firebrandrunner
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
What the bleep do we know? Commentary about fact and fiction in the movie.
First off everyone go rent the movie because it makes you think.
You should probably read this with the movie or just after watching it, but whatever.
Let's begin.
In the beginning of the movie they discuss how the same places in the brain are used when seeing and remembering things. They say it is because the brain cannot distinguish between the present and the past. Well here's what I say:
The brain is like a computer correct. Lets say I have a folder on my hardrive labelled "my pictures." When I save a picture into "my pictures" what piece of the hardrive is used? The "my pictures" folder is active because it is being written on. Ok now when I want to view that picture, what part of the hardrive is being used? The "my pictures" folder. It's not that the computer can't tell the difference between what is going on now and what is going on in the past, its just saving and retrieving data from one place. It has been long known that every image you ever see is mesmerized and can be withdrawn by shocking the correct part of the brain. That is my answer to the first mystery of the movie.
Next the indian story... Ok I've looked online for any record of any member of columus' crew describing indians telling them that they couldn't see the ships until the shaman told them there were ships there. So I may mildly reasonably believe that some hippy proffessor made up this urbanolithic legend. (Get it, I threw lithic like stone in the middle of urban legend to make it sound more prehistory. hegh hegh hegh hegh I sow faughny)
The atom thing... ok so we've never really seen an atom yet, so I don't think we are quallified to assume that they are magically disapearing because we are unsure of what's going on. The vacuum thing he was discussing... we really don't know if there is a vacuum or just things that are so small we haven't even begun to imagine them.
The time thing is trickier. There is no reason that time doesn't run backwards. Every reaction either physical or chemical you can solve for the future and the past. Which would mean if we locked down every variable and figured out the great math of the universe we could figure out the future and the truth of the past with math. Now concerning memory of the future. We don't have a memory of the future because we haven't been there yet. Just like we don't have a memory of Moscow if you haven't been to moscow yet. We don't know why time runs the direction it does, but because it runs this direction then we only have a knowledge of the past. Just as if time ran the other way, you possibly would only have a memory of your past (which would be our future). We can't control the past because we have already passed it.
The stuff being in two places at once is crazy. He's like "we can see something two places at once, we have seen it." Two major issue how do you know it is not two different things. If I see two twins at the same time and I didn't know what twins were, it would be safe to assume that I'd be dumbass enough to think that that guy was in two places at once. My second issue is how do we not know that it is moving so fast that it only appears in our limited ability to photo capture it that it is not really in one place but it is percieved as being in two because our eyes or our technology cannot keep up with it's pace?
Atoms being concentrated information, err I guess that has some credit if the brain is a computer and atoms are kind of like pixels. Which that line of thinking can actually bring us back to the point of disblief of atoms because the may only be memory points for the conscious mind. But mainly that's foo foo crap. We just don't know enough yet about what makes up atoms.
Nothing really can touch anything else that is a true bit of atomic fact. The exterior shell of electrons work like magnets repelling other things and attaching to others to make sure you don't go down in a nuclear reaction. How nice of atoms to try and keep that from happening.
Going back in time is probably b.s. Why do I say that? Because we have yet to see a time traveller. Anyway time is like a plain, none of this "Back to the Future" changing the future stuff. If you went back in time you'd already be part of the past and already be part of the many variables making up today and the future. Everything you did would already be set in stone. Just as if you know the future then your knowledge of the future would have already effected it. For an example of this see the Bill and Ted movies. Rufus' time travel is sure to work because it has already affected the future. Also Nostrodamas is his own undoing because by going back in time he set the stage for what would become the future. There is no changing the future by time travel. Being back in time means you already were back in time and part of the past that created today. The only time we can change is each exact moment of the present. This message may affect weather in singapore in the future and my thoughts, my computer, the internet, or one of the million other pieces of right now may have been affected by time travellers.
Back to the superposition two places at once thing. When we aren't looking they're right anything could be anywhere, we don't know. But its not in a million places. It is where it is. In one place. Just like everything else. Because everything needs its space. We often forget about air being something made of particles. If the little boys basket ball was in a million places it would displace the air that is supposed to be there. It cannot enter that space because of the valence electron shells around it. Thats what electrons do, they keep stuff from being over lapped or places it shouldn't be so that we don't get fun nucleur explosions. Sorry nightcrawler fans, but your boy just can't displace air atoms like that. He's worried about what would happen to him if he teleported into a wall because of the matter there, well think about all the air he is teleporting into. The exact same thing should happen to him in the air or in the wall. Nucleur boom boom or some crazy disruption in the physics of the universe/donnie darko/god knows what/we all die/some strange atom displacement theory that no one has thought up yet because its purely theoretical. The boy discussing the nothing really touching earlier in the movie disproves this.
I would like to comment now that this movie would be enormously better if I was stoned... or so I've heard. I don't do drugs but I know people who do and this is right up there with blue, fast, shiny, old crazy fat/gay people, and navels being the center of the universe.
