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kowatch

kowatch

Hungary

January 29, 2014

The Matrx trilogy is one of the best movie serie I have watched. But I'm sure it is so complex that it's worth watching again and again. Not just the action scenes but those philosophical/social themes, which appeared in movie, make your mind think about them.

One of these is the "cause and effect" by the Merovingian (or The Frenchman). He tells that everyting occurs due to cause and effect, there is no such thing as choice.

At firt when I listened his monologe I was sure he is wrong. In real life we choose something because we have the will to do it. But this is really our will?

Let me explain with an example. I want to be a teacher to teach mathematics and IT. Is it my choice or just an effect of fact that my mother is a teacher and I like who she does her job ad I'd like to be like her (this is the cause)?

I'm waiting for your opinion. This example is very simple and not sure good explaining and does not spread out all part of this theme but I hope it's understandable.

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05:26 AM Feb 06 2014

kowatch

kowatch
Hungary

You are right but I think you misunderstood my post. My example is just an explanation to understand the monologe of the Frenchman. The question is we choose our fortune or we choose because of some cause. Somtimes we can't know there is a cause only do what we think. But this is a really weird topic or maybe I'm the only one who think this.

03:46 PM Feb 02 2014

WangGuanghui
China

I want to use Chinese philosophical to explain that. It's that you can't choose your life but you can change your fortune. You must accept the fact that your mother is a teacher, but you can change your attitude to being a teacher and choose to be a teacher or not. Different people has a similar life but they have different attitude to the life and different fortune and choice.