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What If You Are One of the Vampires in ‘Daybreakers’?

By shian under Movies/TV | Your Comment | Tags: animal welfare, craving, discrimination, domestication, humanity, karma, monster, rebirth, Vegetarianism & Veganism

Warning: This is a proper vampire movie, where vampires adhere to the classic rules. E.g. they do not glitter with fairy dust in the sun without bursting into flames during non-twilight hours! (To avoid confusion in monster lore, Twilight’s ‘vampires’ shouldn’t be called so in the first place!) What if the situation is in reverse? [...]



Phantom Shopping

By shian under Odds & Ends | Your Comment | Tags: craving

A Tit for a Tat (87)
Tit: What do you wish to buy? Can I help you find it?
Tat: It’s okay. I don’t know what I want either.
Tit: How can you find it then?
Tat: When I see it, I will know.
Tit: This sounds self-contradictory!
Tat: This is called shopping!
Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/01/a-lousy-teacher
Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2010/01/a-question-of-time



What Sex?

By jianxie under Movies/TV | 3 Comments | Tags: contentment, craving, discrimination, sex, sexuality

The award-winning movie ‘Humpday’ has a thought-provoking semi-serious yet semi-funny premise… Is it possible for two heterosexual guys to have homosexual sex? Wouldn’t it not be an amazing feat that is ‘mind over matter’? Spoiler ahead! The two guys who tried to go through the dare decided that they couldn’t after talking and ‘trying’ it [...]



Daughters of Death

By zweiya under Vegetarianism & Veganism | Your Comment | Tags: aversion, craving, lust, Mara, Vegetarianism & Veganism

I saw her holding the catalogue like a new found treasure. As she sat down in the train, happily, she started to flip through the catalogue of Death. But Death is cunning, he portrayed death in the nicest way possible, with no blood or gore, but with utmost exquisite beauty. Death (another name for the [...]



Upgrade is Downgrade?

By shian under Odds & Ends | Your Comment | Tags: contentment, craving

Want the latest handphone?
Want the newest car?
Want the limited edition?
Want the special model?
Less you want, and
more contentment you’ll get.
Upgrade your craving, and you’ll
downgrade your happiness.
Less is more.
So lessen your craving.
Upgrade is downgrade.
So upgrade your contentment.



New Temples, New Gods, New Offerings

By zweiya under Odds & Ends | 2 Comments | Tags: consumerism, contentment, craving

There’re some major changes going on along one of our busiest streets in town. Strange-looking supposedly avant-garde buildings are replacing the old ones. Out of curiosity, we took a walk from the new Orchard Central to Orchard Ion, to witness part of the whopping 40 million dollar revamp of the stuff on Orchard Road.
Old buildings [...]



Phantom : Special Meal

By shian under Odds & Ends | 4 Comments | Tags: craving, suffering

Hee: I wanna eat something special for dinner.
Haw: But where is something special?
Hee: I don’t know.
Haw: And what is something special?
Hee: I don’t know either.
Haw: Looks like you’re letting yourself be haunted by a unknown meal from nowhere in particular.
Hee: Craving leads to suffering!
Haw: Yes, the more you crave, the more you suffer!



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