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Post by Morgan Sierra on May 7, 2014 20:07:21 GMT -6
Serenity
I just recently watched a movie called serenity, which is based on a TV series called Firefly that was on about a decade ago. I had actually never heard of either of them until just a few weeks ago which is kind of surprising because Serenity is one of the best science fiction movies I have ever seen. It's not as good as Star Wars of course, but it was still good. The two movies are actually kind of similar with lots of action and adventure, plus a little bit of comedy and some drama mixed in. I really enjoyed it. That's not why I am writing this though.
The plot of the movie revolves around a group of people living in a space ship in the distant future. Supposedly humans had over-populated the earth so people went out and found a new solar system with dozens of planets and hundreds of moons and terrafarmed them so that they would all be habitable. The planets closest to the sun were the most developed and therefor the most civilized. From this "civilization" arose a powerful government known as the Alliance who naturally (like all governments do) wanted totalitarian control over everything. The outer planets were more rocky and barren and not as developed as the inner planets. They were mostly inhabited by outlaws and renegades who wanted nothing to do with the stupid government. The people on the ship were some of the outlaws and were constantly fighting against the evil Alliance.
Those of you who know me pretty well can probably already figure out why I liked the movie so much...but that's still not why I'm writing this.
One of the characters in the film was a young girl who had been taken by the government and subjected to a bunch of painful medical procedures that modified her brain and made her psychic. (Sound familiar to anyone?) The government was trying to turn her into a weapon that could be unbeatable in war...a soldier that could read people's minds and know what they were going to do before they did it. In short...the ultimate fighting machine. Unfortunately for their evil scheme she was rescued by her brother who then joined up with the outlaws onboard the ship.
Because of the traumatic experiences she had to endure at the hands of the government, as well as the "modifications" they made to her brain, the young girl ended up being very emotionally troubled and slightly psychotic. She was having a very difficult time staying in touch with reality. The fact that she could read people's minds only made it worse for her because she had trouble telling which thoughts were her own and which were coming from other people. Sometimes she would get totally overwhelmed by the thought and emotions of all of the people around her.
This made me start asking questions, like do psychic people really have trouble distinguishing between their own thoughts and the thoughts of others? People who have experienced alien abductions often report becoming psychic as a result of their abductions and they often report that the aliens communicate with them telepathically. If they were receiving thoughts from the aliens would they be able to distinguish them from their own thoughts? This is a question that we have touched on here at TEOR before. If abductees are receiving thoughts or mental suggestions from the ETs how would they know?
Another question that I wondered about is whether or not a person with telepathic abilities would actually be able to stay sane with all of those different thoughts going through their heads. If they couldn't differentiate between their own thoughts and the thoughts of those people around them how would they be able to cope with that? Could that be a possible explanation for some of the mentally unstable people here on our own planet? Is it possible that some mentally insane people are actually psychic to such a degree that they completely lose touch with reality? Or at least their own sense of who they are?
Do psychic telepathic abilities also apply to emotions as well as thoughts? In addition to knowing what other people think could a psychic person also feel what other people feel? Do feelings even transmit psychically?
Are autistic people psychic? We know that people with autism can sometimes possess some amazing mental gifts...sometimes practically being geniuses at certain things while mentally challenged at a lot of others. I wonder if their brains have heightened psychic abilities?
I doubt that any of these questions will be satisfactorily answered any time soon since few scientists actually take psychic abilities seriously and therefor aren't going to waste any time studying them. But they are some interesting thoughts.
In the movie the name Serenity was actually the name of the space ship but I think it could also have been a metaphor for the young girl's search for peace in her own mind. She eventually did find it in the end. It would be nice if we all could.
