Don't Panic
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So, there is already a movie and book bin thread. But those are for "good" movies and books. But what about movies and books that transcend all of the just "good" works, and are part of your essential watching/reading? This thread is to compile all the timeless classics. If there were going to be a vault with limited but undefined size, what movies and books would you want preserved for all of time? This isn't a compilation of just what you like. It's to compile works that are accessible to anyone. Otherwise, i would be spamming Dragon Ball, but it's fairly inaccessible to those who haven't watched any of it, so it won't go on my list. Please separate the categories. Movies are self explanatory, with books being classed as fiction, non-fiction and philosophy. TV show category is also good. If there need to be more categories, i'm all ears. Or eyes, since this is a text medium. If you've already posted your list and want to make additions, just edit your existing post to make a more cohesive personal list. Write all of your timeless masterpieces, and don't worry about having repeated entries by other people. The more prevalent a certain work is, the more it speaks for its value. If you see something on someone else's list, and you wholeheartedly agree with that addition, add it to your own. My list (so far): MOVIES:12 Angry Men The Matrix Trilogy Groundhog Day Shaolin (2011) Fearless BOOKS:FICTION:Dune by Frank Herbert Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 1984 by George Orwell The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Three Body Problem trilogy by Cixin Liu Siddhartha by Herman Hesse Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams NON-FICTION:How to Make Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking PHILOSOPHY:Meditations by Marcus Aurelius History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell Tao Te Ching by Laozi TV SHOWS:Black Mirror Silicon Valley Avatar: The Last Airbender The Simpsons Futurama Breaking Bad The Green Room with Paul Provenza Rick and Morty The Boondocks Seinfeld "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
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Posts: 1285 Joined: 23-Jun-2018 Last visit: 22-Feb-2022
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Workingmans Dead, American Beauty, Axis: Bold As Love, Electric Ladyland, DSOTM, Animals, The Wall, Wish You Were Here, some of my favorite timeless masterpieces. olympus mon wrote:You need to hit it with intention to get where you want to be! "Good and evil lay side by side as electric love penetrates the sky..." -Hendrix"We have arrived at truth, and now we find truth is a mystery- a play of joy, creation, and energy. This is source. This is the mystic touchstone that heals and renews. This is the beginning again. This is entheogenic." -Nicholas Sand
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Long live the world in peace, prosperity, and freedom from suffering
Posts: 1299 Joined: 24-Sep-2018 Last visit: 07-Apr-2020 Location: I see you Mara
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MOVIES: Contact Before Sunrise Before Sunset There's Something About Mary Kingpin Stuck On You Gone With The Wind Godfather I and II Meet Joe Black Misery Groundhog Day Mean Streets Scarface Alien Legends of the Fall Dance with the Wolves Solaris (1979) Goodfellas Casino A Bronx Tale Once Upon A Time In America Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Disney's Beauty and The Beast The Shawshank Redemption E.T the Extraterestrial Silence of The Lambs Forest Gump Castaway The Deerhunter Rocky Braveheart BOOKS: FICTION: The Complete Plays and Poems of Shakespeare By Reason of Insanity By Shane Stevens One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest by Ken Kessey Four Past Midnight by Stephen King Different Seasons by Stephen King Pet Semetery by Stephen King Skeleton Crew by Stephen King Graveyeard Shift by Stephen King Revival by Stephen King The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith ELEVEN: Short Stories by Patricia Highsmith The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe Frankenstein by Mary Shelly The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde The Deep Blue Good-bye by John D. MacDonald The Decievers by John D. MacDonald Begginers by Raymond Carvard The Seducers Diary by Kierkigaard The Witches by Roald Dahl The Count of Montecristo by Alexandre Dumas The Postman Always Rings Twice by John M. Cain. The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells NON-FICTION: Scripts People Live by Claude Steiner Born To Win: Transactional Analysis With Gestalt Experiments by Muriel James The Complete Memoirs of Jaques Casanova de Seingalt translated by Arthur Machen Napoleon, by Vincent Cronin. Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare by Paul Colinvaux Murder Machine by Gene Mustain and Jerry Capecci A History of Warfareby John Keegan The Face of Battle by John Keegan The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule Fatal Vision by John Mcginnes PHILOSOPHY: Think on These Things by Krishnamurti. On The Shortness of Life by Seneca (Runner up, On Anger) Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle. (Runner up Poetics) The Will to Doubt by Bertrand Russell Meditations by Marcus Aurelius TV SHOWS: Breaking Bad The Tommyknockers Todo lo que quiero es que me recuerdes siempre así...amándote. Mantay kuna kayadidididi~~Ayahuasca shamudididi. Silence โ Shiva โ eternal Purusha. What we have done is establish the rule of authority in silence. Silence is the administrator of the universe. In silence is the script of Natural Law, eternally guiding the destiny of everyone. The Joy of Giving โกSee the job. Do the job. Stay out of the misery.โกMay this world be established with a sense of well-being and happiness. May all beings in all worlds be blessed with peace, contentment, and freedom.This mass of stress visible in the here & now has sensuality for its reason, sensuality for its source, sensuality for its cause, the reason being simply sensuality.
