I always liked the explanation God gives Bender in Futurama: “If you do everything, people will always depend on you. If you do nothing, then people lose faith. The point is to use a light touch so that people aren’t sure you didn’t anything at all.”
The key is to have such a light touch that people can't tell if you exist, or some other god, or no god at all, so everyone ends up with a different guess and the ones who guess wrong burn for all eternity. It's a fun little game really. I tried pitching it to Parker Bros once, but they turned it down. 👍
My interpretation of his "be the miracle" line is essentially, "Create the world you want to live in. And make it a world that doesn't need me to set things right."
God is here to help us with being a guide of the person and not do all the thing for you because you dont help the person doing all the things He wants to guide you to be a better person and learn to do things of you proper self And in the movie when god give Bruce power he want to Bruce to understand a lesson : you can help people and help yourself withoot power but just with Faith Hope and love Pray is not a « wish » or material desire its an help and a proof o love Faith and Hope And that is the miracle
@@victorito07 then his example should probably not include so much Divinely Ordained Murder, Rape, Incest, Slavery, you know, the things that a bad person does... Spiderman makes a better guide for people and he's fictional too.
When he said "a teenager who says no to drugs and yes to an education" his voice from lean on me where he says " well, you smoke crack son dont ya!" Popped in my head lol.
Best message in a movie. People asks God to do miracles for them, while not realizing help is already given in people around them and in their own capabilities. WE are the be THE miracles.
God helps those who help themselves is the long and short of it. You can pray for miracles but you have put in the leg work on your end too. God gives people hope but people can make the most amazing and wonderous things happen.
tbh, if youre religious or not, that's how god is for most people. its doesnt matter if god is real or not. he is just a figure of hope for us to imagine, because we humans find it so hard to have hope in ourselves. It takes a huge HUGE burden of us, to just imagine there is a figure who is listening, who is all-knowing, who is doing whats best for us, who is only giving us challenges we can handle, who listens to our prayers - and answers them - and if he doesn't then it wasn't good for us - it allows us to accept life and keep looking forward and most of all, he is someone we can place hope in. God is hope, even in the darkest times. Doesn't matter if he's real or not - people need that.
Everyone needs hope. It's a separate emotion from God. God is just a way to control people. God doesn't cure disease. God doesn't help you get through difficult times. It's all destiny.
@@thomascromwell6840 you missed the point I was making completely then. God DOES cure diseases, because people are believing, via him, that their disease will be cured. God's main purpose for us, is to help us through difficult times. Notice it with many religious people - they only find god at the most difficult and lowest moments - because all hope and belief in themselves is gone, and only god if he exists, can help them somehow. He exists so people can have hope at their most darkest hours. Yes, it is a seperate thing from god, but god is how people REDISCOVER their hope - something they had absolutely none of for themselves.
@@oliversacco7320 not really, since most religious people back their bad luck with arguments like “he only knows what’s best for me” or “he’s testing my faith” or most popularly, “god only gives you hardship what he believes you can handle” And that your faith to believe in god that he truly doing what’s best for you. So they take the L, and wait for gods next W.
The reason why this is better than Evan Almighty is because it tells us: What would you do with God's powers? Because there is a difference between saying what youll do and ACTUALLY doing it. "What if God was one of us?" Evan Almighty is like getting hit with a Bible over and over again.
"People want me to do everything for them when they can just do it themselves, to the point where I'm not even necessary, so there's no reason to believe in me."
You can't go through life without something to believe in. Whether it's God, or the inherent decency of humanity, or the love of family and friends, we all need something to believe in. Anything that helps you be a better person, can't be all bad.
@@r0bw00dI think he means not in the sense of an almighty, or religion, but just some sort of motivation. “If there is no hope, why keep on living?” kind of thing. If you don’t believe doing something will change anything, why do it?
I escaped from situations that it took more than forty years to understand - in terms of real bodily danger and threat. Throughout this, God's love and protection was always present, always near. It shocks me to realize that at the time I knew nothing of any of it. When I was trusting in God and leaning on him throughout that time, I never understood what enormous power lay behind the fragile words and faint praise that I had for God in those years. He was (and is) powerful and merciful beyond all measure. Everything in this film makes me remember how God really, really does has a sense of humour and all this with justice, mercy and compassion. I remain totally amazed...
