The Matrix is not real. If they wanted the energy our bodies put out, they'd keep us in a comatose state, not risk crap by having people wake up.

We get people that claim they are all the time. But they're always passed off as lunatics, etc.

i dont believe the matix is real. and as said before by someone, im happy living in my simulation too!
-Gwen

Matrix? No, but it is an interesting thought. I'm also a religious person, like AlphaCommando I guess, and we are not a simulation, but real things, created by God. Wars do usually have to do with religion, which is why the Middle-East sucks, because different ethnic groups are screwing their own religion up. Go to Africa and then it's mostly about freedom. Asia, even though they aren't warring really, they are about control.

Yea sort of like in the movie........k-pax that guy appears out of nowhere in a subway station and claims he is from the future so they dismiss him a s mentally unstable lunatic and put him in a sort of counseling and....well you have to see the movie its pretty cool.

Worst grouping of blanket generalizations in my life.

Read about anything African, and the contemporary wars are usually over who is of what clan or tribe or some other ethnic qualifier. Give me a ♥♥♥♥ break, do you not read the news? Darfur, for crying out loud, is ethnic cleansing at its most raw. it has nothing to do with freedom, it's the opposite: It's about oppressing others that are different.

Asia? If you're basing your statement of control on the sole examples of Communism, you fail. Again, that has nothing to do with ideology, or faith. It's about oppressing others into your form of Cronyism.

And the Middle East's situation of religious war is only heightened because of our presence there. And our presence there has ♥♥♥♥ nothing to do with religion. Its profits and resources. I think I would be more understanding if it was rough 'n tumble battle between Sunnis and Shi'ites, but its not!

Thank you for demonstrating your completely blind worldview.

give him a break, jesus. We dont all spend all day looking up wikipedia etc... And who cares about 'our' presence there. America and britan lose money every day the troops are there. How are they making money from it? Unless of course they issue each troop with a state of the art bucket and get them to take a bucket of oil and carry it back to britan/america, of course... that way the shites wont even notice it leaving and they can countinue to kill them selves because of the sunny people...

If you're not going to research before making a statement you believe is true, then shut the ♥♥♥♥ up.

Well said shade.

As to the comment on "all wars come from religion", however untrue that statement may be, I can see how you might come to that conclusion. Many leaders have used religion as a mask for other, shiftier motives to a war they may be waging. Take for instance the crusades aka "the holy wars".
On a side note though, some wars are fought because of religion. Now, as to the causality of religion/war, I believe the real culprit is humanity itself. We humans, regrettably, are rather a violent bunch. People fight even over things that don't matter. Girls, money, social status, you name it, someone has fought about it. When it comes down to it, people fight about what is important to them (whether or not it is to others). Now the teaching of most religions is that the religion itself is the most important thing in the life of someone. Therefore, religion would seem hypothetically the thing that makes most 'sense' to fight about. Given the innablility of humans to change ther fundamental characteristics as a whole, war is necessary. And to the vast majority of people who have a religion (and in their opinions, to those who don't believe), religion is a necessity. Therefore, people will always war over religion. Not that I endorse war. The death of a human being is the most tragic of events (my grandma just died a few weeks ago).

My god thepantsman, do you have virtually all the same ideologies as me, well said *clap*clap*.

right, I apologize about being so against religion. But all religion really is, is something that was created to try and put a shape on why we are here. I mean comon, jesus would never have been the 6ft, long haired white guy we have in our heads. I reality, if he did exist, chances are he was tanned and had short hair... like the vast vast vast majority of people of that region. Its not true, its just stories there to help us try to have an understanding of life. I will admit i have become more religion friendly recently but I do blame my religion teachers for me becoming this way. To me religion seems to be nothing but wasting time, writing and writing some more then reading the bible and coping stories from it... its really just pointless.

Matrix..... real?

Meh.

If it is real, it needs some mods to make it more interesting.

I'm pretty sure I've seen part of a movie with someone named K-pax in it. Are you talking about idiocracy? That might be it..

thanks alpacommando

@aracnid: In my opinion, religion's main reason for existance is not to explain the universe, but rather for people to realize their true purpose in life. A lot of people say, if prompted 'what is the purpose of life', is to be a good person and have a good happy life. Considering the bible says that all good things come from God, it is then theoretically impossible to live a 'good' or joyful life outside of God. I think that explaining the universe is a side effect of someone who is omniscient (God) writing a book about life and everything. Personally, when it comes to explaining the universe, I don't give a care about whether evoluion is real or not. The thing that really twinges me with that argument though is when people try to disprove God (but that's another day, another debate). But, I digress aracnid. I respect your opinions and probably won't change them.

Also, I agree, Jesus was not a body-building swede. The Bible even talks (I think) about Jesus not being particullarly pleasing to the eye.

Arachnid, do you ♥♥♥♥ look at what you type, or do you just ram your fists into the keyboard? I've come to realize that if humanity were dependent on intelligence, most of you would be living in cages.