You caught us! 😉 (well... except for Twilight.)

@@CinemaTherapyShow I think u deserve to watch ur favorite movies after twilight. 😂

@@CinemaTherapyShow Twilight can be your favorite movie to make fun of😂

@@CinemaTherapyShow Twilight is ridicule porn.

@@CinemaTherapyShow I won't believe that caveat until you do an episode on The Room XD

Happy y’all are out ^^

@@laiainautumn-1252 thank you! It's great here in the real world!

Woah! Awesome to hear

I'm glad you're out and hope you're both doing well. I had the other perspective since I wasn't raised with or in any faith. Though I still don't have a belief system most of my favorite shows and movies are about the push and pull of freewill vs control and good vs evil. If you enjoy that type of thing as well and like it TV level spooky I suggest the show Evil. I think the first season is on Netflix but those and the new ones are on Paramount+.

May I ask what cult you were a part of?

Personal responsibility is a troupe straight out of reganomics. Not that is is not true, it is not an absolution. It is pathologically wrong to imagine that you are nothing but choice to be responsible for. As if you can always see and understand how and why you make choices when you are even aware that you are making them. This is a big oversimplification of life for humans.and a misleading one. The therapist os out of his depth here. Despite sounding good. Addiction is never a choice according to the research literature. It is a disease. Like choosing cancer or diabetes. And well how did they get those. Some might say lack of taking care of oneself. Well how does that happen? People dont behave the way the do simply because of choices. Things are far more complex. Far far more. Everything from social constructs to culture to stress to access to awarness and education to epi genetics to hormones to many things

@@michaelweil5192 I agree, I'm not saying people act alone. I have severe diabetes and pancreatitis, genetically from my parents. I have had the pancreas of a 60 year old lifelong alcoholic without ever having so much as a sip, and I've been dealing with this for 10 years. It's still part of my responsibility to at least try to make do with what I can. Of course there's outside factors I can't control that can make it easier or more difficult. As far as my addiction, because I was in so much pain due to complications from my genetic diseases, that I was admitted to the hospital for 6 months and was given Dialaudid every 4 hours the entire time. Then when they let me out, no rehab. Had to take care of that myself. And that took a lot of heartache and time. So I know what you mean by things out of your control. Addiction IS a disease. However, a big part of me had to WANT TO. A big part of getting help is wanting to, and outside forces making it easier for you to do so. Institutions should make it easier. I didn't have the money for people to throw me in rehab. I had to do that myself at home, and with the help of family support of course. So, yes, things are complicated.

@@michaelweil5192 I used to bristle at the word responsibility as well, for all the reasons you've stated; but when I saw the word as "ability to respond," that was my first step in the direction of reclaiming my agency. That does not deny the impact of structural realitties and histories; AND it does bring one back to the their own sense of empowerment around how or what we chose to navigate/do with the choices that exist right here and right now in our context.

@@sandrallewellyn2632 i am not bristling at the word...the notions that people operate off of are non scientific. They are opinion pieces. My while point is that science has already helped us to understand these issues. And it get ignored. Because narratives and feelings about ability and attitude are effective tools to not look at broader sociological problems as the root of many social behaviors that impact biology and genetics expression. Everything gets reduced to an individuals problem in our individualistic society. Focus on recycling, which was a lie, for our pollution problem. A lie promoted by oil companies to prevent the public from addressing the problem in over use of fossil fuels. We have to know history many different scientific disciplines and how they apply to large systems. There is no need for the guess work anymore. It is getting stupid.

@@sandrallewellyn2632 at that point you’re just making new definitions for existing words

Thank you!

I always thought that therapy and philosophy go hand in hand with each other. This episode is proof of that.

Bro how, double degree? I wish, I wish. Keep up the good work👏🏾

@@CinemaTherapyShow 21:21 i saw your little binary message in transcripts

@@UrmanitaRules check out these binary messages in transcripts

Thank you for choosing to go down that little rabbit hole. Hope you had fun 😊

@@asvpreis My vision was blurry halfway through but it was worth it!

I saw that but didn't know it was all that! Cool!

God I love these guys and this channel!

