BOB IGER BREAKS SILENCE ON SELLING LUCASFILM! As DISNEY Star Wars Tensions Grow…

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Date: August 18, 2023

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“With bob iger making bad decisions at disney lately for star wars, marvel and more due to the cost containment plan….one major development has to do with bob igers response to the biggest question of all that is selling lucasfilm and the current situation with star wars. With the ahsoka series arriving next week and the acolyte show arriving in 2024 by kathleen kennedy….the star wars situation begins to get even trickier.”

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Excerpts from Paidika: Lewis Thompson, a spiritual journey (part 1: overview)…

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August 18, 2023

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[Part 1 is a Paidika editor overview of his life.]


Lewis Thompson circa 1940

Please forgive any mispronunciations.
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Lewis Levien Thompson was born on January 13, 1909, in Fulham, England; he had two younger sisters.

He spent his childhood in north London and received a good conventional education in private schools, but did not distinguish himself academically. He was obviously a sensitive child and photographs show a handsome and imaginative boy with a relaxed smile and hands of quite exceptional sensitivity. He had a good singing voice and became such a keen pianist that at one time he intended to become a professional musician. He continued to play throughout his life and was especially fond of Bach, Chopin and Debussy. His mother had some Irish blood; his father, partly Jewish, came from Gosport, ran away at eighteen to join the fifth Dragoon Guards, served in India and was later at the siege of Ladysmith. Lewis and his sisters were brought up as Protestants.

In early adolescence he became friends with a Woodford draper who was a Buddhist, and began to read the great scriptures of the East. His interests were now distancing him from his family and in his teens he lived independently in London on a small legacy from a relative.

During adolescence Thompson underwent the first severe crisis of his life. This was the turning point upon which his whole future life revolved. He writes of it only indirectly in frequent references to the poet Rimbaud whom he discovered in 1927. This, he says, was the first important event of his life, not only because he admired Rimbaud, but because, at the age of twenty-one, Rimbaud had rejected literature. “Somewhere,” writes Thompson, “between eighteen and twenty, I believe I too experienced all that is implied in Rimbaud’s rejection of literature.”

The crux of the matter was a celebrated remark of Rimbaud, his wish to “Possess the truth in one soul and body”, and his bitter recognition that this is an impossibility; hence the only solution for the poet of consistently passionate integrity is that he abandon all attempts at such embodiment as poet. The true state of Poetry can only be attained in a Christ-like state – what Thompson calls Perfect Action. “Rimbaud represented very directly the fact that since the medieval belief in ‘sainthood’, embodiment of Poetry in Itself is hardly possible in Europe. The symbol remains without the reality; hence the partial and this paradoxical nature of all Western art and its increasing self-consciousness and self-exercising. In Rimbaud the problem became completely conscious.” Like Rimbaud, Thompson experienced to the full the profound anguish of a youthful artist certain that the truth cannot be told, and that by telling only half he has told an untruth. In recognition of this he now destroyed the manuscript of a book on which he had worked for five years.

Something irreparable had occurred. Never again could he bring himself to indulge in conventional “literary creation” for its own sake; he would write solely as a form of spiritual exercise the utmost sparse and urgent communication conceivable.

In 1930 he began to travel. He attended the gypsy festival in Les Saintes Maries de la Mer, wandered through the Provence of Van Gogh’s visionary canvases and went on a pilgrimage to Goethe’s house in Weimar.

A small but significant event was a performance at Marseilles Opera House in April 1932 by Uday Shankar, the great classical Indian dancer and older brother of sitar virtuoso Ravi. It was Uday Shankar who tipped the balance in favour of Thompson’s desire to visit India.

“My reading in Hinduism, Buddhism and the Chinese tradition from about my thirteenth year made it easy for me to feel from the beginning that in the West one could find very distorted and fragmentary pictures of what in the East was clear, classical and complete. Thus, as soon as in my inner life things came to full crisis, the natural movement was at once to India.” On July 26, 1932, he left Europe from Cardiff with no means to support himself once he had disembarked; he did not return.

For twelve years he travelled almost constantly in South India, making short trips to Ceylon and northwestern India, without ever undertaking work for remuneration or ever having any means of support other than through the munificence of friends. He came and went as he pleased and was moved only by the absolute subjectivity of his inmost needs. “My life is entirely a transition; I don’t exist at all. I have no place to sit down.”

It is hard to imagine now how unconventional Thompson’s way of life would have appeared in the days of the British Raj. An Englishman in Indian dress was a very rare bird indeed in the remote country places which Thompson favoured. But an Englishman who did not so much appear a diligent scholar of Indian religion and philosophy as one who lived and breathed their essence – this was a source of astonishment, dismay, or hostility.

