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opposition, as they ascribed their success to the assistance of their military saints; and the learned Dr. Warburton appears to believe (Suppl. to the Introduction to Don Quixote) that the first accounts of enchantments were brought into this part of the world by those who returned from their eastern expeditions. But there is always some distance between the birth and maturity of folly as of wickedness this opinion had long existed, though perhaps the application of it had in no foregoing age been so frequent, nor the reception so general. Olympiodorus, in Photius's extracts, tells us of one Libanius, who practised this kind of military magic, and having promised χώρις ὁπλιτῶν κατὰ βαρβάρων ἐνεςδεῖν, to perform great things against the Barbarians without soldiers, was, at the instance of the empress Placidia, put to death, when he was about to have given proofs of his abilities. The empress showed some kindness in her anger, by cutting him off at a time so convenient for his reputation.
But a more remarkable proof of the antiquity of this notion may be found in St. Chrysostom's book de Sacerdotio, which exhibits a scene of enchantments not exceeded by any romance of the middle age: he supposes a spectator overlooking a field of battle attended by one that points out all the various objects of horror, the engines of destruction, and the arts of slaughter. Δεικνύτο δὲ ἔτι παρὰ τοῖς ἑναντίοις καὶ πετομένες ἵππος διά τινος μαγανείας, καὶ ὁπλίτας διαέρος φερομένης, καὶ πάσην γοητείας δύναμιν καὶ ἰδέαν. Let him then proceed to show him in the opposite armies horses flying by enchantment, armed men transported through the air, and every power and form of magic. Whether St. Chrysostom believed that such performances were really to be seen in a day of battle, or only endeavoured to enliven his description, by adopting the notions of the vulgar, it is equally certain, that such notions were in his time received, and that therefore they were not imported from the Sa racens in a later age; the wars with the Saracens however gave occasion to their propagation, not only as bigotry naturally discovers prodigies, but as the scene of action was removed to a great distance.
The Reformation did not immediately arrive at its meridian, and though day was gradually increasing upon us, the goblins of witchcraft still continued to hover in the twilight. In the time of
queen Elizabeth was the remarkable trial of the witches of Warbois, whose conviction is still commemorated in an annual sermon at Huntingdon. But in the reign of king James, in which this tragedy was written, many circumstances concurred to propagate and confirm this opinion. The king, who was much celebrated for his knowledge, had, before his arrival in England, not only examined in person a woman accused of witchcraft, but had given a very formal account of the practices and illusions of evil spirits, the compacts of witches, the ceremonies used by them, the manner of detecting them, and the justice of punishing them, in his dialogues of Dæmonologie, written in the Scottish dialect, and published at Edinburgh. This book was, soon after his succession, reprinted at London, and as the ready way to gain king James's favour was to flatter his speculations, the system of Dæmonologie was immediately adopted by all who desired either to gain preferment or not to lose it. Thus the doctrine of witchcraft was very powerfully inculcated; and as the greatest part of mankind have no other reason for their opinions than that they are in fashion, it cannot be doubted but this persuasion made a rapid progress, since vanity and credulity co-operated in its favour. The infection soon reached the parliament, who, in the first year of king James, made a law, by which it was enacted, chap. xii. That "if any person shall use any invocation or conjuration of any evil or wicked spirit; 2. or shall consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed or reward any evil or cursed spirit to or for any intent or purpose; 3. or take up any dead man, woman, or child, out of the grave,—or the skin, bone, or any part of the dead person, to be employed or used in any manner of witchcraft, sorcery, charm, or enchantment; 4. or shall use, practise, or exercise any sort of witchcraft, sorcery, charm, or enchantment; 5. whereby any person shall be destroyed, killed, wasted, consumed, pined, or lamed in any part of the body; 6. That every such person being convicted shall suffer death." This law was repealed in our own time.
Thus, in the time of Shakspeare, was the doctrine of witchcraft at once established by law and by the fashion, and it became not only unpolite, but criminal, to doubt it; and as prodigies are always seen in proportion as they are expected, witches were every day discovered, and multiplied so fast in some places, that bishop Hall mentions a village in Lancashire, where their number was
greater than that of the houses. The jesuits and sectaries took advantage of this universal error, and endeavoured to promote the interest of their parties by pretended cures of persons afflicted by evil spirits; but they were detected and exposed by the clergy of the established church.
Upon this general infatuation Shakspeare might be easily allowed to found a play, especially since he has followed with great exactness such histories as were then thought true; nor can it be doubted that the scenes of enchantment, however they may now be ridiculed, were both by himself and his audience thought awful and affecting. JOHNSON.
This play is deservedly celebrated for the propriety of its fictions, and solemnity, grandeur, and variety of its action; but it has no nice discriminations of character; the events are too great to admit the influence of particular dispositions, and the course of the action necessarily determines the conduct of the agents.
The danger of ambition is well described; and I know not whether it may not be said, in defence of some parts which now seem improbable, that, in Shakspeare's time, it was necessary to warn credulity against vain and illusive predictions.
The passions are directed to their true end. Lady Macbeth is merely detested; and though the courage of Macbeth preserves some esteem, yet every reader rejoices at his fall. JOHNSON.
It may be worth while to remark, that Milton, who left behind him a list of no less than CII. dramatic subjects, had fixed on the story of this play among the rest. His intention was to have begun with the arrival of Malcolm at Macduff's castle. "The matter of Duncan (says he) may be expressed by the appearing of his ghost." It should seem from this last memorandum, that Milton disliked the licence his predecessor had taken in comprehending a history of such length within the short compass of a play, and would have new-written the whole on the plan of the ancient drama. He could not surely have indulged so vain a hope, as that of excelling Shakspeare in the Tragedy of Macbeth. STEEVENS.
Macbeth was certainly one of Shakspeare's latest productions, and it might possibly have been suggested to him by a little performance on the same subject at Oxford, before king James, 1605. I will transcribe my notice of it from Wake's Rex Platonicus: "Fabulæ ansam dedit antiqua de regià prosapiâ historiola apud Scoto
Britannos celebrata, quæ narrat tres olim Sibyllas occurrisse duobus Scotia proceribus, Macbetho & Banchoni, & illum prædixisse regem futurum, sed regem nullum geniturum; hunc regem non futurum, sed reges geniturum multos. Vaticinii veritatem rerum eventus comprobavit. Banchonis enim è stirpe potentissimus Jacobus oriundus." p. 29.
occasion.
Since I made the observation here quoted, I have been repeatedly told, that I unwittingly make Shakspeare learned at least in Latin, as this must have been the language of the performance before king James. One might perhaps have plausibly said, that he probably picked up the story at second-hand; but mere accident has thrown an old pamphlet in my way, intitled The Oxford Triumph, by one Anthony Nixon, 1605, which explains the whole. matter: "This performance, says Antony, was first in Latine to the king, then in English to the queene and young prince:" and, as he goes on to tell us, "the conceipt thereof the kinge did very much applaude." It is likely that the friendly letter, which we are informed king James once wrote to Shakspeare, was on this FARMER. Malcolm II. king of Scotland, had two daughters. The eldest was married to Crynin, the father of Duncan, Thane of the Isles, and western parts of Scotland; and on the death of Malcolm, without male issue, Duncan succeeded to the throne. Malcolm's second daughter was married to Sinel, Thane of Glamis, the father of Macbeth. Duncan, who married the daughter of Siward, Earl of Northumberland, was murdered by his cousin german, Macbeth, in the castle of Inverness, according to Buchanan, in the year 1040; according to Hector Boethius, in 1045. Boethius, whose history of Scotland was first printed in seventeen books, at Paris, in 1526, thus describes the event which forms the basis of the tragedy before us: "Makbeth, be persuasion of his wyfe, gaderit his friendis to ane counsall at Invernes, quhare kyng Duncane happennit to be for ye tyme. And because he fand sufficient opportunitie, be support of Banquho and otheris his friendis, he slew kyng Duncane, the vii zeir of his regne." After the murder of Duncan, Macbeth "come with ane gret power to Scone, and tuk the crowne." Chroniclis of Scotland, translated by John Bellenden, folio, 1541. Macbeth was himself slain by Macduff in Macbeth.
the year 1061, according to Boethius; according to Buchanan, in 1057; at which time king Edward the Confessor possessed the throne of England. Holinshed copied the history of Boethius, and on Holinshed's relation Shakspeare formed his play.
