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 No.305874

If I were living inside a virtual simulation as a kind of player inhabiting this world, I would start wondering whether the point of the simulation might actually be to experience suffering. What purpose would that serve? Maybe it exists because a limitless state of existence would quickly collapse into emptiness. If I somehow became godlike one day, able to feel endless pleasure without risk or resistance, I might saturate myself instantly and render pleasure meaningless. Without contrast, sensation would flatten, and awareness would have nothing left to react to. In that state, boredom would not just be occasional but absolute, because nothing could surprise me or matter in any real way.

So perhaps I would deliberately choose limitation and pain, not out of cruelty toward myself but out of a search for novelty and significance. By placing myself inside a constrained life with uncertainty, struggle, and consequence, experiences could regain weight and texture. Suffering would then act as the mechanism that restores intensity to existence, allowing effort, growth, attachment, and value to exist at all. In that sense, the simulation would not be about punishment but about creating conditions where meaning becomes possible, where I could care about outcomes again instead of drifting through a perfect but empty infinity.

 No.305876

We're not in a virtual simulation because there is no exit button nor an interface we're meatbags tortured endlessly for no reason whatsoever.

Trust me nobody would choose pain and suffering over a life full of joy and pleasure, your statement is rather a cope to the existence of pain and suffering, a Stockholm syndrome.

My stance is that we're products of unintelligent evolution, a deformed complexity that will be annihilated by nature.

 No.305877

>if i were godlike i'd act like a human
i don't blame you but you need to give your thoughts a ten thousand more iterations before you figure it out

 No.305878

>>305877
You get it

 No.305887

>>305877
If you were God, existence would begin as limitless possibility. Every sensation, every emotion, every universe, every outcome would be available to you at once, and nothing would be out of reach. You could create joy without effort, erase pain without consequence, and understand every truth instantly. But over an eternity, even infinity would become familiar. Surprise would fade because nothing could ever truly be unknown, and desire would weaken because nothing would ever be unattainable. The absence of uncertainty would quietly drain meaning from experience, leaving perfection feeling strangely empty.

Eventually, you might search for something you no longer possessed: genuine discovery. The only way to rediscover wonder would be to abandon omniscience, to step inside a fragile and limited perspective. You would choose to forget your own nature and live as something small, confused, and temporary, pretending to be a non-god so that curiosity, fear, hope, and growth could exist again. By accepting boundaries and vulnerability, every moment would regain weight, and every decision would matter. In losing everything you once had, you would finally experience something you never could as God: the feeling of not knowing what comes next.

 No.305889

>>305887
9999 more

 No.305890

>>305889
If you were an omnipotent god, you could drown yourself in pleasure without limit. Every moment would be an endless reservoir of sensation, a perfect and inexhaustible satisfaction available at will. There would be no hunger, no anticipation, no uncertainty, only fulfillment repeating forever. Yet that perfection might trap you in sameness, a cycle where nothing new could ever truly occur, because nothing could ever be missing. When experience has no contrast, it stops feeling like experience at all.

In that state, eternity would blur into stillness. Without risk, loss, or change, pleasure would lose its meaning and collapse into a constant background noise. You would exist, but never move forward, never discover, never grow. The question then becomes unsettling: if consciousness cannot change, cannot struggle, cannot surprise itself, is that existence any different from death, or merely a motionless awareness pretending to be alive?

 No.305894

>>305877
This, trying to grasp the mannerisms and thoughts of a god using human intelligence is inherently paradoxical since humans will always be weighed down by their biological burdens and mortal limitations. If you were a good you wouldn't care about pleasure and suffering or any human notion for that matter.

 No.305895

>>305894
otoh think about how bad op feels. here he brought something he thought was enlightening thoughts and now he has to face my cynical responses.

ironically such responses were what killed me inside so i guess i'm just returning to the world what i received from it or whatever.

now i kinda feel like a bad person, guess i'll go ruminate or something



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