The Matrix

[Fay Re Nuff]

Big question from the trilogy, if you had the choice, would you a. leave the matrix for the real world, b. stay in the matrix with no knowledge of the real world or c. stay in the matrix with full knowlege that the real world exists and that all you are experiencing is a lie. And WHY?

[alicebandassassin]

i hate being lied to ask my kids

[weaveworld]

I would leave because I don't like being lied to.

Your life is your own.

[Fay Re Nuff]

Originally Posted by alicebandassassin

i hate being lied to ask my kids

this is the reason for the question. if you left, you'd learn the truth and not have your kids, but their memory would be real to you. if you stayed and knew the truth, how would it feel everytime you looked at your life?i like the truth, but i think i'm to old to learn that the most intrinsic truths of my world are a construct. i'd perfer to stay and not know.

[Adasunshine]

I'd stay but not wanting to know my life is a lie - if I knew I'd always be wondering and that's not good for the soul.

I'd stay purely because it's what I know, death scares me because it's the unknown, same as leaving would scare me for the same reason - plus, they live on gloop, I'd much rather have a nice juicy steak!!!!

xx

[Tea is my copilot]

If the people in the matrix were real, then yes, I would stay.
But I wouldn't want to be alone, with everyone else being the product of the matrix.

[hermi-nomi]

A philosophical question Cool! Unfortunatly for my pride, I'm about five years out of touch with most philosophical concepts . Oh well, I think I can still answer this conundrum sensibly enough with my own biased thoughts ... I would probably leave. Afer-all, I would have, or gain, the comfortable knowledge that I could still live in a dream-world if I so chose by e.g writing, or simply sleeping. I've always wanted to do whatever is open to me ... so, that may not include going to Florance, or the Cote de Azure ~ but I was able, for example to go north to Glasgow. If I lived in the Matrix and was offered the opportunity to go somewhere else ~ and to actually live life, then I would liek to think I'd take that opportunity. However I suspect that I'd probably want to return to the safety of a comfortable existance inside the Matrix, although I'd hate the thought of being used by the machines and software...

[Paige Turner]

If your choice was to leave the Matrix for a world as desolate as the "real world" of the movie, I'd prefer to stay in the lie. Scorched earth, nothing to eat but gruel, constant danger… if I wanted that kind of life, I'd have gone into sales.

If you could escape to an outside world, like in Logan's Run, THAT I would go for. Even if there are no guarantees—and of course there aren't—the potential of finding a bigger, wider, uncontrolled world would call me. But to escape to a confined and joyless existence doesn't sound like any kind of escape at all.

[jackokent]

I'd be with Paige on this one

if the alterntive to living a lie was holed up in the dire little cave or spaceship with a bunch on over-testosteroned, corny, and decidedly sulky rebels I'd opt for the lie every time. Give me the machine any day.

[Foxbat]

In many ways, society as we know it is a Matrix. We have to live within it to gain its comfort and protection. Whether the society/Matrix is real or virtual becomes irrelevant when looked at from this point of view.

As I'm a creature of comfort, I'd stay knowing that there was a desolate and uncomfortable world beyond my little pod