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Much like misguided and mistaken mystics can manifest their own mythology in their minds and then make it their mission to become the mouthpiece and martyr of their own impossibly misleading “mythconceptions”, there will always be an adequate assembly of acolytes in any ample audience absorbed and assimilated enough by the appeal to advance their advocacy for them.

Calibrations of credulousness and credulity can cause a calculated component of every crowd to uncritically concur and conjoin with a charismatic crusader and carry on the cause.

Some minds are just more malleable. These are the marks for the manipulator.

It’s also easier to be a disciple than to do the developmental drudgery and defense of an ideology. Just genuflecting at the feet of the genius guru is often effort enough. God forbid having to independently discern, decipher or deconstruct any detail of the declared data and dogma to dare demonstrate and defend its dependability.

Can we uncover such a convert of the cut out and condemned conjuror contrarily continuing the caustic confabulations that caused the conflict and confrontational cure?

Why, yes we can.

Do we care?

Maybe not enough to resurrect, recycle and reinstate arguments already rendered and resoundingly won among the rigorous intuitives already tuned in and tracking

JackRiddler wrote:Let's just take it as a term for something occasionally done by "them."

As long as we restrict "them" to Batman villains.

lupercal wrote:


Do you really expect anyone here to believe that's not a covert recruiting message? Heck even the Guardian admits there are spooks in Hollywood and the Guardian is run by spooks so they should know.

Overflowing with action, humor and a bag full of bonus features, Spooky Buddies is a spooktacular adventure that treats you to a celebration of friendship and teamwork your whole family will enjoy.

http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/livea ... ies/spooky

Okay, Lupus, this post of yours has bothered me for a while.

Obviously you don't know what the hell you're talking about. Obviously you've never seen this HUGE string of "Buddy" movies, and watched as they've desperately tried to figure out how to make one more, but yet ONE more of them, so four year old kids can have yet another video to watch this weekend when little Junior REALLY wants to watch a video.

I have seen more of these "Buddy" movies than I can count. They are nothing. And this one, because it has the word "Spooky" in it, you think is some kind of "recruitment" ploy for kids to become spies?

Is that what you're saying here? Because it's difficult to tell. Your "theories" regarding this, and everything else, are so nonsensical and based in some fantasy that only exists in your head, I'm not sure.

I put you on "ignore" back when you were making up the most offensive shit imaginable about the Brevik massacre in Norway.

And this post shows you to be just as off-in-your-own-little-world-that-only-makes-sense-to-you as anything you've ever posted.

You know, when there's a thread about something of which I know very very little, I don't jump in and make a total ass out of myself. You know, it's that old "it's better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt" sort of thing.

Dang it, Nordic - I was really hoping nobody was gonna take the Disney Spooky Buddies doggie bait.

barracuda wrote:Dang it, Nordic - I was really hoping nobody was gonna take the Disney Spooky Buddies doggie bait.

^ why Nordic, is that a milkbone in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? The answer to your insincere question is in the part of the quotation you omitted, namely, by themselves the title, graphic and description aren't necessarily alarming; it's the pattern they're part of that's unmistakable, but largely invisible until it's been pointed out to you. After that you have no excuse. And the fact that the series is popular assures that many pairs of eyes, young and less young, will take in the message.

Now if you're suddenly seized with a desire to know all about KWH you're going to have to ask Hugh directly, but he's been banned from this forum, thanks in no small part to your antics, so you'll have to come to mine and see if he'll answer you there. Frankly I don't see why he'd waste his time, but you can try. I'd better warn you though that if you do you'll need to behave a lot better than you've behaved here.

Lupercal, here's a script at your level of comfort that you and your spooky buddy Hugh should be able to find "unmistakable patterns" in:


When trying to express oneself, it's frankly quite absurd,
To leaf through lengthy lexicons to find the perfect word.
A little spontaneity keeps conversation keen,
You need to find a way to say, precisely what you mean...

Lupercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious!
If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious,

Lupercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye
Um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye

When Stone Age men were chatting, merely grunting would suffice.
Now if they heard this word, they might have used it once or twice!
I'm sure Egyptian pharoahs would have grasped it in a jiff,
Then every single pyramid would bear this hieroglyph;

Oh!
Lupercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Say it and wild animals would not seem so ferocious!
Add some further flourishes, it's so ro-co-co-coscious!
Lupercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye
Um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye
Um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye
Um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye
The Druids could have carved it on their mighty monoliths!

