ahhh the heart plugs were COOL! in the director's cut the Baron kills a boy by yanking it out, clearly enjoying it and being very true to his character...
rain was ok, excessive but it made the point (this IS the ending... ain't it climatic?)
wierding modules were pretty cheezy... but kind of cool...
the poison blade in Feyd's costume was a little crackerjack trinket and rather by overcoming him with superior skills, Paul distracts him by blurting out stuff that noone is supposed to suspect until late in the 2nd book!
I agree, the mini-series IMHO botched some MAJOR plot lines?
Remember who becomes the God Emperor? They kill him off in the mini-series or at least severely protract the timeline surrounding his "death".
The casting and directing was horrible. While the Harkonans were a bit clownish, their style was a good alternate interpretation from the industrial/gothic bunch Lynch put together.
no, you can't just use the clip pixmap and get the clip arrows... look closer: you'll see the clip has the scrolling arrows, arrows that don't appear on the pixmap...
the windows on the right side are a bit big, and I haven't personally seen a configuration of windowmaker that uses multiple buttons or vertical titlebars, so you might be half right... it uses englightenment and a windowmaker combination...
unless of course they faked the whole thing (not unlikely, where can I get those interesting dockapps? I don't think they exist)
We don't understand the brain as a whole, but we have a pretty good idea of how it works
I hypothesize that there are so many interactions within that brain that you can't understand it... only emulate it and attempt duplicate it and build on it untill you give birth to another divine intelligence like yourself...
you still won't understand it and won't be able to predict it... when you can predict it, it isn't alive... it isn't intelligent, thinking, or feeling...
but I suppose all of these little things can just be explained away, right?
so is Christianity the only creationistic religion? No, it's just the most phillosophized about...
I actually have quite the phillosophy on creation that coincides with evolution and personal powers of creation (software authorship)...
you see the duality, balance, and divinity of creaiton is central to Neo-Paganism... in particular the universe exists because of the "sexual" union of dieties (remember the Greek Eros and Gaia?)
modern Wicca embraces a simmilar creation idea, and Thelema even has a triumvate (father, son, spirit) simmilar to Christianity...
bullshit, do you think that someone would do that around their overtly christian boss?
there are tons of pagans who are still in the "broom closet" and stay there because they can't stand to be shat upon for their religion...
ok, how bout this... WSU's aps sees about a dozen students, one grad student, and one staff member...
come Samhain (halloween, traditional holliday), I found out that 3 other faculty and staff were pagan... I was visibly pagan and they didn't say a thing to me... or prostelatyze or say a word about it...
actually, it's common for *mystics* to be geeks, but seemingly not the other way around...
these surveys come from neo-pagan litterature, thus they are sampling from the *mystic* pool only...
it would be nice to have a slashdot poll on this stuff tho...
(Religiously) I am an...
1) Atheist, you morons!
2) Christian, you heathens!
3) Agnostic, you somethings?
4) Discordian/Subgenius
5) Neo-Pagan
6) Fluffy white bunny
7) Cowboy Neilist
Exclusion of all yet-undiscovered possibilities in your beliefs system is irrational.
I think anti-spiritualitsm is irrational. It's impossible to prove what you can't point to, but it's impossible to disprove it either...
Many beliefs systems are beyond the scope of rationalism and verifiability...
so why do you have to be such an asshole about it?
and do you need a rundown of what "Occult" is or where it came from??
I think generic Mysticism is the gentler, more open minded alternative to Atheism...
face it, most people can't stand to look up into the sky and think that there isn't *something* out there...
mingthing is totally right...
the earth's atmosphere is about 80% nitrogen!
sure... filler up! this is just about our one limitless resource...
the only other question is where does the energy to liquify that nitrogen come from???
just like the rest of our supposed fossil fuel "replacement" plans, this one will probably just juggle the problem from our highways out to the existing coal plants and other horrendously pollutive sources of most of the world's energy
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uh, no... SDL has no graphical widget set (at least no good one)
presumedly GTK+ in combination with GGI or SDL (as the article says "the linux-fb port of GTK+") would just put the GTK widgets on your framebuffer...
actually, this something I was looking for a while ago (SDL + GTK = a platform independant widget set/window manager)
oh, yes of course the AUDIENCE knows... but in the books noone speaks openly about it, except for very subtile hints here and there...
erp... thanks, I had to go look it up.. been about 6 years...
ahhh the heart plugs were COOL! in the director's cut the Baron kills a boy by yanking it out, clearly enjoying it and being very true to his character...
rain was ok, excessive but it made the point (this IS the ending... ain't it climatic?)
wierding modules were pretty cheezy... but kind of cool...
fantastic knife fight? don't make me wretch!!!
the poison blade in Feyd's costume was a little crackerjack trinket and rather by overcoming him with superior skills, Paul distracts him by blurting out stuff that noone is supposed to suspect until late in the 2nd book!
yes... here's an old review of it... published way before the shocking horror of the miniseries could comparatively elevate it to the near-perfection:
http://www.fremen.org/museum/docs/cinefan.html
YES! LETO II... Leto the second. Where in the books did Paul have children before the twins?
