“Arrival”

The movie “Arrival” The recently released movie “Arrival” is widely hailed as one of the most intelligent, most emotional science fiction movies of all time. Storyline summary from Wikipedia: The film begins with a sequence of a female linguist, Louise with her daughter, who dies during childhood from a rare type of cancer. Then twelve … More “Arrival”

Method Acting

Changing Character “Method Acting” is a popular and much publicized preparation method actors use in order to play their role in an authentic way. They try fully immersing into the character of their role. Some famous movie actors took the method to the extremes, “staying in character” even in between shootings, living, speaking, existing as … More Method Acting

Embryo And Mother

Human Tragedy Although we are not consciously aware of this, the greatest, single most important tragedy of our human lives is leaving our mother’s womb. The state of the embryo within the mother’s womb is the most perfect, most optimal possible state a living being can be in. All necessities, desires are immediately and perfectly … More Embryo And Mother

Pursuit Of Happiness

Searching For Contentment Pursuing happiness, contentment is one, if not the most important purpose of our lives. Still it is not easy to define what happiness means and how we can achieve it. All of us have many happy memories, we would all claim that we could generate temporary, happy emotional impressions at will. Still … More Pursuit Of Happiness

Building Ourselves

Instinctive Development There is a saying, that “one can’t pull oneself up in the air by pulling one’s own hair”. On the other hand if we want to develop in a fundamentally self-changing way, if we want to break into the truly “Human” degree from our present, instinctive”humanoid” state, we will need to pull ourselves … More Building Ourselves

In The Midst Of Chaos

Potentially Human The meaning of our life is to understand who we are, and what our role in the system of reality is. At the moment we are busy justifying our existence through the usual, instinctive “pleasure/pain principle”. We keep running towards ever greater material, physical pleasures in this life, prolonging our survival as long … More In The Midst Of Chaos

Demonitization

Modi’s Financial Strike Trump’s election victory in the US wasn’t the only political, social earthquake shaking the world recently. At 8.00 pm on the 8th of November 2016 1.4 billion Indians were shaken by Prime Minister Modi’s financial strike against corruption. In India despite the banking system, electronic or credit card transactions developing rapidly, most … More Demonitization

Spice Of Life

Pleasure, But Mostly Pain… Our basic matter driving us, keeping us alive is the desire for pleasures, a desire to fulfill our necessities. This determines our operating software which is “written” on a fully self-centered “pleasure/pain principle”. While our main aim is the reception of pleasures, to reach absolute contentment for ourselves, still the strongest … More Spice Of Life