In the reign of Duncan, Banquo having been plundered by the people of Lochabar of some of the king's revenues, which he had collected, and being dangerously wounded in the affray, the persons concerned in this outrage were summoned to appear at a certain day. But they slew the serjeant at arms who summoned them, and chose one MACDOWALD as their captain. Macdowald speedily collected a considerable body of forces from Ireland and the Western Isles, and in one action gained a victory over the king's army. In this battle, Malcolm, a Scottish nobleman, who was (says Boethius) "Lieutenant to Duncan in Lochabar," was slain. Afterwards Macbeth and Banquo were appointed to the command of the army; and Macdowald being obliged to take refuge in a castle in Lochabar, first slew his wife and children, and then himself. Macbeth on entering the castle finding his dead body, ordered his head to be cut off, and carried to the king, at the castle of Bertha, and his body to be hung on a high tree.
At a subsequent period, in the last year of Duncan's reign, Sueno king of Norway, landed a powerful army in Fife, for the purpose of invading Scotland. Duncan immediately assembled an army to oppose him, and gave the command of two divisions of it to Macbeth and Banquo, putting himself at the head of a third. Sueno was successful in one battle, but in a second was routed; and after a great slaughter of his troops he escaped with ten persons only, and fled back to Norway. Though there was an interval of time between the rebellion of Macdowald and the invasion of Sueno, our author has woven these two actions together, and immediately after Sueno's defeat the present play commences.
It is remarkable that Buchanan has pointed out Macbeth's history as a subject for the stage. "Multa hic fabulose quidam nostrorum affingunt; sed, quia theatris aut Milesiis fabulis sunt aptiora quam historia, ea omitto. RERUM SCOT. HIST. L. VII. But there was no translation of Buchanan's work till after our author's death.
This tragedy was written, I believe, in the year 1606.
MALONE.


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Clinton quietly powers through illness — it's what women do
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gets into a van Sunday after a stop to rest. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
In a high-stress election, Hillary Clinton gets pneumonia and stays silent. It could have been an opportunity for transparency, and to show her humanity.
Nicole Brodeur
Seattle Times staff columnist
What, now Hillary Clinton can't even get sick?
The presidential candidate stumbled to her car after visiting the 9/11 Memorial on Sunday, saying she felt "overheated."
In the process, she set conservative speculation ablaze.
She has a heart condition. She has the language disorder dysphasia. She has a stunt double. And something fell out of her leg.
I haven't seen Republicans show this much concern for a woman's health in, well, ever.
After retreating to her daughter Chelsea's apartment for 90 minutes after the stumble, Clinton came out looking better. (It probably helped that she missed "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli, who called out "Why are you so sick?" and "Drop out!" A prince, that one. Just a prince.)
Only then did we learn that Clinton had been diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday — two days before, which at this point in the campaign feels more like two weeks.
It was a bad, bad call to keep it from us. People already don't trust Clinton, most recently because of her use of private email while secretary of state. Everyone has their own reason.
Had Clinton announced her illness immediately, it would have done two needed jobs: staved off the stench of secrecy, and shown that she is human.
I suspect she didn't say anything because, well, that's what women do. They power through. They don't want to make a big deal. They just keep going, especially when you're only 3 percentage points ahead in the polls and you're just weeks from Election Day.
Women deal with this sort of thing every day, but on a much smaller scale.
Just last week, a Facebook-based video called "The Man Cold" went viral. It shows a nondescript lump of a man in bed, rolling and moaning, and then his wife standing at the bedroom door, responding to his requests and laments.
She's doing laundry, vacuuming and caring for the kids — all with the same cold he gave her. She keeps going, while he's convinced he has Ebola, gangrene. You name it.
The clip got 19 million views. Why? Because it was spot-on.
So no wonder Clinton was out there in 80-degree New York weather — in a pantsuit, no less — fighting off a bug that's run through her staff. They can rest. She cannot.
As the first woman to be nominated for the highest office in the land, she has had to climb more mountains than Sir Edmund Hillary before the country considered her worthy. Yale Law. First lady. U.S. senator. Secretary of state.
Even in that job, Clinton pushed herself to exhaustion. She once called herself the governmental equivalent of George Clooney in "Up in the Air," traveling 956,733 miles and visiting 112 countries in four years. Her predecessor Madeleine Albright only made it to 98.
Her opponent, Donald Trump, has never held office, and won his party's nomination with real estate, golf clubs and reality TV.
I don't know why we expect so much more of Clinton than we do Trump, why we see her stumble and instead of worry, speculate.
Or why we were seemingly fine with Trump's physician, Dr. Harold Bornstein, releasing a letter that read like it was dictated by the candidate himself:
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Now, with this stumble, both candidates have pledged to release more about their health.
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Donald Rumsfeld; Fawaz Gerges
Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, discusses his memoir "Known and Unknown," now out in paperback, and a wide range of U.S. political and military topics, including the Iraq War. Fawaz Gerges, professor at the London School of Economics, discusses his new book, "Obama and the Middle East: The End of America's Moment?"
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Fawaz Gerges discusses his new book, "Obama and the Middle East: The End of America's Moment?" 16:55
World, Politics
Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. secretary of Defense, discusses his memoir "Known and Unknown." 35:19
Death of Osama bin Laden; Steven Levy
World, Politics, Business, Tech
Journalists react to the death of Osama bin Laden; Steven Levy introduces his new book on Google "In the Plex." 52:46
Richard Engel
Guest host Brian Williams talks to NBC News correspondent Richard Engel about the death of Osama bin Laden. 08:46
Al Qaeda in Yemen
Political analysts discuss the eruption of violence in Yemen after the U.S. foiled an Al Qaeda plot to attack a U.S. airliner. 22:13


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#572 – Openness, Mindfulness & Culture/
We chat about Kevin Hart's Don't F*ck This Up, openness and radical honesty, the impact of culture on how you show up, and the questions for our Facebook Group.
– Kevin Hart's Don't F*ck This Up
– Openness and radical honesty
– Know-it-all-ism
– Culture & how you live
– Facebook Group questions
– Friday Night Drinks
It's the daily Talk Show Episode 572 what's happening guys what's going on? We're just having a bit of a laugh at Kevin Hart
and he's a he's new doc Oh series what's the cold something don't fuck this up. It's good it's Yeah, I mean
fair to say fuck it up
is fact a lot up he's a guy that leans into his honesty I don't know if it's until he gets caught me like
what's the other up what up she says
he's got no other option he's life is a full on movie like what's happened to him? It's not that there's been overly tragic but he's just the Uber success from zero is amazing and I can't like I watch it and I go through this moment of like, He's a fucking egomaniac. He's a narcissist to lie. Look at the self belief. I fucking love this guy. Like, yeah, I'm pumped. I want to be 16 As far
as my whole lot of 29 I think there is a level of judgement from you know, the people who aren't in the arena like he is at that level actual arenas actually. Because I it's like whether it's tall poppy syndrome or something where I'm just like someone who is so confident in their in what they do and and the moves they're making and where they want to go. And then you kind of it's like you do want to like this back and chill out a bit
blows up because so the tall poppy thing if he didn't have all of the things happen, so the controversy would there still be the tall poppy?
