Search: All languages | Full text
vtpanther posted “Those who seek justice, fall prey to it” | 5 days ago
The Reckoning is a morality play performed for us by a troupe of Medieval morality players. It is a movie about speaking truth to power and the complexity of such acts when the speaker too is guilty of something. “Those who seek justice, fall prey to it,” a falsely accused woman’s father...
vtpanther posted “You are asking us to accept predictions as evidence” | Dec 25, 2009
In the movie, Conspiracy, a group of German officers is portrayed, sitting around a table deciding the fate of Europe’s Jews. In Masterpiece theater’s God on Trial, a group of Jewish men, the consequence of the decisions made in Conspiracy, sits around a blockhouse at Auschwitz deciding the fate...
PappawJack posted Why Religion was Invented | Dec 21, 2009
Religion is the crutch that many people seem to need to enable them to treat each other the way they should. It's too bad that it seems to require belief in things for which there is no evidence. It need not be so. We could all lead an ethically proper and moral life without ever professing belief...
vtpanther posted One Day. One Decision. 167 Lives. | Dec 18, 2009
Illinois Governor George H. Ryan had a decision to make. It involved 167 death row inmates in Illinois. Two and a half days before going out of office as governor, he commuted the sentences of all those that Illinois courts had determined deserved death. Deadline (2004) is a documentary that traces...
