There are so many kinds of time

 

. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. 

Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars.

Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. 

Its hard to live in all those kinds of times.

 Easy to forget that you live in all of them.

 

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. 

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

 

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

 Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. 

Sometimes we find others in that darkness, 

and sometimes we lose them there again.

 

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying,

 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' 

Epictetus replied, 

'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’

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.

 

Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; 

political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. 

The businessman's tool is values;

 the bureaucrat's tool is fear.

Scepticism

 

Scepticism is a resting-place for human reason,

 where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region in which it finds itself, 

so that for the future it may be able to choose its path with more certainty. 

But it is no dwelling-place for permanent settlement. 

Such can be obtained only through perfect certainty in our knowledge,

alike of the objects themselves 

and of the limits within which all our knowledge of objects is enclosed

 

When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. 

If you understand that, you'll feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger. 

Your sense of good and evil may be the same as theirs, or near it, in which case you have to excuse them.

 Or your sense of good and evil may differ from theirs. 

In which case they're misguided and deserve your compassion. 

Is that so hard?

 

Adrenaline is the body's response to stressful situations. 

It's one of many vital chemical compounds our bodies produce that alter our state of consciousness. 

Oxytocin makes us feel bonded with others. 

Dopamine makes us more alert and motivates us to seek reward.

 A lack of serotonin has been linked to depression. 

GABA, an amino acid neurotransmitter, helps reduce anxiety. 

And endorphins create a heightened state of happiness. Like the kind we feel when we win.

The lows drive us to do better. The highs  are the rewards of a job well done.

 And then there are times when our state of mind is altered and it has nothing to do with brain chemistry. 

New opportunities open us up to greater possibilities. 

New information and a new perspective can permanently shift our consciousness and the way we see the world will never be the same.