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- Published on Apr 18, 2026
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@mz0g Exactly my thoughts after finishing the video with an ad.
You should watch Babylon 5.
Listen to how the Mimbari describe our reality.
“The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.”
This is deep when you really read it.
"And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.”
I use this as an auto-response against people who are auto-against alternative thinking aka NPC's. They rarely respond as if you're quoting the Gospel itself.
"Are you listening Neo, or were you looking at the woman in the red dress?"
( And then they literally predicted a meme that we use as a datafying template that forces the quality of random concepts into deterministic binaries. )
@ShaunCloudSwain I have not programmed since '93 (Basic, Fortran, Pascal) so please elaborate.
@ElusiveTruth Datafication from a philosophical standpoint, rather. Effectively the basis that memes operate on in that they are templates that information is filtered through at a constant rate and where different meaning is immediately assigned to the same images over and over again.
Reeves said that the Matrix isn’t a SciFi film it’s a documentary
@Belle Mystiqueu watch spirtiull SO
@Luka Godec
Good question. 👍
/SIMULĀKRA/, nαt /symjulejkяø/. /SIMULĀKRUM/, nαt /symjulejkяøm/.
When did he say that?
@scifigrl92 Don't recall the exact time but read that quote more than once. Had to be a couple of years ago now
The Matrix becomes more and more relevant, with each passing day.
Thats what im not happy about.
Wonder why most things are moving in a full circle.
That is a straight FACT.
Which is why we can start to "predict" the future! We knew that the psyop of "George Floyd" was coming back in late February! I will put a whole years salary on the fact that the lakers are going to win the Chip this year
Start with tangent 5 and look at those snake on stick symbols you see on medical and military emblems
They got us addicted to watching videos on social media, telling us to unplug from social media.
Well played Oracle.
...and don't worry about the vase!
Lmao was thinking the same
L.I.F.E stands for living in false existence
you mean not to unplug
@-Snakekiller- Remember ,there is no Vase .....
Today we wake up and the first thing we do is touch our phone, we're controlled.
word
I pray first then touch my phone ...
It's not a phone.... It's a behavioral manipulation device with a phone app.
but our phones are the only we can way to communicate with one another because of this fake outbreak that everyone is forced to stay at home for
@CrazyHorseTheSiouxW4rrior we can still communicate, communication excludes holding the thing 24/7, sadly I'm a victim of this, it's not like I'm claiming to be free, just trying to free myself
20 years after the film release they removed all the city's phone booth, so there is no way to escape the matrix.
They were using cell phones in the matrix too.
There is still a phone booth left at my workplace!😂
there is still a lot in london
@joeschmoe1711 yes but you need a hardline to leave
Lol. True.
They call it the American dream because you have to be asleep to experience it 🤦🏽♂️
Mind opening comment👏
Carlin :)
I think it would be wise to mention George Carlin
Love George Carlin!
- quote from George Carlin
People are definitely more empathetic towards people on the internet than in real life. The truth is people are becoming more rude and disconnected than ever.
Once you look deeper into history you will see that people have always been both bad and good towards others and themselves. It is not getting more worse than it did a 100 years ago or better for this all depends what and where and who you are comparing your present to.
@maikevanb no its getting way worse, people today are less intelligent than their predecessors 100 years prior.
@mediaisthevirus the average high school student knows more about the world than the smartest person did not even a few centuries ago. So I beg to differ.
@danielleabi8254 🤣 laughs in Nikola Tesla
@mediaisthevirus tesla was smarter than the average person. way smarter.
I remember when The Matrix came out, some very religious countries banned it. This says a lot.
This movie has many thruths.
It uses references to the Bible tho
@Canyadigget Then breaks them
My thoughts exactly. The movie had caused much controversy...what angers me is that (as an example), the Vatican itself is (said to be) so darn corrupt...ashamed to call myself a Christian Catholic sometimes because of the hypocrisy etc in the Church. I don't intend to stir up trouble but the Vatican is clandestine in regards to their archives, their 'activities' for a reason. I'm not a non believer of God. I strongly believe in the infinite universe, I believe good & evil exists. At the same time I believe power - when placed into the wrong hands is abused completely. When I first saw the movie (I do love the Matrix Trilogy & it does speak many truths), I knew right away that many people would try to shut it right down / ban it.
Yep, I also agree there too. Many Biblical references... Zion, Trinity
Nope matrix in every country accept 7 countries!
The Matrix is the society we live in. It is this system in which we are so completely dependent upon. Grocery stores, the 9-5 job, the materialistic things we spend that 9-5 cash we earn on. It is the way we live which feeds the system. Our dependecy only feeds the machine. Self sufficiency is the enemy of the system..
Ur woke
have you tried spending actual cash recently???
Stop living in the suburbs and getting money from mom and dad.
People need to get away from depending on the world and become self dependent. Off grid living is very self rewarding
That's why they're killing small businesses during quarantine, don't buy food from your neighbor's store, buy at Walmart or Amazon or whatever
It's so clear, but people, like Morpheus said, will attack you to protect their illusion
The Matrix is true, but not by physical technology, but spiritual development.
Pretty much
Saturn ?
interesting...I disagree that it's not a technology, tho. And on screen I disagree with a definitive line between artificial and natural.
Here's why:
It's a "technology" in the sense that there exist exploitable, mathematical rules by which things work. We can engineer systems in which these rules, this quantumly computed matrix of fundamental physical values, can be manipulated in such a way as to serve the agency of free will from a self-aware, emergent being.
Second disagreement is regarding the hard line between artificial and natural. The Cosmos is all things that exist. The Cosmos _is_ Nature. All things that exist are a subset of Nature. Therefore, _everything_ is natural, including free will or AI with it.