Yeah, I think I think when you getting a glimpse into their world, like through dokgo series, that's where I that's where the on the panel of judges like I'm saying I've recognised the judgement I cast and then I'm trying to like step back from him to go, you know, because I'm writing motions of judgement then like love. It's like, it's this weird thing that I think a lot of people do unconsciously. So I'm just like, trying to do that consciously. But he does do some very outrageous things like how he wears his AirPods. in conversations
in meetings, the only thing is air pods on the last like three hours of battery.
He's got some from Apple that have just super powered air pods. Yeah.
Always, always. I'm just trying to work out how you do it. Could you have multiple pairs attached to an iPhone that could easily be used? I don't know. That's
a good point. I mean, he's got an assistant with him all the time. He's got people around him. He's got a crew around him and he's made so he's brought up with it he's worked
That's why I like seeing the generosity of him and the honesty with him. I listened to a podcast, Aubrey Marcus, who owns honours, the Academy in the protein supplements and supplements. Anyway want to Joe Rogan's He was in an open relationship. And they broke up
and then he went so conveniently when he he also went off sex. He's that guy. He's that guy. Yeah, he quit sex for a while. But he still has or maybe
now, he his ex girlfriend. The person that he was with that didn't last long. Yeah. Anyway, I've listened to this podcast of him and he's part ex partner. And they were talking about the whole experience and how that guy but I was like, What do you think about relationships is not the point of this. He's honesty, and the ability to talk about what he's feeling and communicate that is inspiring for me. For this year, I want to
be more open.
I want to be able to speak
my Come on, use your words,
and be able to share more that I would usually keep in because I see it as something that is powerful, and sorry. I had this moment where I was when I was listening this podcast I was like, for I mean, I when we first got together, I, I just me hadn't had as many passages as I have. She had zero, and then met me. So I'm the one and then I'd had a different past more explorative it'd be been a bit like, a bit like, What's his name? Levison bit
sexual history to be honest,
but I'm just saying adventurous. And so I kept things from her. It's not it's not lying. It's actually so it's like, just not just withholding information, because I didn't think that she could handle it or whatever it was, right. So I made that decision number. But then I was thinking man I was like, by that's exercising muscle by leaving in things that I thinking about and, and
also yours, so you're hiding part of yourself.
Yeah, no guilt in that. And so one of the things is here is, I've got a rule that I have to talk to me about whatever is on my mind if I am thinking something, or is
that why when you're on the beach, and you looked at that person to ask, you said, I'm looking at her, and
I told her, I looked at someone's ass
that I did, and I, I mean, she's like, why doesn't shit?
Because I'm honest. And I'm like, I think she's ready for it. And so yes, yes, yes.
That's, that's also why I want to lean into it. But it's also the other reason is that, I think it's training the muscle. It's not training muscle by keeping it all in, in relation to anything that you when you're in a relationship. How do you go with? I mean, you're very open and talk your thoughts. Probably too much sometime. Yeah, sure.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I think I'm pretty honest that the fighting will soar. old mate, Craig Harper. A post where it because we talked about radical honesty. Did you say this post? Yeah,
he's like, yeah, have you just listened to it? 42 Well, the thing
is, he's like, hearing all people talk about radical honesty. That's probably like, fucking bullshit. Is it? You're being honest, or being dishonest.
So, can you find this because it's a post recently? Yeah. Yeah, one of the last Here we go.
Radical honesty. This is a term I've heard quite a few times recently. And I find it weird. Weird because radical honesty infers that there are levels of honesty. A bit honest, pretty honest, more honest, very honest, and radically honest. Seemingly the most honest. Call me old fashioned. But back in the day we dinosaurs use use. Use these two Grand Bay breaking terms. Honest and dishonest. That's it. Sorry.
What about this to challenge Craig? Because he's not here. It's always good. He's not here. Yeah. One of the things I guess that we're learning and societies that we have different masks. And so potentially with a different masks comes different honesty systems or different filters that we use. And so the question becomes what is honesty? What are our thoughts? If you think something, do you believe that?
Not necessarily if you're thinking about a belief and so something something, then there's a level of mindfulness to to identify that thought is a part of your belief system.
And so sometimes our thoughts in congruent with our system like our operate or like, our our belief system, Yes, right. So we might think something that's actually doesn't really align well with who we are as a person. So if we're honest about that thought We are communicating a thought that is out of alignment with how we feel we want to be. And so I guess the question can then be do we want to then put ourselves out there? If it's that, what did Jason Fox talk about? He talks about pre, pretending, pretending. So it's like pre tending. If you if you say something, if you say your thought, does it actually make it more real is that always get off
of making the thoughts in our heads real by verbalising them?
Yeah. So if you have a thought, potentially you can say that is just a thought. That isn't my belief system. I don't believe that thing. And so I'm not going to communicate it out loud because when I communicate it out loud, the verbalization is through my belief system, potentially.
So then you go, like the, the emotional response behind some when you hear something like open relationships or You can, you can be quick to judge based on how it makes you feel based on your and how it would apply to you in your life. Right. And then so that emotive response and then the thought of what does that mean for me? Does that does that that form is the belief right? So you got the thinking but also the emotional feeling within you then sort of backs up something but So essentially,
if you're thinking something and not saying it, you still saying it through maybe other actions? I mean, yeah, shame through books. Yeah,
but maybe, I mean, we're not talking about just like, how much random shit like I felt like once, I would just want to punch him in the head. But I don't really want to. I was never gonna, before you've said it before, though. In my life, I've said to someone, I'll punch in the head.
Yeah. Or I want to punch in there.
And then I have punched him in the head said that's not me anymore, but it's like the thoughts the the darkest stuff where you're like, if I push this person right now or I grab the policeman's gun right now,
like these are these are just like random shit going on that you never act on. So there's like, a willpower or something going inside you that, that your moral system acting and and so when there's heaps of people around just start to think about like how much destruction could happen in that if there was a bomb or something went off how many people would like to and that is not of like, I guess prime through the media right you know like, like I saw on the news like all these people like people getting run over by a car like fuck I mean like a big group of people like I mean when better should happen like say I've I've done that I've been in New York City and thought fuck magine if something happened,
I wonder if there's people where something has happened where they're thinking fact matters, something happened right now and then something happens.
What have I got? there's a there's a term for that. It's the basically where you we have like a MIT like having many thoughts 60 something failure and so so Sometimes those thoughts come to fruition. And it's like the bias. It's something bias. But basically like we have all these, it's like the whole thing around
confirmation bias and looking for signs that connect to the thought in the moment. Exactly. So I
1000 things happen in a day or whatever. And so, if you have one thought that matches up, you're like, Oh, look, there, we got this confirmation bias. Is that what it is? What is confirmation bias?
And there's, like the power of thoughts. So if you if you are having a bunch of negative thoughts that that a just flying into your brain flying into sort of your consciousness it, it doesn't, it can be different, right.
Do you allow in your mind, Amy to have a negative response to things that you're saying? Honestly, I can't
control her response.
