5 Of The Weirdest Theories About Reality | Answers With Joe

For as long as humans have been around, we've been asking why we're here, what's our purpose, and how did all this happen. Along the way, we've come up with some doozies.

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0:00 Intro
2:23 Longest Woo Woo Alarm Ever
3:09 Double Moon Theory
7:02 Last Thursdayism
9:44 Hollow Earth Theory
12:09 Phantom Time Hypothesis
14:50 Universe is a Neural Network
16:53 Sponsor Read and Close

[Aieieo]

Much love but please don’t ever let an alarm go that long again. Chur.

[xjdfghashzkj]

Joe: "I really want this episode to reach 20 minutes but I've already covered everything"

Woo-woo alarm: "I'll handle this"

[auggith]

“our entire reality is nothing more than the dream of an infinite consciousness”. that is one of the coolest but most existentially terrifying things i’ve ever heard

[robertabarnhart]

I sometimes imagine the universe as a cosmic rpg, and the reason bad things happen to good people is their player rolled some bad results. When you die, your player rolls up a new character. We call that "reincarnation".

[agnediciuniene]

When I was a child (6-8) I imagined that my life is a dream of a giant sleeping polar bear and if the bear wakes up, it would be the end of the world.

[alucard]

Imagine an argument between a flat earther and a hollow earther.

[oh_rhythm]

some time after my first serious lsd experience someone asked me about it and i answered somewhat automatically "maybe through a certain set of variables that created human consciousness, there's a bigger consciousness running through the universe",
i know that such thoughts are stereotypical to psychedelics' experiences, but this feeling still haunts me

[vaasnaad]

I actually came up with Last Thursdayism (I called it Last Weekism) in response to some Young Earther telling me that the world was only 6000 years old and everything else that is older was put here just to test our faith. For some reason my example was silly and theirs was not. At least according to them.

[theCodyReeder]

So I usually just listen to his videos. For a minute there I thought something was very wrong. 😆

[Name-kjmv]

Imagine if when you die someone takes a vr headset off your head and says “how was it?”

[blearyeyedchangeling]

I'd love to see you discuss more of these reality theories in the future!!

[martianmurray]

When I was a kid I imagined beyond our universe was a cartoon universe, and every cartoon had it’s own universe. So I was pretty stoked when I heard about the multiverse theory.

[mikejohn]

"This must be Thursday, " said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. "I never could get the hang of Thursdays."

[CharlesVeitch]

Woo woo alarm segment made everyone in the park stare at me.
Thanks Joe

[kayakat]

My grandpa believes that Biggie and Tupac live in a 2D dimension. Idk where he got that from

[KeKe-bvqv]

That last theory is really cool and it's definitely been touched on a bunch of times in the past by philosophers and the like, just not to such an amazing scientific extent.
Like the dreaming butterfly.
Although I'm now getting strong flashbacks to that episode of Adventure Time where Fin puts on the glasses and sees that our reality is just a small component of a bigger reality that's identical, then declares himself super smart.

[robsmitha]

The woo woo alarm generally means you are about to say something I really want to believe.

[MercuryKnight]

Can't resist quoting Charles Fort here: "If there is a universal mind, must it be sane?"

[talkingmudcrab]

I really like the Universe-As-A-Neural-Network theory. That makes more sense than most other theories I've ever heard

[oneghost]

So what you're saying with that last one is, some guy got so into The Elder Scrolls deep lore that they started literally worshipping the Godhead.