Well, it's funny how the Serpent and the Forbidden Fruit thing can both represent the red pill and the blue pill...
If we look at it the red pill way, we're saying that Adam/Eve was
banished (freed) into the desert (of the Real). This is a common
conception, if I will say.
Now, what if the desert is the false world of the Matrix, and the blue
pill is that little bit of temptation that made Eve take the fruit
instead of curiousity?
How about we look at what Cryptos says about Cypher:
"
The code was
broken long ago by one who died for the sins of pride and anger caught
in the middle blasted with blue energy when he only wanted a blue pill!"
Sounds alittle like what we hear about Jesus being killed, or
some say sacrificed, for our sins. And, once you think about it, the
totally opposite can be said that Neo was the one who represented that.
"It's a simple choice:Poverty, Discomfort, Powerlessness -- or an embrace of what the world is."
..."It's a simple choice: Hell -- or an everlasting life."
Not a direct quote but what some basically preach. In an area of the
Catholic faith, people believe that beyond this life of ours, after we die, is
Heaven--Or Hell. We'll say that the Cypherites see the Matrix as the
best it can become; Heaven in other words, and that the Real World is
what the sinners must face before their Judgment.
Now note the Crusades and the horrors about that. The Church and its
followers of followers killed thousands for the "Holy Land." (Once
again this is history, not bashing here.)
This theory isn't for certain, of course, that's why it's a theory. The
problem is so much interchangable symbolism, which is what makes the
Matrix great. In one hand I can have Neo as the savior of Mankind
against all of its sins and past deeds (the Machines), in the other I
can have Mr. Anderson; Satan--He who would destroy the world and
consume all of the creations therein.
The problem is perception.
(Note: I'm no religious scholar, forgive me for my mistakes.)
Message Edited by Sykin on 12-08-2005 01:11 PM
