What are you doing right now?
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Packing up some items that sold on eBay and getting ready to drop them off at the post office. I hate selling on eBay but sometimes that’s how you get things sold. Used to be fine till they started adding ridiculous selling fees and all of that. I also got my mobile banking set up with the new credit union that merged with ours. For the most part I hate the new one but I do like they let you pay your car payment online and you can select for a regular payment or just interest payment or just principal payment the other one didn’t offer that.
A car loan where only an interest payment can be made. Bet the bank with those lones would hope everyone just makes interst only payments so the loans are never paid off.
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My understanding is it's like an avatar of our real self, so you're not really 1s and 0's but something else, probably beyond understanding. It's fun to think about. Point being is you don't really die, it's more like a video game where your "real" self is the controller, and our experience now is the simulation. So yeah, it's reincarnation, but within the simulation?There's a difference between reincarnation and "living in a computational simulation" like in the "Matrix" and getting rebooted at some point into another computational simulation. I think reincarnation is possible, but we aren't all just a bunch of 1s and 0s inside some "computer simulation" in cyberspace. Dudes watched the Matrix too many times while stoned.
IDK, who cares lol.
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Makes for good movie plots that parallel along those lines. But the real question is can people choose there next "avatar" and "video game" controller for the next reincarnation level?
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I just got an email that my first Niagara Falls walking tour of the year was cancelled. It was a big group too, it was going to be 12 people for this Saturday. That’s a big chunk of money that our company is missing out on now 
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Would hard mode be being born with a Chrysler and a sludged up engine?Makes for good movie plots that parallel along those lines. But the real question is can people choose there next "avatar" and "video game" controller for the next reincarnation level?
Maybe you can choose different timelines in admin mode as well.
Here's a few interesting and entertaining analogies:
The Hardware & Mechanics
1. The Speed of Light = Server Rendering Limit Nothing can travel faster than light because that is the maximum clock speed of the universe's processor. It’s the highest framerate the server can render physical objects without the physics engine crashing.2. Déjà Vu = Latency / Ping Spike Your brain processes reality in a continuous stream of data packets. Déjà vu is a momentary lag in the server connection. The system stutters, and your brain accidentally downloads the exact same data packet twice in a row, making it feel like it already happened.
3. Sleep = Server Maintenance & Defragmentation Sleep isn't just resting; it's clearing the RAM. Dreams are the "Sandbox Environment"—a safe, offline testing server where your brain runs simulations (nightmares or fantasies) to test your emotional code without real-world consequences.
4. The Akashic Records = The Master Cloud / GitHub The concept that all knowledge of the past, present, and future exists in one ethereal library is just a description of the Master Server. It’s the ultimate GitHub repository where every version history of the universe is permanently backed up.
The Software & Programming
5. Meditation = Entering "Safe Mode"When you meditate and quiet your mind, you are opening the Task Manager and "Force Quitting" all the background apps (anxiety, planning, memory) that are draining your CPU. You are entering Safe Mode to let the operating system cool down.6. Intuition (Gut Feeling) = Push Notifications Your subconscious brain is a supercomputer processing millions of variables per second in the background. When it solves a problem before your logical brain does, it sends a high-priority "Push Notification" to your stomach.
7. Karma = Technical Debt Karma isn't a cosmic judge punishing you; it's just unclosed loops in your code. If you write sloppy code (bad actions), it creates "technical debt." Eventually, the system will force you to go back and debug that code, or the program will keep crashing in the exact same way.
8. Past Lives = Unformatted Hard Drives When an avatar dies, the hard drive is supposed to be wiped clean before the "Player" logs into a new character. Sometimes, the reformatting process misses a partition, leaving residual, unerased memory files from the previous installation.
The Network & Connections
9. Prayers = Support Tickets Praying is submitting a high-priority support ticket to the Server Admin. Just like IT, the Admin doesn't always answer with a "Yes." Sometimes the answer is "Working as intended," or "You have the tools to fix this yourself."10. Remote Viewing = Querying the Database As we discussed, Remote Viewing is bypassing the Avatar's logical interface and running a direct SQL query (SELECT * FROM Reality WHERE Coordinate = 3391). You are fetching raw data from the server using a hashed URL.
11. Telepathy = P2P (Peer-to-Peer) Connection Normally, humans communicate by sending data to the main server (speaking aloud into the physical world) and the other person downloads it (hearing). Telepathy is just turning on AirDrop. It’s a localized, Bluetooth-style exchange of data packets that bypasses the main router.
12. Manifestation = The Recommendation Algorithm Manifesting isn't magic; it's the TikTok algorithm. The Simulation serves you more of what you dwell on. If your "view time" is focused entirely on lack, anger, and stress, the algorithm says, "They love this content, give them more." If you focus on abundance, the algorithm rewrites your feed to show you opportunities.
13. Synchronicities = Easter Eggs & Overlapping Variables When you see the number 11:11 everywhere, or you think of a friend and they instantly text you, it’s not a coincidence. It is an algorithmic Easter Egg, or two lines of code temporarily overlapping in the rendering engine because they share the same frequency tag.
14. Ghosts / Hauntings = Corrupted Legacy Code A haunting is a geographic server glitch. A traumatic or highly energetic event left a corrupted file looping in a specific location. The "ghost" isn't a conscious being; it's a holographic GIF playing on repeat because the server failed to delete the cache.
15. Enlightenment / Nirvana = Root Access Enlightenment is breaking the fourth wall. It is the moment the Avatar realizes they are not the software, but the Programmer. You achieve "Root/Admin Access" and realize the entire simulation is running inside of you, not the other way around.
Took the day off to close on a home on a shared equity agreement. Older home in a high end neighborhood with a retired broke home owner that can't afford upgrading it before selling to downsize to a condo.
Its finally warming up (just in time for more snow, rain and freezing temperatures) so it's time to get out, get some walking in. To make things interesting I took the 17HMR along. Snagged some gophers and even spotted the male pheasant out for a burn.
Out wandering the streets after dark again. I'll probably go 5 miles or so tonight.
Whoever came up with that has some pretty imaginative analogy theories. What's happening in the "software" when someone goes nuts and commits all kinds of crazy crimes - "malware/virus" infection, lol? Flat Earthers and Moon Landing deniers also have all kinds of "theories" (with flimsy "facts" to try and support) on why they think they aren't true. There is actually a Flat Earth Society that touts all kinds of their "facts" (theories without proof) to support the belief of Flat Earth.
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I'm not saying this is how it is, just one idea, among many religions and possibilities.
If those documented cases of kids remembering past lives are actually real, which some scientists claim to have proven using the scientific method, it means consciousness might work like quantum physics where data is transferred but never destroyed. That's a way more solid framework for an afterlife than religion or near-death experiences.
What religion has more solid proof than this?
Think about it. If these kids really have unlearned info from someone who died, shouldn't we seriously look into that? It could mean we aren't just biological hardware.
I'd be terrified of permanent non-existence and losing the chance to ever exist again. But looking at reality this way makes me think there is a complex system running behind the scenes. While religions give us good moral templates, the afterlife might just be an advanced physics framework that recycles our data instead of a literal heaven or hell. Maybe there is a karma factor, who knows, all theoretical, too much nuance.
If our consciousness is actually preserved and recycled, be it a simulation, reincarnation, etc, wouldn't that be more...comforting?
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Me too
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And has an hour glass shaped figure.
