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What would you do if you found out we are all in a sim?

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What would you do if you found out we are all in a sim?
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What would you do if you found out we are all in a sim?
October 7, 2017 at 2:02 am (This post was last modified: October 7, 2017 at 2:05 am by ignoramus.)
I've jumped on the bandwagon but I'm asking a serious philosophical question.

Let's say science has breached the boundary wall of the sim's sandbox and has concluded that we are in fact in a sim we cannot control or affect.

Knowing this, would you just meh, and continue ordering pizza and chicken wings?
Would you change your outlook to your perceived life and do things differently?
Would you go all Vegas shooter because life is just computer code anyway? No "real" harm done anyway.
Theists, knowing everything is false, including our reality, our sacred texts, etc, what would you do different?

I'm convinced the theists won't comprehend the gravity of the situation and deep down still believe there is a god that made the sim people.
Even though everything they think they know about said god was all part of our sim to start with?

I'd probably do nothing different. It feels real. The fun still feels good, pain still feels bad. Work will still suck! What's really different?
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RE: What would you do if you found out we are all in a sim?
October 7, 2017 at 2:05 am
I guess I'd fall down on my knees and love sweet Jesus!
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October 7, 2017 at 2:08 am (This post was last modified: October 7, 2017 at 2:09 am by ignoramus.)
I'm thinking Jesus must love a blow job with all these people falling on their knees? What's going on?
I bet CL wouldn't do that! But she might try to poop on him? Dunno
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RE: What would you do if you found out we are all in a sim?
October 7, 2017 at 2:24 am (This post was last modified: October 7, 2017 at 2:25 am by Edwardo Piet.)
We are all in a sim Tongue

Nick Bostrom told me so Tongue

https://www.simulation-argument.com/

Goodnight.
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October 7, 2017 at 3:08 am
Come back you ground hog!
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RE: What would you do if you found out we are all in a sim?
October 7, 2017 at 3:10 am
Hit "reset".

Or possibly just hit the off switch.

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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October 7, 2017 at 3:11 am
But we can't. That's the point of the sandbox.
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October 7, 2017 at 3:13 am
Do we or cats crap in the sand box?

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

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October 7, 2017 at 6:11 am
Just continue as usual.

Maybe pray to the surge protector.
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RE: What would you do if you found out we are all in a sim?
October 7, 2017 at 6:25 am
Hi iggy! My thoughts are we don't really live in a simulation.
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