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Jul. 21st, 2002 08:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lwoodblooYeah, well. I have basically been off caffeine for about...oh two years. With small slips. A coke here, a pepsi there. However....today we made an error in judgment and had an iced tea. *feels his temples* Someone just shoot me now. This post was going to be about the movie Minority Report, which I just saw. But the throbbing back there on my occiput is making rational thought hard. But I'm going to gamely charge ahead.
Minority report was a very odd movie. It really brought together a lot of issues about ethics and morality. The idea of "knowing" someone is guilty before they actually make that decision is....well...kinda fuzzy, dontcha think? It shines a light on the ideas of predestination and free will. Can I make decisions that affect my life, or is everything really decided and what I do/not do has no bearing on what happens. I at least like to think that I have control over my destiny. The last scene, which I won't reveal, totally brings it all into sharp focus, where one of two momentous things will happen. And you can't even pick it there for a minute. Maybe I'm just shallow...but it really made me think and contemplate how I think things are, how they really are, and how they might be.
I love riding my bike. But let me tell you....a numb **** is nothing to laugh at, and I really would prefer to retain feeling there. Public service message for y'all.
resnick the uncomfortable.
Minority report was a very odd movie. It really brought together a lot of issues about ethics and morality. The idea of "knowing" someone is guilty before they actually make that decision is....well...kinda fuzzy, dontcha think? It shines a light on the ideas of predestination and free will. Can I make decisions that affect my life, or is everything really decided and what I do/not do has no bearing on what happens. I at least like to think that I have control over my destiny. The last scene, which I won't reveal, totally brings it all into sharp focus, where one of two momentous things will happen. And you can't even pick it there for a minute. Maybe I'm just shallow...but it really made me think and contemplate how I think things are, how they really are, and how they might be.
I love riding my bike. But let me tell you....a numb **** is nothing to laugh at, and I really would prefer to retain feeling there. Public service message for y'all.
resnick the uncomfortable.
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Oh a guessing game, yea?
Date: 2002-07-21 05:28 pm (UTC)Screw coke. I go for Pepsi. *laughs*
Re: Oh a guessing game, yea?
Date: 2002-07-21 05:33 pm (UTC)Re: Oh a guessing game, yea?
Date: 2002-07-21 05:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-07-21 06:14 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-07-21 06:31 pm (UTC)Hey. Did you finish snowcrash? Did you like it? Stephenson has a great talent for names, dontcha think????
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Date: 2002-07-21 10:40 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-07-22 02:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-07-22 05:12 am (UTC)(though it's worse when you're the GM and they managed to come within a few inches of the solution without finding it)
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Date: 2002-07-22 02:51 pm (UTC)Tolerance isn't the ish, bro. I have high high high blood pressure and a history of cardiac disease in my family. And....well....I don't want to die. Pretty simple choice.
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Date: 2002-07-23 05:27 am (UTC)