If we were in the matrix, would you want to be "set free?" [Archive]

spaceboots06

Jul 9, 2009, 09:38 PM

Hello,

Just curious about how other's feel about this. If this were the matrix, would you want to be "set free?" Would you want to fight for humanity or would you give your physical body to machines who just used your energy but kept you fairly happy?

NT1440

Jul 9, 2009, 09:43 PM

These usually go better when the OP participates.....

I think id be happier in the matrix, for all purposes it is essentially real, all senses are enveloped and its basically the world as we know it.

Iscariot

Jul 9, 2009, 09:59 PM

If I were in the Matrix, I would be set free, if only to have the power to destroy you and everything you hold dear.

iJohnHenry

Jul 9, 2009, 10:00 PM

I am flashing back to ST-TOS and Talus 4. :p

obeygiant

Jul 9, 2009, 10:33 PM

No. I agree with Cypher in that an existence in the Matrix beats a miserable one outside it.

PcBgone

Jul 9, 2009, 10:49 PM

Wake me up. Let me fight the machines. Perceived happiness can never match true happiness and the ability to have free will.

OutThere

Jul 9, 2009, 11:21 PM

I've got a pretty nice life right now...I'm not so sure I'd like to exchange it for a life of extreme danger and possible death each day even if it was 'realer'. :p

sushi

Jul 9, 2009, 11:23 PM

I've got a pretty nice life right now...I'm not so sure I'd like to exchange it for a life of extreme danger and possible death each day even if it was 'realer'. :p
Agree.

And also, I always wanted to be a battery. :)

spaceboots06

Jul 9, 2009, 11:24 PM

I've got a pretty nice life right now...I'm not so sure I'd like to exchange it for a life of extreme danger and possible death each day even if it was 'realer'. :p

Yes, but your real body is sitting in a jelly all day...

OutThere

Jul 9, 2009, 11:32 PM

Yes, but your real body is sitting in a jelly all day...

Well at least my brain thinks I'm driving too fast, eating undercooked meat, drinking beer and fine wine, skydiving and appreciating the subtle comforts of female companionship. :)

spaceboots06

Jul 9, 2009, 11:33 PM

Well at least my brain thinks I'm driving too fast, eating undercooked meat, drinking beer and fine wine, skydiving and appreciating the subtle comforts of female companionship. :)

Woah, you have the life! Scratch my previous post, haha.

MacDawg

Jul 9, 2009, 11:38 PM

Wait... we AREN'T in the Matrix?? :confused:

Woof, Woof - Dawg http://homepage.mac.com/k.j.vinson/pawprint.gif

obeygiant

Jul 10, 2009, 12:04 AM

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Unfortunately no one can be told what the Matrix is, you have to see it for yourself.

sushi

Jul 10, 2009, 12:46 AM

Yes, but your real body is sitting in a jelly all day...
Doesn't matter....

Because:
my brain thinks I'm driving too fast, eating undercooked meat, drinking beer and fine wine, skydiving and appreciating the subtle comforts of female companionship. :)

Abstract

Jul 10, 2009, 01:33 AM

In the Matrix, I think I'm really awesome. In the real world, I'll know I'm not. :p

Don't bother waking me up. Just close the door behind you and GTFO.

rhsgolfer33

Jul 10, 2009, 01:41 AM

I haven't seen the Matrix (I know, I know), but being in it sounds nice compared to "real life," so I think I'd probably want to stay in it.

DoFoT9

Jul 10, 2009, 01:49 AM

as long as everything is free and the babes are naked.. im there!

sushi

Jul 10, 2009, 04:43 AM

as long as everything is free and the babes are naked.. im there!
And the steak is good. :p

WinterMute

Jul 10, 2009, 06:11 AM

If I have to listen to Reeves drone on and on then no, I'll stay plugged in thanks.

Queso

Jul 10, 2009, 06:40 AM

I'd want to wake up, but only so I can be uploaded with kung fu, helicopter pilot skills etc., then I'd come back in again and kick ass :)

Jaffa Cake

Jul 10, 2009, 06:56 AM

I left once, but I soon came back. It was all a bit rubbish to be honest, although everything didn't taste of chicken which was a plus point.

themoonisdown09

Jul 10, 2009, 10:49 AM

Ignorance is bliss, so I would stay in the matrix.

sushi

Jul 10, 2009, 10:50 AM

although everything didn't taste of chicken which was a plus point.
But what if they got the taste of chicken wrong? :p

slpdLoad

Jul 10, 2009, 10:52 AM

I'd want to wake up, but only so I can be uploaded with kung fu, helicopter pilot skills etc., then I'd come back in again and kick ass :)

My thoughts exactly.

leekohler

Jul 10, 2009, 10:57 AM

If I were in the Matrix, I would be set free, if only to have the power to destroy you and everything you hold dear.

Don't forget to bring me along with you, darlin'. ;)

Dany M

Jul 10, 2009, 10:59 AM

Of course I want to be set free, don't want to live in a lie!

Dmac77

Jul 10, 2009, 03:06 PM

I think I would want to be set free, that way I could have the option to be in or out of the Matrix. I would just have to stay on the good side of the various Agent Smith's.

But this thread has made me think again, how do we know that we aren't in a Matrix-like environment? We can't prove that any of this is real. Can we? Maybe we just think that it's real.

Don

pelicanflip

Jul 13, 2009, 02:31 PM

Ignorance is bliss. I'd rather stay in the Matrix.

BoyBach

Jul 13, 2009, 02:59 PM

barkomatic

Jul 13, 2009, 05:38 PM

I'd definately want to be released from the matrix. That way I could salvage an extremely advanced mac from the abandoned Apple store of the "future" (but what is actually present day) and make all of you jealous.

Unspoken Demise

Jul 13, 2009, 05:40 PM

I'd fight.
Also I would be a world class limbo-er.
Why is this PRSI btw?

theITGuy

Jul 15, 2009, 01:17 PM

I like steak and scotch too much...keep me in the cyber-reality of the Matrix... :D

Cheers.

-J.-