I had a strange dream last night and I thought I'd share:
I was in a living room with a bearded burly guy. I seemed to know him in the dream but upon waking, I realized I don't. He handed me a beer with no label. Stupid as it sounds, he asked me, "If you could go back in time and kill Hitler...would you?"
I answered, "I guess. But, I'm pretty old and in terrible physical condition. I doubt I could. It might be a better question for someone younger and could speak German."
He laughed and said, "Isn't about killing Hitler. But why would you kill him?"
"Because he was evil."
"Correct answer. Let's move on. You follow Q to some extent, right?"
"Some. I have read the posts and keep waiting like everyone else."
"Exactly. Most people are 'watching the movie' so to speak. Waiting for the happy ending. So you are the audience, right?"
"I guess."
"You have heard Musk say that we are living in a computer simulation being played out far in the future? That none of this is real, right?"
"Yeah."
"What is a played computer simulation?"
"A video game."
"Sometimes multiple players and sometimes 2 players, right?"
"Yeah."
"Let's say 2 players named GOOD & EVIL."
"So is this a God and Satan thing?"
"I don't know. You ever play a video game where you encounter a wizard in a cave? Or some checkpost left to give you needed info?"
"I know the concept from games my son's have played."
"I'm kinda like that. An AI with limited info."
"So, you aren't real."
"Are you?"
Dreams are funny. I didn't answer, but I got his point.
He went on..."Back to killing Hitler because he was evil...try to answer this - what would EVIL do if they could change the past? Let's not talk of time, it isn't real either - WHAT WOULD EVIL DO TO CHANGE THE GAME?" He actually screamed that in my face."
"I guess eliminate characters that were good and who mattered to a positive ending of the game?"
"So, if EVIL did that, would you agree that many methods would be used?"
"Yeah."
"You are going to wake up soon. I want you to remember this last bit: The World Trade Center, abortion, disease, war, accidents, school shootings and many more including the trans movement change key points in the game as some important ideas never happen."
I woke up and decided to share...
Cripes... Which mod stickied this?? I want to thank them. This is great.
I've had several dreams (including one recently when I was really down with the flu, oh man, that was something awful) where you meet someone and you know—you've met them before. I had a dream where I suddenly woke up in this rather nice room, there were cabinets and cupboards, and I didn't know where I was, so I started opening all the doors and looking in all the cabinets. So this reptile-skinned, blue-skinned woman angrily bangs on the door and there's someone there who's in charge who won't let her in but she's yelling, "What's he doing awake? He's making noise! We need him to STOP!"
Great dream, OP, thanks for sharing
Interesting dream. Silent majority is making noise.
Respectfully, I disagree. Conceptually, this is very dangerous on this board. It proposes at a base level that reality is not real, and that life as we know it is truly meaningless. In reality, people are “unplugged” not unplugged. People are “asleep” not asleep. People are “awake” not awake. These are key differences and shouldn’t be understated. It violates the precepts of the scriptures, at best, it’s unfounded nonsense, at worst, a tactic used by the devil to drive a wedge between us. I don’t mean the OP is of the devil. I just mean that we must test every spirit against the Scriptures to see if they hold true. This violates that. It also violates the basic principle of life, the founding of our country, and the forward direction of our movement. If reality isn’t real, why do we do anything of value? That’s a sincere question, not being a smart @$$.
Hebrews 9:27-28
[27] And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, [28] so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
Just because it might not be 'real' doesn't necessarily follow it can't have meaning.
I've had emotional experiences and memories gained from playing games. Not as intense as my waking life, but they're there.
I believe we are here to learn and to take that learning into the next realm. As a concept, simulation theory adheres quite closely to the concept of an after life.
Yet the simulation idea devalues life. Maybe not for you specifically, but with all ideologies, you must take them to their logical ends. Then you can see if they are good or not. My problem with the simulation idea is this, Watch anyone play a game, there isn’t a high value placed on life… even if iron man-ing fit. Because you can always start over after having learned things you don’t know the first time.
Don’t get me wrong. I love gaming and agree totally with your sentiment of real emotions felt from gaming, being drawn in to the story etc. but there’s always that distinction in which the human heart is trying to blur. It’s up to the head and soul to maintain distinction from the real and not real.
I've had dreams/visions that seemed more real than this crazy shit-show. Every day the devs come up with some new thing that's so ludicrous it has to be fake.
I don't think life is game, but I don't think it's the realist thing in existence either.