Book and Film Club - Integral Post-Metaphysical Spirituality2024-03-29T05:40:47Zhttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/categories/book-and-film-club/listForCategory?feed=yes&xn_auth=noJean Knox - Archetype, Attachment, Analysistag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2019-10-20:5301756:Topic:773422019-10-20T00:06:11.582ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>Free copy <a href="https://b-ok.cc/book/870355/71c3de" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. Pay particular attention to chapter 3, "Archetypes and image schema, a developmental perspective."</p>
<p>Free copy <a href="https://b-ok.cc/book/870355/71c3de" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. Pay particular attention to chapter 3, "Archetypes and image schema, a developmental perspective."</p> Jeremy Rifkin: The Green New Dealtag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2019-09-10:5301756:Topic:770082019-09-10T22:09:50.765ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>Just came out today. The blurb <a href="https://integralpostmetaphysicalnonduality.blogspot.com/2019/09/jeremy-rifkins-new-book-green-new-deal.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. Get a free copy <a href="https://b-ok.cc/book/5240303/fd9377" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</p>
<p>Just came out today. The blurb <a href="https://integralpostmetaphysicalnonduality.blogspot.com/2019/09/jeremy-rifkins-new-book-green-new-deal.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. Get a free copy <a href="https://b-ok.cc/book/5240303/fd9377" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</p> From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel Dennetttag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2017-09-16:5301756:Topic:703012017-09-16T14:27:33.539ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>Google talk on his new book, <i>From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds</i>. The blurb:</p>
<p>"How did we come to have minds? For centuries, this question has intrigued psychologists, physicists, poets, and philosophers, who have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled ability to create, imagine, and explain. Disciples of Darwin have long aspired to explain how consciousness, language, and culture could have appeared through natural selection, blazing promising…</p>
<p>Google talk on his new book, <i>From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds</i>. The blurb:</p>
<p>"How did we come to have minds? For centuries, this question has intrigued psychologists, physicists, poets, and philosophers, who have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled ability to create, imagine, and explain. Disciples of Darwin have long aspired to explain how consciousness, language, and culture could have appeared through natural selection, blazing promising trails that tend, however, to end in confusion and controversy. Even though our understanding of the inner workings of proteins, neurons, and DNA is deeper than ever before, the matter of how our minds came to be has largely remained a mystery. That is now changing, says Daniel C. Dennett. In <i>From Bacteria to Bach and Back</i>, his most comprehensive exploration of evolutionary thinking yet, he builds on ideas from computer science and biology to show how a comprehending mind could in fact have arisen from a mindless process of natural selection. Part philosophical whodunit, part bold scientific conjecture, this landmark work enlarges themes that have sustained Dennett’s legendary career at the forefront of philosophical thought."</p>
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</p> The Allure of Things: Process and Object in Contemporary Philosophytag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2017-07-14:5301756:Topic:695012017-07-14T20:37:49.369ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<p>Edited by Roland Faber and Andrew Goffey (NY: Bloomsbury, 2014) available <a href="https://sculptureatpratt.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/roland-faber-the-allure-of-things-process-and-object-in-contemporary-philosophy.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>. Therein is Bryant's updated piece "Time of the Object: Derrida, Luhmann, and the processual nature of substances" (chapter 4).</p>
<p>Edited by Roland Faber and Andrew Goffey (NY: Bloomsbury, 2014) available <a href="https://sculptureatpratt.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/roland-faber-the-allure-of-things-process-and-object-in-contemporary-philosophy.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>. Therein is Bryant's updated piece "Time of the Object: Derrida, Luhmann, and the processual nature of substances" (chapter 4).</p> Postmetaphysical Thinking IItag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2017-07-11:5301756:Topic:693012017-07-11T12:55:58.980ZEdward theurj Bergehttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/theurj
<div class="title-text-body" id="infoDescription"><div class="productDetail-richDataText"><p>by <a href="http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745682146.html" target="_blank">Jurgen Habermas</a></p>
<p>‘There is no alternative to postmetaphysical thinking’: this statement, made by Jürgen Habermas in 1988, has lost none of its relevance. Postmetaphysical thinking is, in the first place, the historical answer to the crisis of metaphysics following Hegel, when the central…</p>
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<div class="title-text-body" id="infoDescription"><div class="productDetail-richDataText"><p>by <a href="http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0745682146.html" target="_blank">Jurgen Habermas</a></p>
