Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Groundhog Day: You are Phil Connors

    Groundhog Day: You are Phil Connors

    At some point, some of us, just like Phil Connors, start to realize that every day is the same. At first we’re shocked, horrified. We hear that alarm playing the same music at it did the day before and we wonder at first if we’re in some horrible dream. But no, it’s real. That fat…

  • Mary Poppins:  The Real Heroes

    Mary Poppins: The Real Heroes

    It eats us up that we aren’t Mary Poppins. Able to change the world with a song. Without a hint of difficulty, being a good people, never getting upset but also never being pushed around. Being so perfect.

  • Mary Poppins: Mary Poppins the Feminist

    Mary Poppins: Mary Poppins the Feminist

    There’s another warrior, another feminist in this movie, although we might not realize it at first. I’ll give you a hint: she’s a nanny. She likes to fly using an umbrella. Jump into chalk drawings.

  • Mary Poppins:  Bert the Mensch

    Mary Poppins: Bert the Mensch

    Want to know what it means to be a man? You need look no further than Bert (and all his chimney sweep pals).

  • Crushed Wheat

    Crushed Wheat

    You’re a wheat stalk. Chilling in a field. Flowing with the wind. Just sitting there, soaking up the sun, not doing any work. Life is good.

  • The Book of the Month: The Artist’s Way

    The Book of the Month: The Artist’s Way

    Today, we start a new feature: The Pop Chassid Book of the Month. This month’s featured book: The Artist’s Way by Julie Cameron. This classic book, written by a true Pop Chassid, is all about reaching deep within and releasing our inner Artists, our True Selves, from their cages.

  • Inception Part Last: Was It a Dream?

    Inception Part Last: Was It a Dream?

    Who knew a spinning top could cause so much disturbance in the galaxy? Who knew the last shot of a movie could cause people to scream at the screen, to complain loudly, to light up the Internet with blog posts, infographics, so much more?

  • Inception Part 4:  The Hope

    Inception Part 4: The Hope

    Luckily, just as with Cobb, we have some help. Help that, if we will only be willing to be aware of it, listen to it, and use it, will allow us not only to fight off our Voice, but to go even further, to help create a world of absolute beauty and truth.

  • Inception Part 3:  The Mal Within

    Inception Part 3: The Mal Within

    The truth is that there is more than one Mal, as becomes apparent the more we make our way through Inception. There is the real Mal. The “lovely” Mal. The one who “grew old” with Cobb, sharing a beautiful life, a lovely world with her husband. Fully devoted, fully in love and always ready to…

  • Inception Part 2: On Totems and Tefillin

    Inception Part 2: On Totems and Tefillin

    Our Hashem, he’s willing to buy airlines for us, willing to save us from dozens of anonymous Cobal Engineering cronies, even willing to reunite us with long lost family. All we need to do is just stick to the game plan. Stick to the mission.

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