NEW MEDIA: Polar Express – More Symbolism
Very interesting, the boy who didn’t believe in Santa watches as the sleigh is prepared, the reindeer harnessed in, but he can’t hear the bells, can’t get more than a glimpse of Santa. Then he closes his eyes and says, I believe, I believe. He picks up a bell that has fallen from the sleigh and though he couldn’t hear it before, he can now hear its lovely tinkle as he shakes it.
So. Does that mean then that to see and enjoy or sense the real, one must first have a belief based not empirically, but on faith? That may seem contradictory, but how else have discoveries been made but upon someone’s belief–only an idea–that something can be created or achieved? Approaching the need or desire by building a bridge of experience.
That may bring us back again to religion, and faith creating the reality.
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