Yeah, I cannot continue. Do you think About that, because I guess there is a you see people being like, Oh no, I'm just super honest. Like, you know, people, like bullies or whatever, right? They're like I you know, I'm just like a real honest person. Just like that. It's like, Oh, no, you're just an asshole. Yeah, yeah. And so there is a there's a reason why we hold things back. Because it can hurt. Like, if I think something about someone. I have a choice whether I say it, or I don't say it. If I am. Is it selfish to say, Okay, I'm just gonna say everything. So it's not inside. I don't think
when I, when I say that, without me, I'm telling her what I'm thinking. It's
it's still a thrill.
It's not a stream of thought. It's more. What would I normally not mentioned to her in a moment that she may ask? What's going on? What do you think? Yeah, sure. And so it's more going I can't tell you my thoughts every moment because there's so many rant so much random shit. Think about when you guys have been doing the meditation, the random shit that comes into your brain. Yeah. Like last night I thought about something that happened so long ago. And I was like, how did that come in? Anyway, I acknowledge it and moved on. And then another thought came in, and then I got back to sort of being a bit more focused, and then random shit. So it's not about just every random moment, it's about acknowledging the times where you go, I would keep this where I could share it, and I want and so then you build the muscle around holding it back. And so my thing to this year is like, honesty more so that serves the whole thing and being open. It's like it's not even its its openness rather than honesty. If that makes Yeah.
And and I think that it potentially requires people to be ready like not everyone's going to be. Not everyone likes openness. Yes, there's people like farting Bunch people who now don't talk about fasting are na, na, one star cancelled. No fasting, no talk of fasting here. That's like if you can't accept I said it, you now chat with Dave Allah. It's like if you're having a relationship far too early, because you want to bring the friction forward because 97 where there's friction, there's traction.
But that is a belief that you have. And so the thing around the open relationship stuff is the belief can be, I think it's okay to be in open relationships. The opposite is that I don't like that doesn't work for anybody. So there's their true beliefs that are pretty firm, which makes you think that there is alternative approaches to life and so whenever I think and even so it's like, going, it's okay for me to feel uncomfortable about them who do that thing. But there's also like, acknowledge that and have a look at it. So let's actually have a conversation about it
potentially. I do think that have you changed much as a person the last two years do you think our shitloads
Hape?
I think a Hape? Do you think that you become more empathetic to others? Because if you look at yourself two years ago, do you see yourself as a different person? Or what do
you definitely different definitely different person? Was I less empathetic? Probably. But I don't I don't it's a weird because you looking at them and looking back at yourself as a different person. So you like, how like, what was going on there? Why did I? Why was I? I can't remember thinking why I did when you have a new system or a new approach to life. We feel if you get
stock mode on the phone, the dark mode, is that what it's called?
Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Because all these things just become a thing. So yeah, like we've always been able to do this. Yeah.
Good. Take. Take care. Technology take analogy. No, I definitely.
So do you think you'd become empathetic of other people? Because like, I didn't know my, I didn't know this two years ago. So why should I expect this person to? Yeah.
I'm sorry. I wasn't even really listening to that. But I was thinking, goodness, openness.
So like this. Oh,
I tell you what there's like starting the mindfulness stuff is like in the it's ironic, because ironic enough the throat word. Yeah, I'm waking up the app, which is Sam Harris's app waking up. I feel like I've woken up. There's not been a woke. That's not being.
It's not being woke.
But it is one step as soon as you try hard and not being consumed by the thoughts. just fly into your head and start more observing what's happening and why I'm feeling that way and having this kind of a conversation. It's almost like you can't go back because you're so you're so not obsessed. But you can't not think about why you're having these thoughts and why you're experiencing, like, so there's this step to the side, which makes me feel like, that's why I'm like, I don't know if I'll ever stop. I don't, I won't ever stop meditating. Because I can't remember the old guy and what he used to fucking do when he was constantly trapped, I still am. So it's not like some new, some fucking paradise over here, but it is like, what was I doing two years ago, when I was having blow up with like, I just wasn't as conscious about the whole thing.
And so that if you look at identity, how do you avoid, say from an identity point of view? It's pretty common that like blokes lead with like, you know, they know it all. They want to fix everything. They've got all the answers. There's like, the reason that I want to read up on Iran is so that when in some sort of obscure conversation where someone says something about an article they read, yeah, I can be like, was actually because of the blah blah blah this happened in that and so I identify that identify that the nodal in me wants to know all about Iran purely for the one time that I'm in the Persian restaurant. And I can mention every dish I can tell them how that method
yeah I mean there's so deeper I because there's the path you go down as to why you even think like that. Then there's the path to go down of. Okay, but what's behind that don't even like there's there's not much that I want to learn and so I'm using it as a mechanism and my god this is a fun like some people learn to use a yo yo, do yo yo tricks on magic. Like why do people want magic? They said there's like psycho analysis where you could probably find, you know, going to a psycho analysis. What's the what are they called a psycho analysis, but someone who can perform psycho analysis on you which would to Adam cover all these things about why you act the way you do based on past experiences, it could be because you need it. I don't know this this all this damage all this shit that I don't know, is that practical. You're an interesting one because I think you're super self aware. But there's the self awareness that you've done the piece of work to realise and be able to verbalise and be open about you being that guy that loves that, because that's like, Cassandra, then I could say, is it positive for you? Do you think well, that's the whole
thing. I'm aware, but I still do it. Like this. And so that's like the meta modernism stuff, right? That's what like Jason Fox talks about is like you're entering in and out of different states.
But so he's becoming like, the hard thing about even being aware of it is and not acting on changing and if it isn't positive for you, it still then becomes identity for you. Yeah, but but I guess
maybe what I'm trying to do is not to create a perfect being I think that potentially if you know all these things, if you find all these gotchas, like, are you doing it because of this and doing because of that? And like, where do you end up? And so maybe like without the whole masks type thing, and like, not looking at everything black and white, and being a bit grey, maybe there is something of I'm doing this because of this identity thing, which is okay, and it actually like identity serves me. And so what I find interesting around the whiteness thing is just the general idea of imagine moving more, what is that a? Is that a symptom of the next layer of Noah totalism, which is like nominalism. I don't think I just made that word up here, but so like the, if you think about it. If you're a nodal and you've identified potentially that you people think you're an hour Being woke, or having saying I realised I was this person. And now I'm something different is the ultimate palette move? because now you're like, ah, like I'm, I'm aware of that or whatever. But it could potentially come from the same identity which is the nodal because I woke kness and being woken doing all of that is a is a toolkit. And so it's like, oh, look, I nailed all of this toolkit. Now I'm going to do the spiritual toolkit because once I've spent enough time in that
I think all that's happened in that moment is someone acting unconsciously they're become conscious of their acting unconscious Lee,
but the thing is, that may be because they because the thing is like it just become conscious to this one little layer, but you know, the thing is that there isn't conscious and unconscious. Because just zooming out a tiny bit. You could then look at it as like Consciousness I become, yes, maybe we become more conscious. But we haven't became conscious. So I said, let's say mine mindless and mindful. Probably the right words to strip back the conscious and unconscious, maybe less mindless,
less mindless, but I think the thing is that even what I say is like, creating some framing around my thoughts on the thing, right? Name and identity, you step back from them because there's another layer. So you're right, the onion does get stripped back, but that is where these Buddhist medicine minute like meditation does take you down that path to to nothing. You're trying to strip it all back.
But my Noah totalism is doing something now, which is basically a gotcha because if you come back, like if you think about the conversation, if you say anything, I can use that as the framing of what you just know. You know, everything right. And so it's a very hot debate.
We're talking about ourselves, right? We're not talking about others. I think, if you want to know yourself, you should like you should that you should lean into that, because I don't think it's but what is out there?
