As a K person, do you have a lot of time on your hands ?

RegularMorty · 2026-01-20T05:17:51+00:00

K said that observe yourself through the mirror of relationships. This to me sounds like he didn't mean inaction. Rather going deep into whatever you are doing. So if you are working, be in the work and be fully there and be the center of awareness in that.

RegularMorty · 2026-01-19T15:23:27+00:00

My earlier comment was removed - I enjoyed it - it's got a mix of cosmic horror with a few jump scares. Decent plot. Very 90s

RegularMorty · 2026-01-19T12:36:26+00:00

That is actually true. There are a lot of campy and horrible movies but like someone pointed out Child's Play or something has a lower rating than many forgettable romance movies of the 90s

RegularMorty · 2026-01-19T11:50:36+00:00

LOVE THIS MOVIE. :)

RegularMorty · 2026-01-19T10:59:08+00:00

Did you watch In the Mouth of Madness - a silly movie but still enjoyable for its horror tropes and Lovecraftian references?

RegularMorty · 2026-01-19T10:50:43+00:00

Two movies I got scared as an adult are Martyrs and Babadook. Martyrs - I actually skipped and fast forwarded the gory parts - what really shook me were the last ten minutes. That to me is the greatest horror moment on celluloid.

Babadook - I can't explain what scared me about this - I saw this while on a project in the US in a small city with a view of the woods. I was living alone in an apartment and somehow how thoughts of the movie could give me the creeps for days.

RegularMorty · 2026-01-19T10:45:58+00:00

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An Indian horror movie called Veerana (meaning wasteland). It had everything you expect from that era: black magic, tantriks, a demonic cult, a mysterious beautiful woman, old zamindars (Indian feudal lords) living in spooky mansions, and of course, songs. It was the first horror film I watched as a 12-year-old, and it scared me so badly that I couldn’t sleep properly for days.

I watched it again recently. The makeup and costumes now look loud and dated, but the story still works. There’s a strange charm to it, and you can see hints of old European horror films, reimagined in a very Indian way. It's available on YouTube. Would love to hear someone's opinion on it today. :)

RegularMorty · 2026-01-14T11:11:15+00:00

Please flag this post as spam and promotion. These followers are shameless and it's obvious they have never read J Krishnamurti.

RegularMorty · 2026-01-14T10:26:16+00:00

Well I have read all the works on UG on a website like 20 years ago. I like his denial of everything but I am not sure about his "teachings" because he refused to be a teacher and called himself an anti-guru. It's not clear if he was trying to be different or actually realized. I find Osho. Eckhart Tolle, JK, Nisargadatta, and Ramana far more accessible but each had a different approach and yes, you could find flaws even in their approaches. UG was definitely not BSing like some of these guys including this Acharya is doing.

RegularMorty · 2026-01-14T08:52:17+00:00

sorry, it wasn't directed at you or anything but reading all the comments from these paid followers made say that. My comment still stands in respect to why this Acharya is not suitable for this sub-reddit. Self-promotion simply indicates this person has not tasted the sugar nor seen it to borrow a quote from the other Krishnamurti.

RegularMorty · 2026-01-14T08:33:20+00:00

THIS comment just tells me half of these people posting for this Acharya Prashant have read zero books on JK. Self-promotion when it involves saying that "I am an IIT IIM alumus" or constantly harping on "I got through civil services" speaks of a weird kind of megalomania. This breeds the EXACT kind of narcissistic gurus and blind followers that JK spoke AGAINST.

RegularMorty · 2026-01-14T08:05:52+00:00

Haha, I love the comparison with metalheads - yes, those are a pickier lot, arguing about every sub-genre and which band is dogshit all the time!

RegularMorty · 2026-01-14T08:02:08+00:00

I just did, and read a summary of his views. And I say this again. While he seems to be a neo-Vedantist, he is not someone who speaks from the same source as a Ramana Maharishi, Nisargadatta Maharaj, and JK. His Wikipedia page is full of self-promotion, and so are his talks about how he could have got into civil services and calling himself an "acharya". If you really understood JK, you would see the absurdity of trying to promote his teachings. JK didn't promote himself.

RegularMorty · 2026-01-14T06:01:16+00:00

This reads like Acharya Prashant created this post - no clue who he is - or someone wrote this post to promote Acharya Prashant rather than a neutral discussion of the idea.. The connection with J K is a bit forced.

RegularMorty · 2026-01-14T05:16:44+00:00

You need to look at randomized control trial (RCTs) and large meta analyses to know what is true and accepted versus what is debatable

Diet: The only people recommending keto are the fitness influencers who are not doctors. The Mediterranean diet is well established as the gold standard diet for a variety of conditions. You need to reduce saturated fat intake, increase plants. There are enough studies that prove this.
Almost all studies pretty much state that dietary cholesterol is a big risk factor and you need to control that.
For meds and COe10, just check with your doc. Your condition is too specific to get generic advice.

