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[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

You really think CERN is smart enough to end the world, instantly design the matrix in a now-nonexistent world and put everyone who no longer exists in it without noticing, and then cover up all the evidence seamlessly?

Far more likely that everything has always been fake, only sometime in 2013 the architects lowered the quality and realism and increased the sadism, and sped up time. Or I'm just dreaming all of this, and to be honest this life does follow the same pattern as those dreams where it's "clearly real" yet something just doesn't add up about all of it and you feel you're about to wake up from it (and you do). And it's like one of those realistic nightmares, where everything just conspires to go wrong. Plus I really feel like I have a whole other "real life" that's on the tip of my tongue but I just can't remember. Whatever this one is, it shows the subtle signs of being a dream and doesn't feel authentic.

And of course every single time I think about this I see a post about it...

[–]StillLessons 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

A thought experiment:

In 1961, Kennedy declared the United States would go to the moon. For the next six years, the program was plagued with massive cost-overruns and organizational dysfunction. The engineering was a disaster. In early 1967, three men are burned alive in a pre-launch test run. Based on this, it is recognized they will need to completely redesign several systems they have been working on for the past 6 years. Within the next several months, two of the leading minds behind the project (the director and a top astronaut) leave.

Do we really believe that within two years from this time, they had now solved all the problems in a clearly broken organization and proceeded to land successfully not once but multiple times on the moon?

Then ask yourself knowing how humans operate, the United States has mastered going to the moon, but we never go back?!

The entirety of the story humans have of ourselves is manufactured. There are events that are true - because stories can mix truth and fiction - but the overall trajectory is not what we have been taught.

When that sinks in, you will realize we know next to nothing of what has "really happened" for the past 100 years. There are far too many lies now embedded - at the most profound levels - to be able to say with confidence what the "history" of the 20th and 21st centuries has been. The majority of people around the world live life with the foundation that humans are capable of putting man on the moon. Think of the magnitude of a lie to humanity like this.

It's no wonder we're losing the ability to navigate reality; it's been tortured so badly that most of us have no desire anymore even to try to witness it.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

On top of that we have had since about that time a mindset of 'throw it away'. Before 1970 the idea was for machines to be as good as human creators where the word 'antique' used to mean specifically something that was not created by a machine in a factory as there were wars and debates about machines being able to match quality. Look up the REAL Oliver Twist.

Now antique simply has a meaning of 'old' without any real definition and not necessarily not done by machine.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's what I'm going at. It feels like something isn't right about the reality we are in. It's one of those close enough buuuuuuuuuuuttttttt.