ITT: We're in a Matrix movie

Alduin

So lately, guys, I've been getting this feeling that I spend too much time on my computer. Like the machine's controlling me or something. I just don't get it, sometimes. Feel like I have to unwind, or unplug or whatever. You know, I'm so connected to my computer sometimes that I feel totally blind. To the real world, I mean. Like it doesn't exist. Get what I'm saying?

Miss Miko Mayonegg

The real world is a lie.

Tachyon

Reality is an illusion. The universe is a hologram.  Buy gold.  Bye!

Tanya

My parents were both killed by terrorists in the same day, my mom worked a desk job when a helicopter crashed into the window and my dad was a security guard trying to carve out a decent living.

I was 10 years old when that happened, apparently some people look at this massacre and cheer, what monsters.

Imipolex G

*dodges bullets in slow-mo*

Odradek

Johnny Fiveaces powered down the magnabike with a not quite unhearble hum and checked his chronometer. “Damn.” he hissed threw his clinched teeth which were surrounded by the stubble of five days where in he had not shaven himself at all. It was almost chromodawn at Clashpoint. Alreddy the sun was sitting Walliston’s Hill ah blaze like so much molten meddle or a coin, gyreating in the air, tossed there by the uncaring hand of an imaginary god that doesn’t exist, borne from the interior minds of the hobbled masses. The sky was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel that was orange. Damn, he, Johnny, thought. We thought we were opening a new beginning with our mad dreams of time travail but ironically the only time now is the time of which we’re out of. It’s almost humorous. Yeah, I could almost laugh, if I hadn’t cried that part of me away when my parents were maccasared by Dr. Malaprop and the government sanctioned murderers of “CAPITAL”. He lit a Nicosheen brand swaggerette and took a dip drag, sinking farther into his inferior horologue. He thought of Nina and her mellifluous buttocks that he used to love to bang. Even now his nano enhanced hearing could almost hear her vagina lips quivering with moisture and also pleasure, like a slice of synth-ham being tongued by one of Malaprop’s slamhounds. When he got back to City5, he was going to do some sex, no doubt about that. “That’s right doll” he said to nobody and the wind. They were going to do it hard. He smiled, blowing smoke from his nostrils. They were going to do it cyber hard.

Odradek

Fossilmaiden

Woah.

One-Winged Eagle

So who wants to make references to literary and religious ideas and concepts while not understanding what any of the references mean at all, to create the air (very stale air) of mysticism?

Odradek

kingCrackers said:

So who wants to make references to literary and religious ideas and concepts while not understanding what any of the references mean at all, to create the air (very stale air) of mysticism?

More than one engram chain will be found in
every aberree. When he becomes a preclear,
the auditor does well to discover the earliest
engram chain. It is not always possible to do this with accuracy since
a preclear is sometimes in such a nervous condition that he cannot
be worked on his basic chain, but must be alleviated in a greater or
lesser degree by the exhaustion of a later and more available chain.
This last, however, is not the usual case.
The auditor should clearly understand certain working principles
and definitions. By an engram is meant amoment ofunconsciousness
accompanied by physical pain and conceived antagonism. There are
two classes ofengrams. One is the basic engram, which is the earliest
engram on an engram chain. The other is the engram lock, which is
an engram of the same character and kind on the same dynamic as
the basic engram of the chain. An engram chain is, then, composed
of a basic engram and a series of engram locks. Engram chains also
contain ordinary locks, which are instances of mental anguish more
or less known to the analytical mind. These are often mistaken by
the preclear for the cause of his conduct. Atrue engram is unknown
to the conscious computer of the preclear, but underlies it as a false
datum on which is erected almost equally unknown engram locks
and an enormous number of locks.

Odradek

'\... The analytical mind has had its circuits jammed with a great deal

of extraneous information and erroneous data furnished by the

reactive mind and made to serve as a basic purpose to the analytical

mind. These purposes, as furnished by the reactive mind, are of the

" character of positive suggestions of timeless duration which, when

restimulated by perceptions in the environment of the individual,

become as new personalities.

