{"id":3571,"date":"2008-07-31T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/07\/the-latest-dharma-initiative-video\/"},"modified":"2008-07-31T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T14:14:00","slug":"the-latest-dharma-initiative-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/07\/the-latest-dharma-initiative-video.html","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Dharma Initiative Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The latest <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Dharma<\/a> Intitiative video was shown at ComicCon, and there are several bootleg recordings of it on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Comic Con &#039;08 Dharma Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dn_dNsaz-AA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m currently on a computer without speakers, and so I\u2019m grateful that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buddytv.com\/articles\/lost\/lost-analyzing-the-new-comicco-21546.aspx\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">BuddyTV has a rundown<\/a> on the contents of the video. Apparently it makes even clearer that we have a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/who-lost-temporal-cold-war.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">time war<\/a>\u201d going on (as someone from the future already revealed to me a while back). Obviously the power to know the future, and\/or to change the past, is one that people would fight, kill and die for.<\/p>\n<p>It is nice that the internet and video games are being taken more seriously by the makers of TV shows and movies, as ways of continuing the story outside of the films and episodes themselves. 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