{"id":1009,"date":"2006-10-12T19:52:27","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T19:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2006-10-12T19:52:27","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T19:52:27","slug":"groonkly-bit-the-diamond-that-cuts-through-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1009","title":{"rendered":"Groonkly Bit: The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"withquote\">\n<p class=\"withunquote\">&#8220;Composite things are like dreams, fantasies, bubbles, thoughts. Like a dewdrop and a flash of lightning. A new dress and a burning tire. Grains of sand and sinking ships.   A shadow of a statue and an entry in a diary. A brain tumor and an ice cream sundae. They are thus to be regarded.&#8221; &#8211;The Kid, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aeon_flux\">Aeon Flux<\/a> &#8220;Chronophasia&#8221;   <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m re-experiencing Aeon Flux.  Not that uninteresting movie attempt. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aeon_flux#Television_series\">animated series that appeared on MTV<\/a>. I never saw the movie. I couldn&#8217;t see Charlize Theron adding any kind of deepness to the Aeon character or story.<\/p>\n<p>From what I gather in this <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_chung\">Peter Chung<\/a>(Aeon Flux&#8217;s creator) <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/monican_spies\/44607.html\">interview<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/monican_spies\/\">Monican Spies<\/a>, the movie fell far from the original series. Again, no big surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Above is an altered version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diamond_Sutra\">Diamond Sutra<\/a> that appeared in the series episode &#8220;Chronosphasia.&#8221;  I didn&#8217;t know it was from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buddhistinformation.com\/diamondsutra.htm\">Diamond Sutra<\/a> til I watched the commentary.  I only knew that I liked the hell out of what I heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Composite things are like dreams, fantasies, bubbles, thoughts. Like a dewdrop and a flash of lightning. A new dress and a burning tire. Grains of sand and sinking ships. A shadow of a statue and an entry in a diary. A brain tumor and an ice cream sundae. They are thus to be regarded.&#8221; &#8211;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}