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Now that I’ve slept on it, I have some further thoughts on Matrix Revolutions.
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Erin came over for dinner tonight, and after dinner we watched The Matrix: Reloaded, and I got to check out some things that had been nagging at my mind.
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I just read a fantastic essay on “The Matrix Reloaded” on Freedom, Determinism, Teleology and Foreknowledge in Matrix: Reloaded
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(Orig. posted 20 Nov 2003)

Old Oligarch has posted a review of Matrix: Revolutions from a rather more theological perspective.

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I’ve been mostly silent on the “How will ‘The Matrix: Revolutions’ end” front, because to be honest I don’t want to know beforehand. I want to go into the movie and have everything be a big surprise, and not have to sit there and be disappointed that things didn’t work out the way I thought they would.
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As I was thinking about the architect’s speech, I was reminded of a famous passage:

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Genesis 2:15-17

Followed by:

And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Genesis 3:4-7

(Both passages are from KJV, which is the version most readily available on-line)
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In all the hoopla over the summer before the release of ‘Matrix: Reloaded’ one of the things Keanu Reeves was quoted as saying was that ‘The Matrix’ was really a love story, which struck me as hokey at the time, and ridiculous after seeing ‘Reloaded’
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Okay, I know the Japanese are weird, but really…..

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Weighing in on the Matrix

Everyone is blogging about “The Matrix: Reloaded” They hate it, they love it. It was great, it was terrible. Do I have anything new to add? Nope. But there were some things that gave me pause for thought, so I’m gonna write about ’em.
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I was listening to an interesting segement of the Infinite Mind this evening, on alcoholism, and it brought to mind something that stuck out for me in the first movie, which is the “alcoholic bum” whose body is taken over by Agent Smith in the subway station.
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(orig posted 11 Nov 2003)

More blathering about the Matrix, specifically, fighting in the Real World and Persephone. (And whoo! What a dress! Only in the Matrix could you wear that still be able to move.)
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Well, we saw it, and it didn’t suck. I was quite pleased with how things turned out, but I’m not yet sure how I feel about the movie as a whole.
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Greg posted the following comment/question, which I quite like and want to address.

2) The Oracle is outside of time. She tells Neo that he is seeing things outside of time. The point is, like the famous question, if God is omniscient and knows what we will do before we do it, how can we have free choice, Neo struggles to understand how anything he does is his own choice. The Oracle is pointing out to him that in the view where there is no time, we have already made the choice (in Neo’s future). The important part is to understand why we made that choice, so that our lives are directed and we aren’t simply reacting to things around us.

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(Originally written Dec 14 2004)

It’s Christmas break, which means travel. Here are some thoughts on the Matrix movies that staved off the boredom of the road.
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