[Mr. Silverback]

Yep. Philosophy is what it's all about.

[Mr. Silverback]

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[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

Meanwhile, on HBO's 'Sex and the City' the issue debated (and illustrated) was how can a woman persuade her boyfriend to wipe or wash his mouth after he pleasured her with it, before Frech(Freedom)-kissing her.

Also, kids may learn the phylosophical concept of 'defensive f..king'. Both viewable at about 8 p.m. EST or 7 p.m., Central time.

[Search4Truth]

." They "learn that they will only survive through helping one another. DINOSAUR thus embodies the theory of evolutionary psychology that cooperation" -- not competition -- "is a trait of survival of the fittest."

What a wonderful world that would be, for criminals.

In their protected child-like world view, there is no evil. The irony is, if it were not for a lot of brave men, who did not only believe in evil, but were ready to make the ultimate sacrifice to destroy it, all these child-like Bambi worshipers would be slaves to some master or filling a mass grave. They live, only by the virtues of better men than themselves; men who honor their role and responsibilities as men.

There is no more pathetic exmaple of a man, than one who not only rejects his role and responsibility as man, but also actively opposes the efforts of other men who do so on their behalf.

[lilylangtree]

There was a film some years ago entitled "Chances Are" with Robert Downey, Jr., Mary Stuart Masterson and the blonde that played opposite Bruce Willis in a tv detective series. Can't remember her name. The philosophical question that arose out of that movie was: "Are souls created in heaven as unique individual or reprocessed into different lives on earth?"

[Unknowing]

I never had a Philosophy teacher who was not some kind of Leftist activist until I attended grad school at a private university. I notice the propaganda which fills the popular movies, and I usually criticize the gratuitous philosophical orientations underlying certain scenes. Most people with whom I see the movies believe that I go too far in my analysis of the content.

Putting blatant ideological messages in movies, and on TV, usually come across as strident, but the same propaganda effect is often achieved by more subtle methods, as discussed in the article. The "Sex and the City" series, which I have never seen, seems to be a more overt vehicle for "influencing the mores of the nation" in furtherance of the homosexual and Leftist agendas.

The worst offenders are those who adhere to the superiority of evil over good, in that they believe the happiest person to be the most deceitful. Could Socrates ever really refute that argument? In the TV show "Mad About You," the Helen Hunt character supposedly went to Yale and then defaulted on her student loans; her husband, the Paul Reiser character, advised her to misrepresent various facts on her curriculum vitae. They were happy and successful, primarily due to their philosophical orientation that evil is better than good.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The graphics in HULK were good. But it seemed more like a chick flick.

[drjimmy]

For example, in the film CAST AWAY, fate is offered as a God substitute when a FedEx employee is marooned on an island after a plane crash. As Brian Godawa writes in his book, HOLLYWOOD WORLDVIEWS, "God is conspicuously absent . . . [The man] is all alone in a naturalistic universe." In the end, he finds his way back home and meets a woman to replace the one he lost. Thus, Godawa writes, "humanity finds meaning in hope for another human being, and the benevolent impersonal fate will work it all out for us in the end."
This is just silly. Tom Hanks didn't sit back and wait for "fate" to work things out, he made a friggin boat. Would Godawa have preferred Hanks be like the man in the joke who keeps waiting for God to save him from a flood, and rejects the rescuers? Call me a sinner, but I think one of the things that differentiates humans from animals is that we "find meaning in hope for another human being."

[Hegemony Cricket]

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[BritExPatInFla]

As the last line of the article states
" The time for philosophy lessons is BEFORE the children go into the movie, not once the movie starts"

Before anyone starts ranting about the 'evils' of television and motion pictures and the messages they are 'polluting' our childrens' minds with, take a look at how some parents are using movies and TV as a babysitter and not controlling what their kids watch. It all comes down to personal responsibility for raising your children properly and helping to filter out what you may feel is harmful.