or⋅a⋅cle –noun
1.
(esp. in ancient Greece) an utterance, often ambiguous or obscure, given by a priest or priestess at a shrine as the response of a god to an inquiry.
2.
the agency or medium giving such responses.
3.
a shrine or place at which such responses were given: the oracle of Apollo at Delphi.
4.
a person who delivers authoritative, wise, or highly regarded and influential pronouncements.
5.
a divine communication or revelation.
6.
any person or thing serving as an agency of divine communication.
7.
any utterance made or received as authoritative, extremely wise, or infallible.
8.
oracles, the Scriptures.
9.
the holy of holies of the Temple built by Solomon in Jerusalem. I Kings 6:16, 19–23.
so, if an oracle has to talk to god, does that mean there is a god or possibly multiple in the real world?
2 days ago
This might be true that there are Gods but that would also maybe imply that there are multiple levels of reality.
ReplyDeleteTwo of your definitions of Oracle don't relate to divinity. So an oracle clearly does not have to talk to god. The Oracle in the Matrix could simply be, "a person who delivers authoritative, wise, or highly regarded and influential pronouncements." This means that there does not have to be any god in the Matrix. That being said, there are and have been countless oracles in our world. With your logic, there would have to be at least one god in our world. However, the existence of god has still never been proven.
ReplyDeleteI think the oracle in the matrix is not so much, talking to god, but reading the program of the matrix, it is said that if you can know everything that is happening in the universe at once, you can predict exactly what will happen in the future, so if the oracle can read the entire matrix at once, she knows what will happen in it.
ReplyDeleteIt's not necessarily a god but rather a spiritual being. The Oracle could be consulting with the first "One" or another person who has a foresight from beyond.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Chris. Early in the movie, when Morpheus and trinity and everybody are talking to Neo through the computer before he got unplugged, they predicted the white rabbit and people knocking at the door. They were able to do this because they could read the matrix. I think that the oracle has a stronger ability to do what they did.
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