Actually, it is not even of interest to the auditor how many

personalities the"awake" aberrated individual has assumed or can

\ manifest. In the basic engram, he will find that the personality is

integrated, that the individual is within himself. And byfollowing up

by careful steps the engram chain, along any and all dynamics, the

auditor will continually reintegrate the individual until he is at last

in present time as an integrated being-the analytical mind, the "I",

being in entire command and possession of the individual. As the

analytical mind also contains the basic personality ofthe individual,

for purposes ofthis illustration, and as that basic personality is good

and does obey all the dynamics implicitly and is the personality with

which the individual will be most happy and successful, the auditor

need pay no attention to the number of times that personality has

been split or depressed beyond his initial diagnosis which will permit

him to reach the basic engram.

Odradek

-L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics

Haven

okay but check out my trenchcoat

Justice4243

Odradek said:

Johnny Fiveaces powered down the magnabike with a not quite unhearble hum and checked his chronometer. “Damn.” he hissed threw his clinched teeth which were surrounded by the stubble of five days where in he had not shaven himself at all. It was almost chromodawn at Clashpoint. Alreddy the sun was sitting Walliston’s Hill ah blaze like so much molten meddle or a coin, gyreating in the air, tossed there by the uncaring hand of an imaginary god that doesn’t exist, borne from the interior minds of the hobbled masses. The sky was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel that was orange. Damn, he, Johnny, thought. We thought we were opening a new beginning with our mad dreams of time travail but ironically the only time now is the time of which we’re out of. It’s almost humorous. Yeah, I could almost laugh, if I hadn’t cried that part of me away when my parents were maccasared by Dr. Malaprop and the government sanctioned murderers of “CAPITAL”. He lit a Nicosheen brand swaggerette and took a dip drag, sinking farther into his inferior horologue. He thought of Nina and her mellifluous buttocks that he used to love to bang. Even now his nano enhanced hearing could almost hear her vagina lips quivering with moisture and also pleasure, like a slice of synth-ham being tongued by one of Malaprop’s slamhounds. When he got back to City5, he was going to do some sex, no doubt about that. “That’s right doll” he said to nobody and the wind. They were going to do it hard. He smiled, blowing smoke from his nostrils. They were going to do it cyber hard.

My brain's not sure what it read but my mouth is smiling.

Sredni Vashtar

kingCrackers said:

So who wants to make references to literary and religious ideas and concepts while not understanding what any of the references mean at all, to create the air (very stale air) of mysticism?

The first film at least got some Gnostic ideas right. The other two kind of botch things, however.

Alduin

Well I guess we can all agree that the Matrix sequels kinda suck.

Alduin

kingCrackers said:

So who wants to make references to literary and religious ideas and concepts while not understanding what any of the references mean at all, to create the air (very stale air) of mysticism?

The Matrix seemed more about non-conformity and loathing of the corporate lifestyle/repressive government than any real mysticism.

One-Winged Eagle

Why do you think the air was so stale?

Alduin

Do you think that's air you're breathing?

Tachyon

...said Morpheus after he farted

Tanya

Neo is an anagram of One.

Odradek

Mr. Anderson

Mr. Ander-Son

Mr. Andro-Son

Son of Man

Imipolex G

*still dodging bullets*

Miss Miko Mayonegg

Imipolex G

Touhou > The Matrix

Miss Miko Mayonegg

:D

Miss Miko Mayonegg

Imipolex G

*giggles*

Alduin

Odradek said:

Mr. Anderson

Mr. Ander-Son

Mr. Andro-Son

Son of Man

"You're my own savior man, my own personal Jesus Christ."

Sredni Vashtar

Acererak said:

Odradek said:

Mr. Anderson

Mr. Ander-Son

Mr. Andro-Son

Son of Man

"You're my own savior man, my own personal Jesus Christ."

Previous Calica

Acererak said:

Odradek said:

Mr. Anderson

Mr. Ander-Son

Mr. Andro-Son

Son of Man

"You're my own savior man, my own personal Jesus Christ."

Jesus Christ, Denton!