Oh and the by the second logic I have to conclude that the spiritual is a subset of the same Nature, although perhaps unexplained functionally heretofore by the mathematical models I loosely referred to as physics, which remains incomplete.
Ra'sheen Turpin This is a simulation. The physical realm is the first Matrix. That’s where the pods are..on Saturn and the Crystal rings transmit the energy. The Clones are necessary for transduction of Source Energy and to stimulate the Avatars in the simulation. Saturn and the moon are both Matrix control/management areas. The moon is outside the Matrix. The 5 senses are electrical impulses. We don’t have them outside Matrixes. Reincarnation occurred on the moon but that ended 3 &1/2 years ago. When Souls pass now..they return to Source.It’s complicated. We are in the ‘End Game’ right now.
3 things that helped me and literally changed my life
1.stopped telling myself ill do it tomorrow
2. read the book the cosmic wealth frequencies on borlest.
3. had faith and religion
"The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... _when you go to church_ ... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."
I'm Losing my fucking mind. Red pilled myself and now I am questioning absolutely everything.
Jesus, the way, the truth and the light.
welcome
You have a lot to un-learn... =) Your mind will be blown daily if you seek truth, that's for sure.
@LightworkingWanderer oh so THAT's why I'm so restless everyday >_< is it worth it? :P
It's a good thing to wake up and not walk through life sleep walking
Depression isn't the end result of trusting the matrix but awakening from it.
What we do after becoming awake could bring freedom.
/SIMULĀKRA/, nαt /symjulejkяø/. /SIMULĀKRUM/, nαt /symjulejkяøm/.
The only "Matrix" youre in , is the TV in your living room, and the fact that you believe everything that comes out of it! ... instead of ...NOTHING ...THAT COMES OUT OF IT!
The responses to this statement is just another attack. Depression could be seen as something is missing, as in, we are locked and we cannot get out. Or we are free and we cannot get out. The same with the aspect of being awake and dreaming. Depression in itself could be representative of giving in. The emotions that run riot are not governed by a machine; our thoughts are our own. The determination of free will and destiny is the CHOICE OF ACTION OR INACTION. And so, the people here that are literally just attacking your statement are not completely understanding what you are saying. But don't worry, when watching this, I did question their comment about the depression. I am not stating that anyone is right or wrong, but I felt that it was not fair for your statement to be unheard.
1000 likes
HOW ?
“The social media post means more than the private experience.”
Ah shit
NO, speak for yourself
Who told you that? This freaking egomaniac society? Just live your life and enjoy private why are you compareing with fake feelings?
It's crazy how real this is all becoming.. 🤯
I believe it has evolved here, but what about games they too evolve, they evolve as you play them. If the soul is responsible for the evolution of the game of life, it is also learning from doing.
@carolcombs2025 ,, hahhah da game of Life Linear life
Well its meant to be futuristic cyber world so...we re getting there in time
What's even crazier is the star of the Matrix actually has that mindset in real life.
I saw The Matrix in a theater in 1999 with two other friends. I was 18, they were both 19. We were talkative young adults who loved to gab philosophy. When that movie ended, all three of us walked out of that movie silently, pondering. We didn't say a word for probably twenty minutes or so. Our minds were just reeling. So much has happened since then. It's nuts.
Same
Its crazy how truman show and the matrix came out at the turn of the century
Your age is showing
Me too
Yes! I remember renting The Matrix in 1999 and watching it with my then boyfriend. The movie blew my mind! A lot of the concepts were over my head at the time, but make a lot more sense to me now.
Does anyone else see the irony of suggesting us to "unplug" while being sponsored by a company to help you stay "plugged in" without companies monitoring you?
i thought the same >
Duuuude like their being hypocritical 😬encouraging the thing they're telling us to avoid
Unplugging means to break free from lie. The idea of freedom is the ultimate system of control. The matrix is trying to convince you that technology is bad because technology has the ability to expose it. That's why they says ignorance is bliss, know thyself and that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking it. We're waking up from the ignorance and learning who we really are..now that we have this knowledge will we run from it or towards it
I thought that as well
You're thinghting my tthoughts
I say it over and over again: The Matrix is by far the most important movie of all time. But it opens it's whole potential only to 0.01% of the population.
In my books, it's one of the best movies ever made (I watch a lot of movies)
@tinaturner8087 right.
That movie enlightened me so much better than other "red-pill movies". I was never the same after watching it ( all 3) in a very good way.
It hit harder when you have your awakening.
Totally agree. In addition, The Wizard of Oz beautifully illustrates (and somewhat innocently) in its 'pull back the curtain' moment as to what extent 'the real' actually is and what could 'really' be fake. But has anyone seen the GREAT IRONY to all this? The perils of this fake, materialistic world had to be brought to the masses through the morality of a movie plot, and many would argue that the Hollywood machine is a prime conspirator in shielding us from our intrinsic thoughts and making us think more extrinsically, through advertising and unrealistic aspirations, as Chamath Palihapitiya and Johann Hari warn of. The reliance on repetitive jobs, poor relationships built on likes, bad consumerism, too much TV, fear propagated by the media, and a 'YOU MUST BE DOING THIS, THIS and THIS or YOU ARE A FAILURE' culture is stifling our intrinsic ability. Go your own way.
It’s hilarious how every five minutes the video is interrupted for a commercial to buy stuff that will add extra layers and insulate our ignorance.
Haha. Quite true.
Shakespeare said it best "We are but mere players on a stage. All the world's a stage."
So true
@RS Golden all the worlds a stage and we're all being played
More like it
.... All the worlds a Stage
and some even play it,
7 Times trough!
End of the Shakesber Words us I learned it“ He was the best ❣️🌹🤔🌩thank you RS Golden , for remembering the Beginning ❣️🌹🌹🌹🌹👍🏾
Basic and logic so what now?
