- White Whore (1974)March 9, 2025
It’s Mr. Rape Man. What is up with japanese media and their fetishing of rape? Japanese cityscape is comfy though. 3/10.
- Gemini (2005)March 9, 2025
Meh, is alright. What do we learn from this movie? Thats right, only fuck family members outside the family home. 4/10.
- Meditation by Marcus AureliusMarch 9, 2025
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, along with Seneca’s Letters and Epictetus’ Discourses, is one of the three major Stoic works that have survived to our time. Of the three, I like it the least. It is less rigorous than Epictetus and less practical than Seneca. It is written in a more flowery and poetic style, with themes often repeating themselves, and the verses are not always interconnected.
I would recommend reading a version that provides more explanations of the verses rather than the Reclam edition, which only offers footnotes. If you’re starting with Stoicism, begin with Epictetus’ Discourses. - WrongMarch 9, 2025
The gods must not be blamed; for they do no wrong, willingly or unwillingly; nor human beings; for they do no wrong except unwillingly. Therefore no one is to be blamed.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Book XII verse 12
- On ChangeMarch 9, 2025
The cessation of any action, the extinction of any keen desire, or of any opinion, is as it were a death to them. This is no evil. Turn, now to your different ages; such as childhood, youth, manhood, old-age; for every change of these is a death.* Is there any thing alarming here? Go, now, to your life; first as it was under your grand-father, then as it was under your mother; and then as it was under† your father: and, as you find there many other alterations, changes, and endings, ask yourself, was there any thing in these to alarm me? Thus, neither is there, in the ending, ceasing, and change, of your whole life.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Book IX verse 21