Just a Question Here...
pixxi451
Just wondering, am I the only one who sees correlations between the
spiritual philosophy of "The Matrix" movie trilogy and the
"Conversations With God" book series?
Hope to hear from you all soon!
Blessed Be,
Cinnamon Magpie.
storm
Well, I can't say I was impressed with the philosophical spiritual
connotations of the The Matrix. It was a flashy Sci Fi movie with a
weak premise that somehow machines would need people as batteries.
The idea of a mutually created but illusory existence is one that has
been around here and there before, so that wasn't all that impressive,
either. I have not read the book series. What spiritual
correlations did you see?
-storm
Steve
"storm" <st...@frii.com> wrote in message
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I just watch the Matrix movies for entertainment... I don't get into
connotations etc. I especially like watching them when I am.....
ummm....."medicated" :-)
Darkhawk (H. Nicoll)
> Well, I can't say I was impressed with the philosophical spiritual
> connotations of the The Matrix. It was a flashy Sci Fi movie with a
> weak premise that somehow machines would need people as batteries.
The original premise - that human brains were being used as processors,
essentially biological computer chips - was a good bit stronger, but
Hollywood thought we were too dumb to get it.
- Darkhawk, bah Hollywood
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Darkhawk - K. H. A. Nicoll - http://aelfhame.net/~darkhawk/
Come, take my body (Allelu--)
Come, take my soul (Take my soul--) "Dark Time"
Come, take me over, I want to be whole. October Project
Baird Stafford
<2bc29e5c-b277-4290...@b15g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
pixxi451 <ema...@att.net> wrote:
> Merry Meet Everyone,
Merry meet!
> Just wondering, am I the only one who sees correlations between the
> spiritual philosophy of "The Matrix" movie trilogy and the
> "Conversations With God" book series?
Considering that I've never seen the one nor read the other, my silence
is *not* indicative of indifference to your question! However, I'm sure
my deficiencies are more than compensated for by other members of the
group.
<snip>
Blessed be,
Baird
--
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice
there is. -Yogi Berra
Yowie
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> Merry Meet Everyone,
>
> Just wondering, am I the only one who sees correlations between the
> spiritual philosophy of "The Matrix" movie trilogy and the
> "Conversations With God" book series?
Having watched all three Matrix movies, I didn't see much of a 'spiritual
philosophy' except perhaps that 'everything we think is real is actually an
illusion', which IIRC is vaguely Buddhist (and very common plot device in
sci-fi, not to mention many other forms of fiction 'it was all just a
dream'). Whislt all three were uttelry spectacular to watch, I thought only
first one had a passable (although rather thin) plot line.
Having not read "Conversations with God" I cannot comment on any
similarities with the Matrix movies. Would you care to fill us in?
Yowie
--
If you're paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls off, how many
pancakes can you fit in a doghouse? None, icecream doesn't have bones.
Paul Hume
> Merry Meet Everyone,
>
> Just wondering, am I the only one who sees correlations between the
> spiritual philosophy of "The Matrix" movie trilogy and the
> "Conversations With God" book series?
>
Haven't read Conversations, but The Matrix was using concepts found in
places from gnosticism (the world is a creation of a flawed creator,
intended to keep us from realization of our own natures) to Mark
Twain's "Mysterious Stranger."