I'm programmed to be here? Well here I am.
when one is awoken they have to eventually decide whether to dissociate from society or to go back to sleep.
You probably only truly awake when you die and leave this reality matrix
Wtf 🤣
Very true! I’ve lost almost everybody..sadness
I’ve disassociated
We're in many dreams from so call ancient history to present. All dream realms with deja vu amnesia
People need to get off social media that's for damn sure and start communicating face to face because everyone is looking like robots.
John Sepulvedo cyborgs, AI, and clones: the future.
@John Sepulvedo so true people have mental breakdowns when their cell phones die etc
so true people have forgotten how to communicate and be normal
Yes this is the real "matrix". People are not human anymore. Everybody acting like they are robots in this system. This technology destroys us
Zoombies robots can be intelligent most people are zoombies mass consumers that do not question there reality but yes a part of this crazy machine so robots is also an accurate analogy but i prefer zoombies as there such a lack of intelligence.
The real matrix is a state of mind people live in
"Waking up" isn't the solution, it takes action.
Simply put,but well said
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exactly but freeing your mind is not about believing whatever you wanna believe. Is about winning an unwinnable war all by yourself against many many layers like culture, society, education, religion, money, competitors, criminals, taxes, laws, thought control, governments, brutality, real armies and nature itself.
There is no escape from this unless you live in a cave with no one else around however you will find yourself in just in another predicament or in total anarchy.
Just like in the movie only the supernatural could save us and I am not talking about religion but instead of all us working for making our lives more miserable (together) while rising a few ultra wealthy we should work to make this world an utopia by removing governments and religion out of the way.
Laws, taxes and justice enforcement are needed but the current state of things are obsolete and just benefit few people in power while creating pain and misery for the masses, that's why we are modern slaves and technology growing is only adding sedative tools like video game, movies, etc while increasing control and surveillance via internet, AI, smartphones and devices.
But there's another thing most people ignore completely and that's armies are deadlier than ever and are being automated almost entirely making revolutions almost a thing of the past. People didn't " wake up" on time the matrix as been perfected and the only thing that will set us free now is death.
@lmeza1983
Well articulated
but a reclusive lifestyle,is freeing
even if not totally free
How ironic is it that we’re stuck watching a video that’s part of the advertising machine while the video mocks at how ignorant and enslaved we are by revealing itself in plain sight 😁
@delatroy
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@mpemberton7760 I was thinking exactly the same. How hypocritical.
@ub41nz It was so in-your-face hypocritical that I literally laughed out loud.
Mockery.
Exactly!!!
What if I told you...
You are still inside the Matrix...
It is always 1999.
Okay, im interested
@robinfischer698 fresh one this week for sure 📡📡📡
Groundhog year? Lets do it
Go on...
Ah. 1999, when I lost my virginity. Does that mean I'll be losing it every year?
Virginity is not a dignity, it's a lack of opportunity. And, I embrace every opportunity that knocks on my door.
-- A Muslim girl. 😌
“Culture IS an operating system, that’s all it is, and that the operating system can be wiped out and replaced by something else.”
-Terence McKenna
no culture are ideas, and ideas are bulletproof
@slcproductions3187 The pen is mightier than the sword my friend, and ideas are merely a conditioned set of impulses, and psychologically programmed associations to stimuli.
That was the whole point to creating religion wasn't it? Packaging culture, politics and financial systems (in earlier models) as something to infect another place and people with?
Hi my friends,come on guys...we dont live in a matrix,this is intoxication of evil.We live in the last day,in the last hour of this real earth.
If the Matrix movie was not made,we dont know about this matrix,
the human mind did not process this false theory(a story with elfs),like parralel universe or time travel,this is seeds of diavol to deceive people in the laste days,because we have a lot of knowledge now,and the satan isfather of lies and murder,don't be fooled by the story .GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
CRISTIAN STEFAN You can keep your dogma to yourself
"I can only show you the door. Your the One who has to open it."
@ghee cappy I was a catholic most of my childhood and still Christian. I'm fairly certain I can handle it.
Your ego lives in The matrix. The ego is the matrix. Eliminate the ego eliminate The matrix 👈
Gia Derek that would mean giving up our physical bodies. What if there’s a purpose to us being here and if we get rid of this realm how do we know that there will be somewhere to go? What if the realities all depend on each other to exist? I’d rather enjoy my life while I have it and cherish my loved ones. Wealth, tangible assets and physical things should be our last focus.
Yin and Yang negative and positive the yin is the brian and the yang is the heart follow your heart
Your sin.
Hi my friends,come on guys...we dont live in a matrix,this is intoxication of evil.We live in the last day,in the last hour of this real earth.
If the Matrix movie was not made,we dont know about this matrix,
the human mind did not process this false theory(a story with elfs),like parralel universe or time travel,this is seeds of diavol to deceive people in the laste days,because we have a lot of knowledge now,and the satan isfather of lies and murder,don't be fooled by the story .GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
That’s how I found God.
..."so you neeed nord VPN"...says the matrix.
"Ask yourself, what would Neo do?"
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Lols
Haha right? Exactly what I was thinking.
Virtual = not real
@Meson10 blah
Oh, the irony of it all :) LOL...
This is when I really enjoy the internet
Ahh :v
@ApolloX_Games the ok
💯💯🤝🤝👏👏👍👍
Indubitably
Absolutely agreed, that is true. i love finding more about the truth in interesting ways on the internet as well
Waking up is the most uncomfortable thing you will ever go through. The rabbithole is so deep it seems to never end. Your family thinks you are insane and it gets almost impossible to speak to everyday people because they are asleep. You have to literally dumb yourself down to get through everyday life. Slowly everyone will wake up though and all get on the same page and when we do world powers will fall. It's coming and they can't stop it and they know it.
