»The matrix pepsi challenge«

Please read this carefully before you make your post.
This is a challenge to all the people in the forum. In the post
that follows this one there will be a question and the idea
is that all must try and answer it with what ever information
that they have aquired. It is not an easy question. Your
post is limited to 101 words. You will be allowed to include
one link that furthers your argument.

The closing date will be 14.03.06 and on that date, I will
start a new thread called the judgement where we will
decide of all the (ones) that have taken part in the challenge
who is (the one) that best answers the question.

Please respect the challenge and know that there is only
one post per person. No questions are to be posted.
Only post what you think is the answer.

Ready?

This challenge is designed to find the best mind in here
so please play your part.

WHAT IS THE M A T R I X ?

The Matrix is an artifitial world created by the machines, using a virtual reality program that sends information to our brains, so we can smell,hear,see, feel everything the machines want.

The matrix is just a film.

This is my answer.

The Matrix is whatever you believe it to be.

The matrix is the system laughing at us. It's a joke they've shown us that we don't realize we're part of. It's the elite showing us just how they've duped us. It's a documentary of our emprisonment that we thouroughly enjoyed without realizing we're looking at ourselves. It's our daily lives. I'm not saying the matrix of the movie is real, but the movie held a mirror to our society and we're just turkeys looking up in the rain, mesmerized by the same water we're drowning in.

Unfortunately.. no one/One can be told what the Matrix is..You have to see it for yourself...

The matrix is a film.Actually a trilogy of films.They are very clever, because they make you think about life, reality, yourself, karma, your purpose and other things.

But that's what only some people (we, the red pills) think.Others (blue pills) think that it's just another action movie.

But that's ok.The ones/Ones that are red pills already have the splinter in their mind....

My external link:

The matrix is the world that has been pulled over are eyes to blind us from the truth. That were are slves to a system, that is controling us through an artifical reality.

the matrix is control, the very exsictance of the world/reality is a lie. the matrix is hell.

The Matrix is the quintessential form of control. It is the machine's way of controlling the human race as they see fit. It was meant to be a clandestine way to keep the humans content with their condition in order to continue supply of energy. It is symbolism of power, in the great words of Francis Bacon , "Knowledge is power." With intelligence of the reality with their disunion from existance, the human mind can alter the computized laws of physics and do as they wish in a manner more suitable to their needs within the feeble construct of the fake world.

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The Matrix is centuries of religious and philosophic patterns put into a cool and hip movie-trilogy, trying to re-activate our minds about how the world works and how you choose to function within it as an unique individual with high potential within the power of the mind.

"Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva
when practicing deeply the Prajna Paramita
perceives that all five skandhas are empty
and is saved from all suffering and distress.

Shariputra,
form does not differ from emptiness,
emptiness does not differ from form.
That which is form is emptiness,
that which is emptiness form.

The same is true of feelings,
perceptions, impulses, consciousness.

Shariputra,
all dharmas are marked with emptiness;
they do not appear or disappear,
are not tainted or pure,
do not increase or decrease.

Therefore, in emptiness no form, no feelings,
perceptions, impulses, consciousness.

No eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind;
no color, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch,
no object of mind;
no realm of eyes
and so forth until no realm of mind consciousness.

No ignorance and also no extinction of it,
and so forth until no old age and death
and also no extinction of them.

No suffering, no origination,
no stopping, no path, no cognition,
also no attainment with nothing to attain.

The Bodhisattva depends on Prajna Paramita
and the mind is no hindrance;
without any hindrance no fears exist.
Far apart from every perverted view one dwells in Nirvana.

In the three worlds
all Buddhas depend on Prajna Paramita
and attain Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi.

Therefore know that Prajna Paramita
is the great transcendent mantra,
is the great bright mantra,
is the utmost mantra,
is the supreme mantra
which is able to relieve all suffering
and is true, not false.
So proclaim the Prajna Paramita mantra,
proclaim the mantra which says:

gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha
gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha
gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha."

-The Heart Sutra in English

The Matrix is control. That is what the Wachowski Bros wanted us to realize. We are in a Matrix of sorts.

Morpheus: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.


Morpheus was referring to the government when he said 'taxes'. 'Televison' and 'church' are self explanitory too.

When you watch TV you ane under control. Try to think of all they ways someone could control you by watching TV. Commercials for instance could be considered to be trying to get you under control for example. If you ever have been fooled into trying a 'get rich quick scheme' than you know what I mean. If you have seen a beer commercial and then you have the sudden urge to 'go get some beer' than not only is your body controlling you in a way....the company that makes the beer is too. Control can happen in two ways....direct and indirect.
Believe it or not you are under control when you go to church too. God never said to worship him at a certain place [ex. church]. He never said to celebrate him or his son on a certain day. This is all man's doing. Christmas is actually based on a pagan holiday. Jesus did not gather people in a church! He went around to peoples houses and taught the word of God. "God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of heaven and earth, dwells NOT in temples made with hands" (Acts 17:24).

What the church does not want you to believe....
God lives inside ALL people. It is the soul. The human body is a temple for God to live in. Edgar casey explains this.

Origin and destiny of humanity - "All souls were created in the beginning, and are finding their way back to whence they came." Cayce believes that human souls were created with a consciousness of their oneness with God. Some "fell" from this state; others - led by the Jesus soul - volunteered to save them. The Earth, with all its limitations, was created as a suitable arena for spiritual growth.

Prometheus wrote:

The matrix is the system laughing at us. It's a joke they've shown us that we don't realize we're part of. It's the elite showing us just how they've duped us. It's a documentary of our emprisonment that we thouroughly enjoyed without realizing we're looking at ourselves. It's our daily lives. I'm not saying the matrix of the movie is real, but the movie held a mirror to our society and we're just turkeys looking up in the rain, mesmerized by the same water we're drowning in.

Whoa! I couldn't have put it better.

I thought as much you are all just crazy

Funny how two people forgot about the 101 word limit...lol