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(1774 of 2029)
Sep 25, 2007 6:49 PM
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These are the definitions of monad:
1. Philosophy. An indivisible, impenetrable unit of substance viewed as the basic constituent element of physical reality in the metaphysics of Leibnitz.
2. Biology. A single-celled microorganism, especially a flagellate protozoan of the genus Monas.
3. Chemistry. An atom or a radical with valence 1.
I believe the first definition is the one most applicable to John. He seems to be the end-all and be-all of existence, thus his ability to create calm and compassion where none existed before. Milch is brilliant.
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(1773 of 2029)
Sep 24, 2007 5:05 PM
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How's it going FNJERK?? Have you seen how much money the fans have raised to bring back JFC? It is definatley BIG and HUGE!! Hope it works.
> not only does hbo take off the good shows, but they
> have stupid ass movies on all the time, thank you hbo
> for saving me money. ASSHOLES
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(1772 of 2029)
Sep 24, 2007 12:03 AM
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not only does hbo take off the good shows, but they have stupid ass movies on all the time, thank you hbo for saving me money. ASSHOLES
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(1771 of 2029)
Sep 23, 2007 5:52 PM
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> I AM STILL HOLDING OUT HOPE FOR THE RETURN OF JFC. I
> DO HAVE A QUESTION - CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT THE
> ROUND CIRCLE OF WIRE FENCE IS THAT SEEMS TO BE SO
> IMPORTANT TO JOHN AND ALSO THE CHEMIST. I AM A 70
> YEAR OLD GRANDMA AND HAVE NO IDEA WHAT A "MONAD" IS?
> PLEASE, CAN SOMEONE HELP? I HAVE VOTED AND AM STILL
> L PRAYING FOR THE RETURN.
> THANKS.
Hi,
I found this posted if it helps:
"several people asked about the antenna structure...
THIS IS POSTED BY CANICE...
U.S. Navy built 14 AN/FRD-10 Wullenweber Circularly Disposed Antenna Arrays/Circular Dipole Antenna Arrays (CDAA) high frequency direction finders on established Navy installations such as Imperial Beach CA.
It is a large circular antenna array used by the military to triangulate radio signals for radio navigation, intelligence gathering and search and rescue. Because of its immense size and huge circular reflecting screen, the antenna is colloquially known as the elephant cage."
Also, if it helps explain ( can't vouch for accuracy )
http://jfc.wikia.com/wiki/John_Monad
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(1770 of 2029)
Sep 23, 2007 4:10 PM
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I AM STILL HOLDING OUT HOPE FOR THE RETURN OF JFC. I DO HAVE A QUESTION - CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT THE ROUND CIRCLE OF WIRE FENCE IS THAT SEEMS TO BE SO IMPORTANT TO JOHN AND ALSO THE CHEMIST. I AM A 70 YEAR OLD GRANDMA AND HAVE NO IDEA WHAT A "MONAD" IS? PLEASE, CAN SOMEONE HELP? I HAVE VOTED AND AM STILL PRAYING FOR THE RETURN.
THANKS.
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Entertain ideas of great communion
Sep 23, 2007 2:15 AM
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> "The only illumination you got here was photon
> radiation. The Indranet was just a show, man, just
> another distraction, another stupid love story about
> subject and object getting it on and living happily
> ever after. The Net's not gonna save you or anyone.
> The Net reflects your attention, that's all. Anything
> you get out of it you already had, but if you really
> think you've really got anything, you're just a snake
> chasing its tail."
>
> -Daybreak
By connecting strangers across great distances, each compelled to share their own ideas and experiences, the net does offer us something we can't generate ourselves: the perspective of others. Sure, it can be a major jerk-off, but I've gotten much more outta this "community" than I put into it. I've sat back it my chair in awe of an idea or argument so many times;it's humbling. There's been more reasoned, varied, and interesting dialog here than in plenty of my Lit. classes.
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"All Good Naysayers, Speak Up! Or Forever Hold Your Peace!"
Hear
All good thoughts in spite of righteousness
Is not the kind of thoughts in spite of greatness.
Often not the State is advocation.
If we form a power of recognition.
Forget loss and perfect advocation.
If it drops or stays in convocation.
All we praise is all we want in commerce
All we praise is parties, foreign commerce.
Entertain ideas of great communion,
Shelter not materials in union
(All we praise is not the kind of commerce.
That's the right solution!)
All good thoughts is not the act of doing
What we want but what we should improving
Properties, ideas, a woman's pleasure
is empowered by love, a perfect measure!
-Sufjan Stevens
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Re: "Bullshit grows mushrooms, I reminded myself."
Sep 23, 2007 2:00 AM
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> > >>The Net reflects your attention, that's all.
> >
> > Yes, I like that. You credit "Daybreak" - not
> > familiar with it, but I'd like to learn more. Do
> you
> > have a link you could send/post? ~Thanks in
> advance~
> >
> > --
> > Tali
> >
> > "...and unmoor'd souls may drift on stranger tides
> > than those that men know of, and be overthrown by
> > winds that would not even stir a hair" Wm.
> Ashbless
> > (sort of)
>
> Lance Daybreak is a "fictional" character created by
> Erik Davis. Erik is the author of a number of
> interesting books and articles, but of special
> relevance here is Techg
> nosis I almost died at the launch party for
> this book actually.
>
> Lance Daybreak appears in a short story here:
> http://www.techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=
> chunkfrom-2005-06-15-1948-0.txt#fn0
You know, Dangr,the last line is such pure solipsism.
"The viewer disappears along with the screen, the screen follows the viewer into oblivion, for screen becomes screen only though the viewer, viewer becomes viewer because of the screen."
