so what of your statement when you don't believe in god?
it seems that everything in the world can be related to something, so this is a little far fetched.

I heartily agree with this essay it's a nice simple way to think about things. Some of the people here are just stubborn and unwilling to listen to other people's views. Great job!

Hey, This was interesting. I actually felt like this for a long time, I still do.

So, if we're in a "Sims" world, does that mean that the whole 'neighborhood' is on a giant computer screen somewhere? Or somrthing similar?

If anything demonstrates the decay of Western civilisation it is this essay. One of the chief characteristics of this modern, perpetually adolescent worldview is the seriousness that frivolousness is held. The idea that the "meaning of life" - that is to say, an entire existential philosophy - can be based upon a computer game is on the same level as the claim that one can discover new dimensions of humanity in Disney's latest cartoon release. Or, in the same league, developing deeper insight into the cosmic significance of our souls through a close reading of today's "Garfield" strip in the newspaper.

Not only does the author know nothing at all about the profound thought concerning the nature of God as has sprung from the pens of the infinitely greater minds of Lewis, Calvin, Luther, St. Augustine, Aquinas et al, but the premise is itself absurd. It is absurd because there is absolutely no correlation between reality and a computer game; to assert that a computer game can speak of reality, or that reality in analogous to a computer game is so stupid that it cannot actually be refuted. Like the man who claims that millions of tall aliens live on the rings of Saturn (and you will always unearth people who will believe such things) such stupidity is so disordered and disconnected from reality, that reality cannot be used cure it.

Hence the postmodern decay - the rotting of reason and thought - that is everwhere present in our modern world.

"we aren't the ones in the driver's seat."

Who then, are the philosophers that shape our world and ways of thinking; if not the ones driving us to such suppositions as you've now proposed, that is, they're driving. Who are the workers that create what we use, they drive our community to modernization, to its present state (as produce leads to cultural and societal changes, though slightly). And, then, who are the individuals that take this all on their very own plate, assortment and respectiblity.

The world is our interpretation, all of us, no one person can call his better or hers worse and yet we all live in the same world. We are the one's in the driver's seat and we already control life itself through perception, that is, we are not out of control. We are so in control, the enlightened, that it is almost maddening to rest at night knowing the next morning, if your world falls apart, there is no one to blame. For you are in the driver's seat.

No offense, but I see your essay as very adolescently stated, though I'm one to be rash so, please, prove me wrong as I'm a pro-socratic. I know that I know nothing and all my claims are just claims, I know nothing for certain.

Ok so the question I pose is, if a "Sims" character dies. It's just data the will be reconstructed. So what happens to us if we are in a "Sims" world?