RuJoshin
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I cant nor want to take credit for this article but I did find it pretty amusing so here it is:
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Thats the question, but what, or where is the answer? What if you would wake up tomorrow in a completely new surrounding, not knowing what’s going on. Would you automatically assume you’re dreaming? Are dreams just a glimpse of reality? Or maybe memory leaks? Are dreams just bugs in a perfect computer software? Is life the perfect computer software that’s full of bugs?
What would your reaction be if you were told that everything you have achieved in your life, you already knew you would achieve? What if you planned what you would like to achieve in your life before starting it? What if you’re already dead and you are just living a life you imagined to be perfect and did or didn’t end up that way.
What if the apocalypse already happened but we just don’t know it yet? What if you knew what’s coming so you made a “backup” of yourself? Backups are so common these days, we backup our databases, websites just in case someone hacks them, mobile phone contact lists just in case we buy a new phone or accidentally delete some contacts, we backup contracts and important documents just in case we lose them, we even backup our future kids in sperm banks, just in case we would get sick and not be able to reproduce. We backup money in banks, just in case we lose our job. We have a backup girlfriend, just in case our wife decides to leave or just in case we get bored with our spouse.
What if …
If anything of the above is true, then our life would be an infinite cycle of previous backups and each of our previous lives ended in making backup and running it. What version is your current life? 7.1 beta? Or maybe 1.0 stable … ?
If we think about this in terms of web development, or software development in general, the backup cycle could be true, all software developers that have some experience, at some point in time restored a backup of a software and started improving that backup instead of fixing up the latest version of the website. Or maybe didn’t even restore a backup but rebuilt the whole software.
Are our peers just beta testers giving us feedback on what should we improve to our software? In present, we have many different “beta testers” that give us feedback on our life and what should we do to improve it. Starting from our parents, doctors, interior designers, religion, shrinks, girl friends, boy friends, boss, project managers, etc etc, and at the bottom of our list … ourselves. Some of us tend to give more importance to what others think we should improve. “Hey baby, do you think this shirt looks better with these shoes and this tie?”, “Hey dude, should I go for a mac or a pc” … “Windows vista sucks, you should get Leopard”, “Why winamp when iTunes is so much better”.
If we would find out a way to hack into our lives, could we actually reprogram the die() method? Or maybe alter the output of the echo function while going out with a girl?
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Are we all just backups? - 
he stayed in the room with the creator too long.. lol 
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