http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm

Let’s hope this “info” doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. Haha.

Not to wreck an analogy, but they will keep runing the maze forever just on the hope of cheese. That’s how it works.

Let me explain.

A year or so ago I had a cold coming on and it felt as though it threatend to make breathing, coughing, life in general, pretty much unbearable. For about half a day there I was excited to find that during this time I did not crave a cigarette. I hoped it would get worse, simply because it seemed like a rather simple way to prove to myself that I could quit. Of course, the next day I woke up and felt much better, thus a resumption of my pack and a half a day habit. Bummer.

Whatever that means.

As far as my “belief” in “our right to approach the bench” thing goes, I believe no such thing. Merely an observation. This bit from PKD’s VALIS is instructive. Read it this morning and thought “Aha!” perfect example of what I meant.

All he knew was that he had been thrown into lock-up for a minimum of two weeks. Also, he had found out one other thing, from the other patients. The County of Orange would bill him for his stay in the lock-up. As a matter of fact his total bill, including that portion covering his time in the cardiac intensive care ward, came to over two thousand dollars. Fat had gone to the the county hospital in the first place because he didn’t have the money to be taken to a private hospital. So now he had learned something else about being crazy: not only does it get you locked up, but it costs you a lot of money. They can bill you for being crazy and if you don’t pay or can’t pay they can sue you, and if a court judgement is issued against you and you fail to comply, they can lock you up again, as being in contempt of court.

VALIS pg 51 paperback

The fact is, we can’t just “approach the bench on our own behalf” when the freedom of approaching it as a dignified and independent man has been legally removed. We must approach the bench together, bucking all trends, niceties and traditions. When one is called on, many respond. But that is also the elixr as well as the poison of this concept we call freedom. Can any large group of people be relied upon to act in unison for its own sake without forsaking its own freedom? Is it possible to neutralize the temptation of groupthink, while still acting as a group? Are we a people of addiction, addicted to not being addicted? What if it is simply within our nature to be permanently “addicted”/emotionally lashed to something and to call it something else?

We may believe in fighting our own fights, but what if, in the greater scheme of things, we must begin to fight together — sending out “pokemons” for the cause? What if we’re chosen to be a “pokemon” and not a player? Who chooses? Who plays?

Fight Islamic militancy, militarily and its ideology, ideologically. These are the two fronts of the war against barbarism.

It’s pretty obvious that non-fighting citizens send out soldiers, rather like Pokemons, to war. I like the way you’ve highlighted here the way we use ideas to fight on the ideological front.

Which one is “for real”? The soldier on the battlefield or the lawyer in the justice arena?

My own understanding of the Last Judgment is that it relates to the ideological battle which is set in another time/space after or outside the time of the material battle. This is where the moral victory is sought.

I really like your analysis of the Pokemon phenomenon. I’m not sure how a battle could be other than indirect but I’m sure it would be more authentic.

I was recently doing battle with a Muslim on a forum and things got heated up, so I suggested we take a break. He agreed, and seemed relieved, saying he’d return to the discussion after his exams. Perhaps a lot of the buildup of tension related to his anxiety about how much the discussion might intrude into his studies. I also had personal reasons for a buildup of tension.

We forget so easily that there are real people with real lives behind these internet personas. We have to take account of those real lives. I suspect that when we do, when we acknowledge each other’s personal lives, we are closer to doing battle - or engaging - more directly. The intimacy is scary, much more scary than using Pokemon cards.

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but never underestimate the social commentary that anime flex…

you can say some crazy shit about anything using cartoons…

and there is definitly still lingering issues about 1945…

the occult themes in anime are HEAVY… and they definitly go into demons, the christian church etc… not in Pokemon i suppose.. but i never really liked Pokemon so i havent watched it much…

Lain…. you know a anime is good when they mention Douglas Rushkoff & Terence Mckenna…. aliens, occult, cyberia….. Lain is my favorite anime (i would even say its my favorite story ive ever seen visualized..highly recommended to see the whole series, well worth the watch)…..

i think parents ought to be a bit concerned though, about things such as:

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
http://www.unfortunateeventsmovie.com/intro.html

ive never seen such a overtly occult movie pushed on kids….

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(other people have suggested that i check out this Lain thing also.)

a bit to generalized though there…

there are Christians in Japan. & commentary about Christianity pops up over and over again in many Animes….

bro, you gotta see Hellsing.. (but more importantly Serial Experiments Lain)

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