And so I guess what is ourselves? I think the more that we think about ourself, the more we think about culture. What is that culture? So like, you look at using the Iran example, whatever, because I'm an expert. Asked me anything. Jay counted those books, by the way. The if you think about culture, and you look at like media, and then you see like, Okay, this perspective, I guess what I'm trying to do potentially, is enter into another perspective, enter into if I was of this if I grew up in this way, if I was born this way, what would my perspective actually be?
Which, which is yourself so you're saying like, what has been the cultural influences to form the thing that identifies myself
and said the thing Is that the there is so much power in differences or identifying what the differences are. Because the way that you approach life and the way that I approach life has differences based on our upbringing, and where we went to school and who our friends were, and the things that we were taught and the and so all of that, like, it's very confusing.
But yeah, I mean, that's building this building yourself to how you identified your thought process and giving reason to all the the rethinking come from it's happening without our control.
And so if you don't like so if it's happening without our control, then what is thinking? Ah, dude,
thanks for asking me I'm actually
well versed on that No, no, what is
right? I don't know.
So if we go back to year 12 it which I failed by the way cuz I didn't do my fuckin Excel sack my spreadsheet sack, but you did informatics. No, I did it. But they had a section which was like, it's an old spreadsheet what
happened in this that could contribute to this?
garbage in garbage out information, right. So it's like if you put in bad information, you get bad information out. If you have all these experiences, you're if you're like, I'm just unconscious to things, things just happen. It's like a gut instinct is gut instinct, not just memory bank of everything that has happened. So if I'm crossing the road, and a car starts to speed up, I should run so I don't get heat. Where do we learn that?
So what's your thought around?
So the thing is, it's like we do we wait that's information that we understand that I don't know how much thinking know, but so from a thinking perspective, what is thinking? And if it's, if we're not thinking we ask Still thinking, just from a, whether it's conscious or unconscious, like our actions, so if all the things that have ever happened to us, brings us to a point of who we are and what we are in our identity. And so I guess it's just I don't know, man, it's a bit of a rabbit hole. I just, I mean, the thought thing, but so the thing is, so part of is like, it just is like, I don't know why I do this thing, but it just is. Who says that? Like, I don't know, just say if that's if that's, that's if that's an approach, or like, like, I'm not I'm not really thinking about it. I'm just doing. There are a bunch of things that are happening that are informing how you're responding. And that's, we don't know of course, yeah. Yeah. It's, what do you think sets?
neural pathways? Yeah, well, passwords. Yeah, bunch of them.
Yeah, I mean, it's just a your thinking is probably just a collection of everything that you've experienced in And been through and I don't know about the whole like the the instinctive thing versus thinking about it like the with the car crossing the road. Yeah, I don't know that that's just like a an unconscious thing that happens. It's just like something running in the background that whether you pick that up and learned that from somewhere or
whether it's learning I think about bardy I'm teaching him Yes. He doesn't have any understanding that if he goes on the road, he will get hit by a car. Yeah. And so you start drilling it into them and so then they start making the connection, but then that's going to be never thought about again, it just is
when the thing is some people could have a crazy response like so people who say there's people who jaywalking there's people who are who don't die walking back, I just cross the road while you're doing. It's probably because I nearly got hit by a car when they'll find a deal.
the other option
that they just had the lights, they just stay at the Do the they do the analysis like everyone else, but it's just based on the reality of standing in front of a car you get hit you die based on the understanding of that.
The understanding of that is
likely actually like they're like, What the What's happened to them? And they'll like it, how do you understand risk? And like, like, it may not have been a car but it could have been a train or could have been like fucking hide. So whatever it is, those things that have happened is still going to inform where we see risk. If we grow up every single weekend going and climbing rocks, then our the way that we look at rock climbing is potentially less risky. I know what you're saying.
But then so with kids, like there are some friends of bowties that are terrified of the slides. And they're so young, like they haven't had much experience. Like and there's been no huge accident. So there is like it's the nature in the child as well.
It can contribute. So it's like, I don't even joke about like generational trauma so like people who been through the Holocaust and all that sort of thing and then they look at their family members and say that the trauma actually go through James. So I don't know if I can understand it. Yeah, I mean, where am I know it? Oh,
no, I get what you're trying to get at with the car thing. But yeah, it's so like, because there's like what you said generational trauma, this understanding of things that have happened to you in your past.
But so then the interesting thing, I guess, is like, does it all lead just to empathy? So understanding that if we can't even identify it if we don't know the memories or the things that have the the unconscious actions that happened throughout throughout our life, how would everyone else know and how would we know what their experiences
what's a serving the like, what he
wants to see?
But so where are you realising the empathy to this
so the just in the in the sense
If we like we never arrive. So we never like so speaking in, like, absolutes, of like, I used to be this way, and now I'm this way or things like that. I guess it's just avoiding absolutes in some way because
it's hot bitties they serve you as well, in some respects the same with the identity stuff, right? Like,
yeah, you can be conscious of it and conscious that I do this thing. Yeah, then if we're interacting with other people realising that they're operating system is different, and they've been going through different, different things.
I had this conversation with Craig and I mentioned to you it's like, I see the sort of the cliff you step off into that spiritual world where you take it, take it really seriously, but if it does consume you, and all this stuff, all these constructs, they don't mean anything, right? We give it the meaning. And so you can see how it's like it's a slippery slope to nothing because There's nothing in this. I mean, all of this is nothing really. But in reality, there's bills to pay jobs to get we all need to sort of leave alive, which
is culture, which is Yeah. Do you think like, because if you think about it like this, of course, but there's other there's other countries
where it's simple living in the mountains in India that are super happy and they're having one meal a day. And like, that doesn't mean
so that's so I guess the thing is the unconscious version of ourselves, if the unconscious version of ourselves is rocking up to work, paying our bills, doing all that sort of thing is I don't know if it's
so there is the unconscious version of that, but you can be conscious about the fact that is something you need to do in your life. We need to have a roof over our head, if we want to have some level of
also Yeah, this is the universe. I guess there's those universal
By the way, maybe you can look at this for yourself, and go The intensity and the focus you put on the future of developing your, your world and what we're doing in the show. What does that even mean? Like, why do you choose to sort of pursue that? Why? Why does it need an intensity? Why does it sometimes need anxiety? Why, you know, as well as all the great stuff that happens a lot of it like
body that that's the that's the that's the mechanism of entering in to things and then out of things. So if you don't have if you're like, you know what, like, I'm detached to outcome. You're always detached to outcome, would you do anything? So if you've got no real focus, yeah, like from it, you do
a bunch of stuff. So the focus on other stuff based on so But hang on, the detached from outcome is removing the emphasis on what it gives you what you get at the end of doing something and so they reason there is a life to live that isn't that and thinking about that happiness or whatever you think will bring you and living in this, which is either the moment, like actually enjoying and being grateful and, and being present with them every moment that can bring an extreme level of happiness and all the other. Like, there needs to be a framework still. Because if you I guess from a if you if you are detached from an outcome, and you just be present and do things unconsciously or whatever it is, is that what you think like is it uncaught like but I think this app if and I don't think I'm consciously I think it's being just living in consciousness and experiencing and I mean, who we talking about here we talking about just someone who's
doing it myself. I'm trying to frame it myself and one that I think it's just
being more present.
And because the thing is, I guess if you from the outcome perspective, You're detached from out from the outcome. Does that mean that you just end up playing the finite games of everyone else's outcome
now and said, this is where I'm saying it's a slippery slope to just live a life of zero outcome because there is all the things like rent and food and life that we want to live. And so we should have balance construct, right, which is that which is the interesting thing is like So what you're saying is, it's like, no, but I'm talking about realities like just from success and buying a house I'm talking about having any money to survive in this
world and he is a construct Oh,
yeah, I know that but stop trying to outsmart But not only that, but I'm just
literally saying that like the thing about realities, if you're saying no, but just the reality is, there's multiple realities. But if you were to look at
just even existing in Melbourne for you, so the
culture thing, so it's like what do within the reality of Melbourne and what it means to have this identity living in Collingwood have this Life. It means I can buy maka Master?