Most people don’t want to believe because it’s definitely not easy, however it is worth it!
I can't get enough of these matrix videos. Its goddamn orgasmic. Using my favorite movie to describe deep probing questions of the human condition.
I think you'd like Patrick (H) Willems's Rewriting The Matrix Sequels too
Ur still thinking like a human, that's a good sign of hope.. A sign u passed the MIB will Smith test of emotional Intelligence. Ur evolution is intact unlike most others around fake & ego driven.
Same here
Same
@The road to Ireland Ego? about what.. ?
Déjà vu alone proves we’re living in the matrix
It is practically a glitch in the matrix
so you're saying its already been programmed and when we have deja vu its like we glitch into the future and see a glimpse of the code and store it in memory, that's why we think we are reliving something?
Deja vu literally scares me smh
. Leaves u like where tf did i see or hear this very thing before smh
We know what deja vu is .its one side of your brain observing something just before the other
@twiceasnice985 what is the meaning of "im the glitch in the matrix" please explain this to me!!!!
THE GREAT AWAKENING IS HAPPENING
It is definitely all happening, i feel so blessed to be a part of this great awakening, I wouldn't have it any other way. It's one big cosmic celebration to experience and we are all invited! ✌🐸
The Age of Aquarius
@antisocialextrovert3008 please explain
Gerald Filkins they can’t explain it because they are fake and have no idea what they are thinking or saying. They are losers we are winners, do not let these people bring u down, there is more to life than thinking you’re in a computer simulation come on man wake up!
The force awakens
It’s funny cause when I was a kid I never understood this movie. my mom would watch it over and over and I could never figure out what the movie was about. As I’ve gotten older I now see why this movie is relevant to the times we are in now 💯
What's scary is how popular this movie is yet the entire world remains foolish after being out for over 20 yrs.
"You can't wake someone pretending to be asleep." (Navajo Proverb)
Punch them in the face
Or if they are meditating their already awake
Whose pretending?
In the Matrix I am labeled as "black".. But in reality I know that my body is Earth camouflaged to blend me in with nature, humans natural environment. Brown is the Earth's most used land and animal color.
Awe that's dope💖
Jennifer Woodhead Snow
@Jennifer Woodhead There's no such thing as a "white" person. The labels "white & black" are more like our gang colors, or team names, than a discription of our skin/appearance. "White" people are really the color of raw flesh ( like raw chicken or bologna) because their skin is void of the human Earth pigmented/camouflaged layer. ALL Humans are warm climate land mammals. Thats where we have the most food. There is no place on Earth that i know of where being "white" (or flesh/meat colored) makes sense. If white people had there own separate natural environment some where on Earth there would be butt naked white indigenous tribes there right now, or evidence of them. Everyone on Earth has aboriginal tribes except so called white people.
@rcrcctcrxx Self proclaimed "white" people are pink, or really flesh/meat colored, and snow is white?? Also, "white" people cant survive in snow naked. Mother nature does not factor in clothing, or housing. If you're custom made for a specific environment nature will make it to where you can survive there outside butt naked. If the snow was so called "white" people's natural environment they would be able to survive in the snow naked and there would be butt naked "white" tribes living in the Arctic right now. Im sorry, but the snow thing does not does not add up. So called White people hate being cold, and freeze/ die in cold environments, like all humans .
@MyAb111 well i do know we piss yellow shit brown bleed red if thats not coloured i do not know, besides that people need to stop putting themselves a label on. we have a common denominator .,,leave the world a better place for our children".
“Likes” are a means of validation, just like money, just like praise, just like degrees. Using it to define who you are is nothing new.
If you think about it, what you said is valid, however there are people out there that see this 'like' system to be a good thing. Just hear me out: Ever heard of the game, Death Stranding? The creator, Hideo Kojima responded to the idea of the 'like' system so that players could potentially be more connected in a game that is only for single players. A little aspect of wanting connections to be made, even for the validation of work that is done from one player (such as building a bridge) that another player can use and say thank you through a 'like'. Connection and validation is still an issue, a saddening one, whereas for some people, it is indeed needed on a large scale. Having 'likes', followers or degrees under one's belt can perhaps help some find that connection and validation, but for many, I try and see it as a learning curve; it is not a waste of time to try these things out and discover that is is not for you.
Praise should be done in moderation.
And money is unfortunately the currency. I would rather have the currency go back to a favour for a favour, such as: "help build my thatch roof and you can have two of my chickens" sort of deal. But...it isnt. This is how it is. And it is everyone's choice whether to do something about it, go with the flow, against it, or find another way. There are many ways to live, and suggestions and togetherness through connection can perhaps help the sharing of ideas.
So, in fairness, life is a learning curve and defining who you are is a full time job. Noone gets it the first time, and others get it really quickly. Doesnt mean the things that didnt work out are a waste a time; because they are not. It's all in the learning. And all in the sharing of experiences and ideas.
So, yes, you are right. It is nothing new. But it shouldnt be dismissed as a bad thing either.
no, the means of validation is not the thing thats new, its the technological system and social construct formed around it thats supports this new “value system” thats new.
if we all universally agree on the value of a like, and hold it to high regard, then the people who control, manipulate and influence the way we earn likes has control over us. they can create obstacles, and pay walls, and hoops for us to jump through, to encourage to work harder for likes. and once we are hooked, they get us to voluntarily perform labor, sacrifice rights, hand over information and data almost anything.
you have people out here, voluntarily giving your their personal information, for free, on social media, just for the prospect of likes. its a dangerous new currency that has ingrained itself into our society.
and if you dont believe how dangerous it is, just look at how firm of a grip it has on today’s children. committing crimes, physically and psychologically torturing themselves with all these “challenges” just for likes. even killing themselves over this.
this is quite more than just a mere simple means of “validation” its become a way of life.
