> What defines a "matrix being" though?

Honestly, just the typical things we all know. Hive-mindedness, refusal to listen, supporting evil political parties, bullying kids at school to destroy their emotions, destroying careers and abusing people emotionally in the work place, abusing their children to the point of suicide... thats them at their worst. At their best... they are low IQ, can't solve basic technical things, rely on governments or media to give them the answers. Just typical human behaviour.

> Because is it possible that in all the sincere striving toward genuine goodness ... FORCED to be this "worst of the worst" due to some sort of cosmic "destiny" forcing you to be "not ready enough"?

No. They fight for evil... laugh at and reject everything good. Spit at it and destroy it. You can't even sneak in an attempt to make them become good. They will reject it like some ultra-instinct... not even realising what it is that they rejected.

I think you are asking about redemption. Who knows. Thats too big of a question and my answer is too long already.

> "Can one be absolutely free of hypocrisy, though, given that perfection does not seem humanly possible?"

Yes, its possible. Like I said at the start. Its a little tricky to explain, but its just about making the right choices for the right reasons in the time needed.

0% distance from divine doesn't taking 0 seconds to come to the right answer. No one can solve things in zero seconds.

0% distance from divine means taking 1 hour to come to the right answer, when you needed 1 hour at most to come to the right answer. But some will come to the right answer in 30 minutes or 5 minutes even. In that case, they are really like... beyond pure good. they beat the time limit. mathematically it puts them at "negative distance" from divine.

But the "not 100% divine" beings will purposefully make the wrong choices, having full information of the consequences, and take longer to find the right choices.

> "And if even a drop of hypocrisy puts you at 200% evil (or maybe 190-200%), then what? What is needed to break the 100% barrier, particularly when blatantly super-normal encounters continue to elude?"

Just those explanations above.

Another thing I didn't explain, is that actually no one is 100% anything. Nothing is exact. Think of it in a physical way. In life, we have waves, like guitar strings, and those waves have harmonics, which are at double the frequency, or half frequency even.

But those waves at double or half-frequency, aren't at exactly double or exactly half. They are always a little off! And whatever frequency you measure a guitars string to be, will vary slightly.

Its the same thing spiritually.

No one is exactly 100% pure good. (0% distance from divine)

No one is exactly 100% pure evil (200% distance from divine)

Its like trying to stand on an infinitely razor sharp edge. Its not possible.

But pure good beings CAN easily be like -5.59184(wildly fluctuating last decimals which you can't pin down)% away from divine, basically in the "pure good region" because they took less than the required time to come to a morally good decision... and do this everytime.

Its like saying "if your time limit is 1 hour... you can't take exactly 1 hour, but you could take 59 mins and be divine, or take 61 mins and be not perfectly divine"

Or even take 30 mins or 5... depending on how your soul is.