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Just saw The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
Oh my goodness. It was so funny!
I really can't say much more than that...but seriously, I highly recommend it. Great humor, incredible characters (I loooooved Leaf), some really awesome audience participation, it didn't take itself seriously (I love that about a comedy--when they do it's sooooo boring), I laughed out loud almost the whole time, until my stomach hurt.
Excellent. If you can, go see it.
Was thinking today about the afterlife. I believe in one because I'm a Christian, but why does almost every religion believe in some form of afterlife or final resting place or nirvana? The reason, psychologically, that we prepare bodies for burial--that we bury them at all--is because they're going somewhere else. Subconsciously, most people think that.
"He's in a better place." "We lost him." ...et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. They all imply that the dead person has gone somewhere else, somewhere we obviously can't go. It may not be something we profess to believe in, but world culture--human culture--seems to as a theme.
Why? Is it because our lives are so pointless, once you think about it? Is it because we want to know there's more out there than just this earth? All of a sudden I am fascinated by this topic, by this idea. Is this belief because subconsciously our minds realize we are so small and insignificant that we really are not much more than worthless in the scheme of things (think about it: if we condensed the world into one 24 hour day, humans would appear at 23:59:59, about halfway through that last second) and we can't stand it?
Why?
Just something to think about.
nebulia out.
Oh my goodness. It was so funny!
I really can't say much more than that...but seriously, I highly recommend it. Great humor, incredible characters (I loooooved Leaf), some really awesome audience participation, it didn't take itself seriously (I love that about a comedy--when they do it's sooooo boring), I laughed out loud almost the whole time, until my stomach hurt.
Excellent. If you can, go see it.
Was thinking today about the afterlife. I believe in one because I'm a Christian, but why does almost every religion believe in some form of afterlife or final resting place or nirvana? The reason, psychologically, that we prepare bodies for burial--that we bury them at all--is because they're going somewhere else. Subconsciously, most people think that.
"He's in a better place." "We lost him." ...et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. They all imply that the dead person has gone somewhere else, somewhere we obviously can't go. It may not be something we profess to believe in, but world culture--human culture--seems to as a theme.
Why? Is it because our lives are so pointless, once you think about it? Is it because we want to know there's more out there than just this earth? All of a sudden I am fascinated by this topic, by this idea. Is this belief because subconsciously our minds realize we are so small and insignificant that we really are not much more than worthless in the scheme of things (think about it: if we condensed the world into one 24 hour day, humans would appear at 23:59:59, about halfway through that last second) and we can't stand it?
Why?
Just something to think about.
nebulia out.