Have a like
like is the new law! only it's not ethical or rational, but moralistic law based upon ignorant fuckers thumb up. totalitarism finally won through new techs and free market corps.
Well as far as I know (and I could be mistaken), some online entrepreneurs actually get funded by virtue of the number of likes they recieve, and even omitting that, likes can definitely fuel someone's ego, therefore their motivation, so I would beg to differ.
Matrix = The Line that draws between Private and Public Society
Our life on Earth is similar to a video game, we don't know that we are being played on.
L.I.F.E stands for living in false existence
The irony of this video being recommended by RUclips based on an algorithm of what I watch, and including an ad designed to make me feel like my current life is inadequate, and what the ad is selling is what will make my life better.
No wonder the script for The Matrix is so tightly knit and dense packed. It took them years to write it and you can tell.
The only mistake people make when considering this is that they think the Matrix is a recent thing, yet it has us under control for our entire known history. We do not know our history just the Matrix.
For real sometimes I have a mental break down about reality being a matrix
Hey...Sit still in a room for 10mins stare at 1 thing the whole time close eyes for 10 seconds upon 10mins...Thank me later and dont abuse your gift young champ!
@rahiemnowell9230 what happens?
@rahiemnowell9230 Can you please explain it for me (english isnt my first language). Sit still in a room for 10 minutes and stare at one thing. Then close eyes for 10 sec. Just 10 sec, and then stare at the thing for 10 minutes again (repeat process)? Or did you mean close your eyes for 10 sec - 10 minutes? Thx
This movie was incredibly influential, it is still fruitful 20 years later
Thats why Keanu Reeves is woke. He doesn't care about material things.
He is part of the problem. He has an owner in Hollyweird
The thing is most people can't afford to live in the real world. Keanu has enough money to have a real life in the real world. However, movies are made to be surreal and if most people are forced to live in a digital world that is far cheaper then the real world even the few who can afford to live in the real world will end up also online since that's where the majority of humanity resides and is likely where they grew up before they became rich enough to live in the real world.
I think he's plenty happy with just his motorcycle.
@parker469a so you're blaming their success for society's problems?
@ulyssesdecastro2261 just because people stop being materialistic, doesn't mean they don't need money. People need money to put food on their table that's it.
The movies cabin in the woods and the Truman show demonstrate this as well
i love the take. the content ya'll make is so well done and insightful
I agree! 😁
Amanda Baskerville truly!
Don't be fooled. The matrix is white supremacists that brainwash the masses into believing God loves everybody but truth be told , God is a man of war n he hated a certain nation of ppl... You see once you read the King James Bible 1611 edition you'll learn more than you could ever imagine.. Joel 2:27 Ye shall know that I am the Lord( YOUR God) and none else and (MY people) the so called (Blacks , Hispanics and native Americans) shall not be ashamed...
Neo was not the one
Whenever someone edits their comment on YT to say thank you for the likes it makes me depressed.
I'm sad that people need and value that much attention... It's pathetic
@AD-jq7ow It's nice to know you are appreciated but really, as long as you aren't dependant on it, it should be fine.
@galaxy9310 why the need to know that you are "apreciated"?
@AD-jq7ow Are you asking in general or just about RUclips comment?
Ah, it's the prison.
You cannot smell or touch but you can feel it.
If it's not in the mind it doesn't exist"the doctor dresses the wound but Spirit heals it,
Love that ... if it’s not in the mind it doesn’t exist 😀❤️❤️
That's a big steamy load of equestrian excrement.. Bovine defecation..
Someone help me shut this worthless mind system down it only works in and for this fake life
@88_TROUBLE_88 I want whatever you're having
@88_TROUBLE_88 Love it! 👍🏿
That wonderful moment when an advert plays right between when Morpheus says "Free" AAMI advert, "your mind". It really happened.
During my own awakening this summer, I had an intense breakdown/ego death that was in several ways connected to this movie. I couldn't sleep, my body was rejecting food. I lost control, I started to see, say, and experience things I never thought were possible. My behavior was so out of control, so alien to those around me, it scared them and someone called the cops. They took me to a hospital and apart from basically being tortured and my consent disregarded and human rights disrespected.. one thing I continually find intriguing, bordering on creepy, is that I was injected with a bunch of drugs, and all of the injection sites were covered with peach colored band-aids except one. One of the band-aids had Bugs Bunny on it. All I could think of was, "Follow the white rabbit". 🐰
THIS is fuckin creepy.... wonder what the hell that "special" injection site was tho
@jinster91 At the time it just felt like this big cosmic joke, like a sign.. why, why did they choose to have one band-aid be different? And why was it a rabbit? Very strange. So many things about that day were weird.
@buffyVampslyr364 that's all around just extremely strange and scary to me that would have sent my have head for a loop. your chipped my dude :(
I pray friend that the Lord is with you, HE can heal you from all things. Will you make Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior. Its not to late...
Man, what drug were you on at that time. I need some of that to get me through the day. Wow 👏 great stuff. 😂😂😂
Oooo do 1984... cause we are damn sure dealing with that today too
Understand that we live more in A Happy World by Houxley dammnit
Yo Brave New World.
Thx for the correction, I couldn't remember the original name so I translated the translated(? Title
You’re talking shit
2 + 2 = 5
“All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.“
Edgar Allan Poe. 1809~1849.
