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I literally wrote a song about this:

"What if God was just like a number / everywhere and nowhere / and I am the x in the equation / I solve for why"

https://open.spotify.com/track/2stvxCBMjZo7OZLZEOTxWj?si=8g-wCT22TGikfsBdR9qM_A

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Mar 2Liked by Some Guy

Ineffable!

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aeschylus - wrestled with the human condition. Dig for decent translations - refer to classics. Aristotles ethics is good base as any.

I would like AI art based on “Simulation Theory Voodoo Doll Mexican Stand-Off.”

Also disagree it’s decrepitude. A critical mass of life experiences alters us and the world around us. Consider this a philosophical phase transition. Transitions take a tremendous amount of energy. Thank you for writing this.

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Sounds like your family is at least as jacked up as mine is. Congratulations on becoming a good person! And thank you for writing down some cosmic horseshit.

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I'm going to call it the Platonic Realm. Why reinvent the wheel? When I first read Plato, like a good modern boy I dismissed it out of hand; now, I find the challenge of dismissing that realm nearly infinite; it feels willful and absurd to deny its "reality."

Loved this post, of course.

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The but at the end is... Kind of like this worldbuilding idea I had once. I should write it out.

(I don't think I really believe it happens, there's just too much senselessly horrible stuff in the real world to believe in that sort of entity, even adjusting for free will. But I like the concept)

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