kerravon

I was an atheist most of my life, since the age of about 12. After ditching the tooth fairy, easter bunny and santa claus, God was next in line. This was my liberation. I was of the opinion that there was no God, and that all rational people should draw the same conclusion. The only thing that could possibly budge me from my position was EVIDENCE.

Well, in September 2004, I got the evidence. Absolute proof in fact. I got it shortly after I wrote message 666 on the 3rd anniversary of 9/11. Message 666 was the culmination of my 37 years of searching for the words to describe my ideology/religion (as an atheist I was STRONGLY supporting freedom and human rights). You can read about message 666 here (I've posted it before):

http://antisubjugator.blogspot.com/2...-of-beast.html

However, as you have probably guessed already, the proof that I was given was not independently scientifically verifiable. Which means you have no option other than to dismiss it. Or at most, you can only accept it as a theory. So anyway, here is the "theory":

We are living in a computer simulation, and God is the computer programmer. This model does not require supernatural powers. All it requires is for us to have computer technology more advanced than we have at the moment - Artificial Intelligence for starters. In a 15 billion year history, don't you think it is quite improbable that we happened to be born just when computers, nukes and the internet were invented? And also just when the USSR collapsed opening the way for worldwide freedom. And on a millenium year as well. A mere 1 million years either way would have drastically altered the simulation. Hell, even 1000 years either way would have drastically changed things.

I believe the universe is only a few decades old. God didn't sit around twiddling his thumbs for 15 billion years waiting for us to evolve. The whole thing is simulated. The whole universe is just a "virtual reality". We're probably really on a space ship, and this simulation is being run for entertainment purposes (can you think of anything better than a virtual reality to keep yourself entertained?).

And the reason God doesn't want to prove his existence is so that people will become atheists and be totally free. This is what he wants. He doesn't want to tell people how to live their lives, he wants us to make up our own rules. The only way we can be totally free is if we believe there is no God, or at least, that there's no God who's going to sit in judgement. In actual fact, we are all NATURAL ANIMALS. None of us are sinners. We all act in accordance with our genes, reacting to our environment, and using our imperfect logic skills. None of these things are our fault.

Anyway, my point is that there is definitely an intelligent entity in another dimension to us. So if you're a hard-core atheist, think again, because you're actually wrong (even though I can't scientifically prove that to your satisfaction). You need to update your model and allow for the possibility of a God, and convert to agnosticism instead. BTW, a computer simulation gives a logical reason why we can't reproduce life from raw ingredients - the properties are defined in software, which we don't have access to.

Quetzalcoatl

Whats the hardware?

Silly human.

IamMoose

Um, okay.

Whether the universe is a simulation or not, i've still got to get up off my arse any minute now and go do something productive

Quetzalcoatl

Make sure it's something entertaining the gods might send you to the recycle bin.

Adora

I saw a movie like this once. It had lots of green, and some cool wardrobes. When do I get my mirror shades?

IamMoose

eek!!

Blackcat

So you're working against the wishes of this God?

Sigma

Quetzalcoatl, don't be too harsh. Kerrevon may have a point (albeit rather unscientific) here.

Humans, because we are simply animals, and not as almighty as we think, probably know about 0.0000000001% of the truth - if that. However irrational an arguement or theory may be, I don't think it would be right to dismiss it at the drop of a hat.
I went through a similar phase where I believed the world and all it's inhabitants could just be playing the role in one big 'Truman show' or 'Matrix'.

Dean Anderson

~E~

Sigma

However I think this is a ridiculous assumption to make. People 80 years ago we probably thinking a similar thing, people 800 years or 8000 years also.