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How do we accept the issues of this world each and every day without really questioning our beliefs, thoughts, feelings and subsequent stressful outcomes? Bob Proctor of "The Secret" talks about shifting paradigms, if we question our beliefs, challenge our thoughts, reframe our circumstances, our interpretation of how the world is and our place in the world dramatically changes, very quickly.
Are we so anesthetized, programmed and completely given our power and energy over to a few 'people of power' to look after things for us, while we sleep-at-the-wheel? As it is a proven scientific fact that we seldom are consciously present, maybe 5% of the time..... Will we ever awaken to our given gift of life, freedom, peace, joy and ultimate loving nature?
On questioning our lives we can all see that most of our day is taken up by being "A mouse on a treadmill." Either working, or thinking about working. Occasionally we get to do something fun!
Well, if you are reading this blog, it's time to suspend your belief and take action on your dreams!
In popular culture; Wikipedia. Suspension of Disbelief.
"In popular culture According to the theory, suspension of disbelief is an essential ingredient for any kind of storytelling. With any film, the viewer has to ignore the reality that they are viewing a two-dimensional moving image on a screen and temporarily accept it as reality in order to be entertained. Black-and-white films provide an obvious early example that audiences are willing to suspend disbelief, no matter how unreal the images appear, for the sake of entertainment.
With the exception of totally color blind people (See: Achromatopsia), no person viewing these films sees the real world without color, but they are still willing to suspend disbelief and accept the images in order to be entertained.
Suspension of disbelief is also supposed to be essential for the enjoyment of many movies and TV shows involving complex stunts, special effects, and seemingly unrealistic plots, characterizations, etc. The theory professes to explain why a subset of action movie fans are willing to accept the idea that, for example: The good guy can get away with shooting guns in public places (without getting in trouble with the local law-enforcement himself), never running out of ammunition (Rambo movies), or that cars will explode with a well-placed shot to the gas tank (numerous action movies use this trope/plot element). Suspension of disbelief is also needed when a character is not supposed to age over the course of a series (because of being a vampire or be eternal/immortal because of some quirk / trait / power of the character) but the actor eventually does – as seen in Angel and Highlander.
Likewise, the various Terminators played by Arnold Schwarzenegger are supposed to be standardized units from the same assembly line, but the original cyborg in 1984's The Terminator looks noticeably younger than the cyborgs with the "same" organic covering that appear in the 1991 and 2003 sequel movies. In the three CSI series, it is frequently implied that forensic test results are received immediately after said tests are performed; in reality, it can take several months to get results back, it is inconvenient to the plots to show the necessary waiting period.
To advance the plot, a suspension of disbelief is necessary, and viewers must accept that the waiting period has passed or that there is no waiting period to begin with. As well, in real life, crime scene investigators are not responsible for the wide array of police duties that the show's characters typically carry out (investigation, arrest, interrogation, etc.); they limit themselves to forensic and lab work; these series would have audiences believe that crime scene units are solely responsible for entire investigations, including the arrest.
Also another suspension of disbelief is having an episode of a TV show (or a movie) set in a foreign country and have all the actors portraying citizens of said country speak another language entirely and fluently (example: a setting in Germany during the Third Reich where people dressed as German citizens and German officers speak fluent English). All sorts of story-telling involving puppets or cartoon characters demand suspension of disbelief on the part of the audience, since it is obvious that the "people" seen are not real living persons. On the Muppet Show, the rods controlling Kermit's arms are clearly visible, but the audience is expected to ignore them."
Do we, as a society, suspend our disbelief with government, religion, media, banks, law, taxation, healthcare, (sic) big pharma, farming practices, industry, consumerism, etc?
Final of 3 parts on 'Suspension of Disbelief.'
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