Favorite movie pick: 'They Live '

Here is one of my favorite movies of all time. If you don't have time to watch the whole thing, be sure to check out the various clips on Youtube (some included below). Great movie! (Except the ridiculously long fight scene, which was obviously included because the actors are professional wrestlers.)

"I've got one that can see." Indeed.

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|2011-12-17 16:09:52 Terry Binkley - Good Movie!

Hi Acharya,
I agree that "They Live" is a very good movie! I think that John Carpenter was trying to get a serious message across by means of a sci-fi/comic-type movie. It is reminiscent of the old Bugs Bunny cartoons that were funny, but often had socio-political messages worked into the stories that went right over the heads of the kids, and probably many of the adults who saw them. I also want to say that I recently read "The Christ Conspiracy" and found it to be fascinating and very thought-provoking. I had an "epiphany" myself a couple of years ago while reading the story in the Bible (Judges 15:4), about how Samson tied the tails of 300 foxes together and put a firebrand between each of them and turned them loose in the corn fields of the Philistines. Being an avid reader of Norse mythology, it suddenly dawned on me, (I was raised as a fundamentalist Christian), that this also had to be mythology. I can see now that no one knows for sure how we, or our universe, came into being, and that religions are merely an expression of each culture's attempt to understand or explain things that we just don't, and possibly can't, understand. It has been a very liberating experience for me and allowed me to see the world in a much less biased way. Thank you for your contribution to the enlightenment of the world on this most divisive of issues!
Sincerely,
Terry Binkley
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|2011-12-17 23:17:22 Acharya S

Thank you for the excellent message, Terry. I couldn't have said it better myself.

It's very gratifying to know that there are others out there "getting it."

I appreciate the novel example as well, Judges 15:4:

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And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.

My immediate thought about the 300 "foxes" is that they are solar divisions, especially since Samson is demonstrably the sun. We know that the ancients believed the days of the year to be equivalent to the degrees in a circle, which they had devised: 360. If each of those "firebrands" - fire being a very old solar symbol, for obvious reasons - were placed between every fifth instead of every second "fox," the result would be a circle of 360 degrees or a year of 360 days.

If this story does not constitute solar mythology to this extent at least, one wonders where such a bizarre tale really comes from. It doesn't seem likely to be real "history": One man controlling 300 foxes in the wild in such a manner? Is that scientifically possible? If not, the writer is relying on the supernatural, which we cannot accept merely on its face and which tosses us back into allegory and myth.

I always encourage critical thought in such instances, and it's nice to see others doing likewise.

Cheers.
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