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Death Is The Last Frontier In The Simulator
To be stuck in a simulator of the gateway project is weird, to say the least. How do I know I am not alive? I watch as people die and come back to life. Meaning? Bob Barker. I assure you he died several times. MeatLoaf in 2014 wrecked his car, killing him only for him to die again elsewhere. Maybe death is not what one would expect.
Maybe consciousness continues until it meets an ending in some sort of programmed book outcome. The book of Enoch might be truth. We all live until our own personalized ending of hell fire.
From Guest Contributor Clinton Siegle
The Engineers Play Chess
Christos and Lieberman, veteran development engineers, played chess every lunch hour. Watson, a young engineer, joined the project, watched them play and immediately starting making unwanted comments. They put up with him for two weeks.
One day Christos briefly studied the board, then moved Knight to F4.
"That's a strange move," Watson commented.
Lieberman immediately moved rook to H6.
"That doesn't make sense. What did you do that for?" Watson demanded.
The two chess players said nothing, just stared at him.
"OK, I'm leaving," Watson finally said.
"Check," said Christos and reset his pieces.
"Mate," Lieberman added and did likewise.
From Guest Contributor Ronald Larsen
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