It was the humanities (philosophy) class today. In the last class, a movie 'The Cup' (Phorpa; based on the worldly desires of young monks) was shown and today there was supposed to be a discussion on its philosophy. As I missed the last class I had to download it from the LAN, but still I didn't watch it over the weekend. After an hour of discussion on the philosophy behind the movie (which was tough to catch up with for me 'coz I haven't seen the movie yet), the teacher moved on to discuss about the tagline of the movie,"Buddhism is their philosophy.Soccer is their religion" and suddenly, I was asked to say something. Having not seen the movie, I'd rather not comment.. but I was forced to (The other option was to admit that I haven't seen the movie yet, which I didn't think would be a good idea).
So I just said the first thing that came to my mind at the instant:
"Taglines are some nicely crafted words focussed only at marketing the movie. I don't think they have got much to do with the true philosophy behind the movie"
"Why do you 'always' try to cut the discussion at its very root???"
"Ohh Ma'am, the last time I attended your class was a month back!!!"
Truly I have started "blurting out".
September 11, 2006
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4 comments:
That's brave!
Well done..
A good one.
It's no fun doing Philosophy under an average instructor or with half hearted efforts. You may just end up passing another course. {Which is not a serious issue if you really intend to do so, but given that the motive of people to take the relatively tough philosophy courses is to learn something, let me warn you that you may be missing something, somewhere.}
[Phoenix n SA]
:)
wud've said thanx if the 3rd comment were not there :D
[musafir..]
u definitely are right.. but u know the way i am. wud try to develop a better perspective about the course from now on.
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