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I did watch, The Bachelors last night and found it a fairly decent story about a father and son's grieving process after losing a wife and mother.
 
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I find that I just don't have much interest, even in stuff like the Marvel movies and shows that I would have been all over even a decade ago. My only real TV time tends to be my exercise time and with only 45 min., I find it easier to just pick stuff off Youtube (mostly music) than try to get into a TV episode that may be slightly longer than that or too short (sitcoms). In the end, though, it seems to be me losing some of my old tastes and not really finding new ones, though I do manage to get into stuff for short periods, then lose it again.
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its like you're becoming a different person
have there been any significant meteor activity in your area recently?
*cue Donald Sutherland screech*

(maybe there is something to be said for having to work to watch something? whenever ive been over at my aunt n uncles where they have netflix i find i have much trouble with choosing something to watch and then staying with it...)

Expecting Mendy to start wearing Cardigans and smoking Meerchaum pipes soon...
 
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Expecting Mendy to start wearing Cardigans and smoking Meerchaum pipes soon...
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Ewwww. Pipes. I spent about the first eighteen years of my life inhaling pipe tobacco (forget exactly when Dad quit), so never more.

Besides, a comfortable bathrobe and a glass of wine are more my style. :cool:
 
Letterman's new series on Netflix. Been pretty awesome, but who goes wrong with Clooney, Obama and Malala. I actually shed some tears tonight watching Obama. What a true gentleman and diplomat he is.
 
Whaoh! I just started watching a Netflix Documentary just out, about the Rajneesh cult commune in Antelope Oregon in the early 80's, called "Wild Wild Country". A Maharishi bought a huge ranch, and out of nowhere, 2000 people wearing red outfits moved in, to this tiny town, led by a motorcade of rolls royces, and walking in droves down the streets ... and towing in mobile homes, within a week or two. After that, weirdness unfolded. I'm just starting to watch. I didn't even know about this. Why isn't this bizarre bit of history better known already? Unless this is a "mockumentary" and I'm being fooled?... but the footage looks old, it looks authentic, the "then and now" people seem aged, and legit. There are several articles out about the show, and the history. Does anyone remember it? I'm surprised there wasn't movie about it a long time ago. Maybe there was and I missed that, too.
 
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Kimmio said:
Whaoh! I just started watching a Netflix Documentary just out, about the Rajneesh cult commune in Antelope Oregon in the early 80's, called "Wild Wild Country". A Maharishi bought a huge ranch, and out of nowhere, 2000 people wearing red outfits moved in, to this tiny town, led by a motorcade of rolls royces, and walking in droves down the streets ... and towing in mobile homes, within a week or two. After that, weirdness unfolded. I'm just starting to watch. I didn't even know about this. Why isn't this bizarre bit of history better known already? Unless this is a "mockumentary" and I'm being fooled?... but the footage looks old, it looks authentic, the "then and now" people seem aged, and legit. There are several articles out about the show, and the history. Does anyone remember it? I'm surprised there wasn't movie about it a long time ago. Maybe there was and I missed that, too.
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Imaginary domain of ancient insubstantial attributes of human proto hysterics? It is said that fear and anger best drive tempests, pots and tea parties ... transcendent nonsense that some can see through and others don't ... thus occult? Tis a tight thick bunch ... near orthodox ... dox being information extraction ... and thus doxies ...

Phonetically do-Chez .. smile ... it'll pass over like time ...
 
I just finished watching the whole Wild Wild Country documentary series. It's staggering...and the amount of footage they had covering important moments and events in the commune itself was also incredible. Spooky. And I'd never heard of Rajneesh Purim or the Sannyasins - or the Bhagwan, from India, who later became known as Osho, until his death. His business partner and criminal mastermind, Sheela - her pack of followers/ conspirators - thousands of people lived in this "utopian" (though full of crime and spying and drugging, unbenounced to most of the community) commune in Oregon - they literally took over and renamed a town (with their own paramilitaristic police force) - and others like it around the world. They went from wearing shades of red to white clothing when the guru changed his name to Osho after he too was deported back to India. The former wife of the producer of the Godfather became his assistant after Sheela fled and was later arrested, served time, and then deported. A few other famous people were also followers, and it looks to me like it influenced the overall New Age "spiritual but not religious" movement.

Still surprised I never knew anything about them. Neither has anyone I've asked, including those who were in their prime when it happened. I went on a family road trip, as a kid, to Oregon. I think it was the summer when all of it was coming to a head and was big news. We were in the same town where a suspected deliberate food poisoning outbreak occurred - thought to be perpetrated by Sannyasins. I remember being in the town, near the river dam. I guess we missed that. Never knew a thing about it. Don't remember scores of people dressed in red and purple and orange. This was a big 4 year saga.
 
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Watched the move Kodachrome on Netflix last week....made me cry.
If you had a Dad that was a giant jerk, this is the movie for you.....I thought it was well done for a Netflix movie.

