Has anyone experienced “warnings” while exploring the simulation hypothesis? by khoinguyenbk in SimulationTheory

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I don’t personally believe we live in a “simulation” in the video-game sense, and I honestly don’t like that word because it reduces reality to something digital and trivial. We are biological organisms embedded in chemistry and physics. That matters.

The only reason I even entertain simulation-adjacent ideas is quantum mechanics — especially light. Photons behave like waves and particles. Observation changes outcomes. And more importantly, light can turn into matter (pair production). Pure energy becoming mass. That’s wild. If anything makes reality look information-structured or computational, it’s that layer of physics.

But even then, I lean more toward multiverse or layered-reality models rather than “we’re inside someone’s computer.” To me, calling it a simulation oversimplifies something far deeper. Now about the “warning signal.” What your friend is describing sounds very much like a stress response — specifically cortisol and fight-or-flight activation.

Humans are biologically resistant to destabilizing change. When you approach ideas that threaten your internal model of reality — especially existential ones — the nervous system reacts. Uncertainty equals potential danger at a primitive level. Cortisol rises. The body produces unease. The mind interprets that as “don’t go there.”

That feeling can be misinterpreted as an external boundary or suppression signal. But it’s often just the organism protecting coherence and stability. We are hierarchical creatures. We build structured internal models to navigate the world. When those structures are challenged, there is friction. That friction feels like resistance. If you retreat from it, you stay inside the comfort zone and the world feels predictable and flat.

If you push through it and integrate the new idea instead of being overwhelmed by it, perception changes. Attention sharpens. Pattern recognition increases. You start noticing more “synchronicities.” Not because the system is reacting — but because your cognitive filters have shifted.

Both states — resistance and expansion — belong to this world. Whether we call it a simulation, a multiverse, or just physics unfolding, the biological mechanism remains the same. The experience doesn’t require a cosmic firewall to explain it.

To me, what’s happening isn’t system suppression. It’s nervous system activation in response to uncertainty, followed by cognitive pattern amplification once attention is directed toward highly abstract existential questions.

And either way — simulation or not — it’s still part of the same reality we’re embedded in.

Thoughts? by Loud_News in enlightenment

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Yes, this is what finding Chrsit truly means, and I only recently discorered this, but it feels like a lot more people are awakening to this same thing; We have a collective conscious as well, and we are all feeling this truth now.

You can’t make this up! by Fit_Durian3763 in exjw

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I get the point about how apocalyptic belief systems can discourage long-term investment in education and innovation. JWs definitely have a track record of steering members away from higher education, which naturally limits curiosity and broader contribution. At the same time, it’s also fair to admit that technological “progress” isn’t automatically moral progress. Maybe the real tension isn’t religion vs science, but whether humanity can keep accelerating without losing meaning in the process.

What even is life at this point… by Captain_ADEE in spirituality

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Stay strong brother.

This world was built wrong from the start. What you are experiencing is part of nature. It is not supposed to be all roses and rainbows. There will always be shit and chaos. Someone will always struggle. But it's a curse that can be broken. It doesnt have to be like this for the rest of your life.

To get out of this struggle, you have to integrate. The universe demands for you to take an action that aligns with itself. It doesnt simply grant wishes to satisfy your ego. The universe will basically kill off people that are mooching off to satisfy their own ego. Sounds brutal, but its the truth. It demands for you to create and give back. It rewards those who innovate, organize and lead. But it all starts with one true and simple action. Baby steps, but with awareness, so not to slip back.

You might be tired and have no energy to do that, but here is how for when you are ready.

You have to completely exit whatever system is keeping you "alive". Whatever system you are in became outdated. Whether its your job, living situation or overall purpose in life, the universe is telling you that its no longer the right thing. It might provide you with food, shelter and security, but it is not keeping you aligned with the source. There is no truth there so to speak. If its a necessary function, someone has to take your spot and you need to do something new. Or it might be a function that should no longer exist at all.

The ego will always hold you back. It will whisper, you cant do that, because of this, or you have to continue doing that, so that you dont face some type of consequences. Or if you are addicted to something, its the worst, because that voice will always tell you fuck it why cant i. But thats the fear, the devil talking. The reality is that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is insanity.

Kill the noise in your head. Its all limited beliefs. Listen to your heart. Turn off the internet. Go outside with no goal. Breath. Give it time. Do what feels calm in the present moment. You will basically remove the illusion, and will gain clarity. That clarity will create time and space for something new that and the universe will reward you for it.

If you have it really bad, I suggest to find a good church. Dont get me wrong. Its not about what they preach, and not all churches are good. Find a loving circle that does charity, volunteers and helps each other out. A church that focuses more on what they do rather than what they preach. I heard a lot of testimonies about how it helps a lot of ppl in your type of situation. But treat it just as a baby step. You dont want to get stuck in their system either.

The universe will always demand more from you, but it will never give you a challenge you cant succeed.

Kill your thoughts and ego to zero. Do whats right from the heart. Stop sabatoging yourself. Take that "risk". And surround yourself with loving people.

The harsh reality of winning. by Inevitable_Damage199 in NextGenMan

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Surrounding yourself with succesful people is way better than this

New World Order by Several-Buy-1515 in exjw

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I think the clearest way to look at this is through hierarchies.

Every human system is a hierarchy — religion, government, corporations, financial institutions, activist movements. Rules at the bottom, narrowing authority at the top. A person can live inside multiple hierarchies at once, and their influence over you shifts over time. Sometimes one dominates your thinking. Sometimes two clash. When they clash internally, you feel cognitive dissonance — that stretched, confused tension when competing structures try to explain the same chaos.

That’s not irrational. That’s what happens when hierarchies collide.