<p>‘There is no alternative to postmetaphysical thinking’: this statement, made by Jürgen Habermas in 1988, has lost none of its relevance. Postmetaphysical thinking is, in the first place, the historical answer to the crisis of metaphysics following Hegel, when the central metaphysical figures of thought began to totter under the pressure exerted by social developments and by developments within science. As a result, philosophy’s epistemological privilege was shaken to its core, its basic concepts were de-transcendentalized, and the primacy of theory over practice was opened to question. For good reasons, philosophy ‘lost its extraordinary status’, but as a result it also courted new problems. In <i>Postmetaphysical Thinking II</i>, the sequel to the 1988 volume that bears the same title (English translation, Polity 1992), Habermas addresses some of these problems.</p>
<p>The first section of the book deals with the shift in perspective from metaphysical worldviews to the lifeworld, the unarticulated meanings and assumptions that accompany everyday thought and action in the mode of ‘background knowledge’. Habermas analyses the lifeworld as a ‘space of reasons’ – even where language is not (yet) involved, such as, for example, in gestural communication and rituals. In the second section, the uneasy relationship between religion and postmetaphysical thinking takes centre stage. Habermas picks up where he left off in 1988, when he made the far-sighted observation that ‘philosophy, even in its postmetaphysical form, will be able neither to replace nor to repress religion’, and explores philosophy’s new-found interest in religion, among other topics. The final section includes essays on the role of religion in the political context of a post-secular, liberal society.</p>
<p>This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars in philosophy, religion and the social sciences and humanities generally.</p>
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</div> Insanity Of God - I think about persecution of Christians mainly by Muslims ntag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2016-08-23:5301756:Topic:664092016-08-23T18:22:45.970ZAmbo Sunohttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/AmboSuno
On August 30 7pm at many US theaters there will be an apparently one night only showing - The Insanity Of God.<br />
I'm close to one Christian woman who says the book is rocking her world.<br />
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Cast:<br />
Director:<br />
Genre: Concert-SpecialEvents<br />
Opens: August 30, 2016<br />
Synopsis: This summer, discover the amazing stories of faith at work in some of the darkest places on earth when Fathom Events and LifeWay Films present THE INSANITY OF GOD with DAVID PLATT, a special one-night event in cinemas nationwide on…
On August 30 7pm at many US theaters there will be an apparently one night only showing - The Insanity Of God.<br />
I'm close to one Christian woman who says the book is rocking her world.<br />
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Cast:<br />
Director:<br />
Genre: Concert-SpecialEvents<br />
Opens: August 30, 2016<br />
Synopsis: This summer, discover the amazing stories of faith at work in some of the darkest places on earth when Fathom Events and LifeWay Films present THE INSANITY OF GOD with DAVID PLATT, a special one-night event in cinemas nationwide on Tuesday, August 30. After the death of their son, missionaries Nik and Ruth Ripken journey into the depths of the persecuted church, asking the question – is Jesus worth it? How does faith survive, let alone flourish in the places of the world that are overcome with the darkness of sin, despair and hopelessness? Join Nik as he tells the story of being taught by believers in persecution how to follow Jesus, how to love Jesus, and how to walk with Him day by day even when it doesn’t make sense. Based on the best-selling book “Insanity of God” and released in association with the International Mission Board (IMB) this event will be the first theatrical release from LifeWay Films. Don’t miss your change to experience this inspiring story on the big screen!<br />
[Fandango site] Gods Of Tangotag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2016-06-28:5301756:Topic:658382016-06-28T16:55:43.351ZAmbo Sunohttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/AmboSuno
<p>The God's Of Tango by Carolina De Robertis has one of those expansive, culturally descriptive yet dense with subjectivities and intersubjectivities quality that I have come to associate with many Latin American novels and novelists.</p>
<p>The story proceeds with moderation, beginning in late 19th early 20th century Italy with a young girl as protagonist, Leda. In the small provincial village and her family, there are seen to be tensions, secrets, and mysteries.</p>
<p>Her one young male…</p>
<p>The God's Of Tango by Carolina De Robertis has one of those expansive, culturally descriptive yet dense with subjectivities and intersubjectivities quality that I have come to associate with many Latin American novels and novelists.</p>
<p>The story proceeds with moderation, beginning in late 19th early 20th century Italy with a young girl as protagonist, Leda. In the small provincial village and her family, there are seen to be tensions, secrets, and mysteries.</p>
<p>Her one young male contact is going to emigrate to Buenos Aires, Argentina for work that is supposedly available in an exploding industrial economy. Though she is only 17 she betroths him. He will send for her. She marriages him, her in Italy, him in Argentina via a surrogate of his uncle. She is sent for and ships off for BA. She arrives and is distressingly informed that he, Dante, has been killed in a union struggle. She needs to find her way, in deep poverty circumstances and life setting, though she has a tiny nest-egg that keeps her from the street and gutter.</p>
