[Yesterday’s run: 7 miles; today: 0]<\/p>\n
We watched a new movie yesterday, from the RedBox rental, called Lucy<\/a> and starring Scarlett Johansson<\/a>, and Morgan Freeman<\/a>.<\/p>\n It was an interesting movie.\u00a0 It is rated R for violence and some sex.\u00a0 I didn’t think it was over the top or abusive on the sex side but probably was on the violence side.<\/p>\n Anyway, not one for the kiddies.\u00a0 The reason I’m bringing it up is the conclusion.<\/p>\n The story is like this:\u00a0 Johansson as Lucy is forced to be a drug mule.\u00a0 But she gets beat up and the drugs get into her system.\u00a0 That gives her super-hero type abilities.\u00a0 And the formative question of the movie is what she should do with these abilities.\u00a0\u00a0 Morgan Freeman’s character tells her that learning and sharing knowledge is the purpose of life. Lucy pretty much takes that and runs with it.<\/p>\n I enjoyed the fact that they brought the issue up.\u00a0 Spiderman wrestles with what he should do with his spider powers.\u00a0 Some of the superheroy types seem to care and some don’t.<\/p>\n I thought Johansson did a great job in the acting.\u00a0 In the first part she is clearly terrified.\u00a0 She does terrified really well.\u00a0 The second part she is kind of an automaton: not much emotion, giving the impression that she is dealing with a completely foreign situation.\u00a0 In one scene the director has her go back to her apartment and talk to her roommate.\u00a0 You get the sense that she used to be exactly like that, but now she is tremendously changed.<\/p>\n But back to the meaning of life… Solomon said that finding and sharing knowledge is not the purpose of life.\u00a0 And that is sensible if you admit the less-knowledgeable can have a purposeful life.<\/p>\n One of the ways I think you can compare world-views, philosophies about the meaning of life, is to consider those not at the pinnacle of achievement.\u00a0 Do you allow that they have purpose in addition to just being a step stool for the people at the “top”\u00a0 (wherever we define the top to be)?\u00a0 I think that feature is one of the distinguishing marks of Christianity: dummies are allowed, the child-like are important.<\/p>\n Another interesting statement in the movie is that existence is defined by time.\u00a0 I’m not sure if I buy that but I found it interesting.\u00a0 I’m on a mailing list for people who measure time, which I got on to while working in my GPSDO.\u00a0 There are some people on there who are on the bleeding edge of the time-measurement world.\u00a0 I’m told that time is the most precisely measured fundamental dimension of our world.\u00a0 Many other “standard” measurements are derived from time.\u00a0 So that hit my interest, but I don’t think I agree that it is the definition of our existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Yesterday’s run: 7 miles; today: 0] We watched a new movie yesterday, from the RedBox rental, called Lucy and starring Scarlett Johansson, and Morgan Freeman. It was an interesting movie.\u00a0 It is rated R for violence and some sex.\u00a0 I didn’t think it was over the top or abusive on the sex side but probably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4702"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4707,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions\/4707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}