I always found “Simulation Theory” to be a lazy Reddit version of Deism to begin with, but especially these days it’s dire just how often undesirables are perceptibly stripped of personhood with that same belief system. It doesn’t pass as a joke for me when too many rich creeps like my-hero sermonize about it on the regular and their sycophantic followers feel more like Main Characters by nodding along.

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      A lot of them never really got over their former religious beliefs before they became euphoric Reddit New Atheists. They don’t stay there, often filling that unhealed god-shaped hole with “singularity” nerd rapture prophecies or maybe just substitute themselves as solipsistic deific beings destined for greatness or even rebound back to religion eventually with up-yours-woke-moralists