<p>She arrived with a few $$, some clothes, and a violin that she has not been able to learn to play in her Italian family and culture because she is not a man. Her father gives this singular violin with an apparent rich history that she loves, for her to give to her new husband, her first cousin. He never liked practicing violin. Since childhood she was captured by it. She loved to care for it as a child, and to watch and listen to music being played. She seemed to have a latent love for violin and music.</p>
<p>In this exceedingly coarse-grained story-line sketch of mine, she hears street music in a poor colony of the big city and became pulled to it as a silent observer. She finally asked one of the old master street musician to teach her. He balked - this is for men. This not beautiful, very lean, tall young woman persisted a bit and he acquiesced in small ways. Those in the busy patio of her rooming house were aghast, men and women.</p>
<p>After a while of crushingly tedious-for-her sewing work with the other women, and with which she couldn't really survive once her savings soon exhausted themselves, she conceived a frightening and almost sanity-busting plan. She cut her hair to man length, binds her small breasts, slipped easily into her deceased betrothed's clothes, grabbed her violin and the few pesos, and, leaving the rest behind, walked to another poor section of Buenos Aires, at some distance, to start a new anonymous life.</p>
<p>Speeding up the telling, she gradually gains opportunity as a young man to play tango in groups. One leader and skilled bandoneone player sees now-Dante's talents, enlists her, and gets the sextet gigs. They come to be recognized and eventually become the house tango orchestra for a polished affluent cabaret.</p>
<p>The story naturally has to account for her hiding her womanhood under a new persona. This is not easy, with a close band of men at their night-time work, after-gig drinking and brotheling, and at her boarding house. As one can imagine, how do you change clothes, clean yourself, accomplish toilet in privacy? She is plenty smart and socially adept within her disguise and continues to meet challenges successfully, always that tension of potential discovery in the background. Discovery would be a disaster of loss, embarrassment of revealed betrayal, and possibly violence.</p>
<p>Her musical giftedness of course develops and she becomes an inextricable member of this relatively seamless musical team.</p>
<p>She comes in contact with women who see her as a man and she comes increasingly to identify as a man. This a theme that has been around a few times in our and older eras; this unfolding is very organic, believable, almost invisible in plot construction, to my ears. There are physical intimacies, sex, fondnesses, close call dangers, and loves.</p>
<p>Thereby, this primary tale of tango's richly throbbing nature and evolution in the early 1900s comes also subtly to present to us readers the contemporary themes of cross-dressing, transgenderism, and homoerotic love and sexuality.</p>
<p>I meet regularly with a friend for 'integral', philosophical, and personal conversation and sharing. Maxi and his wife have been tangoing for a few years and they recently led a boot camp like series for locals who wanted and seemed to need more structure in their learning. I pimped this novel hard to him last evening.</p>
<p>I asserted to him that organically folded within the story was fresh rich tango inform-ation and feeling. Small details, graceful brush-stroke insights, feeling tones for tango and the times. Though he and they have been fairly studiously attentive to history, there would be some artful treats for them in this book.</p>
<p>This is a good novel. I started out in a mild plod and became almost unable to put it down. I started out nonchalant and ended up seriously choked up at this serious telling of life from birth to death, in which time, tango blew up, morphed, expanded, and rippled and riffed through cultures from Buenos Aires, in other slave-based South American cultures, to Paris and beyond, somewhat unrecognizable to the dismay and exaltation of tangoistas caught in its swelling and its various waves.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Tango-Carolina-Robertis/dp/1101872853/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467132908&sr=8-1&keywords=the+gods+of+tango">https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Tango-Carolina-Robertis/dp/1101872853/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467132908&sr=8-1&keywords=the+gods+of+tango</a></p>
<p></p> Sci-fi, spirit-fi, living loonnngggg, immortal strivingtag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2016-05-12:5301756:Topic:653062016-05-12T17:57:28.200ZAmbo Sunohttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/AmboSuno
I was tempted to place this extraordinary TED performance under one of a couple of Layman's threads as I looked for a fit for death and immortality. There was the REAL postmetaphysical of his and the one on Zarathustra.<br />
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This virtual-like shimmering called a TED talk might fit well in one of theurj' threads dealing with what is real, or in one of Balder's. There are so many scintillating features to this mind-bending presentation, it could go in a lot of places.<br />
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In the 13 minutes of this…
