Before covid everyone was shaking each others hands. I can guarantee you that not all the handshakes I've had were clean, because I sometimes didn't wash my hands after having a wank.
I'm pretty much on board, though how much anyone can agree is a matter of relativity.
We know about the closest stars and the planets within them, and based off spectrometry, we're confident the planets "close" to us haven't had life, though they might be capable.
The chances of there being no mass extinction events in the millions of years following abiogenesis is arguably smaller than surviving the five or so we've had. Given everything we know about astrophysics, we owe the asteroids a few clean hits, we have been astronomically lucky, and that's not even taking into consideration every other cause of mass extinction.
15 billion years is still considered early in the grand scheme of things, it's likely that we are the early ones. A billion years head start is plausible, sure, but it's certainly less plausible than our existence.
All of this is to say that life is rare enough without them being a stones throw away.
And this is all disregarding any possible intent behind a visit. Any being capable of space travel does not need our resources.
Unless they're sex tourists, which would explain all the anal probing.
I see your olfactory pallette is not very refined, novice stench hunter. Teenage boys who don't shower often, and rich slaveowning cops have very different scents.
About three years ago I came across a rich slaveowning teenage boy who didn't shower often.
The overlap created this dangerous aroma which waft over me like an Appalachia Egg Fart. I wish I could have bottled it for my kids.
On the "Mario Kart Tour" sub, I made a meme during the games "Election" event. I made vague but obvious comparisons to Trump/Mario Vs Biden/Luigi.
Everyone in the comments were having fun, there was no complaining, and the post even reached the homepage.
Then the fucking mods deleted my shit and pissed the community off. I got universal support and the sub was filled with posts requesting the mods to undelete my meme.
It sounds like you are blaming yourself, which is hard not to do when everything seems futile - but how you frame things is part of CBT.
You are responsible for the choices you make, but there's a difference between learning, and beating yourself up.
Once you understand the underlying causes for your decisions, you become a different person, and it becomes harder to associate those old thoughts to who you are now.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Be cautious of anyone who will accept the task.
I used to think my parents had shit figured out, then I realised how dumb they were.
Then I thought I had shit figured out, then I realised how dumb I was.
Then I thought I found my own guru who had shit figured out, but then I realised how dumb they were.
If you get lucky and find someone who provides valuable insights, understand this is gambling - eventually they will give bad advice.
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I'm tempted to believe in reality, some kind of "mutually assured destruction" scenario would occur.
If I was to create a simulation, I would add in a recursive condition wherein the detection of another simulation would crash the system.
But the theme the episode really touched on was whether it was right to tell another the truth about reality. Maybe that reality isn't another layer up, but that God exists, or maybe not.
Assuming you found out we really were in a simulation, what is the right thing to do? Force everyone to learn the truth? Hide your knowledge of it?
If you thought: "I can tell the people who want to know", you've just created a cult.
Personally, I'm convinced we are not in a simulation. But that's only assuming the level above us is somewhat similar (a universe that started with a big bang and formed stars and planets and evolution etc).
Think of it this way: an advanced society would need to evolve more than us, meaning more filters to pass before achieving this kind of power. This means unlimited power and unlimited processing power.
Seems great in practice, but wait until someone with the slightest hint of paranoia misattributes a threat against their car, to a threat against their safety.
One of three things happen:
Driver freaks out and freezes up.
Driver freaks out and speeds away (possibly causing an accident)
Driver freaks out and aims their car at you and puts their foot down.
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Before covid everyone was shaking each others hands. I can guarantee you that not all the handshakes I've had were clean, because I sometimes didn't wash my hands after having a wank.