Most feared historical facts
1- No historial fact is correct.
2- Historical dating of the years is wildly off-base. The year 2006 should be called 1246 ( or around there ).
3- Shakespeare was Edward de Vere.
4- Jack the Ripper was artist Walter Sickert.
5- Ufos and aliens are generally real but they can't make the world a better place even if they wanted to.
6- A large number of world wide conspiracies do actually attempt to control the world and hide shocking truths.
7- People who don't believe in conspiracy are the idiots.
8- So called skeptics are only conventional thinkers in defensive mode.
9- Japan was the second nation to explode an A-bomb (before their surrender in 1945).
10- SETI or any other attempt to listen for alien radio from deep space is ridiculously useless,
because the energy needed to send a radio signal to earth is much greater than that needed
to send individual space ships to earth.
Value is not real. Ranking is illusory, but we do it anyway to decide
where to go and what to get. They are obviously games so why do we so often try them on for size?
Best of all Movies
1 Lonesome Dove (first mini-series only)
2 Apocalypse Now (no french scene
+ original credits with ending)
3 Deliverance
4 The Shield (all)
5 The Best Years of Our Lives
6 Sopranos (all)
7 Grave of the Fireflies
8 Princess Mononoke
9 Sanjuro/Hidden Fortress
10 It's a Wonderful Life
Worst of all philosophers
in terms of advancement towards a workable
understanding of reality.
1 Pythagoras
2 Plato
3 Hegal
4 Heidegger
5 Mao Tse Tung
6 Justinian
7 Karl Marx
8 George W. Bush
9 Kant
10 Socrates
Cleverest movies
1 Citizen Kane
2 Momento
3 JFK
4 Amile
5 Three Days of the Condor
6 Thomas Crown Affair (2nd)
7 The Game/Fight Club
8 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
9 SAW
10 The Simpsons (most)
Darkest Stories
1 Freaks (Browning)
2 Catapillar (Rampo)
3
He Who
Gets Slapped (Leonid Andreyev)
4
West of
Zanzibar (Chester Devonde)
5
In the Penal Colony (Franz Kafka)
6 The Double (Dostoyevsky)
7 The Human Chair (Rampo)
8 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (Chuck Berris)
9 The Bible (nobody)
10 Satyricon (Gaius Petronius Arbiter)
Best philosphers
from the gamegene perspective.
1 Huizinga
2 Thomas Kuhn
3 (de)Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier
4 Brandenburger
5 Montaigne
6 Wang Chong
Reason and experience teaches us about the world
7 Wittgenstein
8 Nietzsche
9 William James
10 Wang Fu
Values are assigned by human beings
Best things I've said.
1 - Exceptionly conventional claims require exceptional proof.
2 - There are only two kinds of people in this world, big losers and small losers.
3 - All life is a belaboured abortion
4 - The de facto goal of life is death. The de facto goal of all life is extinction.
5 - I'm a kind of democratic nihilist. If you can't choose to exist then others shouldn't choose for you.
6 - Who said life had to be fair?! Who said life had to be lived?
7 - The losers shall inherit the earth.
8 - Stockholm syndrome is what makes people love life.
9 - God is irrelevant.
10- All of Life is the enemy, not just the times we live in.
Golden Globe Goals
Geoffrey Hamilton
TV's award show again demonstrates how films with
clear goals get all the winnings.
"The essence of high concept is that it is both brief and provocative." says
Robert Kosberg regarding how Hollywood movies need to be sold both to producers
in the pitching stage, and when the idea is a finished product to a TV audience.
But there is one other area where the idea of high concept needs to work and
that is the award show.
Last night the Golden Globes once again demonstrated the high concept in action.
For their awards George Clooney got fat,
Reese Witherspoon, Joaquin Phoenix, and Philip Seymour Hoffman imitated well
known public figures, Felicity Huffman played a man and
Rachel Weisz really lived with the dirty people she acted with. All games which are easily
seen and identified. The judges, whoever they are, need that kind of easy-to-spot
criteria
Golden Globe Goals
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