All your efforts are just to make life better, but no one tells you what a better life is. So what can the so-called reason, logic and belief you follow tell you?
The Sin
of Reason points out the unreliability of reason in the first commandment of Kirislovsky's "Ten Commandments". The thickness of it can bear the weight of a child, so the child went skating, and the tragedy happened. Similarly, Larry, a physics professor who can deduce Schrödinger's formula meticulously, still can't deduce the next step in his life, and all kinds of inexplicable things in life make him extremely frustrated. In the dream, his beloved mathematical theory was reprimanded by the "troublemakers" in his life as "the art of proving the possibility", because he could not use mathematical formulas to deduce life, on the contrary, those who did not understand mathematics could To better grasp the context of their lives. For example, his students can't use mathematics to deduce the principle of "cat", but they can use a letter with coins to influence the next step of the physics professor's life. There are countless such examples in life. Countless philosophers and poets who conceived of "poetic dwelling" are more embarrassed than each other to interpret their own lives. The so-called "vulgar and vulgar" people, but one by one, spring is boundless, and life is free.
The Sin of Logic
It stands to reason that a rational life attitude should deduce a "logical life". But many times this is not the case. Just like the plot of Larry taking bribes in the film: if you don't admit to receiving money and don't change your grades, you will be sued for "bribery" because there is evidence; if you sue a student for bribes, you will be sued for "defamation". Please accept this amazing fact. Obviously, this is a typical Catch 22. Think about the miraculous things that have happened in China in the past two years, such as push-ups, swordsman Yang, seventy yards, handcuffs on banknotes, drinking water to die, etc., which is not miraculous? The so-called logic is only the epitaph of the weak, and the absurd is the pass of the strong.
Sin of Faith
Since reason is so unreliable, we have to resort to faith. Ironically, the film highlights the weakness of religious belief through a series of seemingly absurd events and "Q&A"-style religious answers. Which one are you worried about? The first rabbi said that all that happened was God expressing his will, and that was life; the second rabbi was even more hilarious, refused to provide an answer, after telling a 'pagan tooth' story , said that life is like a toothache, and I don’t know when the pain will stop. In short, there is no answer to all the questions; the third and higher rabbi refused to appear. This is really a cup of irony. There are also many movies in history that question the possibility of religion. For example, the Korean movie "Miryang" faces an ethical dilemma: the God who believes in his heart actually forgives the murderer of his son "privately". where?
Serious people
actually, "I am a serious man" translated as "I am a principled person" is more suitable. Whether in movies or in real life, there will be many people on many occasions, or frowning or slamming the table, or pondering or saying "I am a principled person", but the ending is often Very comedic. However, in any case, when they lay in the coffin, they were always called "principled people" in the eulogy that was read, but they couldn't hear it.
A physicist has said that we live in a quantum many-world where we choose our own path through participation. In this world we live in, there are no hidden variables, God doesn't play dice, but everything is real. over.
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