Do "Coincidences" Prove We Live In a Simulated Universe? *Video*

a reply to: TurbineJet

Nope. They just stay there and party.
It's awesome.

a reply to: TurbineJet

I guess more lobotomized, but you can't be sure. How do you even know I am human if I don't know myself that I am not human... its crazy, you never know.

That makes total sense about the higher selves, thanks.

a reply to: watchandwait410

Do you think we are all humans or do you think some people are part of the programmed simulation?

I'd say there are quite a few that are 'part of the programmed simulation'. It's the frightening similarity in which some people act and respond to things that make me suspicious in that dept. It's not the responses, it's the nearly cookie cutter responses from such a wide (supposed) range of people.

originally posted by: watchandwait410
a reply to: TurbineJet

I guess more lobotomized, but you can't be sure. How do you even know I am human if I don't know myself that I am not human... its crazy, you never know.

That makes total sense about the higher selves, thanks.

I guess that begs the question on what it means to be "human"..

originally posted by: wylekat
a reply to: watchandwait410

Do you think we are all humans or do you think some people are part of the programmed simulation?

I'd say there are quite a few that are 'part of the programmed simulation'. It's the frightening similarity in which some people act and respond to things that make me suspicious in that dept. It's not the responses, it's the nearly cookie cutter responses from such a wide (supposed) range of people.

Wylekat...I think you are zeroing in on the truth here...highly predictable responses from a wide range of the population...then again arent humans super predictable as it is?

a reply to: wylekat

I am not really sure , if they are not human then they are doing a good job not getting caught.

On the other hand you can only wonder what the big picture is, is there a point to life, could we be playing a really long boring most of the time rpg…

Not sure if anyone is not human but I am fairly certain we are being watched by invisible aliens that can pass through matter as if it was not there.

a reply to: wylekat

So some people might be real life forms and some people are a simulation and our life form cannot tell they are not real. The simulation is not 100% of reality.

That's a bit frightening and interesting thought. Maybe the ME people are the simulated ones.

I tend to think it's all or nothing.

Ted Kennedy and John McCain both pass on August 25 from similar cause. Sim?

I'd like to believe all those coincidences mentioned in the OP are true. I'd like to believe there is an unseen divine force guiding each and every one of us to become the best person we can be. I'd love to believe that God exists and that he has unconditional love for us and wants great things for us.

However, I am on the fence when it comes to contemplating spirituality and the existence of an external higher power. Coincidences and synchronicity might be real - I'd like them to be real because I've personally experienced them quite a few times - but we humans have nasty habit of recognising patterns and associating them with things we think we have worked out when we really don't have them figured out.

Kinda think 'coincidences' are just the universe/spirit/whatever-word-you-wanna-use saying "Hey. You got your ears on and your eyes in? Coz I/we been tossing this at ya for a while now?"

Maybe start listening and learning...or recognising and receiving...

I've always believed that we live in a simulated universe. We've all experienced something like coincidence sometime or another in our lives.
For some reason you stand by the front door. No reason, you just do, only for someone to ring the bell at that moment.
I was sat in the work canteen a while back people watching and watching peoples general body language. Then someone came in the door, the exact second someone was leaving. they smiled and went on with what they were doing before hand.

This got me thinking. What are the odds of two people meeting at the exact same moment like this? From the moment they wake up, to leaving their house for one to enter as the other is leaving the room.

It happens a lot as well, in all forms of daily life.

I did do an experiment once. I thought of an absolute random person who hardly never gets talked about. Let's say the actor Marlon Brando. Within a few days, there would be some sort of mention on TV or a new book on his life or something. I've tried this many times and it does work.

Fascinating thread.

originally posted by: rhynouk
I've always believed that we live in a simulated universe. We've all experienced something like coincidence sometime or another in our lives.
For some reason you stand by the front door. No reason, you just do, only for someone to ring the bell at that moment.
I was sat in the work canteen a while back people watching and watching peoples general body language. Then someone came in the door, the exact second someone was leaving. they smiled and went on with what they were doing before hand.

This got me thinking. What are the odds of two people meeting at the exact same moment like this? From the moment they wake up, to leaving their house for one to enter as the other is leaving the room.

It happens a lot as well, in all forms of daily life.

I did do an experiment once. I thought of an absolute random person who hardly never gets talked about. Let's say the actor Marlon Brando. Within a few days, there would be some sort of mention on TV or a new book on his life or something. I've tried this many times and it does work.

Fascinating thread.

I do think the odds are small in reality. Too much of a coincidence to be attributed to simple chance..

a reply to: rhynouk

Tom Cruise requested that all staff members of the Corinthia Hotel in London walk into his room “backwards” while he was recovering from an injury sustained while filming Mission: Impossible – Fallout.

Tom has undoubtedly spent a lot of dough to work through the Scientologists best therapeutic simulations, he is immune to radiation and can talk about almost anything except the deterministic nature of radiation which predates Scientology.

a reply to: roadgravel

That's a bit frightening and interesting thought. Maybe the ME people are the simulated ones.

Good lord, I hope not. I've had exactly one, solid one, and I feel pretty real. Then again, I probably am supposed to.

a reply to: TurbineJet

Predictable is for those who like their eggs a certain way, who take a walk every morning, who will always wear that ridiculous T shirt every Friday to work.

When it comes down to a wide variety of people who, easy one, reply on forums- when their syntax is almost identical, the grammar is nearly so, misspellings are all the same, the whole enchilada- that begins to get worrying. When you run into 20-30 people over the course of a week who all talk, act, and dress so similarly, other than their heads, you'd swear there were clones running around, you stop and have a good hard look. I've been in places where there's not just similarity- in a small hick town in NC, there were synchronized people as well. Damn creepy.

It's so *predictable* I can pretend I'm psychic and wow my friends. I call it 'using the Force', since I'm a Star Wars fan. My running joke is I earned my brown robes.

No. 3 on your meme list, the legend of Hugh Williams; I remember reading about that some years ago, but the story claimed that the wrecks occurred in the Menai Straight off of the coast of North Wales, nowhere near Dover.

...While the story can be found all over the web, explanations for it are nowhere to be found. Only one site includes source reference to the Hugh Williams legend, but those are little more than just re-tellings of the legend in books about Northern Wales.

I think above all else, this legend is a wonderful case study in the art of storytelling. The story is sensational, brief, and gets right to the point of the bizarre coincidence of the many men named Hugh Williams.

The Legend of Hugh Williams

Still, an interesting thread!

I do think the odds are small in reality. Too much of a coincidence to be attributed to simple chance

It's all, you might say, numbers.

Flipping a coin - heads - tails. Generally 50/50. What about landing on the edge.

Many thousand coin tosses and one coin lands on the edge. It is very unlikely to happen but given enough tosses it can happen.

originally posted by: roadgravel

I do think the odds are small in reality. Too much of a coincidence to be attributed to simple chance

It's all, you might say, numbers.

Flipping a coin - heads - tails. Generally 50/50. What about landing on the edge.

Many thousand coin tosses and one coin lands on the edge. It is very unlikely to happen but given enough tosses it can happen.

Gets me thinking about random number generators and how our thoughts and intent seem to affect them...

Pull the veil back and see the mechanism that runs the machine. How can we presume anything is due to random coincidences.

originally posted by: AthlonSavage
Pull the veil back and see the mechanism that runs the machine. How can we presume anything is due to random coincidences.

Any details on what runs this mechanism?