This is a timely message for those looking at America, Russia, the middle east and China (world powers) and geopolitics with horror. Fear not children for I will tell you the secret that has been hidden from you...
You might watch the news and observe humanity feeling a great sense of apathy. Nothing any good person does seems to make an impact on the constant stream of negative action. Disruptive news factoids that have no impact on you directly or are not within your remit to influence flood in.
This is not by accident, this is purposeful action to suppress your feeling of hope. You are to consume, to buy, to do what you must without question. Philosophical or intellectual pursuits are often undermined or ridiculed.
You know less about the government and civic society than the government knows about you. The true definition of democracy as per the greek's is that citizens know as much as the government. That the citizens are the government. Wealthy or colluding powers are not allowed to take control over the informed populous.
The fact that you don't know what the government is up too and have no power is a bad sign indeed. The fact that popular protest has no effect is a terrible red-flag. The flood of toxic and brain dead, confusing mis-information is a bad sign. The fact that the internet... a tool for sharing information is weaponised as a tool for control should alarm you.
The sense of apathy and that your positive actions are futile should not alarm or discourage you. Going too far the other way and never knowing truth from fiction is a recipe for inaction. War isn't solved by more war. Lies are not overcome by propagating other mis-information or confusion. Having more information and knowing less is another bad sign of the current situation.
There is a rational explanation to why the world is as it is. A hope and glimmer that may help you navigate this strange world and avoid being pulled down with it. Your soul will be clean and you shall see evil for what is truly is...
Let's say you are born in a fabulously wealthy family. Not the 1% but the 0.1% with the majority of the wealth and power bestowed upon you. There is incredible inequality, war and suffering the world. Your family and wider entourage display an incredulous lack of empathy or compassion for their fellow man. They also display a lack of of humanity for their fellow family and entourage with rife back stabbing.
One day you are told that it's time to learn "the secret", that you are special. That you must be initiated into a secret society known only to the chosen few.
You are told the secret has been kept for thousands of years successfully. The wider population are asleep, they are "sheep" to controlled and penned like cattle.
After breaking down your moral defences through a series of despicable exercises including killing, rape and having been brain washed your entire life into thinking of others as cardboard cutout's of people. It's ok to lie, cheat, steal, manipulate because everyone is asleep. They are not "real" like you.
The secret is finally revealed. The known universe, including you is a simulated reality. A computer simulation, a synthesis of reality to test the ever branching path's of consciousness.
You are also a simulation, but because you know that you are that makes you "enlightened". There is no "god" or benevolent goal for the universe or important meaning to be grasped. It's a pointless game, a bright and flashing distraction.
Having been "enlightened" you learn that your job is to "carry on" the mission. The mission is simply to maintain this power. The power is that you know and other's do not. You must distract the sheep, you must control them and dull their senses with senseless war and suffering.
You will be greatly re-warded for this work. The normal rules don't apply to you. You are free to be evil, to be selfish, to take what you want and do as you will without recourse.
War is acceptable for it's purpose in tainting society and lowering the positive vibrations of humanity. Unconstrained wealth is good and pesky "democracy" and human rights must be eliminated at...
It’s not a secret, it’s a weak, because anthropocentric and too meaning-seeking argument.
Call it simulation, fate, or whatever, it’s still way too human-centered to be relevant of interest given the complexities of the universe.
While holding such a view may indeed « free » from any existing moral framework or ethics those that would believe in it, it doesn’t make it more real.
Fair point, it's meant to provoke discourse and it's impossible to prove. However the human world view by it's very nature is "anthropocentric".
Maybe more like an open-secret to those aware of the nature of consciousness or reality.
It's a contrived attempt to explain a world view that would justify suffering and a lack of empathy. Those that seek to maintain power over other's may not need a reason.
The universe is "complex" but does it revolve around human activity. Likely not but would a simulation spun up to control humans have an anthropocentric angle.. likely yes.
But it doesn't make "what" more real? The argument, the reality we inhabit? How "real" or simulated the world is forms part of the conjecture.