Someone once said that hope is something that in the darkest times is something you give yourself. You don’t need a god, you don’t need a religion, you need to hope that *something* can change, that something can happen. Because if there is no hope, no hope of a better tomorrow, no hope *of* a tomorrow, why keep on living at all if you can’t hope for something better?
"You need to hope that something can change, that something can happen." Why should you? How is it rational to hope? Hope is just a belief in something that can't be proven. And if belief in God is what gives people hope, how is that a bad thing?
Bruce: There were so many, I just gave them all what they wanted. God: Yeah, but since when does anyone have a clue about what they want? I love that line
me: I want to be happy god: you wanna know what happiness is? it's just sitting there staring at your shoes. that's happiness. me: I want to be wealthy god: you know what wealth is? it's having a penny in your hand. me: you know god, i think there's something about miracles, happiness, and wealth that you're just not quite getting...
I do have to work is love to break these bible codes sometime and I have not got to,visit as often but I have hopefully more with my children. It takes a strong woman to recover to get a job even when others try to knock her down but here I am
I Know people who pray, go to church, ect for something never really worshipping him as god. God is the father and like you're parents you can't rely on them for everything. You need to things on you're own.
That's common in many religions in fact I'd even say that exchange/trade is inherent to religion itself. At the end of the day religion is a self replicating meme and one of the best way's to self replicate is for people to perceive some real world benefit. In Buddism for example, when it spread into china it changed so that creating images of the buddha would grant you Karma.
The two concepts aren't mutually exclusive, in theory or in practice. And adherence to either isn't a given. Your desire to feel superior to a group other than yours is making you see a difference where, in practical terms, none exists.
@@danieldickson8591 oh. Sikhs also have rituals of there own like head coverings and venerating a book instead of statues: fewer total rituals than Hinduism. Buddhists venerate statues and worship the deceased as well
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Every answer to that is different for every person, but they all require gaining self-awareness, and that's hard and painful to attain. Lot's of people ask themselves, what do I want? I find a more useful question to be, WHY do I want it? Not the easy, superficial answers about benefits or desires, but why it really matters to you? What does wanting that say about who you are? That can lead you to the deeper answer.
Who am I? What am I? Try to find the answer. Not in your mind. Not in the outside world. Be aware of your awareness. Attention on attention. Consciousness. What is the light that illuminates my thoughts, feelings. I am. I am aware that I am. I am happy that I am. Awareness of being is happiness itself. Nirvana is here, just notice it. Kingdom of Heaven is available. Question is if we are available for the kingdom. In the here and in the now. Mind thinks about past and future. When the attention is in thoughts, there is not enough in present. Rupert Spira Eckhart Tolle Thic Nhat Hanh Buddha Jesus Pick the language of love that you like. Pick the messenger that you like.
Not everyone wants to do their job Bruce Almighty was a great example of that but you will be happy and taken care of the world will be a better place if but for a short time so long as you do your job It's time I did mine Manual labor, that's mine
Movies declined little by little then took a nosedive around 2018 and likely won't regain their former glory people will see a movie that is a 6/10 but after seeing so many 1-2 out of 10 movies they will think they are seeing a 9
I always liked the explanation God gives Bender in Futurama:
“If you do everything, people will always depend on you. If you do nothing, then people lose faith. The point is to use a light touch so that people aren’t sure you didn’t anything at all.”
"When you do things right people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
That’s always been my favorite version of God, though Morgan Freeman is a close second and I think I need to rewatch this movie
You have to have a light touch…like a pick-pocket or a safe-cracker…”
The key is to have such a light touch that people can't tell if you exist, or some other god, or no god at all, so everyone ends up with a different guess and the ones who guess wrong burn for all eternity. It's a fun little game really. I tried pitching it to Parker Bros once, but they turned it down. 👍
supernatuarl version to me is more realistic he jsut donty care about us were all jsut a story to him
Bruce Almighty is proof you can make a silly comedy and still have a legitimently profound message
What the fuck is that word
im so sorry to be that guy but its spelled "Legitimately". Tho using the word "Legitimate" would sound a bit better.
