April 2010


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What is consciousness? Is it the “self”? Is it “me”? Basho argues no!

Posted by Basho on 21 Apr 2010 / 10 Comments

You are in possession of the one of the universe’s most mysterious objects. Your personal copy of this object differs in function only slightly from all the other similar objects in our solar system. It is the part of you that feels pleasure and yet it is also the part of you that knows pain. [...]



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Kick Ass Movie Review : Basho has a problem with this one

Posted by Basho on 14 Apr 2010 / 8 Comments

Kick Ass is a film that draws a line in the dirt and invites you to place yourself on one side or another. Or, rather, it hands you the stick and asks you to draw your own line. The super hero action genre is ripe for satire as Superman, Spiderman and Batman are leftovers from [...]



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The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ : Book Review

Posted by Basho on 06 Apr 2010 / 2 Comments

The first line of Philip Pullman’s novel reads: This is the story of Jesus and his brother Christ, of how they were born, how they lived and how one of them died. Despite the use of the definite ‘the’ in the first line of Philip Pullman’s new novel, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel [...]



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