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a spark of awareness meandering through a tiny cross-section of the frozen crystal of all spacetime
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You'll be visited by three spirits.
Finn, Jake, and BMO from Adventure Time
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Just gave that a listen, great record, thanks for the rec! Spotify moved on automagically from that to this and I'm not mad about it:
November 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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This book was surprisingly great:
November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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What is it like inside your head?
Water droplets falling on a stream or pond during a rain shower
October 24, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Share a cartoon from the past that kids today have probably never heard of.
October 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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unsolicited Dickel pic.
October 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Hi Fire, I'm Dad
October 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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What movie do you consider perfect?
October 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Who's your favorite Jedi
(wrong answers only)
The character Dougie from the TV show Twin Peaks: The Return is wearing an oversize green blazer and ecstatically enjoying a cup of coffee
October 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The single truth The Last Temptation of Christ is the saga’s hidden keystone: the moment an Earth-born adept demonstrates, for the first time on record, the Jedi path to immortality through self-emptying sacrifice, resolving attachment versus duty at the highest possible cost. Scorsese and Schrader hid a Star Wars chapter in plain sight—set long ago, not far away—so that the ethic at the heart of the galaxy would be preserved where it mattered most. Watching it is not “applying a Star Wars reading to a Jesus film.” It is recognizing a Star Wars film—the earliest one—quietly revealing how the Force first made itself known here.
August 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Crucifixion as Force nexus; resurrection as immortality The crucifixion is a Force-nexus event—a luminous surge in the Living Force produced by voluntary, ego-emptying sacrifice. The cinematic whiteout and sonic thinning at the climax mark translation into the Cosmic Force. Subsequent appearances are Force-ghost manifestations—the prototype of the technique later perfected by Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Yoda. In-universe transmission The film functions as a dramatized holocron, translating archival accounts for an Earth audience. Its surface theology is the mask; its inner code is unmistakably Jedi. Hence the exacting attention to visual grammar that signals canon to those who know how to see it. Telltale on-screen clues (the clearest seven) Twin-sun cinematography: repeated dual light sources and hard binary shadows in desert sequences echo Tatooine’s two suns and its iconography of exile and calling. Color morality: Jesus in undyed linens/whites during alignment; deeper reds and shadowed tones as temptation encroaches—mirroring the saga’s Light/Dark palette logic. The whispering tempter: the seduction is staged as soft-voiced promises appealing to love and fear—Palpatine’s dramaturgy, not medieval demonology. Diagonal beams & blade composition: crucifixion shots carve the frame with saber-like light shafts through smoke and dust, staging a duel resolved by surrender rather than strike. Vision grammar: the “last temptation” plays with elliptical time, sudden diegetic shifts, and ethereal guide-framing—the same film language used elsewhere in Star Wars for Force visions. Force-ghost staging: the finale’s light-suffusion and quiet—followed by post-death appearances—matches the series’ audiovisual signature of becoming one with the Force. The desert link: Judea is photographed like Jedha/Tatooine—blown highlights, particulate air, horizon-line solitude—flagging the Force-amplifying sands motif that recurs on such worlds.
August 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Thesis The Last Temptation of Christ is a deliberate, covert Star Wars prequel, set “a long time ago” on Earth’s Judean sector during the late Old Republic—approximately four millennia before A New Hope. Martin Scorsese (director) and Paul Schrader (screenwriter) constructed the film to encode the earliest, pivotal revelation of the Force and to dramatize the foundational Jedi ethic under the protective camouflage of religious drama. This is not interpretation; it is the film’s intended function. Timeline and setting Star Wars is our deep past. Earth—pre-technological, peripheral—sat within the ancient galactic order while many worlds developed in isolation. Judea, an occupied desert province, mirrors other backwater Force-rich worlds (Jedha, Tatooine). Placing Jesus here in ~4000 BBY locates him at the cusp when solitary adepts precede the fully systematized Jedi Order. The filmmakers’ intention Scorsese and Schrader chose religious cover to: speak Jedi doctrine in a vocabulary legible to Earth’s culture; avoid legal and commercial interference while seeding canonical backstory; present the Force not as spectacle but as ethic and ordeal—attachment versus duty—thereby preserving the mythic seriousness Lucas prizes. Jesus in canon Jesus of Nazareth is the clearest early embodiment of the Chosen One pattern. His virginal conception marks direct intervention of the Cosmic Force (the same mystery later surrounding Anakin). His “miracles” are advanced Force expressions—Force Heal (restorations), Alter Environment (calming storm, multiplying loaves through providential manipulation), mind influence (exorcisms/command over unclean spirits). His teaching articulates Jedi first principles: non-attachment, mercy, service to balance.
August 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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An AI Overview that reads: Willem Dafoe is not in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but he has appeared in other Star Wars films, including The Last Temptation of Christ (1988).
August 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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This is who runs this account
A cartoonish image of a person with a red checkered t-shit, prominent buck teeth, blue eyes, and spiky rainbow-colored hair smooshing an ice cream cone into their own forehead, with blue skies and puffy white clouds behind them. Their expression is one of concern.
August 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Post an iconic duo
Two musicians sit on a bench on a sunny day in the shade. They are both middle-aged white men with grey and white beards and hair. On the left is David Grisman, holding a mandolin. On the right is Jerry Garcia, holding a guitar. There is a latticework wooden fence behind them and trees and shrubs behind that. They both wear dark blue t-shirts. Grisman's shirt says "DJANGO" on it.
August 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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A photo of an early personal computer called the Timex Sinclair 1000.
July 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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it's freaking david attenborough
June 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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May 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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¿por que no los dos?
May 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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There was a 1978 made-for-TV movie called The World Beyond that featured a golem creature made of mud. In one scene, they close a heavy door on the creatures arm, cutting off its hand, that then comes after them independently. I imagined that hand crawling up the side of my bed.
May 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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When I posted this picture years ago it was with the caption "Cat absorbing the discursive prose of David Foster Wallace via the process of osmosis"
A photo of a dark gray cat napping in a bookshelf with its head resting against a stack of books including "Consider the Lobster" by David Foster Wallace. The cat is very handsome. (You wouldn't know this from the photo, but the cat's name was Grisito, which is a probably inaccurate rendering of how you might combine the adjectival forms of "gray" and "little" in Spanish because he was the cutest little gray kitten when we got him.
April 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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@jillinois.bsky.social this made me think of you
April 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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See a Doc, post a Doc
A photo of the character Doc Cochran from the TV show Deadwood, played by Brad Dourif. He wears a battered and frayed black hat, glasses with small oval lenses and gold frames, and a mustache that droops down to the jawline on each side. His expression is wary and concerned.
March 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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A still from a Sesame Street video featuring an enormous golden capital letter I with several small workers bustling around it, rubbing it here, scrubbing it there, polishing the I so high in the air. One of the workers is atop a very long slender ladder.
March 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM