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Blue Pill or Red Pill

Red or Blue

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X Factor

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I assume most everyone understands the Matrix reference. Blue pill you go back to sleep and back to everything you recognize and believe to be real, red pill wakes you up to a grim reality. What would you choose?

Got this idea from a recent Glenn Beck conversation on his radio show asking the same questions.
 
X Factor said:
I assume most everyone understands the Matrix reference. Blue pill you go back to sleep and back to everything you recognize and believe to be real, red pill wakes you up to a grim reality. What would you choose?

Got this idea from a recent Glenn Beck conversation on his radio show asking the same questions.
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Let's see...

Live in a sewer with machines trying to kill me

or

continue to live in the most luxurious and comfortable time in history with plenty to eat and great entertainment.

Is this a trick question?
 
X Factor said:
I assume most everyone understands the Matrix reference. Blue pill you go back to sleep and back to everything you recognize and believe to be real, red pill wakes you up to a grim reality. What would you choose?

Got this idea from a recent Glenn Beck conversation on his radio show asking the same questions.
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Today's reality is the first and continuing step in my progeny's reality. Ignoring reality ignores their future. This seems to be the current preponderant mentality in the USA. The "no worries," everthing is fine blue pill consumers are happy as ostriches.
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DaveFagan said:
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Today's reality is the first and continuing step in my progeny's reality. Ignoring reality ignores their future. This seems to be the current preponderant mentality in the USA. The "no worries," everthing is fine blue pill consumers are happy as ostriches.
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Let progeny worry about it and be thankful you gave them a chance to. After all, you could have aborted them.
 
Am I the only one on Earth who has never seen The Matrix?
 
Josie said:
Am I the only one on Earth who has never seen The Matrix?
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Not into SciFi eh? You don't really have to have seen it to grasp the concept and answer the poll question. ;)
 
countryboy said:
Not into SciFi eh? You don't really have to have seen it to grasp the concept and answer the poll question. ;)
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I actually like sci-fi a lot. I'm just not a big movie-watcher.
 
Josie said:
I actually like sci-fi a lot. I'm just not a big movie-watcher.
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Do you like small movies? :mrgreen:

More into novels? Classic SciFi? Modern? Inquiring mimes want to know. :D

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countryboy said:
Do you like small movies? :mrgreen:

More into novels? Classic SciFi? Modern? Inquiring mimes want to know. :D

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I would prefer to read the book instead of watching the movie, usually.
 
code1211 said:
Let's see...

Live in a sewer with machines trying to kill me

or

continue to live in the most luxurious and comfortable time in history with plenty to eat and great entertainment.

Is this a trick question?
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:lol:

I guess when you put it that way, I need to change my answer. ;)
 
Josie said:
I would prefer to read the book instead of watching the movie, usually.
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Normally I agree with that. Almost always as a rule the book is better simply because it gets far more in it and is more layered. There are exceptions.

The novel of FORREST GUMP is hideous and terrible. The took pure crap - a lot of which was racially offensive - and turned it into a great film.

The Lord of the Rings movies give you so much visual eye candy in addition to fleshing out the characters that they stand on their own right next to the great books.

The film of Steinbecks GRAPES OF WRATH is a great film on its own even though they cut the last quarter of the book with an even better ending.
 
Josie said:
I would prefer to read the book instead of watching the movie, usually.
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Books are always infinitely better and more detailed than the movie. I rarely have the time to read physical books these days, so I listen to audiobooks a lot. I find it immensely enjoyable.

I see you chose red pill. :bravo:
 
Josie said:
I would prefer to read the book instead of watching the movie, usually.
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I thought the Kung Fu scenes were better in the movie.
 
countryboy said:
Books are always infinitely better and more detailed than the movie. I rarely have the time to read physical books these days, so I listen to audiobooks a lot. I find it immensely enjoyable.

I see you chose red pill. :bravo:
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Yep -- I like reality even if it bites.
 
If you took a purple pill, would you get the best or the worst of both, or something in between? What do you mean there isn't a purple pill? I can make a deal with someone who chooses the opposite of me, and we can take half of each other's pills - which is collusion to alter the predicted outcome. And exactly where do these pills come from, anyway?
 
X Factor said:
I assume most everyone understands the Matrix reference. Blue pill you go back to sleep and back to everything you recognize and believe to be real, red pill wakes you up to a grim reality. What would you choose?

Got this idea from a recent Glenn Beck conversation on his radio show asking the same questions.
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Can I have six of each? Boredom happens...
 
Used to love The Matrix and all its references until the pickup artists hijacked them, particularly "the red pill." P.S., don't remind them that Neo was mentored by a Black man, trained by another Black man, and assisted by a woman--all in the first film. Oh yeah, the producers were trans* people who had not yet transitioned. Some model for cis white male superiority. :roll:
 
Phys251 said:
Used to love The Matrix and all its references until the pickup artists hijacked them, particularly "the red pill." P.S., don't remind them that Neo was mentored by a Black man, trained by another Black man, and assisted by a woman--all in the first film. Oh yeah, the producers were trans* people who had not yet transitioned. Some model for cis white male superiority. :roll:
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That's what you got out of the movie? You got that it was a commentary on gender identity and social norms?

Talk about sucking the fun out of a movie!
 
X Factor said:
I assume most everyone understands the Matrix reference. Blue pill you go back to sleep and back to everything you recognize and believe to be real, red pill wakes you up to a grim reality. What would you choose?

Got this idea from a recent Glenn Beck conversation on his radio show asking the same questions.
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I got halfway through a book by Glenn Beck.

The man is a walking moron who thinks he's Thomas Jefferson.
 
Lutherf said:
That's what you got out of the movie? You got that it was a commentary on gender identity and social norms?
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Please reread my post critically, with emphasis on the word "until" and on the entire second sentence.

Talk about sucking the fun out of a movie!
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The value of the livelihoods of targeted groups of people should exceed that of my temporal entertainment? What a novel concept!
 
haymarket said:
Normally I agree with that. Almost always as a rule the book is better simply because it gets far more in it and is more layered. There are exceptions.

The novel of FORREST GUMP is hideous and terrible. The took pure crap - a lot of which was racially offensive - and turned it into a great film.

The Lord of the Rings movies give you so much visual eye candy in addition to fleshing out the characters that they stand on their own right next to the great books.

The film of Steinbecks GRAPES OF WRATH is a great film on its own even though they cut the last quarter of the book with an even better ending.
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And yet the 2nd trilogy of LoTR, with its abundant scenes that weren't in any of the books and solely to drag out as much profit as possible, makes it clear that without the literary genius of Tolkien, they had nothing worthwhile all along
 
Phys251 said:
Used to love The Matrix and all its references until the pickup artists hijacked them, particularly "the red pill." P.S., don't remind them that Neo was mentored by a Black man, trained by another Black man, and assisted by a woman--all in the first film. Oh yeah, the producers were trans* people who had not yet transitioned. Some model for cis white male superiority. :roll:
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Actually I somewhat agree with this. The whole concept of waking up might have been made famous by the Matrix. At least to the millennial generation who were at the time of the first movies release prepubescent teens subjected to brainwashing. This poll isn't original. I've seen this reference used time and time again and yes it is hilarious that mostly conservatives have used the slogan from a purely progressive movie about a world that is a hologram.
 
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