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	<title>When A Leaf Turns &#187; Liakela</title>
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		<title>The Man From Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liakela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wanted to share my thoughts on a movie I&#8217;ve just seen (All Hail Netflix Streaming!) called The Man From Earth,  a  sci-fi film written by Jerome Bixby. probably best known for his tele-plays for Star Trek and The Twilight Zone.  I was slightly skeptical of the movie being worth my time &#8212; hadn&#8217;t ever heard [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wanted to share my thoughts on a movie I&#8217;ve just seen (All Hail Netflix Streaming!) called <a title="Wiki entry on the movie" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Earth" target="_blank">The Man From Earth</a>,  a  sci-fi film written by Jerome Bixby. probably best known for his tele-plays for Star Trek and The Twilight Zone.  I was slightly skeptical of the movie being worth my time &#8212; hadn&#8217;t ever heard of it, or anything about it. And the premise seemed just plain odd:  &#8220;&#8230; John Oldman, a college professor &#8230; reveals to his colleagues that he&#8217;s actually a centuries-old caveman.&#8221; But I figured, what the hay.. and dove in.</p>
<p>What I was presented with was about 80 minutes of &#8216;what ifs&#8217; that really got me thinking both positively and critically about what could happen to the mind if you were forced, for no real reason that&#8217;s explained, to live for 14,000 years.  Certainly there&#8217;d be just an amazing amount of knowledge to be gained, but what of the knowledge lost? Could the human mind really survive as much input as he&#8217;d have received without going insane?</p>
<p>There are some &#8216;ah ha&#8217; moments in the movie, none of which I want to ruin for anyone who seeks it out, but I will say that I enjoyed the way the concept of religion was handled &#8212; I&#8217;ve heard the arguments before re: Buddha and Jesus, and this spin on that old theory is, at least, entertaining.  It&#8217;s philosophy-lite, but worth the watch.</p>
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		<title>Happy Freaking New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liakela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a so so year for me&#8230;&#8230; I hope humanity finally learns how to reality jump in the coming collection of zodiac phases &#8230;. I&#8217;ve always wanted to live in a Dali painting.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been a so so year for me&#8230;&#8230; I hope humanity finally learns how to reality jump in the coming collection of zodiac phases &#8230;. I&#8217;ve always wanted to live in a Dali painting.</p>
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