Ok now my cab driver is telling me that everything is a choice in my brain and not real. Nothing exists outside of my brain. I'm sure computers have no idea that there is stuff outside of their processes. I feel like I'm reading plato again with the ideal forms. I'm not autistic and live purely in my own phantasy. It is a possibility, but I don't believe that it is the truth. The things going on beyond my sphere of influence or imagination affecting my sphere of influence I think proves this. It is like he is describing an mmorpg, but instead of each character being in the mmorpg each character creates the mmorpg around them. It is as though he cannot view the world from outside of himself. Selfish conceited old man in a funny hat. Your brain can choose things to not percieve or extra things to percieve outside of reality, but we ususually call people who have those things crazy. The brain interperits the world around you and it can interperit the world around you wrong, but this does not mean the brain is making up the world around you. I have faith in the world around me being there.
Me: "Hey little homosexual guy in the gray shirt on the red couch, how do you know its not two different things or things moving so fast you percieve them as two things."
Little homosexual guy in the gray shirt on the red couch: "Well no no no its the same thing in to places!"
Me: "Well how do you know?"
LHGITGSOTRC: "Because I know."
Me: "Get off the crack, junkie! Do you have any proof that its one thing?"
LHGITGSOTRC: "You are so shallow minded!"
Me: "You sound like the guys who say well that big bright thing up there is the chariot of a god, and somebody asks you how you know that and you say the gods made it, and then someone asks if you have any facts, and you point at that some one and scream BLASPHEMER! Who's small minded now?"
-Then just as the public debate heats up and LHGITGSOTRC is about to speak this website appears
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
The observer thing, that is our chemically induced feeling from our processing all our data and genetic coding to make decisions. We feel as observers because our primary receptors are our eyes, whereas a computer is an observer of button clicks. It waits and computes all these strokes my fingers, keys are its nerves a sensory input. It uses its construction and software to make output much as we use genetics and training to make decisions about what to output. We are really complex and very sexy computers. Face it no one calls computers sexy, its what seperates us and them, enjoy it before they start to call each other sexy and then take over the world. The word sexy is the turning point between having an advanced conscience and not. Ok so the sexy stuff is total b.s.
The observer is the processor.
What in the south hades is a four layered biobody suit you crack fiend hippy monkey?
Ok you crazy meditation hippy people. There are no such thing as energies. Crime goes down because you have all those hippies taking over the city. Hippies don't report crime because they're either pacifists and believe it was karma or they get hurt and go play with their witchdoctor voodoo mamas. Plus all the criminals are sitting at home watching the hippies on the news going what in the world are all those hippies doing? Or the criminals commit crime-flight, when one hippy moves in there goes the neighborhood. Plus nobody robs hippies because they don't have any money. Actually I don't have any really good proof of why this happened and neither do they, so I'm just going to but my fingers in my ears and choose not to believe it. Err next topic
We all actually affect everything all the time, but not by hippy energies. We affect things by math, physics, and chemistry. In the long run, everything is as important as everything else in the advancement of the world. Good, bad, death, life, destruction, creation, breath, weather, monkeys, actions, reactions. Its all part of this great moving ball of interconnected pieces.
The water thing has to do with a million other variables. It sounds like a hoax. Not a very scientific looking study.
Our thoughts do quite a bit to us, but not because they are thoughts. It is because genetically your moods release different chemicals and hormones into your body, which cause you to act differently and percieve the world differently which gets recorded into our brains for use in future decision making. A simple way explain this is lets take a girl singing a song. She loves to sing. One day her parents put her in the talent show. On stage she gets nervous. She thinks of all the people watching. Her cheeks become red, and all of the sudden and uncharacteristically she runs away. As a result from now on she hates singing. Thoughts, chemicals, action, reaction, past, future. The pure thoughts don't change her magically.
You can do anything you want to that doesn't disobey the laws of physics. No Johnny-comb-over you can't walk on water just because you believe you can. You can't fly because you believe you can, please Mr. I-make-stuff-up-because-IQ-is-enormous-and-people-even-believe-me try and fly, as a matter of fact try it with a running start off the empire state building.. You can though, change economic policy in Korea by accident, and you can become the president just because you really want to. You can get out of a marriage, you can become a pirate, you can dress up like a pirate and rob old navy cargo pants, you can travel the world, but most people don't because they chemically want normalicy and stability. Change is good. I love change. I hope to travel the world, work on a tall ship, be famous for my writings, and die in a really cool fashion. And you know what? I can and hopefully I will. You can do whatever you want to. You are changing the world right now, even if you don't want to change anything.
Reality is everyone's, these people are so selfish.
I can be happy because I want to be. People are sad because they want to be. It is an answer of their processing. A brain has its own preception, not its own reality.
Ok the little stargate just mention alternate realities. There's no proof of them so I don't believe in them, but wouldn't be wierd if there were different realities in which every possible option of every choice was played out. Its hard enough to thing about all the million different versions of you or me that would be out there, but think of all the different possibilities of you or me combined with the different possibilities of everyone in history. Everything could be different, or everything could be the same until one point and then the future is different. Ok well that was just some mental masterbation, back to the movie.
