Philosophy and Spirituality

[cosmoworld7]

This is an excellent model of the Blue Pill vs. Red Pill:

Here is the meaning ->

In the Matrix, Neo gets a taste of the truth, and is forced to come to decision point. He must decide to take the Blue Pill or Red Pill. The Blue Pill will take him back to his comfort zone, back to the life he has always had, and erase the glimpse of the future he has tasted. The Red Pill will allow him to see the truth, to quell the urge of inquisitivity that we all have.

Anyway, so everyone knows that if you take the blue pill, you remain content in your dreamworld state - or in a state of 'ignorance is bliss' - that state everyone functions in on a day to day basis without questioning why they do what they do. Life is a sequential event... I get up in the morning, go to work/school, do what is required of me, come home and watch tv or hang out with friends, and go back to bed.

The red pill however is...

But occasionally, something happens which makes us question those very rituals we've blindly followed and we are confronted with a choice - shall we take the blue pill and choose to ignore any inconsistencies with our own paradigm which works pretty well, or shall we take the red pill and explore these inconsistencies knowing that it could lead us into a world we aren't familiar with... one that questions the very foundations of our current perspective. Once we learn of that new paradigm, we can no longer hold the older belief as our truth. Not everyone can deal with this kind of thinking. Many people are perfectly content believing something to be as they've always known it to be, and reject this newer attempt at truth because it's too painful to accept - they've been living their entire life based on this lie and only now they come to discover that the world is not what they thought it was. In the context of Cypher, they'd rather enjoy their steak blissfully in the Matrix rather than confront the new perspective they have.

Others are more ready to accept the red pill and refuse to accept what they now know is a false perception of reality. This line of thinking is very similar to the scientific method which holds a relativist belief that while maybe, just maybe, there is one unified theory of everything, we don't know it yet, nor is it probable that we can know it because we exist inside the system. We are part of the whole rather than observers from above with a God-like perspective. Being part of the whole, we can only see what's around us and theorize how things are. However, because we are part of the system, our actions effect the system, even if controlled and monitored to only effect the system minimally, we still are interacting with our experiments and may not be getting a true perspective of what is actually happening. That being said, we can still experiment and theorize that it appears that this is so, so until something or someone is able to disprove it, it is a 'good enough' working model. We may have to reject it at some point. We may only be half right. And maybe, just maybe, we are right. In science, however, you can never prove something right. You can only attempt to disprove it... and it only takes one exception to the current working model to disprove at least part of it.



from: http://www.deliriumsrealm.com/delirium/articleview.asp?Post=69