»NLP and the Matrix«

First post...be gentle

Not sure if any here have heard of NLP, but there have been many similarities drawn between the first film (and subsequent films) and about what NLP teaches.

There are comments avaliable on the web by a well known NLP trainer and author which you may find interesting.

Here you go.

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Not sure if any here have heard of NLP

For those of us who havent, you will have to be more specific.

What the hell is NLP?

Starbuck

Ok I just read the first two sentences and the article is allready flawed. The Matrix wasn't reloaded after the end of the first film. IT CANT RELOAD until Neo chooses the door to the Source. The reason the movie is called `Reloaded' is because we learn that there were many versions of the Matrix and that they have to be reloaded.

The rest is good.

They are utter crap.

They roll on and on and say nothing.


Starbuck

NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming. Do a google search and you will find loads of stuff.

Basically, the MATRIX is real, although not as computers controlling humanity, but rather we have been programmed by the things around us...TV...newspapers...inetrenet...family etc.

Also, what we percieve to be reality or even what we believe in, is based on false presuppositions.

e.g. the colour red is only called that because we have all (as a race) agreed to it. Show someone from the amazon forest the colour red, however, and he will have a different name for it and understanding.

It is not menat as a critique of the film, rather an understanding of how flawed our senses are, and how we can change them.

Interesting to some, and not others I guess.

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(Incidentally, NLP can cure lifetime phobias in under 10 minutes! Scared of heights? Easy to change)

Sounds a bit like BF Skinners experiments.

Basically, that's what Mouse explained in M1, when he said that technically, a machine could not know the taste of a chicken.... and thus, they will never be sure of what is the real chicken's taste.

Correct...our reality is what we percieve, subjectively.

To put it into Matrix speak...we are living in a programmed reality. Those who manage to break free and explain it to others are commonly outcasts or ridiculed.

Also, those who are free of the system, can develop heightened abilities, and able to change themselves (such as using time distortion to only need 3 hours of sleep and yet awake refreshed, become a qualified pilot in 5 days etc.), and also change others. See speedseduction.net for a (IMO) vulgar demonstartion of these influencing skills.

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