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Post by plutronus on May 9, 2014 5:12:51 GMT -6
SerenityI just recently watched a movie called serenity, which is based on a TV series called Firefly that was on about a decade ago. I had actually never heard of either of them until just a few weeks ago which is kind of surprising because Serenity is one of the best science fiction movies I have ever seen. It's not as good as Star Wars of course, but it was still good. The two movies are actually kind of similar with lots of action and adventure, plus a little bit of comedy and some drama mixed in. I really enjoyed it. That's not why I am writing this though. <<snip>> <<snip>> Morgan Sierra SW, I entirely agree with your post, and it was great science-fiction too. For your information, if you are interested, NetFlix has the entire TV series (w/o commercials of course...Yeah!!!). Unfortunately the series didn't last very long, I suspect that it was too 'normal', no murder-death-kill type themes. Or too intellectual? I loved it. I never knew it was on TV until I saw one of the reruns, and then I bumped into the series on NetFlix. The entire series is available for $7 (that is until Net-Neutrality is squashed by the greedy pigs in the United States of Corporations corrupt congress gets their way.) plutronus
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Post by skywalker on May 9, 2014 7:49:15 GMT -6
I already bought the series on dvd. Just waiting for them to come in the mail.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2014 11:14:52 GMT -6
I watched every one of those AND the movie. Great sci fi. The hero..is now on a series called Castle...not sci fi in the least. I loved the blend of technology and settler mentality and morals. Sort of John Boy Walton meets the Cylons. I was recently listening to a mp3 by a zen master who was talking about being more 'psychic'. Kind of a misnomer..there are few if any true mind readers. Quite an infringement on others rights. Predictors of distant future are seldom right because the future is fluid..influenced by hundreds of thousands of decisions of man (we do have free will..often not what is best for us). The future can be read..only if nothing changes. The purpose of the mp3 wasn't to be some Nostradamus..but how to use it in daily life..to make informed choices and decisions based on 'does this 'feel' right or should I wait a bit'...mentality..how to interpret those feelings that we all get..how to listen to them. The key of course..is in keeping emotion out of the equation because it's a very distorting field. Decisions based on emotion are seldom ever healthy ones. Anger and fear are terribly detrimental. Easy to meet someone and judge their state of being if you're open to it..and that's a form of 'reading' too. Reading their character or mood and matching yours to that is pretty helpful. Ooops..sowwy..didn't mean to take the subject off track. Good series
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Post by skywalker on May 9, 2014 17:33:31 GMT -6
That wasn't off track, jo. Most of my post was talking about psychic abilities. I don't know if I have ever heard of anybody who could actually read minds. I certainly can't...at least not that I know of. There have been quite a few times in my life when I suddenly said the exact same words as somebody else. Was that mind-reading? I doubt it. Even if somebody could read minds how would they know whose thoughts they were thinking? Or if they were even somebody else's rather than their own. I wouldn't know the difference. As far as making decisions based on feelings I do that all the time. It helps keep me alive. Kind of like..."Hmmm, should I go swimming in those shark infested waters or not? Nope!"
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2014 9:18:37 GMT -6
Yes..you listen to those feelings and that is what being 'psychic' is Aliens or no. Everyone has the ability..not everyone listens. I think saying the exact same thing IS probably mind reading..someone had a very strong thought and it touched your wave length and you nailed it. I'm guessing the closer we 'resonate' to someone else the more that happens. I can see short term happenings in a person's life...things they should be paying attention to..things that will influence but if a psychic is being honest....we don't see into the future...but make guesses based on the probabilities at hand. They can change and do with the decisions others make. Kind of probably that Mt. St. Helens will blow it's cork again..probably within this year. I'll be really disappointed like ole Harold if I give it a date and it's late Harold forgets his bible. Only God will know when it's time for the second coming. Poor Harold.
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Post by sunbow on May 13, 2014 11:54:23 GMT -6
New word: "Telempathic" - seems more accurate.
Knowing our thoughts from others that impinge within our mind is an essential skill to be learned. Whether someone or some being psychically trying to influence our behavior, Archons, or subliminal-subconscious stuff bubbling up from media we have absorbed, we must be quick to recognize and reject what does not resonate with us, what we do not feel right about.
