16 Jul 19
@ghost-of-a-duke saidActually, I had no issues with ET.
Hulk.
(Suzianne will flip. She had issues with ET).
It's just that when I saw that movie for the first time, I was young, and just saw an entertaining movie. I made no connection then with the religious, or for FMF, the spiritual.
16 Jul 19
@suzianne said'Religion' and 'Spirituality' may overlap but they are not synonymous. You just fluffed it when you did not discern this from the way the OP was worded. Ever since, you have been trying pass off your little error as mine, when it's not.
Please explain to me why "religious messages" are not "spiritual messages".
16 Jul 19
@suzianne saidI think ET arguably does have a spiritual message, as Ghost of a Duke has suggested. But there's no reason to think anyone would see a religious message in it, least of all an atheist like Ghost of a Duke. Unless someone reading this thread thinks it does?
Actually, I had no issues with ET.
16 Jul 19
@fmf saidI liked it when the kid called his sibling “penis breath” which was at the time a shocking but humorous splinter of domestic reality seemingly inadvertently shoved into an otherwise sandwich of typical Spielbergian American sentimentality and directorial emotive self-indulgence.
I think ET arguably does have a spiritual message, as Ghost of a Duke has suggested. But there's no reason to think anyone would see a religious message in it, least of all an atheist like Ghost of a Duke. Unless someone reading this thread thinks it does?
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16 Jul 19
@suzianne saidI like films that operate on a number of levels and speak to both child and adult. This was also the case in the earlier seasons of the Simpsons. (Before the writers lost their way).
Actually, I had no issues with ET.
It's just that when I saw that movie for the first time, I was young, and just saw an entertaining movie. I made no connection then with the religious, or for FMF, the spiritual.
20 Jul 19
With all the current discussion in this forum about the point of things, I felt to add the 1971 cartoon/film
The Point
Great story and music by Harry Nilsson and narration by Ringo Starr. It's jist is that, its ok not to affix a point to things, even if everyone else does or if things appear strange without one.
20 Jul 19
@hakima saidIt was a book we were made to read when I was about 11. It was a good choice. It has a compelling effect on a young mind. Others were Reach For The Sky, Cider With Rosie, Call Of The Wild.
It appears so.
I have neither read the book nor seen the movie; one to add to my list. Thank you for the tip.