The matrix is the ego which is fueled by the illusion of separation.  Oneness is the underlying reality of all that is.  When we remove the specific nomenclature, the bread crumbs to freedom can be seen in most religious narratives and myths.

I'm saying that what I'm saying is beyond saying :)

**Sigh** I wish for once that someone can finally say or explain what is beyond saying. 

:)

This post is great Venkman.

"So powerful is this urge to explain our existence, so powerful is our quest for meaning that it sort of like me when I am very frustrated with not finding a solution to a problem..."

I think the "urge" you refer to is a mental trap. 

Whether prophet or nihilist,  talk like this is just birds singing--singing for the negative or the affirmative, it's all singing.)  No matter how beautiful the song, a caged bird is a caged bird. 

I like to hear the birds sing though :)

 

Darren you give me more credit than I actually deserve.. see anything I say might sound meaningful :P

(hoo.. second time on the soap box .. yeow! keep them tomatoes coming..)

I refer to our innate curiosity, our desire to explain everything, our desire to make sure a square has four equal sides and no more and no less. Well that desire is set into us from birth, from a 2 year old that just found out that things pushed off the table fall - and is so excited by this that now he/she tries to push every object off the table, chairs etc etc, to see if it *all* falls, thereby forming a link or a solution : things fall, no matter where they are, if nothing is between them and the ground - they fall (newton went several hundred miles further with moon falling, clever dude)

So, this urge and powerful urge are nearly evolutionary, something we can't remove. Its like the love of fatty foods, millions of years of honing of our digestive systems and desire to stay alive have made us magnets for high fat food. Smell of butter, aroma of fatty foods drives us crazy with need to eat. And similarly so is our urge to discover, explain and resolve.

Also, from birth we notice a pattern.. crib's good, hey, looky looky, there's a world outside the crib.. outside the crib's good, hey, there's a garden, a world outside the house, this is cool too, and so on and so forth. Now we are doing the same thing, well hoping there is a world outside our  existence.

But I am curious, so very curious, to know, what if there is absolutely nada, zip, zilch, you are just about as important as that rock, mud, ants etc. And, somehow there was some proof of that. You die and that's it, poof, no more.

Now, what?
(walks around with a toga and an "end is near" sign)

Thisi is such a profond chain, but I had to chime in my two cents worth.
Specifically to Black's statement,

"But ye are "gods'" because there is a portion of the divine being in us all. When we surrender that divinity to sin {SELF-INFLICTED-NONSENSE}, WE ARE GIVING AWAY  THAT PORTION THAT IS HIDDEN IN OUR SOULS{hearts}."

So my question is....
Can we truly 'give away' the very essence and core of our being?  When it is said that we were 'made in His image'  (we won't even fo down the whole 'gender role' road in traditional scripture today) is that not a reference to this Divine Spirit that was imbued in each of us? If so, is it truly possible to exist without that portion of our beings. Can it be given away? Or rather is it more likely that we simply have CHOSEN to NOT ACKNOWLEDGE the God and the Good within us, but that the Divine is always with us and fully present at whatever point we choose to once again acknowledge what is our Spiritual birthright?

Ultimately, we are all on our own paths to God, to enlightenment, to spiritual fulfillment.  Whether that comes in the form of finding all of our beliefs were true or that we functioned based on fallicies our entire lives, is that the all important point or does the value in life lie in being happy and content with whatever small way we changed the world through our individual lives for whatever reason may have motivated us.

Oh....to Tam's point, another cinematic moment that reminds me of the Twilight Zone that you are speaking of is at the end of Men In Black when we see that our entire universe is merely a single marble in a game that none of us ever even see.

Great blog chain Tam!

There you go Black!