Contact

 Contact

For the second time I watched the movie Contact. It won 14 awards and Jodie Foster won the Golden Globe award for best actress. The movie is about searching for intelligent life in the universe.

With ought giving too much away, the women managing the SETI program gets a message from a planet many, many light years away. Now the United States and other Nations realize we are not alone, political, military security and religious concerns are voiced.

The intelligent life sends information that will enable Nations to build a device so that some one person can visit them. The fight as to who that will be gets political, military concerns and especially religious concerns. The women managing SETI is a scientist and doesn't believe in God. Because of her lack of belief in God, she doesn't get picked, but events happen where she is sent.

She goes and sees her dead father in a setting that is all about peace and love. The setting and her father is manufactured to make her comfortable. Even though she is told that it is manufactured, she realizes the intelligent life is all about peace and love.

I already said too much about the movie, but I wanted to share the messages I got from this wonderful movie. Intelligent life does exist in the Universe. With the trillions and trillions of stars in the Universe at least one planet has to have intelligent life.

The second thing I got from this movie is that it's not about a God that oversees our life, it's about the power of the Universe whether that's one dimensional or multi-dimensional. I'm a computer scientist. I don't believe in a God. However, I am spiritual. I do believe there is something more we can see and understand with our limited five senses. Therefore, I believe my spirit will go out to the Universe when I die.

The third thing I got from this movie is the Universe is all about peace and love. It's not about power, religious and territorial war, politics, prejudice, money and all that negative shit. I say, how can you be a spiritual person and  believe in anything other than peace and love.

The last thing I realized about this movie is that searching for life outside our world is not necessary when there are human beings who believe in peace and love right in our country - right in our neighborhood - right in our house. 

Go find those people and give them the peace and love we all deserve.