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The Matrix – Linear vs. Cyclic Reality We define the passage of time in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, millennia, and eons… but these are all linear. The Matrix: Reloaded puts forth a strong yet creative argument for the possibility of a cyclic universe. This theme is supported not only in the movie, but also in major world religions. Christianity, for example, speaks of a newly created Jerusalem (heavenly, Zion), of a ‘new heaven and new earth’, and a recreated universe. Other religions such as Hinduism bear this in the short-term with concepts of reincarnation and reciprocating karma. At any rate, it is impossible to deny the possibility that our universe is anything but linear. The Matrix puts forth several intriguing parallels to the Christian re-creation viewpoint. Names of the characters alone make this poignantly clear: Neo – ‘new’. Anderson – Germanic English gives us ‘man son’. Zion – the heavenly recreation of Jerusalem in Christianity. The parallels to a reconstructive universe are many and varied in The Matrix, but the new movie takes this theme to an entirely new level. On several occasions, Neo was seen to have abilities which were inexp