Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for April 28, 2016
Transcript:
Stan! Oh my God! Listen! We're living in a virtual reality! None of this is real! Huh? But like... Reality isn't so great. Why would anyone make a whole virtuality that's just okay? We're a class project. What? This reality... It's a university assignment for celestial beings. It was a group project for four of them, but only one of them did any actual work! That's why there are lots of planets, but few intelligences! That's why you get quantum uncertainty when you look too closely at things. That's why the rules for getting into heaven seem arbitrary and cobbled together. The age of miracles was the one good being trying to slap some fixes on reality right before the assignment was due. So... Everything I will ever experience... Everything I could ever experience is... A C+
Wilde Bill over 8 years ago
Evidence? Hah, thought so. You’re just trying to start a new religion.
Ida No over 8 years ago
And on the 6th day, He overslept and handed in the assignment without completing half of the footnotes, or any of the citations.
jaemcats over 8 years ago
I’ve read this idea before. It was a court case about allowing religion in schools. A scifi short story. Don’t remember the name but it was good. At the end our program was taking up too much space and starting to crash and we got ctrl, alt, delete.
emptc12 over 8 years ago
I wrote a story like this in school almost exactly forty years ago, “In the Beginning.” Just saying. More and more I realize it was and is probably true that student angels are to blame. I mean, look at this Universe: All the wasted space!
Hapthorn over 8 years ago
I wrote a story once called “So Loved” that appeared in a couple of anthologies. The premise was that our universe is just a rough draft of the perfect finished product. The “student” who made it couldn’t bear to dispose of it, so we’re all stuck in it — along with him.
PoodleGroomer over 8 years ago
They used OpenOffice instead of Microsoft and it isn’t always compatible with everything.
ars731 over 8 years ago
This makes an frighting amount of sense
Coyoty Premium Member over 8 years ago
We’re actually living in a MUCK that got taken over by a corporation that threw out everything imaginative it didn’t understand or care about. People remember Atlantis and unicorns because they existed, but now it’s all “real world”.