Very neat in appearance, his few possessions carted from place to place in a single tin trunk, he would live in simple rooms off friend’s bungalows surrounded by gardens. His diet was extremely frugal, and for long periods tended to be quite inadequate. His room was always impeccably tidy, a few well-chosen objects and fabrics creating an atmosphere of seeming luxury, sensuousness, repose. For long periods he lived with fishermen on the beach at Madras, but his taste and elegance would not allow him any sloppiness about his person or the way he conducted his life. He never became addicted to temple India; he rarely practised yoga or any kind of devotional exercises; his friends were legion.

For the latter part of his life, however, Thompson held a single position. Through the help of his friend Sanjiva Rao, a distinguished educator from a well-known Saraswat Brahmin family, it was arranged that he live as writer-in-residence and librarian at the Rajghat School, Benares. Sanjiva Rao, a personal assistant to Annie Besant and a close friend of Krishnamurti, had founded the school on behalf of the latter and as a personal favour to the former. His appointment led to Thompson’s final departure from South India towards the end of 1943 and residence for the remainder of his life in the ancient city where the Buddha had preached his first sermon.

Thompson was given room and board at Rajghat School, acquiring a reputation as the most daring, articulate, and outspoken member of staff the school had ever had. He tried to introduce the Ranganathan classification system to the library, but since it is the most complicated ever devised, he had little success.

Thompson’s journal describes how, in his last years, he wrestled with declining health and the increasing effort it took him to tackle his creative task with sufficient energy. In May 1949, having been in Bombay at a friend’s house to recuperate from heat sickness, he returned to his responsibilities in Benares. Nearly everybody he knew had left the city for the hills to escape the heat. He tried to find lodgings now, but all he could discover was an attic roofed with corrugated iron. The temperature was 115 degrees Fahrenheit (47 degrees Centigrade). He was found wandering, dazed, beside the river – it was noon, and the onset of sunstroke was already affecting him. He went to bed with a high fever. He was quite alone, save for the brief visits of a servant with food and drink.

He wrote a Iittle. He died alone on June 23, 1949. He was cremated by the Ganges and his ashes were scattered over the river he loved.

Soon after his death his friend, Dehen Bhattacharya, mailed Thompson’s most immediate and accessible work, his poems, to Edith Sitwell, then at the height of her fame. “You have sent me a poet of genius whose loss is immeasurable,” she cabled. “All we who care for poetry have indeed suffered a heart-breaking loss. I could not, at first, believe my eyes when I read Thompson’s poems. My brother Osbert said to me, ‘At last’. He meant that at last a poet of genius had been discovered.”


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Enid Blyton novels being HIDDEN in libraries in bizarre new woke driver…

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August 18, 2023

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“Enid Blyton wrote hundreds of books in her career between 1922 and 1968. Her internationally-admired works include the Famous Five, Secret Seven and Noddy, and more than 600 million copies have been sold.

However, her novels have been removed from library shelves in the English county of Devon and stored in back rooms over concerns that the language used in her books is “outdated” and could offend readers, despite the council stating it has no policy on trigger warnings.

Dr Byrn Harris, of the Free Speech Union, said he was “bemused” that Blyton’s famous stories were being treated as “dangerous and subversive samizdat”. He added: “Public libraries … by law must provide a ‘comprehensive and efficient’ service. Deliberately holding back certain works and making them less accessible might fall short of that standard, especially if the reasons for doing so are of dubious relevance – for instance, because the librarian finds those works subjectively offensive.”

COMMENT from SUBMITTER:

The opinion piece ‘The Battle for the Soul of the Library’ from the New York Times last year (https://archive.li/Zzduz#selection-311.0-311.38), highlights the ‘Woke Librarian’ phenomenon: “On the left, politically one-sided collection building by avowedly nonneutral librarians would amount to book banning by other means, more insidious for being less obvious than parents with pitchforks. As conservatives capture school boards, I expect examples of this backdoor form of book banning to increasingly come to light, exacerbating an already fraught situation. Ultimately, librarians who work to balance a library’s holdings will be far more persuasive advocates for intellectual freedom than those with a political ax to grind.”

I was given this novel back in the 80’s titled “Friend”…It was written by Diana Henstell. It’s a horror novel…and I really liked it.

Wes Craven created a monstrosity which was allegedly based on this novel. It was called Deadly Friend.

…Loved the novel…Despised the movie…

A few years back it finally dawned on me…that a Kindle version of this novel might be under the name of the movie, because I had never been able to find it under its original title…and sure enough…there it was…

Novel summary:
Boy genius meets abused girl
Boy genius has homemade robot smashed by bullies
Girl is murdered by alcoholic father
Boy genius with friend steal girls body
Boy genius puts robot computer into girls brain
Girl starts murdering people
Boy genius tries to control and conceal girl
Boy genius ultimately fails

In one section of the novel, the boy is with the girl in the attic…and he’s observing her…In the novel it talks about him squinting his eyes, to make her seem almost normal again…and it references his notions of living with her into adulthood…

One line that seared itself into my teenage memory…paraphrasing…

…”He could almost imagine fucking her”…

In the novel, this is a boy of like…twelve…possibly thirteen…the girl small, and maybe a bit younger…

…That line in the novel was completely absent from the Kindle version.

