Dead Poets Society: Numbering Our Days (Psalm 90:12)
"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." Mr. Keating stands his students before photos of former students—now dead—and whispers their message: "We...
This is movie analogies on mortality and purpose, drawing on Psalm 90:12, James 4:14 and Ephesians 5:15-16.
"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." Mr. Keating stands his students before photos of former students—now dead—and whispers their message: "We are food for worms, lads." The urgency of mortality. James writes similarly: "What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes." But while Keating's carpe diem points to self-actualization, Scripture points beyond.…
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