calm down, maybe?
Mar. 4th, 2012 04:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexr_rwxJust yelled at some Jehovah's Witnesses working the neighborhood. They came up to the door and I knew exactly what was going on, and I interrupted their spiel and asked them, "Can you surprise God?"
... they didn't understand what I was getting at, and eventually got on about how the earth is so perfect, that it definitely must have a loving creator to set up all this order. At which point I started yelling at them about people starving to death in Africa, and they got scared of me barking at them and left.
But Michael Corleone is right: "Never hate your enemies."
I shouldn't give them the pleasure of being berated. They probably get off on thinking that they've got this huge uphill spiritual battle, and relish feeling oppressed.
Also maybe I should be nicer to human beings :-(
... they didn't understand what I was getting at, and eventually got on about how the earth is so perfect, that it definitely must have a loving creator to set up all this order. At which point I started yelling at them about people starving to death in Africa, and they got scared of me barking at them and left.
But Michael Corleone is right: "Never hate your enemies."
I shouldn't give them the pleasure of being berated. They probably get off on thinking that they've got this huge uphill spiritual battle, and relish feeling oppressed.
Also maybe I should be nicer to human beings :-(
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Date: 2012-03-04 09:27 pm (UTC)Part III (where that line comes from) is not nearly as good of a movie, but perhaps worth watching for the completionism; it's got its moments. It's also got some stiff acting, difficult-to-follow storytelling, and confusing editing. Michael mellows and becomes much warmer as an older man; it's kind of like Flynn from Tron to Tron Legacy, except the Godfather movies are orders of magnitude better.