Especially when you have Morgan Freeman in it
"A teenager saying no to drugs and yes to education, that's a miracle"
Mom, I'm a miracle!
True that
Me too
Same!
🎉❤🎉
My interpretation of his "be the miracle" line is essentially, "Create the world you want to live in. And make it a world that doesn't need me to set things right."
God is here to help us with being a guide of the person and not do all the thing for you because you dont help the person doing all the things
He wants to guide you to be a better person and learn to do things of you proper self
And in the movie when god give Bruce power he want to Bruce to understand a lesson :
you can help people and help yourself withoot power but just with Faith Hope and love
Pray is not a « wish » or material desire its an help and a proof o love Faith and Hope
And that is the miracle
@@victorito07 then his example should probably not include so much Divinely Ordained Murder, Rape, Incest, Slavery, you know, the things that a bad person does...
Spiderman makes a better guide for people and he's fictional too.
Sorry to kill the buzz.
But the world and in that, the people including yourself- don’t work that way
There s no interpreation to have, what he says is clezr and doesn t have an hidden meaning...
I miss this era of movies.
I miss it more
Moments like this are why I feel Freeman is the best choice for God 😊
Definitely, I was disappointed he wasn't God in Lucifer
@@VergilTheLegendaryDarkSlayerThat would not as scary and creepy
All Freeman are God.
When he said "a teenager who says no to drugs and yes to an education" his voice from lean on me where he says " well, you smoke crack son dont ya!" Popped in my head lol.
I thought of "Lucy" getting injected with CPH4 and becoming god. 😮
You can help a child to stand, but its up to them to take the first step.
Best message in a movie. People asks God to do miracles for them, while not realizing help is already given in people around them and in their own capabilities. WE are the be THE miracles.
God helps those who help themselves is the long and short of it. You can pray for miracles but you have put in the leg work on your end too. God gives people hope but people can make the most amazing and wonderous things happen.
tbh, if youre religious or not, that's how god is for most people.
its doesnt matter if god is real or not. he is just a figure of hope for us to imagine, because we humans find it so hard to have hope in ourselves. It takes a huge HUGE burden of us, to just imagine there is a figure who is listening, who is all-knowing, who is doing whats best for us, who is only giving us challenges we can handle, who listens to our prayers - and answers them - and if he doesn't then it wasn't good for us - it allows us to accept life and keep looking forward
and most of all, he is someone we can place hope in. God is hope, even in the darkest times. Doesn't matter if he's real or not - people need that.
Everyone needs hope. It's a separate emotion from God. God is just a way to control people. God doesn't cure disease. God doesn't help you get through difficult times. It's all destiny.
@@thomascromwell6840 you missed the point I was making completely then.
God DOES cure diseases, because people are believing, via him, that their disease will be cured. God's main purpose for us, is to help us through difficult times.
Notice it with many religious people - they only find god at the most difficult and lowest moments - because all hope and belief in themselves is gone, and only god if he exists, can help them somehow.
He exists so people can have hope at their most darkest hours.
Yes, it is a seperate thing from god, but god is how people REDISCOVER their hope - something they had absolutely none of for themselves.
That kind of hope also causes lots of pain
@@oliversacco7320 not really, since most religious people back their bad luck with arguments like “he only knows what’s best for me” or “he’s testing my faith” or most popularly, “god only gives you hardship what he believes you can handle”
And that your faith to believe in god that he truly doing what’s best for you. So they take the L, and wait for gods next W.
@@DekuStickGamer skip
The reason why this is better than Evan Almighty is because it tells us: What would you do with God's powers? Because there is a difference between saying what youll do and ACTUALLY doing it. "What if God was one of us?" Evan Almighty is like getting hit with a Bible over and over again.
"Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie."
Evan is the story of Noah expressed in the modern world.
Great advice. And it says a lot that Bruce made that his new closing line for the news at the end.
"People want me to do everything for them when they can just do it themselves, to the point where I'm not even necessary, so there's no reason to believe in me."
