What the bleep do we know? Anybody seen it?

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A couple weeks ago I caught the last half or so of this movie called “What the bleep do we know anyway?” I’m serious that’s the name of it.

Basically, it was a movie about how our personality is formed by experiences, and our reactions to those experiences. It talked about how science and religion both seek to answer the same questions. The movie followed the point of view of 14 people like a physicist, a doctor, a mystic, and a psychologist. I think they were all atheists!!

But anyways, it was very interesting. Anybody else seen it and care to comment? I liked how they got into talking about the hormones the brain produces and the cells receiving them and getting trained to behave in a certain way.

In a way, I could say it was very very bad, but I think there’s plenty to consider there to keep me from saying it was a rotten atheistic movie with a woman saying “we are all gods!”

Please only comment if you’ve seen it, or honestly do know what it’s about. It’s a unique type of movie. If you must comment but haven’t seen the movie, at least learn a little about it from here.
 
This sounds like your classic internet rumour, I know, but the movie actually was bankrolled by and created on the behalf of the Ramtha people. The group is led by a California woman named Hendrix who claims to channel the umpteen-hundred-year old spirit “Ramtha.” I had had no idea they were still around until the movie came out, and their backing was revealed by AP and the major papers a few weeks later.

Ramtha is one of those bottom-shelf Hollywood cults–if Scientology won’t return your phone calls because you’re a D-level celebrity, Ramtha’ll take you. Now in their defense, the artistic value and box-office success of “What the [bleep] Do We Know?” looks pretty good next to “Battlefield Earth.”
 
Le_Cracquere said:
This sounds like your classic internet rumour, I know, but the movie actually was bankrolled by and created on the behalf of the Ramtha people. The group is led by a California woman named Hendrix who claims to channel the umpteen-hundred-year old spirit “Ramtha.” I had had no idea they were still around until the movie came out, and their backing was revealed by AP and the major papers a few weeks later.

Ramtha is one of those bottom-shelf Hollywood cults–if Scientology won’t return your phone calls because you’re a D-level celebrity, Ramtha’ll take you. Now in their defense, the artistic value and box-office success of “What the [bleep] Do We Know?” looks pretty good next to “Battlefield Earth.”
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I have long been interested in the quantum physics approach to consciousness, etc. I saw the film a long time ago and thought it initially intriguing. But I was thrown for a loop when they put on Ramtha as an interviewed “expert”. The way she presented and what she said, made my skin crawled. I saw the woman’s body, but I wondered who was looking out of her eyes and speaking through her. :eek:
 
Joseph said:
But I was thrown for a loop when they put on Ramtha as an interviewed “expert”. The way she presented and what she said, made my skin crawled. :eek:
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Was Hendrix/Ramtha that woman who said “everybody is a god” several times through the show and also said

“The most blasphemous thing is that religion teaches people that a human can offend God. If God is so awesome, then why would He be offended by something that a human does?”

I’ve never heard of Ramtha before and honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if what Le Cracquere reports is true, and I have no good reason to doubt him. “Le” is masculine, right??

Thanks for the replies. I also wouldnt’ be surprised if some of the biological/psychological theories they put forth were misleading as well. However, the movie was packaged well as far as that aspect of it goes.
 
It’s a dumbed down version of a PBS String theory series by Columbia University mathematics and physics professor Brian Greene, “The elegant universe”.

With a lot of new age, bring it to the masses kind of flavor.

Very boring movie, very… Very hard to sit through.

If you have the chance, check out a scientific discussion on the same principles “what the _____ do we know” is about. without the subjective, esoteric BS.

go here pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/everything.html
for a better presentation on the material WTBDWK tries to tackle but seriously, seriously fails to do.

pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/everything.html

it’s a shame that WTBDWK is bringing such a pop music level understanding to a subject that is Opera.
and on top of it all, WTBDWK tries to sell itself as serious science… sorry, doesn’t do it.
 
Reformed_Rob said:
I’ve never heard of Ramtha before and honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if what Le Cracquere reports is true, and I have no good reason to doubt him. “Le” is masculine, right??
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Wiki’s not always the soundest source out there, but their hyperlink references check out:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Bleep_Do_We_Know!?

“Le” is masculine, indeed. How masculine that makes me is an open question: (I’d better ask my wife–she knows everything.)
 
I saw it. My reaction to it? hmmmm?
Well, as for the part about our reactions to our experiences, red flags go up, I grow leery, and take what I hear with a grain of salt, whenever this topic comes up, what ever the venue, whatever the company, because it seems to me the tendency is always to carry the point too far, and to arrive at the conclusion that if a person slips on a bananna peal and breaks their neck it was their own fault / failing, which is often absurd.
And to a man the ‘experts’ appearing seemed to be as slippery as eels.
It was however pleasant to watch all that camera fixation on one character, that deaf actress whose name escapes me. 🙂
And it was pleasant to watch her play a depressive for some reason.
But somehow I don’t think interest in lingering camera close-ups of her eyes, nose, and mouthe was the intended purpose. 😃 :o
otherwise…???
 
We saw it and thought it was absolutely ridiculous. My husband, who is very much interested in quantum physics and string theory, had fits over the fact that they were trying to use quantum physics, which explains the movements of sub-atomic particles, and apply them to bigger obejcts like basketballs and people. I guess the water experiment is a big joke too - the water was frozen and taken from other sources from what I read.

Anyway, the Brian Green special was better but still a little “out there” for me personally.
 
thechrismyster said:
It’s a dumbed down version of a PBS String theory series by Columbia University mathematics and physics professor Brian Greene, “The elegant universe”.

With a lot of new age, bring it to the masses kind of flavor.
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Ok thanks I might check out those links.

Yes I agree the flick was filled with New Age, at least the part I saw I was like good grief this would be so much better if instead of overly rationalistic psychologists and “mystic” people did it and instead had real scientists that didn’t have a bone to pick with organized religion present the information.
 
Reformed_Rob said:
Sorry, I must have missed the water experiment
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Maybe we watched some other wacky movie with the water thing in it, but I thought it was this one. They took pictures of water that were exposed to happy thoughts or angry thoughts and the happy water looked pretty and the angry water looked dirty or something thereabouts.
 
maryalene said:
Maybe we watched some other wacky movie with the water thing in it, but I thought it was this one. They took pictures of water that were exposed to happy thoughts or angry thoughts and the happy water looked pretty and the angry water looked dirty or something thereabouts.
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Yeah I haven’t seen that, but that sort of stuff gets on my nerves. And how do you “expose” pictures of water to thoughts?

I guess it’s different, but that reminds me of all those commercials like acne and weight loss products where they show the before and after pictures and the “before” are black and white or some off color and the “after” pictures are color. It’s crazy, the way they manipulate it. But I guess that’s different.

I’ll try that water experiment, I’ll get a pot of water and shoot some some happy and angry thoughts into it. Somehow…maybe with my ki (sorry, humor from another thread coming in:))
 
Reformed_Rob said:
Ok thanks, I looked at both links. So I couldn’t just project thoughts into a pot of water. I see, it is based on the design of the crystals formed as the water freezes.

Hmmmm, ok thanks.
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Oh, I’m sure you could. Pull out the Metallica, let all that negative energy ooze into the water, take a couple pictures and call it what you want. It’s all good. Your secret will be safe with us. And maybe one day you too can be in a movie with the great and powerful Ramtha. 😉
 
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