Excerpts from the movie "Transcendence"

Janelle 2022-04-19 09:02:07

1,

Everyone pull out a shitty paper. I’d like to assess where your individual writing stills are. Okay! Here is the situation, you’re dead. Alright, write a brief but detailed essay about what a friend or a parent might say about you during your funeral.

Take a scratch paper each, I want to see how each of you writing skills, ok, here's the scenario, you die, write briefly about how your various friends or family will talk about you at the funeral short review.

2,

You have no reason to be angry with me, because I am one of the few people that’ here trying to give you an opportunity.

You have no reason to be mad at me because I'm one of the few people trying to give you a chance.

3.

-so you don’t really care what the kids say to you?

-Perhaps I’ve used to it.

- You really don't care if the kids say bad things to you?

-Maybe I'm used to it.

4.

Unfortunately, most of people are act self-awareness.

Sadly, most people act on a self-conscious basis.

5.

My life is not worth mentioning.

My life is not worth mentioning.

6.

Whatever it is, you feel you need to do, you do it. But you don’t do it here.

Whatever you want to do, do it, but not here!

7.

How are you to imagine anything? If the images are always provided for you.

If everything you can think of is right in front of you, how can your mind be given wings of imagination?

8,

To deliberately believe in lies while knowing their false.

Even if you know it's a lie, you will believe it.

9,

It’s so easy to be careless, it takes courage and courage to care. None of you have any of these qualities.

Don't care who won't? How much courage it takes to care. None of you have such courage.

10.

-It’s like you said we’re brought up to this, there is nothing left, nothing but to realize and how fuck up the things are. It’s not enough, I won’t last.

-Listen to me, just listen. We are all the same, we all feel pain, and we all have chaos in our life. Life is very very confusing, I know. I don’t have the answers, but I know if you write it out, it all be okay.

- As you said, we were born in such a society with nothing and the only thing we can do is lament how bad life is. It's not enough, I can't hold on.

-Listen to me, listen. We are all alike, we all experience pain, and we all experience the chaos and triviality of life. I know that life itself is very complicated, and I have no answers in life. But I know that if you write things down, everything will be fine.

11.

Some of us believe that we can make a difference. And then sometimes when we wake up and we realize we failed.

Some people think we can change the world, but sometimes, we wake up and realize we don't.

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Detachment quotes

  • Henry Barthes: How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you?

    Henry Barthes: Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false.

    Henry Barthes: Examples of this in everyday life: "Oh, I need to be pretty to be happy. I need surgery to be pretty. I need to be thin, famous, fashionable." Our young men today are being told that women are whores, bitches, things to be screwed, beaten, shit on, and shamed. This is a marketing holocaust. Twenty-four hours a day for the rest of our lives, the powers that be are hard at work dumbing us to death.

    Henry Barthes: So to defend ourselves, and fight against assimilating this dullness into our thought processes, we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own belief systems. We all need skills to defend, to preserve our own minds.

  • Henry Barthes: [agitated at assisted living nurse] Let me be very clear here, you stop neglecting his needs, or I will start fucking with yours! I will have you fired! Then it's going to be your family! Your children are gonna be at risk! You got it?