What the Bleep Do We Know!?

"WHAT THE #$*! DO WE KNOW?!" Not much, which is one of the few things I could agree on with this movie. It is way over my head. Way, way over it, so much that I don't even know from what abstract direction it actually came. It was not boring at all for me, as it poses the very same questions I ask, or have asked, but comes up with a vastly different perspective on what we all agree we don't really know. This movie is filled with PHD's and an infinate cumulative I.Q., and yet, "WHAT THE #$*! DO THEY KNOW?!" any more than a simpleton like me about God or our mysterious universe we live in? From what I've gathered from this movie, not much. It seems most of these pseudo-intellectuals have fooled themselves into thinking they've figured out that intelligence will tell you that knowledge is very limited at this point in time, but has infinite potential; I couldn't agree more with that notion, although that knowledge is limited by the restraints in which God will give it, by the restraints that will alllow man (people) to fool themselves into thinking they've found Him. This must give God a cathartic, full-belly laugh.

This movie stars Marlee Matlin, who made a great and memorable appearance in a Seinfeld episode as one of the girls Jerry dates. In this movie, the character she plays doesn't have much in common with her Seinfeld appearance other than that she can read lips. In Seinfeld, she mistakes Jerry for saying "sex" when he said "six", and later at a party she is attending to employ her skill, she mistakes "sweep together" for "sleep together" when she is doing lipreading for George Castanza, Jerry's friend, which turns out to be a hilarious disaster. In this movie, from what I can tell, she recognises through her lipreading that the groom at a Polish wedding she is profesionally photographing doesn't really love the bride. The movie then goes on to explain, using animation, the chemicals involved with addiction, love, and sexual attraction, and how they are all basically one and the same, and the idea that protein is the fountain of youth, and that when its production mysteriously vanishes, we will turn into fat-asses no matter what we eat. Forget McDonalds, we need to think positively, so our negative thinking will not make us the next fat Oprah. If our body can't use the protein or nutrients we consume, what good does it do to consume them at all? I have no problem understanding this predication, but there may be much more than we really understand that determines when our body stops producing certain chemicals, including the cause of why some think negatively, and some think positively.

The movie gives its perspective on God, and goes on to use Christ's parable of the mustard seed to show quantum phsyics can fit within that truth unlike many others (scientific explanations, that is). It's interesting to me that the movie claims, and seems concerened at all, to fit within Christ's doctrine as taught in the books of the Gospel, while defying other aspects claimed to be taught by Him in those very same books. The movie also makes a claim that it is arrogant for a man to believe he is created in God's image, or understands the image of God, and yet contradicts itself not long after when one of the "great intellects" says "God is not", as if I should believe him when he tells me what God isn't any more than the man on the moon, and as if he is not being arrogant himself, as the movie seems to claim it is for any of us Neanderthals to think we understand God.

The movie seems pleased to tell us repeatedly something to this effect: "if the mind can affect water as it does, how much more can it affect us." Well, if the moon can affect the ocean as it does, affecting the tide, the ebb and flow of such a massive amount of water, how much can it affect our body, which is something like 70-90% water, or whatever? Does that make it (particularly a full moon) God? I don't think so.

The idea that man is fascinated with explaining God, or reaching God through its ability or effort, is nothing new (read Genesis 11 about the story of the tower of Babel). Quantum physics, in my opinion, is a modern-day tower of Babel, and is way too small to begin to explain something so awesome as a God that created the universe we try to understand, a world we endeavor to live in. God will explain Quantum Physics, I believe, and not the other way around. I've never attended Harvard, and I don't have any PHD's, but I've studied science enough to know it will never explain God. God will explain our error in believing we can someday understand His mystery, and what does a Harvard PHD or an anesthesiologist mean to the One who created everything we can possibly explore with our five senses, other than a good laugh at their impressive intelligence? What more are we than pawns when we try to master the game in which we live?