Whacked-Out New Yorker Writer Thinks We’re Living in the Matrix

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | February 28, 2017 | Rush Limbaugh

[Kaslin]

RUSH: I have a piece today that I found in the New Yorker. When I started reading this I said, “This is very clever. This guy’s very clever.” I kept reading it and kept reading it, and I said, “Wait a minute. Does this guy actually maybe believe this?” Because he’s gone and got a bunch of sources and experts in clinical psychology and computer science and he’s making the case. And you know what it is? That things are so weird, there’s an actual line in this piece. I can’t utter the word, but it’s what Trump said in the NBC Access Hollywood video when he told Billy Bush what he actually grabbed. He said: You just don’t say that and get elected president of the United States. It just doesn’t happen.

And he cites a couple other things, Hillary was supposed to win, everybody knew it, Patriots were supposed to lose in the second half, everybody knew it, and then the Oscar flap, this doesn’t happen. These kinds of things just don’t happen. So this guy’s theory is that we are in The Matrix. We are simply in a computer simulation being run by aliens (laughing) and that they’re getting bored and that they are programming us to do all kinds of inexplicable, weird things just to watch us react to the things that they make happen.

So I’m reading this thing, and his name is Adam Gopnik. I guarantee you that if I reported this to you as though he was dead serious the next thing he would do if he heard about it would be to react, “I was just joking, what do these people, don’t they see a joke?” And if I laugh about it and treat it as a joke, he might respond: “No, no, no, I meant it.” But we’ll link to this at RushLimbaugh.com, and you read it and see what you think. I’m telling you, folks, these people are so whacked out still. They still can’t believe what happened to ’em.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Did the Oscars Just Prove That We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? (Also Trump won)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3530021/posts

[Red Badger]

Maybe Adam Gopnik (izzat a real name?) lives in a matrix.................. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopnik Gopnik (Russian: го́пник)[1] is a Slavic subculture; a pejorative social slur used in Russia, Ukraine, other former Soviet states and Eastern Europe to refer to aggressive young men or women of lower-class suburbans (usually under 25 years of age)[2] coming from families of poor education and income, somewhat similar to British chavs, Scottish neds, or Polish dresiarz.[citation needed] The female form is gopnitsa (Russian: го́пница), and the collective noun is gopota (Russian: гопота́).

[BipolarBob]

I believe a cosmologist postulated the same thing (in the matrix) citing puzzling quantum actions. This author uses unimportant anomalies that, while amusing, have no universe importance. I think the fact that God exists explains a lot of things of importance.

[DungeonMaster]

That religion is no crazier than The Force or Evolution.

[DannyTN]

The thing is that in order to live in the matrix, there has to exist a reality in which a computer powerful enough to process the matrix exists.

Not only does the reality in which Matrix resides have to exist, there has to be a designer.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

You hear that Mr. Gopnik?... That is the sound of inevitability... It is the sound of millions of Trump voters putting a conservative agenda in place . . . Goodbye, Mr. Gopnik.

[Stentor]

Elon Musk has said that there is only a “one in billions” chance that we’re not living in a computer simulation.

[DannyTN]

He could take the blue pill, but who knows whats in it.

[DannyTN]

He could take the blue pill, but who knows whats in it.

[x]

I'm pretty sure that was meant to be satirical, "using absurdity to illustrate the absurd."

[treetopsandroofs]

Dr. Sheldon Cooper says no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLSgehi09Z4

[Kaslin]

That's him

[faithhopecharity]

it may be true
(click to bypass first 3 or 4 minutes of intro)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsbZT9bJ1s4

[Kaslin]

I am not sure what religion you are talking about? Rush didn't mention any religion

Perhaps you are in the wrong thread?

[Red Badger]

Looks like he belongs in a rubber room...............

[Kaslin]

I agree.

[Kaslin]

I hope you’re not serious. That’s 1 hour and 31 minutes to long.

[bigtoona]

Shoot, I will be sad if Trump really isn’t president and I’m simply a human battery living in a vat of pink sludge

[faithhopecharity]

ok......well, try this short easy one then,,,

have fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LsHmMHfaF4