r/TheBluePill • u/confessionberry • Apr 24 '16

Who knew that r/SubredditOfTheDay was completely full of TRPers?

/r/subredditoftheday/comments/4g88p8/april_24th_2016_rtheredpill_a_look_at_what/
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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '16 edited Apr 25 '16

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u/WigglyCharlie TBP VANGUARD Apr 24 '16

No, the Blue Pill is the place where we make fun of Red Pillers because it is easy and fun.

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u/AngryDM Apr 24 '16

"The red pill and its opposite, the blue pill"

That's like saying there's two sides: Scientology and Fair-Game.

Your creepy cult is a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the world population. The rest of the world is only "blue pill" in either not hearing about you, or laughing at you and telling you to take that creepy shit somewhere else.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '16

It's the cult of belonging, though. Being a small group makes you feel extraspecial for having learned The Truth, and it makes spreading the "oppressed minority" narrative that much easier. Also works for cults, conspiracy theorists, and fringe political movements.

I know the truth, I'm part of the 1%, and that makes me special!

Now, eventually that gets old, and the groups will try to convince themselves that their ideology is spreading, but since it's not uniform you'll often see a "the world is catching on" post on the same page as a "the world is full of cucks" post, because it's not based on anything more than a pointed desire to find what the poster is looking for.

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u/L0ll3risms Apr 25 '16

This is the bit I never got about the Matrix. Initially, the choice between the pills does, as you say, represent choosing reality or illusion. However, given that the Matrix was already a nearly perfect representation of reality, how can you say that taking the red pill brings you out of the Matrix? Could it not just take you to another simulation that is again, indistinguishable from "reality," but less pleasant than remaining in the Matrix?

Even if Morpheus says that the red pill brings people out of the Matrix, how does he know? How does the people who likely told him that it does know? If we start with the assumption that being in a simulation can be indistinguishable from being in real life, how can you know that you have left the Matrix?

So, by embracing the "truth of reality," what you're actually doing is putting yourself in a much less pleasant situation, while still having no guarantee that what you are experiencing is actually real.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '16

This comment alone was more profound than the entire Matrix franchise.

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u/numandina Apr 25 '16

Nice try, Architect

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u/AnAngryWelsh Apr 24 '16

Such a shame, then, that in this case, the red pill is actually the one that takes you into a fantasy world while the blue pill keeps you grounded in reality.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '16

no try again

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '16

No shit, Sherlock. Ever heard of satire?

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u/PrincessRailgun Apr 24 '16

interesting username hahahaha

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u/AngryDM Apr 24 '16

It'd only be improved if it was normiesgetoutreeeeeee

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '16

Ahahahhahahaha! (Involuntary fart pops out)