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They had to normalize it because it isn't normal.

My girlfriend liked it but she watches the Great British Bake Off and Gilmore Girls. I thought it sucked. I read the first five books. First the Witcher and now this. Shitty sets. Shitty acting. Half-assed costumes and seemingly no attempt to get us into the world. It's a soap masquerading...

Read the next two in the trilogy and then tell me how you feel. I've never had the chance to talk about the books with anyone.

Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade This is the third book by Mercia Eliade that I have read, and it was not the most interesting work. This book is an exhaustive cataloguing of shamanic practices amongst Siberian tribes, their methods of achieving religious ecstasy...

Dionysus: Myth and Cult by Walter F. Otto This book is primarily two things. On one hand it is a great resource for detail concerning the rites of the Cult of Dionysus. On the other hand it is a look into the mindset of ancient people. Too often, the author claims, we look at old religions...

Mysterium Coniunctionis by Carl Jung This is not a book. It is a tome. And it is also a slow burn. Almost 600 pages of actual text, the 'point' of this tome (as with most of Jung's writings) only coalesces as you reach the end. But what an interesting end! The body of the work busies itself...

Yet he (or Jessica) says they could take the family atomics and go rogue. They don't do that. Leto Atreides had two options and chose to face the bull.

Man I used to love that band when I was in highschool and college. The Old Duke died displaying 'bravado' in a bull fight. He knew the bull was dangerous but he went into it anyway, because he needed people to see him face down the danger and win. Duke Atreides is the exact same way. He...

Went and saw it instead of going to some dinner with my girlfriend. Priorities. I'll preface this by saying I have read Dune multiple times. I liked this alot, but I would give it a 8.5/10. I thought it was pretty faithful to the book, but overall was simply a rough sketch. Everything is...

Dames can't be adventurers!

Get a written quote. Not always dishonest. I work as an apprentice plumber. Something ALWAYS goes wrong or there is more to the problem than we thought. Always. Always takes more time and material.

Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity by Robert Moore General crux is that inside every person is a Shadow (the Dragon of the title). Every day is a struggle against the Dragon. If you lose and let it possess you, you will project its evil energy onto other people...

That is what this all is. People think their Egos are their entire personalities. They adopt personas to wear on their ego, akin to different jackets. "I am Anti-Racist. I am Pro-Choice. I am a Democrat." Then they begin to identify their entire personality with these personas. When these...

Tell her to go to church.

Ken Follet writes historical novels that are considered somewhat intellectually heavy.

You cannot enjoy the weekend unless you have work to make it sweet. Too much free time is bad for a man.

The Archetype of Initiation by Robert L. Moore I enjoyed this book. The crux of it is that in order to deal with new challenges in life and grow as a person, you must 'die.' Effectively you have to experience an emotional or mental breakdown, at which point you must accept that you have...

I used to work in a used bookstore. Can you describe the book?

Is a taco a sandwich?

The Crisis of the Modern World by Rene Guenon. In this short but dense book, Guenon tackles the problems of the modern world. They include profane science, humanism and materialism. Science now only exists for the sake of science, it no longer tries to find any great truth in the universe...

Why are you guys posting so much disgusting shit in here? Go to church you heathens.

This guy is a hack fraud.

I work with a guy who lives on a quiet street in a rural county outside of town. He told me there are a bunch of longhaired rednecks that whip by on motorcycles. Or at least they did. Apparently he went out there and threw a baseball at them and they stopped. I'm inclined to believe him. He...

Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert I reviewed this in 2019, and did not give it a favorable response. My opinions have changed since then. Armed with more life experience, and the knowledge that Herbert incorporated Jungian ideas into this books, I re-read Messiah. And I enjoyed it more than I did...

Working at an apartment complex on the outskirts of town. Done some work here in the past. Cockroaches and trash everywhere. Bunch of beat up cars and beat up people. No one is happy that this is where they've ended up. God ignores this place. Water leaking down from one apartment into the one...

It's in the first appendix.

You are never go to get rid of all the horrible people in the world. So you don't try to make the world a perfect place. You try to make yourself strong enough to deal with an imperfect world. You will get stepped on at some point in your life, but it is a form of strength to get stepped on...

Psychology and Alchemy by C.G. Jung Since learning about alchemy in middle school, I took it as just one more example of how people in the Middle Ages were so much dumber than Modern people. But this book changed that. Jung provides two things with this book; the first is a solid look at...

World has always been broken. There is no Heaven on Earth. There never has been and there never will be. How do you deal with that? You need Inner Strength in order to deal with it. That's where the morals come in. If you are fighting a war, you might come to a point where you have to...

Interesting that you mention this because I think it also ties in with Jung's ideas. In one of his books he writes that if you repress a piece of yourself for too long, it will come back violently. I think that Baron Harkonnen, as the Overlord of Arrakis and the representation of Unchecked...

Dune by Frank Herbert ** spoiler alert ** I believe this is the fourth time that I have read Dune. The first two times were when I was a teenager, and I liked it for what I thought it was; a sci-fi adventure story. The third time I read the book I liked it for the byzantine politics that...

I got the impression he was poking fun Woke artists. Yeah I'm 28 about to be 29 and I realized in the last two years that the Internet is just bullshit. All you really need is a moral framework to help you deal with the world, and then a goal to work towards. You should build your opinions...

Working at a job site and they got a couple of dogs here. One is a little puppy. While we were on break I was playing with the puppy and this older guy tells me about how they do dog fights here in the south. Told me how he saw a guy take a puppy just like the one I was playing with and threw it...

Alright buddy. Good talk.

I don't understand.

Just finished episode 6 of this and decided to stop in to see what you guys think. I think I might be Milk Toast or something. My favorite part is the Elder Superman who is defending traditional conservative beliefs in the face of a new generation. The Quest for the Island is interesting...

The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World System 1830 to 1970 by John Darwin. Just what it says on the tin; a comprehensive overview of the British Empire, in its various forms. I was surprised, early on, to learn that the British Empire was not a Top Down creation spurred on...

The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy by Mircea Eliade An interesting book. For the first half I really didn't understand what the point was. Perhaps I missed it, but I didn't understand why Eliade wrote this until I got to the last chapter. But by that time, I...

Aion by Carl Jung Very interesting book. But I will say, if someone wanted to get into reading Jung, I don't think this is the book that I would start with. This is the book you read in order to understand the concept of the "Self" in more depth. For that purpose, it is a very effective book...

The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia by James Palmer. There is little to say about this book. I have gleamed, from the internet, that some people hold this man up on a pedestal. I don't understand why, after reading this history...