You can't go through life without something to believe in. Whether it's God, or the inherent decency of humanity, or the love of family and friends, we all need something to believe in. Anything that helps you be a better person, can't be all bad.
@@danieldickson8591 "You can't go through life without something to believe in."
Yes I can. It's easy.
@@r0bw00dI think he means not in the sense of an almighty, or religion, but just some sort of motivation.
“If there is no hope, why keep on living?” kind of thing. If you don’t believe doing something will change anything, why do it?
@@ralexcraft990 If he agrees with you on that, then that's nice. I'll wait for him to confirm before replying, however.
@@danieldickson8591
"I don't believe in your god."
"Oh, so you don't believe in anything?"
Liar Liar, Truman Show and this movie were Jim’s greatest work ever.
The mask???
Agree, also I'd add Ace Ventura
Jim Carrey can so EASILY go "over the top" - but in this movie he was the right person for the part and showed some range.
I like how morgan freeman talks
That's God's big wisdom.
I like that the actor of god is a atheist haha
That's ̶G̶o̶d̶'̶s̶ big wisdom.
@@yamiimaxhe's an atheist
@@ryansingh8787 That doesn't make the words any less wise. The message matters more than the messenger.
@@danieldickson8591 bt still is Morgan an atheist currently idk
Its....its just such a good movie i love every scene
I escaped from situations that it took more than forty years to understand - in terms of real bodily danger and threat. Throughout this, God's love and protection was always present, always near. It shocks me to realize that at the time I knew nothing of any of it. When I was trusting in God and leaning on him throughout that time, I never understood what enormous power lay behind the fragile words and faint praise that I had for God in those years. He was (and is) powerful and merciful beyond all measure.
Everything in this film makes me remember how God really, really does has a sense of humour and all this with justice, mercy and compassion. I remain totally amazed...
The Moon Runners sitting right by the Van Courtland Rangers while nobody is wasting nobody is a miracle
Someone once said that hope is something that in the darkest times is something you give yourself. You don’t need a god, you don’t need a religion, you need to hope that *something* can change, that something can happen. Because if there is no hope, no hope of a better tomorrow, no hope *of* a tomorrow, why keep on living at all if you can’t hope for something better?
"You need to hope that something can change, that something can happen." Why should you? How is it rational to hope? Hope is just a belief in something that can't be proven. And if belief in God is what gives people hope, how is that a bad thing?
God isn't religion. Religions are institutions of man. Like men, religions are imperfect. God is perfect. Have a personal relationship with God.
Bruce: There were so many, I just gave them all what they wanted.
God: Yeah, but since when does anyone have a clue about what they want?
I love that line
0:44 Luckily, me and my siblings said ‘no’ to drugs and ‘yes’ to educations.
Praise God
Some of us gotta work
We have the power to be oppressed and we like it
The very fact you can perceive that, means you're able to work to help change it.
0:52
People want God to do everything for them. What they don’t realize is, they have the power. You wanna see a miracle, be the miracle
me: I want to be happy
god: you wanna know what happiness is? it's just sitting there staring at your shoes. that's happiness.
me: I want to be wealthy
god: you know what wealth is? it's having a penny in your hand.
me: you know god, i think there's something about miracles, happiness, and wealth that you're just not quite getting...
god: you know son, i've been trying to say the same thing to you.
My guy here making up a discussion where he owns God like a 15 years old making up a fight in his head where he owns his bully lmao
I do have to work is love to break these bible codes sometime and I have not got to,visit as often but I have hopefully more with my children. It takes a strong woman to recover to get a job even when others try to knock her down but here I am
Wow, this was one of the BEST MOVIES EVER! John P.
Thanks for a much needed measage that everyone should hear
i am a miracle
Single mom saying no to being a single mom thats a miracle
Well, not every single mother chose that. Instead of a blanket statement, you need to look at the individual.
I read much bitterness in your remark, lostowl. You might consider to what degree that's holding you back.
@@danieldickson8591 not a single mom lmao
A man stepping up for his kid instead of leaving, that’s a miracle
@@liamisaac1152💯
"muita gente dei a todos tudo q queriam"
Wisdom...
