#5th wall

What about breaking the 5th wall instead? Or the 6th one for that matter? What if you were not only actively encouraged you to participate in the thing in question, but also to help give it shape and form and also make your own version of events? All because the setting and plot itself explicitly allows you to, maybe even actively encourages you to do so?

Came to this video for Doki Doki, stayed for the existential dread.

And I want to say: I am a Christian, and I believe this assumption about the "5th wall" is true.

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 1 Corinthians 13:12

I have this weird idea that the world in which we live isn't really real. That's why Jesus says not to get attached to it, because it will end. True reality lies outside of what we perceive with our physical senses. True reality lies in the spiritual realm, which we can only feel. I don't think other Christians even believe this, but I think the Bible teaches it.

It's not like "The Matrix," God is good, and He is very involved with our lives. But we have to make ourselves aware of Him. He calls each and every one of us at least once in our lives. Not to get preachy, but that's what salvation adds up to: you realize you are separate from God (that's really all it means to call someone a sinner, not that they're bad, just that they're separate from God), you accept Jesus' offer of salvation, and He shows you who you are, who He made you to be, and what you can and should do with your life.

Anyway, this is what I think.

Anonymous asked: Alright, I don't know if this is a appropriate question for this kind of blog. But I wanted to know what exactly is the "fourth wall" thing about. I mean where did it come from, and wow, yes I am also asking this, is/was there a "third" or "second" wall? Hell was there even a "first" wall to begin with?

Once upon a time, most shows were done in the theater. On that stage lives played out, and behind them the setting was typically three walls. Upon the advent of Television that wall became more pronounced, forming the screen. So the 4th wall is the wall between the characters and the audience. When a character breaks it, I'm lookin' at you Deadpool, they are interacting directly with the audience. The times the character slowly looks directly into the camera as if they know you are there? Yeah, that's breaking the 4th wall.

Now lo and behold there is actually a 5th wall. This is shared experiences between the audience and the actors. In simpler verse, it is as one TV Troper said, the back wall of the theater. This means theoretically in cases where the character and you work together to interact and solve an even bigger problem is breaking the 5th wall. A scene in Rift does this during the Summer Carnival. One of the fortune tellers seemingly jokes about how your character is played by someone else, big laugh, everyone goes home happy right? Nope. She ends it by saying "Oh I don't mean you, pawn, I mean the one behind you." She insinuates that you, the player, have someone else playing you. So you know, talking to your God type thing.