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   phoenix to All   
   Re: O.T. --- Today's Gas Fill Up --- O.T   
   19 Feb 26 18:43:10   
   
   XPost: rec.food.cooking, can.politics, alt.illeglas   
   From: j63840576@gmail.com   
      
   Mr Ön!on wrote:   
   > Mars Sellus  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:51:02 +0000   
   >> onion@anon.invalid (Mr Ön!on) wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Mars Sellus  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> jojo  wrote:   
   > [...]   
   >>>>> the only issue with simulation theory is infinities. but i think   
   >>>>> someone had a way out of it, i forgot the reasoning.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> it may be parallel or stacked dimensions and retro-adjusted   
   >>>> timeline breaks...   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> It's layers of the Onion, all the way down and all the way up.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Agreed.   
   >>   
   >> layered but not very interactive.   
   >>   
   >   
   > It's interactive in the sense that we play with and torture our own sims   
   > in Sim City one layer down.  In the next layer up that is running our   
   > own simulation, the operator (god) tortures us for his own amusement.   
   > It's just the same for him, he has his own 'god' in the layer up one   
   > from him.   
   >   
   > The problem with this scenario is that in the infinitude of layers of   
   > sim there will eventually be a superior level where there is a janitor   
   > who unplugs the computer on his level so that he can plug in his   
   > floor-polisher.  It's not unlike the hospital cleaner who unplugs   
   > somebody's life support so that she can plug in her vacuum-cleaner.   
   >   
   Nothing to see here. Janitors are just swabbing the deck and stuff   
   they're not malicious and die thousands of times before accomplishing   
   [flight].   
      
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