Let’s say you had the option to choose:
Red Pill- escape the Matrix, learn the truth
Blue Pill – go back to the Matrix, live life in ignorant bliss (let’s say your life in the Matrix was a good one, where you were happy)
Which would you choose?
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If I had to choose: IF I had a great life in the Matrix where I was happy, even if it is a false happiness, I’d choose it. Why? I already know “the truth” and reality fucking sucks. SO, blue pill it is for me. Blissful ignorance > Miserable reality
Ok so if i had that option, the only way I could accept the red one is under the condition of forgetting I once had the option to choose, either way I would always know everything is a lie and I couldn’t feel at peace with it in the matrix.
Else I would like to know if by picking the red one and noticing life sucks big time, and I mean big time like sometimes it does (and I am not Neo or the only one that can change things around, that I know I couldn’t be) there would be a chance to escape (suicide), because maybe out of the matrix you do can choose.
yeah, the choice is under the condition that the red pill erases your memory of you being told you’re living in a fake life. Or at least in my scenario 😛
Now that I think about it, I have been hiding in my apartment for three days today. So I think that is an answer on itself. But I ‘ll have to come out soon so…
That’s an easy question for me.
I really want to know the truth and by “truth”, I mean the reason behind “everything”, yeah literally everything..
And for that, I should not be in the matrix. I should be outside the matrix in order to study it.
And anyway, I’m suffering a lot here in matrix. So why not come outside of it?
But leaving the Matrix doesn’t mean to know why we exist… well it wasn’t like that in the movie… But you are right there is a bigger chance to know about it outside the matrix than inside.
But what if living outside the matrix doesn’t change this uncertainty so it doesn’t changes the posibiloty of discovering any metafisical answers? Is there really a difference living outside the matrix in that sense?
I hope we can notice the difference.
For one thing, being outside of a matrix means you know the difference between reality and illusion.
i.e. you know the truth.
Good point.
Today I’d take the red pill. Just so I could reprogram the matrix. I love fiddling with stuff.
Hang out with know-it-all Morpheus and fucking Keanu Reeves?
Or keep working in my cubicle?
Easy: blue pill for me.
I’ll design you a nice cube and program a cute girl who secretly likes you in the cube next to you.
Thanks 🙂 Getting some Dilbert images in my head.
1 would overdose on red pills and lmfao just like many a time b4 infact any psychedelics/entheogens is doing just that and that is ecstatic bliss knowing 1self !!!!be warned tho death of the mind/ego can cause fear just like in the matrix when morpheous says : Listen to me… … It’s dangerous, the mind has trouble letting go……oh and a side note ignorance is suffering not bliss
Id rather know the truth. Give me the truth pill no matter how hard it is to live by it. Living a lie is really no life at all.
Isn’t this post just an allegory for why we are all here?
Red pill is death. You cease to exist in the “normal” world. Your trials and tribulations of the mortal coil are over, and once outside the matrix you are experiencing your version of the afterlife.
The blue pill is life, continuing on the same path daily, trudging along towards the eventuality of the end.
Red pill, blue pill….you all end up the same place. Just one goes quicker than the other….
Then again it is HIGHLY possible I overthought this whole thing……
For me the Red pill is Transcendence versus the blue pill- mechanistic ignorance. You choose. For me transcendence, dying to the ego, and awakening are all the same. They are all myths of transcendence. Transitioning to the next stage in some strange spiritual hierarchy/ letting go of mind and becoming the observer etc. etc.
For me personally I wouldn’t take a pill to transcend nor would I take a pill to remain in the world. Its just like Eve in Eden when the serpent offers her the apple and she can take it or not. You have a choice to transcend or stay, its always a choice to transcend or stay. Eve takes the fruit of knowledge after the persuasion of the serpent. All in all she chooses transcendence over the normal every day existence of plowing the garden, and laboring over the fruits and lands. She believes that she will attain some degree of transcendence ( atleast in Milton’s rendition in PL) and be like God or a God.
All in all I wouldn’t take either, for me and how I have perceived it, It really just comes down to Self-substantiation. That is A faithful, willing suicide, and knowing that you will wake up again in a different state of consciousness. One that is much more real than this one Just like Mr. Popper in “A Kids Story” (Animatrix) All we have to do is Just Jump.