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The fish clearly disagrees. He can barely contain himself.
Man, God, Man, God, Man, God . . . Turtles all the way down.
I have not watched the video, but I have wondered that many times.
Another way of saying it might be, we are watching a movie.
Basically our body is a collection of spinning atoms. Those same atoms have been around…..well since the beginning…whenever that was? These atoms create molecules that create structures on and on until you have this collection of spinning atoms which is our body. This body is literally in a ‘soup’ of spinning atoms, the colorless odorless air that surrounds us is Oxygen, Nitrogen etc. The keyboard I’m pecking away at…all spinning atoms… My noon meal… another bunch of spinning atoms that previous was a egg from a chicken…bread from wheat…all spinning atoms…atoms continuously recycled….. just into another form.
Beyond belief that this all occurred by chance. Could a program be written whereby all of this..is planned? ….a script??..Well probably …Yes
It all comes down to no beginning. Infinity is not within anyone’s imagination. Who/What programmed the programmer? What does an expanding universe expand into? Why’d it begin, where’s it going?
“Is the universe friendly?” –Einstein
But , some of those spinning atoms become self aware, and there’s the kicker.
Bible describes the universe as a vault.
https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/earth-vault-of-the/
Could be.
Like fish in a lake, we can’t perceive the world outside of the lake in which we live, We cant explain how our world began, only that it is. I don’t personally believe in extra terrestrial life, I could be convinced easily of extra dimension life though.
Could it be that for a fish in a lake, humans are an alien species that come from some other world they can’t perceive due to the confines of their existence.
Is there a Fourth or more dimensions that we like the fish can’t perceive due to the confines of our existence? If so, are those who are on the outside of our dimension capable of peering into our world and even able to interact with it. Alien theorist say yes.
Let me drop a tab of acid and watch again. I have no fking idea what he’s talking about, and I even slowed it down to .75 speed because he speaks so fast.
Tonight take a break and read this short story by Philip K Dick about this man who finds out he is really an android.
“The Electric Ant” Free PDF
Site is safe:
https://archive.org/details/PhilipK.DickTheElectricAnt
The Street That Wasn’t There…this is how it really ends.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22218/22218-h/22218-h.htm
Man that was good, thanks.
Wonder where the ability to write like that has gone?
Another story along the same lines, not as good as yours but great never less.
‘Eight O’clock In The Morning.’ by Ray Nelson.
https://pvto.weebly.com/uploads/9/1/5/0/91508780/eight_o%E2%80%99clock_in_the_morning-nelson.pdf
Simak was a master of science fiction. I’m surprised he isn’t better know. Archives.org has a lot of his stuff for download.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_D._Simak
ha ha ha..
So that’s the source of material for They Live.
Thanks. I’ll look more Ray Nelson’s work.
This was a mind blowing piece…
WHAT IF THIS IS ALL A SIMULATION?
What if it’s not?
Pascal’s Wager comes to mind.
Place yer bets…
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/
According to Hardbabble everything is a simulation and/or a made up story… except maple syrup that comes from a tree.
“Were you there when the big bang happened? Then how do YOU KNOW it’s true?”
Hold your tongue Sir, or my friends the” Woolsacks” will pay you a visit.
I just want the Monkey….
It’s the sap, stupid!
Unless you are one.
It’s not evidence of anything.
Our perception of reality is defined by our current level of scientific knowledge. Ascribing unexplained events to supernatural or extraterrestrial forces isn’t the answer.
I’ve always laughed at the virtual world concept. A hologram is the most advanced artificial construct tech we have now but if some advanced being created the universe including clown world Earth some 13 billion years ago it wouldn’t be a hologram. Imagine (impossible I know) a species 13 billion years+ more advanced than yourself.
We went from computer”pong” to “indistinguishable from reality”(whatever that is) in 40 years.
Not even a blink of an eye in comparison.
Do you seriously think they’d be using holograms? Even “solid holograms” as they’d have to be.
They would have a total knowledge of everything. They could literally create a physical universe, creating all known particles at will.
