—————————————— ——Do
you know Lee Sushman?
——Doctor Su Shiman? I think I... yes, I know him.
——Did he tell you a story about pagan teeth?
——No, um, what kind of pagan?
——This is the case. One day Li was at work. You know, he was in charge of orthodontics in the hospital. At that time, he was making plastic dental molds for patients for bridge correction. After the mold was formed, Li noticed a strange phenomenon during the inspection before making the braces: something seemed to be engraved on the inside of the patient's lower front teeth-that was a row of Hebrew letters-Hey vav shin yud ayin nun yud Ho-she-ay-ni, meaning "help me, save me". Yes-in the mouth of a pagan. So he called the infidel back, pretending to say that he needed to measure his teeth again, and secretly took a picture with the mirror-yes, those letters are there, Ho-she-ay-ni, "Help me ". It's really troublesome-Su Shiman returned home and couldn't eat or sleep. Dr. Suschman began to study the molds of other patients, but no matter whether it was a pagan or a Jew, there was no lettering. He looked into his mouth: no; he looked into his wife's mouth: neither. Su Shiman is an educated person, maybe he is not the greatest sage in the world, nor is he Martha Krabi, but he still knows a little about "The Light of Light" and "Supernatural Powers". He understood that each Hebrew letter corresponds to a number, so he found it: 8-4-5-4-4-7-3, seven numbers-maybe a phone number? maybe.
He dialed this number: "Hello, do you know a non-Jewish person, Klaus, Russell Klaus?"
——"Who
are you?"
——" Where are you?" ——" Red Owl grocery store in Bloomington."
—"Thank you very much."
So Su Shiman went there. There is indeed a red owl grocery store. Su Shiman returned home, but he still couldn't figure it out: He must find the answer, or else he won't be able to fall asleep again. So he came to see the rabbi (that is, me, Nahe), and
he walked in and sat in the seat where you are sitting now. He asked:
"What does all this mean, Rabbi? Is this a signal from God? "Save me". I, Su Shiman, what should I do to help this infidel? But what should I do? It’s not said in the teeth. Or maybe I should help people achieve a more ethical life? Is there an answer in the "Magic Powers"? What about the "Lights"? Or, there is no problem at all? Tell me, Rabbi, What does such a signal mean?"
-Then... how did you tell him?
——Does it matter?
——Isn't this what you want to tell me?
--All right. I said to him at the time, “We don’t understand teeth; neither do we understand God’s signals; but helping others? It’s not a bad thing.”
— No, no, who made those words? Is it for Su Shiman? Or to the person who discovered it? Or, just...give, give...-
we can't know everything
-you don't seem to know anything. Why are you telling me this story? and after? What happened to Su Shiman?
——What else can there be? Nothing, he works as usual. For a while, he checked everyone's teeth to see if there was new information, but he never found out. Soon, he found that he stopped checking and his life returned to normal, and these problems no longer bothered him. Maybe it's like a toothache, sometimes it hurts for a while, and then it disappears...-
I don't want it to disappear! I want an answer!
——Of course, we all want an answer. But God does not owe us answers, Larry, God does not owe us anything, we owe God.
——If he doesn't give us the answer, why should we feel these questions?
——He didn't tell me why.
——What happened to the infidel?
--pagan? Who cares?
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This section can be regarded as another major "disconnection from the main axis" in the movie, the story of a Jewish dentist told by a Jewish instructor. The first "out of touch" is the adventure in the wind and snow at the beginning of the film. It can be regarded as a metaphor about understanding the world. For the same phenomenon (the same person), the husband and wife have made completely different judgments and judgments based on their own understanding. Dealing with-then the question is: who is right? Is that old man a living person or a ghost? The director let him step into the wind and snow again, echoing the phrase "We don't know anything" when the protagonist Larry later taught the uncertainty principle in class. When the world conflicts with the knowledge you know (don’t forget that they also come from the same world), which one is true?
Back to the above, what does this anticlimactic story mean? If the infidel is "saved" later, it can be regarded as a common "miracle" in religion; if the dentist discovers that the Hebrew text is the result of some kind of bacterial corrosion, then this is "Approach to Science"; ...But the dentist no longer pursues this matter. The pagans don’t know what to end, and the story seems to have to end like this—an end that can’t be counted as an end. No wonder Larry asked with dissatisfaction: What happened later? and after?
He can't get the "end" of this story, because it doesn't have an end. Just as he struggles to find answers to various questions in life: "If he doesn't give us the answers, why should we feel these questions?"
Life is not an arithmetic problem. You can write a piece of it if you fill a blackboard with it. , Until you get a correct and pleasing equation; life is not a novel, you can put a period and insert a page break after writing a paragraph; you can ask a hundred questions about the helpless life, but you can’t get half of it. Answer. In arithmetic problems, "no solution" is also a kind of solution, and the "no solution" in life is not reassuring at all.
Why would she betray me? Why did he refuse to divorce? Why don’t people around me understand me? Why go to school? Why do you want to believe? Why are the chocolate-flavored ice cream sold out every time it reaches me?
There is no answer.
For the life of a dog's blood, we must first bravely admit that "we can't know everything", and then go gliding in the mood of "Who Cares". Feel that there are too many problems in your life? Think about who asked those questions.
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