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I keep getting collared by a bloke who says that the war in Afghanistan is a cover for our Illuminati Freemason Shapeshifting Lizard masters to corner the market in mind-bending drugs. "It's true," he says, "I heard it on TalkSport". Tell us your stories of encounters with tinfoil hatters.

Thanks to Davros' Granddad

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I can't decide if you are telling this as a nutter story
or if you actually believe it. Just in case you do believe it, you're a fucking idiot.

If you're just taking the piss, please accept my apologies.
(I helped save b3ta! the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 31 Aug 2009, 19:35, 2 replies)
what an interesting reaction
I basically am putting it out there just for the mental exercise, not as a personal belief and certainly not in the effort to "convert" anyone or the like - I can't really imagine what difference it would make one way or another anyway, I'm personally gonna live my life as best I can either way...

but I'm not sure I understand the strength of your reaction - sure it's a weird little theory but ... "a fucking idiot" ? what's particularly stupid about it? That you're responding to I mean?
(I helped save b3ta! Allisade would love to hear from you, Mon 31 Aug 2009, 19:54, closed)
because it's a first year undergrad philosophy bar argument
to try and sound clever.

It's an idiotic argument with more holes than Swiss cheese. It's in the same category as the flying spaghetti monster or Russell's teapot - they are entertaining for confusing 12 year olds and looking cool in student bars but they have no relevance in actual real world.
(I helped save b3ta! the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 31 Aug 2009, 20:28, closed)
It's from
simulation-argument.com

The author of which doesn't actually think "we're probably computer simulations", but that's what the idea has evolved into in popular culture.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Mon 31 Aug 2009, 20:18, closed)
and this is the problem
popular culture shouldn't be allowed to play in the same sandpit as science (or, frankly, reality, a lot of the time) until it learns to know what the fuck it is talking about.
(I helped save b3ta! the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 31 Aug 2009, 20:29, closed)
In fairness...
He thinks it's bearably likely.

I like Nick Bostrom. I just don't understand him.
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