Posted on 02/28/2017 1:13:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Link only due to copyright issues: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/did-the-oscars-just-prove-that-we-are-living-in-a-computer-simulation
Link to article: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/did-the-oscars-just-prove-that-we-are-living-in-a-computer-simulation
I read for a bit, roll my eyes, and stop reading.
I just saw “The Matrix” today, interestingly enough. Not only does it reinforce this idea, it also:
1) was the best of the entire franchise
2) reinforces the fact Keanu Reeves cannot act
One of the most inanely foolish articles I have ever read, and that’s saying something.
I guess he’s never heard the expression “truth is stranger than fiction”?
To think of all the quirky, impossible, awful, or weird things that has happened in human history, for the author to think a flub at the oscars and Trump’s election as the ultimate signs of a system malfunctioning.
How would the left know? they can’t distinguish between reality and fantasy.
If there’s a glitch in the Matrix, they’re it. We’ve seen numerous examples just in 2016 alone. Of course they’re incredulous. Wouldn’t you be, if your programming was such a tenuous kludge?
I agree completely with this article — I think it’s dead on. The Controller of the World did in fact put the controls down, or had it removed from his hands. Instead, the actual people of America have the controls. What could be more horrifying the The New Yorker/Davos class than that??
Completely pathetic
All these thoughtful sorts who are too modern to believe in God are too cowardly to commit to an oriental philosophy. So they convince themselves it’s not real it’s a computer game. Truly pathetic
1) was the best of the entire franchise
2) reinforces the fact Keanu Reeves cannot act
1) Agreed
2) Every Keanu Reeves movie does that
Buster Douglas knocks out Mike Tyson in Tokyo, Japan on February 11, 1990
The Battle of Agincourt of Oct 25, 1415 ( I added this because my ancient ancestor was probably there and knighted for his service to the Crown (Sir Richard had a long bow over his crest).
As David David Byrne said, "Same as it ever was, Same as it ever was, Same as it ever was, Same - as - it - ever - was!"
This is the writer’s bio line:
“Adam Gopnik, a staff writer, has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1986.”
Based on this brain drool, I suspect that he’s been writing for the New Yorker, but not contributing anything to it. James Thurber must be spinning in his grave at the limousine leftist bubble-think that now passes muster for publication as a “think piece” in the New Yorker.
“reinforces the fact Keanu Reeves cannot act”
Your premise is wrong. Keanu is a movie star, not an actor.
(My apologies to the late Peter O’Toole.)
Written in BASIC running on a Commodore 64!
I’ve heard the John Wick movies were pretty good.
A belief that we are part of a computer simulation would actually be an acknowledgement of a God who created us.
Not really
I was only kidding. I like a lot of Keanu Reeve’s films. It’s just that he does not have a huge range as an actor. He pretty much is just himself.
You said that an acceptance of that strange theory that we’re part of a simulation is “not really” in effect an acceptance of a God. Why not? If one believes we live in a computer simulation, it means we have a being who created us and on whom our existence depends. Good or bad fortune depends on that entity, thus we implore this maker to treat us well. That entity gives us rules which govern what is acceptable behavior.
How is that computer programmer not a God to those in the simulation?
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