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I realize one point of criticism which can be brought up towards the Dharmic and Daoic religions (except maybe Confucianism to some extent b/c of it's notion of civics):the spirituality cultivated and the relationship which is created,emerges and forms--it can be said to be "too overly private" and not have a ready initivitive to transform reality (--> social justice and social charity).

I'm quite sure an initiative to transform present-surrounding reality can emerge in those religions whether by offical tenents or not,whether by internal culture(s) or not. I have a feeling that a reason for the bad impression,Abrahamic religions give off to ppl is that one can get so lost/caught up in (what comes off to others not practising it as) mere ceremonialism and internal culture(s),that talking about transforming reality is hollow (sounding) when practioners themselves have questionably developed private spiritual relationships to begin with.The issue of a developed private spiritual relationships being demonstrated is another,different step which ussually can only be pulled off well if/once the relationship is well formed to begin with..however (like/this goes back in a circle to the first point I made) one can get really caught up with the broad horizon of their own private-spirituality and very well spend/commit their/a lifetime solely to that,to the extent that one can unwittingly and unassumsibly end up ignoring or even neglecting certain factors. Establish(ed or -ing) normative practices need not apply.

Ch.8 of the novel [10-23-2018 edit: 'El Senor Presidente' by Miguel Angel Asturias]-A couple who don't seem happily married are bickering about how they don't like there marriage.A big scene is going on in front of the archbishop's palace,the couple noticing Pelele's body being carried out. I'm not to sure but it seems like the husband might have a speech pattern (maybe due to an impediment). Near the end while "word-playing" with his wife,onlooking children are amused by there back-and-forth dialogue.

I can type,drive and do well in this program.
I can type,drive and do well in this program.
I can type,drive and do well in this program.

Ch.9-Genraro (one of the military dudes at the bar) arrives home and is listening to his wife talking about arrangements for the baptism of his son but keeps on seeing disturbing images of shadows,blood,a black glass-like eye and corpses. It leaves him really scared even while laying next to his wife. His wife gets up and asks what's going on with him and he brings up how he knows about someone who is going to try to kidnap the daughter of a general. His wife laughs to the point of tears upon hearing this while breastfeeding their son.

I'm not going to watch the last two episodes of season 3 of the "Legend of Korra" until next week,though man the "Ultamatum" episode I watched yesterday night left on a suspenseful humdinger note. Something peeked on me when it comes to the execution of flow and pacing with this season. It's kind of like a Disney movie in terms of the way the plot flows and makes characters interwine with their motives into events or get involved in their events and I feel that it's in part b/c of how it's a compensation for the lagginess and underwhelmingness of season 2.

Whereas in season 2 it kind of left me feeling that this was going to be a big epic from start to finish about the increase of involvement from spirits,it turned out it wasn't. The first 1/2-ish was about Korra's villianous uncle Unalaq messing around with Korra still being reckless in spite of the heat given on her in the anti-bender sentiment of the first season,while switching at times to moments about Mako going police work, Bolin doing acting work for Varrick (who turned out to be profiteering on the side of the Water tribe civil war,Unalaq spurned) to scenes where Tenzin is trying to get along better with his family (including his siblings) at a retreat. After Korra's disappearance and revival and talking with the Won the first avatar she gets her schtick together for a semi-predictable confrontation with her companions against dark spirit powered Unalaq.

The second season probably came off as lackluster b/c it wasn't something which the makers-of-other-show did not expect to do,as the first season was originally meant to only be a dozen episode long continuation of the original series but after it's popularity,Nickelodeon requested more seasons with more or less as many episodes as the original series had going for it and hey,that's why there is a fourth season incoming.

Season 3 (while mainly focusing on the side characters and Red Lotus society villians) has had better pacing and delivery.At 13 episodes at roughly ~25 minutes each it adds up to roughly 325 minutes or ~5.4 hours which I'm guessing lended itself in the plans of writing as being written/thought of as the writing for a "2 longish movies long in one movie package" Disney animated movie feature delivery before being segmented into 13 episodes needed for a season. Around the time of the release for the trailer for season 3 I remember hearing how the writing for season 4 was like half way done or in progress. By now I'm guessing the writing for season 4 is finished and maybe the animating is currently in progress.

