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Well, different people watch movies in different ways. Most people get so engrossed in the movie that they start thinking that the movie is real. They start relating to what is happening in the movie. Instead of enjoying the movie, what do people really end up doing? People start commenting on the production, the direction, the characters, and the actors – the actor should have done this or the actors should have worn such clothes. This scene would have been better if the villain had not performed the way he did. Why did they show this? It spoilt the movie. Why did they add this song? They should have played some special music when the two actors walk on the beach in that particular scene.

People forget that they are not the producer or the director or the actors of the movie. They are just the audience, and to enjoy watching the movie, the best thing to do is to sit back and enjoy what is being presented on the screen. You have paid for the ticket, and you are a part of the show. Criticizing, commenting, and passing judgments on the movie will not enhance the entertainment that the movie will give you. Rather than making comments, why not simply enjoy the movie?

So it is with life! We are not the producers or directors of life. There is a Master – a Creator we call God who has produced and directed what is called the theatre of life. Yes, life is a drama. It is a theatre, and we keep on commenting and questioning: Why did this happen? Why did this not happen? Could this not have happened that way? Why did this happen to me? Why did he do this? Why did she do this?

Now, how does it matter? Will your questioning change anything? Nothing is going to change. The only difference from the movies is here in life, we are the actors; we can do our part and then enjoy the rest of the show.

Enjoy this drama. Enjoy the movie. Enjoy the theatre called life!

AiR

AiR wrote:Well, different people watch movies in different ways. Most people get so engrossed in the movie that they start thinking that the movie is real. They start relating to what is happening in the movie. Instead of enjoying the movie, what do people really end up doing? People start commenting on the production, the direction, the characters, and the actors – the actor should have done this or the actors should have worn such clothes. This scene would have been better if the villain had not performed the way he did. Why did they show this? It spoilt the movie. Why did they add this song? They should have played some special music when the two actors walk on the beach in that particular scene.

People forget that they are not the producer or the director or the actors of the movie. They are just the audience, and to enjoy watching the movie, the best thing to do is to sit back and enjoy what is being presented on the screen. You have paid for the ticket, and you are a part of the show. Criticizing, commenting, and passing judgments on the movie will not enhance the entertainment that the movie will give you. Rather than making comments, why not simply enjoy the movie?

So it is with life! We are not the producers or directors of life. There is a Master – a Creator we call God who has produced and directed what is called the theatre of life. Yes, life is a drama. It is a theatre, and we keep on commenting and questioning: Why did this happen? Why did this not happen? Could this not have happened that way? Why did this happen to me? Why did he do this? Why did she do this?

Now, how does it matter? Will your questioning change anything? Nothing is going to change. The only difference from the movies is here in life, we are the actors; we can do our part and then enjoy the rest of the show.

Enjoy this drama. Enjoy the movie. Enjoy the theatre called life!

AiR

Suspending your disbelief when you watch a film is part of the enjoyment. This enables you to step outside of your real life for a couple of hours.
The benefits of this escapism can give you entertainment. If the film is about human relationships, it can help you reflect on your own. But this all depends on the type of film.
So far so good.
People that cannot make a clear distinction between delusions and reality are often to be found in mental hospitals, or churches. Only a brain dead moron thinks that 'real life' is a film, directed by some sort of Sky-Daddy. This is not a film, you are not an actor, and you need to get a life.

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Kind-a strange. I feel like a conglomerate of the original post here upon this thread and the subsequent post immediately thereafter.


When I was young when I came out of a movie, a really good movie, I felt as though I was looking at myself sort-of like in a movie that was my real life.

The feeling would last for a few minuets up to a few hours.


It really was a suspension of my normal perception of myself.


Good thread...




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Kind-a strange. I feel like a conglomerate of the original post here upon this thread and the subsequent post immediately thereafter.


When I was young when I came out of a movie, a really good movie, I felt as though I was looking at myself sort-of like in a movie that was my real life.

The feeling would last for a few minuets up to a few hours.


It really was a suspension of my normal perception of myself.


Good thread...




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With popcorn.

