What were some big strategy mistakes? Specifically about votes.

I think that voting Beth off instead of Owen, WHO ATE THE WHOLE PLATE OF RIBS, was horrible. They were more worried about some superstition rather than who was really the reason they lost. Highly illogical.

I think it was a mistake keeping Lindsay and voting off noah in the dodgeball challenge. Why, because she has only been useful in the extreme sports challenge! She screws up more then being useful! At least Noah had a brain, so he would have been smart enough to know what not to do, unlike Lindsay!

I hate Lindsay!!!!!!!!!!

So why isn't there a real TDI? We aren't puppets in some producers plan, we control our destiny. Oe do we, well, I guess if you were to take the Enlightened approach, we are all created by a supreme being who has endowed us with free will. There is hatred and evil because of free will but if there were not free will then we probably wouldn't be alive, so we DO have free will. Then again the older, Catholic argument is that whatever happens, it's God's plan. From birth to war, that's God. God is controlling everyone to an extent in this theory, this could make it that we are being controlled but not within our knowledge.

Then again, if we were cartoon characters, would we know. If we were in a computer simulation, would we know? What if our cartoon was stopped, what if someone wiped the hard drive we are on? Are we meaningless pawns worshipping animators/end users? We can't really know but you do wonder.

As a final thought, state defensably that we are or are not in a cartoon/computer sim. You must be able to defend your argument.

My question also raises the point. Do we exist? You have to define existence because if we are in a simulation of some sort, we could never know . I'll point to the Sims of our SimCity and Sims games, they probably don't know that they're in a simulation but we certainly do. This makes it all the more likely that we are not exactly "real" while we are relatively real to everything around us. Nothing does empirically exist, it just exists relative to what surrounds it.

I'd like to point to Descartes' quote "Cogito, ergo sum" or "I think, therefore I am." This means that if we are thinking about whether or not we exist, we must exist relative to this place we are in. If we are in simulation, what does this make God? The programmer, the beings that created us.

And in case your head hasn't imploded yet, what if the beings that created the simulation that we are in are in a simulation themselves?

This has opened my mind. I now realize that nothing really does exist, it just seems to exist relative to it's surroundings.

When I say "real version of TDI" know I mean one that we can enter. We may not be real but it's real to us.

And even if we are in a simulation/cartoon, it doesn't matter. We still should live our lives and fix our problems, if we are indeed in a simulation, how could it be different than being materially real? It's the only reality we get so we should help the simulation we may be in the most we can. But still, YAY! I'm in a computer that can make trillions of galaxies and give its tiny, tiny, infinitesimally unimportant to the whole sim, life forms conscious thought!