The Tolstoy Principle (and Dad "talks" to Daniel)

2007-01-20T03:24:29Z

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|date = July 29th, 2006
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|description = We made another proving science wrong, this time about the Tolstoy Principle (from Jared Diamond's great book... Guns, Germs, and Steel)... and my Dad decided to be annoying and have a "talk" with Daniel. Whatever :(
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Revver version: The Bandit by [[Starlight Mints]]
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| execprod = Miles Beckett, Mesh Flinders, and Greg Goodfried
| producers = Miles Beckett
| directors = Mesh Flinders and Miles Beckett
| vidplay = Mesh Flinders
| story = Miles Beckett and Mesh Flinders
| editor = Miles Beckett


| character1 = Bree's father
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| character2 = Daniel
| actor2 = Yousef Abu-Taleb
| character3 = Bree
| actor3 = Jessica Lee Rose
|Previous = Proving Science Wrong... with Lonelybeast and Danielgirl15
|Next = Daniel The Neanderthal
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'''The Tolstoy Principle (and Dad "talks" to Daniel)''' is the sixteenth video in the Lonelygirl15 [[List of Lonelygirl15 videos|video series]] and the third in the [[Proving Science Wrong (series)|Proving Science Wrong]] series.

==Transcript==
''(Bree is sitting cross-legged on the floor, redoing the picture board. Her dad opens the door to let Daniel in and we see him standing there with a white lab coat and a briefcase. After her dad closes the door, Bree looks up and says something inaudible to Daniel.)''

'''Caption: Dad almost caught me! (Good thing he doesn't know a webcam from a hole in the ground) K... Back to the video!'''

(''Bree is wearing what appears to be her dad's labcoat. Daniel is not in the room.'')

'''Bree:''' Today for our installment of ''Proving Science Wrong,'' our topic is going to be the Tolstoy Principle. Jared Diamond came up with this one. (''While Bree is talking, a caption that says 'Daniel and Dad left to "talk"' appears beside Bree'') The Tolstoy Principle basically states that domesticable animals are all alike, but every undomesticable animal is undomesticable in its own way. ''(sotto voce)'' That's a tongue twister... Horses and cows are pretty domesticable animals, right? (''Cut to Bree now holding up and reading from Jared Diamond's ''Guns, Germs, and Steel.) "Horses and cows provide their owners with meat, milk products, fertilizers, land transport..." (''Caption: 'They're still talking...' appears on right side of screen as she continues.'') "... leather, military assault vehicles, plow traction, as well as the germs that killed previously unexposed peoples."

''(Cut to Daniel fiddling with the picture board on Bree's door.)''

'''Bree:''' (''off camera'') Daniel, do you think you're more like a horse or a cow?

(''Bree is back on camera. Daniel is lying on the bed looking pensive, playing with P. Monkey'')

'''Bree:''' So. Since Daniel is being uncooperative, looks like we're going to have to disprove this one on our own. ''(Cut to Bree reading either from a website or a book.)'' "Used for leather." Well, I would never wear Daniel. But I guess he'd make a good throw rug. "Military assault vehicles." Well, I've never ridden Daniel into battle. So there you have it: the Tolstoy Principle, proven irrefutably wrong. (''Cut to Bree turning back to the camera from having glanced at a still quite pensive, subdued Daniel.'') And here we have a clearly, very domesticated animal. And yet... he's clearly incapable of performing any of the previously mentioned tasks.

'''Daniel:''' (''mumbles'') Who says?

(''Bree turns to glare at him, then returns to her normal position.'')

'''Bree:''' If you're keeping count, that's Bree: two, Science: zero.

''(Cut to Daniel still lying, still on the bed, still on his stomach, still pensive.)''

