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Last night I took my wife to Matrix Revolutions for our Friday night date (our kids' Mimi is visiting; we dumped them on her). Earlier this week I said I was disappointed that their wasn't a Matrix-in-a-Matrix and that the final was panned as resoundly that it was.

Did the panners SEE this movie? We thought it was great. Confusing to follow -- we purposefully had a movie and then dinner so we could talk about it -- but rewarding and satisfyingly concluding (the whole universe doesn't have to end just to provide closure, people).

The action was awesome, so was the passion and interpersonal storyline. Neo and Trinity, Morpheous and Nairobi (sp?), Link and his wife (names?), Morpheous and Neo and Oracle, Frenchman and his wife/trophy, Agent Smith and Neo, Oracle and Architect, and even Machines and Humanity. Character development was good, too: the young boy rescued by Neo, between I and II, who idolized Neo developed very well, for example.

At the point Neo made his bargain with the Machines and let Smith infect him I turned to my wife, who I met in a 2 year post-undergraduate degree Bible school, and said, "He who knew no sin became sin on our behalf..." (2 Cor 5:21a) and "God, sending His own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh" (Romans 8:3/partial): that is, Neo localized Agent Smith and, being physically plugged in, even though he could possibly make it into the Matrix without the plugs, he sacrificed himself to terminate the viral agent of death. BTW, If this doesn't sound familiar, look at this:

Although Christ did not have the sin of the flesh, He was crucified in the flesh (Col. 1:22; 1 Pet. 3:18). Thus, on the cross He judged Satan, who is related to the flesh, and the world, which hangs on him (John 12:31; 16:11), thereby destroying Satan (Heb. 2:14). At the same time, through Christ's crucifixion in the flesh, God condemned sin, which was brought by Satan into man's flesh. As a result, it is possible for us to walk not according to the flesh but according to the spirit that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us (v. 4).

And there was much other philosophical treats scattered throughout -- love and karma, just words but given meaning by what they are connected with (the latter so very relevant to Slashdotters, especially those remembering Signal11 and the karma whore wars... :-).

In short, once again I think reviews are useless (except in the case of Ben & JLo flicks) and I regret being influenced in the least by the nay-sayers. I think people pan movies like this just because its easier than admitting, "I need to see it again and ponder for a while what it all means."

Nice collection.

You might want to consider the translation these folks have done, too.

I'm all for an embedded RFID, as long as I don't have to worship someone to get it (you need to include verse 15, too):

• 14 Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
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  15 He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.
  16 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,
  17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
  18 This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.

Check out a great explanation of the beast and the number of the beast. Hint: it's a reference to Nero who was, was not, and will be.

I'm all for an embedded RFID, as long as I don't have to worship someone to get it (you need to include verse 15, too):

• 14 Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
• 
  15 He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.
  16 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,
  17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
  18 This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.

Check out a great explanation of the beast and the number of the beast. Hint: it's a reference to Nero who was, was not, and will be.

I'm all for an embedded RFID, as long as I don't have to worship someone to get it (you need to include verse 15, too):

• 14 Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
• 
  15 He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.
  16 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,
  17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
  18 This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.

Check out a great explanation of the beast and the number of the beast. Hint: it's a reference to Nero who was, was not, and will be.

I'm all for an embedded RFID, as long as I don't have to worship someone to get it (you need to include verse 15, too):

• 14 Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.
• 
  15 He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.
  16 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,
  17 so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
  18 This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.

Check out a great explanation of the beast and the number of the beast. Hint: it's a reference to Nero who was, was not, and will be.

• "Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin."

Um. Actually, Jesus *knows* you're garbage wrapped in skin and He *still* loves you enough to come, put on that skin, terminate it in Himself in His death, and raise you up with Him.

• 21 Him who did not know sin He made sin on our behalf that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

He took on the "skin" and terminate the garbage within so we'd be made the righteousness of God in Him. Not a bad trade.