I have been wanting to ask this question for a little while as well, hang on a moment please, " I think,therefore I am" maybe I was programmed to say that? seriously it will not be too long before they send the cyborgs in to police us, and if  you think that the national guard are ruthless and cruel in their methods wait till these guy's start to play, those new robots built by Honda and Sony are not built for fun folks.

   From a practical, rather than a philosophical, standpoint, I don't believe anyone is in a simulation unless someone is able to make a huge profit out of it, to make up for the huge expense incurred.  At this point, I don't see how such a profit could be made.
     As for those speculations about the existence of God, it appears to me unlikely that we could discover Him unaided.  But if He revealed Himself to us, we could know Him.  And that is the stated purpose of the Bible (see John 20:31).

"do you believe in god?" it just KILLS me when people ask that question as if there is some literal mutual definition they're starting off with.  these same people, who would most likely agree that god is ineffable, at the very same moment would not recognize the contradictory apriori assumption that had to exist before the question is even asked.  god is not like a banana that you can both see and touch and discuss from a mutually understood beginning, yet god is discussed as if "it" is.

all events are neutral, but as we perceive them, it is our brains that make them good/bad, hard/easy, this/that.  a war, for instance, has good guys and bad guys on both sides and it depends on the side we're on as to how we view who is who.

as for us living in a simulation, yes, we absolutely do.  but it's creation is not that of some alien beings from another part of the universe, or the ultimate technological achievement of humankind.  it's of our own doing, our very own brains, programmed from our mothers' wombs, projecting, filtering and processing the reality in front of us, turning it into our individual "story" of reality instead of reality itself.  if that isn't a simulation, i don't know what is.

          I gave the "christ is not coming back" guy 5 points because he is right, in his own way.  I will clarify by saying that you cannot know the Truth about existense untill you speak to the creator of that existence.  That is true in any program.  In this case you will have to speak directly with god.  As to how to do that is perplexing to me.  There are many ideas as to how.  For most that I have met, including myself, it just happenned.

           I know all the truth.  The Matrix was fun.  It was a play on philosophy.  There are parts of our existence that are not in the space/time continuum, so what! This dimension of "physical" is very real indeed, but not as real as our soul, which is not as real as our spirit which is not as real as God, which is the ultimate reality.  Got it. Probably not.  You should not believe what I or anyone else says.  The only thing you can trust is God, like it says on the money, honey.  "In God we trust"  everyone else is FOS.  And you can take that to the bank.

         

To be valid, the questions would have to be inclusive enough to explain every possibility of the origins of existence. They claim exclusive possibilities, even between the three questions. Instead the questions pose empiracle certainty that is based on an illogical supposition, while at the same time taking the fiction seriously.

Despite what you think, you can't be a simulation, because you're a construct of my imagination.