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[RonPrice]

In the convolutions, permutations and combinations that are part of the Matrix Trilogy, I focus on just one aspect--after making some general comments. My focus is not your everyday focus.-Ron Price, Tasmania :arrow:
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The MATRIX: Part One---

The film The Matrix was released in Australia the very week I taught my last classes as a full-time professional teacher, April 8th 1999. I had been teaching for thirty years. I won't summarize the details of the plot and all the characters. But some of the theme is as follows: a fundamental discovery is made about the world that it doesn't exist. It's actually a form of Virtual Reality designed to lull people into lives of blind obedience to the system. People obediently go to their jobs every day without knowing that Matrix is the wool that has been pulled over their eyes. The reality of life is that people are slaves. The rebels want to crack the framework that holds this Matrix in place thus freeing humankind. Some believe a messianic One will lead a social uprising; this messianic One will possess both mind power and physical strength.

This religious focus is my reason for posting here at "Crossfires." I offer but one of the many "religious" possibilities that religious interpretations might come up with. I have no doubt that the writers of the film script did not intend my meaning. But films are like poetry and one can take them many ways.-Ron Price, Pioneering Over Four Epochs, 4 November 2006 with thanks to Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, March 31st 1999.

The world has been in a great sleep
from which it is slowly waking
thanks to that messianic One
and the uprising has begun
silently, unobtrusively, for
the revolution is global and
out of man's control--it is also
spiritual--having begun within
the Shaykhi school of the Ithna-
Ashariyyih sect of Shiah Islam.
But don't tell anyone--it's the
best kept secret-non-secret in
the world and it is slowly rising
from the obscurity in which it
has been shrouded for 160 years.

Ron Price
4 November 2006

[ieatfood]

What about the Gohodogo school of the Sheysla Fridhayaduku sect of Shiah Islam? Does that not bear mention?

[eynon]

I liked the Matrix way better then Zion.......what a dump :P

[RonPrice]

In a world like ours we are offered a 1000 answers to a million questions and who knows, eh, maybe the answer is--as some have said--42!?--Ron Price, Tasmania

[eynon]

RonPrice wrote: In a world like ours we are offered a 1000 answers to a million questions and who knows, eh, maybe the answer is--as some have said--42!?--Ron Price, Tasmania

you know, I used to think so.........but after the Hitchiker movie I've lost my faith........ :)

as for the Matrix some issues it raised for me:
emotion vs reason
utility vs abstract
ugly reality vs nice fantasy

[ieatfood]

the one thing i learned from the matrix:

martial arts + guns, lots of guns + "CGI baby, CGI" + "bitchin' technology" = cool

[eynon]

ieatfood wrote: the one thing i learned from the matrix:

martial arts + guns, lots of guns + "CGI baby, CGI" + "bitchin' technology" = cool

yeah..........I liked Equilibrium too..... :lol: