It has NEVER ceased to fail to amaze me how in movies, when you have an octopus for a bad guy, good guys would just sit there and stare at it lurge. Like seriously, while it stretches its strong body out of the ocean or anything, be it giant squid or octopus, people around it should know that this is the actual queue for them to either throw a spear or fire shots at it. I just saw the movie 'the clash of the titans' and I just sat there staring at this octopus taking its precious time to stretch itself outta his ocean bed. If I were this evil giant octopus, my thoughts would be 'stupid humans, i'm just gonna have tea and wait for them to actually respond to my 9 minutes off the blockbuster movie to ACTUALLY get up to put myself in a ready fighting position'. Le sigh, the Argos people just stood there and stared!!!!
So, what I got from watching this movie is how God made men. God made men. He made them mortal. He gains powers from their love, while his brother, from the underworld, gains powers from their fear. It kinda makes sense to me actually. It's like this dude in a certain association, this leader, who employs his employees. He signs them up for contracts, so it has a beginning and an end. And he gains power from their belief in them. On the other hand, his rival, gains powers from the fear from these employees. I actually hated that concept at first. But think again. So, in the movie, the underworld dude was all like 'you have no idea how I suffer from gaining power only from pain and fear of men' and to me, that was a bit of 'grass is greener on the other side'. Now, if he was a bit of a psychopath who loves to see people suffer from pain and all that, it would've been his dream job to just sit there and gain power whenever he sees someone suffer. When you look at God (Zeus, I think), he seemed happy with his position as the receiver of love fuel as his HP gain. So, if you ask me, these are just two leaders, with one who loves his job and the other doesn't but since he wants to have a go at what the other one's doing, he's chucked a bit of a boo boo on his 'good I love my job' rival. I guess my point is the fact that there is no unfairness in these two sides.
NOW, on ANOTHER outlook and this one's quite deep.... it kinda makes me think of the way we are living these days. Now, I'm born Buddhist who grows up his elementary in a school next to a church. Talk to me about religion, I'm a bit of an acceptor case. I hardly argue if anything about religion is concerned. If someone says bad shit about Buddhism, I'll gladly accept it. It just means Buddha misses out on one follower and he can focus more on me haha. Throughout all these scientific facts that I've been bombarded with in my entire life, I find it hard NOT to believe in other existence. I've heard of ghosts that cannot touch people. I've heard of ghosts that are scared of priests. I've heard of ghosts that can win over priests. Ok, maybe it's the level. But what about spirits who wrestle with men and just disappear. Or angels, be they good or bad. Or weird beings that burn down the movie scripts for amityville horror? I guess what I'm saying is BEINGS do exist to those who believe them.
Just like bibles, teachings have been sent throughout different prophets or followers. So, I guess the rule ALWAYS keeps changing depending on who holds the book. In the same way, I'm sure there must have been a connection between all the beings at some stage. But because of the prophets in charge of these teachings, diversity occurs and I guess, the inexplanable happens!!!
What really amazes me is the fact that I feel surrounded by these inexplanable beings whenever I'm in Burma. Not a bad thing to be honest. It's not haunted but I just have this major belief in things existing around me. But when I was in Sydney, I didn't feel a thing!!!
So, that comes back to the movie I've seen. God was worried people might lose faith in him.. And surely I guess in developed countries, spirits find it hard to roam since scientific facts have made most members of the society go to churches on Sundays or just believe in God, just for the sake of it. Even worse, you get non believers. I guess people just turn scientific as opposed to these spiritual beings. Well, here is different. Despite my 60-40 belief in superstitions, I somehow find myself heavily believing in the fact that we, humans and animals or plants, are NOT alone in the world. And since Burma, itself, has a lot of 'beings' that can be contacted via their own perspective media, science is a bit of a struggling opponent.
But I guess that's the beauty though. Why try to find out things when it's left with its beauty of mystery!! I used to be a mama boy,believing everything I was told. Then I turned skeptical and I even started hating certs or anything on paper. Then, one day, one of my friends turned out naming EVERY political acts and she said 'everything you see in life has a name and theory in it. You just have to learn them all. Theories come from experience'. It's true!!! You cannot be downright skeptical about things unless you've searched in and out for EVERY REASONS for certain things to happen. But before anything you know, I guess 'mystery' IS a good choice. Cos you never know if you could actually accept the truth or not.
Maybe there's an explanation for 'fate'. Maybe there's an explanation for 'love'. Maybe there's an explanation for 'life cycle'. Why do people in lunatic assylums howl on full moon day? Why do male praying mantis bone the female ones, knowing they're on a ride for chop-suey? Why do formation of stars matter to cainer dot com? Why does the Trojan Horse take fewer days to build than a normal 10 storey apartment? All of us are given knowledge about them but if we see something that kinda contradicts what we are taught, it doesn't necessarily mean that we were taught the wrong things... just that you haven't learnt the OTHER effects it can have.
I don't know... I think mystery is a beauty and being 'not in the know' is not always a bad thing. :)
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