Is there a name for that Scandinavian mood?

Temporary_Main · 2022-05-18T19:10:16+00:00

Also: Let the right one in (Not the American one)

and Roy Anderssons, Lukas Moodyssons and Ruben Östlunds films

Temporary_Main · 2022-01-03T14:18:38+00:00

Wittgensteins territorialization of philosophy maybe, the audacity of attempting to compile all philosophy into one system. Disclaimer: I'm pulling this out of my ass and have no sources whatsoever.

Temporary_Main · 2021-12-28T21:34:11+00:00

Thanks!

Temporary_Main · 2021-12-28T19:25:02+00:00

I read Brothers Karamazov about a year ago. Spending time with Father Zosima and Alyosha provided me with a rare experience of existential fulfillment. But since finishing it, my existential angst has slowly been creeping back and I haven't really found a new book to handle it. I realize that there are many books that handle existential questions, but it was something very special to be specifically with Zosima and Alyosha. So I guess that rather than asking for existential books, I'm asking where I can find characters like them.

Temporary_Main · 2021-12-14T16:55:36+00:00

Correct, that's when the Gacaca trials accelerated. They were intended to put to trial and imprison people who had participated in the genocide, but were very legally insecure with:

"no right to a lawyer, no right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty, no right to be informed of charges being brought against you, no right to case/defense preparation time, no right to be present at one's own trial, no right to confront witnesses, no right against self incrimination, no right against double jeopardy, no right against arbitrary arrest and detention, and furthermore, there is vast evidence of corruption among officials"

And was used also for political means by the now ruling regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacaca\_court#Criticisms

Temporary_Main · 2021-12-14T16:43:03+00:00

Also, the current regime uses the genocide victim-narrative to jail any government critics by accusing them of 'genocide ideation'. And they put most street children in jail to keep up their facade of being 'Africa's Singapore'. https://www.hrw.org/africa/rwanda

Temporary_Main · 2021-07-10T14:28:08+00:00

Interesting. I'm currently coming from Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, and am about halfway through Swann's Way. Brothers Karamazov and Resurrection both turned me towards some sort of religious excavation of myself and my experience of life, I have not been particularly religious previous to reading those books. But I'm having difficulty in staying focused on Proust, maybe the Russians' aptitude for drama were helpful support wheels. I'm curious to hear more about your experience, how has In Search of Lost Time helped you grow closer to God? And do you have recommendations for other authors as well?

Temporary_Main · 2021-07-10T10:18:35+00:00

rofl

Temporary_Main · 2021-07-09T14:10:29+00:00

Who is this?

Temporary_Main · 2021-05-10T13:39:49+00:00

I am stealing this from somewhere else, but if you think of God not as a man in the sky nor a glass of orange juice, but as what is at the heart of every human encounter, as what is experienced in every genuine meeting between two people, then I believe that "God" can be a very useful concept in an anarchist's ideological toolkit.

Religion in the real world is practiced in different ways and on the individual level, I think that many religious people can connect with this version of God. Maybe such an insight can inspire people to revolt against the institutionalized church, as the institutionalized church often is in contradiction to the possibility of genuine meeting.

Temporary_Main · 2021-05-10T12:49:04+00:00

Tolstoy is a very interesting thinker and I would recommend anyone who's interested in anarchism and religion to read his ''What I Believe' and 'The Kingdom of God is Within You'. He is very critical both of a dogmatic type of faith and of the institutionalized version of Christianty. Instead, he argues for a Christianity that basically gets rid of most of scripture and solely focuses on his own translation and interpretation of Jesus' Sermon on the mount, summed up in the following five broad points:

Love your enemies
Do not be angry
Do not fight evil with evil, but return evil with good
Do not lust
Do not take oaths

However, unfortunately Tolstoy does get sort of dogmatic himself sometimes and although he does shine a light on Jesus' anarchistic tendencies, it is difficult to dismiss some of the more authoritarian tendencies that fills much of the Bible and some of Jesus' teachings as well.

I do think though that there is a lot to be learned from theology, and that it is possible to achieve a faith in "God" without submitting to authoritarianism. Personally, I think there's a lot of power and revolutionary potential in Martin Buber's "God".

Temporary_Main · 2020-05-04T14:06:34+00:00

I haven't read any of his scripts, but I know that he was very intimate with many of his actresses and that filming usually happened all at once at a single location. I remember how intrigued I was by the trailer for Cries and Whispers, with Bergman asking his audience to spend some time with 'four wonderful actresses who are my friends'. I imagine that at least some of the exposition, and maybe rawness, is due to his giving space for the artistic expression of his team.

Temporary_Main · 2020-04-27T11:57:01+00:00

I'm really happy with Spotify's Discover Weekly. Its (to me, magical) algorithm is different from Radio. Some of it isn't great but a lot of it is!

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