I Am Dude
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I don't know if anyone has ever heard of the movie Waking Life, but it may be the best movie ever made. Its basically about a dude who's stuck in a dream, and just wakes up into other dreams. Its filled with philosophies and very interesting topics. But the one of relavance to this website is when the main character talks to a person who has finished his life on earth, and realizes why he was sent here and where he's going next. His entire dialogue is taken right from Robert Monroe's book Ultimate Journey. I read that book a year after watching the movie, and was blown away that his lines came from the book and they were talking about the same exact thing. The quote was..
"A thousand years is but an instant. There's nothing new, nothing different. The same pattern over and over. The same clouds, the same music, the same insight I felt an hour or an eternity ago. There's nothing here for me now, nothing at all. Now I remember. This happened to me before. This is why I left. You have begun to find your answers. Although it will seem difficult, the rewards will be great. Exercise your human mind as fully as possible, knowing it is only an exercise. Build beautiful artifacts, solve problems, explore the secrets of the physical universe, savor the input from all the senses, feel the joy and sorrow, the laughter, the empathy, compassion and tote the emotional memory in your travel bag. I remember where I came from and how I became a human, why I hung around, and now my final departure is scheduled. This way out. Escaping velocity. Not just eternity, but infinity."
This is probably my favorite quote ever. Everyone would enjoy this movie, watch it fools.
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