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Human nature. Absolutely remarkable. What an incredibly remarkable phenomenon. Excuse me if I call my sense of wonder and awe, “God”. Pre-modernistic language, for a time when humans were more in tune with their own humanity.

Humanity hurts, and is suffering, for one reason, and one reason only. We are unable to communicate. Communication is key to world peace.

I have thought long and hard, and grappled with God, grappled with the very nature of man, grappled with the most fundamental problem on this planet. And I have seen the light, I have seen the solution.

And here is my conceit: my biggest sin, the exact same sin that Richard Dawkins committed: I immediately think everyone else can be right here, where I am, where everything makes sense and I can sit back and laugh. And I wanted to fix things, right now, right here.

Moron! (Me, that is.) I have been blinded by my own passion.

The journey to world peace is a long and arduous one. The path we must follow, is not quite visible. Together we hack out that path. Together we find the future. If we don’t kill each other.

A short discussion with another human, made me see how deep the problem lies. I understand Richard Dawkins’ sentiments completely. But he doesn’t understand the sentiments of fundamentalistic belief. Which I do. As I have seen and experienced both worlds. How utterly remarkable.

Now I revisit The Matrix Revolutions. Now I understand exactly what Neo went through. That choice. That understanding. That understanding of the previous iteration, the previous loop. And I can make that exact same choice, and we can repeat history. But why? We know that the previous iteration was unsuccessful. The new iteration must be different.

The first coming? The first coming was misunderstood by the people of the time. Jesus was a visionary philosopher, and he changed the world. For a moment. And then human nature sucked us back into the vortex. The second coming? The second coming will be missed, yet again, by many. Because of that very fact, it will look completely different. It will astound you. If you choose to see it.

And this then, is what Jesus taught. The Matrix, the Kingdom, it is something within you. And Jesus understood that you cannot be told what The Matrix is. You have to experience it to understand it. You have to choose to see it.

I have a choice: I can try to demonstrate The Matrix, I can demonstrate where it’s at, that you can feel it, can understand it yourself. Or I can tell you what it is, and you will sit back and think “wtf?” The experience, that one is the one I suggest. That is the one I will strive towards.

What to do with the atheists? I dunno. We don’t know what the future holds, but it will be exhilarating. I ask only one thing from you, my audience: accept and believe that I have a piece of knowledge, a realisation, an enlightenment, I have broken through. Accept this fact, and I could maybe help you break through as well. If we argue about this fact, I will often look stupid. Why will I look stupid? Because you have too much baggage and you cannot see. You have crusts over your eyes.

I could turn the world around my finger. I could fight fire with fire, and become the new fire. Or I can try something new. I can try ice. Fight fire with ice, may the fires of hell freeze over.

Come, follow me, I will make you fishers of men. It is not a moment, salvation does not occur in an instant. Salvation is a journey, an experience. And my heart goes out to the atheists, for they have noticed all is not right with the way the world is ticking, and they want to know what is going on. They want to understand. I call you, fellow atheist, to follow me. For I am an atheist, I am a Christian, I am a Muslim, I am a Buddhist, I am a Hindu, I am a pagan. I am a human. And what a ride this will be.

Just know this: Neo is not one person. Neo is a concept. A movement. Neo is many, many people.