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DMT-Nexus member
Posts: 3090 Joined: 09-Jul-2016 Last visit: 03-Feb-2024
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Movies.
Shadowlands
Der untergang
Natural born killers
The doors
Das leben der anderen
The life of brian
The meaning of life
Monty python and the holy grail
The adventures of baron munchhausen
The fisher king
The wolf of wall street
Close encounters of the third kind
Sleepy hollow
Charlie chocolate
Terminator 2
Interstellar
Gravity
The prestige
Inception
All of the harry potter movies
The people against larry flint
Hard rain
The edge
Fucking amal
North by northwest
Amsterdamned
And all movies from alex van warmerdam
Tinker tailor soldier spy
The day of the jackall
Get shorty
Pulp fiction
The big lebowsky
Mars attacks
Ed wood
I'll come back with the rest later.
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Posts: 3090 Joined: 09-Jul-2016 Last visit: 03-Feb-2024
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Man...i forgot mary poppins
Fargo
The life aquatic with steve sizou
The grand budapest hotel
Basic instinct
The matrix
Offscreen
I don't know about the lord of the rings trilogy...the art direction is awesome, but the character development and some of the acting is a bit flat. I still love it though.
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Long live the world in peace, prosperity, and freedom from suffering
Posts: 1299 Joined: 24-Sep-2018 Last visit: 07-Apr-2020 Location: I see you Mara
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Mars Atacks is really something. It was too cold for me to love it but after I came back from my first dmt trip I remembered that movie and said "Aha! Thats where the weirdness from that movie came from." And I am speaking about the "collective unconcious" or whatever one wants to call it, which is the source of creation and subsequently art, these being the expressions of the universe. Todo lo que quiero es que me recuerdes siempre así...amándote. Mantay kuna kayadidididi~~Ayahuasca shamudididi. Silence โ Shiva โ eternal Purusha. What we have done is establish the rule of authority in silence. Silence is the administrator of the universe. In silence is the script of Natural Law, eternally guiding the destiny of everyone. The Joy of Giving โกSee the job. Do the job. Stay out of the misery.โกMay this world be established with a sense of well-being and happiness. May all beings in all worlds be blessed with peace, contentment, and freedom.This mass of stress visible in the here & now has sensuality for its reason, sensuality for its source, sensuality for its cause, the reason being simply sensuality.
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DMT-Nexus member
Posts: 2854 Joined: 16-Mar-2010 Last visit: 01-Dec-2023 Location: montreal
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2001 A Space Odyssey โNuff said.  JBArk is a Mandelthought; a non-fiction character in a drama of his own design he calls "LIFE" who partakes in consciousness expanding activities and substances; he should in no way be confused with SWIM, who is an eminently data-mineable and prolific character who has somehow convinced himself the target he wears on his forehead is actually a shield.
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Like a stone in the shoe...
