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how can I silence my constant internal monologue

life must be so good when you’re an NPC

Posted - September 16, 2020

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  • 7404

    Sing circus music inside your head instead. 

      September 16, 2020 2:26 PM MDT
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  • 44600
      September 16, 2020 5:28 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    That always seems to increase mine! It's still cool though. 


      September 16, 2020 6:02 PM MDT
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  • 1817
    if I wasnt preg I prob would tbh 
    one time I took a hit from a thc pen and I don’t think I had a single thought for like three hours it was so nice 

      September 16, 2020 7:38 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    What's NPC? 

    Sleep. Except then there are dreams, of course. 
      September 16, 2020 6:04 PM MDT
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  • 23570
    I had to look NPC up earlier today, too. 
    :)

    Here are some definitions I found:

    A play on video games "non-player character" mixed with a play on The Simulation Hypothesis.

    An NPC is seemingly a human that is unable to think objectively.

    We exist in a simulated reality and some humans take on the role of NPCs, spouting "opinions" they are programmed to spout and repeating in a cult-like manner.
      September 16, 2020 7:06 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    Wow. That's mind-blowing! 

    Thanks for explaining it so perfectly. I don't even feel like I need to look up more information! 

    You're a good friend, Welby. 
      September 16, 2020 7:37 PM MDT
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  • 23570
    :)
    Thanks, SavvyAnsley. I appreciate that. :)
      September 16, 2020 7:43 PM MDT
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  • 53502

     

      Wait, why don’t you accuse Welby of your go-to “mansplaining”?  You only use that one on me!    Grrrrrrr. 


      September 17, 2020 7:19 AM MDT
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  • 10052
    That's not mansplaining. Is it?

    Yeah, I'm going to stick with MY definition of mansplaining. It's the only thing that makes sense to me. 
      September 19, 2020 3:23 AM MDT
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  • 53502

     

      This is favoritism!  I’m turning you in!  Grrrrr. 

    ~

      September 19, 2020 6:29 AM MDT
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  • 10052
    To whom?

    I'm an ordinarily weird private citizen. I'm allowed to favor people, places and things. 

      September 19, 2020 6:18 PM MDT
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  • 53502

     

      I want, no, I demand that you immediately move Welby out of your spare bedroom and I get to move into it. NO DISCUSSION, NO COMPROMISE!  It’s final!  Stat!




    :[

      September 19, 2020 6:48 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    I like that faux stone wall and the light fixture. 


      September 19, 2020 6:52 PM MDT
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  • 53502
      September 19, 2020 6:56 PM MDT
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  • 44600
    Oh...trump supporters.
      September 17, 2020 8:53 AM MDT
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  • 23570
    :)
    :)



    I'd be that supportive if the person were -- Howard Jones

    or Guy Pearce

    or Laurie Anderson

    or Harriet Tubman

    or Enya

    or Shirley Jackson

    or Flannery O'Connor



    or . . .    :)
      September 17, 2020 8:30 PM MDT
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  • 339
    If this is simulated reality someone is a really lame coder.
      September 17, 2020 2:45 PM MDT
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  • 23570
    I'm so lame I don't even know so much what a coder would do. :)
      September 17, 2020 8:24 PM MDT
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  • 6023
    There is also a scientific theory that our reality IS a computer simulation.
    They've already come up with at least one way to prove it, based on an observable phenomena (which hasn't been observed, yet).
      September 17, 2020 3:08 PM MDT
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  • 23570
    I don't pretend to get it all. :)
    I just quoted some of the definitions I found. To me, it all sounds sort of like that Jim Carrey movie, "The Truman Show."
    :)
      September 17, 2020 8:23 PM MDT
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  • 44600
    'Matrix' fan, eh.
      September 18, 2020 7:45 AM MDT
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  • 6023
    Not really ... I just read it somewhere last year, and thought it was amusing.

    "Afterlife"? A game sequel our characters can get transferred to.
    Unexplained disappearances?  Glitches where people fall between the texture patterns.  
    UFOs?  Gamers trying to insert mods, which are then removed by the developers.
      September 18, 2020 7:53 AM MDT
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  • 5808
    Are you looking for a real answer,
    or more mind stuff?

      September 16, 2020 7:08 PM MDT
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