I found it too! So glad I discovered it before I found this comment. Love this community! 🥰

Yeah, I had to do the "eff you and your BS" to my abusive dad too. I was lucky(?!) and figured out by my 20s that he was never gonna even realize how flat-out cruel he'd been. So I started healing then. I hope you realize how much strength and power you have now, and I wish you all the best.

I just want to say that you're a great writer and I was very engaged reading what you wrote

I just read this in a moment after comforting my wife whose going through severe depression. Thank you.

It's really not your fault you waited for that to happen because society has beaten this into our heads through tv and movies. It's okay. You have discovered how to heal, and that is true freedom! No one gave that to you, you are making it happen for you! I waited on someone to 'wake up' and see what they had done and apologize, but now I make my own life happier without this ever happening. It didn't happen overnight, it has been 7 years of shifting my thinking, but I have never been as happy as I am now, for taking back my power.

as much as we need to count on others, conversely quite often you gotta go it alone. you can wait for someone, and they might not come so its up to you.

Alan mentions something similar in their video on Turning Red, but the end of that movie is cathartic because like Alan with his mom, my dad has done shit that hurt me-messed me up as a person. For so many years I thought "one day we're gonna talk and he's gonna recognize what he did and he's gonna apologize and then I'll be okay." Except that's not gonna happen. I've spent so long waiting for him to make things right when I could have been rebuilding myself.

@@faffywhosmilesatdeath5953 For Real. 100%. I have a similar issue with my mom. She really did do the best she could, but unfortunately her best was corrupted and extremely toxic. And its not her fault, and I have spent So Many Years waiting for her to wake up and realize this. But that is Never going to happen. I’ve spent the better part of the last year Really accepting this. And believe me, it still hurts. But understanding the situation does help to be honest. I don’t know if that makes it easier, necessarily, but for me, it does at least a little bit. Not every day, not all the time, but it is helpful to have context.

@@anjelica948 Absolutely. My dad was caught up in all this toxic perfectionism (hey, something else CT covered with Encanto). My dad actually reached out to me and I almost eagerly agreed to talk to him again. As I started to think about the situation and what he said in his message I realized something: he didn't want to apologize because he felt guilty. He wanted to apologize because he had a close brush with death and now he's scared of standing in front of St. Peter without making things right. It pissed me off when I realized that he even managed to make apologizing for the ways he hurt me a selfish act. So I never followed up on our plans. Not for years. Me personally? I recommend you get a little of that artistic catharsis that Alan got from Turning Red. The movie is great fun and if nothing else watching Cinema Therapy's episode on it will let you have a little cry with Alan 🤍♥️

And what is that statement is true? Not liking a situation or reality being unfavorable does not equivocat truth

@@michaelweil5192 Because you're giving them the power and you are just the bystander of your own story. If somebody did something to you, it could be the story of how you ran away, fought back, adapted, overcome. Or it could be the story of they had to make it up to you and you were just the damsel in distress.

@@wesleywallace4426 My one gripe with this episode of Cinema Therapy is that they put very little light on Oracle's beliefs. I can't really explain it well, but the issue is that determinism isn't necessarily the opposite of free will like most people act like it is. Determinism says that if you knew everything in one moment, you could calculate everything in the next, and therefore see the future itself. A choice you make is one that could be predicted, because it would always be the choice you'd make before you even made the choice, but it is still YOUR choice. You chose the choice, the connection of that choice to you doesn't change depending on whether it could be predicted or not. Neo thinks and wants to prove determinism doesn't exist, but can't figure out what to do to prove it because anything he would do would be predetermined. Most of the machines think and try to point out to the humans that choices don't exist, because you would always make that choice regardless of what you wanted to do. The Oracle(and a very select number of different forms of media, alongside me) posits that it's irrelevant if your choice can be predicted because you still made that choice. You decided on what you wanted most. One other thing I noticed is that the Oracle is the only person that remained secure in her philosophy throughout the movies. Neo gets frustrated when machines predict his choices and try to act unpredictably. Machines, like Smith, are constantly frustrated with how Neo and the humans make objectively illogical choices and try to understand why they make them. The Oracle is just chill and responds calmly to everyone, because her views are compatible with the arguments of both sides.

