Hedons and Symbology

The other “religion” (i.e. cult) that is based on The Matrix condones, and even encourages, the use of drugs as part of worship. Anyone that condones and encourages the destruction of the human body is not someone I want to be associated with. In regards to their pedestrian and childish attempt at getting attention is nothing more than a cry for help. Drugs do not help one achieve anything except incarceration or permanent physical damage.

Something that they won’t tell you “over there” is that if you notice in the movie, the drug users are depicted as unintelligent and hopelessly trapped. How do I get this out of The Matrix? The girl with the white rabbit tattoo and her drug-laden loser boyfriend are stuck in the Matrix and after the initial contact with Neo, we never see them again. An obscure reference to a version of The Matrix script has Neo asking Morpheus if the red pill is mescaline but that did not make it into the final version of the film. Why would you base a religious tenet off of something that never happened?

In reality, the red pill is a metaphor. Because Morpheus needs to know where Neo is located in the fields, something needs to “disrupt his input/output carrier signal.” [Morpheus, The Matrix]. The red pill is nothing more than a program. Those who take the red pill are interested in seeing a larger world, not hindering themselves by limiting their body’s capability to function properly.

Keep in mind that Neo was awakened as an adult; something Morpheus said was against their rules. So, feeding drugs to children (as the “other religion” would suggest) is a sick and twisted thing.

I wanted to address this other faction because belief in what they are putting out there is just another form of control. The whole point of Neo’s quest is to break through all the levels of control into true freedom. How can you free your mind if you hinder the mind’s ability to function?

The use of a symbol to identify a religion is something that has been used for hundreds of years by many religions. That symbol should be something unique or at least spark an immediate identification with the religion in question. “They” have chosen to use the kanji character for red, relating to red pills. How is that readily identifiable without their religion’s title underneath it? For Pathism, there has also been a symbol chosen to represent the religion. That symbol is a slightly “smoothed out” version of the MegaCity character (displayed in the opening title of The Matrix: Revolutions). I will post the symbol in the very near future.

Free your mind.