Don’t let the light particles know they’re being watched. I can just see that advanced species going ” Damn!. They’ve discovered us!”
Ummm…13 billion years, total grasp of physics and everything…won’t happen.
Maybe the universe is just a lab experiment or toy for a hyper-advanced race, maybe it isn’t.
The only thing we do know for certain is that liberals are crazy.😉
If we are in a simulation, I would like to ask the programmers to create me a harem consisting of Rachel McAdams, Nina Dobrev, Miranda Kerr, Melissa Benoist, Rachel Cook, Morena Baccarin, Victoria Justice, and Natalie Portman. Thank you.
Anyone who recognizes any of those names spends way too much time with the dick in their hands. I would think.
Once you learn to benefit from the simulation you will find it more beneficial and interesting.
BobP seems to understand how the entertainment plane works. There are pitfalls, front running is advised.
I few years ago I figured the only way to explain the craziness happening is that we must be in a simulation. I can imagine the guys (i.e, maybe God) playing a few games and deciding to give us a President with dementia who stays in his basement and doesn’t campaign. I have no other way to explain how he is President other than the gamer having fun with us.
Then they decide to throw in a virus that is slightly worst than the flu. They lockdown the world and force everyone to take an experimental vaccine that is more risky than the freakin’ flu. This shit can’t be for real. Someone is playing with us.
You are right. As we are surrounded by layer after layer of lies, our world is a simulation. But it’s a simulation happening in reality.
The ramifications and implications of an enormous amount of indisputable inconvenient facts concerning the simulated nature of reality are quite further developed already past this pretty well put together assimilation of many of the foundational concepts. Seems to be gaining steam too.
Lots of autopilot dismissal and ridicule here out of the box with some trying to tap them on the shoulder.
Why aren’t the auto-dismissers no different than how a Karen affects us who goes into autopilot dismissal and ridicule about a subject s/he knows nothing about… but feels the need to imply that s/he has no interest whatsoever in learning what a great variety of intelligent people find worthwhile and important?
Admin, I appreciate articles that poke people in their comfort zone like this far more than the political doom and bluster you seem to feel this community expects you to feed them with primarily, but more than half the reactions on this thread tell me I could be wrong to be bugging you to evolve and quit reprinting even anything half awake. You must be getting most of your support money from the doom and bluster addicts with rebellious minds, so be it. But maybe I’m right and your community is waning because it’s spinning in place -that the high repeat of hopelessly half woke pundits and gloom and doom headlines is getting old and many people would much prefer the stimulation of a community discussing more thought provoking/forward thinking subjects.
It is surmised by some physicists that the universe is actually a giant quantum computer. That would then imply that our world is part of a highly sophisticated and powerful quantum simulation. This is not the same as a digital computer simulation some of which have become highly sophisticated. A universal quantum computer would be so many orders of power and complexity greater than a digital computer simulation that it is not even worth discussing. We cannot imagine the power behind such a ‘program.’ However if it is true that we are part of a quantum simulation then we would need to ask the question ‘who programmed it?’ and where did they or it come from?
Looks like many are getting hooked by the transhumanist religion. New but old.
I had a bookmark on Sentient World Simulation which now shows 404. Here’s the guy though. Look at what he’s been working on.
https://krannert.purdue.edu/faculty/alok/alok%20vita%203-12-2016.pdf
This one shows the article link that is now 404. Second one down.
https://krannert.purdue.edu/academics/MIS/workshop/archive/06f.php
https://krannert.purdue.edu/faculty/alok/biography.php
…is the technical lead for US Department of Defense’s Sentient World Simulation project. Dr. Chaturvedi is the founding Director of Purdue Homeland Security Institute and has also served as an Adjunct Research Staff Member at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), Alexandria, Virginia – a leading think tank on national and homeland securities matters. He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems and Computer Science …
Is there anything more amusing than to have a guy named Chaturvedi working for National & Homeland security matters for a country that is not India?
I believe this will address the topic although it will not resolve the answer.
Thanks for the intro to his site. It has been a respite from what’s been going on.