Good points, Aussie.
Technology has its limitations, like all things.
The Emerging Internet God
by metatron 17 Replies latest jw friends
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ProdigalSon
Someone asked the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards how he comes up with all the music he writes. He responded, something to the effect of, it's already out there in the air, and he just taps into it.
I don't think it's an accident that the Internet God came along when it did, just a couple of decades before we begin a quantum leap in human consciousness. The information has always been "out there" to grasp at any time, but our equipment hasn't been working well. I mean the entire endocrine system but especially the pineal gland, our antenna to the universal "web". Psychics are "plugged in" to varying degrees.
The Internet is a prelude to the future, when our "wireless" systems will kick in from a massive DNA upgrade coming out from the center of the galaxy.
This article was written for children, no offense to anyone, but it explains on a very simple level that we're all connected electrically....
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THE GLADIATOR
My understanding is that a guiding God and creator would be the source of all life, not an information data base.
I googled God but he has not yet obtained a computer. I guess Mars is a wee bit behind our developed world.
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jgnat
Not god so much as an.....assisted mind? There is so much I no longer rely on rote memory to keep. After all, I can look it up at any time.
What struck me too is two societies, living side by side, blind to each other. I see that a lot in my industry, where some are internet savvy, and others, due to inexperience or fear of loss of privacy, are invisible to me (From an internet perspective). I don't rely on the white pages or informal networks to track people down any more. I get www.linkedin.com or I google them.
I see in the very near future where invisibility on the 'net will be career suicide.
Where does this leave the magazine pushers going door to door? Anachronisms.
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Lore
yet the google god is very falible too...
no electricity? No 'god'.
satellites fall out of the sky? God dead..Me not having electricity does not mean Google does not exist, it just prevents me from communicating with it. Which most theists will agree on: The lack of response does not equal lack of a god.
And if all the satellites just 'fell out of the sky' at the same time then that probably means a new god is kicking the current gods' butt, cause that kind of thing doesn't just happen on its own. Even a solar flare would only wipe out the satellites over the half of the earth it hits.
(Also we have land lines and radio towers to fall back on in the case of emergencies.)
Additionally even if ALL communication was taken out somehow, the information is still there in servers all over the world just waiting to be brought back to life with the flip of a switch.
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Nathan Natas
Truman expressed this concern "As for me, I tend to worry that the memes are about to evolve from their dependence upon biological repositories and leave us behind."
Before that could occcur, we'd have to have machines capable of not just holding facts, but of forming ideas from those facts. ...and I don't think that the results of a database search qualifies as an "idea", it is just a collection of data.
Eventually, though, I believe that your concern will become a reality.
We are simnply biological "meat machines" and do not really possess the imaginary "soul" of popular religious superstition. We have "ideas," and other terran meat machines (like dogs and crows) can form "ideas".
Eventually souless non-biological machines will develop the same capacity, if civilization endures long enough.
If we end up repeating the 14 th century rulled by "imaginocrats" like mullas and/or other priests, all bets are off, for in that case mankind will have lost the capacity to think, at least temporarily.
i·de·a , n.
1. any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, awareness, or activity.
2. a thought, conception, or notion: That is an excellent idea.
3. an impression: He gave me a general idea of how he plans to run the department.
4. an opinion, view, or belief: His ideas on raising children are certainly strange.
5. a plan of action; an intention: the idea of becoming an engineer.
6. a groundless supposition; fantasy.
7. Philos.
a. a concept developed by the mind.
b. a conception of what is desirable or ought to be; ideal.
c. (cap.) Platonism. Also called form. an archetype or pattern of which the individual objects in any natural class are imperfect copies and from which they derive their being.
d. Kantianism. See idea of pure reason.
8. Music. a theme, phrase, or figure.
9. Obs.
a. a likeness.
b. a mental image.
[1400-50; < LL < Gk idé! form, pattern, equiv. to ide- (s. of ideîn to see) + -! fem. n. ending; r. late ME idee < MF < LL, as above; akin to WIT1]
-i·deÆa·less, adj.
-Syn. 1, 2. IDEA, THOUGHT, CONCEPTION, NOTION refer to a product of mental activity. IDEA, although it may refer to thoughts of any degree of seriousness or triviality, is commonly used for mental concepts considered more important or elaborate: We pondered the idea of the fourth dimension. The idea of his arrival frightened me. THOUGHT, which reflects its primary emphasis on the mental process, may denote any concept except the more weighty and elaborate ones: I welcomed his thoughts on the subject. A thought came to him. CONCEPTION suggests a thought that seems complete, individual, recent, or somewhat intricate: The architect's conception delighted them. NOTION suggests a fleeting, vague, or imperfect thought: a bare notion of how to proceed. 4. sentiment, judgment. -
metatron
The Internet will become ever more reliable and ubiquitious. Remember that it was begun as Arpanet to avoid mass warfare from disrupting communication thru decentralization.
Ever hear the duck analogy? If it walks and quacks and looks like a duck, it's probably a duck. If something works as 'God', it is that for all practical purposes.
metatron
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OUTLAW
The funniest humour I come across,is the stuff that catch`s me off Guard..
So, they ask the computer and it replies, " THERE IS NOW!"
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...OUTLAW
