The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #79009   Message #1435658
Posted By: Bill D
15-Mar-05 - 07:51 PM
Thread Name: BS: More on Life After Death
Subject: RE: BS: More on Life After Death
"What the bleep do we know?"

well, not a whole lot, considering how much there is to be learned. So why make a film which goes way out on a limb to suggest...well, more than suggest, that as long as we DON'T know, wild guessing is to be encouraged?

I read several of the reviews/explications of the film, and they seem to agree that it essentially claims not only that traditional religion is wrong, but that subjective, poetic readings of the implications of quantum mechanics are just as good as any others.

The producers of the film say:
"Quantum physics, neurology and molecular biology seem to be saying things that are in agreement with what mystics have been saying for centuries. Furthermore science as a language of the spirit seems to cut across old beliefs and superstitions, and present ideas in a way that encourages people to examine for themselves and make their own decisions."

right...like definitions of 'folk music'...*grin*...just take all your own experiences and concoct a "Theory of Everything" based on 'em. No one can prove you wrong, and it's fun to expound! Besides, it's boring to wait for some stodgy old scientist to do all those experiments and publish papers most of us can't understand, anyway! We'll just think up something that makes use of (again, from the producers)
"...the availability of sophisticated hi-tech movie making at an Indie budget price. The computerization of the film making process has given non-studio productions the ability to make sophisticated effects-rich movies."
and maybe even make some $$$$ out of blurring the line between story-telling and reality even more than old-fashioned religion did.

By golly, the entrepreneurial ummmmm....spirit..... lives on!