Fly me to the moon.

Fly me to the moon
Let me swing among those stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars
...
In other words please be true...

In my whole life, I daresay I've watched thousand over movies. But movies that really resonates and reaches deep within your inner conscience are few and rare. I shall talk more on a recent production The Seven Psychopaths. It is a rather dark movie but it gives off a vibe that really touches on humanity issues. Like the Vietnamese Monk story. The Vietnamese monk was actually visualising a fictional background story where he was once a soldier in the Vietnam war with the Americans and during that period, the Americans had slaughtered his family and burned down his village. Seeking vengeance, he kidnapped a American prostitute and tied explosives to her. Just when he was about to blast the prostitute into smithereens at a US convention meeting, the prostitute shocked the Vietnamese monk with just one Vietnamese sentence. "Brother this wont bring us peace." When the monk regain his sense, the prostitute was actually a fellow monk trying to persuade him to give up self-immolation. Yet the Vietnamese monk just reply calmly. "It might" And then he burned to death. That was the best scene in the entire movie. The other stories are just as interesting but this scene just really gets me thinking. What is life really about? Do we really have a purpose for our existence? I am not a Christian. But recently, a good friend of mine is trying to expose me more on Christianity. I have to say I actually really like the idea. Not that I believe in God. But the beliefs and ideals behind the religion is really enlightening. The worst part that I don't really adore is the Anti-Christ. I don't really get the fact that to attain a ticket to heaven, one must believe in Christ or you're, well I can't put it in any other ways, fucked. So non-believers must be screwed and condemn to hell. I have personally met non-Christians are just as sincere and true to people and Christians, who by default should have been abiding by God's rule book "The Bible", that are mean and callous. So apparently everyone was born a sinner. So no matter what you do, you can only sin more and as long as you confess to a pastor God washes away your sin. This is utter... I just don't get this part. Why are everyone born sinners? Why can't everyone be non-sinners and when you do the crime, you pay the time? Don't get me wrong, I believe in second chances. But the fact that redemption is simply believing just sounds like the easy way out. What about philanthropist and charitable people who have give their all to mankind and society their entire lives? Are they to be condemn to hell just because they are non-Christians? I really appreciate the fact that Christianity should be more open-minded. I believe that sometimes, some Christians really think that they are superior to others, judging by the fact that they have God behind their back. It is because of this religious disparity in society, that I think leads to people questioning the authencity behind Christianity. I really like Christianity in some ways, but in other ways, it makes me just really dispirited. Lets just say that I agree to disagree, yet sometimes blindly agreeing is even more lacking in purpose than to disagree and to question. Life is just a play, and we are all actors. We control our destiny. But Christianity may change it that we are all chess pieces on a gigantic chess board called the Earth playing a game of life. And our fates are predestined from the start, whether should we be the Emperor, noble and royal, or perhaps a simple pawn, destined to forever serve under the Emperor and when the need arrives, to even die for the Emperor. We could be the rook, forever walking down the same route faithfully, or we could be the bishop, concepts and beliefs twisted, intentionally travelling diagonally. We could even be knights, limited movement to only certain spots, just like in life where we are bounded by limits, be it mentally or physically. This is not a rant on Christianity. Do no be offended Christians. This is just my personal opinion on life. Whether should we be bounded by a religion, or carefree as an atheist is to each his choice...