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 S. Darko (2009)
IMDB rating: 4.10
Plot: The story picks up seven years after the first film when little sister Samantha Darko and her best friend Corey are now 18 and on a roadtrip to Los Angeles when they are plagued by bizarre visions.
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Directors: Fisher Chris
Actors: Chatwin Justin,Davis Matthew,Hawkes John,Lafferty James,Lanoue Bob,Moat Ryan,Moat Ryan,Rathbone Jackson,Roberts Bret,Stevens Nathan,Templeman Ryan,Westwick Ed,Crime,Drama,Mystery,Sci-Fi,Thriller,
is the search for god absurd? i feel like its pointless to debate it with myself.?
this is something that comes up in the movie donnie darko. great movie if you havent seen it, not for everyone though. theres A LOT more to the story than this but hes kind of a troubled high school kid and he is seeing a psychiatrist/psychologist or whatever. during a session with his doctor they have a conversation that goes like this:
Dr. Lilian Thurman: Do you feel alone right now?
Donnie: Oh, I dunno. I mean I’d like to believe I’m not but I just… I’ve just never seen any proof so I… I just don’t debate it anymore, you know? It’s like I could spend my whole life debating it over and over again, weighing the pros and cons and in the end I still wouldn’t have any proof so I just… I just don’t debate it anymore. It’s absurd.
Dr. Lilian Thurman: The search for God is absurd?
Donnie: It is if everyone dies alone.
the whole thing about everyone dying alone has to do with something else that happens in the movie, too long to get into.
but that has stuck with me so much because thats kind of how i always felt about it. i feel like no one can prove it no matter what so why search your whole life. why worry so much about it? who knows if there is an afterlife and if there is a good or bad place you can go when you die depending on how you lived your life. i feel like if there is a god and afterlife it wouldnt matter if you believed or even worshipped or not, as long as you are a good person i dont think it would matter.
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JANET | Nov 20, 2009
god is not a 3d stuff we must have to some divine device to see him.
xyz | Nov 20, 2009
I would hate to spend my whole life searching for a being that does not exist.
Once you realize that the idea of God is a figment of our imagination you should stop right there and start living your life..
Ryan M | Nov 20, 2009
i dont need to search for god… hes deep down in the sofa cushion next to the long-lost remote, a nickel and some old cheetos…
dr_feelgood_91 | Nov 20, 2009
If we cannot find in our lives a belief, a religion, or some entity who holds us in the palm of his hand, then we are alone, and I believe this is why we search for God our whole life through, and if we cannot find him then science is right and we are all here by the accident of the big bang. Personally, I am not to keen on that theory, but then I’m not too keen on Chrisianity either, which is how I was raised. Ha ha , not too much time left now to find a belief as I’m in my seventies.
Mc Taggart | Nov 20, 2009
my philosophy is to believe what the evidence currently supports and be willing to change if necessary. I am currently an atheist, but if God (or a God) gives me a reason to believe he/she/it exists, I will no longer be an atheist.
Exalt loth | Nov 20, 2009
During 1800s, Anthropologists had a problem as to
how to classify human beings. One researcher
proposed the expression "intelligent animal".
After advanced studies on monkeys, it was dropped.
Another researcher proposed "tool using animal".
After observing some animals making wooden tools
and sharpening them with knife like stones, it was
dropped. Another researcher proposed "weapon using
animal". A decade ago, a rare film was shot by an
amateur in an African forest. One short monkey was
hit very badly by a big monkey. The short monkey
prepared a wooden knife using stones and hid it on
the top of a tree. After some days, when the big
monkey came to attack the short monkey, it ran up
to the tree for the weapon it has hid and killed
the big monkey. The one thing that the
anthropologists found with any group of human
beings, even if they did not have contacts with
the out side world for thousands of years, has
spirituality with some form of religion. So, man
is a "spiritual animal" if you want to call him
that way.
The Upanishads say that "Manush" (human) was so
named because he has "Manas" a mind higher than
that of the animals which realizes the divinity in
creation. It was present since the creation of
human beings. Religion is the characteristic
feature of most of the human beings. It was not
attained through reasoning using mind. Illiterate
tribes located in inaccessible forests also have
religion. It is as eternal and and as unchanging
as the Almighty. Disbelief by a few will not
affect it.
"The percentage of atheists in the world is less
than 5%"
http://www.positiveatheism.org/india/s19 90c48a.htm
"Atheists are all scientists" ?
http://www.non-religious.com/statistics. html
Religion is not a blind following. It is a sub-consciously driven
group ritual. It calms the ‘collective unconscious’ mind. The
religious culture brings unity and belongedness among the followers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_ unconscious
" Are Atheists More Depressed than Religious People?
In recent years, the view that religious belief and
participation in religious acts of worship has a positive
effect upon the well-being of man…"
http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php
"Is a Belief in God Beneficial? Or, What’s an Atheist to Do?
1) Religious attendance is correlated with longevity.
2) Religious belief has been associated with lower levels of depressive symptoms.
3) Religious beliefs may help with addiction.
4) Religious attendance is correlated with lower blood pressure.
http://jewishatheist.blogspot.com/2006/0 1/is-belief-in-god-beneficial-or-whats.h tml
Visit anthropology department of a university nearest
to you and ask if they have found an ethnic tribe in
any inaccessible land which did not have a religion.
d_r_siva | Nov 20, 2009