Tunnel Vision
Beyond your tunnel vision, reality fades, like shadows into the night!!!!
- just_curiousposted 12 years ago
0 Any individual who solidifies a belief, for which, it never changes, has tunnel vision. Those who refuse to change their belief, because they feel they have come to the right conclusion has no wisdom and cannot discern truth, even if it bit them in the A$$.
Beliefs should never remain in tact, because new knowledge and wisdom discerned truth, should always change a belief.
Is there a right way to think? Yes.
Is there a right philosophy for living? Yes.
Is there a right way to learn? Yes.
Is there a right way to form beliefs? Yes.
Is there a right way to speak? Yes.
Is there a right way to be, in private? Yes.
Is there a right way to be, in public? Yes.
If you disagree, then you're lacking in some aspect.
No tunnel vision can see the walls of the vision. It only sees what is necessary for oneself. In other words, narrow-minded and close-minded people are a detriment to themselves and those who are around them.Your statement is foolhardy.
@Jerami- and anyone else.
What is the right way to think? Rationally based on reality
What is the right philosophy for living? Rationally based on reality
What is the right way to learn? Learn from everything and everyone.
What is the right way to form beliefs? No belief is truth, otherwise it wouldn't be a belief. Beliefs are not to be solidified, because knowledge is always changing which changes beliefs.
What is the right way to speak? Rationally and Honestly.
What is the right way to be, in private? Remains private, not necessary for others to have any intimate knowledge of or know about.
What is the right way to be, in public? Honest actions.
It is pretty sad that I had to explain this.
- Home Girlposted 12 years ago0
Okay, I wasn't going to comment again on this forum originally, but seeing as how I can't really sleep and I got nothing better to do. Seriously, I don't.
However, I have to agree with Jerami when it comes to the concepts of reality. It kind of surprises about what Cagsil said about reality considering he's a huge "Matrix trilogy" fan, and I know Morpheus in that film clearly said: "If your interpreting reality based solely on what you can touch, smell, and see. then really all reality to you is optic signals interpreted by your brain." No, Cagsil, I'm not disrespecting you in anyway, so please don't take that personally. I'm just saying your statement surprises me considering you liked the "Matrix trilogy." that's all.
Anyways, to get back to what i was trying to say, I think Jerami brings up a good point. How do we even know our own world is real? After all, we could all be part of one person's imagination or dream. Or maybe we're nothing more than hallographic images like in "Star Trek: The Next Generation?" Who really knows. Hell, our world could be nothing more than a elaborate virtual world like the Sims, and we probably don't know it. Whatever the case may be, I think if one were to try to assess what reality or life is, then they would have to be open to all possibilities. Not just one narrative construct.Oh okay. I gotcha now. To set the record straight, I did read your previous posts on here, but from the way you were talking I thought you were referring to reality as something that you can merely prove with your natural senses. However, I guess I must've misread what you were getting at, so I apologize for that. As I stated earlier, I meant no ill offense.
Well to be fair Cagsil, "The Sims" is a video game and "Star Trek: the next generation" is a tv show; they're not movies. Trust me, there is a difference as the same collaborative process to create film is completely different than that of a game or tv series. However, that's another debate for another time, as I don't feel like getting into that one.
As far as me being able to differentiate between what is real and what is not, I thought I made myself perfectly clear when I stated various times before that I don't associate films with reality in various forums before. However, I guess your probably wondering why am I even bringing up your interest in the "Matrix Trilogy" into this if that's the case. You see Cagsil, unlike yourself and many other hubbers here, I'm sure, I was taught at a very early age that ALL FILMS in general (unless you count most horror slashers and spoofs) have a underlining message that correlates to life itself. A plausible possibility that many of us can deeply relate to. You see every movie you watch has a surface meaning and a underlining hidden meaning.
