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19 Mar 2025, 9:51 am

If we are, at least that would give me hope that my life could be reset. I could relive my life over again, and maybe this time I can have a girlfriend, or a family, or achieve financial success, or start a digital nomad career in my 20s. Basically, not be a complete total f**king loser by my 40s.

Problem is, I know there is no evidence for the simulation. It is just an unfalsifiable proposition, like any religion. I can't put my hope in something like that.



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19 Mar 2025, 10:30 am

Sometimes I think that God is a kid playing SIM Universe. When his mother tells him it's time to come downstairs and eat dinner the simulation will be turned off.


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19 Mar 2025, 1:13 pm

RetroGamer87 wrote:
Sometimes I think that God is a kid playing SIM Universe. When his mother tells him it's time to come downstairs and eat dinner the simulation will be turned off.


And when is that? I have over 40 years of memories, and there is ample evidence the world existed long before me.



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19 Mar 2025, 2:51 pm

Nightwing82 wrote:
If we are, at least that would give me hope that my life could be reset. I could relive my life over again, and maybe this time I can have a girlfriend, or a family, or achieve financial success, or start a digital nomad career in my 20s. Basically, not be a complete total f**king loser by my 40s.

Problem is, I know there is no evidence for the simulation. It is just an unfalsifiable proposition, like any religion. I can't put my hope in something like that.


If I live in a simulation why would you draw attention to this by your question?


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19 Mar 2025, 3:21 pm

Maybe the simulation decided it's time for you to know about it.



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19 Mar 2025, 4:06 pm

Nightwing82 wrote:
If we are, at least that would give me hope that my life could be reset. I could relive my life over again, and maybe this time I can have a girlfriend, or a family, or achieve financial success, or start a digital nomad career in my 20s. Basically, not be a complete total f**king loser by my 40s.

Problem is, I know there is no evidence for the simulation. It is just an unfalsifiable proposition, like any religion. I can't put my hope in something like that.


At the end of our simulation I hope that it’s truly the end or that we evolve to a life of our own choosing.

Or a life of ghosting others. :)



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19 Mar 2025, 4:19 pm

Funny how people who think they're in a simulation always seem to believe everyone else is an NPC and not them, they're the playable character.



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19 Mar 2025, 4:21 pm

Nightwing82 wrote:
Maybe the simulation decided it's time for you to know about it.

And that simulation would be you, then? :wink:


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19 Mar 2025, 5:00 pm

lostonearth35 wrote:
Funny how people who think they're in a simulation always seem to believe everyone else is an NPC and not them, they're the playable character.


We are all puppets in one way or another.

Which explains why life is so weird.

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19 Mar 2025, 6:20 pm

lostonearth35 wrote:
Funny how people who think they're in a simulation always seem to believe everyone else is an NPC and not them, they're the playable character.


I never made any such assumptions.

BillyTree wrote:
Nightwing82 wrote:
Maybe the simulation decided it's time for you to know about it.

And that simulation would be you, then? :wink:


I could just be part of the simulation - an NPC as lostonearth35 put it - whose only purpose is to "awaken" you when the time is right. In fact, this post could be generated directly by the simulation for that very purpose.



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20 Mar 2025, 12:54 pm

Nightwing82 wrote:
lostonearth35 wrote:
Funny how people who think they're in a simulation always seem to believe everyone else is an NPC and not them, they're the playable character.


I never made any such assumptions.

BillyTree wrote:
Nightwing82 wrote:
Maybe the simulation decided it's time for you to know about it.

And that simulation would be you, then? :wink:


I could just be part of the simulation - an NPC as lostonearth35 put it - whose only purpose is to "awaken" you when the time is right. In fact, this post could be generated directly by the simulation for that very purpose.

My point is that you would know whether that is the case or not.


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20 Mar 2025, 1:24 pm

lostonearth35 wrote:
Funny how people who think they're in a simulation always seem to believe everyone else is an NPC and not them, they're the playable character.


I think this observation applies a lot more to people who throw around the term NPC rather than just people who believe we might be in a simulation.

Of course, a portion of people who view everyone around them as NPCs also believe we're in a simulation, but the two circles don't completely overlap.


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20 Mar 2025, 3:09 pm

The more I hear about Simulation Theory, the more it makes sense...especially how similar it is to reincarnation stories of the afterlife.
But it still doesn't answer the question of "who made us and why are we here?"
And if God made us, who made God?
etc. etc.
Just tiny atoms under the thumbnail of a giant inside of a universe that is a tiny atom under the thumbnail of another giant inside of........ (or however the saying goes)

We just wake up from this simulation and find ourselves inside of a greater reality. Much like reincarnation.

And then ~ten years later, we find ourselves back in this "simulation" trying to reach a higher plane.

Nightwing82 wrote:
And when is that? I have over 40 years of memories, and there is ample evidence the world existed long before me.

The simple answer is that the simulation has been running for thousands of years (at least).
It doesn't stop when you leave, it's like a virtual reality MMO server.


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23 Mar 2025, 9:15 am

SabbraCadabra wrote:
The more I hear about Simulation Theory, the more it makes sense...especially how similar it is to reincarnation stories of the afterlife.
But it still doesn't answer the question of "who made us and why are we here?"
And if God made us, who made God?
etc. etc.
Just tiny atoms under the thumbnail of a giant inside of a universe that is a tiny atom under the thumbnail of another giant inside of........ (or however the saying goes)

We just wake up from this simulation and find ourselves inside of a greater reality. Much like reincarnation.

And then ~ten years later, we find ourselves back in this "simulation" trying to reach a higher plane.

Nightwing82 wrote:
And when is that? I have over 40 years of memories, and there is ample evidence the world existed long before me.

The simple answer is that the simulation has been running for thousands of years (at least).
It doesn't stop when you leave, it's like a virtual reality MMO server.


I said that in response to RetroGamer's post that the simulation is just a game some kid is playing. Does this kid only get called to dinner every several thousand years?