The red pill and the blue pill are symbols representing the choice between embracing the uknown truth of reality (red pill) and continuing the safe life in illusion (blue pill).

The terms are derived from the 1999 movie The Matrix.[video] The dilemma can also be found in other sci-fi works, e.g. in the 1990 movie Total Recall, or the comedy-drama The Truman Show. More: en.wikipedia.org.

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User voted Blue pill.
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Dec 8, 2015

Blue Pill. Taking the Red Pill doesn't makes you smarter or more likely to achieve your goals. And taking the Blue Pill doesn't stop you from learning and knowing, it just means that you're not chasing what's beyond knowledge all the time.

In other words, your life can be given more meaning through the achievement of goals in the Blue Pill than in the Red Pill, specially if you live among other Blue Pilled beings who make the "illusion" a reality by shared existence.

Through the Blue Pill, you can focus more on your own development and enhancement of life quality, which can lead you to become a more complete person than what you might or might not be taking the Red Pill, which only grants you access to "true" knowledge, but doesn't ensures you can understand it or even use it at all.

Maybe Red Pill should only be taken by people who have had extensive training in living their lives through the Red Pill? And the rest of us could live Blue-pilled, doing the best we can to keep the Illusion afloat (given that reality is harsh and nightmare-inducing on its own) and developing at our own pace?

Wait, isn't this the standard model of politics?

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Sep 28, 2015

Red pill.

The only life that matters is one based on truth.

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Dec 22, 2015

i'll choose red because I like blue

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Feb 19, 2016

Red pill, dang it, It will be more INTERESTING. I'd rather die defending my home Zion and my loved ones instead of die like a pusillanimous in a boring tube.

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User voted Red pill.
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Nov 27, 2016

What if I took both?

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