Tonight was "stupid movie" night at my house with my sisters. Every now and then we are just in the mood for a stupid movie, and tonight was such a night. Stupid movie indeed. The choice for this nights stupidity was "The Bulletproof Monk". I think the title speaks for itself. Actually it started out with the makings of a "good, stupid movie", but went downhill from there and descended to the level of "so stupid we can't hardly stand to watch it but we have to know how it ends even if it ends stupidly"! Phew, well, stupid or not, it did give me some food for musing, so it wasn't worthless. I have always been fascinated with the concept of reality, and what truly is reality. I guess it is why I love "Matrix" so very much, as it has all those mind boggling "what if" concepts going on.

The major theme of this was very "Matrix" oriented in the line of, if you truly "believe" and know that, for example, water is no different in substance than earth or water, then you could walk on it like stepping on a stone, or swim through it like swimming through water. So it is our belief that defines reality, or at least allows us to play with it a bit. If I could choose what to believe and make it so, what would I believe? I would believe in reincarnation because it makes the most logical sense to me. It makes good sense to me that a person cannot get it right the first go around, and would need more than a few to make good on life. If I could choose to believe, I would look at a butterfly and see what I've been seeing all along but didn't see because I had been taught not to see it--that it is really a fairy. That's a start anyway, certainly I'd like to do something about world peace and harmony, but I think the believing only works on yourself. I can't believe a person into believing they can change reality. I guess that is the sad part. Still, its movies like the Matrix, myths of our culture, that at least are saying to people...you do have choices, even though it doesn't always seem like it, you do have choices--choose wisely, the red pill, or the blue pill?