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t so I'm not making that claim. I'm not your doctor don't take my word for anything. It is true that there are an increasing number of anecdotal claims of somebody who was in stage four stage five had tried all the regular things none of them worked went on ivermectin or there's another one like it has some other name that's similar to it and there are anecdotal cases of people who are still aroun…

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it would be like to be Trump for eighty years or however long he lives? And Elon Musk doesn't Elon Musk's life look like literally an adventure he signed up for? All right here's your adventure. You're going to be the richest man on earth. You're going to build electric cars batteries. You're going to be helping the president. Yeah you'll be hanging out with the president pretty much every day. He'll be listening to you of course. You'll be building a rocket ship to Mars to make us interplanetary. Now how in the world does that happen naturally? It sounds exactly like a pre-written path that somebody signed up for and now he's just enjoying the path he went on.

Take me for example. I have not had a problem free life but what are the odds that at six years old I knew I would be a famous cartoonist? How did I know that? How did I also know that I would spend lots of time talking to large audiences but not about cartooning necessarily and then here we are. How did I know that was going to happen when I was a child? Did I make it happen because it was in my head? You know how did Tiger Woods know he was going to be a golfer at like two? It feels like he signed up for that adventure. And you know when I became a famous cartoonist it didn't seem real. It just seemed like some adventure I'd signed up for and suddenly everything just came to me in ways that I couldn't have predicted.

So if most of the world are NPCs but some of us are game players then I may have at least one more mission because I was thinking if I had signed up for this life and it was sort of mapped out said all right at this age you're going to do this at this age you're going to solve this problem for some people at this age you'll help people lose weight or something. Weird things that I would never have predicted would be in my resume. And then when you get to a certain age what the adventure just ends. I feel like I've got at least one good adventure left in me and it's just sort of like tapping me on the shoulder now. I know what it is but you don't know yet but man am I getting tapped on the s

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houlder hard. So we'll find out. I feel like I'm going to find out for sure if this is a simulation because I'm on a path to trying something that if it works is going to blow your mind. If it doesn't work well maybe I wasn't in a simulation after all but we'll see. More on that later. Ladies and gentlemen I'm going to go talk to the people on Locals privately because they're so awesome. The rest…

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