The Book Of Eli takes place in The Matrix

 

So what happens when a war ends, Zion is destroyed, The One takes his 27 humans to build a new Zion and the Matrix has to be rebuilt?

Did The Architect build The Matrix in 7 days?

Building a new Matrix takes time so what happens to all the humans inside, where do they all go and how do they live?

You know when you have an “apocalypse” story, a nuclear war, plague, or whatever, and the cities are destroyed, and man goes back to a more primitive time? That’s a Matrix reboot.

So we have Eli, who is The One, spending 30 years walking through the desert, carrying his book. What he is doing is taking the code back to The Source so the Matrix can reboot, just as Neo did at the end of Revolutions. Eli is blind and sees with “the Force”, just as Neo did.

There are towns cropping up, small communities where surviving humans gather and new ones are born (assigned by the machines when the crops are transferred to the pods and plugged in) as the Matrix codes build new communities that will eventually become huge cities (or one huge city) again.

When the bad guy gets the book, which is useless to him, Eli carries on and ends up reading the book contents out to the man he meets at the other end. It is The One that carries the code in him, not on him, the book itself is meaningless.

The One carries the code back to The Source, where his path ends, and dies. “It is done”.

Solara is Trinity.

 

 

 

 

 

Fight Club takes place in The Matrix

 

This is an earlier version of The Matrix, not the first, maybe the 2^nd or 3^rd. The free humans of Zion have their ships and can hack the Matrix but they cannot enter it the way Morpheus and his crew can.

Tyler is The One in this version of The Matrix and he manifests through an existing nameless person. The Narrator is commonly referred to as Jack, the Edward Norton character. His name is, of course, Thomas Anderson.

Jack carries The One, who manifests as Tyler. Just as Neo, he works in a corporate building in a city and live alone in an apartment.

The purpose of Fight Club, the Project Mayhem, is to recruit humans who want to wake up and build and army. At this time they cannot get humans out anymore than they go in so they create the house on Paper Street, which is quite possibly a Construct, or tied to one, an interface with the ship, or even the Zion mainframe.

The buildings that Tyler wants to destroy are the ones that power the machine army. Destroy the buildings and all power is cut to the army and Zion is saved.

Just as Neo saves the most recent Zion by fighting the Smith army inside the Matrix, Tyler  saves his version of Zion by destroying the 10 buildings inside his Matrix.

The Fight Club itself is part of the Construct that allows humans to fight and train and sustain ongoing intense injury without really being hurt more than superficially or disabled in any way.

It is implied that Tyler is a Morpheus style ship leader who comes in and out of the Matrix as a ghost who interacts with Jack. Jack is therefore The One, and becomes so at the end, and will be the leader inside the Matrix after the machine army is dead.

It is possible that Tyler is The One and manifests through Jack, the way The One is the recent Matrix lived as Thomas Anderson until he “started to believe”.

There are no Agents in the Fight Club Matrix. It is likely that this is the first time the machines realise the humans in The Matrix, led by The One, and with outside help from ships, pose a credible threat. So the  machines now create  the Agent programs and put them inside the Matrix to deal with both human insurgents and rogue exile programs so this won’t happen again.

In the original script for Matrix 2, before the Reloaded script was created, Neo and co do have to go and destroy buildings to stop the machine army. The building Neo works in as Thomas Anderson is actually the hub of the buildings that controls the machine army. This element does not appear in Reloaded, though the concept of cutting the power to 27 buildings as part of the mission remains.

So in earlier versions of The Matrix, the human army and The One would indeed destroy buildings to take down the army threatening Zion.

In the Matrix 2 script this takes a darker turn as the buildings are destroyed in the day while fully populated. The premise is that each human mind working in there represents a body in a pod and that body provides he power for a sentinel. Destroy the building, all the minds die, so the bodies in the pods die, so the Sentinels die. But you sacrifice all those human lives to achieve this. So in the Matrix storylines this element was never pursued.

Similarly is the “burly brawl” where Neo fights the many Smiths, in the original script, each time Neo kills a Smith we see it revert back to the human form it was before it was taken over. We know this happens as in the Matrix film we see Trinity shoot an agent (“dodge this”) who then reverts back to human form. So as Neo is fighting the Smiths he ends up amongst a pile of human corpses he is creating. This element was also removed from the script.

