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Why would anyone be dismayed to learn we're in a simulation?
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Date: November 17th, 2018 11:25 AM Author: poppy library knife It's probably the most likely scenario in which we actually have immortality (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251037) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 11:26 AM Author: up-to-no-good house weed whacker hint: we don't have immortality (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251047) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 12:04 PM Author: poppy library knife If our minds/bodies are just programs, then the prospects for reincarnation, disembodied minds, etc all become more plausible (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251230) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 12:05 PM Author: Lascivious hospital Yep. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251234) |
Date: November 17th, 2018 11:26 AM Author: boyish dark reading party school cafeteria posters on XO get dismayed by all kinds of things. why stop there? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251044) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 12:37 PM Author: bossy judgmental legend Bc the glitches get annoying af (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251415) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 12:39 PM Author: Angry menage I agree. If you have an atheistic world view, a simulation is your only shot at an afterlife. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251421) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 12:47 PM Author: Lascivious hospital No. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251442) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 12:41 PM Author: alcoholic glittery university Given what we know about the intractability of the mind body problem it’s exceeeingly unlikely that we’re not in a simulation.
The only real point of contention is the nature of the person(s) running it |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 1:04 PM Author: bright aromatic patrolman I wouldn’t be surprised if we are in a simulation, but lol at calling yourself some big Godmo/orthodox type and then saying things like this.
How about you approach any Catholic priest, tell them it’s extremely unlikely we are not in a simulation, and then report back what they say? |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 1:06 PM Author: alcoholic glittery university I see no devaluation to gods work by referring to creation as a simulation. I’m a Protestant now, keep up. And I really don’t care what Catholics think. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251528) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 1:23 PM Author: bright aromatic patrolman What? Are you flame, or just extremely insecure in your beliefs?
When you were bashing Osteen before, I quoted the famed theologian John Frame, who defends and likes Osteen. You dismissed it on the grounds that he was a Protestant and all Protestants were somehow atheists.
Now, you’ve done a 180 in a matter of months, claim to be a Protestant, and assert it’s extremely unlikely we are not in a simulation (a position commonly advanced by atheists)? Lol, you are too funny. In any event, ask a Protestant religious leader aboit the simulation thing then and report back. |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 1:24 PM Author: alcoholic glittery university Not flame. Thanks man. I really like it here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251614) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 1:26 PM Author: bright aromatic patrolman You don’t see the intellectual weakness in blindly dismissing anything from the “atheist” Protestants, just months ago, to now blindly dismissing anything that Catholics have to say?
You seem incapable of dealing with cognitive dissonance. |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 1:31 PM Author: alcoholic glittery university I see no weakness in updating my belief software. I have no fidelity to blind rigor. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251648) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 1:32 PM Author: bright aromatic patrolman It’s the manner in which you blindly dismiss things that invoke cognitive dissonance, on spurious grounds.
In any event, now that you’ve gone from dismissing the “atheist” Protestants to claiming you are one of them, why don’t you revisit what your fellow team member John Frame has to say about Osteen? |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 1:36 PM Author: alcoholic glittery university Osteens defecit is caused by excess, emphasizing Christian values out of context. Frame see this and doesn’t care. I see it and think there’s room for improvement. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251671) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 1:39 PM Author: bright aromatic patrolman Room for improvement is dramatically scaled back from the “fraud” and “charlatan” accusations you used to throw around like candy.
Good. I guess as you update your belief systems, you are better seeing Osteen as well. |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 1:40 PM Author: alcoholic glittery university Orthodoxy is too radicalized to see things clearly. Although I don’t consider osteen a theologian, nor am I sure he is fit to preach to the public. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251706) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 1:50 PM Author: bright aromatic patrolman John Frame, an intellectual leader of your new team, strongly disagrees. You should listen to him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251777) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 1:57 PM Author: alcoholic glittery university Frame thinks there are people that would benefit from osteen,
“... people who have been spiritually hurt–who have been troubled by the image of God as an angry tyrant, who wants to take away every happiness.” (p. 322)
But I think there are still many people who are harmed by his exceedingly narrow focus. For that reason, I’m not sure he is a net benefit. |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 1:59 PM Author: bright aromatic patrolman But people aren’t hurt. You are just making that up with nothing to support it. Zero hard evidence, and I’m not interested in theorizing.
And on the other hand, we have piles of hard evidence of people who were helped: their personal testimonials.
That’s why there is no serious criticism of Osteen. Maybe when you update your belief software 6 months from now you will realize this. |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 2:02 PM Author: alcoholic glittery university C. Assumes a statement for which there is currently no evidence (because understudied) cannot be true. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251850) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 2:05 PM Author: bright aromatic patrolman If you were able to pivot from Protestants are atheists and nothing they say can be trusted, to I am a Protestant, in the span of months, anything is possible, friend.
I will wait for MIG 3.0 to come out, who will be a big Osteen supporter. |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 2:09 PM Author: alcoholic glittery university To be clear, I know that I’ve called osteen himself an atheist. That’s because the set of properties he ascribes to god are inaccurate, and so his faith fails to correspond to the true existing being. I’m not sure I’ve ever called Protestants atheists. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251894) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 2:16 PM Author: bright aromatic patrolman You did when I first showed you John Frame. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251934) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 2:19 PM Author: alcoholic glittery university we could go to the record but I don’t remember the thread title (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251951) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 2:22 PM Author: bright aromatic patrolman I know, neither do I. It’s frustrating because I could find it with more advanced search capabilities. I would search for poasts made by me that have “John Frame,” and are in response to you. It would come right up.
But I guess then psycho freaks could easily out everyone if we had those capabilities. |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 2:23 PM Author: alcoholic glittery university Maybe rach can give select posters query access to the xo databases (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251974) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 6:20 PM Author: poppy library knife No one will ever know who or what it is, and all these "sim glitches" are premised on anthropomorphizations (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37253442) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 1:04 PM Author: galvanic carmine toaster principal's office The notion that we are in a simulation is stupid af and there is no "proof" of it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251523) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 1:06 PM Author: alcoholic glittery university Plenty of Easter eggs to spot my retarded brother (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251530) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 1:11 PM Author: galvanic carmine toaster principal's office none whatsoever imo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251545) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 1:15 PM Author: alcoholic glittery university https://imgur.com/a/Z4nifZR (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251562) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 1:31 PM Author: galvanic carmine toaster principal's office Religion basically means that life is a "simulation" I suppose if you believe it, but wtf was Caesar's sim? And Genghis Khan? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251646) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 1:34 PM Author: alcoholic glittery university I don’t get the question, why are you saying their sim was different? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251661) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 2:23 PM Author: talented coral codepig They used cheat codes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251975) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 3:02 PM Author: poppy library knife Yeah, no proof, but consider this.
For every unsimulated universe, there are billions of simulations. What's the probability that ours is one of unsimulated ones? |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 1:20 PM Author: greedy balding tanning salon twinkling uncleanness i think it's likely that existence as we know it is some sort of computer program. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251593) |
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Date: November 17th, 2018 2:22 PM Author: talented coral codepig It would be a huge relief (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4135482&forum_id=2#37251968) |