No. It doesn't it doesn't know. So this is the jumping from living a life of zero outcome to, oh, I think you're jumping way over here, which then just like Fox up this conversation about having someone living alive living your life now with less outcome driven, and what would that mean to you? So if there was no outcome, what would you be doing? There's no outcome focus.
So whilst there might not be a long term outcome, there is the every day like one of the things that I want to do every day that brings a little bit of light into my life or the people around me. And in some ways, that's, that's an outcome based on the day. Yeah. So I think potentially what you're talking about, which I agree with, and what I've implemented is like, I'm way less I have sort of an idea of potentially, maybe where things could go. But I understand that it's coming from the window in which I'm standing right now. And realising that as we walk along a hallway, we might actually, throughout all the years of the hallways is a representation of the years we've lived, it could be a completely different view. And if I base an outcome decision, based on what I'm saying, Now, I might be missing the whole other thing. And so then what can you do is you can look at the very small outcome of getting one step in front of the other. So you're walking along, this is being present with
where you're at the moment which is But then I also think the hard thing for me is wanting to be present but also wanting to live a life that I am more confident like this satisfaction, like there's all these constructs, if you're going to call it that, that basically On
like geography would like using geography as an example, living in Melbourne. There's ponder that. Yeah, well anyway, right? Well, the interesting thing is like there's a lot of similarities in culture. If you were to go from Melbourne to a completely different place, right, completely cold, like culturally very different, your version of the step in front of the other or the daily thing could be very different. Which I think is why geography like where we choose to live, if we have the privilege of being able to peek away we live can determine all the other things
are hundred percent taking job in Melbourne, I wouldn't be here doing this podcast with you because I was living in Sydney. And so there's little moments.
And I guess that's part of it is it's like so we can't just say I'm just going to live my life and just do what I have to do. Like I'm going to be detached from outcome but the willingness to recognise that I know like, I've chosen to live here and do all this sort of thing, which, like, it's almost like I've accepted the game, the game I'm willing to play. And now I'm just going to play the game. And I think that potentially there is a
I mean, yeah, it's so it's so tricky, because you see the people that have put everything into a career made a lot of money. And then they go on the pursuit of comfort or the pursuit of now outcome after the after that fact. Right, yeah. And so, yeah, I think it is like the game is a good analogy, because that's what I struggle with if it all is a main match, but we also where you need to be where is the game, so don't worry if I'm not doing this, I have to do something. Because other than what
well I guess part of it becomes so say like, the goal of being a great dad is that something resonates with you being a great dad,
not goal of being great dad, I want to be a great dad. Yeah,
I hope I am. So what? And so then I guess from a cultural point of view, there is a construct of what it what it means to be great dad. I
think it's pretty murky.
So this is the whole thing, right? And so it's like, that's where the culture start. Like in some societies, being a great dad means cash yet being at work, getting everything done, so that you can keep your family going and, and being a support for other people. It's for other cultures, that's being home and being present, doing all that sort of thing. And so that's where we're, I guess, geography and culture. Actually, if you aren't conscious of those things, we end up just, we end up picking a game, potentially, I don't know.
It was all coming back to mindfulness, to be honest, like, because most people are within the game. They've got a job they're trying to provide the arena place they might not want to be there. Then it's if you can understand that and have some level of because if you're not have if you can't find this is hard because there's people in very tricky situations. But if you can't find some peace in this moment of where you're at, why why is it going to be? I don't know, I don't, it's not going to be over here at some other version that you think that you want to be at.
So what happens if like so say if you're someone very different, or you are different to what you were two years ago? What happens with the decisions you made two years ago that that creates the situation that you're in now.
So for instance, I'm living I'm living them. Yeah, I'm living the decisions I made. It's, if I want to,
I need to raise we always need to be constantly like pointing the compass to make sure that we're going In the right I guess it comes with some moves anyway. I can take
out Yeah,
just like you need to be making sure that you're going in the right direction. Because if you're like if if we say okay I'm not going to be doing x y&z now I'm just gonna live we're essentially like just selecting the game, maybe we always select it were using we're saying, you know what like these three things that I did like where I'm going to live the friends I hang out with all that.
But I mean how are you looking back on the last two years or looking back two years to the decisions you made then and if you do feel different about them as a person now, you don't have to make those decisions again. It can be shifting the compass for yourself, where is it? And if it was off before, where you think it's off where you are now you think it was off back then there is some difference in you. You can then realign. That's why we are not who we were two years ago and you don't have to be that person anymore. We have an opportunity every day to be a new version. a better version of more aligned version is take some thinking and in turn it on mindfulness around it
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We're trying to just get a sense of who like the the buy in on the show. And I just want to make sure that like they're not questions about us like we've specifically segue drunk because it's like,
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Give it a show. I think if they give it a go, they get in but if they don't give it a go, and they just written nothing, I think maybe it's a message we'd love to have you in the, in the programme in the love to have you in the group. Can you answer that? Can you answer because then you can imagine me doing that just fucking I didn't know that was buddy in question.
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I've given it a crack my
blood I can see why you let them in because I know I partner with him the gronk squad so it's like I get that
there's just that consideration to around like where where do we draw the line if they can't came up with it and said please clean gronk and they said sky Mr.
Scott funny
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late I mean just they just wanna have a poke around
now which will it's our house take the fucking shoes off
anyone else so Glenn said did Friday's location for drinks I
will message you but it is happening. I just Hello everyone say right now as well as messaged you, it's happening at moon doggo g in Abbotsford. I repeat Moondog Oj 5pm onwards will be arriving with you the reserve section spoke to my homie brookies organised the section for us 1717 for drinks 17 juke straight Abbotsford that's where it's happening 5pm this Friday
I'm not used to this whole thing. I people going to like a it's about
you guys like you do that? You can do it. I mean I got offered a drink. The first time I had a drink. Richard CEO of Bastion effects the founder on he offered to buy me a drink.
Have you offered anyone this year?
Yeah, we when I was with James and my brother. We we all bought around each. And so that that's what that's some etiquette that you can do. If you like this I'll buy three drinks, you buy three drinks, you buy three drinks and then we're done.
itself is 15 I just feel the pain the show not something. I just don't want to sit crazy expectations. Where do we want to buy one round?
Is that what you say?
Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't do that make you more
competitive.
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the company.
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now what i'd love Harry there with the company. Can I just Hey, guys. Happy Harry. Have you had one? I know you've had one. Be Your dad. Happy? Yeah, he'd be very, very far. I'd love
to do the talk show. So tomorrow guys have a good one. Hey, guys.
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People often assume that I live with a lot of my own designs. I actually prefer to surround myself with an assortment of designs made by other designers and from different places and times. This chair from the Orkney Islands, Scotland is undoubtedly my favourite. It sits in my kitchen and is a loved spot for friends to sit over a cup of tea. The back is quite comfortable and wraps around the sitter creating a little cozy space.
I believe that this Orkney chair was made by D. M. Kirkness, 'Joiner & Orkney Chair Maker,' He built the wooden frames between 1878-1921 and employed local fishermen to make the straw backs in their spare time.
Photographs and information can be found in the book, English Vernacular Furniture 1750-1900 by Christoper Gilbert.