So at the end of Fight Club we see Jack/Tyler/The One destroy all the buildings, now empty, and stop the sentinel army at the gates of Zion.

Marla is, of course, Trinity.

Batman - Iron Man

Why didn't Bruce Wayne do what Tony Stark did and develop himself a suit of armour?

Then Batman would be super strong, invulnerable, have real weaponry and, most important of all, be able to fly for real, something he always envied in Superman.

Wayne Enterprises technology has to be on a par with Stark so it's feasibly possible.

Something to explore in a future Universe.

 

We don’t even ask for happiness, 

just a little less pain

 

 

Our bodies play host to trillions of bacteria and other microbes. 

They live on our skin, in our guts, up our noses. Microbes are found in almost every part of the body. Microbes help us produce vitamins and stimulate our immune system. They break down food and perform many other functions that we need to survive. 

Microbes may sound like uninvited guests, but most live harmoniously in and on our bodies. We need a diverse set of microbes working together to stay healthy. They're an essential part of our systems. 

It turns out they're right where they belong.

 

We ignore things. 

We stay under the covers. We don't pick up the phone. We don't face the music and all that crap. 

But the longer we hide, the worse it can be.

 So open the test results. Have the hard conversation. Say what you mean. Good or bad. You may be surprised at what you find. 

And at the very least, you'll know what you're dealing with.

 

In the late 16th century, a father-son team made a groundbreaking discovery. 

They found that when they put lenses at the opposite ends of a tube, it enlarged objects. 

Their invention was the first compound microscope. 

And as basic as it was, their invention was a gamechanger for science and medicine. The simple use of curved glass to bend and refract light revolutionized how we see the world.

 In many ways, it's not all that different from everyday life. 

Sometimes seeing life through a different lens opens a new world of possibilities.

 

Researchers studied why some people perform better on tests. 

They found that it's not necessarily related to intelligence. 

Some people become anxious during exams and divert mental energy toward anxiety instead of expending it on finding the right answers. 

Others have a better grasp of how tests work. They use process of elimination and other techniques to help them make better choices. 

Some people study harder. They start early, make flashcards, rely on repetition to retrieve answers when they need them. 

Tests don't always measure how much you know. They measure how well you take tests. 

And tests certainly don't measure your worth. 

But knowing that doesn't make it hurt less when you don't succeed.

 

When the body's exposed to rising temperatures, it has the ability to cool itself down. 

We sweat, our blood vessels dilate, and our heart rate increases. Our body releases as much excess heat as it can. 

But when the temperature starts to inch above 100 degrees, our bodies have to work overtime, leading to heat exhaustion. We become nauseated, dizzy, and confused. And we fight like hell to cool down before it's too late. 

For some, the boiling point is more about stuff bubbling up from the bottom. It's about stuff you haven't thought about in a while. It's about stuff that's been heating up while you weren't even paying attention. 

The question is, how well can you contain things before they boil over?

The thing is, even if things don't boil over completely, they can still simmer. 

And as long as you're careful how you handle yourself, you won't get burned.

 

Everyone knows that frozen peas are as fresh as the moment the pod went pop. But what about frozen meat... is that as fresh as the moment the cow went nnyeh nnyeh aaahh ayayayay-uhh?

 

Dying people lie too. 

Wish they'd worked less, been nicer, opened orphanages for kittens. 

If you really want to do something, you do it. 

You don't save it for a sound bite.

 

You want to make things right? 

Too bad. 

Nothing's ever right 

 

People like talking about people. 

Makes us feel superior. 

Makes us feel in control. 

And sometimes, for some people, knowing some things makes them care

 

die with dignity.

 There’s no such thing. 

Our bodies break down, sometimes when we’re ninety, sometimes before we’re even born, but it always happens and there’s never any dignity in it. 

I don’t care if you can walk, see, wipe your own ass, its always ugly. 

Always! 

You can live with dignity, you can’t die with it.

When one door closes, another opens

but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door
that we do not see the one which has opened for us

Live passionately,
with all the injuries that can happen as a result.

It is worth it.

Waiting is painful.

Forgetting is painful.
But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.