Ingedeeld onder: Movie Religion | Tags: Atheist, Bucket List, Entertainment, Jack Nicholson, Logic, Morgan Freeman, movie, Proof, Religion
Religion is a part of our life, every day we are confronted with it. Last night I was watching The Bucket List a new movie with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. It’s a movie about two old men who both have some form of cancer and only have a year to live. They decide to make a list of things to do before they die, a bucket list.
Now let me say this right away the movie really sucks. Now I am a great fan of Jack Nicholson but I have decided to erase this movie from my memory after I have written this.
Well anyway after they skydive and drive a Shelby they travel the world with Jack Nicholson’s private jet. Morgan Freeman is sleeping and Jack is banging some stewardess in the plane’s bathroom. After he is done Jack sits down and talks to Morgan. They start talking about faith and god, Morgan Freeman beliefs there is a god but just can’t explain it because it’s a feeling you have. Jack Nicholson on the other hand tells him he has never believed but he wishes he did but logic stands in the way.
After the short and way to civilized discussion about faith Jack Nicholson looks to Morgan Freeman like he was convinced by Morgan. He’s thinking something like “well my best buddy in the whole wide world says there is a god well there must be a god, I’m sure not gonna let logic stand in the way of believing my best buddy”.
But the quote that hurt the most went something like this
Morgan: Well what if you’re wrong
Jack: Then I win
Morgan: I don’t think it works that way
So Jack Nicholson plays a atheist, a successful businessman that made billions doing things exactly his way, but the first time anyone tells him he might be wrong about god he says… well ok you win. Just because someone says he shouldn’t think with his brain but with his heart.
The point is, I don’t know if you ever talked about religion with a religious person but they always say: “it’s a feeling I have, you have to believe without any evidence because that’s faith” and that’s usually the part where I start calling them an idiot, i hope you do too.
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I think you missed the point of the quote. Jack Nicholson doesn’t concede to Morgan Freeman. With “winning” he means “having an afterlife”. He says “I don’t believe in an afterlife, but if i’m wrong, at least i have (win) an afterlife”.
It’s somewhat like a ‘pascals wager’, with the bets inverted: If i’m right, i’m right, if i’m wrong i have an afterlife, so i place my bets like this and win either way.
Comment door burt maart 30, 2008 @ 9:53 pm