Happy new year

Well, though it is about 6 days into the new year, I thought I might still wish everyone Happy New Year. May it be a blessed year for all.

I just got home from watching "I am Legend." Wow! I really think that Will Smith has a chance at the Oscars for this movie. It is scary to think of that kind of a future; where we become little better than animals...Smith said something about how their humanity seemed to be loss in one scene. So what defines our humanity? Is it our intelligence - "Cogito ergo sum" or "I think therefore I am" as espoused by Descartes. But somehow something still lacks and this is clearly seen in the movie where the pack leader managed to use his intelligence to lure Smith and trapped him just as he had trapped the woman of the pack.

So I wondered if the movie might offer an answer - and the answer came when the woman saved Smith. There was the dialogue where she implied that Smith might also have lost some of his humanity. Their argument when he clearly stated his disbelief that there was God. Faith and hope were things the woman had and Smith lost along the way. Faith and hope in God, that He is there to guide.

Anyway, it was a good movie if a little scary.

Peace,
Sid