Posts: 228 Joined: 19-Mar-2019 Last visit: 20-Jun-2024
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Movies:
Diary of a Country Priest
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Careful with this one)
Stalker
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise
Pickpocket
The Flower of the 1001 Nights
Fanny and Alexander
Cries and Whispers
Dogville
The Color of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova)
Books:
The Castle, Franz Kafka
Joseph and His Brothers, Thomas Mann
War and Peace, Leon Tolstoy
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Flowers of Evil, Charles Baudelaire
The Chants of Maldoror, Isidore Ducasse (Comte de Lautremont)
A Rebours ("Against Nature" or "Against the Grain" ) Joris Karl Huysmans
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Long live the world in peace, prosperity, and freedom from suffering
Posts: 1299 Joined: 24-Sep-2018 Last visit: 07-Apr-2020 Location: I see you Mara
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Kafka's The Castle rocks. Todo lo que quiero es que me recuerdes siempre así...amándote. Mantay kuna kayadidididi~~Ayahuasca shamudididi. Silence โ Shiva โ eternal Purusha. What we have done is establish the rule of authority in silence. Silence is the administrator of the universe. In silence is the script of Natural Law, eternally guiding the destiny of everyone. The Joy of Giving โกSee the job. Do the job. Stay out of the misery.โกMay this world be established with a sense of well-being and happiness. May all beings in all worlds be blessed with peace, contentment, and freedom.This mass of stress visible in the here & now has sensuality for its reason, sensuality for its source, sensuality for its cause, the reason being simply sensuality.
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Dreamoar
Posts: 4711 Joined: 10-Sep-2009 Last visit: 21-Nov-2024 Location: Rocky mountain high
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True Masterpieces? Book: Walden Album: Dark Side of the Moon Film: The Animatrix TV Show: The Maxx
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DMT-Nexus member
Posts: 3090 Joined: 09-Jul-2016 Last visit: 03-Feb-2024
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Books
Fiction
The assault, harry mulisch
The evenings, gerard reve
The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, douglas adams
Max havelaar, eduard douwes dekker
Fear and loathing in las vegas, Hunter s. Thompson
Siddhartha, herman hesse
The electric cool-aid acid test, tom wolfe
Non fiction and philosophy
Godel Escher Bach, douglas hostadter
Descartes' error, antonio damasio
The self comes to mind, antonio damasio
The philosophical writings of Descartes volume 1&2, john cottingham, robert stoothof, dugald murdoch
Global ethics. Seminal essays, thomas pogge and keith horton
Jihad vs mcworld, Benjamin r. Barber
Chimpanzee politics, Frans de waal
Good natured, Frans de Waal
Plato complete works, edited by John m. Cooper
Tractatus logico-philosophicus, ludwig wittgenstein
Choices, Michael d. Resnik
Long walk to freedom, nelson mandela
Introducing buddha, jane hope
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Dreamoar
Posts: 4711 Joined: 10-Sep-2009 Last visit: 21-Nov-2024 Location: Rocky mountain high
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Another album: Unplugged in New York
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Posts: 554 Joined: 22-Apr-2018 Last visit: 09-Feb-2020
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Brave New World Revisited - Aldous Huxley
The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
DMT: The Spirit Molecule - Dr. Rick Strassman
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Lonesome Traveler - Jack Kerouac
Tristessa - Jack Kerouac
The Holy King James Bible - Various
Nag Hammadi library - Various
The Kybalion - Various
The Mystery of The Cathedrals - Fulcaneli (this one is extra interesting since Notre Dame just burned recently)
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Posts: 218 Joined: 14-Apr-2018 Last visit: 05-May-2024
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BooksYi Ging, in the traduction of C. Javary Several works by Aleister Crowley The will to power by Friedrich Nietzsche Tabula Smaragdina by Hermes Trismegistos MoviesSamsara de Ron Fricke Arthur Dee was one of the greatest alchemists of all time, not likely to his dad, I forgot his name, this small James Bond sorcerer working for the queen of a... Hail Arthur!
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