I definitely have my own unique style as well. I’ll wear crazy stuff to work. I didn’t at first, because we were told to dress business casual, but almost everyone wears jeans. I’ll usually wear a dress and a bright pair of crazy tights or jeans and a funky shirt. My style goes well with my crazy office: http://www.silvercpu.com/gallery/00-single/house-and-office-029.jpg. They tend to keep the fun people around. I’ve found it’s better to be liked there than to be talented. If you’re liked, people think you’re talented.

- not something i thought you could apply to video either!

I’m into fashion and beauty and I would call myself an impulse shopper. I’m not too obsessed about it though! I would easily walk out the house in jeans, t shirt and no make up!

Answering your qns…

Practical but impulse shopper.
No style is my style. Tshirts are my daily best friends.
Hates make up cos I hate process of removing it thoroughly. But I fully concur that with the right make up, it’ll totally change the person’s confidence and look.

Don’t discard your need for having read what you did to come to your conclusions. But unless you had proper guidance, I doubt you understood what you read back then. (Myself, I read the classics from the age of 14. 7 years later I understood that I had to re-read everything I had ever read. My professor is among the brightest men in the world.)

Don’t take it the wrong way. I’m an academic philosopher and I have strong objections to lay reading of highly specialized material. It is detrimental to the science of philosophy and can be damaging to the individual (most notably killers/self-killers who misinterpret Nietzschean existentialism for instance, but there are far more subtler damages too such as depression, unhappiness and lives lost to futility).

Philosophy permeates our society, its building blocks and our everyday speech, thought and activity. If you allow me poetry; Most people just don’t know that they’re already in the Matrix, nor that they continuously re-create it in every instance from birth to grave. You are the Matrix. Any Matrix external to ourselves is rather pointless and wholly irrelevant. Unfortunately the writers did not look so far..

Nor do they seem to realize that Keanu Reeves is a horrible actor. How about a re-make of the original Matrix with Klaus Kinski as Neo? I would have loved to see that.

Also, choice isn’t free will. Choice is simply will, a decision given a set of circumstances – something like deciding between the blue pill and the red pill. Nobody ever guaranteed that choices had to be free of constraint. It was simply an assumption that people had. In life, most of the time, you make choices because of constraints. To give the idea more tangibility, if I had all the money in the world, I wouldn’t have to choose between an iPhone and an Android phone. I have no financial constraints and I can’t or don’t want to make the active decision so I’ll just buy both.

And on the deterministic aspect on free will or choice, what Neo is saying is that it doesn’t matter whether your life is predetermined or not i.e. whether he was the One or not. What mattered most was that he chose and he believed and he followed through. That’s all there is to it.