Matrixism ~ a religion based on the movie The Matrix

To paraphrase Mr. Mencken:

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the public.

Makes about as much sense as any other!

I have to wonder whether these people are serious or whether they're druggies playing an supposedly spiritual version of "House".

I prefer this place, myself.
http://www.venganza.org/
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

I was planning on starting the Church of the Golden Fleece, whose primary tenet would be that members get into Heaven by sending me money, but then I realized Pat Robertson had beaten me to it.

It was probably an opium induced nightmare from Lovecraft that made the flying spaghetti monster into Cthulhu, wot?
Suddenly, everything makes sense. Excuse me, I have to go out and order my most holy of holies, the Necronomicon, 2day.

And Neo rocks.

Naj.

A cinematic retelling of the christ myth, come full circle.
Neat. Neat and stupid.

Is there a religion based on Pokemon yet? Pokemonism?

There is now. Lay down some ground rules for us. Like, instead of Amen you chant Ash-Ketchum. You get the idea.

No, but the behavior of the teenyboppers and pre-teens obsessed with Pokemon is indistinguishable from religious fervor.

I'm pretty sure MindonFire might provide some thoughtful insights for this new religion. He seems to have profound ideas, and is furthermore very capable in rehashing otherwise sensible words into something that sounds terribly familiar to what the preachers in church used to put me to sleep with.

Re: Matrixism ~ a religion based on the movie The Matrix


Oh good, a religion based on buff women in tight leather suits. We needed that.

Nimoy speaks on Spock,religion

By Carrie Luria
Daily Staff Reporter

Trekkies and members of the Jewish community packed the floor of Hill Auditorium last night to hear about "Spock in the Diaspora."Actor Leonard Nimoy spoke about his life, his career and how his Jewish identity is represented in the characters he plays."I carry Jewishness with me, and it does enter the character," Nimoy said. "Spock is the classic Diaspora character. He is not entirely at home with the Vulcans nor with the humans."

Nimoy also talked about his childhood influences and how they have affected his life. "My parents were very responsible people. They encouraged me to live an ethical life," Nimoy said. Nimoy said his first performance outside of children's theater was an enlightening experience.

"This play illuminated humanity better than I ever thought possible," Nimoy said about the role he played in the play "Awake and Sing" when he was 17 years old. He said it was easy to portray the play's character, Ralphie, because he was so much like himself.

"Ralphie was experiencing the same frustrations, fears, and hopes that I felt," Nimoy said. Anthony Scaglione, chair of the Hillel Governing Association, said he found Nimoy's comparisons valid and interesting.
"I think the talk really enlightened the crowd about the intricacies of Spock and how some of those intricacies are revealed in his Jewish tradition," Scaglione said.

Nimoy said the re-occurring theme of the importance of honor attracted him to the role of Spock. "I knew this would be a character of great dignity," Nimoy said. Nimoy said Spock's ongoing internal conflict made the character interesting. "Humans have emotions and are emotional. Vulcans have emotion and are not emotional," Nimoy said. "Spock had to find his own identity."

Nimoy gave the example of the famous Vulcan hand-greeting as a detail of Vulcans he extracted from the Jewish religion. "It is the hand gesture the rabbi gives at the moment when everyone is supposed to be looking down and the spirit of God is about to enter the sanctuary," Nimoy said.
Students said they were fascinated by this relationship between the Jewish religion and the Vulcan symbol. "It's something that I don't think many people know about," said LSA first-year student Elana Levine.

Many in the crowd were noticeably awestruck by Nimoy's presence. "It was interesting because people follow Star Trek like a religion," said Rabbi Rich Kirschen said. "People name their children after Star Trek."
After his speech, Nimoy answered questions, which turned into a Star Trek forum. "People were offering gifts and asking for birthday wishes," Scaglione said.

"I really wanted to hear him talk about the Ferengi," English Prof. Michael Szalay said, referring to the alien species from Star Trek.
http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1997/jan/01-30-97/news/news4.html

I wasn't sure whether it was Marcism or Nazism that was the inspiration for the government in "Metropolis' or merciless Capitalism. Gee, you don't suppose they aren't as far apart as we wish -- just an illusion?

Chumly, it might interest you to know (in light of what you most recently posted) that the word "Ferengi" is from the Turkish. The Arabs referred to the Crusaders as "the Franj," a corruption of the word Frank. The Turks rendered that as "Ferengi," and later, came to associate it with syphillis, as they considered christian Europeans to be the source of that disease.

I'm going to be forming the Divine Enlightened Church of Scarlett Johansson. The goal of this church will be for me to achieve heavenly transformation by getting her in the sack.

Donations gladly accepted. Cash only.

Yo blacksmithn, all the best to ya. Just make sure them heavenly transformations don't wind up becoming divine retributions, that's all.

Believe it or not. The trilogy The Matrix is entirely based upon eastern "religions" like buddhism and hinduism.

To call matrixism a religion unto itself is the same as if I were to translate shakespeare from english to norwegian, then back to english and call it a brand new work of art.

its really the same as anyother religion, its just open to a little more abuse and anime jokes.