Oh why, oh why didn't I take the blue pill?

[LeftyLoosey]

I have awoken in a completely different world - one that is foreign to me. Everything that I thought was true was a lie. The people I talk to, the voices I hear on the radio, the articles I read in the newspaper - all lies.

I look at people's faces and I see things that I never saw before. I hear their words but I do not listen for I know that their words are meaningless.

All around me I see innocent men sucked into a darkness by their own free will, only because they have no will. From day one we're taught how to think, see, feel, and react, and it's all wrong - it's all for someone else's purpose.

I keep trying to shake people from their slumber so they can see what I see but they call me bitter, jaded, and crazy. They tell me I'm going through a rough patch and will come back down to Earth eventually. I tell them I don't want to live on their Earth any longer.

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I remember reading on these forums, while I still wasn't aware of the Matrix, that people sometimes wish they never found out the truth. I finally understand what they were talking about.

I can't at this point honestly say that I'm any happier but I do know that I don't want to go back, even if sometimes it feels like the easy way out.

We all have a blank slate before us now, just like we all had when we were young and untouched. The only difference is this time we're not letting anyone else influence our writing. We will write the stories of our lives just as we want, even though those around us will still try to guide our hands, but we will resist, we will resist and break free from the clutches of the Matrix, and we will LIVE FREE!

 

[reset]

It's understandable to want to "wake other people up". This is what happens when we discover a new way of thinking, we want to share it with everyone.

And you know the truth is that although you are influenced, ultimately you're the one who decides to be influenced. You're the one who decides if you take it or leave it. Most people never question, so it's just "fed" to them, and they eat it up without realizing what they're doing.

You can go two ways. See it as war, or see it as taking responsibility for your life. The latter has no enemies.

 

[KontrollerX]

The kind of minds we have on sites like these I can only compare to people who have been into some religion hardcore but then begin having doubts, then they question it, get answers and leave the religion.

They question while others have no questions at all and stay.

We have something within us that wants the truth and will find it at all costs.

You have the truth now but people are so comfortable in their slumber they will do anything to remain sleeping. Its like what Morpheus said to Neo when they were in the Matrix simulation program...

Morpheus: The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.

That fighting to protect their ego idealizations and world view is what you are experiencing when people tell you dismissively that "you are just going through a rough patch right now" or "you are jaded" etc.

Thats why Rollo has said repeatedly unplugging people from the Matrix is dirty business.

If you meet anyone new who doesn't know about your personal life so as to attack it and you try and unplug them they won't have as much of your background to use against you as a distraction and weapon against you for why your words are supposedly false and that they don't need to unplug.

In anycase if you want your radio to stop sounding like lies and more truth you could do what the poster Magma here does after I got him clued in about the Tom Leykis show and its free internet podcasts and what he does is he downloads a ton of the podcasts and then listens to them in his car on the various I think business related trips he takes.

Tom Leykis's show is a part of our unplugged Matrix free reality.

 

[LeftyLoosey]

It's funny that you bring up the Tom Leykis show. I saw the link in your signature a few days ago and I've probably listened to a dozen or so of the podcasts. I have to admit I was SHOCKED to hear someone on a public radio station broadcasting an opinion that was more or less in line with what we preach here. What's nice to hear are the women who call in who actually agree with what he says. Sadly there are also many men who call in to tell him he's off his rocker. I count myself lucky that it only took me one marriage to figure it out but it took Tom four. Good for him though.

 

[jophil28]

I look at people's faces and I see things that I never saw before. I hear their words but I do not listen for I know that their words are meaningless.

You can get the same result from Electo Convulsive Therapy .

Perhaps that is what we all need to wake us up.

 

[SharpGame]

I have awoken in a completely different world - one that is foreign to me. Everything that I thought was true was a lie. The people I talk to, the voices I hear on the radio, the articles I read in the newspaper - all lies.

Lefty, I know what you mean. Remember when Neo goes back in the Matrix for the first time after being unplugged and is looking around with his new knowledge? That's how I feel and I'm sickened by what I see. Movies, TV shows, commercials, and songs on the radio all telling guys to be whiny submissive little b!tches. Hoards of AFCs trying to do "the right thing" by appeasing women. It's everywhere I look. And what's more is that I'm sickened that I use to be one of them.

Occasionally I find guys who are real DJs or naturals who are unaffected by the lure of the matrix and I'm starting to become friends with these kinds of people. But what I find disturbing is the sheer number of guys who are "plugged in" and resent any attempt to unplug them.

I have a couple friends who are miserable. They whine about women and whenever I try to "awaken" them they fight it. Has anyone here ever successfully unplugged someone? I'm starting to think it can only be done after a tramatic experience like a divorce.