 
Watched season one of Netflix's Lost In Space series.

Liked most of it quite a bit. Loved the new Robot character. Like the new takes on the Robinsons. Find the new iteration of Dr. Smith to be so transparent I can't believe that anybody fell for her scheming. Seriously, the writing for this character is so shallow that there is no way that you cannot see clearly that she is a sham.

I mean, you know from the original series and the later movie that Smith has ulterior motives. Why would you go out of your way to broadcast that when the rest of the characters are being given much more depth.

Anyway.

"Danger Will Robinson" still works. And when this Robot decides something is dangerous you know you have a huge problem ahead.
 
Interesting. I didn't realize there was a new Lost in Space series. It might be worth checking.

I watched a couple of episodes of Father Brown last night. I enjoyed it.
 
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I just finished watching the whole Wild Wild Country documentary series. It's staggering...and the amount of footage they had covering important moments and events in the commune itself was also incredible. Spooky. And I'd never heard of Rajneesh Purim or the Sannyasins - or the Bhagwan, from India, who later became known as Osho, until his death. His business partner and criminal mastermind, Sheela - her pack of followers/ conspirators - thousands of people lived in this "utopian" (though full of crime and spying and drugging, unbenounced to most of the community) commune in Oregon - they literally took over and renamed a town (with their own paramilitaristic police force) - and others like it around the world. They went from wearing shades of red to white clothing when the guru changed his name to Osho after he too was deported back to India. The former wife of the producer of the Godfather became his assistant after Sheela fled and was later arrested, served time, and then deported. A few other famous people were also followers, and it looks to me like it influenced the overall New Age "spiritual but not religious" movement.

Still surprised I never knew anything about them. Neither has anyone I've asked, including those who were in their prime when it happened. I went on a family road trip, as a kid, to Oregon. I think it was the summer when all of it was coming to a head and was big news. We were in the same town where a suspected deliberate food poisoning outbreak occurred - thought to be perpetrated by Sannyasins. I remember being in the town, near the river dam. I guess we missed that. Never knew a thing about it. Don't remember scores of people dressed in red and purple and orange. This was a big 4 year saga.
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You got me watching it.
I never heard of the cult or all the stuff with it either. In some ways though, it doesn't surprise me too much, cults were this hush-hush thing that our parents generation seemed to be concerned about but very little was talked about other than signs that a teen may be involved with a cult. Growing up, I knew very little about the Jonestown either. I had at least heard of it. There was a fair bit of confusion in my mind where in the world that was - the US was often in mind, but had you asked me when I was 20 the name of the place I would have said Johannesburg :nerd:. It wasn't until I was an adult, past the age of 25 that I could tell you that what went on was mostly murder, not suicide, I simply never heard any details before that. Before the age of 18 I basically knew about the phrase 'drinking the kool aid' connected to it and the place started with J (Jonestown still doesn't sound 'right' in my mind) and it was a cult. Even now, I realize that what happened in Waco Texas got conflated in my mind at some point with Jonestown too - probably just heard both of them with little details and it was the 'big cult story' in my mind.

I had heard of Osho before, just in the last few years and only under that name. It was in the context of dynamic meditation and in a bit of an 'out there' way, as either a very good treatment for depression if not an outright cure. That was it though. I think the word cult might have come up, but I knew nothing to the extent.
 
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Though, I don't think they were a death cult or anything, overall, in their teachings (in fact most of their following remained obliviously happy and naive to the goings on at the top) they were up to some nefarious things.
 
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Though, I don't think they were a death cult or anything, overall, in their teachings (in fact most of their following remained obliviously happy and naive to the goings on at the top) they were up to some nefarious things.
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Maybe not a death cult, but I get the feeling way more harm was going on than what was going on. Just one aspect - I saw very few shots of children so far. You would think in a group where sex is so free and encouraged there would be more children born within it. Or I missed that they really promoted condoms for the members.
 
Having children was apparently not encouraged - birth control must've been. If they are free of diseases and only having sex with each other (they did stay pretty isolated in the commune) then the risk would be lower for them. And this was before AIDS really hit the general population. The (cult) movement began in India 10 plus years before Oregon, in the late 60s - "free love" peak.

They did have a public school, which was controversial because the state - probably rightly - felt there was too much religious indoctrination there, to be a legit public school. And I am just reading now about kids knowing (hearing/ seeing) what the adults were up to - openly - which would be considered child abuse.

Yeah, I don't think the commune was utopian, and it gives me the creeps - but the members - especially earlier on - felt they were neither harming or doing harm, were not interested in doing harm to outsiders, but some got caught up in the leaders' bid to protect the cult from being dismantled. A few of them still don't think they were in the wrong.
 
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Watched it.....my kids were young at the time and I read the news a lot.....I have never heard of it before.
I do remember the Beatles going to India and meeting with the Maharishi.
 
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