I've been watching the review vlogs by the Walker brothers from the tgwtg site and there guesses have been that season 4 is going to get involved with spirits who have co-existed with humans since the end of season 2 and who have only been popping up sporadically in season 3. Itwould make sense as the co-existing spirits have been a conspicious thread leftover from season 2 whose significance is yet to be explored,this season having the political thriller vibe of season 1 in the form of an anarchist group instead of an underground figure wanting to eliminate the mystical abilities of benders hostilely, not in the least pointing out to criminal who've used their abilities forcefully againest non-bending capable ppl.

I've heard how season 4 might be the end of the whole "Avatar-verse". i wouldn't blame them if they'd like to end on that note as this whole "Legend of Korra" series while okay,particularly with the first season,(I'm guessing) has been a scramble for the makers of the show with the work pressed on them by Nickelodeon which (except for the CGI Ninja turtles series I'm guessing) is still "home to" surreality dependant cartoons like Spongebob making the "Legend of Korra" (and any other "Avatar-verse" series unless Nickelodeon changes/transitions into more serious stuff like an equivalent to Cartoon Network's Toonami or Adult swim block,like the Walker brothers have suggested) stick out incogrugously.

What makes the Avatar-verse special is how it's atypical from other action animated series in that it does have an anti-war undertone and msg's among the midst of the civic tensions and martial arts violence of the show.

Me personally I'm ambivalent but wouldn't mind if the whole Avatar-verse ends after next season. There's a nagging inside of me that I quasi-need social permission to continue watching any serialized animation (someone on a deviantart forum thread even said that is why they went into studying animation) but at the same time I kinda wanna finish with animation having been gracious-to-God for having saturated in a hot spring of the stuff (and serialized graphic stories:comics,manga,bande desinee,wherever the place of origin) for years now and having accumulated analyizing abilities including detecting tropes,looking into why they are (placed) there and picking up on the internal logic of stories,stories done in pictures and moving pictures. I kinda wanna step out of the hot spring and perhaps one day return,maybe when I have offspring of my mine,maybe if I do not and maybe never.

It's b/c of this feeling inside of me that I might not finish watching all of an old anime series "Trigun" which (according to Jesuotaku's comments) similarly for all the space Western violence kind of has an anti-violence msg in the form of Vash who ever likeably klutzy (goes with haphazardly problem-solving on the go),once cheesily told a crowd of kids with his hand posed that "the world is for love..and peace" one episode and for how in spite of being legendary for his gunfighting ability (for which he's is a wanted man) he is always reluctant to pick up a gun...the reasons for which don't finally get revealed until (I've heard) the last last 6-ish episodes and the (180 degree?) turn things take.

If the Avatar-verse does continue,the next Avatar in the cycle will be an Earth-bender. Maybe a male if we are going for a "boy(Aang)-girl(korra)-boy-girl" pattern. As for the setting ?..this whole series they've got a "dieselpunk" early 20th century vibe going on and if a similarity to irl history is still to be followed,I'd suggest a 60-70's setting . An animesque-modified "raygun gothic" or "atom (power) punk" era easthetic might fill the bill..in a 60's-70's http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Eagleland kind of like what's done in the "Mother" video game series famous in the Western localized version of "Mother 2","Earthbound"..or an Eagleland setting like something from a Stephan King story ..'ve heard that inspirations for Earthbound which the maker had were Kurt Vonnegaut and Stephan King stories so .. those the idea of a "new wave science-fantasy fiction" (ref to http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... nceFiction and http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... nceFantasy )mid-late 20th century Cold war setting with insidious Stephan King like forces in the Avatar-verse seem likely to resonate with adults and older ppl -u- ?...sounds like a cool idea in my head ,but so particular and oh-so hard to pull off well in one-shot in 40+ episodes of a four season long Avatar-verse.