@Black Femininity why disagree?
Correct
Here we are 2021
As my friends and I walked out of the theatre after watching _The Matrix_ one of them said "Wow, what if that happened one day?" My answer was "What makes you so sure it hasn't happened already?"
Now we live in a world where people care more about how many followers they have on Twitter, how many "friends" on Facebook, how many likes they get to their comments, tweets, posts etc than about what is actually real and sit in echo chambers enforced by the algorithms that read their preferences and feed them a steady diet of the same stuff. And we wonder why so many people are convinced that you must be crazy to think that the Earth is a globe or is more than 6000 years old because "all the evidence" supports their worldview.
Some one needs to reprogram the algorithms to make suggestions that take people out of their comfort zones and present them with things that will make them think critically.
I believe the Earth is a globe and older than 6,000 years old... But ask yourself this: How certain can you really be that it isn't? Those beliefs were simply told to us. We haven't verified it for ourselves.
@lightbeforethetunnel These are not "beliefs" that are "simply told to us". They are things that have been *independently verified* over and over again *and* supported by their relationship to *other sciences* - you can't throw out the Earth being a globe or the age of the Earth without throwing out numerous other sciences as well... which is why the YECs keep going on about "Carbon dating is inaccurate" (as if it's the *only* means of dating) and flat-earthers keep denying space travel has occurred (funnily enough, they *still* trust their GPS which, according to them, can't possibly work. Perhaps they think god's making it work).
Verifying that the Earth is a globe is a matter of simple observation, calculating its circumference (which you could *not* do if it were flat) is so simple, it was done in 240BCE using very basic tools.
Verifying the age of the Earth would take more education and better equipment but it is still something you could conceivably do.
I've *personally verified* the curvature of the Earth - because it's so easy to do.
I haven't verified the age of the Earth as I'm not trained in the relevant areas, but given a choice between the independent verifications by thousands of people and *one* book written thousands of years ago, I'm going to go with the independent verifications.
@wolf1066 Well that's excellent that you verified it yourself. As I said, I don't believe the Earth is flat. But most people don't verify it themselves and simply accept what they're told to believe. I see that's not what you did, which is great. But most do simply just accept what they're told without independence verification.
And the reason why that's not a good idea is the official/mainstream narrative can be wrong/lies. A quick search for "Conspiracy theories that turned out to be true" shows the list is actually quite long. If no one ever dares to question the official narrative for any of them, the truth never would have been exposed.
So the overall point I'm making is the official narrative can be wrong and shouldn't be blindly accepted like most do. Even when it appears to be verified by many authority figures, it can still be false or lies.
@lightbeforethetunnel OTOH, just because *some* conspiracies turned out to be true, it does not mean people should just believe whatever conspiracy they're told - especially when stepping out of their echo chamber for a while and doing a bit of *actual research* (rather that endlessly parroting "facts" spouted by their chief nutters) would show them exactly how stupid their conspiracy is.
Instead, we get uneducated drongoes claiming the lunar landing (note the *singular* because the morons aren't aware that there were more than one) was a hoax and that the globe Earth is a conspiracy that has simultaneously lasted *thousands of years* _and_ was started by an organisation that wasn't created until 1958! Apparently all the intellectuals of the ancient world were NASA shills...
You have to question everything you’ve ever been told. If someone makes a statement that conflicts with what you believe, the next step is to investigate why they believe as they do.
If their belief can hold up enough integrity to be plausible, it’s time to question your own beliefs. Question why you believe as you do and search for the answers.
If you still feel that your belief has more validity than theirs, keep holding on to that belief.
If you feel like their belief actually makes more sense, it’s ok to update your beliefs. Why keep believing in Santa Clause after you’ve seen the truth?
Repeat the process every time your beliefs are challenged.
Those Who Are Asleep Do Not know
They Are Not Awake...
Okay. Stop
@mranjith830 Stop what? Speaking the truth?
For further reading, please read Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher, and Custom Reality and You by Peter Coffin
From physics we know the universe is made of particles making up atoms, cells, our bodies. There is infinite space in between. This gives wave length to the material world. The eyes and the brain collect these wave lengths and provide "solidity". The brain is a holographic camera. That is, we live in a hologram.
"Each person is a leaf on the tree. We don't know we're part of the tree so each tries to out wiggle the other leaves for attention." paraphrase from Alan Watts.
"We give them what we make them think they want." - Illuminati
Thank you RUclips algorithm for revealing its chains on my cause I loved this
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life... that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is but it's there... like a splinter in your mind - driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about? - Morpheus.
Yupp
Oh my God. 😱
@ghee cappy Well said! 5 senses = we’re missing A Lot.
This is probably the best analysis of The Matrix I've ever seen. Thanks and good job.
Recently I’ve been wondering whether cookies (in a technological sense) are real in a mental sense. Cookies record your data so they can recommend appropriate things that you might be interested in. Well recently I’ve noticed that my thoughts seem to be materialising. For example if I think about a Big Mac I might see a McDonald’s advert on tv two seconds later. I know I sound crazy haha. Anyone else???
Naw ur not crazy, ur connected!🌠
Synchronicity. Lets say i walk twords my computer with a mathematical problem on say string theory. Before i even sit down the answer is on the screen. Why? Cause They have discovered particles that move faster than photons or light. Soooo this means they are traveling backward in time. At the speed of light time stops. I thought about writing this hours ago. Cause & effect moves backward sometimes causing synchronicity. Ever think everything is going wrong? Think.
Machine learning and prediction algorithms offer this simple ability. Nothing more or less. That and all the data you’ve given without thought shape suggestions
Just happened not too long ago where I had been thinking about a very particular brand of diapers and trying them for my daughter and I started noticing that I was getting ads for them and I had never gotten them before.