I watch very little media. I prefer reading. Reading seems to provide more substance per hour. If we do get a movie someday (we get two or three a couple of times a year), I'll keep this in mind.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2014 18:55:01 GMT -6
Great post(s) everyone . I think you guys have caught on that this particular topic is very disturbing for me. For many years I prayed for discernment. . . and this is why; coming to the realization that my perception could be altered by unwanted incoming thoughts and feelings from other people. I think the easiest answer is to work really hard at knowing oneself. Question everything. But that is so hard also. I'm not saying that I'm the kind of "psi" that Skywalker is talking about. My experience on this seems so random, that just as well I have some other mental aberration. LOl. But the idea that I'm supposed to be this way, and that there are others like me, does help. I guess I'll have to watch this movie soon. I'll tell you something that I'm quite sure is happening in my life right now . As my dad is aging, and visibly becoming "weaker" , in both mind and body, he seems to be picking up "mental messages" from me. Years ago it was as simple as I couldn't tell my dad even a half-truth if he asked me something, because he always seemed to know. That may be just a part of Love, . Nowadays its so far beyond that, that I hesitate to explain. It also appears as something very simple - I plan to do something a particular day, and he takes all MY tools with him that morning; not his own tools. This type of thing happens so often, including wanting to be someplace in the house at the exact same time, that I at first thought he was antagonizing me on purpose. If I'm thinking about something, he does it almost right then; not just like we are "close" or have similar personalities.. . my dad does NOT go for this type of thing, either psi or spirituality. In fact, my dad has shown a lot of resentment towards me, and I'm having to adjust. Obviously I don't influence everything around here. . . .but I am the irritant. I don't have any feelings of "power" or "the force" (hee, hee); it just seems to happen.
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Post by sunbow on May 14, 2014 7:12:34 GMT -6
Thanks for sharing jcurio. I think that whenever we try at these telempathic things we are not able to do them because trying is getting the mind involved and these work around the mind, when the mind is not in control. We are quantum entangled with our family members, whether we relate philosophically or in terms of world view.
My dad is dying. We butted heads when I was younger. We lived in very different realities. I have released any negative feeling and I believe he has also, so we have peace. He is on hospice and bed ridden. My step mother cares for him and I visit weekly. Mostly he sleeps, but sometimes he is awake and talks a bit. It is very heavy and I always come home totally exhausted. I have no desire to isolate or protect my energy body, it is what it is. These connections are powerful and need to be honored, even if they sometimes seem burdensome to our minds.
The old adage 'Be careful for what you wish for.' come to mind. Being telempathic in our world does not make life easier, yet we are what we are. To refine our gifts is desirable, since they are spiritual gifts, yet we must proceed with a level head and common sense. Knowing our self and our thoughts and how our thoughts work is very important.
Watch a room full of young boys after a Kung Fu movie, they will all be acting out the warrior fighter memes they just absorbed. Media programs us. It fills us with vast amounts of energetic barbs which bubble up into our minds. Books as well as movies, radio, or even the internet. We need to interact with people to feed our beings. Media is interaction, but we don't know the creators and if they are really people we would want to interact with.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2014 9:18:59 GMT -6
We do have to make peace with what/who we are and we're influenced by all of life around us. So if some are naturally taking in 'more' of our surroundings..it's going to set us apart. Why we don't always fit in so well. From way early on, I HAD to be adaptable and I thank my volatile parents for a skill that's made my life and my way of life entirely possible. I can be exactly what everyone needs me to be and manage to keep me...me From bad....often comes very good. I miss the obvious sometimes because I'm always hunting the 'twist'. It was driving me crackers..trying to figure out why babies have nightmares..when they have no life experience to know fear. I thought of some reincarnation after effect but I wasn't quite ready to accept that one.. I was talking with this brilliant scientific guy I know. His brain is always busy with genius stuff and he watches match videos for FUN...ew...but he's also learned the trick of adapting to others around him. I mentioned my baby thing and calmly as you please he looked down his very long nose and said. Don't you think birth is traumatic enough to provide for nightmares? Oh heck...being forced from your warm comfy environment with all the subtlety of a boa constrictor..into bright lights and loud braying people...the pain of using your lungs...score one for the PHD who doesn't even like kids. I think at that moment...we're all even up...then life bends and shapes...and environments and role models take over. Except for that kid standing apart from the others...the quiet one often with a nose in some book and a look in the eyes saying they're somewhere else half the time.
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Post by sunbow on May 14, 2014 10:01:33 GMT -6
Thanks Jo. I like the Birth Trauma explanation, but I also think we carry impressions from other lives or even other quantum entangled relations. If a baby is open and at all psychic, that would also provide some means to react to other peoples trips and have nightmares. Our thoughts and feelings, which we radiate continually, affect the environment, meaning those around us. New parents often come with many fears and worries about their child's well being. I am not discounting the Birth Trauma, but it is only one part.