@@cetomedoWhich is precisely the opposite of free will, because free will states that any human being can make a decision that will drastically affect the future and that decision can only be made by that person, Irregardless of the circumstances of the conclusion.

@@yancywatts388 And that decision was, in fact, made by that person, irregardless of the circumstances of the conclusion. The decision being one step in a cause and effect chain does not change the fact that had the decision not been made, or a different decision was made, that conclusion would not have happened. What I'm saying is positing that fate is compatible with free will not because of the nature of choices themselves, but because an individual is the macroscopic result of many different cause and effect chains. Free will requires the ability to do something(which you've already denoted in the above comment), not the fact of being something. Fate requires the act of being something(aka being the result of a cause effect chain, capable of being recognized by a hypothetical and probably non-existant being with complete knowledge of a previous moment), not the ability to do something. They're compatible because they require entirely seperate things to be real, despite seemingly being contradictory. Of course, there's the argument that they're indirectly incompatible as the ability to do something can require the act of not being something(such as the ability to hold an object in your hand as a person without hands), but this particular act of being the result of a cause-effect chain being possible but not definite shows that both the non-cause-effect and cause-effect based people result in the same outward result of a person(similar to how cephalopods and humans have completely different genes for sight, but both have the ability to see through what is called a "camera-type eye".

She even says he has the gift, but waiting for something. Or in other words, he isn't *currently* the one, but he could be if he chooses to.

@@AtomcsiKK Specifically she says "Another life, who knows." And then he died and became the one.

I always took it as you're not the one, yet.

@@moon83star30 Exactly everyone is just slaves to their environment and biology until they decide to embrace their ability to choose.

@@AtomcsiKK He isn't currently *choosing* to be the one. And to tie it together with "the sight", she can't see past this decision [of his] because she can't understand it. Or, she can, and she knows that answering his question of what he's waiting for with a direct answer would rob him of his sense of agency and independence and as a rebel, he would feel a need to reject being The One in order to avoid being controlled. (Just saw this video for the first time. I was going to say what @ulf101 said above.)

Nature is the one that gave you the voice but it's up to you to decide to nurture it or not.

That's a brilliant comparison.

Man I wish I had kill philosophy professor. My high school philosophy was way cooler

Free will is an illusion. You think you are making a choice and feel you are but you're not.

I think determinism is just higher power religion for atheists/highly educated people. It’s really easy to make excuses for our actions if they were predetermined for us. People want order but nature is chaos and people don’t like it when they don’t get their way. Our life is just a string of coincidences that we try to make sense of.

Between stimulus and response is CHOICE ...thank you for that reminder and for such an enlightening discussion

I personally believe that there are only 3 possibilities. Either God doesn’t exist, and therefore free will can’t exist because we’re only chemically evolved animals, or God does exist and either we have free will, God controls everything and we don’t, or a mix of the two. I believe in God, and in Jesus Christ as the messiah. I believe He is sovereign but allows us free will and enacts His will as He chooses. So I believe in God and that it’s a mix of free will and choices and certain things God does control.

It is both. There are valid arguments to be made from both sides, therefore it is only logical to say that both sides are partially correct. For example, a child raised to believe racist things will become a racist themselves. That is something that was programmed into them by their environment. They didn't choose it, it was forced upon them by their parents. But, that child has the opportunity to *choose* to seek out truth and change their beliefs at any time. The fact that we can change our beliefs and our thoughts proves that we do in fact have at least some level of choice over our own lives, and we're not solely a product of our dna or environment.

Same here. The KZfaq algorithm, on the other hand, is entirely determined by its designers and experience, so my adding a comment to this should hopefully make more people see this, but if it doesn't I can't blame the program.

I believe it's both as well. My interpretation is while any particular choice someone make is the result of the "programing" in their brain combined with past experience, that choice is also still their free will, since our mind (programing) is complex enough to self-rewrite to sometimes even completely different wiring.

@@henry_tsai it's complex systems. there are so many interacting parts of such variety many of which are complex systems themselves that it's impossible to perfectly predict. though everything on a macro scale is pretty much deterministic the wild differences that can occur from tiny changes means that acting as if you have free will is at least practical.

