The mystery is that you can never prove

Eloisa 2022-04-21 09:01:36

To describe it with a phrase I often say: If you haven't experienced it yourself, you can't prove its authenticity.
This movie makes good use of that.
The virtue of discourse, as well as its weakness, is that you can neither prove nor disprove it.
The great thing about this film is that you get nothing, you just hear a story, believe it or not.

There's a theory, forget the specific names and descriptions, but specifically, it goes something like this:
scary things are scary because you feel scary.
A lot of intense pain comes from your own imagination.
We believe or doubt what is in front of us, mostly from our own thoughts. What is the truth, no one knows and no one proves it.

Nothing is certain, I have said.
Because you can't prove it.

I feel that the reactions of several scientists in the film are too intense. I always think that scientists should have a good ability to accept new things or unusual things, but belief is a very scary thing, it makes you find support.
So, your world is smaller. Your world becomes the boundary of what you believe in.
You can't get farther.

What if, if there really is such a person? Travel through history without leaving a trace. In the tumult of time, I witnessed everything that happened.
How wonderful that is. You can talk all night, you can find answers to everything.
I want to meet such a person, who can solve all my doubts.

It's not that I look down on anyone, but I always feel that no matter who, there are boundaries. Once it has its boundaries, all his comments about affairs will bear its subjective imprint.
And such a person who transcends the border is undoubtedly the object of envy and admiration for those who are in the border.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that he was Jesus, because he knew more and thought more.
Although he cannot predict the future, he has learned everything from history.

I once fantasized that I could live forever and witness the war, conflict and fusion of human beings. I feel like I have the ability and the mind. The wandering life is full of hardships and joys, and watching from the sidelines feels like an existence beyond human beings.
Well, now that I have grown up, it is no longer the rejection and darkness that it used to be. But when such an idea turned into a movie and came back in front of my eyes, my heart couldn't help itching.

There is such a person, he doesn't need to be as wise as David, he just needs to tell me, hey, you know, I've lived for a long time, are you willing to listen to my story?
I will listen quietly and carefully.
Because of how ignorant I am, I will take it seriously.

Maybe, one day, I will appear in front of you, and then leave, leaving a wonderful story.

Hehe, who knows not, because you can never prove it.

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The Man from Earth quotes

  • Dr. Will Gruber: If I shot you John, you're immortal? Would you survive this?

    John Oldman: I never said I was immortal, just old. I might die. And then you could wonder the rest of your incarcerated life what you shot...

  • Dr. Will Gruber: We will die, you will live. Will you come to my funeral, John.

    Sandy: You've gone too far, John didn't ask to be what he is.

    Dr. Will Gruber: And we did not ask to hear about it...