I only attended one birth, it was a home birth. First there was the mother's toil, but when the baby was born, there was a moment of adrenaline in her and she actually looked around with a very intense, sage-like expression. She was then put on her mother and was completely peaceful. I believe it is very important that the birth room be a positive place of welcome for a new born.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2014 11:26:09 GMT -6
The old adage 'Be careful for what you wish for.' come to mind. Being telempathic in our world does not make life easier, yet we are what we are. To refine our gifts is desirable, since they are spiritual gifts, yet we must proceed with a level head and common sense. Knowing our self and our thoughts and how our thoughts work . . . . . We need to interact with people to feed our beings. Media is interaction, but we don't know the creators and if they are really people we would want to interact with. Yes, especially because of this experience with my dad (among others), I am more careful of what is on my mind. My dad and I have been close, until the last couple of years, sadly. After all these years, I would hate for him to die with the thought that I don't like him. My tendency is to avoid situations in any part of my life, where I know I don't like someone. I can't "fake it"; even polite conversation feels like a "waste of my time" because I feel it is fake and will not change anything; I have tried. On the other hand, your comment about "not knowing the creators and if they are people we would want to interact with", I can say that this doesn't even enter my mind. I'm open and willing to interact with new people, regardless of other people's opinions of them*, until I have reason to avoid that person. Of course I could already say I'm not interested in talking with someone who creates "media" that is slasher/murder/horror type, but I have to consider that there is more to the person and we possibly could find something to talk about. I remember discovering that the owner of the local liquor store did not drink, but he knew he could make money off people that did! Or a tv "reporter" that is not allowed to speak anything but what he is supposed to. . . even if he has feelings about a certain subject, he/she is a paid actor basically. *in our over-sexed world, I would hesitate to talk to someone who has a reputation as a womanizer* (conversation shouldn't just boil down to "flirting" or innuendo) Anyway, I'm being brutally honest about my issues with unforgiveness. I believe that every day IS a new day, and every day I must make an effort to start anew with my dad (or anyone else) that said something "mean" to me the day before, and the day before that. I'm sorry to hear about your dad's condition. Even though you guys have "made peace", it is still quite hoannable that you go to visit him every week. The simple fact that the visit drains you, but you go anyway, tells me that you do this visit more for him, than yourself. Even if you guys had always been close. My grandmother had so much senility by the time she died, that too many visitors could confuse her and upset her, so I didn't go to see her often. Her oldest daughter (my mom) was there every day, and helped with her confusion of rest-home staff and visitors. I still felt "guilty" that I wasn't doing enough. Thank goodness that feeling is gone now, and I did see she recognized me once, near the time of her death, and I felt the love between us.
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Post by auntym on Oct 14, 2014 12:42:58 GMT -6
www.space.com/27407-firefly-online-game.html?cmpid=514648_20141014_33612437 'Firefly' Actors Reunite for Online Role-Playing GameBy Miriam Kramer, Staff Writer October 10, 2014 Firefly-class ship speeds through the universe in the role-playing game "Firefly Online." Credit: "Firefly Online"NEW YORK — A new role-playing game aiming to bring fans of the science fiction TV series "Firefly" back into the space western universe is counting down to a big launch in 2015, nearly 12 years after the show went off the air. Quantum Mechanix (QMx) and Spark Plug Games will launch "Firefly Online" next year and showed off the"Firefly Online Cortex" — a portal users can access to set up an identity in the game before it event begins — Thursday (Oct. 9) during a panel here at New York Comic Con. They also unveiled the first glimpse of how "Firefly Online" will look in a gameplay sneak peak. "As future citizens of this vast solar frontier, you are entitled to set yourself up on the Cortex, free of charge," QMx representatives wrote in a description of the Cortex online. "The Cortex is the interplanetary communications network that will allow you access to all kinds of helpful advice, to trade your goods (legit and otherwise), and find whatever employ that's suitable for someone of your … reputation." "Firefly Online" allows each player to act as the captain of a ship, making decisions and hiring a crew. Within the context of the game, the recruited crews actually "remember" the way the captain treats them, and based on that information, they might be more or less willing to cooperate with future commands. The minds behind "Firefly Online" also managed to get all of the actors from the Joss Whedon TV show to come back and lend their voices to the game. Mal (played by Nathan Fillion) and Inara (played by Morena Baccarin) even have a love story in the game, like they did in the TV show. The game's creators are also going to roll out a series of interviews with the cast on their memories of "Firefly" and their thoughts on the new game. The panel previewed Baccarin's interview for the Comic Con crowd. "When I was first offered the part, I was just ecstatic to be working on a series that Joss Whedon was involved in," Baccarin said during her interview. "That was the thing that attracted me to the project. "I remember the feeling of loving everybody and having so much fun and constantly laughing," Baccarin added of her memories on set. "We were always goofing around and playing practical jokes on each other. I remember things here and there, but it's mostly just the general sense of loving the experience." "Firefly Online" is set for release in Spring 2015. To learn more about the game, visit: keepflying.com. Follow Miriam Kramer @mirikramer and Google+. Follow us @spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com. MORE: www.space.com/27407-firefly-online-game.html?cmpid=514648_20141014_33612437
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Post by auntym on Jan 7, 2016 15:28:50 GMT -6
FOR ALL THE "FIREFLY' FANS OUT THERE...