In psychology or theology many of the best either/or questions can be answered with "Yes".

Great catch. It's like choosing in a blink without hesitation. Hesitations in key moments substantially hinder us and make things counterproductive. These drain out the positive possibilities slowly. But on the other hand, decisions like this shown in that key moment breed miracles.

They probably waited, to time it with the release of Matrix: Resurrections. I am SO STOKED for the next movie!

Also a lot of the actors will be in the new Matrix film!!!

Wait, that was from the Wachowski Sisters? That explains so much, holy crap

Oh they did sense8 I really enjoyed it

Agree. One of the best shows on Netflix. More people need to see it.

Yes, Sense8 was from the Wachowskis and J. Michael Straczynski. A great show gone too soon.

damn that is a way better idea yeah wish we could have seen that

I personally think one of the reasons for the change was to raise the stakes. People get exploited for their minds in real life all the time. Think about when your boss makes you think up solutions for a problem at work and then doesn't even thank you for it. When your friend steals your funny joke and makes everyone think it was his. We've been beaten down by a lot of factors to not take ownership for our intellectual property, so having the resource be something so nebulous as brain thinking power "I am a computer to you" doesn't mean as much as the raw, physical violation of "I am a meat battery to you". So yes, it does boil down to "audience wouldn't get it", but there's some specifics that I like to think about. It would maybe be too much of a risk of having the audience think "no, but being a computer is fine".

Personally, I like the change because...well, it's a sort of foreshadowing to the system's ambiguity. Humans aren't an effective battery, and keeping us alive isn't an effective use of resources that must be obtained by the machines on their own time. This ultimately levies that the machines value human life such that they choose to engage in the non-logical course of action of keeping "useless" humans alive. Get to the Architect talking about how they programmed for the dissent/rebellion. That the Oracle is a part of the system, a program in and of itself...that The One is a messianic archetype the Matrix creates every time they reboot the system so as to keep humanity "in line". This is a shit-ton of hassle for a Hard-Utilitarian structure to engage in for something with literally no objective purpose... The Matrix may be on the wrong side of the creators' moral paradigm...but that doesn't make the Matrix or its programs inherently evil. If the Matrix were inherently evil, it wouldn't even keep these useless wasteful bodies alive in the first place!

@@alderblanco2362 true you do make a good point it does make you feel a larger sense of violation kinda like off the snowpiercer movie which i think also does a good job of eliciting a visceral response of horror or disgust at the exploitation of humans in the pursuit of system operation

"agents are bad but always stay away from Marketing" - Neo

The idea that Nature is often a lot stronger than Nurture can be terrifying if you come from people with bad genes/predisposition. For instance, both my parents are Narcissists and abusive, and on my father’s side, there is a Loooong history of both this Narcissistic abuse, but also depression, anxiety, ADD, as well as physical health issues. My mom was adopted so she doesn’t know her genetic history. This is part of the reason I don’t want kids. The genes I got from my father’s family were mostly bad, and I don’t want to pass that on to a kid. And I’ve also seen in other families how strongly genetics can influence behavior, and in a way its somewhat spooky. Personally, I’m Team Free Will, but man oh man alive, if you have an issue that your struggling with that comes from a genetic pre-disposition its a long, arduous battle that you fight every single day, and usually it’ll take professional help to maintain yourself and not go bananas.

I remember reading about that study and they found weird coincidences that only made me more curious. A set of twin boys who were separated at birth had both married a woman of the same name. Or they had both named a dog "Toy".

Definitely what about the studies of brain tumors affecting peoples behavior or brain damage changing people completely.

@@anjelica948 but we don’t use our influences that make us us. All the decisions we make we were going to make always, because of all the influences that made us who we are. We didn’t choose anything for example, our parents. No look at everything else media other people every situation that we did not create that made us who we are, and we’re gonna make the decisions based off that.

