midnight in his labyrinth Reality Waiting for the Savior "Certainty is an emotion, not fact," says Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep in "Doubt," when she (nun) states have certainty that he (priest) of child molestation.
The movie (excellent) shows no facts. Show perceptions, interpretations, opinions. Emotions. And I watch a second time, and doubt. I doubt the accuracy of the nun, I doubt the innocence the cure. And I doubt my doubt, I doubt my ability to be wrong and I doubt my ability to hit. And I get my doubts about the movie (inevitable) and transfer to reality.
Emotion has a leading role in reality. The certainty emotion, emotion-doubt. Active emotion reality, shapes, transforms it into something mobile. If only there would not have the facts wrong or rightly, as the facts are irrefutable and leave no margin for error or guess (how I'm wrong, how to hit, when it comes to judging something that can not be denied?). Still, even judging by the facts, the matter is more complicated than it may seem, a fact not born from nothing, things do not just happen. If something happens (something undeniable, something completely verifiable) is because one thing led to that happening. The truth is almost always more behind than you think. So: how do we judge without possibility of misunderstanding something we do not know where, how and when did it start?
The reality is emotional and, therefore, incomprehensible. And at the same time, the emotion in all its forms that makes possible the reality, for better or for worse, as their own biases but pour in every event we witness (or that we witnessed) would cease to be human. The reality is a set of facts and perceptions, and if some of that lack, reality ceases to exist.
If I wrote this because I'm sure what I think. I have the certainty that is so. But as I agree with the priest, I have also confident that I can be absolutely wrong.
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