Rabbits in the Matrix.

I'll have to bring the Latin phrase 'Veritas vos liberabit' back to life. Basically it means 'The Truth shall set you free.'



And isn't that the basic principle of the Matrix movies? Truth for freedom? But let's split that quote down.



Veritas - 'Truth'.



Vos - German for 'go'.



Liberabit - Probably something to do with freedom... And rabbits?



Liberabit.



What I'm suggesting here is that maybe the commonly thought of
symbolism with Alice in Wonderland and Neo going down the hole is just
brushed over too quickly. And if you look at Wonderland as a form of
Truth that would mean the imaginary places we often like to dream off
are more truthful, more purposeful than reality. After all, who could
think that while thery were in a world like the Matrix (our reality)
there was some other world more solid that could probably exist only in
our nightmares and dreams? And this is odd for... It is one of the
philosophies I hold dear to--The statement that human thought and
imagination is the greatest form of purpose and material need, giving
birth to, sometimes, the greatest human feelings--Desire, love, and
want.



Follow that rabbit, Neo.

While I've no intention of shooting down any of the philosophy behind
your post, I should point something about your rabbit/latin connection:

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Sykin wrote:

Liberabit.

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The
highlighted portion is just a Latin ending (well, with the exception of
the 'r') that could be affixed to any number of other words. The root,
the unhighlighted part, is the part of the word that means
freedom. So I doubt there's any direct etymylogical connection here
between "Follow the white rabbit, Neo" and "Liberabit".



But I dig the overall concept of what you're saying. :robothappy:

Heh, while I will admit I am nothing of a Latin speaker, I am something
of a writer myself and words are my duty... It was easy to see certain
roots and such, like Liber=liberty/freedom, but 'rabit' (Which thinking
back the root would actually be just 'abit', yet still) I was not sure
about in one of my favorite Latin phrases (Veritas vos liberabit). And,
because it's pronounced like 'rabbit' (I believe) I decided to draw up
a unique outlook on that and try and connect it...



Well, you know how this junk goes. One thing leads to another and then
the English language dies and gives birth to another one and then
there's this whole cycle with Neo and Smith and on and on and on.



Took note that that was your first post, by the way, good for you. Haha, welcome to the forums...

Just in case anyone was curious, I thought I would help a little with
your latin translation.  You have the phrase down exactly as it
would be in English, but here is how it breaks down:



Vertias:  Truth (you already had that)

Vos:  You, pl.  (as in "all of you")

Libero, -are:  To set free, liberate (as mentioned -abit is a
latin ending, which reperesents the future tense of a verb, in this
case "will set free")



In Latin sentence construction, you usually see [Subject], [Object],
[Verb].  Such is the case here.  As you said - The truth will
set you free.  This is a bilical quote, and has been rehashed a
lot.  I personally like the quote from Gloria Steinem:  "The
truth will set you free.  But first it will **bleep** you off."

Wow, you can't even say p*ss?  What's the world coming to?

At first glance it looks like you might be reading to much into the 'Liberabit=Follow the White Rabbit' analogy,

but, then again, them Wachowskis' are good for putting in odd little details and coincidences.

I just reciently found out why they made the Merovingian french, so, good job.

Yeah, and now the question arises: Did the W. Bros. think the Catholic
faith was the true evil and somehow Exiles were going to rule the world
one day or was the Frenchman just a blatant **bleep** and decided to use
the name? Hehehe...



Well, knowing the French...