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Thank you, Kelly! Very interesting and impressive!
posted by
SpitFire70
on October 2, 2004 at 7:43 PM
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spitfire here it is!
PHILOSOPHICAL MIND-F$%&%, TODAYS EPIPHANY.........
As if I had nothing better to think of...........where in the world did this come from inside my mind?
I was perusing my thoughts today about life and death.
An epiphany entered, while in the thought......
What if death was the time of not your last, but first breath,
and your birth was when your breathing stopped?
In comparing a birth and a death to breathing,
it could make sense, it's not long you can hold your breath for.
But death is forever, it's for all eternity,
and just WHAT IF in another life, of another form
we are connected to something that lasts for ever,
and while this something has decided to hold it's breath,
this is the start of our life, a short endeavor
until that something starts breathing, and we meet our death.
posted by
Kelli
on October 2, 2004 at 6:00 PM
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Kelli, I'd like to read that poem if you ever find it!
posted by
SpitFire70
on October 2, 2004 at 5:47 PM
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Witty-W, it does make a huge difference when it's a true story.
Even just a "based-on a true story" can make a difference.
posted by
SpitFire70
on October 2, 2004 at 5:47 PM
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Well, at the start she had four I think and they all had different fathers (all foreign as I recall - mainly sailors from ships). They were all taken away from her, then she had several more to a new guy (another foreigner from a ship) who she stayed with and is still with to this day I think. He said something in the film that was SO moving I was in tears. It makes such a difference when you know it really happened.
posted by
Witty_Woman
on October 2, 2004 at 5:21 PM
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spitfire
OH MY GOD!! Well, I wrote a poem about it, .....somewhere! wow, odd! Thankyou!
posted by
Kelli
on October 2, 2004 at 5:20 PM
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Witty-W, was the father of her kids still around?
posted by
SpitFire70
on October 2, 2004 at 5:19 PM
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It is sad, but it also invokes many other responses, one of the main ones being anger. Although the main character (and remember it's a true story) behaved very stupidly at times, it was only because she didn't know how to behave any differently due to her childhood. You develop an immense sympathy for her and the anger is directed at the authorities for condemning her and treating her as if she was some sort of lower form of existence. It's very powerful stuff.
posted by
Witty_Woman
on October 2, 2004 at 5:13 PM
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Kelli, I don't find it silly at all!
I think it's really a good view to take on it. Now because of your second theory, it's gotten a bit weirder personally. I have 2 pictures in my hallway...one says "Breathe Breathe, Breathe..." and the next one says, "Exhale, Exhale, Exhale..." I sort of felt the same concept when I bought them.
posted by
SpitFire70
on October 2, 2004 at 5:13 PM
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Okay, Witty-W, I just read it. I've never heard of that film, but
it sounds pretty deep. Maybe I can find it so I can see it. Sounds kinda sad, but what you personally got out of it sounds great. Thanks!
posted by
SpitFire70
on October 2, 2004 at 5:10 PM
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Witty-W, I'm getting there! I just noticed your newer comment....
I'm just catching up on replies today! (Worked late last night then had to go to see a friends' band play, then get up for work this am at 7:00. Just got home. In between feeding 4 infant squirrels I'm rehabbing every 2 feakin hours! I feel like the walking dead right now!)
posted by
SpitFire70
on October 2, 2004 at 5:07 PM
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spitfire
I hope you liked my silly epiphany, i also had another about life and death in relation to breathing, exhaling and inhaling, life being inhale and death being on exhale, okay I'll stop. Thanks for reading!!!
posted by
Kelli
on October 2, 2004 at 5:06 PM
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Kelli, EXCELLENT and interesting theory!
Thanks for sharing that!!
posted by
SpitFire70
on October 2, 2004 at 5:04 PM
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Spitfire's Wake-Up Call
LOL, I've already posted it. Scroll down your comments!
posted by
Witty_Woman
on October 2, 2004 at 5:03 PM
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Witty-W, okay! It does seem like a question many need to ponder
on from some other comments. It is something to think about. Let us know if/when you come up with one!
posted by
SpitFire70
on October 2, 2004 at 5:01 PM
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Kelli, I think I have read that blog before! I'm gonna go check it out
again!
posted by
SpitFire70
on October 2, 2004 at 5:00 PM
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Wolf-Girl, guess what?
Titanic is mine. I'm gonna post a blog about it soon as to why. Thanks for commenting and if ya think of another in the middle of the night, let me know!!
posted by
SpitFire70
on October 2, 2004 at 4:58 PM
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I suppose the film that affected me most was "Ladybird Ladybird", which may not be familiar to many people as it's a British film (low-budget, I think), although I think it did make it to America. The version I saw was a tv movie and was very long, something in the region of 3 hours I think, but the regular film version seems to have been cut drastically, which I would imagine will have totally ruined it. I watched this film once and I have never been able to bring myself to watch it again, even though it was probably the most compelling film I have ever seen. It's based on a true story and involves a woman having her children taken away from her by the authorities, one by one, once even within seconds of the child being born. It's unbelievably powerful and brings forth emotions you never knew you had. For parents in particular it is probably the most harrowing film they could ever watch. The actress who played the main role had never acted before and her performance was amazing - before appearing in it she had been a comedienne and singer. The main character was doomed from the start (her childhood was extremely abusive) and she did everything wrong, yet all she ever wanted to do was love her children. Unfortunately, she had no idea how to care for them, because she'd never learnt how. If nothing else, it made me realise how lucky I was.
posted by
Witty_Woman
on October 2, 2004 at 1:55 PM
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Spitfire
I DO have a documentARY that I watched on some kind of "mystery's of the unknown" you know like loch ness, and big foot? Well here Goes:
I have figure out all of this world's GREATEST MYSTERIES, UFO's, Bigfoot...