Hello Meisha Same here! I also find comments made in my home also get advertisements sent to me on the topic.
I usually seem to joke with some friends family and co-workers about how when they are on their phones they're not paying attention to anything nor giving off any type of expression Just A Blank Stare into a screen and I joke around and say he/she is plugged into The Matrix. It's funny how real it's become now or scary..
Iv disliked all comments, lol because I can, here's a thumb up incase it made you sad 👍
@Mauro Figueiredo - Nonesense
Ido the same thing. I've never signed a "phone" contact an old use internet at home on someone else's old phone.
I absolutely HATE the world now I'm ALONE
Movie tells people to wake up.
People sleep deeper than before. 🤷🏽♂️🤔🤦🏽♂️ what am I missing here? Lol
You're missing the fact that it's only a movie, and doesn't actually change what's happening, but if anything just makes us more inclined to accept such a fate, rather than to fight it, since the idea has been associated with science fiction, and desensitized us to what it means literally.
Brian Stone
Its not just “whats happening”. Its what we allow. Theres 3 types of people: The totally oblivious, then theres the ones that see it and annoy people talking about it (probably us), and then the ones that see it but couldn’t care less. The first and third far outnumber the second.
Not disagreeing with you though. The same concept has been applied to sex and violence. I saw faces of death videos as a teenager and it freaked me out. Now, i’ve seen worse on facebook posts.
people are in a state of cognitive dissonance
Most people don't want to face the realities that don't comfort them, and aren't fundamentally aligned for the most part with their end of the ideological, and social spectrum, and they especially don't want to ponder the possibility that almost everything we see is forged specifically to hypnotize us into states automation, and mental hibernation, so that we can't think through the fabricated authenticity protruding from basically all major media and news, that just conditions us to follow paths that are brilliantly engineered to direct apathy towards each other, and to put most of our time, and energy towards supporting the surplus of our common oppressors, and feeding into the misinformation that conditions the way our brains associate the scattered concepts that we're exposed to, and determines how we respond by installing a seemingly organic version of world awareness, with only ambiguous surface understanding, that really isn't understanding at all, as much as just an iimpossibly tangled web of misassociated ideas, with massive gaps between the summations they build to comprehend history, and the reality it has formed.
Why are u so influenced by the masses ??? Yes u UR missing a lot
I am fully convinced the movie The 13th floor wasn't a movie it is our autobiography.
“The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your 𝗧𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡. You can feel it when you go to 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞... when you go to 𝗖𝗛𝗨𝗥𝗖𝗛... when you pay your 𝗧𝗔𝗫𝗘𝗦. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
What truth?
That you are a 𝗦𝗟𝗔𝗩𝗘. Like everyone else you were born into 𝗕𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗚𝗘. Into a 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗡 that you cannot taste or see or touch. A 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗡 for your 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗."
Is the movie fight club related to this
ManufacturedReality Thanks Annunaki!
GAZER GAZER
@GlocklnMyPurse Yes.
Kind of true. All work slaves controlled to do things school college or university have to do it or in prison and pay bills choose what.Who tells us 2. Government? laws? and what are they. We're not free.
If this is the MATRIX, then NordVPN is ABSOLUTELY pointless 🤭😭😭
@Carlton Brunner
Could the irony be any less subtle?
SNAP
"I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules or controls, borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice, I leave to you."
Neo, The Matrix (1999)
Morpheus, "Seriously? Did you just take both pills? What the heck is wrong with you?"
At least two of those movies referenced (Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz) were used during MK Ultra.
Doing my best to live a true life and I'm hella depressed
Do u meditate?
How do u meditate?
Depressed people are more realistic. What is a true life?
Become emotionally intelligent
Take the red pill!
Literally everyone needs to watch this.
It's time for us to become concious and give up the social media matrix. Thank u for the info, love this video
My brother and I watched the matrix in imax while tripping on lsd the day it came out. I couldnt finish it and ended up walking 3miles back to my house at midnight. Long after the trilogy i learned thru different documentaries how true and accurate my perception was while high on lsd. This movie changed myself and my life in so many ways.
That's cool except I'm pretty sure The Matrix did not release in IMAX. The sequels did, but not the original.
@ElMauber LOL
Daaaam! Dude!!
Did you make it home??
@larrysellers3201 yep. Had to walk by a cop parked n waiting to get speeders. Woulda swore that he knew i was tripping lol!
so what you taking nowdays?
"I reject your reality and substitute my own." - Adam Savage Mythbusters
That show was awesome!
We keep saying "they" when its us.
ZOCODE FILMZ no it’s not
There is only I
Or is it them ????
What about schmee?
They are aliens who blend in with humans yet out to secretly deztroy us all🤗😲🤔
Escaping The Matrix is like escaping the One followed by many Zeros, i.e. $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00!
Funny how we’re all watching this video about the matrix on RUclips 😂
This video: What's real? Wake up and stop being sheep. Stop depending on social media.
Also this video: Nord VPN!
There are multiple levels of the real matrix, it is very real. But not necessarily in the sense that you may be thinking. There is the legal matrix, the political matrix, the spiritual matrix, the science matrix, all coming together to create a holistic prison for us, and our minds.
That is the best explanation I have read thus far.
Facts!
Absolutely right.
Well said comrade, and these things have been built right in front of us, but we're just too focused on the flood of disinformation, and misinformation that have shaped our understanding, and have undermined our sense of reality by conditioning us into deeper and deeper states of hibernation, and automation, which is the ultimate goal of the elite class, in order to sustain their supremacy, and exclude themselves from struggle.
phuse99 Jon Rappoport’s work on this is excellent
People don’t want reality and then are troubled by the lack of reality. They divorce themselves from the way things are and then are shocked to find what they made is hollow. People struggling with existentialism are angry at the world but they are the ones who plugged themselves in.
