How much do we really know about the world around us? A decent amount, ok..how much do we really understand about the world around us?
I once took a philosophy class in which I was confronted with a perplexing question: What if this life is a video game? What if God just stops and starts us whenever He wants, continues on with His life, and then picks the "game" back up when He feels like it? Though I know this is not how life works, it is a question that had me thinking about the meaning of life and wondering how much I truly understand the world I have lived in for 21 years. As humans, we go about life acting as if everything is under control even when it's not. We pretend like we have it all together and the people we come in contact with are just the same as us. When do we ever stop to think that people are different from us? Not everyone who looks like me has the same story as I do, but I often forget that. It's easy to go on with life without even realizing there are other people in the world.
In the movie "K-Pax," Kevin Spacey plays a character from another world. This world is called K-Pax and it is very far away from the earth. Upon first meeting Kevin Spacey's character, the audience is led to think that he is simply crazy. He has the symptoms of psychotic behavior. He tells the people around him that he is just from a different world. Obviously they have trouble believing him because, how can that be? In this day and age, it is rare that a person believes in aliens, much less HUMAN life on other planets. From our vast amounts of research, we are close to positive that this is not truth. When Kevin Spacey's character showed up, however, he was called crazy. The audience was shown, as the movie progressed, that there might be some truth to Spacey's words. At one point in the movie, he proves his knowledge about K-Pax by drawing out the orbit of his planets around the earth and this completely coincided with everything the scientists had been doing.
This is obviously just a movie, but it, like the question in my philosophy class, made me think. Today is Easter and it is a day all about Jesus coming to earth to die and raise again to prove His power over death. The Bible says that God has only one Son. It would be unnecessary for God to send His one Son to different planets to be killed multiple times in order to bring reconciliation to the people of those planets. It is for this reason that I know there is no other life on other planets. The idea in the movie is awesome. The fact that Kevin Spacey's character knew so much about his world and about this one made me think how smart he was. He proved his credibility through his knowledge of these things, making it fun, in the movie, to believe that he wasn't lying when he said he was from planet K-Pax. Stepping away from that movie-mindset, however, brings me "back to earth" to believe that there is only one planet on which life can be sustained.
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