- VendettaJanuary 10, 2025
There is a old greek saying
vendetta is a dish served betta’ with cold feta
~ Delocated
- Rope (1948)January 9, 2025
It’s one scene where the tension builds and builds and builds until, in the final moment, catharsis is achieved—-the sweet release. 9/10.
- Murmur of the Heart (1971)January 8, 2025
When his brother saw him reading The Myth of Sisyphus by Camus, he said, “Drop Camus! He’s not worth it. If you’re into suicide, read Crevel.”
“Who’s that?”
“A surrealist who gassed himself.”Also, why are all the kids in this movie so unhinged? Loved the philosophy references. 6.5/10
- Euthyphro DilemmaJanuary 7, 2025
- Do the gods love good actions because they are good?
- Or, are good actions good because they are loved by the gods?
One could restate these questions as:
- Are actions good independent of God?
- Or, are actions good because God decided that they are good?
If the first statement is true, one would deny divine command theory—the theory that what is good, and what one should do, is determined by what God commands.
On the other hand, if the second statement is true, then God could have commanded that torture and killing are good, which doesn’t seem compatible with our strong intuition that these things are wrong.
Most theists argue for the second case but reconcile it with our moral intuitions by placing restrictions on God. They assert that God is infinitely good, and as such, he can only do good things. In other words, he couldn’t have commanded torture to be good because it would go against his own nature.
I have a problem with this assessment. By placing restrictions on God and claiming he couldn’t have chosen to command a particular action as good, this implies that his agency is compromised. First, this seems at odds with the common understanding of God as all-powerful. Second, if God, as Protestant theology teaches, is a god who desires a personal relationship with us, it feels strange to have a relationship with something that lacks true agency. Agency is fundamentally built into every meaningful relationship.
- The Man From Earth (2007)January 7, 2025
The protagonist reveals to a group of friends that he has been alive since ancient times, claiming to be 14,000 years old. The entire movie revolves around his friends interrogating him about his claims. While I liked the concept of the film, I feel the execution was poor. His friends mostly asked very basic questions about his life, then acted like he was a genius just because he had answers.
One particular dialogue stood out as disappointing: the protagonist claimed to have been Jesus, by giving Buddha’s teaching “a new face.” While there are some commonalities between Buddhism and Christianity, they have fundamental differences. For example, buddhism focuses on being saved from within through one’s own efforts, while Christianity centers on salvation through a third party, namely God, “by grace alone.” These are fundamentally incompatible ideas. 6/10.