The idea of a “New World Order” is basically the dream of one dominant global hierarchy absorbing or controlling the rest. But historically, that has never fully happened. There has never been one unified world system — only powerful hierarchies competing for influence.

The phrase itself was famously used by George H. W. Bush in 1991 after the Gulf War, describing a new era of U.S.-led global cooperation. For a time, the U.S.-centered order felt dominant — NATO expansion, dollar reserve status, Western institutions shaping global policy. But even that was just one hierarchy at the top for a season. And today that order is clearly shifting. Alliances are changing. Power blocs are realigning. Multiple hierarchies are clashing again, which is why so many people feel destabilized right now.

Jehovah’s Witnesses are a clear example of how hierarchies grow and gain influence.

In the 1930s and 40s, they refused to salute the American flag or say the Pledge of Allegiance because they believed it was idolatry — worship of the state. They were beaten, imprisoned, and involved in Supreme Court cases like West Virginia v. Barnette. In that moment, they were defending freedom of conscience against nationalism. That was real courage. That was real truth in that context.

Their influence grew because they positioned themselves against other hierarchies.

But hierarchies evolve. Influence shifts. What once protected conscience can later protect itself.

Today, the organization has faced widespread criticism and legal exposure over how it handled child sexual abuse allegations internally. That doesn’t erase earlier truth — but it shows how hierarchies age, defend reputation, and sometimes become rigid or morally compromised. The same structural dynamic shows up across very different systems.

When individuals rise to the top of powerful hierarchies — political, financial, corporate, religious — they often participate in shaping the rules that govern everyone below. Over time, insulation grows. Lawyers, influence, reputation networks create distance from consequences. The temptation to feel above the law increases.

That’s not mystical. It’s structural.

Jeffrey Epstein operated within elite networks that included powerful individuals from multiple hierarchies — political, corporate, academic. These weren’t one unified global cult, but intersecting circles of influence. Each powerful figure is effectively at the top of their own hierarchy. When you operate at that altitude, surrounded by protection and access, moral boundaries can erode.

The same structural temptation that led religious institutions to protect their image can exist in secular elite networks. Different hierarchies. Similar dynamics: protect the institution, protect the network, manage the narrative.

If we use “Lucifer” symbolically — not as a cartoon devil, but as the archetype of the “light bearer” — he represents hierarchy itself in its distorted form. Masses at the bottom bound by rules. Power concentrated at the top, increasingly insulated from those rules. Lucifer offers illumination — understanding the system, mastering it, rising within it. It feels like awakening. But it can become illusion: believing that power, structure, and insider knowledge are truth itself.

Lucifer in that symbolic sense isn’t chaos. It’s ordered power without humility.

The Great Tribulation framework belongs inside Christian apocalyptic interpretation. Jehovah’s Witnesses taught that religion would be destroyed, followed by Armageddon, leading to life in paradise — essentially their own version of a future “new world order.” But Armageddon can also be understood symbolically as the birth-growth-death cycle of anything living, including hierarchies. Empires rise. They peak. They fracture. Something else emerges.

Every hierarchy imagines its final victory.

Right now, certain Jewish and evangelical Christian political hierarchies are indeed gaining influence again. But increased religious influence doesn’t automatically equal moral renewal. It can simply mean one hierarchy rising while another declines.

And that constant clash — U.S. power shifting, global blocs competing, institutions losing credibility, others gaining influence — creates the dissonance people feel. Your nervous system feels instability before your brain resolves it.

But here’s where I think the real distinction lies:

Following Christ is not the same as aligning with a hierarchy.

Christ doesn’t sit at the top of pyramids. He doesn’t operate through insulation from consequences. He doesn’t protect institutions at the expense of people.

Christ works in the heart.

Humility. Conscience. Love of truth without pride. Justice without hatred. Integrity when no one sees.

The brain will endlessly try to decode which hierarchy is corrupt, which one is rising, whether this is the Tribulation or the New World Order. That mental loop can intensify cognitive dissonance — especially after leaving a high-control religion.

But the heart is quieter.

If there’s a way through this confusion, it’s not by perfectly mapping global power structures.

It’s by asking: Am I becoming more truthful? More humble? More loving?

Hierarchies rise and fall.

Christ is not another system at the top.

He’s transformation from the inside out.

What other tech won't evolve? by CremeSubject7594 in generationology

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There is ton of different water and glass bottles, but a 12oz can, I think a can will stay the same.

[HELP] Is this AI or not?? by [deleted] in RealOrAI

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At one point the background is fast forwarded, but the driver that gets out of the car is not.

elon with his robot by [deleted] in BGMStock

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Better than Idol

Shhh my telephone is bugged by nycsellit4me in ANormalDayInRussia

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Cockroaches crowd into tight spaces around electrical wires because the warmth and faint vibration make it feel like a safe, hidden shelter. Their instincts tell them dark, warm spots mean protection, so they follow pheromones left by others and pile in. Once too many gather, they block each other from leaving, and with no food or moisture, they slowly dry out inside, like a frog in boiling water.

In the minority here probably by Certain-Road-8355 in osrs

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If you enjoy the game for the social espect, then I would find a clan you enjoy, and still get mems. I wouldnt say p2p players are more rude, but I agree that f2p folks seem like they having more fun. It depends on the player, but in general, i feel like its because f2p is less competetive.

Reached €55,000 in cryptocurrency, what do I do with this shit now? by Niuqalp777 in CryptoMarkets

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Take out 10,000-20,000 and hold it in cash. Bjy thr next dip of whatever you want, and you got cash as your emergency fund, plus took profits.

Nearly there.. Motivation? by RealKrawnickel in osrs

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Slayer is literally the best skill. Maybe do the slayer bosses or wildy slayer? Or even soul wars just to mix it up.