 

[Tazman]

Yeah, I used to feel the same way, like I shouldn't have tried to understand so much. However, I now enjoy it because I can see through a lot of BS and it's actually helped me quite a bit, especially with women.

People are really easy for me to read, although sometimes I don't fully understand their motives unless I've had time to process it all. You won't always be right, but I'm doing pretty damn well now. I've actually felt a little guilty at times about what I know of people because I've spent so long inside the matrix myself.

Also, if you don't use (act on) this knowledge it really isn't worth much.

 

[SharpGame]

I can't at this point honestly say that I'm any happier but I do know that I don't want to go back, even if sometimes it feels like the easy way out.

I should add when I first "unplugged" from the matrix I wasn't happy either. I was glad to know the truth, but depressed when I realized where I was and how far I had to go to get where I wanted to be.

I had to work on being independent, strong, and rebuilding my confidence by doing things that make ME happy. It's been 6 months now and I can honestly say that I'm way happier than I was when I was married to that b!tch. Not only that, but things are improving for me at an exponential rate. I've improved my self to the point where women recognize it and are starting to come out of the woodwork. This is increasing my confidence more, pushing me to be more social, and ultimately making me even happier - which attracts more women. It's like a snowball effect.

So stick with it man. Don't regress, don't become bitter. Just continue your pursuit of truth, be the best man you can be, and you'll do great.

 

[slaog]

I should add when I first "unplugged" from the matrix I wasn't happy either. I was glad to know the truth, but depressed when I realized where I was and how far I had to go to get where I wanted to be.

I had to work on being independent, strong, and rebuilding my confidence by doing things that make ME happy. It's been 6 months now and I can honestly say that I'm way happier than I was when I was married to that b!tch. Not only that, but things are improving for me at an exponential rate. I've improved my self to the point where women recognize it and are starting to come out of the woodwork. This is increasing my confidence more, pushing me to be more social, and ultimately making me even happier - which attracts more women. It's like a snowball effect.

So stick with it man. Don't regress, don't become bitter. Just continue your pursuit of truth, be the best man you can be, and you'll do great.

Good stuff! I've spent about 8 months awakening from the matrix and yes it is like a snowball effect. Sometimes it's 2 steps forward 1 step back but comparing where I was 8/9 months ago I've really come along way and I feel the momentum behind me now..

I don't think you can really unplug anybody from the matrix they just have to want to do it themselves. I started on my self development journey because I reached rock bottom but at least now I can see a pathway to a better life and I'm on it.

Maybe the only way to convince a person is to lead by example. Show them how much you've improved and leave it up to them to follow or not.

 

[TheHumanist]

Can someone please hit me over the head with the medicine you guys saw that is the blue pill? For despite being around this long, I must admit, I do not feel like I'm surrounded by "lies, lies, lies!!!" and have to turn to this site and Tom Leykis's show as the last refuge surronded by the cold hostile world. One of my favorite national radio show (though I haven't listened in a good while) is This American Life with its podcast and so on, I still don't think it is pumping out poison to my ears, though feel free to listen to a podcast and point out some really bad that I have to stop listening to it (though I haven't listen to it in a while, I still think its a good, entertaining, and informative show). Last time I check, though Sex in the City is quite popular, it is also smashed by not just members here but by critics everywhere and by many other people on and offline. Sure, I see things that I would go "ugh... I wish they stop making that crap up..." such as on things like on many romantic comedy movies or something like that, but I'm not seeing it like the whole world (or just America) suck. I see new understandings that basically go under the tennet of be a leader, new understanding of not taking bull****, new understanding that the bull**** including watching out girls who have low interest or low character (ie Sex in the City mentality), I get the concept of spinning plates (well at least partially), and the scacity mentality which leads to people tolerating things they wouldn't if they weren't afraid of loss, but I still don't see the world as brainwashing people nor my friends who some have done AFC things as just brainwashed people who I can only able to watch as they fall apart and to tell them that chasing one girl who giving that much problems as "dirty work to unplug."

Edit: I listened to some of Tom Leykis's stuff, I can see his thinking, and I can see you, KontrollerX, really coincide very much with him. Though I find that I do have disagreements with what he said too. I have to note that with what I did heard that I want to say that I dislike or even just plain despise his completely self-interest thinking, ie happy that there are losers in the world and is glad that they are rotating tires (I would think the ideal is if everyone we working to reach their potential in wealth, intellegence, and creativity is a renaissance), bashing those who have kids, and bashing anyone who marry. I like some of his arguments and I understand where he comming from with things like expense and so on, but things like "I want to hear the truth" (indicating that anyone who disagree is in denial and lying), equating life to just time and money, "misery loves company and people with kids are trying to bring all the other people down," and etc. Basically looking down on a lot of people. Nothing wrong with his way of life, if he want to live that way and is happy, fine by me, but I did not like how he bashes and want to point out that everyone else is unhappy and falling apart, there are many who are, but calling those who aren't as either exceptions or lying is something I did not like. Even Rollo have a kid, and he's the most pragmatic guy in this forum.