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FAYETTEVILLE (KFSM) — A Fayetteville High School teacher attended the Grammy Awards on Sunday (Feb. 12) after the Grammy Museum awarded him the Jane Ortner Education Award.
Fayetteville Public Schools posted on Facebook that English teacher Nathan Strayhorn and his wife attended the awards show in Los Angeles.
The Jane Ortner Education Award is given annually by the Grammy Museum to teachers who successfully integrate music in classroom instruction.
Strayhorn will return to Los Angeles in a few weeks to formally accept his award.


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May 24, 2010 Entertainment / TV
LOST: What to Make of the Finale
Many people will be disappointed by last night's series finale of LOST. Many will be incredibly satisfied. Count me among both camps.
If you were a fan of the show because it was enthralling, as I was, you'll love the finale. It had action, romance, drama, comedy, and a generally happy ending. If you were a fan for the mystery and mythology, as I also was, you will be very disappointed as virtually every core mystery was completely abandoned.
Emotionally, I was completely satiated. I was rooting for Sawyer and Juliet to find each other, I was so happy for Claire and Charlie, I thought Jin and Sun played their awakening scene perfectly, Hurley and Libby shared an awakening kiss, and we'd already had our Desmond/Penny reunion. All that was missing was Daniel and Charlotte pairing off. I wish we had seen a happy ending for poor ol' Miles, but I guess he had his dad.
Intellectually, I was a little stumped. First, by the solution: um… what? So the entire alternate timeline was post-death, or just the church scene? They joined the alternate timeline when they died in the real timeline? Wait… was the real timeline even real at all? I don't know.
Mythologically, I was downright pissed. Is it okay for the writers to give us 121 hours of programming spurred on by completely mind-bending mystery and then completely and totally abandon virtually every one of those storylines with no explanation?
The central mystery of the show was "What is the island?" It was the center so much so that the pilot ended by dropping its first titlecard after Charlie's now infamous "Guys… where are we?" That was not only not answered, it was flat out made more complicated in the finale. In protecting "the source," we saw Desmond and Jack descend into the light. First off, going in certainly did not mean a fate "worse than death"; second, it seemed the bottom of the well was man-made! WHA…? There's another entire story at the bottom of the light source.
Let's not forget about all the little nagging ones… How does Hurley see dead people? How can Miles talk to them? What is the smoke? Who built the frozen wheel? How does the island "move" when the wheel is turned? How did Jacob make Richard ageless? What was up with Hanso and the DeGroots? What was the Hanso connection with the Black Rock captain and the blast door map? The questions are limitless, and they go largely unanswered.
So, today, I'm not sure how I feel about the entire thing. On one hand, I feel betrayed for having invested so much time in the mysteries to be completely ignored. On the other, though, it was the best 121 hours of TV I've ever watched. Even the less-exciting episodes were still the highlight of the TV week. I doubt I'll ever have as much fun with a TV show as I have on the journey of LOST.
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You obviously weren't paying attention. Most of your 'nagging mysteries' were answered before the finale even aired.
Adam S says:
Hooray for condescending d-nozzles!
> How does Hurley see dead people? How can Miles talk to them?
Not solved. We know Michael explained that they are trapped, but why can these two see/talk to them?
> What is the smoke?
Not solved. Is it MIB's soul? Is it "evil incarnate"? What IS it? How did it get there?
> Who built the frozen wheel?
Not solved. It wasn't MIB, Mother filled in the hole.
> How does the island "move" when the wheel is turned?
Obviously, not solved.
> How did Jacob make Richard ageless?
Not solved. What gave him the power? Don't say "the wine." That's a non-explanation.
> What was up with Hanso and the DeGroots?
Not solved. The whole mystery and mythology unravels with them at the core and then… no explanation?
> What was the Hanso connection with the Black Rock captain and the blast door map?
Not solved. Magnus Hanson chartered the Black Rock that ended up on the island; centuries later a very rich and very mysterious Alvar Hanso funds the Dharma Initative that travels to the same island? Coincidence??
Tell me which questions you think were answered that I missed.
You're right. You're obviously much smarter than me.
I'm not trying to be. You snapped back with your douchey response, and I'm asking you to justify it. Now, since you apparently can't, you're trying to make it appear like I'm arrogant and dismissive rather than acknowledge that the mysteries were not explained. I'd happily recant if you can tell me when those questions were answered.
I agree and I am happy to know there is someone who feels exactly like I do about the series finale.
I still don't know how to deal with this ending though. I guess it just takes some time to accept it the way it was.
Gibby says:
ADAM S + 100 points
ALEX – 50 points
He's got a great point there buddy. I'd actually like to know the answers to those mysteries if you have that knowledge.
Sure! Some of the core themes of the show where about the mysteries of the island, but at the end of the day the show was about the characters.
Don't get me wrong, I'm really into the mythology but the mysteries where only there to drive the story of these people.
They never pretended like they where going to give you big answers, just a small piece of the history of the island and the people who came to it.
Lets be realistic, would you have ACTUALY liked it if at the end it cut to a grainy video of Marvin Candle (or whatever his name is) and he told you the answers to all your questions?
Damon Lidelof (one of the writers) said very early on in the piece (season 3 or 4 i believe) that just like life, we where not going to get the big answers and the whole picture, because that's not what the show is really about.
With due respect, Luke, your response is the same line of bullshit the producers fed us. No one said 'this is about characters, not mythology" until the mythology had been sufficiently unraveled. If we knew prior to the hatch, prior to the Dharma Initiative, prior to the orientation videos, prior to the Others/Widmore/Hostiles that the show would never explain these things, no one would have watched.
The show was incredibly entertaining, but YES, I would have preferred Marvin Candle to give me some answers.
Remember, the "it's about the characters, not the mythology" line didn't even come up until the writers had already written themselves into a corner. They broke the contract they had with us as viewers: they told a mystery without an answer.
If any book ended like that, it would fail. Imagine Agatha Christie: "So, the murder was never solved, nor did any of the characters ever really ask about it, but the focus of this story is the mental journey of Hercule Perot." Yeah, never would happen.
"They broke the contract they had with us as viewers: they told a mystery without an answer. "
That's a very good point.
But we have to remember that the actual story for Lost wasn't written until post season 1.
From conception to the end of making the pilot was only something like 12 weeks. Then after they picked up a season they wrote season 1, not knowing what any of the things they created where (the hatch, smoke monster…)
But then the show went gang-busters and they had to figure out what all these silly things they created are… (the smoke monster, the hatch, the others…)
That's part of the reason we will never get the answers, because their just not there.
But remember, that the show was always about asking questions, and searching for answers.
And by doing this ending, the show has guaranteed it will stay in conversation and peoples thoughts for a long time to come.
Also, I think the end is an attempt to encapsulate the struggle amongst the people on the island. In the end it came down to men of faith and men of science. This ending has effectively split the fan-base into these two camps, those who want the straight up answers and not have them be left for your interpretation, those who are comfortable interpreting what happened on their own terms.
For instance, last night I had a lengthy conversation with a friend of mine about the very end scene in the church. My friend was raised with a Christian upbringing, I was raised in India and my beliefs sit more in eastern or (what some would call) new age, beliefs.
My friend interpreted the flash sideways world as limbo, and the scene at the end, was them coming to terms with their sins and entering heaven (the bight light behind the church doors).
I however interpreted it as more of an intangible place their conciousness has gone in order for them to come to terms with all the horrible things that happened to them throughout their life.
Alas, I digress.
At least it got us talking, ey?


