Posted on 06/26/2016 7:54:24 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
As a Christian, I find this offensive and demand that the US government stop giving this guy my tax dollars.
meh.
As if my faith depends on Musk
“I know my redeemer lives, and in the end I shall see him, with these eyes, and not another’s. Though He slay me, I will hope in Him.” - Job.
God as programmer? A new level of understanding?
Maybe.
The ‘proof’ is the sloppiness of the program... minor mistakes... look for them
Musk is still arguing for a universe created by an intelligent being.
Like Steve Bartman. A bug or a SIM design by a mischievous God?
So then, Mr. Musk, how did the programmer and his/her/it’s civilization come to be? Are they also a simulation? Is it “turtles all the way down?”
For such a smart guy (and he is), he really didn’t think this through. Maybe he should read “Genesis and the Big Bang” by Gerald Schroeder, an astrophysicist who is also an Orthodox Jew. HE understands that we are not a simulation, and that G-d created the Universe that we are a part of...among many other things that we simply cannot discern.
Deja vu?
So, he believes in God, just quibbling about the nature of creation.
Assuming simulations don’t just happen.
As a Christian, I find this offensive and demand that the US government stop giving this guy my tax dollars.
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How do you know Christ isn’t part of the program.
Musk isn’t rejecting God. He’s thinking about the details as many smart people before him have done.
Asimov’s “Last Question” is along similar lines to what Musk is thinking.
where are the glitches and bugs?
‘“maybe we should be hopeful this is a simulation,” and that we are living in some sort of cosmic time loop. Otherwise, Musk fears, the time will come when “when civilization will cease to exist.”’
What a bizarre, irrational statement from a such a ‘brilliant’ man. If this is just a sim, we already don’t exist. On the other hand, all those aborted babies, the masses robbed and backstabbed by our corrupt governments, the victims of savage Muslims, the scores killed by careless and ruthless fools, are just digital objects, not worth a second thought.
The tech generations have been nicely primed not to give a damn about the value of a human life, or any life. We are all disposable. This is why it doesn’t matter if we have a Constitution, or a pesky Bill of Rights, or an Independence Day, or a Bible. Untold suffering will come of it, but it won’t matter. It’s as fleeting as a level in a video game.
It also serves socialist/communist purposes. No matter how ugly thier attempt to succeed at this ‘level’, it’s okay, they can just try again and again. No matter that every previous attempt has cost millions of lives. At some point, they’ll complete the ‘game’. That’s all that matters.
Sometimes it seems God has let this go on for too long.
Talk is fine, but where’s the pneumatic tube to shoot people from SF to LA?
Yes, that’s one of them...
Isaac Asimov's insights are missed...
You’d have to restate your complaint to “As a Muslim I find this offensive...”
‘where are the glitches and bugs?’
So called Liberals and Progressives, (which I call regressives). You shall know by their fruit. We are seeing the secrets being revealed at a rapid pace.
Liberal secularists are saying there is no god, but:
* they will invent an all knowing omniscient benevolent AI we should all obey, AKA, God
* there is no heaven, but they’ll create memory uploads to let people live forever in digital simulations - AKA, heaven
* there is no hell, but if you don’t live by their enforced poverty and freedom restrictions, the Earth will fall into a hot, desperate, starving post-apocalyptic vision - AKA, hell on Earth
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