I'm certain the ancient Greeks would have used it in their midst!
I'm sure the Roman Empire only entered the abyss,
Because those Latin scholars never had a word like this!

Lupercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
If you say it softly the effect can be hypnoscious!

Check your breath before you speak, in case it's halitosis!

Lupercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye
Um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye
Um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye
Um-diddle-diddle-um-diddleye

So when the cat has got your tongue, there's no need for dismay!
Just summon up this word and then you've got a lot to say!
Pick out those eighteen consonants and sixteen vowels as well,
And put them in an order which is very hard to spell...

L-u-p-e-r
C-a-l-i-f-
R-a-g-i-l-

I-s-t-i-c-e-x-p-i-a-l-i-d-o-c-i-o-u-s!

source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/soundtrac ... yrics.html

fyi...

Looper will have a few extra minutes of scenes showing that China is the world's main superpower in the future, which will only be shown in China.

Walt Disney Imagineering built the headquarters of the National Counter-Terrorism Center at Liberty Crossing.

That made my head hurt even more than the Disney-UFO stuff.

jingofever wrote:

JackRiddler wrote:Let's just take it as a term for something occasionally done by "them."

As long as we restrict "them" to Batman villains.

Interestingly enough, the villain in this new Dark Knight Rises bus ad is flanked by what looks like an army of contemporary protestors, while Batman is flanked by riot cops. Either way, I'm worried about what the general takeaway is going to be in this final chapter of the Dark Knight films. That last installment was such a cultural phenomenon, and the veritable snuffing of Heath Ledger affected a lot of people in a profound way.

Some things are obvious - no analysis is necessary to make the connection here:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aot0tPvoQI

Seen any good movies lately?

JackRiddler wrote:Seen any good movies lately?

V/H/S is worthy of discussion, but not great. Quite a bizarre concept but will devolve into a Saw-like franchise I'm sure. Disturbing and at times corny, but impactful.

The militarism of Star Wars?

I mean the use of the hero story (lifted straight from Joseph Campbell) to glorify the transformation from a youth to a warrior. To become his best self, Luke must lose his family and old rooted life, and be introduced into a secret, powerful, magic order. Everything that was his past on sleepy Tattooine was illusion, and is completely lost to him. He is reborn into a struggle of supernatural good and evil. That is the truth of the galaxy, and it is right. The pain of his family's death doesn't last long in the movie, any more than Princess Leia is upset about the loss of her whole planet with billions of inhabitants and everyone she ever knew for more than a few scenes, representing a few hours. It's all worth it, the losses are bearable. Luke's transformation is the emotional core of the story.

The plot and ideological trappings are less important. The empire with its stormtroopers is more like a real army than the rebel alliance. But no real army recruits volunteers by telling them they will be interchangeable stormtroopers. In fact, military recruitment promises the opposite of military reality: be all you can be, army of one, test yourself, realize your inner hero, escape the cookie-cutter world of the normals and fight for freedom against tyranny. In the end we'll confirm your heroism by pinning a medal on you in a glorious ceremony, with staging lifted straight from Leni Riefenstahl's film of the Nuremberg party rallies. Never mind that in reality you're one of the empire's soldiers; the recruitment message claims the opposite.

Star Wars arrived at the perfect time for this message and was aimed at the 12-year-olds of 1977 (such as myself), a transitional generation in a transitional time. After the 1960s and early 1970s, Vietnam and the end of the draft due to popular disgust with militarism, the offer of "Star Wars" (just look at that title) was that things could be simple again. There could once again be good and evil, and "we" were the good. This was one of the first and the most successful of wide-release blockbuster movies. Another key production at the time was Rocky I-II: White American underdog who believes in himself almost upsets and then actually defeats an avatar for Muhammad Ali! These two films (among others at the time, but leading the pack) bespeak an ideological turn. I'm not saying the CIA wrote the scripts; they didn't have to, it was in the air. Lucas was the lucky one who (wittingly or not) managed to hit the zeitgeist best with a juvenile pulp story he had not been able to sell for many years when the zeitgeist was more critical. This was also the beginning of the end for Hollywood's true golden age. The biggest movies since then have not been made for adults, or as explorations of difficult themes, but either to pander totally to the teenage demographic or as spectacular escapes from the ambiguities of adult life.

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