This is my concept only, from deep within the mind of a serial thinker.
I think God creates things in this world like, "crop circles", "UFO's", "Bigfoot", "Lochness", "Champ", "ghosts", "psychics", etc....... just to keep us busy.
Just to regulate some sort of hope. So many have not accepted him. So many have STOPPED accepting him, and I think that God feels the human soul has acclimated to his miracles.
Therefore; he created, or he created of the "idea" of such puzzling mysteries as these, to reinstill hope, even at such a smaller level, because ultimately, any "unsolved mystery" ends up with followers having regained beliefs, and newfound hopes (as trite as they may be), that maybe, just maybe there ARE greater forces than ourselves in this universe. This may be a work in progress from the ground up, but once people start to rediscover their inner belief systems, and their ability to hope again, even though it's a small belief and a small hope, beliefs and hopes can grow and flourish once they get started.
This work in progress could just be his way of building a new path, a new way that will eventually branch off, back in his direction, and replace all the beliefs and hopes of those that lost them, that lost their way to God.
posted by
Kelli
on October 2, 2004 at 1:16 PM
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LOL Kelli
Carry on, woman. Nothing wrong with a bit of 'hyper'.
posted by
Witty_Woman
on October 2, 2004 at 12:19 PM
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witty
god i know, i gotta stop, i am all over the place. Yes i am fine. Very hyper. mindbending. thanks for asking, though!! I've already been "reprimanded" once!!! heee heee
posted by
Kelli
on October 2, 2004 at 12:15 PM
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Are you OK today, Kelli?
I keep coming across some very strange comments from you dotted all over the place!!!
posted by
Witty_Woman
on October 2, 2004 at 12:11 PM
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witty
As you see I am already AFFECTING enough, and I want to AFFECT more!!!
posted by
Kelli
on October 2, 2004 at 12:04 PM
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This one needs thinking about. I can think of several that have affected me a lot, but whether in a life-changing way I'm not so sure. Will let this one 'fester' a bit ...
posted by
Witty_Woman
on October 2, 2004 at 11:55 AM
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i have a BLOG titled epiphanies
i want toi invent a machine that can connect YOUR mind-frame, into another or vice versa, so I can prove to people that I am REAL in my expressions and thoughts that they do not believe.
posted by
Kelli
on October 2, 2004 at 11:54 AM
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That's a great question and I'll have an answer tomorrow because, things like that always come to me in the middle of the night after I've stopped consciously thinking about it. Maybe for now I'll throw out, Titanic--unrequited love sucks.
posted by
Wolf-Girl
on October 2, 2004 at 11:51 AM
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Thanks Wiley! I liked that movie too!
Have a good weekend!
posted by
SpitFire70
on October 1, 2004 at 5:13 PM
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Spitfire
"Pay It Forward" was neato for me.
Have a happy weekend kiddo
posted by
WileyJohn
on October 1, 2004 at 11:01 AM
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That's okay, Talion. I still appreciate the read/comment!!
Maybe one will come to you later. Ya never know!
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 30, 2004 at 8:33 PM
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Jems, I loved Chasing Amy!
In fact, as you may recall, that's where I got the nickname "Fingercuffs" for the bitch-whore my ex-husband cheated on me with!
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 30, 2004 at 8:32 PM
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I can't remeber a movie ever effecting me so profoundly. I prefer action movies, so I can'r exactly emulate any of those characters.
posted by
Talion
on September 30, 2004 at 7:36 PM
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Can't choose just one
Reality Bites and
Chasing Amy. I can't really explain why, but they both had big impacts on my life.
posted by
Jemmie211
on September 30, 2004 at 7:21 PM
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Well, buxomW, it obviously did.
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 30, 2004 at 6:09 PM
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mysteria, love back at ya from the side with the hurricanes!!
posted by
SpitFire70
on September 30, 2004 at 6:07 PM
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"Cry Freedom" ... the Steve Biko story with Kevin Kline as Donald Woods.
'Cause - as it says in the movie itself - it shows humanity at its most cruel and most profoundly altruistic and made me see how very much I want to be the latter, not the former.
posted by
Moohahaha
on September 30, 2004 at 5:51 PM
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*The Hours*
i can relate with so many characters in that film
I pick this one for convenience -recent memory serving
ummm i'd have to think more on this to be concise and accurate but i would suspect that it is a book cause if people are bookworms then I am a bookdragon
love from the side with the earthquakes
posted by
mysteria
on September 30, 2004 at 5:50 PM
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