The surface meaning is the actual plot of the film itself. Take "Star Wars" for instance. Sure, we can both say it's a classic story of good versus evil taking place in space. A classic homage to previous classic B-movies and Errol Flynn when he made films like Robin Hood. However, the underlining meaning behind the film is actually about a boy embarking on an adventure to becoming a man and embracing his destiny. Facing challenges like the lure and deception of evil, as he struggles to face his past and the inevitable truth.
Then you can take another film like "Rambo: First Blood." Sure, we can both say that it's a action movie purely designed to just show Stallone blowing s*** up without a shirt while grunting. However, you'd be missing the point of the story if you didn't notice the underlining meaning behind it. You see, during the Vietnam War, many soldiers were forced to endure harsh ridicule by their own country. Being labeled as a baby killer just for doing their jobs that they were forced to do for their country. Rambo is a man that genuinely is trapped emotionally, as he doesn't know what else to do with his life after the war. Psychologically trapped, as warfare tactics is all he knows, and his only family that he had were his comrades in the war. Hence, giving the viewer a deep sense of emotional isolation that many of us have probably felt at one point or another.
Then there's "X-men" where sure we can say its a story based on a comic book in regards to people being born genetically different. As the x-men are a team of mutants that fights to protect a world that both hates and fears them. However, the obvious underlining meaning behind x-men is that it's a metaphor about racism in the world. How humanity in general has always feared and hated what they don't understand. And how those in power always persecuted the minority throughout history. Charles Xavier is a man that represents the idealogy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. where he believed the mutants (metaphor for pick any minority group you want) could live together in harmony someday. Magneto represents Malcolm X, who feels that the majority of society is morally unjust for persecuting his mutant brothers, and vows to fight back against the oppressors. Granted, it's done in a more colorful way in the "x-men" movies, but the message is still there about the underlining themes of racism in society.
As for as how this relates to the "matrix" series, I'm getting to that. sure, we can both watch the Matrix films and say it's a science fiction story about a man named Neo who discovers he trapped inside a computer generated world, as the machines have been at war with humanity for years. Harvesting the humans as batteries; while keeping their minds occupied within a virtual world. Then we can also look and think about all the biblical references to that the Matrix makes as well, but there's another point you might have missed here. Outside of the religious subliminal messaging and science fiction element of humanity versus machines, at it's simplest construct, "the matrix" trilogy is essentially a metaphor of interpreting one's reality. Now before you say anything take in mind that even the Wachowski brothers themselves admitted in various interviews that part of the concept for the Matrix, was the concept of misinterpreting reality. How one's reality isn't easily defined, as they derived it from the classic anime, "Ghost in the shell." In "Ghost in the shell", there was various questions raised on how can one define a soul or one's existence. bringing up many philosophical questions that has plagued man kind for centuries on what the definition of a soul is. In both Matrix and ghost in the shell, machines start to become self aware. Of course in the ghost in the shell movies, majority of the world were cyborgs, as humanity wanted to reach the peak of perfection by replacing even parts of their brains with machinery. In this same said series, machines become self aware and begin to develop personalities of their own. Which begs the question if a machine could feel emotions, then does it have a soul? What if it definitely could think for itself and was fully aware of it's existence and have consciousness, would you call it human then? After all in that world, humans were becoming more and more like machines; hence blurring the lines of machines and humanity. making the viewer ponder the difference between the two. the wachowski brothers ADMITTED they stole that concept from ghost in the shell, and used it in the matrix series. hence, that's why I found it puzzling for you to say that there is only one definitive set of reality.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't think it's ever a good idea for anyone to try to duplicate what they see in a movie, as most films tend to exaggerate reality quite a bit. However, there are a lot of positive messages in films that people can take from if you look hard enough. "she's out of my league", sure its a generic romantic comedy about a nerdy guy getting a hot girl, but the message is that it shouldn't matter what league a person is deemed by society. The only thing that's important is that if you believe your good enough for her, and that she feels the same way. that's all i was getting at. anyways, i mean no quarells with you cags, so with that i say good day.
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