Life's Funny...Only When It's Being Made Fun of in Literature: February 2008

Monday, February 11, 2008

In a break between reading, I wanted to quickly answer my essential question. What I see displayed in this story so far in my reading is that the further we advance in technology and the years, the more of life is destroyed.

The example? We can now live up to 90 years old. Life seems so long. But as we advance and the average dying age is getting a bigger and bigger number, the more it seems that the beauty of life is destroyed. If we have so much time as they say, how do we manage to really truly enjoy it? I mean when we're 30, we don't stop to enjoy the scene in front of us because to us it's going to happen again in our 40s, 50s, or whatever. The idea that we have so much time on Earth has poisoned us.

It also shows that humans seem to be such bad and evil characters! They are so corrupt and easily influenced by sin! In both the stories I read, each character is obsessed with greed and vanity. Two of the seven deadly sins. We're tumbling down such a bad path.

Important things to see

I think this movie goes really well with what my theme is:

Zeitgeist Movie

I think if there's a movie thats essential to your knowledge, this is it. It characterizes the American culture with three main themes: myth of god, country, and prosperity. It has a wide range of topics included and it is very informative. It is divided mainly into three different parts.

The first part: The Greatest Story Ever Told
Second: The World's A Stage
Third: Don't Mind the Men Behind The Curtain.

"Part I: The Greatest Story Ever Told Part I evaluates Christian beliefs established in the Bible and critiques the historicity of the Bible. In furtherance of the Jesus myth hypothesis, this part argues that the historical Jesus is a literary and astrological hybrid,^[4] and that the Bible is based on astrological principles documented by many ancient civilizations, especially pertaining to movement of the sun through the sky and stars.
Part II: All The World's a Stage Part II asserts that the United States was warned about the impending September 11, 2001 attacks, that NORAD was purposely confused through wargames to allow the planes to reach their targets, and that the World Trade Center buildings underwent a controlled demolition. Additionally, the film argues that some of the named hijackers are still alive, that Hani Hanjour could not have flown Flight 77 into the Pentagon, that the Bush Administration covered up the truth in the 9/11 Commission Report, and that the mainstream media has failed to ask important questions about the official account.

Part III: Don't Mind The Men Behind The Curtain Part III asserts that the powerful bankers of the world have been conspiring for world domination and increased power. According to the documentary, the rich of society have been using their wealth to increase financial panic and foster a consolidation of independent competing banks. The film details the Theory of Electronic Conspiracy that the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States, was created in order to steal the wealth of the nation. It showcases the amount of money that has been made by these rich few during World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War and now the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It describes the goal of these bankers as world power over a completely controllable public.^[2]"

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Should watch it.

Life's Funny...Only When It's Being Made Fun of in Literature

Monday, February 11, 2008

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