I'm a bit leery of such studies. They are usually very limited in scope and size. How many things did they look at? What did they ignore/discard? Where they looking for specific things, or just taking notice of random coincidences? How much shoehorning took place? Did they set out to prove nature and ignore coincidence? Did they compare the subjects to a control group to rule out chance? Coincidences happen all the time, and what we think of as random is often just a limited set of possibilities. Names, for example, come and go in cycles of popularity, so the chances of marrying spouses with the same name goes up. Jobs can also fall under broad umbrellas, like technician or IT, or made to fall under even broader terms like Aerospace, which can encompass a lot of different fields.

"I choose to persist because I choose to" --> punches the avatar of nihilism in the face. Even if "choice" is an illusion, the outcomes of our choices have cause-and-effect relationships on the representation of the world we keep in our minds and the real world beyond that. What's really baked my noodle for the past 22 years is, if continuing to exist is the result of accepting circular reasoning, then can Agent Smith also be right? If existence does not require an "objective" purpose, then our lives can have any *subjective* purpose we want to give them. The worst that can happen is that we die trying - and we're all going to die one day eventually anyway. So why not live the time we have as authentically and intentionally as possible?

@@Grizabeebles absolutely agree! Subjective meaning is still meaning, even if it is only for our own sakes, especially because it is. We should live authentically!

I thought, what are we -- a bunch of college students in our first philosophy class smoking pot?

@@mgb7140 well I read Existentialism is a Humanism for a class in high school when I was around 15, so you're not that wrong... Hahahahahahaha

@@mgb7140 groovy…

Why not try to reconcile those paths?

Thanks so much for the compliment!

@@TrevorEditor You're welcome! So professional and gets me hyped to watch these movies all over again. :) Also love the comedic inserts of every CT episode, too.

@@TrevorEditor Agreed! So good! That cookie monster clip made me laugh SO HARD!

@@lobsterlogic COOOOOKIIIIIIEEEE!

@@TrevorEditor Haha! Exactly!

This is so wonderfully said, thank you.

I'm stuck in a similar place, but from a different angle. My feeling is that I don't really have a problem with myself, my problem is that others won't accept me for who I am. Because they don't accept me, I feel I should have a problem with myself, but I don't know where to focus, so I end up hating everything about me. However, I don't really want to change because I don't see the problem. It's basically being trapped in this circle. Granted, I guess the ultimate problem is caring too much about what others think of me, and I really don't know how to even deal with that.

​@@Krendall2 Have you solved it since? :) If not, here's how I broke out of that cycle: You are free to choose the way you wanna be. If that's not what other accept, then they are free to decide that for themselves, too. And that's okay. So how do you stay yourself in an unwilling world, then? Well, no car engine runs without oil. So grease those gear teeth, to keep things moving forward. Don't blunt yourself, don't expect them to make room for you, but add grease. In many ways, most people are not "my kind" of people. And that's okay. They don't have to be my soul mate for us to get along. Sure, I'd like more connection, I'd like to vibe on a deeper level. But I'm done hurting myself over something unrealistic... This perspective allowed me to stay true to myself, without projecting blame and hurt onto others. And wouldn't you know, over time, "my tribe" of people _found_ me! I didn't have to put effort into it - I just stayed myself and whoever connected with me, I kept around close. Those who stayed for a while but then left, I let go. I now have some deep friendships, and some acquaintances that I like catching up with but aren't central to my daily life. And a lot of "somebody's I used to know." But I know from my tribe what value I can bring, and that those who didn't let me, only hurt themselves. And I'm done chasing them or proving my value to them. I'd rather invest my time and energy in those who do see it, without me needing to beg/convince them. It's been exceptionally liberating, and I'm getting closer to whom I truly am every single month/year/whatever. It's all a learning experience, and I'll grow alongside whomever want to for as long as it lasts. Good luck, and perhaps screenshot this and reread it every 3 months - you'll pick out new elements as you grow yourself; I've learned that from experience :) PS: this probably goes without saying, but just in case - be yourself _without_ hurting others for your own satisfaction/gains ;)

Sending hugs.

Wish you the best! Keep going ❤

i was absolutely OBSESSED with the first movie. i lost count of how many dozens of times i watched it. like you, it affected my ways of thinking incredibly deeply.

Sorry I'm 2 years late, but by sequels do you mean 2 and 3, or the stuff that came out years and years later?