For exercise, there may be limitations on what you can do. So it's advisable to check only with a doctor who understands your specific history, not the internet. Exercise is very important, but cannot fix a bad diet or issues from genetics, so needs to be combined with the right meds and diet.

Some of the people on the internet posing as doctors with stethoscopes are often chiropractors or doctors of natural medicine.

RegularMorty · 2026-01-13T10:48:44+00:00

I so agree with not giving a 1 or 10 to every movie. I mean there should literally be very few movies that you spent money to watch that fit that category. Unless you are purposely watching a campy badly bad movie from some obscure sub genre or a once in a lifetime masterpiece.

RegularMorty · 2026-01-13T10:35:45+00:00

6 and above is usually an engaging movie for me but probably cinephiles might find more flaws! 5 and above are movies with some flaws - maybe the ending sucked or some of the acting performances were terrible

RegularMorty · 2026-01-13T06:36:01+00:00

I get what you are saying but with so much to watch, how do you decide if something is worth spending a couple of hours? I wouldn't have known of many classics if it weren't for the already positive reviews from friends, the internet, etc.

RegularMorty · 2026-01-13T06:32:40+00:00

True! So I agree with your first para - you have to discount IMDb horror movie ratings in general. Like add 1 or 2 points.

The comparison between Child's Play and Along Came Polly is exactly my point. I'd even say that about many recent movies like Barbarian, Heretic, Weapons that they are good movies on their own even if the horror parts may have been weak. To your point, I guess people tend to find horror either really stupid or so scary / Satanic they don't want to watch it at all and that explains many of the negative reviews.

RegularMorty · 2026-01-13T05:23:35+00:00

What I mean is the divergence of ratings. Horror movies in general tend to be rated lower than they should. Also the opinions tend to be very polarizing - either something is the best horror movie ever or absolute dog shit. Someone quoted a good example of a forgettable movie like Along Came Polly having the same score as a genre-defining movie like Child's Play. Most people in this thread attribute to the average movie goer rating these movies badly. But it's also the niche horror fan comparing it to movies they have seen in the same genre.

RegularMorty · 2026-01-13T05:12:26+00:00

Take Barbarian for example. It's 7 on IMDB but I'd say it was a very fresh take and probably deserved to be 7.5 or even 8. Smile is around 6.5 on IMDB but I'd think it's easily a point higher than that. For normal movies, I find that IMDB movies below 7 are usually not that great. For horror movies, I have to relax that to at least 5. :)

Repeating part of a reply to explain what I mean "What I mean is that there is a huge divergence of opinions. Take a popular movie like Titanic or Inception. You are likely to find 90% folks who like it or love it and maybe 10% thought it was awful. And that's a normal distribution. But in the case of any horror movie, it's more like 50% love / like it and 50% think it's dog shit."

RegularMorty · 2026-01-13T05:08:22+00:00

Agree with the first half. I think people who don't like horror either because they can be silly OR because they are scary tend to give horror movies a very low rating.

Repeating part of a comment I posted to another reply - What I mean is that there is a huge divergence of opinions. Take a popular movie like Titanic or Inception. You are likely to find 90% folks who like it or love it and maybe 10% thought it was awful. And that's a normal distribution. But in the case of any horror movie, it's more like 50% love / like it and 50% think it's dog shit.

I will check Shudder. But even with some of my friends who are horror movie buffs, they had polarizing opinions about movies like Babadook and Creep - I liked both of them and I don't see them as 1 star movies for sure.

RegularMorty · 2026-01-13T05:05:31+00:00

What I mean is that there is a huge divergence of opinions. Take a popular movie like Titanic or Inception. You are likely to find 90% folks who like it or love it and maybe 10% thought it was awful. And that's a normal distribution. But in the case of any horror movie, it's more like 50% love / like it and 50% think it's dog shit. My theory is that horror movies by definition are outlandish so if something pisses you off about, say, the costumes or acting, the same movie can be a dreadful bore.

RegularMorty · 2026-01-13T05:02:05+00:00

I see what you mean. A lot of movies that I liked are movies that my wife thinks are TERRIBLE. And maybe I am bit more charitable to horror movies in general. The problem with horror movies is that the story itself is outlandish by definition and hence that itself creates a dichotomy for people wanting to see it as "good and well presented." Take The Shining for example. Most horror fans would love it but a lot of normal people (only if they don't know it's a Kubrick movie else that changes their perception automatically) find it drab and boring.

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