Like I said, what am I missing here.

 

[KontrollerX]

"I listened to some of Tom Leykis's stuff, I can see his thinking, and I can see you, KontrollerX, really coincide very much with him. Though I find that I do have disagreements with what he said too. I have to note that with what I did heard that I want to say that I dislike or even just plain despise his completely self-interest thinking, ie happy that there are losers in the world and is glad that they are rotating tires (I would think the ideal is if everyone we working to reach their potential in wealth, intellegence, and creativity is a renaissance)"

If you have a link to his podcasts in your browser he has a recent show where he talks about losers and I really think you are missing what he is getting at with his mockery.

Through the mockery he seeks to shame weak males out of their loserdom stagnancy so that they become strong men. A guy called up to the recent show about losers and thanked Tom for doing this on many past shows as in addition to mockery if you listen closer you hear Tom giving many suggestions for what these guys should be doing to better themselves and where they should be at job wise at certain ages.

The mockery also serves the purpose of being humorous to the fanbase keeping the ratings high so in effect the mockery is not only helpful to Leykis but in his mind all those losers out there who need a kick in the ass from the professor to make a change and many men and women have called up for that specific purpose ie having Tom tear into them so they get moving to where they want to be in life.

And after Tom is through mocking these guys he drives the point home that if they choose not to listen to him and keep remaining losers he won't fight that state of being in their lives anymore and in fact he will be glad to reap the benefits of their being plenty of losers out in the world to rotate his car tires, shine his shoes or serve him an Egg Mcmuffin at Mcdonalds.

As for the self interest thinking it is what every human being is motivated by. Tom is on point with the truth there and teaches us all that even if we have leanings to go out of our way to help people why bother if its inconvenient and you won't get anything in return and he points out that there are plenty of status quo people out there to pick up the slack in that regard while we're sitting on a beach somewhere with our feet up working on that next big sun tan.

Its human arrogance and ego at its highest anyway to think you will make some large significant change in other people's lives for the better anyway. Focus on your own and don't worry about human suffering. It will continue whether you help to combat it or not. Thats what you get too hung up on Humanist. Sure help people if its convenient and you have the desire to do so but don't go out of your way unless the person who you are helping will return the favor at some date.

"bashing those who have kids, and bashing anyone who marry."

He mostly bashes 18 year old idiot guys who knock up their oneitis as well young chicks who knowingly get pregnant as his reasoning is people this young are still too immature and stupid to realize what they are getting themselves into and they basically ruin their lives and trap themselves for 18 years by doing this. I don't see anything at all wrong with that but he does indeed go further and question why anyone would want to have children as most of people's reasons for having them are poor such as "I want someone who will love me" or "I want to give my kid the childhood I never had". Both of these reasons are about the persons issues of needing to love themselves and work out their own childhood issues with a therapist. Neither are valid reasons for bringing children into the world. The most important reason he gives for not having children is it is too stressful and takes away from the things you can do in life. It hurts you financially, ties you down, keeps you from going on certain trips you could go on without a child, inconveniences you in many other ways and on and on.

He bashes people who want to get married because you don't need to get married if you love someone, you can just co-habitate or whatever. Getting into marriage makes you vulnerable to having to pay alimony if things sour or as Tom likes to call it "Vaginamony" and can just be a general nightmare hassle to get out of for a guy and if you have children with this woman who you are now divorcing a huge ugly custody battle will no doubt be in your future.

If the government were not heavily involved in marriage, if the laws did not favor women to such a biased extent and marriages could be dissolved very easily in a universal no fault type of deal I think Tom would then be ok with it but still he is right that there would even then still be no reason to get married as you and a chick could just stay together without some formal agreement if you love eachother so much. You can really seperate women who truly love you that way if love is what you are looking for. You find out by not marrying a chick whether she really loved you or just had a marriage agenda and any guy will do.

"I like some of his arguments and I understand where he comming from with things like expense and so on, but things like "I want to hear the truth" (indicating that anyone who disagree is in denial and lying), equating life to just time and money, "misery loves company and people with kids are trying to bring all the other people down," and etc. Basically looking down on a lot of people. Nothing wrong with his way of life, if he want to live that way and is happy, fine by me, but I did not like how he bashes and want to point out that everyone else is unhappy and falling apart, there are many who are, but calling those who aren't as either exceptions or lying is something I did not like. Even Rollo have a kid, and he's the most pragmatic guy in this forum.