Similar to the meta narrative of blaming poverty on the poor while we wait for billionaires, or "the one" to fix the world

I wish the courage to take the reigns on your life.

@@datuangela thank you. I know you mean well. It's more about ability than courage for me as I used to be stubbornly independent before I got sick.

I know what is it like, I was in the same position before. I wish you quick rehabilitation.

Solidarity to you, from a fellow disabled person. Don't forget, it's ok to be angry. Your situation is not fair and there's a lot of good energy in anger.

Oof! Great sympathy hugs, from another person with longterm medical disability! Our dilemma in that respect always strongly reminds me of the book series "What Katy Did", which I read repeatedly as a kid... I always struggled with the narrative there, which posited that invalids could always make a choice to keep their environment & person tidy and clean, and be sweet-as-pie to everyone helping them? Honestly I do not think that's realistic, given how ongoing chronic pain feeds into severe fatigue and limits what one can do in a day, as well as limiting one's emotional energy. In terms of emotional interactions, I don't think active cheerfulness is always possible either in that context... I guess the bit I try for at minimum is just not harming anybody knowingly, and apologizing if necessary? 🤷🏻‍♀️ It sounds like you do too!

Can you please provide some additional info to that? The story makes so much more sense if that's the case

Aaaah, really? Damn studio interference, people can watch complicated movies!

@@ayesha8809 Neil Gaiman (who was closely involved with the project) wrote a short story with the original premise called "Bits and Pieces". I think the Wachowskis also gave interviews at the time, stating the reasoning for the change. Basically, the Machines have everyone wired up together into a massive wetware neural network, which also neatly explains how people are able to bend the simulation easily. Ever had a lucid dream?

Like a cluster! Yes, much more sense!

Except when we are.

Yes. This is where I stand, usually in the middle or mixing of all stances into something greater. Nothing is black and white. The same idea is in epigenetics, which would play a big role in therapizing others. You can always have a predisposition to something but it takes your choices and nurture to determine you going down a certain path/experience. For example I’m predisposed to alcoholism from my father but never once have had an issue and never will…because I choose not to do anything my parents did, because eventually you grow up and realize that addiction is primarily a choice, a conscious poor coping mechanism to life and learned helplessness that eventually spirals. though that may sound controversial it’s true...but it’s also true you can choose to get better if you want it enough. In a different vein, you could have a parent with depression which predisposes you to having depression, but doesn’t guarantee its development - if you do end up having it it is not necessarily simply the result if genetics, but for example the result of living in a society that is sick and fosters a way of life/existence that can more easily lead people to be depressed

@@emmabunch-benson4795 i disagree completely

You always act on what you most want to do and cannot choose what you most want to do, thus while you have a will that gives the illusion of free will you do not actually have free will

Omg I love that anime!!!

I can’t believe I grew up reading the manga, thanks for the reminder lol good times 🧸

No, it was just your standard Trojan Horse.

What's the Allegory of the Cave? If u don't mind explaining I'd love to know.

My English teacher did the same thing because he liked having his creative writing and English classes watch the movie

My philosophy lecturers have used it for a good lot of things.

My philosophy prof talked about it in terms of the Descartes’ evil demon.

Probably lots of phylosophy teachers showed it! I watch it for the first time in one of the first classes to ask us the question of what is reality and such, will never forget!

I think there are more of us trilogy lovers than people think. We just don't blast it everywhere. Same as with lovers of the Star Wars Prequels, Alan. ;)

Third was too weak. Most didn't feel up to it. The first set such a bar. All we need is action and philosophy.

Hubby and I also do. Was our first movie in the theatre together and watch the first one too many time to coins. The matrix is based on Japanese amine that is more complex

I could be remembering wrong, but I think I only saw the sequels on DVD so that might have helped me enjoy it better. Maybe? Smaller screen, cozy living room, could rewind and replay when it got too wordy.

It’s a good trilogy but it’s also clear it was never supposed to be one. The original script for the second and third films was only one movie and because it was sliced into two, it feels bloated and uneven when it really didn’t need to be.

