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Waking Life: giving sight to the blind, insight to the mind.
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Vu Trieu replied to Jeremiah Rentoule's discussion Growing up, we gain so much but often lose everything."The main reason we lose sight of our dreams is the fact that people tell us we can't and to some degree they're rational in saying it.
As a child we can dream big because we have potential and have not yet hindered our ability to perform.…"
Vu Trieu replied to Arthur Wawrzyczek's discussion My home country just embarrased me more."And we should lest we wait until the whole system corrupts and corrodes into a dictatorship."
Vu Trieu replied to Becci's discussion Eating meat is moral?"I completely agree with Mvision, and as I stated earlier eating meat is not something you can question morality of, rather it's the reasonability of eating meat vs not eating meat. In some situations people have more reason not to than they do,…"
Vu Trieu replied to Dean Leysen's discussion What has been the biggest contribution to your self-development so far?"In my freshman year of highschool a random person gave me a hug, stranger to stranger. He didn't know who I was and he didn't have any particular reason for being so open and kind. I looked back on it and questioned it for a long time and…"
Vu Trieu replied to Becci's discussion Eating meat is moral?"I don't really understand why this conversation is about morality.
It would make more sense if you challenged reasoning but morality is either based on personal opinion or left in public domain(when trying to look objectively). I'm a…"
Vu Trieu replied to Michal's discussion Talks Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success"That was quite a fascinating speech.
Alain de Botton is quite the speaker. I appreciated that he presented these concepts and ideas so simply and solidly. I always appreciate when someone grasps large ideas and translates them into language. The…"
Vu Trieu replied to Vu Trieu's discussion Waking Life: giving sight to the blind, insight to the mind."I'm glad you watched it, there are many people who will turn away from this movie right away because the conversations might be "hard to follow" in the case that you don't concentrate to understand what is going on.
I've…"
Vu Trieu replied to Vu Trieu's discussion Waking Life: giving sight to the blind, insight to the mind."You're welcome, I've been coming across a number of old movies I have forgotten the name of up until this point.One of which I use to watch multiple times as a kid. The name of the movie was "Last Unicorn." I'm not going to…"
Doctor Badtouch replied to Vu Trieu's discussion Waking Life: giving sight to the blind, insight to the mind."Haha, my all-time fav film.
"To say "yes" to one instant, is to say "yes" to all of existence""
Kirsten replied to Vu Trieu's discussion Waking Life: giving sight to the blind, insight to the mind."Watched this a couple years ago but forgot the name until now. I owe you for that, this movie was truly amazing."
Vu Trieu posted a discussionWaking Life: giving sight to the blind, insight to the mind.
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=7583894250854515095&hl=en&autoplay=1Runtime: 1hr 38minsI'm sure this independent film will get some of you thinking about your perception of life.Waking Life is a digitally enhanced live action rotoscoped film, directed by Richard Linklater and released in 2001. The entire film was shot using digital video and then a team of artists…See More
Vu Trieu replied to Sam Jones's discussion HOW TO BE A HEALTHY VEGGIE!"Thankyou so much, I really needed this I've been in quite the predicament since I've switched over to a vegetarian diet and I've lost 10 lbs recently. That's saying a lot since I'm male, 18 5'11 and weigh 115 now..."
Vu Trieu replied to Robin's discussion Monk Mode Goals"I do need to work on these, you've got a good set of loose rules set down."
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Aya replied to Lore's discussion Condemning others to validate ourselves."Empathy and understanding of a person's mindset and actions, while noble pursuits, do not provide an ability in relegating responsibility of such mindsets and actions to a certain party. Placing of blame and responsibility requires a…"
Nathaniel Mortazavi replied to Lore's discussion Condemning others to validate ourselves."Cognitive dissonance. One of the most irritating human traits."
Nathaniel Mortazavi replied to Lore's discussion Condemning others to validate ourselves."Absolutely, I completely agree. The only way to solve the problem is to eliminate the cause.
Exactly, the shooter gains worldwide fame over night. Why would a resentful, friendless, lonely, insane young man who wanted to leave an impression on the…"
Aya replied to Aya's discussion The ethical implications of "Temporal Isolation""From the last three lines of your post, I'm assuming you are applying the "better safe than sorry" mentality to life-rights over all of time. This addresses points 3) and 5) of my post on Wed 5/15, but does not address points 1),…"
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Anthony D replied to Lore's discussion Condemning others to validate ourselves."An issue in the context of your reply is the so-called "mad/bad debate". And it very much plays into the perception of these rather extreme forms of criminal behavior.
From a legal and forensic psychological standpoint a…"
Lore replied to Lore's discussion Condemning others to validate ourselves."Interesting. I think that just being aware that our behavior is not always justified and taking on some personal responsibility can go a long way."
Lore replied to Lore's discussion Condemning others to validate ourselves."Maybe I take empathy and attempting to understand such actions by people to the extreme, but I think it is important to understand the causes of such behavior. You do bring up a good point about school shootings Nathaniel, in that the media makes…"
Nathaniel Mortazavi replied to Lore's discussion Condemning others to validate ourselves."I agree with the principle to an extent. However, in the case of school shooters, I don't think it can be justified. Same with rape. There's definitely a line, but like you said, those are the most extreme cases.
On the topic of mass…"
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