I was tempted to place this extraordinary TED performance under one of a couple of Layman's threads as I looked for a fit for death and immortality. There was the REAL postmetaphysical of his and the one on Zarathustra.<br />
<br />
This virtual-like shimmering called a TED talk might fit well in one of theurj' threads dealing with what is real, or in one of Balder's. There are so many scintillating features to this mind-bending presentation, it could go in a lot of places.<br />
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In the 13 minutes of this story, I felt as though I had read an entire novel or been immersed in an epic sci-fi film. Time extended, curved and recurved. Therefore, I place the link for "A SciFi Vision Of Love From A 318 Year Old Hologram," in it's own spot as a full-ass visual auditory tale.<br />
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<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/monica_byrne_a_sci_fi_vision_of_love_from_a_318_year_old_hologram#t-14286">http://www.ted.com/talks/monica_byrne_a_sci_fi_vision_of_love_from_a_318_year_old_hologram#t-14286</a><br />
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What do you feel? Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegantag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2016-05-02:5301756:Topic:647252016-05-02T23:32:57.910ZAmbo Sunohttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/AmboSuno
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<p>For some reason, I usually feel a need to justify, on an integral postmetaphysical spirituality web forum, that what I present is arguably and significantly-to-minimally within a shared triangulated mental space of those far-arcing concepts. <br></br><br></br>Though the small, <em>Latest Activity - What are you up to?</em> slot, which I often hear as "state(s)," has allowed me some inner wiggle room. Though I haven't used the Happy Hour thread much, that does, too.<br></br><br></br>Within this minor…</p>
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<p>For some reason, I usually feel a need to justify, on an integral postmetaphysical spirituality web forum, that what I present is arguably and significantly-to-minimally within a shared triangulated mental space of those far-arcing concepts. <br/><br/>Though the small, <em>Latest Activity - What are you up to?</em> slot, which I often hear as "state(s)," has allowed me some inner wiggle room. Though I haven't used the Happy Hour thread much, that does, too.<br/><br/>Within this minor compulsion to be IPMS appropriate and relevant, the <em>Book and Film Club</em> category seems also to invite less strenuous criteria.<br/><br/>Hence, I mention a book on a topic of my most compelling and regularly favorite activity in this rather thin life of mine - surfing.<br/><br/>I surf most days, apart from a recent nine day hiatus, due to another triangulation - aka, accident - of right rib cage plus heavily glassed longboard plus ocean wave chaos theory demonstrated. [I feel a need to state that though in surfing I have had fleeting, mildly similar inner moments as just a few of these recounted ones, objectively, my skills are like early teen pick-up basketball at the park, as compared to, say, the Golden State Warriors - almost a different sport to watch.]<br/><br/>Regarding this <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life</span> by William Finnegan, I will briefly now mildly effort the case that there are spiritual signs and implications to surfing and to this journey which the book unpacks journalistically. Though, I have not finished <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A Surfing Life</span>, so far, it is the best of only a few surfing related books that I have read.<br/><br/>I begin now with a quote of 1978 epic time spent on a small Pacific island by two young men completely alone, which may elicit from this pair of episodes the thought in you that, ok, those moments depicted arguably are signs of spirit, the spiritual, spirituality (as though, if there be such a thing as signs of spirit, they are not everywhere, or, "always already"):<br/><br/> Paddling back out after a long ride was a nerve test. Exalted and depleted both. I found I could not watch another set pour through unridden. I was hardwired to grab a wave, even just an end-section. The idea that there would be more, that in ten minutes we would very likely be looking at another, equally good set from a much better takeoff spot far, far up the reef, simply had no traction in the psychology of scarcity, which was still mine. Bryan laughed unsympathetically as I hesitated, moaning, hyperventilating. <br/> Our conversation changed. It usually had a busy, must-say-everything edge to it, even during the long, lazy days of waiting for waves on Tavarua. But out in the lineup, once the swells started pumping, large pools of awe seemed to collect around us, hushing us, or reducing us to code and murmurs, as though we were in church. There was too much to say, too much emotion, and therefore nothing to say. "Look at this one" felt like grandiloquence. And it was only inadequate shorthand for "My God, <em>look at this one.</em>" Which was in turn inadequate. It wasn't that the waves beggared language. It was more like they scrambled it. One overcast afternoon, with a southwest wind scrawling small-bore chop like scrollwork across the approaching faces, I realized I was seeing long German words in Gothic script, <em>Arbeiterpartei</em> and <em>Oberkommando</em> and <em>Weltanshauung</em> and <em>Gotterdammerung</em>, marching incongruously across the warm gray walls. I had been reading John Toland's biography of Hitler.Bryan had read it before me. I told him what I was seeing. "<em>Blitzkrieg</em>," he muttered. "Molotov-Ribbentrop."