»"The Matrix" changed my life«
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 This is a thread for all you ex-Matrix-explained forum members, and also for anyone else on the forum who has (or had) an obsession with the matrix movie(s). Personally I experienced "the matrix" at the end of my GCSE's (of which my favourite was a GCSE in religious studies). I then went on to do an A level in Christian Theology which featured both philosophy and theology. Towards the end of my first year of my Philosophy degree (where I did theology subsidiary courses) I saw Matrix Reloaded. When I saw Matrix Revolutions I was in the second year and in the middle of a course on Eastern Orthodox Christianity. While comparing my knowledge of gnosticism (gained from my research into the first movie) with the eastern orthodox theologies, I discovered a whole new way of looking at both the matrix movies and religion in general. In the last semester of my second year (I am in the third year now) I discovered Nietzsche and all his links to the matrix. My way of looking at religion changed entirely and my relgion-fuelled paranoia seems almost entirely dispersed. Finally I am almost at peace. Thank you Wachowski Brothers. Next year I am doing a Masters in Theology - I am looking forward to it and hope to be a theology lecturer. The matrix is partially repsonsible for this. (Howz this for how matrix obsessed I am? I watch the movies to relax! Can anyone beat that?  ) posted by fatpie42 |
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| in-my-opinion.orgEntertainment & SportsEntertainment & Art (Assorted topics)"The Matrix" changed my life |
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 fatpie42: I watch the movies to relax! Ka-Boom, Bazong, "You're the one", Ka-foshhhh?  fatpie42: My way of looking at religion changed entirely and my relgion-fuelled paranoia seems almost entirely dispersed. ? posted by knn |
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Fattie, have you read "just a life"? it may remind you of something But I have had a Matrixy exeirience. I saw the clouds one day, and they were moving in a circle around me. posted by Kant |
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knn: fatpie42: My way of looking at religion changed entirely and my relgion-fuelled paranoia seems almost entirely dispersed. ? I noticed how my approach to religion before (as with so many people) was fuelled by an unjustified guilt. In many ways by producing this guilt Christianity can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. However, not all Christians need to feel this way, it is just an easy mistake to make in one's approach to it. posted by fatpie42 |
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fatpie42: approach to religion before (as with so many people) was fuelled by an unjustified guilt. In many ways by producing this guilt Christianity can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. How well said. Guilt - Gays - Guns Sin - Sex - Shoot posted by knn |
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Kant: But I have had a Matrixy exeirience. I saw the clouds one day, and they were moving in a circle around me. No wonder, you should have left Florida, when the storm arrived...
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fatpie42: I noticed how my approach to religion before (as with so many people) was fuelled by an unjustified guilt. IMO → How to convince your wife to sleep with you and your friend posted by knn |
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"How to convince your wife to sleep with you and your friend"?  posted by fatpie42 |
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fatpie42: "How to convince your wife to sleep with you and your friend"? No, "Understanding Existentialism" posted by knn |
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 The Matrix changed my life, too...maybe not in such a way fatpie's life was changed, but in an important way as well. I watched the movie long after it came out...it was produced in 1999, and I watched it in the year 2002 or 2003. I only watched it because my computer teacher was displaying his obsession for it by putting up posters all over his room, and I wondered how good it really was for him to be so obsessed about it. Well...it was good alright!  
Then, I joined MATRIX-EXPLAINED.COM and met you guys!  That changed my life alot too...made me look at life at a different perspective, and changed the way I thought about everyday things. I guess that was the "turning point" for me from kid -> teen.
I'm still waiting for the teen->adult phase to hit. posted by nocturnal_anonymous |
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 The Matrix was an exceptional, outstanding piece of film making. But life-changing? Are we over-rating it a bit? If there have been any changes in your life fatpie they could be attributed to your prior interest in philosophy and the different perspective that gives you.. but to thank a movie for that, I don't know. The film-medium is always very hard-hitting, and no has succeeded or even attempted to present these concepts in that form before. The movie(s) should be given credit for no less, and perhaps no more? Well, don't start screaming at me, I was justing offering a viewpoint... posted by ralph_angelus |
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 ralph_angelus: But life-changing? Are we over-rating it a bit? Sure, it changed my life, too. I started several websites: dictionary-of-matrix.com matrix-explained.com (actually 4 websites in 1) matrix-explained.com then made me start in-my-opinion.org in-my-opinion.org taught me how to program SQL and PHP which then led to new projects such as the "ebooks-download.com affiliate program" (with which you can earn money) and a revolutionary new linkswap system (with which you make others link to you). posted by knn |
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Sure, the matrix changed my life too, I spent too much time on MeX and dried up my dial-up account... I was just objecting to the philosophical/spiritual 'enlightenment' thingy. posted by ralph_angelus |
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 My Matrix experience started way before the movies. Hows that you are thinking? Well many years earlier me and some friends came up with a theory about what if the world we live in might not be real and that our real minds/bodies were elsewhere in storage of some sort and so on. Then watching the matrix for the first time in 1999 gave us the weirdest sense of déjà vu, but of course the Wachowski Bros interpretation of who was in control of the so called "real world" was much better than our theories or at least the easiest to visualize. If only we'd have written into a book or something at the time 
Anyways The Matrix definately rules and what would the world be with out it? posted by zesja |
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 are you an alumni of MeX also? posted by The ONEder Man |
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