Word for word. Hmmmmm
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Sep 23, 2007 1:58 AM
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> Does that count as casual name dropping?
I don't know...but it related to what you were saying, so it didn't seem like name-dropping for name-dropping's sake--not that I really mind that either, especially when it comes to storytellers.
> The Invisibles is my all time favorite comic.
Good choice. I don't know...mine is either Sandman or The Watchmen. 'Course Preacher kicked serious ass too...I also love some of the more novelistic graphic novels, like Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan and Craig Thompson's Blankets. And Alan Moore's run on Swamp Thing was pretty damn amazing. Frank Miller is a major bad ass too. From the silver and golden ages, I'm a huge Batman fan. I also like X-Men, the Claremont years in particular (Dark Pheonix Saga, anyone?--and FUCK those shitty movies!, Famke Jansen excluded) I have all Todd McFarlane's early work on Amazing Spiderman, as well as the first years of Spawn. I almost forgot about Y: The Last Man, by Brian K. Vaugh. Awesome. I was impressed that Janeane Garofalo was familiar with it. And Joss Whedon's new Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 comic is seriously fuckin' cool too.
Wow. I totally just geeked-the-fuck out.
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Sep 23, 2007 1:39 AM
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Sophmom,
Thank God that movie STUNK!!!! I wish my sister like JFC, I watch it with my husband who love it too. It is interesting that your sister's college classes were discussing the show.
> It's great to see folks still here and still talking
> about it, so thought I'd stop by, check in and say
> hi.
>
> I have a sister who's a university English professor
> in Texas. She came to visit (I'm in Atlanta) a few
> weeks ago (the weekend before JfC dropped off of On
> Demand) and one of her goals for her trip was to
> watch the entire show. She'd watched Episode 1 at a
> friend's house and, without HBO herself, felt left
> out of the many conversations that were bouncing
> around her U's English department faculty and
> students. We watched the whole thing from start to
> finish. She loved it. I loved it. I miss it terribly.
> I find myself uttering Johnisms out in the world,
> attentive to see if anyone recognizes them. It's so
> pleasant when they do.
>
> Tonight Episode 2 will run on HBO up against their
> premier of The Black Dahlia.
>
> *sigh*
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Re: "Bullshit grows mushrooms, I reminded myself."
Sep 22, 2007 5:37 PM
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> >>The Net reflects your attention, that's all.
>
> Yes, I like that. You credit "Daybreak" - not
> familiar with it, but I'd like to learn more. Do you
> have a link you could send/post? ~Thanks in advance~
>
> --
> Tali
>
> "...and unmoor'd souls may drift on stranger tides
> than those that men know of, and be overthrown by
> winds that would not even stir a hair" Wm. Ashbless
> (sort of)
Lance Daybreak is a "fictional" character created by Erik Davis. Erik is the author of a number of interesting books and articles, but of special relevance here is Techgnosis I almost died at the launch party for this book actually.
Lance Daybreak appears in a short story here: http://www.techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2005-06-15-1948-0.txt#fn0
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Sep 22, 2007 5:04 PM
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It's great to see folks still here and still talking about it, so thought I'd stop by, check in and say hi.
I have a sister who's a university English professor in Texas. She came to visit (I'm in Atlanta) a few weeks ago (the weekend before JfC dropped off of On Demand) and one of her goals for her trip was to watch the entire show. She'd watched Episode 1 at a friend's house and, without HBO herself, felt left out of the many conversations that were bouncing around her U's English department faculty and students. We watched the whole thing from start to finish. She loved it. I loved it. I miss it terribly. I find myself uttering Johnisms out in the world, attentive to see if anyone recognizes them. It's so pleasant when they do.
Tonight Episode 2 will run on HBO up against their premier of The Black Dahlia.
*sigh*
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Sep 22, 2007 1:55 PM
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you folks are SO cool...deconstructing JFC with such perception,such insight...seriously,reading the ideas here is (almost) as much fun as watching the show...keep it coming...
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Re: "Bullshit grows mushrooms, I reminded myself."
Sep 22, 2007 12:15 PM
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>>The Net reflects your attention, that's all.
Yes, I like that. You credit "Daybreak" - not familiar with it, but I'd like to learn more. Do you have a link you could send/post? ~Thanks in advance~
--
Tali
"...and unmoor'd souls may drift on stranger tides than those that men know of, and be overthrown by winds that would not even stir a hair" Wm. Ashbless (sort of)
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(1761 of 2029)
Sep 22, 2007 11:56 AM
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> FWIW Tibetan Buddhist mandalas are actually
> visualizations of three dimensional spaces. See
> http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/online/mandala/
>
Great link.
I found this sort of interesting too - when you are on that page and scroll down to the representatopn of the three dimensional model of the Vajrabhairava mandal, it kind of reminds me of the home of the Chemist.
You see the home, briefly, situated at the top of a steep flight of stairs on a hill in the scene where Mitch and the chemist (and you have to love the wave mobile "Here’s a drug casualty… thinks this car’s normal)"are starting up thier cars down below.
I'd read somewhwere, I think it was Uncle, who posted that the house wasn't really there but had been, in fact, zapped (or whatever the process is called) in.
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Tali
"...and unmoor'd souls may drift on stranger tides than those that men know of, and be overthrown by winds that would not even stir a hair" Wm. Ashbless (sort of)
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Edited by Talisyn at 09/22/2007 8:58 AM
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Edited by Talisyn at 09/22/2007 9:05 AM
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Sep 22, 2007 11:36 AM
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Dangr-This is really great stuff. A whole new deep pool to dive into, just when we needed it. Thanks so much, you do have an eye for the points of connection.
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"Black sheep of the angels riding, riding down the line
We think there is a soul, we don't know"
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