Discussions about Reality

The question here is to understand what we mean, when we refer to the term “reality.”

After years immersed in this “comfortable” bubble of Scientific objective and rational reality, we forget to question the world around us from another perspective, one that provocatively challenges this “reality” that surrounds us to beyond any Hollywood movie scripts which in true science has became.

The reality that surrounds us is a product of the concreteness of nothingness defined by the post-1945 militarism, when the predominance of absolute reason, of maximum objectivity, had obliterated and alienated the very significance of human life from our own historical and civilizational background into endless wars.

Reality, since then, has become the ultimate concreteness of nothingness, and human life a mere chance of occurrence, whether in war or as hospital aborted waste, transforming life into private property disregarding public morality, but as a merely matter of morbid rights, such as for the “right” to die, in the case of euthanasia, and the “right” not to be born, as for the case of abortion, and even to define human sexuality as a source of pleasure, defining human body as private property to justify one’s own reality, such as just for sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

Since sex ceased to be part of the reproductive process and became a source of pleasure in this very practical, objective, and realistic reality of the militarism; abortion became a bodily right now defined as a private property, relativizing marriage and the constitution of families as a “natural” practice of homosexual mating, consideraded as valid as for men and women.

Thus, maximum objectivity based on the science of this militaristic reality has created a bubble where everything is permitted without guilt, denying our own civilizational history, which is that of the mystery of life emerging from the animal world of sins in search for virtues in a tense contradiction between sacred and profane.

The reality of our civilizational history is one of profound perplexity between what we are and what we would like to be, between sins and virtued, between being and being nothing.

As one may perceive the very conditions of this reality that surrounds us is shrouded in the tenuous twilight of the nothingness in search for the solid totality of the lights of virtues, of a reality in permanent combat against the abyss of the nothingness.

As we are discussing here, reality itself is a perception between being, being present in the world, and at the same time being nothing.

We synthesize these feelings in search for totality and virtues, which, throughout our civilizational history, has become the divinity, the light, and the life that inspires us in the eternal struggle against the darkness of the abyss of nothingness.

The conclusions that can be reached in this brief exposition are that objective and rational reality loses strength in the face of the contradictions of the nothingness that permeates us, and that reality is, first and foremost, a human experience of being and existing in the world, observing what surrounds us with perplexity, and ultimately finding only one “logical” explanation in God who dwells in the intermediary between the abyss of nothingness and the light of the reality that surrounds us.

Perhaps that is why we wander in search of the virtues of life, varying between the sacred and the profane, between the maxim objective reality and nothingness.

“Deus” explains.

By Prof. Ricardo Gomes Rodrigues

São Carlos, sp Brazil, feburary 4, 2026