big_fat_fluffy

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[–] big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think that isolating oneself in a cave might be best.

Imagine an illusion, the matrix, built not of scifi machinery but of habit, maintained by the presence of others.

Get alone and the habits dissolve. And then the invisible becomes visible.

[–] big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I might add, "become comfortable with uncertainty". Because nothing drowns you in a swamp of bullshit like an excessive need for certainty.

That's the best way

[–] big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is the theory that we feel emotions first and then we think only to justify the emotion.

This would imply that it isn't the thinking that needs to be managed but the emotions.

 

I mean, we all hear about people thinking what they think only because the people around them think it too. So how do you avoid doing that?

[–] big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is it the intersection of 3 curves?

Am I being trolled?

[–] big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's funny because a girl put a boy down

What do you mean by "we"?

If we could do emotional memory transfer then we wouldn't need movies anymore.

Movies are an indirect way of evoking emotions.

Wait till you find out that they won't let you sleep. That'll really burn your britches.

[–] big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Godzilla (Japan). In one zap of the breath weapon takes out 100,000 people. No pause for reflection or comment on the meaning of it. Just immediately cut to next scene.

We don't do that in USA

[–] big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Immortal 2004. (A very kickass movie if you haven't) (French). Horus (The egyptian god) has this relationship with Nickopol (badass poet/politician). It's hilarious. Horus sees humans as at best children or pets or disposable tools. There's no aside or smirk or "yeah but..". No, they just go with it 100%. 100%! That's something you don't see too often.

 

For example : Megadeaths happen with nary an eye batted in Japanese movies, but you rarely see that kind of thing in the American. And the total dominance of the aristocracy over the underclasses is as assumed and invisible as gravity in French movies, but it seems to be taboo elsewhere.

[–] big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What I'm asking is, if you have none of those sexual urges coloring your consciousness, would you find romcoms boring?

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