As in "The Matrix" . . .
Blue pill: you stay ignorant and possibly happier than you would have been if you had taken the red pill.
Red pill: you find out the truth. You might have difficulty dealing with it and it might cause you to be very unhappy.
Which would you take and why?
2007-09-18 10:39:30 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A person being born ignorant is by that very fact under the influence of the blue pill (change), and thus any red pill (immutable truth) they see is a fanciful delusion of their own ego believing "This is truth, I know it because I see and taste it.", while the wise sage has said "I am wise in that I know that I do not know." because they do not trust their senses under the influence of sense-delusion.
Nor do they trust their reason for they were born ignorant, and have only acquired knowledge acquired in a delusional universe, proven by the very pretext of an existent "blue pill", and not motivated by self-subsistent innate comprehension (red pill), no matter what their delusion says about themselves.
If its even possible to change, it is not truth - but appearance, and only what does not change, even in fanciful imagination, is truth.
Who knows what is immutable truth, when they, themselves, are always changing...?
Your best bet is to make your conditional "blue pill" as less and less inaccurate, i.e., more and more relatively true, red pill-like.
Everyone is agnostic until informed otherwise by something/someone else... Make sure its the truth and not the delusion doing the informing. I choose to live in a world of potential perfections, which is the goal I would call God, the Realized Perfection. Anything else would be incomplete and unable to prove itself true, it being imperfect, like me.
Good luck and God bless.
PS
I think the experimental drug aspect being bad mojo was an excellent, and funny answer. -With due respects...
2007-09-18 12:30:21 · answer #1 · answered by Gravitar or not... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd go for the red. Freedom is the main reason. One can work with the truth, happy or unhappy existence would be authentic. Ignorance is the same as death, each moment the same, nothing more. Like a herd in a pen at the stockyard, the only exit a ramp to the butcher's knife. With knowledge of the truth one has the option of jumping the fence or starting a stampede. Maybe not happy, but at least proactive.
2007-09-18 10:58:18 · answer #2 · answered by Fr. Al 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would take the blue pill. The truth can be found through searching also, otherwise it would not be the truth. Many things can be gained, beyond knowledge, along this search.
An example would be egoism. Knowledge will tell you that you will benefit more through egoistic action. But knowledge would not tell you that you will lose more dear things than just money.
Through searching for knowledge, you would learn this before you find the knowledge, therefore it becomes clear that the shortcut is likely to harm you much more.
Although I agree with Neo's decision in The Matrix. The red pill did not bring him the truth, it only offered him the path he needed to travel in order to find the truth himself.
Imagine your future as a tree, but its branches and twigs are infinite in their number. Each and every decision you make causes you to travel along one of these branches.
From your tree, snap off the ones you didn't travel along. Your tree will gradually get smaller and smaller, yet its branches will remain infinite until close to the time when there is just one.
The future is a fractal. You may want to google that.
((((hugs))))
May peace go with you throughout your life
2007-09-18 11:01:24 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
None of them. I really don't need the blue one to remain ignorant (to be ignorant is a choice) and I don't need the red one either to know the truth (specially because the truth is so...variable).
:)
But I'd take some chocolate pills if you have some.
:))
2007-09-19 03:32:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I took the red pill a long time ago. Yes, there are struggles, but usually I just am learning to get out of my own way. It has been worth it, very much worth it. I would not go back even if I could. BTW I loved that movie! Great analogy!
2007-09-18 10:55:27 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I took the red pill, and sometimes I wish I'd taken the blue. Ignorance is bliss in some cases.
2007-09-18 10:42:10 · answer #6 · answered by Red 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
this question is very deep and character-revealing.
because I've already seen the Matrix I know Neo goes through a lot of **** after taking the red pill.
I would go with the blue pill. Stuck in my little world, but happy.
2007-09-18 10:44:18 · answer #7 · answered by Chris L 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Too late. I already took the red pill when I was 7 years old and I've been an atheist ever since. Dammit, if only I had known sooner I could have been living a happy lie instead of the existential angst of the truth.
2007-09-18 10:43:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I kind of brought this up a few days ago. I took the red pill years ago and am never looking back. Christianity is a lie, just like the Matrix is a lie and illusion.
2007-09-18 10:42:33 · answer #9 · answered by spike_is_my_evil_vampire 4 · 9⤊ 0⤋
I don't need a pill if I just want to stay ignorant, so I guess if I had to take any, it would be the red one.
2007-09-18 10:44:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