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11/28/2008 01:50:03 PM · #51 |
| I think it's probably easy to say the red pill on a thread like this, but I bet people are taking the blue pill in some form or another every day of their lives. |
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11/28/2008 03:53:56 PM · #52 |
We spend our formative years learning how to 'go along to get along.' A certain amount of predictability makes staying alive, well-fed, & comfortable possible, not to mention driving to work without getting killed. It also means each individual can get the most benefit from the least effort.
And yet...a lifetime spent without risk, without wondering, without questioning anything would seem to me to be a very long life indeed. I know people who seem to be doing exactly that. Always walking in someone else's foot steps, never doing anything alone, never risking anything. I wonder what they make of me when they describe me as someone who moves to the beat of her own drummer.
Sometimes the red pill is a small one. Maybe I take the blue pill to keep from getting killed by an angry mob. Life is like that. |
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11/28/2008 05:44:03 PM · #53 |
Originally posted by Simms:
Wow, so many people popping those red pills. To be honest I would be happy at this moment in time just taking the BLUE pill. I am happy with my life as it is, good relationship, great kids, business doing better than expected for these financially turbulent times, just generally happy at the moment. Does it make one a weaker person to be happy with their lot in life? |
I don't think it makes you a weaker person if you choose to take care of your family first especially in a time of need. However to never seek the red pill and never concern yourself with the world that exists outside of your little cocoon would make you a very weak person on par with the Paris Hiltons of the world.
Just imagine what the world would be like if nobody sought the truth? There wouldn't have been a civil rights movement, a man on the moon or a computer had there not been people who questioned things and had the desire to learn all that there is. Once you learn the truth it's awfully hard to turn your back on it.
Message edited by author 2008-11-28 17:45:50. |
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11/28/2008 05:49:10 PM · #54 |
| I refuse the pill, blue, red or otherwise. |
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11/28/2008 05:56:55 PM · #55 |
Originally posted by zeuszen:
I refuse the pill, blue, red or otherwise. |
Too late. You already did. |
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11/28/2008 05:58:07 PM · #56 |
Life is full of Red and Blue pills, you reach a junction in life and have to decide, do I take the right fork or the left fork. Neither is wrong or right, they just determine where you are going to travel in the future.
Many times I have had to make this choice, do I leave this job and take that one, do I stay in this town or move to another. In the end, the choices I made are my life.
NB: Just to keep to the post, I have always taken the Red Pill, my wife and family have had to endure the unknown path in life a lot of times:)
Message edited by author 2008-11-28 18:00:11. |
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11/28/2008 11:02:44 PM · #57 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
Originally posted by TrollMan:
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
The real issue isn't about knowing the truth, it's about the pain and suffering involved in learning the truth. |
The way I looked at it too. So as they say: No pain, no gain |
Not really, because the saying implies that the price in pain is only paid by those who get the gains. Unfortunately, life isn't like that and there's often collateral damage. |
It implies no such thing. The breakdown of the logic in the statement makes no such implication. It states simply "without pain there can be no gain", not "all pain brings gain".
R. |
Where did I say that all pain brings gain?
The common interpretation of the remark has been that one cannot gain without suffering for it. My point is that the pain associated with someone's gain is often not theirs alone. The decisions they make to their own benefit, affect others, often negatively. |
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