One must remember that some of the most astounding leaps in human knowledge came from within a framework wherein scientific inquiry and rigorous spiritual discipline were not separated. See: Islamic, Chinese, and Indian science. It is a relatively recent advent that science became segregated to the ...

thegreypilgrim wrote:I've never had a serious drug problem, but it probably is better than the sort of withdrawal I'm going through right now.

See the film again. That's what I'm going to do.

My fourth time watching it, there were sequences where I just closed my eyes and listened to the music.

Key to remember that much of religious language is necessarily metaphorical. It is an attempt to use constructs and touchstones we understand to communicate ideas and observations about God (the Great Unknown, Essence, the Beyond) to finite, sensory bound beings. The word 'meta' literally means 'bey...

MiracleSleeper2 wrote:

ras_al_deacon wrote:
Our destiny lies above (and within) us.

You just stated the most important thing in life. And I'm being serious.

This sentiment, combined with the notion of time as a resource, are part of why Interstellar affected me so profoundly.

It's also a big 'f*ck you' to Christianity and religion in the sense that it's Science and Technology that saves the human race, and not God or faith. God created science In all seriousness... Many debate over the question of: Is science a product of God? Or is God a product of Science? In my own o...

Nor did I.

First of all, the film is not a fuck you to either science or religion because it merges scientific exploration with the 'unknown.' The unknown, the numinous, the divine, is what religions establish a path towards through spiritual discipline. The notion of discipline being necessary to attain some ...

Brand says... "time might be a valley they can descend or a mountain they can climb up"

That should give a clue as to how time travel might actually work.

Cowardly? I disagree with that. Take a moment to consider what it takes, mentally, to actually go about killing another human being. You're willing to do what's considered the most immoral act in life, in order to protect all life. This may sound 'odd', but I would imagine it would take a tremendou...

I think the character is perfect at presenting one of the underlying themes of the movie in that the human species at its core is selfish . We will do anything, perhaps even something we know is bad in order to survive. Nah, I disagree heavily. Of course this is just my opinion but to me Mann didn'...