The Forgotten Monk

Life Lessons From Movies, Books and TV

Entries from December 2007

Happy Holidays Everyone - 12/25/2007

December 25th, 2007 · No Comments

From all of us at The Forgotten Monk to all of you. Happy Holidays everyone. We’ll be back after the new year. Make it a good one!

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Tags: Announcements

The Lessons of Love I learned from ‘Stardust’

December 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Yesterday one of my favorite movies is came out on DVD, Stardust. It was one of those films that didn’t get the press it deserved and wasn’t handled very well with its marketing.
They don’t make movies like this anymore; it had intrigue, love, humor, adventure, character growth, lots of heart and my one-day future […]

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Tags: Relationships

Top Ten Things I Learned From ‘The X-Files’

December 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Our main Monk Marvin has been busy this weekend. So Rick is here again and I took it upon myself to come up with a top 10 for the week. I had my 10 year reunion just a few weeks ago and I have been thinking of people who have come and gone […]

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Tags: Humor · Top 10

Clip of the Week: Starbucks Customer Pays it Forward

December 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Greensburg, Pennslyvania Starbucks. A woman pulls up to Starbucks drive thru and pays for her drink. Then she decides to buy a drink for the car behind her. He decides to do the same. A chain reaction occurred. It lasted two hours and consisted of more than a hundred cars.
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Tags: Clip of the Week · Inspirational

What Most Idiots Don’t Know about Fear of Failure

December 13th, 2007 · 3 Comments

“I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain” […]

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Tags: Inspirational · Personal Stories · Success

Life Lessons from the Movie ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’

December 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Hey Monks, this is Rick again. Marvin asked me to lend another helping hand. I just picked up Pirates 3, which lead us to write up a top 10 for the Pirates series. This is what we came up with. If you come up with any more, let us know.

Sometimes […]

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Tags: Humor · Top 10

The Rocky Story Told By Tony Robbins

December 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Sly Stallone makes up todays clip of the week. An amazing story of how he made Rocky a huge success.
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Personally I would have went for the first offer. I think anyone would be crazy not to. But, I hope […]

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Tags: Clip of the Week · Inspirational

Wives and Standards

December 5th, 2007 · 1 Comment

For those of you who’ve wanted me to be more personal in my blog here’s your chance to get to know me and my life better. Well, my wife is pregnant with our first baby. And she’s experiencing some pubic pain. We are planning on getting Mother-to-be Maternity Support. My mind’s […]

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Tags: Personal Stories

Top Ten Things I’ve Learned From Recent Video Games

December 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

Hello everyone.
I’m Leiandra from Zanderfin’s Wow “Casual” Raiding . I was a little hesitant when Marvin first asked me to post the top 10 things I’ve learned from World of Warcraft. I just couldn’t think of 10 things. So, I took the liberty of widening the category a bit and bring you.
Top Ten Things I’ve […]

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Tags: Humor · Top 10

Announcements 12-3-2007

December 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

A three announcements today.
* First off a winners name was drawn, currently I am making efforts to contact the reader so they can claim their prize. Once I get contact I will announce their name here.
* At the beginning of November I started at 12 readers. As of December 1, 2007 […]

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Tags: Announcements · State of the Blog