Friday, June 27, 2014

Monty Python: Quest for the Holy Grail
[not too much explaining to do]
So now we finally get a comedy in.  You could ask, what could I possibly learn from such a hilarious clip...or maybe you don't like British humor.  The clip is rather simple in its message it teaches us persistence.  You could say the black knight was stubborn, and "a looney."  Keep in mind that stubbornness is a good quality, it just depends on what you are holding on to whether it is good or bad.  If you are holding onto something good then it is steadfastness, if something bad then stubbornness.  Either way the quality is persistence.  

The black knight sticks to his defense of the bridge.  He knows that he is in the right, so he holds on despite getting all his limbs hacked off.  He never gives up.  We also ought never to give up on the things we know to be right.  Just like the widow in Luke's gospel is persistent, "...While it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being, because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her lest she finally come and strike me..." Lk, 18:1-8  

The only negative thing that we can say about this clip is that, the way black knight treats Arthur when he prays, or the lack of courtesy that he shows Arthur at any point.  As I had said in the First Knight clip, it is important to listen to those people with whom we do not agree. 

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