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AMOUR

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The loss of the person whom you love and cherish the most in your life is an agony beyond imagining. Yet, to allow them to endure interminable suffering, is the most brutal cruelty, and insantity.  If you truly love someone, the only sane and merciful act is to free them from their pain.  This pain may be imprisonment within an unwanted relationship, or from a crippled and decaying body.  

In Life, and in Death, Freedom is more important than Love.

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Amour (pronounced: [a.muʁ]; French for “Love”) is a 2012 French-language drama film.  The narrative focuses on an elderly couple, Anne and Georges, who are retired music teachers with a daughter who lives abroad. Anne suffers a stroke which paralyses her on one side of her body. The film was screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Palme d’Or. It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards, and was nominated in four other categories: Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role (Emmanuelle Riva), Best Original Screenplay (Michael Haneke) and Best Director (Michael Haneke).  At the age of 85, Emmanuelle Riva is the oldest nominee for the Best Actress in a Leading Role.  At the 25th European Film Awards, it was nominated in six categories, winning in four, including Best Film and Best Director. At the 47th National Society of Film Critics Awards it won the awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress. At the 66th British Academy Film Awards it was nominated in four categories, winning for Best Leading Actress and Best Film Not in the English Language. Emmanuelle Riva became the oldest person to win a BAFTA. At the 38th César Awards it was nominated in ten categories, winning in five, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress.

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WHAT IF ALIENS BEHAVE LIKE US?

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Once in awhile I read some cutesy, Pollyanna-ish story about how wonderful it will be when we finally make contact with an “alien intelligence” or “extraterrestrial visitors” from another star system.  Wouldn’t that be lovely?  We could all sit down and have a nice chat about our respective cultures.  Or, perhaps we can invite them over for tea and show them our photo albums of our vacations and the grandkids.  Lovely, just lovely.  Right?

Well, let’s just hope they don’t look like the photos below!  Furthermore, let’s hope they don’t treat us like we’ve treated each other during the history of Earth.  Take Columbus, for example: he and his men raped, murdered and enslaved every native citizen they found in Haiti when they landed in the “New World”.  The British Empire massacred and enslaved millions of Africans.  The Romans Emperors invaded, stole, raped, pillages, plundered and massacred millions of Europeans.  The Catholic Church murdered millions of “infidels” just because they didn’t share the same philosophy of “love and understanding” as the Pope.  International oil companies (using their government armies) invade, murder and steal land to secure gas and oil rights all over the world.  International Bankers force millions into poverty and starvation to personal financial gain.  It never stops.

So, the question is this:  What if aliens turn out to behave like us?  (It’s a rhetorical question…).

ALIEN TAKING A LUNCH BREAK AT THE “EARTH CAFE”.  WHO’S FOR LUNCH?

A TYPICAL EXTRATERRESTRIAL “EXPLORER”

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Humpback Whale Shows AMAZING Appreciation After Being Freed From Nets

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Michael Fishbach and his friends were in the Sea of Cortez on Valentine’s Day this year when they found a humpback whale floating in the water. It appeared to be dead, having been trapped in a fishing net for a long time. Fishbach discovered that she was still alive — but only barely. The worked hard for an hour with only one knife to cut the net away and free her. They were ultimately successful.  (Skip ahead to 6:20 to see the whale’s joyful reaction.)