I Know people who pray, go to church, ect for something never really worshipping him as god.
God is the father and like you're parents you can't rely on them for everything. You need to things on you're own.
That's common in many religions in fact I'd even say that exchange/trade is inherent to religion itself. At the end of the day religion is a self replicating meme and one of the best way's to self replicate is for people to perceive some real world benefit. In Buddism for example, when it spread into china it changed so that creating images of the buddha would grant you Karma.
Just want to say, we went from this to “Wish” saying that everybody should get all their wishes granted without exception
Proof that God is a Yankee fan!!!
I feel old all a sudden
Love Morgan Freeman
Yep
"muita gente dei a todos tudo q querian"
Did they unlock a mini kit at the end?
The scene God himself deny stories in the Bible.
This is an example of how Hinduism and Sikhism differ: Hindus believe in rituals while Sikhs take part in charity and do selfless service (sewa).
The two concepts aren't mutually exclusive, in theory or in practice. And adherence to either isn't a given. Your desire to feel superior to a group other than yours is making you see a difference where, in practical terms, none exists.
@@danieldickson8591 You get schools of Hinduism that are big on sewa but the rituals are still there.
@@ronki23 Which sounds like my point.
@@danieldickson8591 oh. Sikhs also have rituals of there own like head coverings and venerating a book instead of statues: fewer total rituals than Hinduism. Buddhists venerate statues and worship the deceased as well
Hindu believe in good karma
Morgan Freeman is the perfect god. Screw the Allstate guy.
Im free on the 7th at 7!!
Maybe we can start by just being nice to each other we are neighbors and we did spend for years together you have seen me naked and your my window
Mark
0:30
Vitruvius and the Grinch 😂
NAGA ASP-IRIT
U think my parents and Glenn were involved lovely bones movie pretty woman no hotel motel scene urban cowboy lovely bones movie child play movie what Christmas what thanksgiving and what Valentine's Day last Valentine's i celebrated was me doing for Glenn
I just want to know what the hell to do with my life
Give your life to Christ and do what He commands then you will have a fulfilled life
Every answer to that is different for every person, but they all require gaining self-awareness, and that's hard and painful to attain. Lot's of people ask themselves, what do I want? I find a more useful question to be, WHY do I want it? Not the easy, superficial answers about benefits or desires, but why it really matters to you? What does wanting that say about who you are? That can lead you to the deeper answer.
Who am I?
What am I?
Try to find the answer. Not in your mind. Not in the outside world.
Be aware of your awareness.
Attention on attention.
Consciousness.
What is the light that illuminates my thoughts, feelings.
I am. I am aware that I am. I am happy that I am.
Awareness of being is happiness itself.
Nirvana is here, just notice it.
Kingdom of Heaven is available. Question is if we are available for the kingdom.
In the here and in the now.
Mind thinks about past and future. When the attention is in thoughts, there is not enough in present.
Rupert Spira
Eckhart Tolle
Thic Nhat Hanh
Buddha
Jesus
Pick the language of love that you like. Pick the messenger that you like.
Not everyone wants to do their job Bruce Almighty was a great example of that but you will be happy and taken care of the world will be a better place if but for a short time so long as you do your job
It's time I did mine
Manual labor, that's mine
"That is some bullshit...I need you to go down there and fix my shit!"
THE DJINN DJAN-ITOR
Clever
It seems Hollywood god movies were always inspired from Bhagwat Gita. All dialogues in this clip by Morgan seems to be English adaptation of the Gita.
And Dennis said that's why hes so f***** u*.
han at go
If you can do it yourself, it's not a miracle. Unless you are a god 😉
Sorry, never been a Jim Carrey fan.
Why is that your not a fan of Jim Carey?
nobody asked for your opinion
There are a lot of people who never liked Jim. He was out of his mind in the 90s.
wasn’t long after this i stopped watching the garbage hollywood was pushing out
i miss good movies
Movies declined little by little then took a nosedive around 2018 and likely won't regain their former glory people will see a movie that is a 6/10 but after seeing so many 1-2 out of 10 movies they will think they are seeing a 9
Childs play
As fachinas as caras é o fim 😅😅😅😂