RE: The Last Movie You Watched
November 4, 2025 at 6:29 pm
(This post was last modified: November 4, 2025 at 6:30 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Ruby Sparks (2012)
I was drawn toward this movie when I saw that a woman/ main actress wrote it because the premise is a typical male fantasy: a lonely guy imagines a perfect girlfriend and she comes to life. Basically a horny Ontological Argument.
I was wondering where she would go with this, but it seems not far: she comes to life so that she can cook for him, they could go out to dance, and he could introduce her to his hippie parents - archetypical girlfriend stuff. And then, near the end, they remember that she's made up and that they better do something about it, and it turns out that just like people can't imagine a perfect god, they can't imagine a perfect girlfriend.
I was drawn toward this movie when I saw that a woman/ main actress wrote it because the premise is a typical male fantasy: a lonely guy imagines a perfect girlfriend and she comes to life. Basically a horny Ontological Argument.
I was wondering where she would go with this, but it seems not far: she comes to life so that she can cook for him, they could go out to dance, and he could introduce her to his hippie parents - archetypical girlfriend stuff. And then, near the end, they remember that she's made up and that they better do something about it, and it turns out that just like people can't imagine a perfect god, they can't imagine a perfect girlfriend.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
