Reincarnation: You create your own future
Everywhere, so many people complain that God doesn’t talk to them. But the
truth is He does, people just won’t listen.
God speaks to us in dreams, in visions, by telepathy or hearing voices. He
reveals His truths through His prophets, the Scriptures, the priests and
pastors, in newspapers and magazines, and through the innocent remarks of
friends and strangers.
And if God can speak through a burning bush or a guileful snake, can he not
also reveal His truths to you when you watch a movie or play a computer
game?
The truth in ‘Devil’s Advocate’
Trailer video > https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=323666696381815
Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves) can be just like you, an ordinary, super-ambitious,
highly competent and successful defense lawyer, never lost a case. He realizes
that his client is probably guilty and he hates that he has to demolish the
testimony and character of the rape victim. But because he wants to win at all
costs, he does it anyway and wins his case.
Presently, his record of wins attracts an obscene offer for him to work in one
of the most prestigious law firms in New York that provides for equally lavish
perks.
The work keeps him busy all hours, leaving him little time for anything else.
Eventually, he becomes obsessed with another woman and his relationship with
his wife, Mary Ann (Charlize Theron), begins to sour because of his disregard
and unresponsiveness to her needs. Because of his pride, ambition and excessive
lust for money, fame and women, his once happy life begins to unravel.
Troubles begin to plague Mary Ann, as well. She begins to have nightmares and
sees demons. She is also raped by Kevin’s boss (Al Pacino). But Kevin is unable
to believe her claim. Finally, not able to cope, she kills herself.
As the story unfolds, it turns out that Kevin’s boss is actually his natural
father, who is really the Devil incarnate, and the woman he is obsessed with is
his half-sister. The plan is for Kevin and his sister to conceive the
Antichrist.
But at the last moment, Kevin comes to his senses and takes the only way out.
He shoots himself.
Then, everything stops and there is an instant playback to the time before the
resumption of the rape trial in the beginning of this film. But this time, he
follows his conscience and resigns as defense counsel, throwing away his bright
future and everything he has worked for.
A reporter requests for an interview. He tells Kevin he feels confident that
done right, a good story could reverse all the negative implications of his
resignation and his resigning could even be viewed as a class act that could
re-establish his failed career. Flattered, Kevin agrees.
On parting, the reporter transforms into the Devil and comments: “Vanity, my
favorite sin.”
The lessons of ‘Groundhog Day’
Trailer video > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GncQtURdcE4
Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is not a very nice man. Selfish and self-centered, a
grouch, prone to all sorts of excesses and arrogant, he and his news crew are
dispatched to Punxsutawney to report on the events of Groundhog Day.
The day passes uneventfully but on the way back, a storm raged. All roads were
closed to traffic and all commuters were forced to turn back. He wakes up next
morning as his clock sounds the six o’clock alarm. And as the days unfold, he
discovers that he is in a kind of time loop that replays Groundhog Day over and
over again, whatever he does, every day.
So he experiments. Not fearing any retribution, he drinks to excess, drives
recklessly, steals from a bank and seduces women. He tries everything and does
whatever he wants, as much as he wants. But after a time, he gets bored.
He gets so depressed and tired of it all that he decides to kill himself. But
to his surprise, the day repeats itself again at the six o’clock prompt. He
kills himself, again and again, in different ways, but still, he always comes
back to life the next day.
Anti-social, sarcastic and even offensive in the beginning, he starts to take
an interest in other people, asking them about themselves and knowing them, he
begins to like them. His whole attitude and manner of interacting with them
changes. He begins to like the way they respond to his friendly overtures by
treating him in the same like way.
He sees an ice sculptor at work and decides to learn how to do it, himself.
Eventually after who knows how many days, he gets good at it. He decides to
learn to play the piano and he gets to be a master pianist. He becomes fluent
in French, as well, the better to impress the woman he likes.
In the course of many Groundhog Days, he came to be attracted to Rita (Andie
MacDowell), the second member of his crew, but Rita always turned him down.
Having learned how to gain friends, he employed the same tactics with Rita.
After many trials and errors, he was able to win her over.
Finally, the day arrived when everything came together.
Early one morning, he attended to the poor old man freezing to death, fed him
and brought him to hospital. He bought insurance from his old pesky and pushy
acquaintance, changed a flat tire for three old ladies, saved a marriage, saved
a boy by catching him as he fell from a tree branch and saved a man from
choking to death.
Rita is enthralled as he carves a beautiful ice sculpture. And everywhere he
goes, admiring friends greet him. For a few, he hands over a gift, even. They
all know him and shower him with compliments. Rita hears and is impressed no
end.
In the evening, Rita attends the Groundhog Day closing celebrations and finds
that everyone is still talking about Phil and the good deeds that he has done.
She is surprised to learn that the beautiful, melodic music coming from the
ballroom is Phil on the piano.
The night wears on. They make love. And the next morning, they live happily
ever after. It is the magic of another new day, after Groundhog Day.
A computer game
What better way to relax than to be entertained playing a computer game? First
time you play, you have to feel your way around. It is sometimes slow-going but
with repeated playing, it becomes easier. More practice makes better.
It can be challenging. Whatever your level of play, you can adjust the degree
of difficulty.
It develops skills – whether it be hand and eye coordination, memory retention,
strategy building, innovation and problem solving. Whichever this may be, with
continued playing, everything builds on how it was before.
And if you don’t like the results, you can always stop play and restart to
begin afresh.
Reincarnation is all of the above
We all start from nothing, no skills, no knowledge, innocent and ignorant
spirits created were we. But with every life experience, there comes to be
something.
In the beginning, we are selfish and self-centered, thinking only of ourselves
and our own interests. We do whatever we please and do everything to acquire
the things we want, without a care about how our actions affect others.
But as we go about life, we learn. Every day, we are taught some aspect of
love. Then we are tested to find out if we have learned the lesson. If not,
then the lesson is repeated. And this goes on, again and again, until we take
up every one of our character traits and get them all right.
The same is true with any skill that we have or choose to develop. The child
prodigy that can play chess like the grandmasters, the child math wizard and
the psychic who can see what everyone else cannot developed their skills
beginning from their past lives.
We will have unlimited opportunities to progress. And being immortal spirit
beings, we are never, ever harmed. Our outer protective covering, the flesh
body, may be harmed, tortured and subjected to all forms of punishment, but we,
the spirit consciousness within, learn and evolve from every experience.
And no one dies, either. When our work here is done, we simply disengage from
our disposable physical body and return to our Spirit World.
Everything in life is a lesson and a test. You are today the sum total of all
that you have accomplished in the past. And you are building your tomorrow by
the things that you do, today. Your fate is entirely in your hands.
But exciting, challenging or easy the path, gradual, speedy or meandering and
slow your progress – You will be perfect in the end.
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