fight club

No Return Ticket…

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When i watched Forrest Gump for the first time, I was clearly amazed by the movie. There were so many inspirational parts in the movie that it became in many ways an important part of my life. One of the sequences in the movie had Forrest a young confused man take to running non stop across the continent of North America. In the movie the run is shown under the light of a search for spirituality & answers.

Ever since i watched Forrest Gump I have always wondered on the rewards of simply running away into the distance. I always looked at it and was amazed at this man’s ability to run into the wilderness without thinking twice about what the next turn had in store.

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Guts…

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A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to product to risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book… A book is cheap to print and bind. A book is as private and consensual as sex. A book takes time and effort to consume – something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it’s difficult to call books a ‘mass medium’. No one really gives a damn about books. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades.

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These are the places that only books can go.

This is the advantage that books still have. This is why I write.

– The Guts Effect by Chuck Palahniuk

Found this amazing Essay by the author of Fight Club. The essay had me hooked as it explained a phenomenon that happened at the readings of a certain short story by Chuck Palahniuk. The phenomenon is covered in the Wikipedia article of the author:

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Answer…

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Tyler Durden: My dad never went to college, so it was real important that I go. Narrator: Sounds familiar. Tyler Durden: So I graduate, I call him up long distance, I say “Dad, now what?” He says, “Get a job.” Narrator: Same here. Tyler Durden: Now I’m 25, make my yearly call again. I say … Read more

Knowing…

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I watched The Bucket List a couple of days ago. I thought the movie was enjoyable and had loads of important messages. One particular conversation that caught my attention was when Carter mentions the two questions that Egyptians believed would be asked before entry to heaven. The two questions where

1. Did you in this life experience happiness?
2. Did you in this life bring happiness to others?

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