Blue or Red pill?

Most of us have watched the show The Matrix. Most, save a few like Loretta whose only perception of The Matrix involves black suits, fighting, gunz blazing and well…that’s all. The truth is, the trilogy carries hidden meanings and philosophical symbolism with it that most of us see on the surface but fail to follow up and realize the importance of it.

One that was very important to me and which depicted very simply one of the questions of life (there are many) was the scene whereby Morpheus offers Neo the Blue Pill or the Red Pill.

Morpheus contacts Neo just as the machines (posing as sinister ‘agents’) are trying to keep Neo from finding out any more. When Morpheus and Neo meet, Morpheus offers Neo two pills. The red pill will answer the question “what is the Matrix?” (by removing him from it) and the blue pill simply for life to carry on as before. As Neo reaches for the red pill Morpheus warns Neo “Remember, all I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.”

Our question here is, ” What is Life? What is THE life that we are leading?”

By taking the red pill, we continue with our lives believing what we want to believe, choosing what information to believe and choosing what not to believe. This is the life that most liberal humans are living. Conservative enough to live with religion but liberal enough to question it to a certain extent in order to reinforce their beliefs. I fall into this category.

The blue pill however offers truth and truth only. It does not offer you the mechanism of understanding, it does not prove to be a catalyst or some biological enzyme that exists in the stomach of existence. It only provides truth. How you choose to interpret this truth is entirely up to you. The people who question life the most and the existence of it and choose to detach themselves from religion, fall into this category. Yes, there is a higher power there controlling all options of life but can that higher power be a programme so powerful that it is capable of fabricating individual lives for the rest of us?

Others just drink water and devote their enire existence to an entity they have no proof of existence and have never seen before and believe that fate lies in everybody’s hands but theirs. But let’s just leave lifeless souls for another day.

Personally for me, I would still take the Red Pill simply because the understanding of life can co exist with our belief in it. Meaning, I can choose what I want to believe and this means that I can choose what I want to exclude. I can exclude information against the belief that God exists, information ruining my fundamental beliefs.

But I can still question my existence. Why am I here? What purpose do I serve?

And because of this nature of inquisitiveness of Man, I believe that we cannot be controlled by something that is fabricating our existence. As Rene Descartes said, ” Cogito Ergo Sum”. I think therefore I am. The very fact that we doubt our existence makes us Human, it makes us exist because of the very danger that we might question the existence of this higher power of fabrication.

This also relates to destiny, fate whatever bullshit certain capitalistic religions feed us.

Fate should never govern our actions.

But rather our actions determine fate. Whatever that has happened to you, or will happen to you is of direct relation to your actions. How can everything be pre-determined. If so, then it is as if we are living some sort of a life as a movie for the first time and having no recollection whatsoever what is going to happen next.

If so,  is me typing here something pre-determined? If so, why would God or Him ( as they like to refer to him or his “son”) allow me to disseminate my views doubting his existence. Then, if this action would bring me to hell why did He create me in the first place when he knows where he’s going to put me? Then why create human beings in the first place when you are Almighty?

To exercise your power?

Ironically, as much as I am against this pre-determined school of thought, it also helps to explain the existence of God. The Big Bang, though a scientific theory (and we know how much science and religion do not coexist) is actually a metaphysic phenomenon because it helps explain how the universe has been built by design.

It explains how it started as a concentrated blob of matter (or whatever they want to call that bullshit, let’s call it cornflakes!) and then exploded to form…well the universe.

Now, how is it that that cornflake can gain sufficient activation energy for it to explode into an entire universe? Ah, only something very powerful could do that.

Moreover, scientists also calculated that if just one speck of dust or a planet was out of place, the universe would collapse through intersection of orbits, unbalanced ratios of dust particles and other things. How is it that the universe has been so perfectly designed and drawn to form constellations, clearly demarcated galaxies and determined orbits? Ah, only something very powerful could do that.

But somehow, it only took a bunch of scientists to remove pluto as a planet. Wankers!

I’ve swerved here and there but here’s the main point…

We are philosophically driven to seek the truth and the act of questioning whether to seek it is in itself seeking the truth. As conscious minds we will always seek the truth. The choice over the red or blue pills is not solely a choice between whether to question or not, it is a personal choice on the method of discovering the truth.

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hahahahahaha I can’t believe I’m going on a buffer dinner with her family, fuck if there IS a robot out there programming everything. Cheebye I’m going to put a virus into you for programming tomorrow’s shit.