by Balsam 54 Replies latest social entertainment
:I do not choose to be manipulated by others opinions and teachings. I choose to think and explore. I like movies like this that encourage that.
Trouble is, it appears this movie is extremely manipulative, and worse, it's manipulative in much the same way the founders and leaders of the WT society have been manipulative. I applaud thinking and exploring, but why not do it on a much higher intellectual and honesty level than this film?
:There is no Cult behind this film.
How do you figure that?
http://www.jracademy.com/~jtucek/science/what.html
The way they expand the effects of quantum physics into the macroscopic world is pure rubbish.
From what I read, it is expanding the effects of physics into the microscopic world that is quantum physics. Since quantum physics is the microscopic world, how can it be expanded into itself?
And why watch a movie about something you so obviously disagree with?
Target
6of9,
Your Christian media is the only one saying it is from a cult. Nothing more than Christianity fear of people thinking and rejecting the bible as the only source of truth. These film makers are not connected to any cult.
I get the impression that you don't like people thinking differently than you do. Don't think the world is big enough for those of us who appreciate the film? Typical JW thinking.
Thanks Target, for that link it is interesting.
If we focus on the movie as if there is some TRUTH in it, then we are duped into a box of beliefs, much as we were when we supported the Jehovah's Witness blathering as true. However, we can employ such a movie (whether it's information is accurate or not) to help us out of our restrictive beliefs and open our minds to a vaster understanding and sense of reality.
For me, reading Quantum Physics was significant help in letting go of very limited and finite concepts of God. It helped shift attention on some old book with it's cartoon deity out-there and some reward in the future, to the reality of here and now.
The value is not so much in a thing, as how it is used.
j
Target,
I said "macroscopic" not "microscopic." The strange quantum physics effects (uncertainty principle, quantum entanglement, etc) are only seen in the microscopic (atomic and subatomic) world.
It is hogwash to try and expand those effects into the world we interact with day-to-day.
And why watch a movie about something you so obviously disagree with?I didn't know I would disagree with it until after I watched it!
This movie was fun and interesting. The quantum physics aspects are thought provoking, but much of it is metaphysics.
Since it's harmless, enjoy!
If you want to watch films beneficial to your intelligence and psyche, watch "Penn and Teller's Bull@#$%" instead. Then you will have the defensive tools needed to guard against crapola like "Ramtha".
Or read "The Demon Haunted World" by Carl Sagan.
The universe is a pretty amazing place, without having to add metaphysical mumbo jumbo to it...
Interesting film put out by members of the Ramtha Cult, a group that gets New Age advice and wisdom from a 35 thousand-year dead warrior who is channeled by a woman by the name of J. Z. Knight.
Really?! I didn't know that.
Okay, I tried to watch this film for the first time tonight but basset hounds and kiddos prevented me from listening (I could barely hear!). So I await another, more quiet day.
So Megadude, are you saying that this film is nothing more than a mix of New Age bullshit and new science? Okay I know I'm resurrecting an old thread, but the above referenced kiddos prevent me from seeing grown up movies when they come out. So I'm stuck until they show up on DirecTV.
From what I saw, I was intrigued, particularly about the idea that what we think has an influence on the reality of our lives.
If you liked What The.. then an even better movie is The Secret. It is more credible with a similar message. It is also the first movie using new streaming technology so that you can watch it over the Internet. Go to www.thesecret.tv
I highly recommend it.
I enjoyed the movie very much and found it quite interesting. We all view our "reality" through the filter of our belief systems and our past experiences. Anyone who doesn't see that is not a very keen observer of the events in their life. Scientists have long understood that the observer affects the outcome of the experiment. Albert Einstein accepted the truth of Quantum Physics, he just didn't like the implications of it very much. That great philosopher Flip Wilson operating in the persona of "Geraldine" used to say, "What you see, is what you get!".
