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Shogun is so fucking brilliant

It gives you the feeling of an alien movie, because just like Blackthorne you're suddenly thrown into a dizzyingly unknown world

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أغلب المرات، ماريكو ما تترجم الكلام بشكل حرفي. تلكاها تغيّره بما يلائم عادات وثقافة كل لغة وبنفس الوقت دتشتغل بصفتها دبلوماسية ونص المرات تخفف من حدّة الكلام لما تترجمه.

Tbh, it beats the movie 'Arrival' in this aspect. And that movie was literally about translation.

Stoics and Epicureans. — The Epicurean seeks out the situation, the persons, and even the events that suit his extremely sensitive intellectual constitution; he forgoes the rest—that is, almost everything—because it would be too strong and heavy a diet. The Stoic, by contrast, trains himself to swallow stones and worms, glass shards and scorpions without nausea; he wants his stomach to be ultimately insensible to everything the chance of existence pours into him—he likes to act out his insensitivity before an invited audience, which is precisely what the Epicurean gladly eschews—for he has his ‘garden’! Stoicism may well be advisable for those with whom fate improvises and who live in violent times and depend on impulsive and changeable people. But someone who more or less expects fate to allow him to spin a long thread does well to take an Epicurean orientation; people engaged in work of the spirit have always done so! For it would be the loss of all losses, for them, to forfeit their subtle sensitivity in exchange for a hard Stoic skin with porcupine spines.

— The Joyful Science, aphorism 306

Stoicism is always required to balance an artistic sensibility

على مِثلِ ليلى يَقتُلُ المرءُ نَفسَه
وإنْ كنتُ من ليلى على اليأسِ طاويا

خَلِيلَيَّ إنْ ضَنُّوا بليلى فقَرِّبا
ليَ النعشَ والأكفانَ واستغفِرا ليا

— قيس بن الملوح

What? The ultimate goal of science is to create the most pleasure possible to man, and the least possible pain? But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

— The Joyful Science

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Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. Most do not fully see this truth. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy.

— The Road Less Traveled, by M. Scott Peck

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

— Carl Jung

“And what is the use of a book, thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?”

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“Narrative medicine” is a branch of medicine that deals with narrative competence. Narrative competence is defined by Rita Charon as, “the ability to acknowledge, absorb, interpret, and act on the stories and plights of others”. Though primarily defined to improve the doctor-patient relationship, a “good story” or a narration is also a powerful and effective way of learning medicine.

It is well known, that “stories” and “art” help a person remember better compared to plain text. The famous idiom:

A picture is worth a thousand words

has stood the test of time. We have modified this adage to say:

A story is worth a thousand pages of a text