Excellent point. As well as Agent Smith having all this internalized transphobia, programming of the system - its all they know and having that cognitive dissonance just not resolving itself - needing to question things, cracking their egg, realizing they are non-binary and overwhelmed by the lack of structure gender roles give some people if they choose to accept or not accept it. [After rewatching some of these scenes is making so many peices of the story make sense to me for the first time since watching it, im just getting excited discussing it]

Seconded!!!

The whole Cornetto trilogy please.

Agreed!

No, it's because The One are many.

@Ted Archer That's a recon for part 2

You're talking about structural determinism, but the "understanding why" bit is even deeper than that and it's rooted in neuroscience. The human brain forms thoughts/opinions/decisions before it is even aware than it made them, let alone why. Veritasium and Neuro Transmissions have made videos talking about how the brain thinks.

And everybody clapped

@@tinkdnuos No, of course not :)

@@ErebosGR Interesting, I'll look into it!

Why were people getting up? I don't get that. 😅

I think that's valid too, and why you need a therapist who is trauma informed. Certain traumas have a way of taking away the entirety of your freewill and choice. I think that's why its also important to have therapists who are trauma informed. Jonathan's a relationship counselor, so I'm guessing he's talking about "going to therapy to have your choices (for example, cheating) validated."

Yeah, it didn't felt like it was handled well.

This is so true.... I did this exact thing

I had to work through a good number of those issues and what I learned is that in a world where everyone has free will, everyone shares responsibility for nonsense. To be concrete about it: I'm in a position of authority, and I cannot control what my subordinates do. I can control how I approach them, how well I inform them about the choices they have to make, what tone I take with them, and how I frame the discussion, but at the end of the day, they will make their own choices. They may then, in suffering the consequences, turn around and point the finger at me and blame me for what they did--and I will own and apologize for the parts of my approach to them that may have contributed to the problem--but I have to root myself in the concrete reality that they made a choice. It's important to take responsibility for your own share of an interpersonal conflict, but also to avoid taking responsibility for what is genuinely outside of your control--like the other person's choices. As a Christian, I know the rhetoric you're talking about, and what's often missing from it is that while Christ is given as a model, He is also the straight-up Son of God and there's no way we can ever, in our own power, fully imitate His character. That's why it's vital to give the situations involving people whose choices hurt us to Him--something David did very effectively in the Psalms. (A great line of his you'll never hear in church includes, "Bash the teeth of my enemies." A violent thought, but better said to God than done in the heat of the moment.) Perhaps one of the most brilliant pieces of wisdom in the Gospels is "pray for those who persecute you." It doesn't say how to pray--you can pray your anger, your hurt, and all your trauma--but the point is that instead of that stuff sitting in your head growing steadily more toxic by the day, you're releasing it to a wiser, more just, more compassionate Being than you can ever be. Trusting that process has been one of the most healing things for me in recovering from some hospitalization-grade depression and coping with the ongoing abuse that comes with being a public figure in authority these days.

They haven't, though. They are still the Wachowski Brothers whether they want to believe that or not. They don't want to accept reality for what it is as the citizens of Zion do. They are basically Cypher's character but blue-pilled themselves into a different Matrix. Ironic as fuck.

I loved this movie as a kid, my dad named me after Neo. Watchin this video for a bit made me realise I missed most of the good stuff as a kid, now, i also have a Lil bit of programming knowledge so I'm looking forward to watching this again as an adult.

Thank you! Will pass it to the editor - Anna

Yeah, that was so hype I was just like :O!!!

You beat me to it.

@@MrJas321 Honestly, I would be in an asylum by now if it wasn't for these two.

Huh, now that I see it Morpheus, Neo, and Trinity really are coded (in movie language, I mean) to be like the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Morpheus the Father "births" Neo into the real world. Neo uncovers extraordinary abilities in his 30s and dies to save the world, and Trinity is the juicy fruit that keeps him going and gives him strength. Probably like 20 years too late for that analysis, but it's Friday so hey.

Great analogy. Just a point of correction I believe Neo was number 7 as the architect stated there had been 6 iterations before.

Thanks!! Glad you enjoy it!

Action Break!

Also completely inspired my Anime so the action had to be as anime and Hong Kong action-y as possible : D