Top 10 Facts About Firefly - The TV Series Published on Jun 24, 2015
Welcome to Top10Archive! In this installment, we are going to strap on our spurs and take to the sky as we dive into Joss Whedon’s space western, Firefly. Though the program only lasted one short season before being pulled by the FOX network, there are plenty of factoids and interesting tidbits out there to make a list. We’ve dug through these Firefly facts and chosen ten of the most interesting.
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Post by auntym on Feb 10, 2017 15:53:17 GMT -6
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fox-open-firefly-reboot-joss-whedon_us_589dd8cde4b03df370d59da7? A ‘Firefly’ Reboot Could Happen If This One Person Is On Board Let’s make this happen!02/10/2017 Frazer Harrison via Getty Images The Cast of Firefly (Standing L–R) Adam Baldwin, Alan Tudyk Tim Minear. Sean Maher, Nathan Fillion, (Kneeling) Summer Glau and Joss Whedon at the ‘Firefly’ 10 Year Anniversary Reunion at Comic-Con 2012.“Firefly” fans, get ready to set your hearts aflutter. David Madden, Fox Broadcasting’s president of entertainment, said he’d be open to a Firefly reboot under one specific condition. Madden told Rotten Tomatoes during a CA 2017 panel that he’d only do it if Joss Whedon, creator of “Firefly” and writer/director on “The Avengers” and “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” is involved. The outlet also notes that Madden thinks Whedon is too busy to help revive the beloved sci-fi western, however. Whedon’s current projects include ABC’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” which he also created, and is apparently writing some sort of World War II-era slasher flick. But according to Alan Tudyk, who played Hoban “Wash” Washburne on “Firefly,” Whedon has expressed interest in reviving the series in the past. “Not only is there a want from fans, but there’s a want from Joss [Whedon], and from Nathan [Fillion], certainly, and the cast,” Tudyk told Hypable in 2013. Whedon also told the Toronto Sun in 2013 that he never quite got over the cancellation of “Firefly,” which only lasted a season on Fox in 2002, but was revived into the movie “Serenity” in 2005. “I’ll never really accept it,” Whedon told the Sun. “And I always, in the back of my head, think, ‘What if I could get the old gang back together? ... It’s something I would love to do.” Fingers crossed, guys! www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fox-open-firefly-reboot-joss-whedon_us_589dd8cde4b03df370d59da7?
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Post by auntym on Jun 5, 2018 21:41:10 GMT -6
Firefly - 15 Years Later, a Look Back
6-5-2018
In honor of the 15th anniversary of Joss Whedon’s cult sci-fi favorite “Firefly,” we've launched a reel that celebrates the epic journey of Serenity and its valiant crew. The compilation highlights some of the best VFX work on the beloved show, which launched Zoic in 2002 and earned an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Visual Effects for a Series.” We dug into the archives to create this commemorative reel, rebuilding Serenity with the original team and put together a shiny new sequence followed by an assembly of some of the most beloved and quotable moments of the franchise.
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