It’s not that I did not see that line again, which so much bothers me…as it is the knowledge that somebody went out of their way, to censor this novel. That should not have happened…It is offensive, that this happened.

I hate censorship…Every fucking public thing these days, is all about catering to the absolute least tolerant minds…And It Makes Me Sick.

Humans and their experiences are not all pretty packages, tied up in ribbons and bows…

…Representing the rude and primal, is fundamental to the whole fucking point.

You think about all the stuff that’s being intentionally hidden these days…and the real damage that’s being done, by all this fucking censorship…

…It keeps people ignorant and controlled…It strips people of their voice and publicly acknowledged humanity.


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Mike Lindell Humiliated By Jimmy Kimmel During His New Symposium…

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Date: August 18, 2023

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“MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was absolutely humiliated by Jimmy Kimmel on the first day of his new symposium where he is supposed to be laying out “God’s plan” to save America. But Jimmy Kimmel didn’t show up to the event, nor was he calling in – the humiliation came from Lindell accidentally playing a clip from Kimmel’s show where he was roasting the pillow salesman. Things didn’t get much better for Lindell after that, as Farron Cousins explains.

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https://www.rawstory.com/lindell-mishap-at-summit/

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So Mike Lindell, founder and c e o of MyPillow this week is hosting yet another, uh, symposium of sorts where he had teased us about a month and a half ago that he was going to reveal the plan that God himself or herself had given to him to save democracy here in the United States. So yesterday, Lindell took the stage and, uh, you know, was prepared to tell everybody how he personally, through God, of course, is going to save the United States. And, uh, unfortunately for, for the Pillow man, Jimmy Kimmel had other plans. Now, it’s not that Jimmy Kimmel showed up there or that Jimmy Kimmel called in. It’s that Mike Lindell apparently played the wrong video, and instead of showing us how he’s gonna save America, turned it to a video of Jimmy Kimmel making fun of him. Here’s what happened. Take a look.

This summit is all about hope and the plan to secure our elections immediately. I want you, I want you to watch this video and see if y’all remember this. We’re attacking his power grid. No, no, no. This is the wrong one. This is the wrong one. Hold on. Well, that’s coming.

Um, yeah, I, I’d say we should totally trust the guy who can’t sort through his own video files to show us that voter fraud. 100% exists in the United States, right? I mean, the guy can’t keep his own PowerPoint in line, and we’re supposed to believe him when he tells us that he has all of this cyber evidence, the cyber gauge, you’re doing this, we got it all. We’re gonna, um, yeah. So kudos to Jimmy Kimmel for doing absolutely nothing, but still managing to completely disrupt Mike Lindell’s symposium. Um, I gotta tell you, I, I am a little disappointed. I was really hoping we were gonna get to know God’s plan to save the United States, but Mike Lindell actually did tell the crowd that he is not going to present any evidence of voter fraud at this little symposium. So that’s a little disappointing, right? I mean, you know, that’s kind of his thing. But he told everybody at the start of it, you know, I’m not presenting any new voter fraud evidence. I’m not even gonna do that because I’ve already done plenty. Right? He’s like, I’ve already proven that, so I don’t need to do it. I’m just gonna tell you how to save democracy. And for more on saving our democracy, here’s Jimmy Kimmel. ’cause I don’t know how to run a computer.

How anyone in this country takes this man seriously blows my mind. Now, I know if you’re watching this, obviously you don’t take Mike Lindell seriously. I think it’s fairly obvious at this point that I don’t take him seriously. But the sad reality that we have to face is that there are plenty of people who do, there are plenty of people in the United States of America today that look at Mike Lindell and they say, there is a man who is saving our country. There is a man that has exposed rampant corruption across the board. There is a man who is the very future of this country itself. That is the most terrifying part. Obviously, throughout human history, there have been weirdos, right? There have been wackos, there’s been the village idiot, and it’s always been relegated to like that one individual, you know, screaming on the street corner.

Everybody’s like, ah, yeah, that’s, uh, that’s old Joe. Everybody knows him. You know, he is, he’s, uh, not harmful at all. He is just sitting there yelling. But today, it’s not just people screaming on a street corner because it’s people that actually have money and power that have become the village idiots. It’s those types of people that have the large followings on social media. They have it, you know, on, on, on YouTube. They don’t have to go out and look like a lunatic on the street corner because they can now do it from a nice posh studio. They’re still yelling crazy crap at you all day, but they just look professional. Now while they do it, the village idiot trope has now been elevated, and unfortunately millions of Americans every day buy into what those village idiots are telling them. 15, 20 years ago, and all the time before that, these people were easy to ignore.”

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