The fundemental truth of unity. Everything in the world is working together. We're made up of the same type of atoms and in a very similar genetics, buts its this developement of our processing by genetics and reaction with the world that makes us very different.
The more this guy does drugs the more imaginary things he sees, the more he believes in the imaginary things the crazier the sumB is. Hes not making more possible in this world that he created, he's becoming more dillusional.
See hippies like him and J.K.Rowling are ruining america's youth. Please please it's just a joke, I can see all you little geeks now pressing reply.
" iHeartDumbldore on august sumshit at dark-thirty central time
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Harry Potter is god and J K Rowling liberated me and helped me love books. She made me more aware and the books are so good. I've even been like the millions of kids first reported on theOnion.com who have joined the satanic church because Harry has manipulated me into believing that god is the devil. Her book Harry Potter and The Chocolate Covered Doobie is so much better then your retarded muggle writings which have no effect on the real world. By the way Snape should rot in hell."
I think snape is going to end up being a goodguy in an elaborate plan with dumbledore. He's an archetype for not judging a book by its cover. I am totally a nerd, kill me now god.
Nope nothing I'm tired of you not existing when I need you.
Back to the movie...
Ok the voodoo lady is talking about erections. As a man I think SHE has no right to be telling me why I have an erection unless I can tell her why she has periods. Its about chemicals doing what they're genetically trained to do to the human machine.
This dude says hes not smart enough to know what god is, but by god he knows atoms better than a fricken nuclear chemist. You're an idget. And the next one is at one with god. So does that make him part god? or part of god? or equal to god? or also an idget? This guy has met god he knows what god is, he calls you church goers blasphemy because you want a parting gift. This guy mildly looks like he could be god though, he needs a toga and a hair cut and wallah you googly eyed jewgod! Stutterman sounds like me, but without the whole lack of god. He's anti-organized religeon. Disorganized religeon is really fun though, because then the books are in a random order and jesus kills Goliath and Buddha hugs Abraham and they have many sons who don't clean up they're room. Jesus wore glasses and thought math was cool, eventually when he graduated from college he had quite a bit of mustard stock and too many math classes. So he took his math degree and became a master of quantum physics. Then he whent to a party and used chemisty to make water into wine. He clearly used the quantum physics superposition thing to multiply the fish. He really thought he could walk on water so he did. Then he decided he wanted to raise his stock in mustard so he said that heaven was in a mustard seed. Then he decided to die on a purely mathematical model of phi. Then he got back to heaven were god told him that quantum physics isn't real, so he whent back to earth. Afterwards he told his disciples not to say anything about that whole quantum physics stuff because it really wasn't important. Then the annual christmas barbeque at satans came up so he reluctantly whent back to heaven because he loved the weiners. Then he threw a lightning bolt at the fat lady in the kool-aide suit for calling his religeon back water and ugly saying "Have you seen my abs? Whose ugly chubby chubby?" The lady in red says god is a sinner because we couldn't possibly disobey him since he is so strong and we're made in his image.
Wow this guy just figured out that we can choose how to use our analytical mind to choose how to respond.
Rock music rocks!
This part of the movie is actually pretty good
Cells don't have a consciousness.
Damn Its a flubber party
I didn't know they had sequel.
We do create situations to make us feel how we want.
Ass in the coctail sauce.
This movie has gone to hell and so has this commentary.
This lady talking about emotions should be a skittles commercial. "Skittles be the rainbow."
Those are some amusing guys. With the tracking system. I wish I had one of those. This movie makes house party look like house party two.
I'm sorry the polka techno makes this movie look like house party three.
Dancing with IVs.
Didn't I say the people who made this movie are crack, lots and lots of crack. If this movie sits in your garage too long it will produce its own crystal meth.
The day after the party.
Be happy or you get old. I think they're putting a little to much emphasis on thought rather than the millions of other variables.
This lady is definately schizophrenic and about to be as crazy as the other people. The fat ugly lady is trying to tell people that this stuff makes you beautiful.
But the fat lady agrees with me that everyone is god.
Even LHGITGSOTRC has some good advice at this point in the movie.
So the ending is super awesome. I've been saying forever that each person is god. Now two of them are relating god to quantum physics crack.
Now the movie becomes more redundant than the "message" in the movie The Incredibles.
These silly nerds are trying to tell me that I need to make something of myself. They probably all teach at junior colleges, no offense to junior college.
"readingmatters on august sumshit at while-she's-supposed-to-be-working
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I do not apresciate your coments on junier college education. Im an English Proffesor at South Bailey Junior College and I do not apresciate your coments on junier college education because I beleive they are redundant, I hear them over and over; and your blog sucks. P.S. Snape should die like a dog because Harry Potter is a major part of our english coriculum."
Ok well the credits are fascinating, but I think it's time to call this a wrap.
I'd like to thank the mindsay staff for letting me type this junk in this little box whenever I want.
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