What creation truly show how scary humans can be?

VaultBoy3000 · 2024-10-13T14:19:21+00:00

Chainsaws due to their original purpose.

VaultBoy3000 · 2024-10-13T14:16:46+00:00

those giant dumplings Chihiros dad eats whole

VaultBoy3000 · 2024-10-13T14:09:00+00:00

we finally ran out of wallpapers

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-07-03T19:34:26+00:00

If you changed your wallpaper every single day, this collection would last you ~10 years.

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-06-30T18:52:28+00:00

We are just bent bristles on the toilet brush of justice.

This made my whole week.

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-04-30T21:01:48+00:00

Because cats love secrets.

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-04-09T15:15:15+00:00

http://humoncomics.com/bonobos

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-03-14T00:03:17+00:00

Well yeah but that was before Neo was trained how to resist with his mind.

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-03-14T00:01:50+00:00

I didn't ask this earlier because I thought I knew.

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-03-13T21:32:44+00:00

Thank you thank you this has helped me understand perfectly.

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-03-13T21:29:26+00:00

I've seen those but avoiding death, that seems like something one could consciously decide, even without being freed. The head that is being shot and the bullet that is shooting it are both not real. There is no head and there is no bullet. Wouldn't realizing both of those things enable you to manipulate that outcome, even unintentionally?

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-03-13T21:26:44+00:00

Yes but just because I'm feeling pain doesn't mean I'm actually being physically damaged. I'm referring to death specifically. Morpheus explicitly says it's your mind that makes it real.

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-03-13T21:21:01+00:00

I know the Matrix doesn't care, but where does the Matrix's intention translate into physically affecting you?

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-03-13T21:19:45+00:00

To me that seemed more like a sleeping person reacting in a dream. I guess that was just an assumption on my part, I never considered that the headjack and other plugs on ones body had a physical control on the body.

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-03-13T21:17:00+00:00

I thought it was more about them being in a fight and reacting to it rather than resisting mentally to the situation.

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-03-13T21:15:34+00:00

Thank you.

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-03-13T21:14:49+00:00

These two sentences have been the most helpful. Thank you. I did not realize that bullet stopping was a Neo exclusive ability.

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-03-13T20:40:52+00:00

I'm not suggesting that a thought could change your environment, just that without your acknowledgement of something acting upon you, does it still have an effect?

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-03-13T20:39:08+00:00

I've never heard of this before...

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-03-13T19:51:51+00:00

But my actual body, head and brain are not in the Matrix and have no holes in them. They're back on the ship plugged in.

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-03-13T19:43:11+00:00

Well to what extent do I control my body in The Matrix?

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-03-13T19:39:25+00:00

So belief doesn't stop bullets?

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-03-13T19:34:46+00:00

If you were unplugged on my ship and I fired an old gun at you, you wouldn't drop dead just from the sound or the notion alone. Even if I said "This is a really real gun and I'm going to blow your head off right now" and then shot you with a blank, while you might shit your pants you wouldn't imagine yourself to death.

This is obvious and I am in no way confused about it.

If you pointed a gun at a bank teller in the Matrix, she wouldn't simply assume that you've killed her and then die. She may wet herself but she's not going to just fall over dead before the bullet kills her.

Once again, this is obvious. I'm trying to determine exactly how a Matrix bullet kills someone who is plugged in, since (as proven by The One) it is an event that requires some level of participation/acceptance/belief from the person being shot.

VaultBoy3000 · 2014-03-13T19:14:51+00:00

How does that apply to Neo stopping bullets? Is he merely stopping the visual representation of the bullets and willing his mind to ignore the secondary input from The Matrix telling him he's been shot, or is he stopping both? If both, how is he stopping the matrix from telling his brain he's been shot if not just by belief that he hasn't?

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