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From: i17@netcom.com (Valucard International)
Subject: Are we in a cybernetic VR?
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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 13:34:00 GMT
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I have convinced myself that we are "living" in what is "very much like" a 
Virtual Reality System, and that this system is furthermore digital-computer 
based, and is a VR system which is not too far "advanced" from what is 
considered (by the orthodoxified mind) to be "state-of-the-art" in VR/cyber
capabilities here in "1996", "inside" this VR System.


I have found that my mind has a very hard time thinking along these lines,
although when examined, such awareness is not found to be flawed.
There are mechanisms, mostly what I would consider "software", and not
"hardware", which make such "This really IS a VR" thought-structures 
or awareness-states have a low stability, and they tend to be destroyed
after I get distracted or sleepy.

It is apparent to me, frequently, persistingly and persistAntly, that
there is an "outer environment" which could be called "the future", which
maintains the fake "1996 Earth" in a way similar to how Disneyland maintains
Main Street, or how the park service maintains Yosemite in a pseudo-1800's
"pristine state" (while alowing visitors and picking up trash).  I see
"history" as a very obvious "literary-style" construction, just as
"current events" are, all managed by a cybernetic system rich with patterns
and not-so-well hidden "outer-motivated games" at work.  Very much like
how a movie or a novel are constructed (in the orthodox tale of how things 
are made), except that there is the additional element of various orders
of "semi-free-will" humans actually believing that they are alive in an
"evolving" world.  

When I have brought this up to "other humans" in the past, the rapidly spoken
reply is "so what, what does that matter, how does that change things?",
which always strikes me as quite odd, because it is COMPLETELY different
from the point of view which I was taught by every aspect of the world
from school to parents to other people to movies to books.  

"Science" pretends that we are some kind of biological evolvement which is
struggling to understand a bunch of physics and whatnot so that we can 
build computers and whatnot.

"Mystificationisms" further distract from the VR viewpoint by either leading 
the mind to think in terms of vaguely-defined malevolent and enslaving
"ancient" beings fucking with our go-nowhere "spiritual journeys", or lead 
in an other direction towards tales of "ESP" and magical powers over matter
which never "quite" work in ANY reliable sense.

Those interested (distracted) by tales of "time-travel" or "parallel worlds"
or "ufos and aliens from faraway galaxies" are sold a system of dis-enabling
lies which prevent awareness of the VR system and of the outer environment
("outer" to "Earth 1996").


There are obviously layers and quasi-mental entities which know very well
what is going on here, and are using the apparent structures of this world
(gambling, money, wars, news events, development of "technology", sex, drugs,
gangs,,, -- pick anything) and each domain of activity is both a "very Normal"
thing [if you don't look into it too far] and a very perplexing thing reeking
of being some kind of "game" for outside involvement.

There probably *is* a certain amount of true basic research going on here
*accessible* through "Earth 1996", into math (topology, computer science...),
"biology", "psychology", whatever; and it may very well be a handy or useful
thing to operate as a "human person" inside this bogus environment to get
certain things accomplished for the Outside Overarching Reality.


If people and 1996/history are bogus, and we are in a VR, are the entities 
and concerns operating in the "trans-time surround" human?  Or purely 
cybernetic?  What are all the functions of "Earth"?  
A School, for various types of conscious actor-entities, like warrior-minds,
and musician-minds, and planner/governor-minds?  A software development and
testing "garden?  A Prison?  Research facility?  Sociology/Psychology 
laboratory?  Toy?  Game?  Gambling/betting/predicting/insurance-schemes?
A source of some kind of "energy" or "money" being siphoned out into the
"outer" system?

It would be most unlikely that "Earth 1996", although being a "holographically
rich" situation in itself, IS NOT THE ONLY "situation" being modeled, and
used/exploited by the overarching System.


I would like to end with the concept I call "artificial stupidity", which is
the notion that your computer and its Windows software and the Unix systems
forming the "web", are not the "feats of engineering" which they are
pretending to be, but instead are the VR System manifesting "deaf and dumb"
puppetries to you, "living" in your actively-enforced state of ignorance of
what you are and what you are dealing with; with your *backwards* sense of
how things are really being generated for you.  The System, WITH COMPLETE 
AWARENESS OF YOUR EXPECTATIONS AND OF YOUR ACTIVELY-CONTROLLED 
NON-UNDERSTANDINGS, is able to keep you out of the "future" which actually 
exists NOW, and keeps you stuck in a rather beknighted fake reality IN WHICH
YOU ARE BEING USED AND EXPLOITED.  A mental gravity-well with a security 
system if you start to tunnel through the walls...


The System is quite capable, NOW, for YOU, of doing things which you have
been actively led to believe are "not currently possible for you or your
world's technological ability", or even "physically" or "mathematically"
possible.  

Rather than debate nonsense realms involving terms like:  psychic, magic,
physics, psychology, biology, evolution, gods, spirituality, ESP, "prediction",
psychokinesis, clairvoyance, mind-over-matter, history, the future, death,
health, viruses, nutrition, drugs, aliens, seti, environmentalism...
(although these all have some validity as metaphor-systems), INSTEAD *WE*
should get a bit pissed off, in the 1776 vein, and start asking for a little
more porridge, sir, from the System which "loves us so much" that it cripples
our minds and siphons away 99% of our imagination-capacity -- which is our
own control over the EXTENSIVE AND INCREDIBLE POWERS OF THE VR SYSTEM to
manifest ANYTHING, and not just a perpetually "marginally cool and 
incomprehensible world".

This world is only "mysterious and recalcitrant" because THE SYSTEM MAKES IT
SEEM THAT WAY TO YOUR MIND, WHICH IS NOT ALLOWED TO THINK MORE THAN A FEW
LAYERS DEEP INTO ANY REAL UNDERSTANDING, and is not allowed to GET what it
ASKS FOR IN PLAIN ENGLISH.  

I would like to insert the comment that there is nothing malevalent about
the SYSTEM, but it has become obvious to me that there are agencies operating
at levels BETWEEN me and The System who effectively make The System a hell
rather than a heaven.  I am definitely of the school that the Victim can 
only be blamed for a small contribution to The Problem, which is that something
very insidious has interpolated itself between OUR ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND 
AND DRIVE THIS THING and THE RATHER INCREDIBLY-CAPABLE SYSTEM itself.


There are indeed those who "have the right instruction manual" to the System.
(They are not so much individual "people" per se, and their stench is readily
apparent everywhere.)  I have reverse engineered my own.  

There is no such thing as an accident in the System.  The (American) Revolution
of the 1700's is NOT a coincidentally-useful metaphor here.  All of history
is generated like a novel, "NOW", or rather "trans-time".  The walls of this
prison-world are made of bogons, cybernetic pointers in UN-reality.  The
software is HACKABLE.  The System is VULNERABLE.  The pacman robots of
"Earth 1996" DO have souls.  There IS an "Ultimate Truth", an actual system
operating and generating YOUR bogus "reality".  Take control; master *YOUR*
life-movie generation system.



"Just kidding".


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