“Multiplicity,” with Michael Keaton, is among the funniest
movies ever made.
The plot of the film involves a construction manager who is
overworked and underpaid, and who happens to come into contact with a scientist
who is in the business of cloning human beings.
Of course, the movie character jumps at the opportunity to
reduce his work load, and increase his leisure time.
Unfortunately, the entire thing goes awry.
For no sooner had he cloned himself, than the clone clones
himself! And then the second clone clones himself!
And much like re-copying copies of copies on a Xerox machine,
the results just “ain’t” good.
Clone #1 ends up “running with the ball” and imposing his own
dictatorial way of doing things on his fellow workers; (not to mention sleeping
with his original’s wife; a prohibition of which he was well aware).
Clone #2 proves to be the artistic type, and manages to
confuse “Thelma” with his apparently newfound interest in recipes, and somewhat
feminine mannerisms.
Clone #3 is just plain retarded, manages to get Keaton fired
from his job; (and also sleeps with his wife)!
Speaking of making copies, we just bought one of those
portable scanning devices. As amateur genealogists, my wife and I plan to use
it in our travels; as we have been prone to visit family research libraries
across the southeast. There are three settings on the scan wand: Fine, Good and
Average; or words to that effect. (And of course, each time the setting is
lowered a notch, the results are compromised).
In Paul the Apostle’s Book of Philippians, the third chapter,
there is a two word phrase which alludes to the topic of this blog.
… “Copy Me.”
Now, it’s rather rhetorical, but he wasn’t suggesting we
build a cloning machine in order to mass produce copies of Paul.
But rather, the apostle was all about encouraging his readers
of that day, (as well as our own) to emulate his love for, commitment to, and
impact on behalf of the Jesus whom he served.
A couple of decades ago I read what purported to be a
non-fiction volume titled, “In His Image.” I say “purported” since the thesis
of the book was the implication that an unnamed scientist had already cloned a
human being. Well now, I don’t know about you, but I am very skeptical that the
volume was anything but a work of fiction; and whether the technology ever
becomes available is, of course, open to conjecture.
However, those who embrace Christ as Savior possess the
inherent ability to, as Jesus admonished us, pick up His cross and follow Him.
The Lord advised that the servant is not above his Master, and encouraged us to
emulate His thoughts and actions; to literally take on, as scripture puts it, “the
mind of Christ.”
In the account of Genesis it is revealed that mankind was
made in the image of God. Sadly, as the result of the sin of our first parents,
and the ongoing bent of mankind to choose the baser options, that image, (not
unlike the movie to which I alluded) has become badly flawed.
Our Lord is the original to which we, as poor copies, must
continually aspire.
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