Originally posted by Danger MouseOf course he was an alien. 🙂
So who has seen K-Pax?
I saw it for the first time yesterday and thought it was a great film.
Any opinions on whether he was a strange deluded individual or whether he was an alien?
~ Cheshire Cat 😀
P.S. I thought that this was one of his best roles. 🙂
Originally posted by Danger Mouse
So who has seen K-Pax?
I saw it for the first time yesterday and thought it was a great film.
Any opinions on whether he was a strange deluded individual or whether he was an alien?
I really liked it, have seen it like four times.
The movie intimates that when the guy gets in trouble, he calls on K-Pax to come help him, as if he inhabits his body -- when he leaves, for instance, the guy is left as a hollow shell. Yet, when talking to the psychotherapist, he tells him he looks like he does because it's the most energy-efficient form -- like a bubble. I think that's sort of paradoxical.
Anyway, I don't think anyone could know what he showed the astronomers, so I say alien.
-f
Originally posted by Danger Mousekpax is one of our all time fav films!
So who has seen K-Pax?
I saw it for the first time yesterday and thought it was a great film.
Any opinions on whether he was a strange deluded individual or whether he was an alien?
"every being in the universe knows the difference between right and wrong, mark"
i think prot was a kpaxian.
in friendship,
prad
Alien. Of course.
The most interesting thing was his theory of the universe at the end:
We live the same lives over and over again, because the universe is an ever repeating loop.
This was my pet theory at university. It is beautiful because it solves the philosophical problem of how did the universe begin : It has always been there.
Also it make nonsensical concepts such as God well and truly redundant.
Empirically it is borne out by astonomical observations such as the universe's rate of expansion is decreasing, leading to an eventual collapse and thus the start of the next identical cycle.
PERFECT!!
Originally posted by dataBURNSo you would have God in place to create the universe?
Its fine to say that something is in a recurring/recursive loop.
But doesn't something have to be in place before the loop can start ?
Therefore how can you quantify God as nonsense ?
Fine. Now how did God come into existence? Oh, he's always been there, has he? You are stuck with the same problem that you attempted to overcome!
The universe's cycle is ever repeating. It has always been there. The loop is ever repeating, infinitely.
Logically this makes sense as you cannot create something from nothing. A total vacuum will ever remain so without external forces.
Far be it from me to proclaim that there's a God. I'm not.
Your now mixing the beliefs of faith and understanding of science. And so far as falible humans, we have said that these do not complement each other.
Science has said "big bang" or repeating loop. And faith has said that God is not a part of this universe - it is his creation.
I dont think these are comparable.
You believe one or the other.
I did not mix faith and science. I used science to refute faith and the concept of God.
You were the one defending the idea of God.
The true answer is not Big bang OR ever repeating cycle as you suggest. Rather, it is a hybrid of the two. It is a infinite loop whose starting point is punctuated by each identical big bang when the universe collapses into itself. This is when all the matter in the universe collides together, probably at the speed of light.
Originally posted by howardgee
I did not mix faith and science. I used science to refute faith and the concept of God.
You were the one defending the idea of God.
The true answer is not Big bang OR ever repeating cycle as you suggest. Rather, it is a hybrid of the two. It is a infinite loop whose starting point is punctuated by each identical big bang when the universe collapses ...[text shortened]... This is when all the matter in the universe collides together, probably at the speed of light.
...and you know this...how? I'd say that from your vantage point, you might as well be deaf, dumb, and blind.
-f