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I've been reading books and watching movies lately, and perhaps because of the subject material, or just my own currrent frame of mind, I've had that one question whirling around upstairs.
I like to read, but I sure don't like to spend a lot of money on something that I'm going to tear through in an hour or so. I got Out Of Silence at a reuse store: I should have been out 19.99 Cdn, but instead I only had to drop 3.99. I was in a hurry though, and I really didn't spend much time looking through it. I thought it was going to be more narrative, but it's turned out to be more educational as well.... not that there's anything wrong with that. The book introduces ideas about the formation of language and speech, and discusses autism and the history of understanding it, as well as looking at it from a personal level.
I also rented a slew of movies from Ballbuster, and this was one of them. Some would claim it was a Donnie Darko rip-off, but I've always loved Ryan Gosling and the way he acts. In this story, too, there's questions about how we percieve things, and what we do not remember. A movie about happiness and sadness, light and dark: all the better to tweak my brain.
What makes us individuals? Is it how we percieve things or express them? Is what we understand and how we process information that different from the next person? Is my reality any bit similar to your reality and if not, why not? I wonder if I would have been as impressed with both the movie that I rented and the book I bought, if I had not been involved with the two stories at the same time?
And just to top it all off, I added a late night showing of Dragonfly, which, while not the greatest movie of all time, was the cherry on my existential buffet. Death and the afterlife is always a heavy topic, and one that I usually shy away from. I'm not scared of ghosts, or fear a trip to the depths of Hell, but it keeps me in my head too long when I start to think about it. Take that how you will.
All it takes is six hours of a certain combination of information, and I'm ready to consider that one question.
I like to read, but I sure don't like to spend a lot of money on something that I'm going to tear through in an hour or so. I got Out Of Silence at a reuse store: I should have been out 19.99 Cdn, but instead I only had to drop 3.99. I was in a hurry though, and I really didn't spend much time looking through it. I thought it was going to be more narrative, but it's turned out to be more educational as well.... not that there's anything wrong with that. The book introduces ideas about the formation of language and speech, and discusses autism and the history of understanding it, as well as looking at it from a personal level.
I also rented a slew of movies from Ballbuster, and this was one of them. Some would claim it was a Donnie Darko rip-off, but I've always loved Ryan Gosling and the way he acts. In this story, too, there's questions about how we percieve things, and what we do not remember. A movie about happiness and sadness, light and dark: all the better to tweak my brain.
What makes us individuals? Is it how we percieve things or express them? Is what we understand and how we process information that different from the next person? Is my reality any bit similar to your reality and if not, why not? I wonder if I would have been as impressed with both the movie that I rented and the book I bought, if I had not been involved with the two stories at the same time?
And just to top it all off, I added a late night showing of Dragonfly, which, while not the greatest movie of all time, was the cherry on my existential buffet. Death and the afterlife is always a heavy topic, and one that I usually shy away from. I'm not scared of ghosts, or fear a trip to the depths of Hell, but it keeps me in my head too long when I start to think about it. Take that how you will.
All it takes is six hours of a certain combination of information, and I'm ready to consider that one question.
