Posts by pollywog
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hah mark...im not worthy of being gated:)
The 3 'baskets of knowledge' are part of a series of gifts from a creator-god (I write 'a creator-god' because there are variant myths.)
are you talking here of IO ?
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BTW do you all know that the terminator and matrix were apparently one book written by a black woman whose script got jacked and split into 2 stories back in the 80's?
the terminator series runs forward the matrix backwards.
to put it simply. Neo sends back someone in time to father himself as john connor. the terminators win the war and enslave humans as human battteries including john connor and create the matrix to generate power to reproduce. agent smith is a T5.
what i think cameron does with this movie in continuing the remote accessed avatar theme of the matrix/terminator series is open up the possibility of bio engineering through pyschotropics the union of man, machine and the universe at large expressed in the 'box' that is pandora. terence mckenna would have loved this movie.
unobtanium would then be the naturally occuring element that powers the transformation and expands the consciousness as the spice melange does in 'dune' and opens up the possibility for interstellar travel.
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The "enlightened" white men (and Ellen Ripley) swooping in to save the noble savages from the evil white men?
its more about the 'polynization' of the white man who in trying to eliminate native culture by infiltration, coercion and military domination comes to accept the inherent superiority of indigenous culture:)
its the future we're hurtling towards. the acceptance of a hybrid accessing of genepools by technological means as opposed to natural selection and survival of the fittest expressed best in polynesian...ummm breeding rituals ?
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we did the champagne breakfast 3d pre screening here in nelson.
and as i said somewhere else here. its more of a polynesian movie with regards to the indigenousity theme than a native american one and could only have been made here or it wouldnt have been the movie it is.
it comes through in the notions of tangata whenua expressed by tall blue skinned' tattooed' people with flat noses. we belong to the land it doesnt belong to us. i thought the hongi was a nice touch. the fauna is NZ native bush imagined from pangean/gondwana times submerged in crystal clear polynesian waters. and what about them kauri trees ?
gotta wonder how the hero could remote control his avatar in the mountains if it played havoc with other electronic systems ?
plotwise it reminded me of Dune. now if david lynch reshot that in 3d and re imagined those planets...wow!
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God, when did I get so old...
...when you stopped feeling younger partners ?
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fuck civility...it's overrated. in real life my eyes glaze over, my ears tune to the background noise and i just wander off in mid sentence rather than suffer fools talking shit.
people think thats rude but fuck what they think. they dont realise if i say what i think to them about them that would be even ruder.
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sup mark. dont be frightened of the PA natives. their bark is worse than their bite:)
...and i've experienced the routine racism of chur chur in both the old boy way of doing business, the subtle jokes about doing 'maori jobs' and the classic 'go home nigger' yelled by the bogan as they fly past in their cars, even had a bottle thrown at us from a car once. seems theres more of an anti asian thing now cos i've heard both whitey and brownie tee off on the asian influx being the death of churtown.
i say learn to love the yellow man not just their women:)
you can guarentee that there wqs *never* a triple star in any way of maori esoteric thought ( we actually used to think in 7s.)
illuminated thought from the gods?as mentioned earlier, tanes 3 baskets of knowledge from heaven represented in the form of stars ?
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nah thanks... my oldest 3 kids are fluent in maori cos i put em all thru kohanga and kura kaupapa since day one but mainstreamed them for their senoir years cos the teaching standards weren't up to scratch at wharekura level.
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kinda crap Kai Tahu one
werd homeslice:)
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A sorry purveyor of reality, not nostalgia or mysticism.
jeez...what sorta maori are you ?