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msatty99 Donating Member (465 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 09:22 PM
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Trying to decide if we are all trapped in a computer simulated reality
It would sure explain a lot ...especially if it was all actually
being controlled by a petulant teenager. I mean. come on. The same
week the Davinci code comes out, its author vindicated in court and
this is the week that the "Gospel According to Judas" is released
to the public...FOR REAL? It has got to be a set up job.

-MSATTY99 Or, if you prefer, SIMSATTY99
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 09:24 PM
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1. I got drunk once,
Edited on Fri Apr-07-06 09:24 PM by ZombieNixon
and postulated that the universe was nothing more than a gigantic MMORPG in which we are all being controlled by pasty, pimply-faced teenage supreme beings.

Then I got drunk again and said we were nothing more than smilies on the message board of creation. :beer: :crazy:
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 09:24 PM
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2. Hmm...
Good point!

Kind of make one wonder.

*rubs chin*
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msatty99 Donating Member (465 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 09:35 PM
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3. An OXFORD professor says its a real possiblility
and as for me...I have moved on past LIHOP and MIHOP and
am now considering Quantum computers caused it to happen on
purpose and at random. (QUACOHOPAR) I am gonna shorten that
acroynym to QUAKER and eat my breakfast cereal accordingly.

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gkdmaths Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 11:04 PM
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4. TAKE THE BLUE PILL!!! n/t
.
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msatty99 Donating Member (465 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 11:51 PM
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5. Ok, so I am already feeling weird enough...then...
I get to looking at the chiropractor who travels through time
(backwards) (I put in 'backwards' because we all travel through time
forwards right...then I found one of the replying posters linked to
a site where you can 'stop time' so..ok I try it and I STOP FING TIME.

Ok...like on a computer that would be totally possible right...?

Ok forgive me. I'll just take the blue fing pill. (viagra>) shut up.
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msatty99 Donating Member (465 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 01:42 AM
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6. I suppose no one else is thinking about their life being a computer impuls
like me. Good. I'm a nut.
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amitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 01:43 AM
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7. We're not. n/t
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 01:49 AM
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8. Have You No Mouth And Yet You Must Scream?
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msatty99 Donating Member (465 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 01:53 AM
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9. I got two threads going...here and on general discussion.."george slowly
undressed'....Ok. I'm a nut that must scream.
OK. :smoke:
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 01:55 AM
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10. Harlan Ellison Reference, Youngster
Famous story of his called "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" about people being trapped in a reality generated by a maleovent computer.
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msatty99 Donating Member (465 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 01:59 AM
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11. ooops sorry, I was a Robert Heinlein fan myself
never read Harlan Ellison
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 02:02 AM
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13. Sorry, I Have To Go Bleach My Eyes
and take something to settle my stomach. Obviously, I've read Heinlein ... oh no ... excuse me ... :puke:

:)
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laheina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 02:17 AM
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14. Another non-fan
of Heinlein. :D I'm not alone in the world?
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 02:59 AM
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15. Far From Alone!
I like good writers.
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msatty99 Donating Member (465 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 08:36 AM
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16. Jeminy Christmas!!! I I read the guy when I was ..like..15...
I was also reading John Carter of Mars (or Barsoom) at the time.
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Derailer Donating Member (332 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 08:41 AM
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17. Addend to "...yet you must suck"
and you have the right of it
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SofaKingLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 01:59 AM
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12. Yes, we are.
Edited on Sat Apr-08-06 02:00 AM by SofaKingLiberal
AND THERE'S NOT A GOD DAMN THING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT!

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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 09:29 AM
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18. "Trapped"?! I paid $500 to get in!
Trapped, indeed.
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anarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-08-06 09:47 AM
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19. and the worst part is, that "reality" in which the simulation exists
is really just another simulation. It's like those Russian nested dolls. But whaddayagonnado....


"I hope life isn't all just one big joke...because I don't get it." - Jack Handy
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