Adam Martin's Blog - Posts Tagged "god"

There are no more Star Wars movies, just Star Wars salads.

Everything happens in ones.

Authors will critique mistakes in other novels. But they won't correct the same mistakes in their own. It's as if the left brain doesn't talk to the right brain.

Bad authors have a lot to talk about but nothing to say.

If I imagine myself throwing away a piece of garbage, but I don't imagine the wastebasket, am I littering?

If God can clone himself, would he mistake himself for himself?

Anything based on a true story might as well be based on a false story.

Movie stars are like everybody else. So is everybody else.

DO YOU LIVE IN THE MATRIX?
your brain is already in a vat, it's called your skull.

You never see the "perceiver" of another person, nor yourself.

If everywhere you go feels like a set, that's because it is. Towns don't occur naturally in the wild.

We're all method actors to some degree.

If you were the evil alien race using human beings as cattle, why would you use your superior technology to show movies at Edward's Cinemas that exposes your dark secret to humanity?

If your life has been spent in a vat, the same thing may be happening to the evil aliens, and that scenario may just be a dream, or passing thought, in yet another alien's mind.

The matrix you see in the movies may reside within a cluster of matrixes that have nothing to do with each other.

IF YOU WANT TO TRADE PLACES WITH SOMEONE ELSE...
Ask yourself exactly what you mean by that. Do you wish to be them and retain your own interior reality? If so, doesn't that alter the context of reality for both of you? If you can't choose a result that is unknown until it happens, how is that a benefit to you?

WHY ARE ALIEN INVADERS SO DUMB?
FLAW: The first mistake they make is revealing themselves to the general public BEFORE the invasion.
SOLUTION: Wipe out humanity with a designer virus that kills everyone and leaves everything else in tact. Humans can do it to each other already, so why can't they?

FLAW: After revealing yourself, you do something even dumber. You kill millions of people and level cities to the ground, including city resources and utilities.
SOLUTION: Remain hidden and allow humans to operate resource facilities like gas and power, so that you can spend the opportunity cost doing something else. It's FREE LABOR from your end.

FLAW: You want to destroy human civilization so you can install your own. You have to kill everyone because humans would just get in the way and you want to use your own employees.
SOLUTION: Remain hidden and leak open source software into the population that allows humans to figure out how to build the advanced civilization for you, while thinking they figured it out themselves. Again, FREE LABOR.

FLAW: You want to enslave humans and have them do all sorts of heavy lifting and dangerous side work.
SOLUTION: Use robots. You don't have to wait for them to mature, nor do you have to feed, medicate, cloth, educate, hospitalize, or put up with them.

FLAW: Aliens conduct the battles in person because, for whatever reason, superior races like to show off.
SOLUTION: If you can't do the designer virus, have robots do it. Or, simply stop showing off.

HAVE YOU BEEN ABDUCTED BY ALIENS?
As advanced as they are, they always seem to screw up wiping your memory. It's like having the ability to build a Swiss watch, but you can't tell time.

If an alien can build a flying saucer that has the capability to reach Earth, why bring you on board a high-tech vessel just to open you up with a low-tech cutting tool like a scalpel?

If they can scan and observe your vital signs, organs, and the inner workings of your mind, why isn't the device advanced enough to do so while your asleep in bed, instead of dragging you onto the ship?

It's annoying how advanced alien technology can do this, and this, and this, and this, and even this, but it selectively can't do that, because it says so in the script.

TERM: MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE
I GUARANTEE THIS WILL HAPPEN TO YOU
1) you will forget what this means at the exact moment someone else uses the term and 2) you won't realize they are using the term incorrectly when they say something like 3) "There's no way that can happen at the same time. It's not mutually exclusive."
In logic and probability theory, two events (or propositions) are mutually exclusive or disjoint if they cannot both occur at the same time. A clear example is the set of outcomes of a single coin toss, which can result in either heads or tails, but not both.

ARE YOU LOST IN AN EXPERIENCE MACHINE?
You wake from an experience machine to find your inside another experience machine. But how many machines have you been in? Have you always been in a machine? When did it begin? (see Bird on a Wire, The Thirteenth Floor, and a whole host of other like movies)

DO VIRTUAL MACHINES REQUIRE VIRTUAL TOOLS?
If you could build a virtual machine, would the tools have to be virtual as well? Or would there be some sort of demarcation point at which tangible tools blur into virtual ones?

DOES BUILDING A TIME MACHINE REQUIRE TIME TRAVELING TOOLS?
If you could build a time machine, would it require tools that could travel through time as well?

CAN YOU BUILD AN ARTIFICIAL HUMAN?
That depends. Do you know how to build "consciousness".

ARE YOU LIVING IN A BLOCK UNIVERSE?
According to this theory, the universe is a giant block of the past, present and future existing simultaneously, and all moments are equally real. Sort of like a movie where the frames are stacked like a cube, rather than arranged like a strip.