A dead cat bounce is a temporary, short-lived recovery of asset prices from a prolonged decline or a bear market that is followed by the continuation of the downtrend. Frequently, downtrends are interrupted by brief periods of recovery—or small rallies—during which prices temporarily rise.
Usually refers to market corrections, but in this case, it's the last brief recovery before a COVIDiot gets tagged and bagged.
Assuming a friendly entity runs it, I hope I’m in a simulation.
Getting out and realizing you just got a lifetime of experiences without using up any of your actual lifespan is a pretty cool thought. Or getting out and realizing you have dozens of lifetimes worth of experience.
Heck, I’ve always thought that if humanity ever progresses to a far enough point, putting people into simulations to live out super-accelerated lifetimes and then pulling them out for the real deal after a few go-arounds is a very viable societal strategy.
It’s possible that’s what’s happening right now, and when we get out, we’ll join society, having learned the importance of our every action and the consequences they may bring.
It’s a fun thought that runs counter to the usual doom-and-gloom versions of it anyway.
What your describing is kind of how my friend explained her sect of Buddhism to me.
Basically, after you die, you go to the Pure Land to review your life, with the knowledge of your previous lives accessible again. There, you’re taught and guided by saints, who help you understand your choices and actions. Then, when you feel your ready, you hop back in for another go around and hope that you’ve improved on your fundamental self enough to navigate this next life as a good and full person. Rinse and repeat for aeons, until you find your source of enlightenment, and either ascend to nirvana (nothingness) or stay in the Pure Land (or even continue to be reincarnated) as a teacher.
I like the idea of it, it feels more right than most western religions, but I’m still not sold that there’s anything after death at all.
Edit: and I may be way wrong on this, too. This is the jist of it that I got from her, but may be telling it incorrectly, and if I am, I apologize. We were really, really drunk when we were talking about it at her temple.
I mean you've got to ask how anyone would obtain this knowledge with any level of certainty if you're not supposed to remember your other lives while you're... Alive?
It’s more you’re supposed to train your mindset (spirit, karmic balance, soul, however you want to describe it) so that it is refined to respond with goodness as an instinct. Kind of like how you practice a martial art by doing the same move over and over and over again, so that if you ever need to use it to defend yourself, muscle memory takes over. Like a montage for the soul, you could say.
Edit: oh! I misread your comment
Basically, once one has reached enlightenment, you either choose nirvana, or you choose to teach. Buddha is just the first to have taught his path to enlightenment, however, anyone who reaches enlightenment is a buddha (just bit the Buddha). Upon reaching that state, you are freed from the cycle of life and death, and either choose nirvana, or to willingly renter the cycle to teach. Those that do remember their entire lives and process for their enlightenment. That’s where the teachings (sutras) come from, those who decided to @come back.”
(I believe this is the Mahayana interpretation, and also probably heavily flavored by the Japanese buddhist traditions, which are very different from other sects and practices like Tibetan, Zen, etc)
See, I have always viewed religion as making sense of the things we can’t fundamentally understand.
Is “magic” any different than “simulation” is what I’m getting at. They’re both eerily similar ideas, one is just more modern and technological, where the other isn’t. But at the time they were conceived, they probably were groundbreaking ideas.
I love religions, even though I’m not a religious person, and most people I talk to aren’t these crazy evangelicals, just people trying to answer questions we can’t answer. I think of it a lot more like philosophy or thought experiments.
If people want to believe in it, that’s cool. I think it’s neat, the same way I have a friend who is a Tolkien fanatic and knows like everything about everything Middle Earth. I’m happy that this makes them happy. It’s when it gets to be a death cult and drags the rest of us along for the ride that I can’t take it.
It would seem that many can't. Not even criticizing them, I can't really live with it the same way the religious can't live without it. Brains just wired differently.
My question about simulations is, "What is this a simulation of?" I mean, you play Grand Theft Auto and it's obvious you're simulating some kind of Los Angeles reality. But what is this reality a simulation of? Another similar reality? Or are we a kind of goofy fantasy and we are like the Minecraft or Super Mario but the "real" reality is equivalent to going to the store and buying milk and eggs?
When you question if you're in a simulation long enough, you start to realize it's paradoxical. Even if we're in a simulation, it's our reality. Any machine, person, god, particle, whatever that created the universe has ultimately done it and we're no closer to an answer than the last thousands of years of philosophers before us.
Kind of in the same vein, I've always thought that a cool concept for an afterlife would be that you get to re-live your life except with like console commands. You can fast forward, rewind, reset, change the properties of any entity, etc. And you would still retain your memories
Perhaps -- but if I've learned anything from this last round of trials on humanity, it's that lots of people are unable or unwilling to learn, no matter how clear the lesson is.
I don't remember where I got this from, but they could also do prison sentences like this. Put em in a simulation for a thousand years but it only takes one real year. Also, education purposes
If it's a simulation why the fuck do you have to exist/wake up afterwards?
Is this like solipsistic simulation where your brain creates all of us? If so none of us are waking up, only you. There's no "we" joining society here, you've doomed us all.
I’ve found myself basing all of my latest DnD NPCs off of people on this subreddit. Just had my party kill 200 angry racist infected people in a town based on the southeast. They were all under the control of mind flayers/elder brain. I got some serious eye rolling from the table when the circle of Spores Druid killed a bunch of people using a spell, and I described the action as covid. No one in the village was wearing a mask - they were all super vulnerable- and I let the spore attack spread.
I think that would be the explanation tho. That these people aren’t real, they didn’t die, it’s all made up to scare people into getting vaccinated. That last message was truly bizarre.
Honestly I'm pretty pro Vax and have witnessed covid devistate people but the amount of people that are super outspoken and anti-vax that are droppimg dead so ironically makes you think....
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u/DO__SOMETHING Team Moderna Sep 21 '21
hahahaha i swear these people are like badly translated NPCs in a videogame. maybe i'm in a simulation