Friday, August 11, 2006

Being Relevant

On 27 August I have the opportunity to speak again at church. My subject is Wise People Take Advice and I've been thinking of a movie to introduce my topic. The one big take away I want people to have comes from Proverbs 12:15 that "wise people take advice." So I've been thinking of a movie that can introduce this topic as I speak on it. I've gone through a few in my head until I hit upon what I thought would be a good intro. I was thinking about Star Wars...either the original trilogy or the new ones. I could use Luke Skywalker or his father Anakin. Then I got to thinking about it...not everybody knows Star Wars any longer.
When I was growing up, that movie was seminal to me being a software engineer today. I distinctly remember when I first saw the wire frame model of the Death Star and all the rebel pilots were being briefed on destroying it I wanted to make that. Not the Death Star and not an X-Wing fighter, but I somebody with a computer put that wire frame model together and I wanted to do that with my life. Here I am now 29 years after Star Wars came out and I'm a software engineer because of that first dream seeing the model.
My problem is Star Wars is no longer relevant to a huge portion of the population. I even am friends with people who have never seen Star Wars! I know, I'm amazed too. Anyway, in my quest to be relevant, I'll continue searching for a movie clip.

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