Daily life is observed just as daily life can be observed on the internet.
This implies that physical daily life is an illusory manifestation of light, too. Physical and virtual are both an illusory reflection of light. Awareness (pure light) is the intelligence (internet) IN life.You are watching the movie of yourself which does not exist except as an animated technicolour movie. Move ''I''...a movement within perfect intelligent brilliant stillness. (Awareness) Always, here, always present. I am the blank screen on which I paint my dream. Screen and Contents of screen (when the twain meet)

No one is watching You but You.

Arising_uk wrote:With popcorn.

Hobbes' Choice wrote:
Suspending your disbelief when you watch a film is part of the enjoyment. This enables you to step outside of your real life for a couple of hours.
The benefits of this escapism can give you entertainment. If the film is about human relationships, it can help you reflect on your own. But this all depends on the type of film.
So far so good.
People that cannot make a clear distinction between delusions and reality are often to be found in mental hospitals, or churches. Only a brain dead moron thinks that 'real life' is a film, directed by some sort of Sky-Daddy. This is not a film, you are not an actor, and you need to get a life.

The film you are watching at the cinema is coming from you. It is not external to you. Find out who this you is, the one from which every image arises and falls away.

Cinema films and the story of your real life as a human being watching a movie at the cinema are appearing to the same one. Therefore, both delusion and reality is an illusion within illusory life.

There is no sky-daddy, we are talking metaphorically, using language as the only tool available to point to reality. The reality is, there isn't one except the one you make-up...aka the real fictional character that you believe to be you.


There are no relationships in life, except as concept. You have no daddy, you are alone in the world.You have no knowledge of your biological Father, being a fictional character.


You came out of your mothers womb, she is not your mother, she is you and you are her.

Hobbes' Choice wrote:Only a brain dead moron thinks

Brains don't think. Brains are the receiver transmitter of transient thoughts which have no particular existence or origin.

Brains are like radios, there really is nothing inside it, except a brain dead moron perhaps.

Brains and neurons have no causal powers. They cause none of our perceptual experiences, and none of our behaviour, says Prof Donald Hoffman a neurological cognitive brain specialist scientist.
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You are insanely well prepared, spot-on, and articulate.


You are one of the few, serious, legitimate, and accessible REAL philosophers upon this site.

Perhaps you are THE most legitimate philosopher here.


I keep thinking I have seen your best post then you continually TOP your last post.



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Always loved your posts Bill. From one genie to another.

Thank God your here.

I think I would have hung myself from the nearest PNF rafter by now had you not have been here to affirm I'm not a bullshitter.

Bill Wiltrack wrote:

Can the past be changed by the FUTURE? Bizarre quantum experiment suggests time can run backwards.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... wards.html


Nothing and Everything is happening at the same time. (Mirror Universe)

Dontaskme wrote:

Hobbes' Choice wrote:
Suspending your disbelief when you watch a film is part of the enjoyment. This enables you to step outside of your real life for a couple of hours.
The benefits of this escapism can give you entertainment. If the film is about human relationships, it can help you reflect on your own. But this all depends on the type of film.
So far so good.
People that cannot make a clear distinction between delusions and reality are often to be found in mental hospitals, or churches. Only a brain dead moron thinks that 'real life' is a film, directed by some sort of Sky-Daddy. This is not a film, you are not an actor, and you need to get a life.

The film you are watching at the cinema is coming from you. It is not external to you. Find out who this you is, the one from which every image arises and falls away.

Cinema films and the story of your real life as a human being watching a movie at the cinema are appearing to the same one. Therefore, both delusion and reality is an illusion within illusory life.

There is no sky-daddy, we are talking metaphorically, using language as the only tool available to point to reality. The reality is, there isn't one except the one you make-up...aka the real fictional character that you believe to be you.


There are no relationships in life, except as concept. You have no daddy, you are alone in the world.You have no knowledge of your biological Father, being a fictional character.


You came out of your mothers womb, she is not your mother, she is you and you are her.

Hobbes' Choice wrote:Only a brain dead moron thinks

Brains don't think. Brains are the receiver transmitter of transient thoughts which have no particular existence or origin.

Brains are like radios, there really is nothing inside it, except a brain dead moron perhaps.

Brains and neurons have no causal powers. They cause none of our perceptual experiences, and none of our behaviour, says Prof Donald Hoffman a neurological cognitive brain specialist scientist.
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Very funny. A person apparently without a brain, claims that the brain has no function. It do not think your post is worthy of further response.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.