other way. I pray for M to have strength, as she is privy to many things that need to come out into the open and that is a scary thing.

I am asking from my heart, please send anything you have. A thought, good intent, a prayer, light a candle.

This will be difficult.

Thank you all. Much Love,

Dear One

I just read this prayer for you, and for every member of your family.
It brings up imagery of perfection, and it works to bring such perfection into a life.

From the sweet-scented streams of Thine eternity give me to drink, O my God,
and of the fruits of the tree of Thy being enable me to taste, O my Hope!

From the crystal springs of Thy love suffer me to quaff, O my Glory,
and beneath the shadow of Thine everlasting providence let me abide, O my Light!

Within the meadows of Thy nearness, before Thy presence, make me able to roam, O my Beloved,
and at the right hand of the throne of Thy mercy, seat me, O my Desire!

From the fragrant breezes of Thy joy let a breath pass over me, O my Goal,
and into the heights of the paradise of Thy reality let me gain admission, O my Adored One!

To the melodies of the dove of Thy oneness suffer me to hearken, O Resplendent One,
and through the spirit of Thy power and Thy might quicken me, O my Provider!

In the spirit of Thy love keep me steadfast, O my Succorer,
and in the path of Thy good pleasure set firm my steps, O my Maker!

Within the garden of Thine immortality, before Thy countenance, let me abide for ever, O Thou Who art merciful unto me,
and upon the seat of Thy glory stablish me, O Thou Who art my Possessor!

To the heaven of Thy loving-kindness lift me up, O my Quickener,
and unto the Daystar of Thy guidance lead me, O Thou my Attractor!

Before the revelations of Thine invisible spirit summon me to be present, O Thou Who art my Origin and my Highest Wish, and unto the essence of the fragrance of Thy beauty, which Thou wilt manifest, cause me to return, O Thou Who art my God!

Potent art Thou to do what pleaseth Thee.
Thou art, verily, the Most Exalted, the All-Glorious, the All-Highest.

Bahá’u’lláh