10/27/07

Soaps --More Real Than You Think

Couple of points I'ld like to make from a factual standpoint about the fiction that soaps aren't real. From the field of psychology, we know that actors who portray a character often experience the same emotions as the character. As the player plays the part, smiling, frowning, yelling, whispering, crying he feels a bit of what he is playing in his own soul, because after all it is a real human being expressing these emotions. Sure, he's following a script, but who doesn't follow a script in one's life. And certainly, those feelings you get as you watch Days or AMC are real. Second, an even more fascinating discovery recently announced from Oxford University that parallel universes can be inferred directly from recent mathematical advances brings up an intriguing possibility, or rather, probability, that if existence is comprised of infinite permutations of our own tip of the iceberg reality, then in every soap episode you watch you are witnessing what is actually going on in a parallel process. Actually, it is easy for me to imagine the converse of a soap opera, where the people performing have switched roles to viewers in that other universe, and you the audience are actually one of the players. So the next time someone says "Oh, don't you know they aren't real" tell that someone maybe they are, and maybe their own life isn't actually real.

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