Atheists & Agnostics
Related: About this forum"Which story do you prefer...
...the one with the cook or the one with the tiger (Richard Parker)?"
The interviewer: "The one with the tiger."
Pi: "And so it goes with God."
Mr.Bill
(24,739 posts)but I have no idea what you are talking about.
Ohiya
(2,405 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,739 posts)I obviously have not read it.
Duppers
(28,229 posts)Last edited Thu Apr 15, 2021, 09:18 AM - Edit history (1)
When the subject of god comes up, Pi tells a writer his unbelievable but intriguing tale of his shipwreck when he was a boy stranded on a small boat in the ocean. His only companion was a huge tiger named Richard Parker.
But of course the tale was an allegory of the real gut-wrenching story of the boy's terror after a ship wreck.
After telling both the allegorical tale & the real story, Pi asked which one the listener(s) preferred.
The allegory, of course.
And Pi replied, "And so it goes with god."
Point:
People prefer the fiction & fantasy above reality, since reality is extremely difficult to deal with.
As an old song goes, "tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies."
Have a different interpretation up the movie?