Saturday, November 10, 2012

Do We Really See The World As It Is?

So a friend and myself happened to be discussing a new movie that will soon be released, (to keep this from dating itself I’m not giving names of movies, people, etc.) in effect, we ended up discussing one of the actresses, determining what kind of movie it would be based on her… craziness. This led to my friend showing me a short clip on the internet of this actress doing something in a show, a show one would not expect this actress to be in due to it not fitting her typecast character. Needless to say however, she still managed to make her character as crazy as usual. The point in all this, is something in that clip that I saw, started an event of paradox based ideas in my ever churning mind.
Here is an idea of what I saw:
An obviously imagined creature, that in reality, is just a figment of ones imagination. However this “figment of imagination” was “brought to life” with the art of puppetry and/or costume mechanics. The interesting portion of this, is when one of the imaginary creatures, created a beam from its mind, forming a living imaginary friend, something to be of its own imagination. This of course is where our actress comes in, being the imagined life form.
Now here is what my cranium began to formulate:
In technicality, this actress, is the only real living life form in this scene, yet she interacts with the creatures around here, thus giving myself the assumption, that these creatures must be a figment of her imagination. The tricky part in this sequence that would cause a possible paradox, is the fact that, these creatures are now considered figments of her imagination, when in fact, you see the creature, imagine and un-imagine her, with the affiliation that she is a figment of imagination of the creatures.
So what is being said here is this:
The creature, a figment of imagination. created her, a figment of imagination, but again, the creature is just a figment of her imagination even though she was imagined by the creature. In aspect we are saying that she imagined herself being imagined by something that she in fact imagined but it imagined her in the first place but it is only there because she imagined it, and yet she is only there because it imagined her.
What it all comes down to is this:
Who is the crazy person in this whole scenario? Is it she, being the original imaginer of it all? Perhaps maybe the creature imagined it first? There is even the possibility, the crazy person, is the audience, or myself, imagining that this is going on when in reality, it is all a figment of theirs or my imagination. Wait, could it be you, the reader? Is it possible that none of this has even been written but you’re imagining it has? Are YOU crazy? Or, in reality, are we all just the imagination of a greater being, believing that we exist, when we really are just living figments of imagination or something greater than us.
In the end, what honestly matters, is what you believe, and how you see the world in front of you. Do you really even see the world as it is? IS there one true way the world is, or is it all determined by our own perspective? I can only say this, the more creative ways you come up with looking at everyday life, not only will life be more interesting, but you will find yourself asking a lot of questions, aspiring to have them answered, thus becoming more knowledgeable then you were when you led a simple, boring life. My quote to leave you with is this:
“If you are going to fall, fall with style.” – Buzz Lightyear Disney Pixar's: Toy Story. (A Timeless Classic)

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