I'm guessing that there'd be vaguely enviromental themed stuff like the both series have been so far but with an Earthbender at the helm,it'd be more predictable. Maybe something vaugely Cold War like going on ..over four seasons like how in the first series the Fire-lord Ozai's megalomania was the main perpetuating force of antagonism.

After an Earth-bender the cycle passes on to a Firebender. I'd suggest a http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... tCyberPunk setting which looks like the cybberpunk "blade runner" b/c "blade runner" is familiar to ppl >_< Uggh,there are images of pre-N64 era JRPG game about some youngster in maybe cyberpunk(*-magitek?)-ish future setting and a caveman stock character popping up in my head,darn it how I don't remember what it's called!. A world where ppl have been surfeitted with the industrial and digital tech,fatalistic,conformist,complacent,self-indulgent,oblivious attitudes all around which hardly care for bending or spirit relations anymore?..some corrupt mega-corps I'm really thinking about "the year of the flood" novel,right now.. come to think of it a modified/watered-down take on that Margaret Atwood trilogy (and the novel "Magic inc) might work..but aside from corrupt bussiness ppl and transhumanist tech or magitek intentions what else could be antagonistic?..maybe a Lovecraftian force or being straight out of space,where (b/c of the self-indulgent complaceny?) is the one place where the Avatar-verse tech didn't go?..I could see the ending being "the initially fire-bending Avatar (in a decon-recon of the myth of Prometheus) demonstrated to the world (with BIG involvement and ispiration from past Avatars and his friends) how the world what *ought to be* done in the world..things went "peacefully and with equality in mind to reconstruct society" ever after..the end [of the Avatar -verse]"..`_` mix in anti-war themes in the fray and we go something to go.

Again I have the same "sounds like a cool idea in my head ,but so particular and oh-so hard to pull off well in one-shot in 40+ episodes of a four season long Avatar-verse" problem as my idea for a 3rd series..no wonder with the trickiness of mustering up another series that quits might be called after Korra ends..plz no prequel or midquel series "-_-..which reminds me:there is apparently a 7th Digimon series in the work taking place in the world of the first two season with 17 yr old Tai. My guess is the/a "just graduated high school" Tai get together with the crew of seasons 1 and 2 a few months after Venamyotismon's defeat...-~- oh the risks/probable desires to write off what adult narrator .T.K. said during the last few minutes of season 2 and fllliiiippp =__= the "Dragonball GT syle" dismissal of that part...oh plz don't make re-commit to a childhood favorite like Digimon -_-, esp.the world of the first two seasons..I don't wanna ignore but I don't do it (watch it) either .

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Referring to a blog entry on another site (http://www.psychforums.com/blog/xod_s/s ... -5078.html) the last time I intentional went on to pornography was on August 5th last year... .. "What we cannot speak of must be passed over in silence"-Ludwig Wittgenstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3YCc7uMjWc. Ah !, I just wanted to throw that out!.Ah!,the nimbleness in my mind and of my mind,now.

There's no need to put the poem in this topic; you can submit it at the site I set up. And I'd rather have people submit their work on their own so that they can make sure the formatting and everything goes the way they like.

http://www.freepgs.com/floodlands/writing/submit.php to submit pieces.

^^^

Thanks Bill! In fact, I might PM you some ideas if you're already looking for ideas for your next book.

Wonderful idea!
Problem: I get Error 404 for the site. Could that have anything to do with .php (new to me).

I am working on two new scripts and am hoping to reach ideal points on both before returning
to school on January 7th.

"The Deceiving Path"

Genre: Crime Thriller

Logline: Years after witnessing the suicide of a high school classmate, a private investigator takes on an unusual case; the case being a series of murders in which the killer's personality matches the classmate's.

"The Transition"

Genre: Historical Dramedy (Think of "Shakespeare In Love.")

Logline: Inspired by actual events, this will be about Franz Kafka and his relationship with Felice Bauer which in turn gives him the inspiration for "The Metamorphosis."

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Thanks Bill! In fact, I've had a fascination with the idea that Kafka may have been on the spectrum which makes sense given he was emotionally insecure most of his life, never married, and was pressured a lot by his parents.

That is in fact a common opinion about Kafka.