Let me first address this ongoing Haiti catastrophe. I feel very, very bad for these people. On the news today, there was speculation that the government may have caused the earthquakes due to military testing. This wouldn't be the first time any political power has destroyed a people and caused a natural disaster. Do your research people. (i.e. Puerto Rico...Guatemala...Cuba...etc etc)
Meanwhile, we have all these Bible beaters going around saying that this happened to Haiti due to their lack of belief in God....or I should say...in A God rather than the gods. Sigh. The amount of ignorance I've encountered is just..... there's a lack of words to describe it.... Let's just say this... Before monotheism ever existed or became an idea...there was polytheism. I'm just going to leave it at that. (Did you know that the story of Noah's Ark was around during SUMERIAN times..... and yes...there is archaeological evidence to suggest that there was in fact an Ark....)
There's nothing that anyone in Haiti did to deserve such destruction. It's ridiculous, unfair and unjust. And if it wasn't caused by a political force...well...guys it just happens. And it's our chance to actually DO something for others rather than just watch things happen to them.
Anyway, on that note, I went to see The Book of Eli...and while I was saddened by Denzel's injuries in the movie...I can't say I was impressed it...especially the ending. Actually, I was quite unimpressed. I should have paid for Up in the Air (which I snuck into). While that movie had a depressing ending...the entire storyline was excellent. I think The Book of Eli was lacking a little something...and I felt that it was tooooo easily done....And I'm not talking special effects....I just mean it was too short of a movie for it to evoke any true feeling in me other than the aforementioned sadness at Denzel's injuries... I just expected something spectacular to happen and honestly memorizing the book, even if it IS the Holy Bible...is not impressive... (see previous blog on Autistic children - I'm sure there are a couple out there that can memorize each and every scripture backwards and forwards). Anyway, I'll re-judge that movie after I read that book...because it was in fact based on a novel. I haven't seen The Road yet...but I did read the novel by Cormac McCarthy that it was based on...and THAT storyline had a much more powerful and enlightening message.... Anyone who has read the books and/or seen the movies.... will understand why I've compared the two. Similar "end of the world" storylines...but they went somewhere entirely different in their "what if's." The Road was just FILLED with hope that The Book of Eli just lacked. Again, I will judge further once I've read The Book of Eli and seen the movie adaptation of The Road.
Well that's enough gibberish for today....I had a couple of other thoughts but sometimes some things are better left unsaid!
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