In the movie ‘The Cave’, a parasite takes upon host humans, gradually taking over their bodies and minds entirely. A team of deep cave divers realise their leader was infected by this parasite, when they got trapped in a deep underwater cave. It made me wonder whether I’m a parasite for [...]

Language is an interesting tool.
As much as it expresses, it can also limit…
when words seem to be in want
to say what you really want to say.
As Alan Wallace mentioned recently,
language can illuminate or obscure experience.
Just because there is no word for guilt in Tibetan,
doesn’t mean Tibetans never experience guilt.
How do you name your demons
when you [...]

Best words of wisdom from the third Shrek movies, by Arty:
Just because people treat you
like a villain, or an ogre or just some loser
doesn’t mean you are one.
What matters most
is what you think
of yourself.
If there’s something you really want,
or someone you want to be,
the only person standing in your way is you.
There’s no need [...]

A deal with the ‘devil’ appears good,
so that it will be tempting enough to sign it,
but will never come to any long-term good,
because it is a deal with the ‘devil’ after all,
with the ‘devil’ in the missed details,
the fine print of guaranteed long-term harm.
Any agreement
with your inner demons
is a deal with the devil.
- Anonone
(The Buddhist [...]

‘A Serious Man’ is a seriously quirky yet enjoyable award-winning black comedy that centres on the nature of faith in a man’s life, which became chaotic in multiple ways for no apparent cause on his part – despite trying his best to be a ’serious man’. Here is some of its dialogue and [...]

A Tit for a Tat (75)
Tit: What is that suspicious-looking cat doing?
Tat: Looking at us suspiciously!
Tit: Is it because he thinks we are suspicious?
Tat: Or is because he is guilty of something?
Tit: How would I know?
Tat: So should we look suspiciously at him?
Tit: But that might make him more suspicious of us!
Tat: He shouldn’t [...]

In ‘Hellboy: Darkness Calls’ by Mike Mignola and Duncan Fregredo, Igor Weldon Bromhead invokes the demonic Ilsa Haupstein, binding her to his command. Knowing that name gives him power over her. I used to be fascinated by the concept how naming the evil is able bring about control of the named. Here is how it [...]

From ‘X-Men: Messiah Complex’ by Ed Brubaker et al, are these files by Cyclops -
File 27: The X-Men – The X-Men have always defended both mutants and humans, so that humans could see that, like them, there were good mutants, as well as bad…
Comments: As many X-Men fans know, the ongoing theme of mutant discrimination [...]

In the movie ‘Blood: The Last Vampire’, it was suggested to Saya (the half-vampire human) by her teacher that (vampirical) demons have no souls (in the sense that they have no conscience and are thus not redeemable or worth sparing), that ‘heaven’ put them in our world to test our virtues. Now, how virtuous can such [...]

After collecting about a dozen ‘Batman Black & White’ statues, which are released periodically into the market, I decided to give up. Okay, lest you mistaken, these are really statues worthy of showcasing – individually hand-painted porcelain ones – not tiny plastic action figures. They cost about SDG$100 each. I started collecting them because they [...]