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Superbad at IMDb
Funniest mindless movie of the last few years. McLovin is the best, and the other guys grew on me. Michael Cera must go and do some Woddy Allen or Charlie Kaufman stuff; he was great at Arrested Development, and is quite enjoyable at Juno and this movie.
O Cheiro do Ralo at IMDb
In his job he needs to undervalue the suffering of others in order to make more money. Then there’s the smell, the ass and the eye. The degree of objectification of desire is in direct proportion to the self-debasement of the indulger. By degrading the other, he nullifies himself. The very indifference to the overjealous ones, the suppressed recalcitrant losers of the world, is what causes their victims to exist. Great disturbing movie.
The Lathe of Heaven (book) The Lathe of Heaven (1980) at IMDb Deep review on Lathe of Heaven (the movie)
A lost science fiction PBS movie with Taoist undertones is a real find, right? A guy discovers his dreams change reality—when he wakes up he finds himself in a world where the content of his dreams have actually happened. He of course gets scared after a couple of nightmares, seeks relief in drugs, and then, because of them, is lead to a psychiatrist.

It happens the psychiatrist is a positivist type. When finally he gets convinced the guy dreams things that actually do happen, he decides to find a way to control the dreams of his patient to better the world… so easy to see where this leads, right? People should really get into Taoism before discussing politics, sometimes I dream. Well, may this never happen as I wish.

“To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven.”Chuang Tzu
Here's for all the sissy Apple lovers out there... This is the ultimate design for my old Duron, which faithfully downloaded well over one terabyte (mostly movies, 1300+) always on 24/7/365 over the last four years. It also runs Apache and is a file and printer server, as well as a router for my home network (with four, also damn old and beautiful computers). Sometimes I dust it off with a vacuum cleaner.
The Fountain
The Fountain: No-CGI, Cabala, Mogway — not good enough.I really enjoyed Requiem for a Dream, and PI was quite interesting. I may grow to like this one, but for now it just seemed a little too newagy to my tastes. It started a bit boring and I never quite empathized with the characters. On the other hand, some of the visuals (and sounds — by Mogway) are quite appealing (no CGI!), and near the end we have some surprises. Actually, some interpretations may not be that newagy — but pretentiousness still abounds.
Zazen: just sitting.I have read the article on “ditching Buddhism” by John Horgan about one or two years ago and I have found it to be as so filled up with misconceptions as not to be worthy even of bad publicity, yet last week somebody remembered me about it and I decided to answer some of its points.
10 Item or Less
In imdb a user commented: "Annoying little transition into some sort of regurgitated independent film values finds this shallow project from Brad Silberling offering little and providing less in this embarrassingly exploitive work." I agree, yet it is still watchable — even more so if you understand how clichê is the fabricated spontaneity in it. It is as if independent movie has aquired its own hollywood-like formulaicism. So it kind of becomes an interestingly consumated aesthetic portrail of so many cult-status fabricated stylishness examples we see around. Many people liked Me and You and Everyone We Know, and it is surely a much fresher and pure attempt, but "10 Items or Less" explains all the little (but very much present) annoyances I got with "Me and You..."
There are things that are "owned" only in the sense that somebody has arrived first or had the most powerful fists. Other things are the product of careful work, many times more of an intellectual nature. In any case, it is clear to anyone that the more you own, the more you get nervous.

So the notion of property should be respected in any case where somebody feels nervous about our advances — even if it is something just like begging. This is valid in any sphere, be it mental, psychological, sociological or purely physical. For instance, some people may open the doors of their houses easily, and you can live with them for some days without disturbing or being disturbed, having meals and fun together. Others even steal the right of peace of those around, by making terrible sounds in the neighbourhood. The idea that it is licit to inflinge upon someone the lacking of what he needs or thinks he needs is preposterous.

On the other side, if their needs are of unreasonable nature — such as having more than what is needed to live a restful and spacious life (such as defined in any constitution) — then he should be encouraged to own less, distributing his goods among those he sees fit to enjoy them better. This is an encouragement both to the giver and the receiver and does not relate to communism, because it is not based on politics, but personal ethics. The encouragement is just living this way and spreading this notion with our own example, not any kind of propaganda.

In matters of purely abstract things, such as information, where nobody is deprived of the thing itself when copied, then only the right for privacy should be noted. Otherwise, if it is not deemed "personal", such as works of art could be (for an egoistical artist), nobody should be blamed for using what is useful. In fact, things as the owning of genetic programs are absolutely immoral.
Moral is a feature of thinking beings. Corporations are human constructions based on some rules, motives or principles, the main one being profit. Since a contract isn't a thinking interactive thing1, it should never be considered a person and allowed to have rights.

The idea that corporations are made by humans and therefore should be under their control is misleading. More often the opposite happens — the corporation makes humans act forcibly to its benefit (profit) even where it can be clearly seen that this is not the best for all and even for the individual compelled by such contracts.
We are not in perfect knowledge of any teleological truth. Striving for confort, economics, information, quality of life, etc, may or not be goals for the ultimate good. Since all our efforts are based on our imperfect knowledge, true progress cannot be phantomed. Since we don't know what it is, any particular definition the word can have shouldn't be taken as necessarily desirable.
No true form of capitalism has ever existed in any state, nor should it. Capitalism should not be encouraged by governments, it should be only tolerated. The idea that accumulation of profit and competition are necessarily good and are the necessary causes for human happiness is absurd. In fact, it seems that our communication and landscape becomes a solely economic one. Consumerism, inequality, environmental issues and the decay of human relations (besides economic ones) are all intensified by striving capitalists. Corporations in particular should not be allowed.
Publicity should be heavily regulated. The only available publicity should be the one on magazines, newspapers, TV, Radio and Internet — stuff you need to voluntarily choose to consume. Outdoors, pamphlets, street-shouting, etc, should be banned. Any invasive and non-ecological form should be heavily taxated or prohibited.
1. ^ If we believe in the possibility of hard artificial inteligence, we could see humans being binded through dynamic contracts, an impartial and sound automated judge of sorts.
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This is a list of good and reliable dharma teachers and places.

Chagdud Gonpa, pure lineage holders of the highest teachings of Vajrayana.

Chagdud Rinpoche, his compassion, courage and strenght will never cease to amaze us.

Siddharta's Intent, organization connected with the maverick dharma teacher Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche.

Lama Tsering, Lama Tsering Everest, intense and kind dharma teacher.

Caminho do Meio, NGO and Buddhist community founded by Lama Padma Samten, great meditator, physicist and popular dharma teacher. (in portuguese)

Wisdom Heart (Yahoogroups), group connected with Ani Zamba Chödron, impressive and direct dharma teacher.

Alan Wallace, gentle scholar and meditation teacher.

Tokuda Igarashi, great zen master, his humbleness and erudition are insurpassable.

Dharma Centre, Directed by Ji Do Poep Sa Nin, kind and puzzling south-african teacher of koan.

There's also a Yahoogroup on Buddhism (in portuguese), bodisatva.
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