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Poll: The Red Pill or the Blue Pill? (18 member(s) have cast votes)

Which pill would you take?

  1. Red – fluent in every spoken language (11 votes [61.11%])

    Percentage of vote: 61.11%

  2. Blue – master every musical instrument (7 votes [38.89%])

    Percentage of vote: 38.89%

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Posted 30 June 2014 - 08:46 PM

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Posted 30 June 2014 - 08:53 PM

I love music, and I would love to be able to play music. However, I still chose language: the ability to communicate is the cornerstone of human society, and, much as I would love to be able to create music, the ability to expand my ability to communicate to include everyone, to be able to learn from and teach to the entire world? That's something that I find impossible to pass up.

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Posted 30 June 2014 - 09:08 PM

I was thinking along those lines, but I chose blue because of the way my brain is "wired." I think if I sat down and focused, I could learn a new language. There are only a few languages though that I'd be interested in actually getting any use out of, mainly in the form of visiting another country and being able to get by on my own. Musical instruments on the other hand I'd get much broader use out of, I'd love to learn piano and violin and melodica/melodion etc. The problem I have with instruments is that my brain is wired to have a much easier time playing "by ear" than by actually learning to read music for a given instrument. With something like the trumpet, which I played in high school, this wasn't a problem. There are only three valves and only six combinations that are actually relevant. For something like saxophone or violin or piano though, it causes great difficulty. When I tried to learn to play the piano a few years back, I was stuck at a beginners level because my brain didn't want to process the sheet music and I also had trouble getting my hands to process their own different requirements as far as positioning and timing.



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Posted 30 June 2014 - 09:32 PM

I wish I could language every language. 



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Posted 30 June 2014 - 09:59 PM

Yeah, I'd find red considerably more helpful overall, and I'm quite bad at learning languages. I can play a few instruments on a pretty average level, and while it'd be nice to be awesome at all of them... Yeah, language is the way to go.



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Posted 02 July 2014 - 01:09 AM

I like music, but I love languages. Also communicating with everyone is a big thing for me and drives me to want to learn languages.

 

That said music is important to me, but I don't need to know how to play it all. :P



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Posted 02 July 2014 - 01:48 AM

Does the Blue Pill include air guitar? That's a dealbreaker for me.



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Posted 02 July 2014 - 10:58 PM

I wish I could language every language. 

 

Let's start with English.



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Posted 02 July 2014 - 11:03 PM

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Very well.

 

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Posted 03 July 2014 - 10:13 AM

Don't tell me what to do.

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Posted 06 July 2014 - 12:07 AM

"Red pill and blue pill
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The red pill and its opposite, the blue pill, are pop culture symbols representing the choice between embracing the sometimes painful truth of reality (red pill) and the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue pill)."

Isn't it obvious?

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Posted 06 July 2014 - 07:06 AM

Clearly Red Pill :3



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Posted 07 July 2014 - 09:23 AM

"Red pill and blue pill
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The red pill and its opposite, the blue pill, are pop culture symbols representing the choice between embracing the sometimes painful truth of reality (red pill) and the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue pill)."

Isn't it obvious?

 

I'll blissful ignorance, please.  With an extra helping of rich and famous.



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Posted 07 July 2014 - 07:21 PM

God damn you Cypher!



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Posted 07 July 2014 - 08:13 PM

I know it's not a steak, but it sure tastes good!



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Posted 07 July 2014 - 08:19 PM

Can you blame him? He just wants to be someone important... like an actor (on a fake radio show that is totally real).



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Posted 07 July 2014 - 09:24 PM

But he can have super powers and run up walls and kick people in the face and take multiple impacts to the skull without accruing brain damage and stuff.

 

Also the sweet threads. And sunglasses. Sooooo cooooool~



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Posted 08 July 2014 - 04:06 AM

Even still, he's choosing it in one go. To be cast into "ignorance" as bliss, but with a promise. The matrix can make him someone 'important'. He can have little thoughts, and idle cares. I don't know if that's the same as not knowing how the world works, and being beaten down by it. Having to fight to continue.

Even still... ignorance as bliss is nice, but I really dislike ignorance, and believe the truth is always best.

I can lie to myself, or I can be mature enough to reason through things/just enjoy or live subjectively, but I still want to know. The desire burns. I'd give up the bliss for the knowledge. If I was given the choice.

I don't see any other way you could choose. It's like you're given a chance at empowerment. You're not beaten down, in the mud begging for ignorance, but rather at the threshold, able to reach out and grab it. Grab the red pill. See reality.

The ultimate prize. Ultimate being. No matter how bad... how bad can it be? I have to know.

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Posted 08 July 2014 - 11:30 AM

But what if that knowledge is simply that you are a powerless pawn and nothing you can do will ever change it?



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Posted 08 July 2014 - 03:12 PM

What if the Matrix, was a Matrix within a Matrix?



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