If you want to stimulate yourself, or check your desire index, then you can go to a place in Beijing. A few days ago, when I parked in the underground parking lot of the most luxurious shopping mall in Beijing, Yintai Center, I saw Arriving in super-luxury cars around the world, from Land Rover, Jaguar, Maserati to Porsche, I admit, I was a little stunned the moment I stopped, but I told myself it was all an illusion and it will pass. I say a cliché to myself: Desires should be channeled rationally, and all that you see will be corrupt. When I got home, I passed the Batong Expressway, and after paying the 10 yuan express fee, I was in a traffic jam for 2 hours. Finally, I dragged my tired body back home and sat in front of the TV at night, watching it. Eddy, the hero of "Limitless", went from being down to being stronger and finally developed. This movie is really entertaining, entertaining enough to make us marvel at the magical ability of this medicine, while ignoring other things, what should be alert is the desire of the protagonist. A down-and-out third-rate novelist, his desires continue to expand and climb, from writing novels, to stockbrokers, to financial investments, and finally to running for Congress.
What is desire? What are legitimate desires? Like you, I don't have the time to discuss these serious topics. The price of pork has risen again, the subway has rear-ended again, and there are many things to worry about. I only like entertainment, not thinking. But desire is there, you don't have to look for it, it's crouching in every corner of our lives. Will jump out at any time, scratch us, tear us, swallow us, desire is an express train, you think you will get to the next stop, but it never stops, one stop after another, there is no end, Even a sudden rear-end or as the title of the movie never ends.
After watching this film, many people sighed, "If only I had this medicine, I would like to take another college entrance examination, civil service examination, fall in love, etc. The paradox is that once you start the first pill, it seems that there is a pill. The seeds are permanently planted, and you can never stop. The second and third films, like in the film, all people who take it cannot avoid bad luck. Either the body and soul are tortured to death, or they are hunted and slaughtered.
The logic at the beginning of the movie is very similar to the Genesis scene in the Western classic "Bible". God created Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden was pure and clean, man and God lived in harmony, and man was pure and good without sin. However, one day, the snake said to Eve, eat will not die, just like God. Eve was a little moved. From the time Eve was tempted by the snake to steal the first forbidden fruit, she wanted to satisfy a hidden desire in her heart, that is, she would be as wise and capable as God after eating it. The first sin was committed, and since then mankind has embarked on the path of sin, and various sins have never stopped until today. And the wages of sin is death, which is exactly as predicted in the film. Although in the real world, we can't buy such a magical drug as NZT, this is a world full of other "drugs", everywhere, fake education, fake drugs, anti-aging cosmetic surgery, fast weight loss, clenbuterol , Sudan red, sheep placenta, stimulants, once you use it, once you rely on it, once you worship it, you can make the product more popular, make the product more attractive, make people look more attractive, and quickly improve their abilities, etc. . Although the ability is not as exaggerated as NZT, you can still get it for a small price. Such medicines and choices are everywhere, and it's the choices you make that matter.
God gives human beings the right to choose freely, just like the protagonist in "Faust", he chose to sell his soul to the devil, so as to be more beautiful, wiser, more capable, and more prosperous. Joining gives you a chance to choose. Do you choose to let a medicine expand and extend your desires, continuously satisfy one desire after another, or fill in the emptiness of your life? Needless to say, wealth does not make people happy and satisfied. There is emptiness that haunts people's hearts, and emptiness can make people hungry and thirsty. It is not satisfied by material things, not by fame, and not by love.
In the Bible, Jesus declared: If you drink the water that I will give you, you will never be thirsty. The water I will give will be in him a wellspring of springs up to everlasting life.
Has anyone ever made such a declaration that drinking his water will never be thirsty? Jesus even declared: I am the way, the truth, and the life.
Did something go wrong? ! Let's look at the original text in the Gospel of John, the original text of the Bible.
[John 4:7] A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, Give me water to drink.
[John 4:8] At that time the disciples went into the city to buy food.
[John 4:9] And the Samaritan woman said to him, Since you are a Jew, how can you ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water? It turned out that the Jews and the Samaritans did not communicate.
[John 4:10] Jesus answered and said, If you had known the gift of God, and who it was that told you to give me water to drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.
[John 4:11] The woman said, "My master has no utensils to draw water, and the well is deep. Where do you get living water?"
[John 4:12] Our father Jacob left this well to us. He himself and his sons and livestock drink from this well. Are you older than him?
[John 4:13] Jesus answered and said, Whoever drinks this water will be thirsty again.
{John 4:14} Anyone who drinks the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water I will give will be in him a wellspring of springs up to everlasting life.
[John 4:15] The woman said, Sir, please give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty, nor use it so far to fetch it.
[John 4:16] Jesus said, Go and have your husband come here too.
[John 4:17] The woman said, I have no husband. Jesus said, you're right that you don't have a husband.
[John 4:18] You already have five husbands. What you have now is not your husband. Your words are true.
[John 4:19] The woman said, Sir, I see that you are a prophet.
[John 4:20] Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain. Instead, you say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.
[John 4:21] And Jesus said, Woman, believe me, for the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
[John 4:22] You do not know what you worship. What we worship, we know. Because salvation comes from the Jews.
[John 4:23] The time is coming, and now is it, when those who truly worship the Father will worship him in spirit and in truth, for the Father wants such people to worship him.
【John 4:24】God is a spirit (or no word), so those who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.
[John 4:25] And the woman said, I know that the Messiah, who is called Christ, is coming. He has come and will tell us everything.
[John 4:26] Jesus said, It is he who speaks to you.
[John 4:27] When the disciples came back, they were amazed that Jesus was talking to a woman. Just no one said, what do you want? Or, why are you talking to her?
[John 4:28] The woman left the water jug behind and went into the city, and said to the crowd,
[John 4:29] Come and see, there is a man who has told me all that I have ever done. , Could it be that this is Christ?
[John 4:30] The crowd went out of the city to Jesus.
[John 4:31] During this time, the disciples said to Jesus, Rabbi, please eat.
[John 4:32] Jesus said, I have food to eat, which you do not know.
[John 4:33] The disciples asked each other, Did someone give him something to eat?
[John 4:34] Jesus said, My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work.
[John 4:35] Don't you say that there are still four months before the harvest? I tell you, lift up your eyes to the field and see that the harvest is ripe and ready to be harvested.
[John 4:36] The reapers get their wages, and they store up grain for eternal life. Let the sower and the reaper rejoice together.
[John 4:37] As the saying goes, the man sows, and the man reaps, and this proves to be true.
[John 4:38] I sent you to reap what you have not labored for. Others labor, and you enjoy their labor.
[John 4:39] Many Samaritans in that city believed in Jesus, because the woman testified that he told me all that I ever did.
[John 4:40] So the Samaritans came to Jesus and asked him to stay with them. He stayed there for two days.
[John 4:41] Because of the words of Jesus, many more believed.
[John 4:42] And he said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of your word, but because we have heard it ourselves, and know that this is really the savior of the world.
[John 4:43] After those two days, Jesus left the place and went to Galilee.
References: From the Bible
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