Are you a believer of the Matrix?

[bartelby]

Me, my preferred dress is dark suit, white shirt and usually a dark plain tie. I might wear a pair of shades, and I might have a look on my face that implies constipation.

I think I've seen you!!

 

[0098386]

I wonder -

Does the OP believe in a Matrix-like world, that we're living in a simulation of some kind.

Or does the OP believe in that plus there being a "one", a Morpheus, an Agent Smith?

 

[Son of Matrix]

I wonder -

Does the OP believe in a Matrix-like world, that we're living in a simulation of some kind.

Or does the OP believe in that plus there being a "one", a Morpheus, an Agent Smith?

haha..
1) "one" = Neo
2) "many multiplies" = Agent Smith, iBlue..etc...all agents...

 

[themadchemist]

haha..
1) "one" = Neo
2) "many multiplies" = Agent Smith, iBlue..etc...all agents...

Did watching the Matrix inspire you to take this belief or do you use it as an analogy to a previously existing belief system for you?

 

[0098386]

Wow. You do.
I think you need help, I'm not joking now.

 

[Aeolius]

I believe in The Village , which far predates your precious Matrix.

 

[Son of Matrix]

Did watching the Matrix inspire you to take this belief or do you use it as an analogy to a previously existing belief system for you?

It's a good analogy of my previously existing belief...

Wow. You do.
I think you need help, I'm not joking now.

Sorry, didn't know OP refers to me. I thought it refers to the moderators of the forum.

I believe in the Matrix and I believe everyone can be the 'ONE' and I am playing with the idea that there are Agent Smiths around, maybe there are, maybe there are not...most importantly is hopefully they will leave me alone...lol...boy, do I need help...

I believe in The Village , which far predates your precious Matrix.

Wow. Didn't know about this. Thanks! Hmm..come to think of it..Maybe those who does not believe the Matrix in the poll up there, believe the Village...haha

 

[iSaint]

(Normally, when we're not in the middle of a "special event", my avatar is The Architect and my location is The Matrix.)

There's no special event going on...what are you talking about?

 

[PlaceofDis]

questioning authority and reality = Okay, and good imo.

taking a hypothetical movie and making it your religion and dogma = bad

 

[themadchemist]

It's a good analogy of my previously existing belief...

Maybe if you could denude your belief of the Matrix analogy (which makes it sound a little hokey and superficial), you could give us a clearer view of what you actually believe, which might make way for a more interesting and substantive discussion.

 

[PowerFullMac]

I dont really believe the Matrix, but I do believe perhaps a similar concept is possible... My mind is very open, you never know...

 

[Son of Matrix]

Maybe if you could denude your belief of the Matrix analogy (which makes it sound a little hokey and superficial), you could give us a clearer view of what you actually believe, which might make way for a more interesting and substantive discussion.

Found this link after looking at your question, http://atheism.about.com/od/philosophyofreligion/a/maxtrixbuddhism.htm. Hope that helps. I can't do better than that. Anyway, please bear in mind I am not promoting religion here. Religion or not, what matters is what we believe and no harming of other humans.

 

[::Lisa::]

The movie(s) were great.
However, I don't believe it's actually real

 

[PlaceofDis]

Found this link after looking at your question, http://atheism.about.com/od/philosophyofreligion/a/maxtrixbuddhism.htm. Hope that helps. I can't do better than that. Anyway, please bear in mind I am not promoting religion here. Religion or not, what matters is what we believe and no harming of other humans.

religion ≠ hate or harming of others.
religion is a set of beliefs in something 'supernatural' which basically what you're talking about here, but anyways...

everything is a control. in some form or another, and the 'matrix', 'life', or what have you is just another control. learn to live with the right balances and be happy. that is all that matters.

 

[bartelby]

The movie(s) were great.
However, I don't believe it's actually real

The first one was great!
The second was a bit poor.
The third was, frankly, awful.

 

[Gravity]

I also believe there are people from the future walking around our cities right now. If time travel is possible, there must be someone here from the future, right?

There will never be time travel. Time travel is an extrapolation of General Relativity... a theory that is flawed in its interpretation of observed and measured properties of gravity & space. It is an idea dependent on the notion that space is a "fabric" forming a continuum with time. An idea that assumes IF one can exceed the speed of light, time will flow backwards.

Space will soon be shown to be a soup of inert singularities born of the decay of matter & energy particles... and acting more like a gas than a fabric. Everything observed by General Relativity can be explained with a different model of quantum gravity... but the extrapolations are very different. And old assumptions (like the immortality of energy) will fall away.

We are NOT being visited from the future, nor will we ever. The threshold of light speed can be circumvented via the manipulation of an object's "mass" (If relative mass is "zero" to the rest of the world [by masking an object's gravity], you can zip through space totally unimpeded at any velocity)... so it is possible that E.T. could come here for a visit.... within a few hundred light years, anyway.

 

[Sherman Homan]

The first one was great!
The second was a bit poor.
The third was, frankly, awful.

Couldn't even finish watching the third movie, sound asleep.

 

[Sesshi]

I think I've seen you!!

Have you now, Mister bartelby...

 

[themadchemist]

The first one was great!
The second was a bit poor.
The third was, frankly, awful.

If you removed the "frankly" from the third line here, you'd have a haiku.

 

[0098386]

The first one was great!
The second was a bit poor.
The third was, frankly, awful.

Agreed. I did have fond memories of watching them so I put the third one on for kicks. It just got worse towards the end and I basically gave up watching after they saw the sky.

Really should have left it at the first one.

 

[Osarkon]

If you removed the "frankly" from the third line here, you'd have a haiku.

A matrix haiku. Heh.

 

[MacNut]

There will never be time travel. Time travel is an extrapolation of General Relativity... a theory that is flawed in its interpretation of observed and measured properties of gravity & space. It is an idea dependent on the notion that space is a "fabric" forming a continuum with time. An idea that assumes IF one can exceed the speed of light, time will flow backwards.

Space will soon be shown to be a soup of inert singularities born of the decay of matter & energy particles... and acting more like a gas than a fabric. Everything observed by General Relativity can be explained with a different model of quantum gravity... but the extrapolations are very different. And old assumptions (like the immortality of energy) will fall away.

We are NOT being visited from the future, nor will we ever. The threshold of light speed can be circumvented via the manipulation of an object's "mass" (If relative mass is "zero" to the rest of the world [by masking an object's gravity], you can zip through space totally unimpeded at any velocity)... so it is possible that E.T. could come here for a visit.... within a few hundred light years, anyway.

How do we know your not from the future trying to throw us off.

It's amazing that I didn't get burnt or flamed on this thread as I have feared the worst.

Don't give up hope just yet. Read the thread a little closer.