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Yeah, and better yet the amount of people who swallow such a statement without a second thought. The level of very little critical reasoning in people is truly frightening.

Yeah, that's when I believe I live in a Matrix; not really but so hard for some to pull out of indoctrination they have soaked up all there life.

I've been on a similar path with gnosticism and the simulation hypothesis; it has grown on me and my research over the past two years.