Do you usually give replacement siblings version numbers?
I agree, the mini-series IMHO botched some MAJOR plot lines?
Remember who becomes the God Emperor? They kill him off in the mini-series or at least severely protract the timeline surrounding his "death".
The casting and directing was horrible. While the Harkonans were a bit clownish, their style was a good alternate interpretation from the industrial/gothic bunch Lynch put together.
no, you can't just use the clip pixmap and get the clip arrows... look closer: you'll see the clip has the scrolling arrows, arrows that don't appear on the pixmap...
the windows on the right side are a bit big, and I haven't personally seen a configuration of windowmaker that uses multiple buttons or vertical titlebars, so you might be half right... it uses englightenment and a windowmaker combination...
unless of course they faked the whole thing (not unlikely, where can I get those interesting dockapps? I don't think they exist)
ok, what was the setup? WM & Enlightenment or just windowmaker? (the icons on the right were too big tho..)
are those faked dock apps or real ones? where did you get them?
great... I'd like to host some of your writings on this subject...
if you haven't allready could you subscribe to the technopagan list?
I've had a few very positive experiences, particularly in a circle with my current group...
if you can stand in with a local Pagan group I'm sure you'll enjoy the experience...
other great mystic events for me include a terrific wind storm I experienced on the beach in Key West...
HEY!
here's an open religion for you!
technopaganism! what is it? I'd like to know, you'd like to know... so talk about it!
Help define a developing beliefs system!
project definition and scope available on my website... come define your own pantheons and put your own spin on this stuff!
dude, that whole BS about Wicca being THE "Old Religion" is something you grow out of... at least most Pagans I know grew out of it to an extent...
yes, there is symbolism and reflection on "old ways" etc etc... but most people realize that nothing is as static as that!
Wicca is a modern religion modeled after stuff inspired by primitive beliefs and practices... but it's modernized for the most part...
yes, I do gag when I hear much about the "Celtic Reconstructionists" etc etc...
We don't understand the brain as a whole, but we have a pretty good idea of how it works
I hypothesize that there are so many interactions within that brain that you can't understand it... only emulate it and attempt duplicate it and build on it untill you give birth to another divine intelligence like yourself...
you still won't understand it and won't be able to predict it... when you can predict it, it isn't alive... it isn't intelligent, thinking, or feeling...
but I suppose all of these little things can just be explained away, right?
Y'AI 'NG'NGAH,
YOG-SOTHOTH
I deffinately believe...
can you verify salvation or spritualism?
on the other hand how do you measure the failure of salvation or spirit based theodicy?
rather it's a failure to verify... does that exclude it from possability?
what if you write some code and stick it into gcc, but you die before it finishes compiling?
I actually have quite the phillosophy on creation that coincides with evolution and personal powers of creation (software authorship)...
you see the duality, balance, and divinity of creaiton is central to Neo-Paganism... in particular the universe exists because of the "sexual" union of dieties (remember the Greek Eros and Gaia?)
modern Wicca embraces a simmilar creation idea, and Thelema even has a triumvate (father, son, spirit) simmilar to Christianity...
bullshit, do you think that someone would do that around their overtly christian boss?
there are tons of pagans who are still in the "broom closet" and stay there because they can't stand to be shat upon for their religion...
ok, how bout this... WSU's aps sees about a dozen students, one grad student, and one staff member...
come Samhain (halloween, traditional holliday), I found out that 3 other faculty and staff were pagan... I was visibly pagan and they didn't say a thing to me... or prostelatyze or say a word about it...
actually, it's common for *mystics* to be geeks, but seemingly not the other way around...
these surveys come from neo-pagan litterature, thus they are sampling from the *mystic* pool only...
it would be nice to have a slashdot poll on this stuff tho...
(Religiously) I am an...
1) Atheist, you morons!
2) Christian, you heathens!
3) Agnostic, you somethings?
4) Discordian/Subgenius
5) Neo-Pagan
6) Fluffy white bunny
7) Cowboy Neilist
Exclusion of all yet-undiscovered possibilities in your beliefs system is irrational. I think anti-spiritualitsm is irrational. It's impossible to prove what you can't point to, but it's impossible to disprove it either... Many beliefs systems are beyond the scope of rationalism and verifiability... so why do you have to be such an asshole about it? and do you need a rundown of what "Occult" is or where it came from??
check -- THIS -- out
I think generic Mysticism is the gentler, more open minded alternative to Atheism... face it, most people can't stand to look up into the sky and think that there isn't *something* out there...
so what kind of technopagan are you?
just wondering...
mingthing is totally right... the earth's atmosphere is about 80% nitrogen! sure... filler up! this is just about our one limitless resource... the only other question is where does the energy to liquify that nitrogen come from??? just like the rest of our supposed fossil fuel "replacement" plans, this one will probably just juggle the problem from our highways out to the existing coal plants and other horrendously pollutive sources of most of the world's energy