Gori the Grey
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I'd take both, just to see what would happen if you defied the binary.
one pill, two pill, red pill, blue pill
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Omega124
Challenging Fate
I'd take the red pill. Sometimes, I feel like I already have. 
I'm the sort of person who seeks out his own delusions and crushes them ruthlessly when they are spotted, no matter how uplifting the delusion was. I'm definitely a red pill kind of guy.
Dave_uk
Chieftain
Red Pill definitely. I'd want to see what the real world was like.
If I take the blue pill I'm subject to the same constraints of the simulation, I've still got to work so I can afford to buy simulated food or I'll die etc. I can't do anything crazy or illegal since I can still be killed or imprisoned, and everyone else thinks the simulation is real.
There's no point me trying to better the world or leave a legacy since I know this is just a simulation that will eventually be rebooted (although thinking about it the same could apply to the real world, if you take a long enough view).
A more tricky question is what you would do if you're cipher, you've seen the the real world and how horrible it is, and are given the chance to go back to the simulation as a millionaire. That's a bit more tempting.
If I take the blue pill I'm subject to the same constraints of the simulation, I've still got to work so I can afford to buy simulated food or I'll die etc. I can't do anything crazy or illegal since I can still be killed or imprisoned, and everyone else thinks the simulation is real.
There's no point me trying to better the world or leave a legacy since I know this is just a simulation that will eventually be rebooted (although thinking about it the same could apply to the real world, if you take a long enough view).
A more tricky question is what you would do if you're cipher, you've seen the the real world and how horrible it is, and are given the chance to go back to the simulation as a millionaire. That's a bit more tempting.
AdamCrock
Polish Pirate
I feel pity on all that has accepted the dreadful red pill. The dreadful existance, life without reward or meaning .... as I have said before and the statement prevails - blue pill.... if only someone would offer me a blue plill .... please .....
IAM
Emperor
I wish there was a poll. For most of my life I would take the Red pill. I even use to say I want to know the truth no matter what the cost. Now I would take the Blue pill. Even the real world is just a different kind of illusion. It's just matter and matter is just empty space and energy just like the Matrix.
For most of my life I would take the Red pill. I even use to say I want to know the truth no matter what the cost. Now I would take the Blue pill. Even the real world is just a different kind of illusion. It's just matter and matter is just empty space and energy just like the Matrix.Daird
Warlord
But if you took the blue pill you would no longer be aware that you were in a simulation and you would go right back to believing it was the "real world" just like everyone else.
I must say that I actually sympathized with Cipher. I especially liked his line that in some ways the Matrix is actually more real than the "real world". As he said to Trinity: "Here all I have to do is pull a plug, in there you have to watch Apoc die".
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
This reminds me of an anime of all things. While this anime in question garnered fame/notoriety for other, more interesting reasons (toothbrushing wincest), one of the main themes explored was the nature of the real and the fake. A question that was raised was whether the real or fake was more valuable. One argument was that the real is more valuable because, well, it's real. Another is that both are of equal value. The last viewpoint is that the fake is more valuable, for in its attempt to become real, it becomes more real than the real thing*. Or something like that, it's been a while since I watched that.
EDIT:
*cf Skyrim, for those of you've played the main quest, when Paarthunax or whatever it's spelled asks whether it's better to be born good or to overcome your evil to become good
Puck Nutty
Prince
Well, Trinity wasn't The One and she was still superhuman whenever she jacked into the Matrix.
If I could take the red pill and routinely jack back into the simulation and play superhero, helping people out however I could, I would totally do it.
Besides, nobody said the protein paste tasted bad.
Evie
Pronounced like Eevee
How would you know it's the real world?
For that matter, how woul you know the Blue world is really a fake? Maybe the red pill actually puts you in the Mother Of All Drug Trips, and the blue pill just makes you forget.
Once you accept that it's possible to fake a universe, there is no reason to assume any given universe is the real reality.
CavLancer
This aint fertilizer
Feeding me dissolved babies intravenously would be the deal maker if I knew about it. Red pill... Then again leaving my family behind would be impossible. Blue pill... Immovable object, irresistible force.
AdamCrock
Polish Pirate
I take it that You are a blue pill man than .... welcome to the club ....
They didn't feed people dissolved babies, they fed dissolved corpses to those that were still alive. So anybody that died for any reason had their body recycled and used as food for everyone else.
It'd be like mixing Nyquil with Dayquil (mad props to those who get the reference).
AdamCrock
Polish Pirate
There are only 10 people that can understand binary : 1 , 0 , and that makes a total of 10
PS. Or should I say 0010 (hint xD)
There are only 10 people that can understand binary : 1 , 0 , and that makes a total of 10
PS. Or should I say 0010 (hint xD)
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those that don't.
CavLancer
This aint fertilizer
They showed a baby...but my old music teacher when I was in Junior High would have sufficed. I wouldn't want to imbibe her in any manner.
When they showed the baby they were showing the baby being fed, not being dissolved to be fed to others. It would be pretty counter-productive of the machines to kill babies seeing as he whole reason they were using humans is because we are an easily renewable resource.