<br/> I rode a wave one evening, long after the sun had set, with the first stars already out, that stood up and seemed to bend off the reef toward open water, which was impossible. There was a dark, bottle-green light in the bottom of the wall and a feathering whiteness overhead. Everything else -- the wind-riffled face, the channel ahead, the sky -- was in shades of blue-blackness. As it bent, and then bent some more, I found myself seemingly surfing towards north Viti Levu, toward the mountain range where the sun rose. <em>Not possible</em>, my mind said. <em>Keep going</em>. The wave felt like a test of faith, or a test of sanity, or an enormous, undeserved gift. The laws of physics appeared to have relaxed. A hollow wave was roaring off into deep water. Not possible. It felt like a runaway train, an eruption of magical realism, with that ocean-bottom light and the lacy white canopy. I ran with it. Eventually it bent back, of course, found the reef, and tapered into the channel. I didn't tell Bryan about it. He wouldn't believe me. That wave was otherworldly. (p.p. 202-203)<br/><br/></p>
<p></p> Before Midnight - a movietag:integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com,2016-03-24:5301756:Topic:641752016-03-24T03:10:22.010ZAmbo Sunohttp://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/profile/AmboSuno
Hi there, [Woman].<br />
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I just saw this library DVD and it was very good to my tastes. I thought of you and I was wondering if you might enjoy it and appreciate it.<br />
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The reason it may be interesting to you is that it has to do with relationship and love and real life.<br />
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My sense from what you have said and from what little we have shared in conversation is that you are on the look-out for love, for attraction to a man, for a good relationship. You're not so naive anymore, after your marriage, so you…
Hi there, [Woman].<br />
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I just saw this library DVD and it was very good to my tastes. I thought of you and I was wondering if you might enjoy it and appreciate it.<br />
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The reason it may be interesting to you is that it has to do with relationship and love and real life.<br />
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My sense from what you have said and from what little we have shared in conversation is that you are on the look-out for love, for attraction to a man, for a good relationship. You're not so naive anymore, after your marriage, so you are maybe requiring that there be some understanding, enough reality, maybe more wisdom about the whole quest. Maybe I am saying more than is true, but you are interested in the topic.<br />
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I don't know your tastes in movies or stories but this film with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy set within a Greek holiday goes quite deep. It is socially and relationally fairly sophisticated. There are parts that depict marvelous conversations between them, and within a group of a friends, about big themes of life. There are parts that are beautiful as it shows how this maturing relationship allows for more awareness than many couples can handle or can even muster, and parts that are difficult to watch in the repetitive stuck points that couples can get into and can revisit painfully.<br />
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I'd call this a conversational genre and there are one-to-one moments that remind me of My Dinner With Andre.<br />
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I found this movie to be quite compelling and to be educational for me, vicariously watching a man and woman navigate troubles and fun.<br />
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When I looked it up online afterwards, I was surprised to see that this indie film was the final sequel in a trilogy, following Before Sunrise and Before Sunset.<br />
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I would be curious what you thought and felt about it, though I don't necessarily expect that you will watch it.<br />
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Regardless, best to you, to me, and us all in doing better at finding love or in being open to love again and again and again :) Something like that :) d<br />
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Here is the link to one review and I paste the last paragraph of it below:<br />
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/05/-i-before-midnight-i-s-rare-beautiful-message-love-is-really-really-hard/276194/">http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/05/-i-before-midnight-i-s-rare-beautiful-message-love-is-really-really-hard/276194/</a><br />
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"In Before Sunrise, Celine closes her eyes and takes a leap with Jesse; at the end of Before Sunset, Jesse returns the favor. But acts of reckless abandon have consequences, and in Before Midnight, the couple must deal with those consequences. Yet—and this is the genius of the picture, and the grandness of its achievement—the film demonstrates that a relationship strong enough to withstand the fallout of those actions is infinitely more impressive than the entirely harmonious one of romantic imagination. Before Sunrise imagined romantic love as yours for the taking. Before Sunset saw it as something that might slip from one's grasp. Before Midnight looks it straight in the eye and calls it out as hard fucking work. "It's not perfect," as Jesse says. "But it's real.""