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If you’re easily outraged, You can be easily manipulated!

all filmmakers are politically Hitlerian. to tell a person what to do, with any authority, is intrinsically fascist. the sole exceptions to this are Clint Eastwood (two takes; doesn’t say action but “ok…when you’re ready”) and…I dunno… Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

In The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor goes to hell, Alyosha goes to church, Ivan debates God, Mitya goes to prison, and the reader has an existential crisis and becomes indecisive about whether to go to therapy after 800 pages.

when Dostoevsky said: “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”

“His Only Friend” (1871) by Briton Riviere

Watched #Dhurandhar2‌TheRevenge. Calling it propaganda, doesn’t do justice to this movie. It is a sophisticated psy-op. Aditya Dhar includes sequences(demonetization) that are openly aligned with BJP. Dhurandhar uses Modi as a bait. The usual suspects couldn’t resist the bait , and jumped to dismisss it as lazy propaganda - as expected. They sensed “victory” and amplified it, as expected. That’s how they were sucked into the chakravyuh. Then the phase 2 started. It leverages 2 psychological phenomena 1. Cunningham’s law 2. Generation effect Cunningham’s law - the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question, but to post a wrong answer. This is because people aren’t motivated to search for truth, but they love to correct other people’s mistakes. People tend to remember what they unearth, better than what is fed to them. This is called Generation Effect (as the conclusion is “generated” from their own mind). The viewers think “wait, is that real ? Let me search about it”. They ask “why are the critics only talking about what he said about Modi /DeMo ? What about the ruling government of the time ?” That’s the chakravyuh pulling them in harder. Deep within this chakravyuh (or rabbit hole if you will) is the kill -shot : Congress era NatSec debacles. Gen Z which has the attention span of a gold fish gets hooked by a 3+ hour long bait. They then seek to debunk it for the thrill of proving something wrong. They set off on a truth-seeking adventure, they find Congress era rage fuel instead. They are shocked. Sadly for the INDI folks, Dhurandhar might ideologically salt the young minds. Dhurandhar didn’t seek to feed lies. It tricked people into searching for truth. It’s the ultimate anti-propaganda.

At this point, why not? Put the controller down and step up.

Your visual cortex burns 44% of your brain's energy budget. Turning off the lights in the shower is the fastest way to slash that load to near zero. Your brain is 2% of your body weight but burns 20% of your total energy. Visual processing alone eats almost half of that. Every photon hitting your retina triggers a cascade of neural signaling that demands oxygen, glucose, and ATP at rates higher than almost any other cognitive function. When you kill the lights, you're removing the single largest energy load on your cortex. That freed-up metabolic capacity gets reallocated. This is where it gets interesting. A 2022 study from the Laureate Institute for Brain Research measured what happens when you strip sensory input from anxious patients. High-frequency heart rate variability, the gold standard marker of parasympathetic activation, increased significantly compared to controls. Blood pressure dropped. Breathing rate fell. The nervous system shifted from sympathetic dominance to parasympathetic mode within minutes. The warm water adds a second mechanism. Core body temperature rises during the shower. When you step out, temperature drops rapidly. That cooling signal triggers melatonin production and primes the circadian system for sleep. Layer darkness on top: no photons suppressing melatonin through the retinal ganglion cells, no blue-light signaling to the suprachiasmatic nucleus that it's still daytime. The shower is doing three things simultaneously. Reducing cortical energy demand by eliminating visual input. Activating the parasympathetic nervous system through sensory reduction. Triggering thermoregulatory sleep signaling through the heat-then-cool cycle. A $0 float tank that takes 10 minutes.

@SandeepMall मन तृप्त हो जाता है यह खाकर

कभी ये combo खाया है।

@bhargava_06 Want to add Kashi Darshan by Geeta Press Gorakhpur.

Best Books on kashi 1. kashi panchkroshatmak mahatmya by kedarnath vyas 2. Varanasi vaibhav by pandit kubernath sukul 3.kashi mahatmya by swami sivananda 4. Kashi temples by p.v. venkatraman 5. Pilgrimage archetype by rana pb singh 6. Banaras by Diana l eck

you need to be slowmaxxing. you need to be reading long, fat books. you need to be making 48-hour chocolate chip cookies. you need to spend hours watching wildlife, you need to spend 15+ min making your coffee. you need to breathe in and breathe out. you need to be slowwwwwwwwwww.

BC our Milk Trucks are not this clean 😭

Land of Ravan has more conscience than Ram Rajya!

Kashi and its inhabitants are immune from any destruction due to any calamity/ultimate प्रलय. Its an assurance that Vishwanath has himself given to the inhabitants of this city. प्रलय की समय भी दुबेगी न काशी, हमे आश्वासन मिला है ये प्रलयंकर से

The place where the modern day Kaal Bhairava temple stands was the site where Brahma's 5th head finally dropped off from Vishwanath Mahadev's hand (Bhairava form) - freeing him of the sin of chopping Brahma's head. The only place in the entire creation where Shiva got freed from the baggage. Vishwanath then came walking down south towards Ganga and finally got one with this land, where now Bibi Razia mosque (original Kashi Vishweshwar destroyed by Qutub-udin-Aibak in 1194 CE).

Varanasi was earlier an abode of Vishnu's form Bindu Madhav. The temple of BinduMadhav was touted to be as magnificent as the Jagannath Puri in a structure resembling a Swastika. So much so that in the 1660s, Aurangzeb earlier ordered the demolition of Bindu Madhav and constructed Alamgir Masjid on its ruins at modern day Panchganga Ghat, Ghasi Tola and then the काशी विश्वेश्वर at Gyanvapi (built by Todarmal in 1585) (Today a makeshift Bindu Madhav temple stands beside it run by the Patwardhan marathi brahmins). काशी विश्वनाथ की महिमा, a popular rendition about the history of this city cites स्कंद पुराण and काशी खंड - "कभी बिंदू माधव रहे, इस नागरी के भूत, फिर शिवाजी को सौप दी कशी भेट स्वरूप".

Tom Cruise Oscar campaign starting early with a good old nostalgia bait so og Tom Cruise is fresh in people's minds

In a world full of Andrew Garfields, Rachel Zeglers, and Mark Ruffalos, be a Ryan Gosling.

The problem with modern TV is that the gap between seasons is so long that no one cares about anything anymore. It's been a year since Severance season 2. In the olden days we would already have season 3 by now. But because there's such a massive gap everyone just loses interest.

Your hack to wake up earlier than you plan to