tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4934523737123172382011-04-22T00:16:33.147-04:00Joe Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02936495763289924271noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-493452373712317238.post-35982111966091435622008-11-14T13:34:00.005-05:002008-11-14T16:33:13.792-05:00

I hate musicals, they make me want to find a long pointy thing to pierce my eardrums and poke my eyes out. It's not the case with Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas, a masterpiece of atmosphere and animation. What makes Nightmare Before Christmas so revealing to me is the way it shows people inside out, with the monsters outside and the goodness inside. While our society advertises good

Joe Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02936495763289924271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-493452373712317238.post-3548891697963776032008-11-08T13:30:00.002-05:002008-11-08T14:30:26.043-05:00

From the all too real Japanese 'Seppuku' ritual to the futuristic 'Suicide Booth' Futurama fans learned about in the very first episode of the series, suicide always was a hot topic that leaves almost no one indifferent. Suicide is seen, after all, as murder's lil' sister.The rituals surrounding someone's death are not news. We humans give the death of other beings significance. It is a way for

Joe Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02936495763289924271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-493452373712317238.post-8649235542025570182008-11-07T13:50:00.003-05:002008-11-07T16:38:29.731-05:00

Was life simpler when you were a child? Maybe it looked like it. I would be surprised if you told me that your life before and your life today look the same to you. What changed? Some say adulthood begins with the arrival of real responsibilities. There may be another explanation.According to the Uncommon Knowledge psychology discussion forum, dissociation is "the unconscious process of

Joe Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02936495763289924271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-493452373712317238.post-23212438462426496742008-11-06T14:47:00.003-05:002008-11-06T16:10:35.494-05:00

Are you a smoker? I mean tobacco, not any other species of herbage's smoke inhalation. Tobacco means many things for our society. Tobacco has a big part in the occidental history, as proof of discovering America. To some cultures, tobacco is (or was) part of their customs and religious beliefs. Tobacco is also seen more and more as an evil we must banish forever, for the sake of good health. I am

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Congratulations to Mr. Obama and to everyone in the United States of America for another successful democratic exercise. Congratulations to Mr. Bush too, who survived being one of the most hated individuals on Earth all this time. You ol' tough bugger. Also, is Obama's victory speech a taste of the 44th United States of America's President going all Battlestar Galactica in the defense of the

Joe Beanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02936495763289924271noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-493452373712317238.post-4039406503561181102008-11-04T15:37:00.003-05:002008-11-04T17:29:25.525-05:00

Was life better before our time? Will the future make life better? Are we at the pinnacle of the humane society's potential right now? In all eras of our history, there was someone to promote the yes or the no answers to each of these fundamental questions. As for this very year of 2008, the echoes I hear seem to be three big 'NO' for each question. Let us have a view at the past, the present

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I enter the blogging community with little if no experience of this Y2K era phenomenon. This is more to me than just a new experience, it is also an experimentation. It is about two characters: Me the Writer and You the Reader. It is for me to learn about how I do facing the big open white page and how you react to the trail of ASCII characters I leave behind. How far will this trail go? How far

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