The New God

[DonMuttoni]

“If I can operate Google, I can find anything. And with wireless, it means I will be able to find anything, anywhere, anytime. Which is why I say that Google, combined with Wi-Fi, is a little bit like God. God is wireless, God is everywhere and God sees and knows everything. Throughout history, people connected to God without wires. Now, for many questions in the world, you ask Google, and increasingly, you can do it without wires, too.” - Alan Cohen, V.P. of Airespace

I found this quote on one of my mindless drifts across cyberspace, and it struck me as something plausible, I'm not really strongly delving into a discussion here, I just thought this is an interested perspective, we stand at the birth of an age, we no longer need to leave the house to surivive, we can order anything online, even groceries, the internet has done 'miracles' for the western world, Why not worship it? Humans have long worship great men as goods, but what about the Internet? a faceless organism, Immortal, and limited only by our own horizons?

[ohhi]

I worship Internet every day.

[Interest]

quote:Originally posted by DonMuttoni:

“If I can operate Google, I can find anything. And with wireless, it means I will be able to find anything, anywhere, anytime. Which is why I say that Google, combined with Wi-Fi, is a little bit like God. God is wireless, God is everywhere and God sees and knows everything. Throughout history, people connected to God without wires. Now, for many questions in the world, you ask Google, and increasingly, you can do it without wires, too.” - Alan Cohen, V.P. of Airespace

I found this quote on one of my mindless drifts across cyberspace, and it struck me as something plausible, I'm not really strongly delving into a discussion here, I just thought this is an interested perspective, we stand at the birth of an age, we no longer need to leave the house to surivive, we can order anything online, even groceries, the internet has done 'miracles' for the western world, Why not worship it? Humans have long worship great men as goods, but what about the Internet? a faceless organism, Immortal, and limited only by our own horizons?

What you have presented is a model of "humanism"

Or basically the tearing down the need for God for our physical, moral, emotional or spiritual needs and replacing Him with man made alternatives.

Man can erase God from the heart but He can not erase Him from existence. Today He is nothing more then a book of words to some but, the day of reckoning will be an intersting day indeed. If you believe in such a thing that is.



[This message has been edited by Interest (edited 04-16-2006).]

[ohhi]

quote:Originally posted by Interest:

...replacing Him with man made alternatives.

God is man made as well.

[elfstone]

quote:Originally posted by Interest:

What you have presented is a model of "humanism"

Or basically the tearing down the need for God for our physical, moral, emotional or spiritual needs and replacing Him with man made alternatives.

Putting aside for a moment how ridiculous the notion of "google as god" thing is...

I'd like to know what God does for your mentioned needs (especially physical) and how is it irreplacable.

quote:Originally posted by Interest:



Man can erase God from the heart but He can not erase Him from existence. Today He is nothing more then a book of words to some but, the day of reckoning will be an intersting day indeed. If you believe in such a thing that is.

I don't. From my point of view, what will be interesting will be watching people wait for something that will never come.

[IanBoyd3]

A lot of people feel (myself partly included) that God is or part of the universe. We are sentient and therefore make up most of God. Technology has been increasing and will soon allow us to enhance our bodies. This is a huge scientific advance and will vastly improve humanity. Christians will undoubtedly be against it, and find obscure bible quotes, but hell, don't they always.

Anyway these technologies will increase the interconnectivity of humanity. A lot of these experts consider the 'connectivity ramp' of humanity to be the most important one.

It has gone from language, to writing, to the phone, to the internet, and may improve so we can share thoughts and so on.

Video games are a prime example of this. There is a reason online gaming is so appealing. Let me explain.

When you are a kid, there is no difference between your imagination, and reality. If you want there to be a huge army at your command, or to have a castle, its just there, and you get to play in it. Eventually though, you grow up and realize that it isn't real. You go from on top of the world, to a very small person who can't do very much. There is no larger gap of status, no loss of power, greater then that of growing up.

However, the real world has one advantage over the imaginary, and it is a huge one:

You aren't alone.

There are other people there with you. Real people, with thoughts, ideas, and feelings.

Video games merge the two. Imaginary situations, but with real people. This can make the shock impact of growing up a little bit easier. Or, it might mean we never have to fully grow up anymore. Either way, its very desirable.

My understanding of the communion of saints is exactly that. Interconnectivity at its finest.

The goal of GRIN technologies (Genetic Robotic Informational Nano) is to radically evolve humanity toward a higher goal, greater good, quite possibly the ultimate form of life.

Humanity completely interconnected, all knowing and all powerful in relation to humanity itself. A super entity.

Humans will become 'one' and ultimately transcend to the way we have always invented our Gods.

So far in life, we have developed religion and concepts of what God and the perfect heaven would be and how to be one in 'God.'

The meaning of life?

Perhaps it is to become this 'one' being we so described.

Perhaps the meaning of life is for humanity to transcend into God.

[truckfixr]

Sounds a lot like the... Borg?

[IanBoyd3]

quote:Originally posted by truckfixr:

Sounds a lot like the... Borg?

I'm sorry, what's the borg?

[truckfixr]

From Star Trek Next Generation. The Borg are a race of cyborgs who are mentally linked.

[The Blue Preacher]

Google is evil! It's shielded you from the true path.