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Rise of Skywalker: One of Cinema’s Greatest Franchises Goes Out with a Bang
Rise of Skywalker: One of Cinema’s Greatest Franchises Goes Out with a Bang
Reviews, FilmMeljun PicardalChris Churilla, Star Wars, A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, George Lucas, Steve Spielburg, JJ Abrams, The Force Awakens, Galactic Empire, Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Revenge of the Sith, Jake Lloyd, Hayden Christensen, Anakin Skywalker, Rey, Kylo Ren, Supreme Leader Snoke, Emperor Palpatine, Sith, Jedi, the Resistance, First Order, Finn, Poe, C3-PO, BB-8, Death Star, Han Solo, the Force, the Dark Side, enemy fleet, Leia Organa, Prodigal Son, Jedi Masters, issue 2 Comment
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy: Western & Eastern Philosophy in The Man in the High Castle
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy: Western & Eastern Philosophy in The Man in the High Castle
FilmMeljun PicardalCameron Cortez, the Resistance, Edelweiss, Man in the High Castle, alternative history alternative timelines, Axis powers won World War II, Frank Spotnitz, Philip K. Dick, Greater Nazi Reich, Pacific States, Neutral Zone, “The Reich, ”, Japanese Empire, Gordon Moore, Friedrich Nietzche, nihilistic worldview, Eastern philosophy, James Sire, pantheistic monism, Tagomi, I-Ching, Trade Minister Nobusuke Tagomi, Juliana Crane, John Smith, Obergrupenfurer Smith, meditation, The Book of Changes, Zhou Dynasty, Hawthorne Abendsen, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, Neo-Confucian, Zhu Xi, The Nature of Principle, Ecclesiastes 12:5, good vs. evil, Inspector Kido, yakuza, Reich High Command, Reichsmarshall, Robert Childen, Führer of the Reich, the Chief Inspector of the Pacific States, American memorabilia, issue 2, issue 12 Comment
Dark Matters: The Meaning of Life
Dark Matters: The Meaning of Life

I’ve often mused on what I see as thresholds of my life. Those turning points where an event, a word, a thought definitively changed me. I was never the same again. In light of that threshold theory, I carefully consider Adam’s assertion that there are three deaths: losing our naïveté, our innocence and ultimately our physical life. I’m Googling desperately looking for some Nietzsche, Kant, any German philosopher in which this idea can be attributed. No luck. So it's up to me, kinda.

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FilmMia BurkeFilm, Dark Matters, Netflix, blogs, mia, burke, Mia Burke Comment