--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > * Judy will go to her grave never having seen Mel > > > Gibson's 'Apocalypto,' so that she can remain convinced > > > that she was "right" about trashing it. > > > > This from the guy who got virtually everything he > > said about the film dead wrong, including that Gibson > > intended it as a love story and that it had no > > information about the era in which it took place, as > > well as believing the scholars' objections to its > > historical inaccuracies were *precisely reversed* > > from what they actually were. > > > > And he'll go to *his* grave absolutely convinced he > > got everything *right*. > > > > (Well, no, he did finally backpedal about its > > having no information about when it took place, but > > he never admitted he'd been wrong in his initial > > claim.) > > > Turq (aka Barry, Unc) has no desire to get everything *right*. He is > Lost as he said, and I don't mean that as a criticism. It is just as > valid a way of Being as any other. No boundaries, no truth, no lies, > no relationship of anything to anything else beyond the moment, > which is gone as soon as it is comprehended. Everything has the same > value as everything else, brought into being solely by intention, > often in the form of opposition. > > It is a kind of surrealistic reality superimposed on the logical one > that many of us seem to value here. Transcendental dialogue, as > meaningful as the random thoughts sometimes seeding our meditations. > Fun to watch but don't expect to *get* anything from it beyond the > eternal game of it. That is the only reality here for Turq. Either > play along or don't play along. The conclusions are all meaningless > anyway; not bad, or good, or anything else. It is an ever shifting > canvas, as ephemeral as the passing moments of life itself. This is > not a game where points are made or proven. It is a form of > spiritual Dadaism, which when investigated, leads only to > nothingness.
Uh, Jim... Never mind. >