I would agree the "weak" bit is that it's as speculative as saying that god exists but I don't think a comment on human behaviour is weak because is anthropocentric.
No it’s weak because it aims to explain reality as a simulation for humans (whereas humans are a tiny irrelevant part of reality), and it does not fundamentally differ from past faiths and religions of humans being played by the gods.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 39.6 ms ] threadThis is not by accident, this is purposeful action to suppress your feeling of hope. You are to consume, to buy, to do what you must without question. Philosophical or intellectual pursuits are often undermined or ridiculed.
You know less about the government and civic society than the government knows about you. The true definition of democracy as per the greek's is that citizens know as much as the government. That the citizens are the government. Wealthy or colluding powers are not allowed to take control over the informed populous.
The fact that you don't know what the government is up too and have no power is a bad sign indeed. The fact that popular protest has no effect is a terrible red-flag. The flood of toxic and brain dead, confusing mis-information is a bad sign. The fact that the internet... a tool for sharing information is weaponised as a tool for control should alarm you.
The sense of apathy and that your positive actions are futile should not alarm or discourage you. Going too far the other way and never knowing truth from fiction is a recipe for inaction. War isn't solved by more war. Lies are not overcome by propagating other mis-information or confusion. Having more information and knowing less is another bad sign of the current situation.
There is a rational explanation to why the world is as it is. A hope and glimmer that may help you navigate this strange world and avoid being pulled down with it. Your soul will be clean and you shall see evil for what is truly is...
Let's say you are born in a fabulously wealthy family. Not the 1% but the 0.1% with the majority of the wealth and power bestowed upon you. There is incredible inequality, war and suffering the world. Your family and wider entourage display an incredulous lack of empathy or compassion for their fellow man. They also display a lack of of humanity for their fellow family and entourage with rife back stabbing.
One day you are told that it's time to learn "the secret", that you are special. That you must be initiated into a secret society known only to the chosen few.
You are told the secret has been kept for thousands of years successfully. The wider population are asleep, they are "sheep" to controlled and penned like cattle.
After breaking down your moral defences through a series of despicable exercises including killing, rape and having been brain washed your entire life into thinking of others as cardboard cutout's of people. It's ok to lie, cheat, steal, manipulate because everyone is asleep. They are not "real" like you.
The secret is finally revealed. The known universe, including you is a simulated reality. A computer simulation, a synthesis of reality to test the ever branching path's of consciousness.
You are also a simulation, but because you know that you are that makes you "enlightened". There is no "god" or benevolent goal for the universe or important meaning to be grasped. It's a pointless game, a bright and flashing distraction.
Having been "enlightened" you learn that your job is to "carry on" the mission. The mission is simply to maintain this power. The power is that you know and other's do not. You must distract the sheep, you must control them and dull their senses with senseless war and suffering.
You will be greatly re-warded for this work. The normal rules don't apply to you. You are free to be evil, to be selfish, to take what you want and do as you will without recourse.
War is acceptable for it's purpose in tainting society and lowering the positive vibrations of humanity. Unconstrained wealth is good and pesky "democracy" and human rights must be eliminated at...
Call it simulation, fate, or whatever, it’s still way too human-centered to be relevant of interest given the complexities of the universe.
While holding such a view may indeed « free » from any existing moral framework or ethics those that would believe in it, it doesn’t make it more real.
Maybe more like an open-secret to those aware of the nature of consciousness or reality.
It's a contrived attempt to explain a world view that would justify suffering and a lack of empathy. Those that seek to maintain power over other's may not need a reason.
The universe is "complex" but does it revolve around human activity. Likely not but would a simulation spun up to control humans have an anthropocentric angle.. likely yes.
Your hypothesis is undecidable, why would humanity in your scenario be more of interest than whales or octopus or bees or ants or fungi?
But it doesn't make "what" more real? The argument, the reality we inhabit? How "real" or simulated the world is forms part of the conjecture.
I would agree the "weak" bit is that it's as speculative as saying that god exists but I don't think a comment on human behaviour is weak because is anthropocentric.