==Notes==
* In Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond calls this phenomenon the "Anna Karenina Principle," not the "Tolstoy Principle." Leo Tolstoy was the author of ''Anna Karenina'', but it is unclear why Bree doesn't use Diamond's name. Perhaps the Creators simply got mixed up.
* The way in which the clips of this video are presented makes it appear that the sequence of events in the video are not in proper chronological order. For instance, we see Bree's dad open the door in the very beginning to let Daniel in, but Daniel is not in the room in the next clip. Later, Daniel is in the room but we never saw him enter.
* How Bree got the lab coat is a bit of a mystery. When we see Bree's dad enter the room at the beginning of the video, he is holding a lab coat in his hand, but he leaves without giving it to Bree. However, in the next clip (which seems to have been actually filmed before her dad entered the room), Bree is seen wearing a lab coat, which is probably her dad's.

Aleister Crowley (video)

2007-01-19T04:12:49Z

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| name = Aleister Crowley
| number = 0048
| image = 14Hours.gif
| caption = "I've been up for like, 14 hours straight."
| blogger = Daniel
| date = October 11th, 2006
| url = [http://www.lonelygirl15.com/?p=78 lonelygirl15.com]
| description = I've been doing a ton of research about Aleister Crowley and Bree's ceremony. Weird stuff...
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| execprod = Miles Beckett, Mesh Flinders, and Greg Goodfried
| producers = Miles Beckett and Amanda Goodfried
| directors = Miles Beckett and Mesh Flinders
| vidplay = Mesh Flinders
| story = Miles Beckett, Mesh Flinders, Greg Goodfried and Amanda Goodfried
| editor = Miles Beckett
| song = Reworked Out Fine by MC Jack in the Box


| character1 = Daniel
| actor1 = Yousef Abu-Taleb
| character2 =
| actor2 =
| character3 =
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| Previous = Zodiac of Denderah
| Next = The Ceremony Is Tomorrow :)
}}
'''Aleister Crowley''' is the forty-eighth video in the Lonelygirl15 [[List of Lonelygirl15 videos|video series]].

== Transcript ==
''(Daniel is sitting at his desk, looking tired; he repeatedly rubs his eyes throughout the video)''

'''Daniel:''' I have been...on my computer for way too long. I didn't sleep last night, I was just...up. Some things [[Bree]] said in [[Zodiac of Denderah|her last video]] got me thinking and...I been doing research. First up, [[Denderah]]. So, it turns out the Temple she's talking about is a temple to [[Hathor]]. Hathor was a Goddess of all women, no matter their station in life. She was a goddess of fertility and she was associated with the flooding of the Nile. She...was a goddess of joy, motherhood, love... Ugh, this is getting me nowhere.

''(musical montage of Daniel reading and rubbing his eyes)''

'''Daniel:''' So, someone in the forum reminded me about the [[Aleister Crowley]] photo...in Bree's room. I Googled "Aleister Crowley" and "Hathor" together. Crowley translated Hathor to mean "mother of light". He considered her to be both sun and moon goddess and honored her so much that he named one of his Tarot cards after her. This gets ''really weird''. To Crowley, Hathor represented the sun and the passage from east to west through the sky. It goes on to describe a ritual that he designed to honor her. A person was to walk in a straight line, stopping to face the east at one end, and then walk back the way they had come and stop to face the west. I dunno, maybe I'm reading too much into this. You guys tell me, I've been up for like, 14 hours straight.

''(musical montage of Daniel reading, rubbing his eyes and playing with a pin art toy)''

'''Daniel:''' So...I just came across this article...1943...from a small town in Arizona. It's about a girl that had been [[1943 abduction|abducted]]. And the weird thing is it mentions Aleister Crowley. He uh... He had this house in town, and it was right around that time when the disappearance happened. But nothing ever came of it, because...he went back to England before they could even investigate. Bree, I don't know, I just... Look, I know you don't trust me at all right now, but... I need more time! This ceremony, it's coming up too soon.

==Notes==
* Many viewers have pointed out that "14 hours straight" is not a large amount of time for a person to be awake. It may be that Daniel has been awake for 14 hours longer than he usually is, or perhaps he meant that he'd been researching on his computer for 14 hours straight. Or maybe he just said the first thing that came to mind ("I've got like ten hours of homework") considering that he said "like 14 hours."

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