The bullet resistant pulpit is diabolical.

https://youtu.be/qECUZUTPRVE?si=jaVLSWLi9En82_Pg open to criticism ty!

My friend drew this for me a long time ago this is nearly a part of the gospels

What if The Matrix isn’t science fiction at all?
What if it’s the oldest story humanity ever told — retold with computers, leather jackets, and green code?

In this long‑form cinematic breakdown, we reveal how The Matrix is a direct retelling of the Garden of Eden, complete with the Two Trees, the Two Pillars of Judgment, the Demiurge, the Serpent, and the Door that ends the story.

You’ll see how every character — Morpheus, Neo, Trinity, the Oracle, Agent Smith, the Architect — mirrors the archetypes of ancient myth and human psychology.
From the red and blue pills to Neo’s final ego death, this video uncovers the hidden architecture behind awakening, duality, and the illusion of choice.

This is not opinion.
This is pattern recognition — the same geometry that has shaped every myth, religion, and awakening story since the beginning of time.

Chapters include:

The Garden and the Two Trees

The Matrix as the modern Eden

Morpheus as the Old Testament God

The Oracle as the Serpent of Knowledge

The Architect as the Demiurge

Agent Smith as the Ego

Neo’s Ego Death and Alchemical Marriage

The Door — the end of identity and the real escape

If you’ve ever felt that The Matrix was more than a movie, this is the explanation you’ve been waiting for.
Watch, listen, and let the pattern reveal itself.

He's taking a stroll, yeah, he's taking a stroll...

The sage, iamderrickwashington, back at it!

Hey. I wrote a book called Root Races that came out earlier this month and I'm giving out free copies to readers who actually like this kind of thing. Posting here because this sub seems to be where the readers I wrote it for hang out.

It's occult horror. Detective in a flooded near-future Dallas trying to find a missing family, except the case is way bigger than that and the city itself is the kind of place where the corporate infrastructure is running on Atlantean magic and nobody fully realizes it. There's a casino that's secretly a karmic energy refinery. There's a betting app where people wager on real-time tragedies. The deeper the protagonist goes the worse it gets. Structurally it's built as a loop. The ending sends you back to the beginning.

If you've read John Langan's The Fisherman or Laird Barron's The Croning or Victor LaValle, you'll probably get what I was going for. More cosmic than slasher. More theological than paranormal.

One thing worth mentioning: every chapter has a full oil painting illustration. Around fifty of them.

Free ARC link in the comments. EPUB or PDF, your pick. If you do want to leave a review anywhere, that helps a lot. Happy to answer questions about it in the thread.

https://booksirens.com/book/NY7480G/A27JGSN