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France looks to buy back EDF's nuclear operations
By Energy Reporters | 17.04.2019 | Policy
French President Emmanuel Macron is poised to approve a re-nationalisation of EDF's nuclear activities, rolling back the partial privatisation of the electricity provider in 2004, which left the state with an 83.7-per-cent stake, according to Le Parisien.
The French government has been looking at how to restructure EDF to isolate its volatile nuclear business from the pressures of the stock exchange and provide a boost to the rest of the firm.
The authorities want to return EDF's nuclear operations to the public sector but not necessarily buy out minority shareholders in EDF's other activities.
The restructuring measures would be an attempt to isolate the nuclear division, including its nuclear reactors, wholesale market activities and possibly large hydropower dams, the daily paper reported.
Électricité de France's board is due to discuss the plans to renationalise nuclear activities and split them from the rest of its operations.
Trade unions reacted with anger, saying it would dismantle the electric utility company.
François Dos Santos of the EDF branch of the CGT union said his members opposed the plan and were considering industrial action.
EDF has a market value of €41 billion but trades on a price-to-book ratio of just 0.82, making it the most undervalued share in the Stoxx European Utilities index, according to that measure.
A source said the board was expected to review the restructuring proposal in May before presenting it to management and union representatives in June.
The scheme involves the creation of a parent company to run EDF's 58 nuclear reactors in France, which produce about 75 per cent of French electricity.
A subsidiary would continue to seek private investors under the so-called Project Hercules, Le Parisien said.
Sources claim Macron is broadly in favour of the idea but may backtrack if the price of compensating shareholders proves too high or in the face of a union backlash.
Le Monde, meanwhile, reported that 90 per cent of the details of the restructuring had not yet been worked out.
EDF is struggling to pay for the renovation of its French nuclear reactors, with the bill estimated at €45 billion.
The group has debts of €33 billion and is committed to funding two-thirds of around £19.6 billion cost of the European-pressurised reactors being constructed at Hinkley Point in western England.
A similar reactor at Flamanville (pictured) in northern France was meant to cost €3 billion and operate from 2012 but it is still not working and the budget has reached €10.9 billion.
EDF has been advised to repair faulty weldings at Flamanville, which would add hundreds of millions to the bill and lead to a further delay, it was revealed this month.
Flamanville. Picture credit: Wikimedia
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Oreo Cookies and Cream Fudge is a vanilla flavored fudge studded with chunks of cream-filled chocolate sandwiches cookies made in less than 10 minutes.
White Chocolate Peppermint Fudge is a wonderful, festive fudge recipe that is super easy to make with no candy thermometer required!
White Cupcakes with Truffle Filling and White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting are a fun cupcake with a gooey truffle center. They are super easy to make too!
While the original recipe called this cake white chocolate, it strikes me as closer to a white cake with a little tang from the sour cream. So my quest for a white chocolate cake continues, but these White Cupcakes with Truffle Filling are definitely tasty. I used a combination of white chocolate and dark chocolate truffles for the center, and both were good. The White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting deliciously rounds everything out, making these cupcakes worthy this special 2-year celebration!
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners and set aside.
In a small bowl, whisk flour and baking powder.
In a medium bowl, beat egg whites on high until stiff peaks form.
In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar until fluffy. Add sour cream, and continue beating until smooth.
On medium speed, alternate adding flour and milk to butter mixture, ending with flour, and beat until smooth.
Stir in ⅓ of the egg whites. Fold in remaining egg whites until combined.
Divide batter evenly among 12 muffin cups. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Remove cupcakes from oven and while hot, cut a ½ inch "X" into the tops of each cupcake. Insert the truffle and press until truffle is flush with the top of the cupcake. Truffle will melt into cupcake. Let cool completely before frosting.
Make frosting: Place white chocolate in microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on high for 1 minute and stir. Continue in 30 second increments until melted. Let cool for 3 minutes.
In a large bowl, combine melted chocolate, cream cheese, butter and vanilla and beat on medium speed until combined. Slowly add powdered sugar and continue beating until smooth.
Happy New Year! For a special New Year's Day breakfast, I made these Apriot White Chocolate Scones. I always forget how quick and easy scones are to make, plus they are much more economical to make at home than to buy them from a local coffee shop. Tastier too! The slight tartness of the dried apricots and the sweetness of the white chocolate chips are such a wonderful complement. I made several changes to the original recipes to lighten it up a bit: used fat free evaporated milk instead of half and half, used light butter and also replaced some flour with whole wheat pastry flour. The result was a delicious scone with a nice, moist texture (no dry scones here!).
In a food processor, pulse flours, sugar and baking powder until combined.
Add butter to food processor and pulse until fine crumbs form. Pour mixture into a medium bowl.
Stir apricots and white chocolate chips into flour mixture. Stir in egg and gradually add evaporated milk until dough forms a ball (Note: You may need slightly less than ⅓ cup). Knead dough a few times while in bowl.
Pat or roll dough into 8-inch round on prepared cookie sheet. Cut into 8 wedges (a pizza cutter works well) but DO NOT separate.
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let sit on pan for 5 minutes and then separate wedges (Note: I used a serated knife to ensure clean cuts). Let cool completely.
Optional set: Drizzle melted white chocolate and sprinkle with chopped dried apricots, if desired.
What happens when you cross peanuts with pretzels and Reese's peanut butter puffs cereal? This Reindeer Snack Mix, that's what! Each ingredient on its own is fabulous, of course. When mixed together with some melted white chocolate, you have a snack mix that is really too good for words. Yes folks, I am speechless. Or maybe I am just too busy stuffing my face with more snack mix. 🙂 Either way, I will simply leave you with this. It's the holidays. You are bound to have guests or to be a guest. Here is a fun and easy little snack that will leave everybody singing your praises this holiday season!
In a large bowl, combine cereal, pretzels and peanuts.
In a microwave, melt the white chocolate chips; stir until smooth.
Pour melted white chocolate over cereal mixture and toss to coat.
Immediately spread onto waxed paper-lined baking sheets. Let stand until set, about 20 minutes. Break into pieces and store in airtight container.
Source: Taste of Home: Cookies and more!
Pretzel Kiss Candies are the ultimate salty sweet treat made using only three ingredients. Colors can be customized for holidays and events, making these a go-to for any party! Make a lot, because they disappear quickly!!
Pretzel Kiss Candies are a fun and easy treat for the holidays. These candies have been circulating around the web for some time now, and with good reason. They are easy and SO good! You have the salty-sweet thing going on, plus they are a cute addition to your holiday treat plate. Use your favorite M&Ms for the topper, choosing whatever goes with your celebration. The white chocolate Hershey's Hugs tend to melt faster and smoother than their milk chocolate counterparts, but they are both equally delicious.
Simple to make, Pretzel Kiss Candies are perfect for a last minute get together, or simply because they mood strikes you. Whatever the reason, Pretzel Kiss Candies are a must-make for the holidays!
Raspberry season is upon us with a plethera of delicious berries to do with as we wish.
And I wish for Raspberry White Chocolate muffins. Seriously. I have been waiting all year for raspberry season just so I could make them.
These muffins are definitely one of those muffins. The kind of muffins that feel like dessert for breakfast…and well….it kind of is. But there's fruit, so it's totally legit.
Raspberry and white chocolate are such a classic combination. The juicy raspberries burst in your mouth and the white chocolate chips provide a nice texture. The cream cheese gives the batter a sticky consistency, resulting in beautiful, rustic-looking muffins. Enjoy!
In a large mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and sugar until smooth. Add eggs and vanilla; mix well.
Add dry ingredients to the cream cheese mixture until just blended. Stir in chips. Gently fold in raspberries.
Distribute batter evenly amongst 12 muffin cups. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to wire rack.