:06:06
We were three healthy men.
:06:09
My brotherlvan.
:06:13
My brotherMikhail.
:06:17
And myself.
:06:23
Finally, there was my cousin Sonja.
:06:26
In addition to being the most beautiful
woman I had everseen,
:06:29
she was one ofthe fewpeople
I could have deep conversations with.
:06:34
Boris, look at this leaf. Isn't it perfect?
:06:39
And this one? Look.
:06:41
Oh, yeah. I definitely think that
this is the best of all possible worlds.
:06:46
- It's certainly the most expensive.
- Isn't nature incredible?
:06:50
To me, nature is... I dunno,
spiders and bugs and,
:06:54
big fish eating little fish.
:06:56
And plants eating plants
and animals eating...
:07:00
It's like an enormous restaurant.
:07:02
Yes, but if God created it,
it has to be beautiful,
:07:05
even if His plan's not apparent
to us at the moment.
:07:08
Sonja, what if there is no God?
:07:10
Boris Dimitrovitch, are you joking?
:07:13
What if we're just
a bunch of absurd people
:07:15
who are running around
with no rhyme or reason?
:07:18
But if there is no God,
then life has no meaning.
:07:21
Why go on living?
Why not just commit suicide?
:07:24
Well, let's not get hysterical.
I could be wrong.
:07:27
I'd hate to blow my brains out,
then see they found something.
:07:30
Boris. Let me show you
how absurd your position is.
:07:33
Let's say there is no God, and each man
is free to do exactly as he chooses.
:07:38
What prevents you
from murdering somebody?
:07:41
- Murder's immoral.
- Immorality is subjective.
:07:44
Yes, but subjectivity is objective.
:07:47
Not in a rational scheme of perception.
:07:49
Perception is irrational.
It implies imminence.
:07:51
But judgment of any system
of phenomena exists
:07:55
in any rational, metaphysical or
epistemological contradiction
:07:59
to an abstracted empirical concept
such as being, or to be, or to occur