Its all in our minds, if you just change your mind, everything will change along with it. Its a choice just like in the matrix. You have a choice. The matrix doesn't have you, you have yourself.
how do we change our minds
meditation?
lucid dreaming?
Just like the video says listen to that little still voice that tells you, "this doesn't feel like a good idea" and if possible go against what media tells you is what you "need" because they dont care about your needs
You can't just chance your mind without enlightenment.
@RealU178 I guess just work on what you want to be or do in life and focus on that.
@RealU178 DMT and mushrooms, and meditation of course
*Either way, the Trilogy aged well culturally, politically, and modernly*
And it will continously do so...
Trilogy? There is only one good Matrix movie.
I don’t do social media and finally found a woman who dosent. It’s very refreshing to be with someone that isn’t constantly on their phone checking Facebook. Last 2 women I have dated stayed on the phone except when we had sex. That’s the only time they were not on the phone. That always ticked me off and go out with friends and they are on their phones constantly. Me and my current lady have known each other 20+ years been friends but we realized that we shared a lot while our dates stayed stuck on their phones we talked and eventually got together. Plus she’s my best friend. I finally got lucky. I’m 44 divorced and she is 47 and divorced. We both have daughters who grew up together. I thought that I would never find anyone like me but I did while our dates were on Facebook, and we were in the real world. I’m glad to be away from someone hooked on their phone.
I’ve probably watched this 5 times over the past year. Good stuff and an excellent reminder to limit social media
This video itself is part of the matrix
I need to re-watch the matrix and also replace my phone with one that only does calls and texts
@Mauro Figueiredo yes and those people will be queuing up for the vax.. This is a huge problem in society that people are too scared to say any that doesn't follow the official line!
What if you can watch another important movie like the Matrix on your phone?
@fakename3440 such movies are for people living inside the matrix, once you get out, you start making them for people still inside. its like a cycle
Easier said than done......
@thewastelandwarriors7923 especially when my insulin pump and cgm system which has changed my life is controlled by an android phone :(
When we start getting close to finding out if we're in the matrix, the programming tosses us something like a World War, ecological collapse, financial collapse, or, even, though vastly unlikely, Zombies, to keep up from concentrating on the question, "Are we in the Matrix!", Which seems likely to fall by the wayside, and, get less, or, No additional attention.
this world is a matrix before we were born we decided to come to this planet to experience what it was like to be human
Well that explains why ever since I woke up, crazy weird shit has happened at non coincidental times
@breakthematrix7593 how do could someone choose to transfer their consciousness to a newborn when we watch the newborn develop from conception
@breakthematrix7593 it's worse than you think. It's a farm
@Sealedservant - Yeah, the world revolves around you
I always listen to my intuition snd inner boice.
Please do a anaylse of Narnia, and perhaps the focus of Edmund as a traitor.
Don't be a Wardrobe! Somethings are better to understand by your own. Or else, you won't have capacity left; intellectual capacity that is. 🌚
But isn't the difference between "time spent" and "time *well* spent" a construct in and of itself?
Carakav I just think it’s depends on whether a person considers the time they spent on an activity was beneficial or not. Lol no social constructs just perspective.
About 20 years ago when I was still in highschool, the ideas relayed by "The Matrix" was so mind blowing, I instantly fell in love with philosophy. Though at the time, the majority of people merely saw the movie at its face value and considered it nothing more than entertainment, like a how one would regard a video game.
On a field trip, I had discussed the ideas of how life could actually be simulated. It was somthing that a NewScientist magazine article (I can't remember which issue, but it should be within the 2000-2003 archive) had actually explored and I had found it fascinating and decided to share it with a few classmates one night. I was instantly ridiculed and was told i was "crazy" while one classmate dragged in others to laugh when I presented the idea of how this world and ultimately ourselves, could be a mere simulation. At the time I seemed to have been was one of the early adopters of the philosophies following the release of "The Matrix" and had explored the ideas with great interest down avenues that were available at the time.
It has taken the rest of the world many years to catch on and today it's quite a prevalent concept that's entertained by society as 'an intriguing conversation topic.'
The point I want to make here is, *don't be dismissive of ideas that your mind can't grasp because as how Jordan Peterson elegantly articulates it "assume there is something that the other person knows, that you don't* "
Don't laugh at what you can't understand, It just shows how much of an ignoramus you are.
The journalist was asking Cosmologist, Stephen Hawking about time travel. " No way" said Hawking. "Absolutely not. Totally impossible."......"So if I was to bet $100 it could be done, would you accept the bet? " asked the journo. "Of course not." said Hawking . "You might know something I don't."
I can understand this very well. As a middle school student who has fall in love with Philosophy and other not popular subjects, I also got discriminated for my talking topics! It was not unusual for me to not be able to talk to any of the classmates though sometimes the male teachers get quite interested with my topics, and not many people talk to me even in the forums of some famous video games I play especially when they're not flight simulators.
@mr.goldfarmer4883, "It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it." ~Aristotle~
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Since my third eye opened i haven’t been getting deja vu's no more
How do you open it?
@fakename3440 change your diet, eat healthy. Fast and meditate.
@fakename3440 You'll never really know if your third eye is open but the first and important step is you take care of yourself, mentally and physically, even during tough times. There are plenty of distractions but do your best to focus on the task. Easier said than done hahahaha.
It’s the opposite for me, I opened mine and I get them like several times a week
When neo goes to the "real world", in reality that is only another layer of the matrix...
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There is not a single human being who is free from their sin; albeit the deceived deny it.