i was watching this movie, Romanian – called R.M.N. i don’t think i have watched a Romanian movie in ages. Wait, no, i have watched “Liceenii” (highschoolers) last week, but before that, it’s been quite a long time since I’ve seen one. “Liceenii” is one of those movies that i could watch forever and still feel the same. It’s just that great. A window view into a time not too long past, but which seems an eternity ago. It was a nice time, maybe a little more pure and a little less cluttered. It had it’s weaknesses, like all times in time, but the things that mattered then, look by far superior to the things that matter now, even though matter matters as it wish.
In this movie – R.M.N. – there’s this father seems a little hardened but loves his kid – a 6 years old. He was gone to work to Germany, but now after coming back, spends time with him. Teaches him how to setup traps in the woods, how to build a fire – he’s trying to prepare him for the world, to be able to take care of himself.
One of the scenes in the movie, is when Rudi (the kid) gets lost and everyone is searching for him, so the guy goes to the old quarry where he taught him how to make a fire, to the lake where he was teaching how to make drinkable water out of dirty one, and he finds the kid into the woods, where they previously setup a trap. Now a fox was caught in the trap and struggling and the kid was watching it from afar, but a little close.
Now here’s where it gets interesting. The father took out this machete, and handed it over to the kid without saying a word. i cringed because i was thinking of the worst. The kid raised the machete and cut the rope that was holding the fox in place.
At that moment i did not see that outcome, but i understood.
We come from the Earth and in the Earth, we go. When we come into this world, we are given a young body. Wouldn’t it make sense for what we give back to the Earth to be a body at the peak of its perfection?
Everything in our life is food or various degrees of food. Do we cook with love, in order to show our appreciation for the other person, or do we just eat to survive and carry on?
If everything in our life is food of various degrees, it would only make sense to think of ourselves as food as well, food for the Earth, and ourselves as chefs.
Are we loving enough to prepare a good meal for The Earth to enjoy when the time comes? Will we be proud of our accomplishment? Would we watch in delight as The Earth devours our body with a passion because it’s just that good and you have done a wonderful job?
Are we morally upright enough to consider our body as a debt (i know it’s one we didn’t ask for) that will get paid whether we want it or not. So if we’re here, we might as well pay it back from the perspective of a morally upright person, and give back something that makes us proud.
To me that is a good reason for fitness and taking care of our bodies, that goes beyond just “getting fit” and “healthy lifestyle” “beach body” bla bla. It gives a solid enough meaning for it to become a natural thing.
Reversal:
How do we know what The Earth wants? Is it able to speak in a language we understand, or are we ever even listening? What if he just wants a piece of fatty human to digest?
We consider what would be the best for the Earth, something we believe it’s best for us, but that’s not always the case. Take trees and plants for example, they exhale oxygen which is good for us, and take in CO2, which is not that good for us. That gets us to categorize inhaling and Oxygen as good while CO2 and exhaling as spent and wasted energy. But is it truly wasted when that’s necessary for trees and plants to live? Aren’t we giving them good energy so they can evolve? So why would we label ourselves as creators or waste and spenders of energy, when the more accurate view from my perspective is givers of life and manipulators of energy?
Our standards and our perception of what is good and what is bad might be totally opposite to the things surrounding us. So might as well do as we see fit.
Hot on the heels of my Weakness post, i have come across this video which is presenting a thesis about ordinary people being evil.
i could watch it till the end and make an opinion then, but I’m choosing to deal with parts of it as it unfolds and see where it goes.
Contributing to charity as an ordinary everyday person is Obligatory and not Supererogatory – Here’s where i have a problem: i don’t believe in charity. i don’t believe in charity because it removes the human connection and you have an imbalanced relationship.
The way i see charity and charity organizations is funds being funneled into them, then they are sitting on top, being so kind to the people below. it’s not a level relationship most of the time and how could it be? The people are trying to solve the problems which seem to be water or food or whatever problems seem important at that time, but wouldn’t it be different if funds weren’t funneled into this organization where people have to work for it? What if funds were spread among people that can make a connection with specific people, and each person just helps one person? Wouldn’t that be enough if the effort was focused? Wouldn’t it be a superior approach to actually forge a relationship with the persons in need? How can you know globally as an organization what people need? You definitely don’t Each person has different needs, and people don’t just need to survive, maybe they also want to live.
i see charity as this enormous hamster wheel that’s training people to be obeying and under a wheel and just getting them to survive. Is life worth living if we’re only just surviving? Is life worth living if all we have is just basic necessities and work?
If it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of moral significance, then we must, morally do it.
Hunger, disease and other sources of suffering, disability and death, are very bad.
The luxuries on which we spend money are not of moral significance
By donating money to relief agencies, we could prevent hunger, disease and other sources of suffering, disability and death.
Therefore we must, morally donate the money that we spend on luxuries to relief agencies.
The above seems very short-sighted. Maybe i need coffee in order to write. Maybe i need to drive around in a specific car so i can clear my head and be able to write. Maybe i don’t need to just survive in order to help other people to just survive. What would my motivation be then to do anything great if there’s nothing in this life worth living for because i have to give up on all the perceived luxuries? Maybe there should be a definition of what luxury means and a ceiling, that moves up as the whole world moves up. Maybe that would give a new meaning to “we rise together”.
i have been aware of this, but i consider this a weakness because i have been wrong so many times. i’d watch something and about 1-2-5-10 minutes in, when some part of the content happens to click, I’ll formulate an opinion and do something stupid about it, like writing something, and then by the time it reaches the end, something has changed and what i initially believed becomes irrelevant and i change my mind, but i already did that stupid thing 😅
i know about this, but i keep doing it over and over again 😅 so it’s one of those things i know i have to improve but it seems i’m unsuccessful at.
When i was in the supermarket, had the impulse that i’d like to cook something with aubergines. My mom makes a killer stuffed aubergines with minced meat, so i thought i’d give it a go. So i bought 2 aubergines and a pack of beef and pork minced meat.
When i came home, i had a pan in which i fried some meat the other day, so i obviously reused that to flavor the minced meat even more, which after it was done, i took to the side.
i then chopped a couple of onions and a couple of cayenne peppers, left the seeds in there for heat, and some garlic and put it in the pan on medium heat, so they went frying slowly, while i started carving the insides of the aubergines and chopping them to add them to the fried onions and garlic. i added one big red pepper too, and then i realized that the whole thing was getting too big for the 2 aubergines, so i came up with another idea.
Whipped up my dutch oven, grabbed a zucchini and 4 carrots, chopped them round, and put them at the bottom. Then on top of them, i drizzled half the meat. Then i took the carved aubergines, and i sliced them sideways into pieces and made 2 black suns on top of the meat, and put whatever was left around them. Then dropped in the onion/garlic/peppers mixture on top of the rest of the meat.
Now, i needed some moisture inside the dutch oven but didn’t have any chicken or beef stock at home, so i just filled the frying pan with water, and let it boil a bit, deglazing everything from the bottom, and once it was close to boiling i threw that on top of the layers in the dutch oven, covered it up and put it in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 1 hour.
Once that was finished, i took a whole bunch of parsley and generously put it on top.
For lunch, i made a quick saffron risotto to go along with it. Came out fantastic.
