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Tag Archives: Suffering
Dharma
March 3, 2006 Dharma is destiny in a way. Destiny implies a destination. Dharma embodies a path, focusing on the journey instead of the end result or goal of a particular person. Destiny is a Hebrew God and keeper of … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Lost, Movies/TV, Religion
Tagged ability, Absence of Anger, Authentic Self, Buddhism, Control of the Senses, Create Our Own Destiny, Destiny, Dharma, Dharma Initiative, God, Hinduism, Honesty, Island, Karma, Knowledge, Learning, Lost, Meni, Patience, Place In This World, Power, Protection, Rightful Path, Sanctity, Spiritual Hunger, Strength, Suffering, Taoism, Truthfulness
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Horror Vs Gothic
Horror Vs Gothic As a child I stayed away from horror movies. My mother preferred to stay away from them as well, so it wasn’t difficult to do. However, now and again friends would expose me to a random horror … Continue reading
Posted in Flashback, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Lost, Movies/TV, Writing
Tagged 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2013, 2nd Grade, 7 years old, Age 16, Anne Rice, Blood, Candyman, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Carrie, Dolores Claiborne, Friday the 13th, Fringe, Ghosts, Gore, Gothic, Grimm, Gunslinger, Guts, Halloween, horror, Interview With A Vampire, LJ Smith, Lost, Misery, My Perfect Drug, Nightmare on Elm Street, Nikki Lieurance, Out There, Saw, Shelly Brown, Slasher Movies, Sleepwalkers, Spirits, Stephen King, Suffering, Supernatural, The Dark Tower, The Howling, The Lady in White, The Others, The Otherside, The Ring, The Skeleton Key, The Vampire Chronicles, The Vampire Diaries, The X-Files, Tommyknockers, Torture Porn, Vampires, Werewolves
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Edge of Tomorrow
October 9, 2014 Edge Edge of Tomorrow is a 2014 Sci-Fi Action movie with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. It is based on Hiroshi Sakurazak’s novel All You Need Is Kill. Will Cage is stuck in a time loop. Aliens … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged Abandoned, Aliens, All You Need Is Kill, Alpha, American, Blood, Blood Transfusion, British, Brutal, Chaos, Choices, Country, Death, Deserter, Disabilty, Edge of Tomorow, Fractals, Government, Graphic Novel, Ground Hog Day, Hero, Hiroshi Sakurazaki, Humanity, Hundred Deaths, Injury, Japanese, Judge, London, Louvre, Millitary, Mimics, Misery, Movie, Novel, Omega, Paris, PTSD, Riat Vrataski, Sacrifice, Suffering, Time Loop, Toss Away, United, US Army, Used, Will Cage
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Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers
Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers by Thich Nhat Hanh came out in 1999. It is a very simple teaching “This is like because that is like that.” Because the waves are, … Continue reading
Posted in Religion
Tagged Anger, Awakened, Brother, Buddha, Compassion, Desire, Despair, Emptiness, Energy, enlightenment, Faith, Hate, Help Others, Hungry Ghosts, Interconnectedness, Jesus, Liberate, Love, Love Your Enemy, Mindfulness, No-Self, Nonself, Observe, Peace, Practice, Respect, River, Suffering, Thich Nat Hanh, Tolerance, True Self, Understanding, Wave
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The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene The Gospel of Mary Magdalene by Karen L King came out in 2004. German Scholar Dr. Carl Reinhardt bought a copy of The Gospel of Mary Magdalene in 1896 in Cairo, Egypt at an antiquities … Continue reading
Posted in History, Religion
Tagged 1917, 1938, Andrew, Apostles, Authority, Cario, Carl Reinhart, Chruch, Coptic, Death, Egypt, England, Gnosticism, Greek, Jesus, John the Baptist, Karen L King, Levi, Library, Love, Mary Magdalene, Mary of Magda, Narrative, No Hell, Pages Missing, Papyrus, Peter, Resurrection, Savior, Simon, Sin, Soul, Suffering
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Dark Nights Of The Soul
Dark Night of the Soul The Dark Night of the Soul by Thomas Moore came out in 2004. It is based upon the ideas of St John of the Cross who was a Spanish Mystic and Poet. His approach, as … Continue reading
Posted in Psychology, Religion
Tagged Accepatce, Anger, Art, Artist, Cynicism, Dagger, Dark Angel, Dark Night, Dark Night of the Soul, Dark Nights of the Soul, Dark Sea Journey, Depression, Emotions, Frustration, Hecate, Insight, Intelligence, Life, Light, Live, Lives of Quiet Desperation, Love Triangle, Marriage, Negative Emotions, Ordinary, Oscar Wilde, Passive-Agressive, Passivity, Persephone, Poetic Language, poets, Rainer Marie Rilke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sacrifice, Sex, Soul, St John of the Cross, Suffering, Surrender, Sylvia Plath, Thomas Moore, torch, Transformation, Transmutation, Underworld, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, Whip, Wit
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Wuthering Heights 1939 Movie
Only Half: The 1939 Movie of Wuthering Heights Cari Gilkison for Film Studies 578, April 1998 The single most striking difference between the book Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and the 1939 MGM movie is the absence of the second … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Psychology
Tagged 1939, Afterlife, Cari Gilkison, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Catherine, Cathy, Children, Cycle, Dark, Death, Emily Bronte, Eternity, Film Studies, Forgiveness, Gothic Romance, Heathcliff, Hollywood, interpretation, Journey, Light, Lost Love, MGM, Mood, OSU, Pain, Psychology, Second Half, Spring 1998, Steven Joyce, Suffering, The Moor, Tone, Wuthering Heights
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Narcissim as Transformation and Shakepeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
Narcissism as Transformation in Antony and Cleopatra Antony and Cleopatra is perhaps Shakespeare’s most perplexing play. In this play more than any other he does not explain his characters’ motivations or choose sides. While readers may enjoy this break … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature/Pop Culture, Psychology
Tagged Adam and Eve, Aeneaus, alientation, Cari Vaughhn, deflation, Despair, Dido, Edward Endinger, ego, Ego and Archetype, Egypt, femininity, Fiery, Garden of Eden, illusion, Individuation, Isis, Lovers, masculinity, Maynard Mack, McDonald, Narcissism, Neurotic, Nile river, Pain, Paradise, Phoenix, Rebirth, relationship, romancee, Self-hood, selfishness, Shakepeare, Snak, Spring 2001, Suffering, Tragedy, Transformation, Truth, UNCG, Virgil, Wholeness
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Faith and Reason in Buddhism
August 5, 2006 Buddhism Faith and Reason I caught most of the 7th part of the Bill Moyers series On Faith and Reason. Pema Chodron was on. She is a Buddhist Nun who grew up Catholic. When her … Continue reading
Posted in Movies/TV, Religion, Science/Philosophy
Tagged Bill Moyers, Bodhisattva, Buddhism, Catholic, Faith and Reason, God, Intellect, Intuition, Master Rinoche, Nun, Open Heart, Open Mind, Pain, Paradox, Pema Chodron, Philosophy, Religion, Shempa, Suffering, The Places that Scare Us, The Wisdom of No Escape, When Things Fall Apart
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