Like I said, what am I missing here."

Rollo is a guy that is 110% together in life Humanist. He selected and qualified his wife and didn't say yes to the first girl that wanted to marry him and I wasn't aware that he had a kid but I'd wager he planned and decided on that as well.

You see unlike most people in life Rollo is not sleep walking through it automatically going through the motions of societal expectation.
He knew what he wanted and he planned it and he got it.

And because his life was so thoroughly and maturely planned he is fulfilled by it and is very likely a proud father and husband unlike those legion of 18 year olds who settled down with the first girl who said yes to their marriage proposal without thoroughly qualifying their soon to be wife for compatibility and quality assurance and the two co-exist in a marriage that steadily declines into rocky status which lasts for about 10-15 years all the while popping out more kids than they want or need which makes them miserable but because this marriage and family idea was the big goal state society, media, movies and television propped up into their minds which says doing all this makes them win at life they stuck at it for those 10-15 years just waiting for the promised happiness and fulfillment that never came.
Depressed with their lives but still believing in the dream they try to drag single friends and aquaintances down with them by asking them the question "when are you going to get married and have kids?".

These people so programmed into a fixed reality can't figure out why the single friends they have are so happy and contented. Isn't marriage and family supposed to be the goal and be all end all of life? They ask themselves. The questions mount, the clock is ticking on their youthfulness and dating viability, bitterness sets in and this programmed, ready made, societal couple finally divorces.

They were so lost in sleep walking through life because it was all laid out for them by family and societal programming that they never had any questions of their own of what they wanted, what would truly make them happy. After all the answers were already there and by their own family and married friends being around they figured going through with this was the big guaranteed acceptance everyone in life is looking for.

It is indeed societal acceptance but again it is not what they truly wanted for themselves.

Anyway Rollo's mature planning and questioning is what sets him apart from the rest of society that Tom "talks down on".

Rollo with his positive masculinity truly is one of these exceptions to the rule.
The big point of Tom's show is exposing men to an alternate and perhaps better reality and line of thinking that they've never been exposed to before.
Not every child that is born grows to young adult status loaded with burning questions they just have to get answered.

Many sleepwalk through life with no questions letting society guide their way until they are ruined and only then do they begin questioning and making a change for the better.

Tom's show is great because it really clicks with a lot of young men's minds that there is a different way to live that may be more beneficial to them than what their mommy or daddy or the daytime talk shows like Oprah and Dr. Phil would have them live. Tom encourages self preservation. Phil and Oprah tell you people are good and that not trusting is bad. Tom tells you trust but make sure you've got a contract or backup plan first should they screw you over.

Tom Leykis's show is such a great preperation for the young men to live their lives by its no wonder he is currently #1 on the radio.

 

[slaog]

Can someone please hit me over the head with the medicine you guys saw that is the blue pill? For despite being around this long, I must admit, I do not feel like I'm surrounded by "lies, lies, lies!!!" and have to turn to this site and Tom Leykis's show as the last refuge surronded by the cold hostile world.

I can see the matrix but I don't see the world as being cold and hostile anymore. Thats the beauty of it. There are plenty of lies in the world but just recognise them and accept them and see the world as being a warm and friendly place. If you see the world as being warm and friendly the universe will send you warm and friendly experiances and vice versa. What I'm trying to say is you are in control and it's about taking control of your own life.

 

[STR8UP]

I keep trying to shake people from their slumber so they can see what I see but they call me bitter, jaded, and crazy. They tell me I'm going through a rough patch and will come back down to Earth eventually. I tell them I don't want to live on their Earth any longer.

One of the most profound, powerful, and useful of the 48 laws-

Law 32

Play to People’s Fantasies

The truth is often avoided because it is ugly and unpleasant. Never appeal to truth and reality unless you are prepared for the anger that comes for disenchantment. Life is so harsh and distressing that people who can manufacture romance or conjure up fantasy are like oases in the desert: Everyone flocks to them. There is great power in tapping into the fantasies of the masses.

People hate the truth. Most of the time they will resist it at all costs to protect their romanticized image of life. They will fight you tooth and nail when you try to expose things for what they really are.

They will call you bitter, jaded, and cynical. They will argue with you even though you can see on their faces that they know there is truth to your words.

The only thing you can do is smile, take life for what it is, and keep your mouth shut unless you are looking for an argument, cause the only way people will see what lies beneath is if they take it upon themselves to look.

And all of this goes 10x for women. In fact, it is to your advantage to be the man who can "manufacture romance and conjure fantasy" when dealing with women.

I can see the matrix but I don't see the world as being cold and hostile anymore.

Exactly. It is what it is. You can choose to look at it as good, bad, or neutral. I prefer to see it as the latter, and craft my own happy reality around it.